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Forum: Questions and Answers 12-05-2020, 08:26
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

I know of all those phrases......and a apron was a 'brat'......unless it was frill, then it was a pinny.
My grandparents had very well developed lancashire dialects.....it was like listening to...
Forum: Questions and Answers 15-06-2012, 21:23
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

Have we had 'mardy'?.......someone who is a wet nelly, a softie baby, a cry baby.
Forum: Questions and Answers 15-06-2012, 21:22
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

Retlaw, I did try and tell him it was 'fow'........!
As in....'fow as a summons'
Forum: Questions and Answers 15-06-2012, 18:01
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

No John....what you mean is fow.
Forum: Questions and Answers 14-06-2012, 21:15
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

See Sue....I told you I had a headful of trivial rubbish:D
Forum: Questions and Answers 14-06-2012, 21:08
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

I thought it may be derived from Joss sticks......these are considered bringers of luck in the Chinese culture.
Forum: Questions and Answers 14-06-2012, 21:05
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

Have you washed your ears? being the last one...won't go in the box for some reason.
Now......... can I be a translator?
Forum: Questions and Answers 14-06-2012, 15:35
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

Retlaw, I am intelligent...intelligent enough to find the off button anyway.
If I had my way(which I don't - not often enough anyway) I would never watch these old films.
Forum: Questions and Answers 14-06-2012, 14:33
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

I hate Sherlock Holmes films.....I only catch snippets when, himself is watching them and I walk through the living room to the kitchen...absolute dross.
Forum: Questions and Answers 14-06-2012, 14:21
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

Lucky Josser, was another one...though I am not entirely sure it is a local expression.
Forum: Questions and Answers 14-06-2012, 13:13
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

Well, I never! That is a good explanation Retlaw.
Forum: Questions and Answers 14-06-2012, 10:44
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

'Bins' for glasses comes from the shortening of binoculars...can't help with the derivation of 'gigs' though.
Forum: Questions and Answers 13-06-2012, 07:51
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

I was in Accrington way back then G....and my brother thad the tortoise shell ones......mind you that would be when he was about 10 years old......he hated them and couldn't wait to get non NHS...
Forum: Questions and Answers 12-06-2012, 10:14
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

Pink covered wire for a girl, and fake tortoise-shell if you were a boy....grim....and if you had a squint - or a lazy eye, one lens covered with Elastoplast or Zinc oxide tape.
Not a good look was...
Forum: Questions and Answers 11-06-2012, 21:14
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

Yes, I loved that one too....good innocent comedy.
Forum: Questions and Answers 11-06-2012, 20:33
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

Well, she was a Lancashire Lass, born in Farnworth......the eldest of seven children.....and she did live in Blackpool for many years.
I loved her humour...slightly naughty, but without being...
Forum: Questions and Answers 11-06-2012, 20:06
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

Hylda Baker with her sidekick Cynthia'she knows, you know'.
Forum: Questions and Answers 10-06-2012, 20:11
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

Oh, I use oined a lot.
As in 'will you go away and stop oining me'?
'If tha dusent give o'er I'll oin thee'
'Aye he looks oined dusent he'
Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 20:04
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

threats...'I'll flay you to within an inch of your life'
'I'll rip your arm out and beat you with the soggy end'
'I'll rip you 'ead off and bob down your neck'(ewww - nasty)
Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 19:02
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

You could be right there Eric.......I know she said it through gritted teeth.
Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 16:06
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

We took bedlam with us.....four of us shared a double bed and so you canimagine what it was like...two at the top and two at the bottom......wrestling for the blankets, feet in your mush........many...
Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 16:02
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

Yes, frequently G.
It was used by both my parents and my G'parents....and in the context you used....although it was also used if someone was very het up about something, angry, upset,...
Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 15:47
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

as for going to bed...at our house there were a variety of expressions used.
'Up the wooden hill (to bedlam)'
'going to the blanket fair'
'going up the dilly dancers to bedfordshire'

I have no...
Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 15:44
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

Definitely G....I was just going to post as much.
Forum: Questions and Answers 16-05-2012, 15:17
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Old local expressions

If I went to my grandparents house(Higher Antley Street) that is the way we went to Bullough Park...but if we were at home we used to cut up the side of Highams big house(the one that is now a...
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