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« Reply #9 on: Friday 07 April 17 13:33 BST (UK) »
I am familiar with all of them apart from Aliker...Kecks were underpants...I am from East Yorkshire and also "Golly Handed"...Out of our family of four...3 of us are left handed but son is right handed but has some right brain dominance as he is Left Footed.
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« Reply #10 on: Friday 07 April 17 13:37 BST (UK) »
I have heard of most of these as well.

I thought cack handed was clumsy or incompetent.  :)
I used to call them kegs rather than kecks (but that might have just been my interpretation).

As a left hander...I was often referred to as being "Cack-Handed" when doing jobs, to a right handed person it looks awkward hence the reference. But most people used the term Golly Handed where I come from.
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« Reply #11 on: Friday 07 April 17 14:30 BST (UK) »
My mum often said 'pass me the alikar'

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Re: Owd Words
« Reply #12 on: Friday 07 April 17 15:28 BST (UK) »
I've always known "kecks" as trousers rather than underpants.  Barmpot is used a lot in Scotland.  Another couple of words are "mardy" and "ginnell".
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« Reply #13 on: Friday 07 April 17 15:32 BST (UK) »
Your "Ginnell" Lydiaann is our "Tenfoot"...my our Dil is Lancastrian and she say it....the men in our region use the phrase "Underkecks"
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« Reply #14 on: Friday 07 April 17 15:42 BST (UK) »
Cack-handed does mean both left handed and clumsy, as these were (rather unfairly) deemed to be the same thing.

The "cack-hand " is the hand used for lavatorial duties, as opposed to the clean right hand.

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« Reply #15 on: Friday 07 April 17 16:23 BST (UK) »
I'd hear most of the terms in Yorkshire, excepting the one for vinegar, and heard the "Kecks" one for the first and only time only a few years back, a child disparaging his younger brother who had "Messed 'is kecks" - so I assumed they were underpants? I'd say they are overall a rather lazy selection of northern words, probably straight from "T'Internet", to fill up a bit of space.
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« Reply #16 on: Friday 07 April 17 21:23 BST (UK) »




I'd say they are overall a rather lazy selection of northern words, probably straight from "T'Internet", to fill up a bit of space.


You are probably right Threlfall Yorkie - but because they made me smile - as I hadn't heard several of them for a while, I thought I would share them, thinking they might bring a smile to the faces of others as well.
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Re: Owd Words
« Reply #17 on: Friday 07 April 17 21:33 BST (UK) »
E lass that's good of yer. ;D