Lancashire word or not
 

I've got no idea about the spelling of this ... Caukken ......... I remember when I was a youngster and you saw something bad or had a nasty job to do (cleaning up dog muck etc) and it gave you the 'dry heaves' like you were going to throw up but nothing came up they used to say "it made me caukken" is it a proper word and did anyone else ever use it and if it is a proper word how do you spell it ?

Happen I'm dreaming or having flashbacks ;)

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always knew it as cauten, dunno if thats the spelling.;)perhaps retlaw or someone can enlighten us?

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You are not dreaming.
I understood it to be cautning......I think the modern word is retching.
More used in the context of a child being sick.

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yep thats how i remember it. mind yeh roy they never talked right in arrod. pmsl

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Only ever heard it referred as cauten,
"it fur meks thi Cauten",
Feels like you want to be sick.
Retlaw.

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Cauten is the way I remember it aswell :D

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Got to remember apart form the odd visit I been away from Hyndburn/Greater Accrington since 72 , only since I found Accy web have a lot of these words been dug out of the back of my brain ;) :D

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Ya used it many a time mi sen, and did it too:D

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Cauten/coaten.

Word we used.

Sort of a dry retch, with just a little taste of bile.

My dad did it, every time Margaret Thatcher appeared on the television.

:D

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Funny that did exactly the same thing for me when Blair or Brown made an appearance:)

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Lionel, and Joe?

Yeah light entertainment was a bit pants in the seventies.

:D

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Not really G, but I bet they'd both have made better Prime ministers though:D