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Forum: Questions and Answers 27-08-2012, 04:01

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Apologies, if already mentiioned. 'Camp' - chat/informal talk. Overheard yesterday. 'They were all camping ten to the dozen, I couldn't hear myself think.' It is only used for informal...

Forum: Questions and Answers 29-07-2012, 22:24

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Lol, I've never heard that. What does he smell in cold weather, damp muffs, and wet mittens? :eek::D:eek:

Forum: Questions and Answers 15-06-2012, 15:23

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions What a 'fey' day. ;)

Forum: Questions and Answers 13-06-2012, 07:13

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Lads must have been posh down Clayton. I remember girls wearing the pink ones, but I never saw tortoiseshell glasses. The boys I knew wore similar ones to the girls, that were a transparent...

Forum: Questions and Answers 10-06-2012, 19:54

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Don't know whether it's already been mentioned, but came up in a conversation yesterday, and made me laugh, even though I hear it used a lot. 'Yes, three of 'em, as fit as fleas, and all well into...

Forum: Questions and Answers 05-06-2012, 17:14

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions I'm saying nothing. Since this isn't in the over - 18 section. :rolleyes::D

Forum: Questions and Answers 05-06-2012, 17:12

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Another funny one is jib, meaning to balk. 'He's nearly finished off that full pan of stew, but he's jibbin' now, and can't finish it.'

Forum: Questions and Answers 05-06-2012, 16:46

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Unsourced, but it's listed on here, as 'gip', as a verb, meaning to vomit. A dictionary of slang - "G" - Slang and colloquialisms of the UK. (http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/g.htm) Also ' gyp' -...

Forum: Questions and Answers 05-06-2012, 10:17

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Although it's apparently 'gyp', not jip. Gyp | Define Gyp at Dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gyp)

Forum: Questions and Answers 05-06-2012, 10:14

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions 'They took their dressing off, to show me their carbuncle, weeping with pus, and I started jipping.' :D

Forum: Questions and Answers 05-06-2012, 10:05

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Another one for retch is jip. Anyone else use that? It's also used for discomfort. 'My leg's givin' me jip again.'

Forum: Questions and Answers 05-06-2012, 06:53

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Yes, we use coaten too. Our Granny used to coaten, every time she saw our tortoise. http://freesmileyface.net/smiley/animals/mini-tortoise.gif :D

Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 23:53

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Jiggered - exhausted. 'I'm jiggered.' Also said when taken by suprise. 'Well I'll be jiggered!'

Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 16:20

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Yes, that's probably a better definition. On top do - someone highly strung, rather manic.

Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 15:54

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Off topic, apologies, but I'm always tickled every time I hear Sandy, Beds. Simple things... :D

Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 15:52

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions :D We usually left Bedlam in our wake, as we climbed the wooden hill to Bedfordshire. :rolleyes::D Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire...

Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 15:49

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions :D Have you heard it though? I thought afterwards it might just be a family saying, to do with bread. :D

Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 14:45

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Musical origin? Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do? :confused:

Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 14:36

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Not heard for a while, until today, that made me laugh. 'Top doe' (dough?) - excitably good mood, verging on the manic. 'He were on top doe last night.'

Forum: Questions and Answers 31-03-2012, 17:57

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions 'Neither up hill, nor down dale' - said of someone lacking vitality, or vigour.

Forum: Questions and Answers 30-03-2012, 09:46

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions 'Wetter than Wakes week' - something thoroughly sodden, or alternatively, something, or somebody weak.

Forum: Questions and Answers 29-03-2012, 18:10

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Not back'ards in comin' fo'wards - Overly confident person.

Forum: Questions and Answers 29-03-2012, 16:11

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Tastes like a parrot cage bottom. Sweatin' like a glass blower's arse. Not particularly Lanky, but comic.

Forum: Questions and Answers 28-03-2012, 21:06

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Done up like a dog's dinner.

Forum: Questions and Answers 28-03-2012, 19:44

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By garinda Re: Old local expressions Face like a smacked arse.

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