strange expletives passed down

[weste]

Lay holes for meddlers.

[giraffe]

1. Bad weather, black clouds in the sky, prompted "Looks like a shower of knobby horsemuck".

2. When asked what something was, "It's a wimwam for a duck's back".

I can remember being told off for being 'mardy'.

giraffe

[LizzieW]

The other word often used was nesh.  Meaning someone who feels the  cold a lot - that's me.

It sometimes means something like "wimpish".

[Mavals]

Also from Lancashire

Thrang ( throng? in Yorkshire) - harrassed

My mother used to say "  Rack ot th'een" ( not sure how to spell this so its a bit phonetic!)  which was "by the judgment of your eye" used when measuring something that didn't need to be that accurate.

A modern word!
My daughter when aged about 5 or 6 , had started using swear words picked up in the playground and was told she must not use rude words. One day she was so frustrated by something, and obviously wanted to swear, that she shouted out " oh stonnen" , and we all use it now in preference to any other profanity!

[Jane Masri]

Someone mentioned dogs which reminded me of my father admonishing our dog with, 'I'll cut your tail off right up to your ears!'  I still use it today 

Jane

[sarahsean]

My mum and nan used to use sbf as a swear word. (Oh sbf yes it stood for s bum and f). My nan used to work as a cleaner for a very well mannered lady and  she said the words out loud one day. Nan was so shocked and ever after she and mum used sbf as a swear word in front of us.  I do not use it myself but when I swear my husband always tells me off for cursing, (he is irish).

Sarah

[Skoosh]

Thrang in Scotland = Busy, Thrang wi fowk, packed. Gaelic I think, similar?

Skoosh.

[LizzieW]

My dad used to say to me "Don't stand/sit around looking like piffy" if I wasn't doing anything useful.  Or if someone was kept waiting a long time (like today in the Post office ), he'd say "they were left hanging around like piffy".

Who or what Piffy was, I have no idea.

[hepburn]

Muckhack/Muck hack,I haven't a clue what it means but it was aimed at me in our house..