"DUCK"

[alf]

Does any person local to Stoke, know where the expression "Duck" comes from.

Where I live every one calls you "Duck"

Many years age when I just started working at a local Theme Park and new the county.  I was on security and a elderly lady from one of the shops came to me and stated the following. "Eh up Duck, their is a dead duck, at the front gate duck". I looked at my mates and said what is she talking about, they were all in stitches

regards
Alf

not a duck fan

[Cathymjp]

Hi Alf,

Found this on Google. When I worked in the Cannock area, they did not use "Duck" but "Cock"  - this caused quite a stir once with a member of staff who had joined us from another part of the country - she was outraged until we explained that it was not an insult but a local dialect expression.

"Duck"

www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/voices2005/features/steve_birks.shtml - 35k -

"Cock"

www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/features/2002/12/accents/t_y.shtml - 57k -

Cathy   

[alf]

Hi Cathy

Very interesting reading, Duck

Alf

[indiapaleale]

My father, a true Brummie, always called my mother Duck.....

'ay, gerrus a cup of cha duck"


And I remember......sometimes on the buzzes years ago the conductor might call you Duck!

"Watch yer step Duck."

Definitely a Black Country and/or Brummie thing !

 

[hepburn]

I thought it was a Stokie thing, Duck...

[bodger]

From Rick Mayall
What do you say to a man without arms or legs when you don't have a watch
Have you got the time on your cock ?
bodger

[bodger]

I lived in Derbys. for a few years, I always thought duck was very much an expression from there?, but as a Yorkie, we call every one love,  including male to male, and if any man wants to take that furher PM me.          Bodger

[gig]

aup me duck
im derbyshire born an bred  and everyone uses it
there is a book called aup me duck about derbyshire slang
  i bought my wife a copy when she emigrated (from usa)
but to be honest i struggle to read some of it 
gigg

[ijl]

Hi there

My relatives come from the potteries. When asking if i was courting a girl
they used to say "are you meshing  " . Very strange!!