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Forum: Questions and Answers 01-10-2012, 22:46

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions We used to say "it's snowing" if a lacy edging appeared below someone's skirt. Or Charlie's dead, yes that too, had forgotten.

Forum: Questions and Answers 27-08-2012, 10:58

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions Used in our family to refer to the sort of chat you had with someone if you bumped into them in the street - "they were camping in the middle of the pavement, you couldn't get past".

Forum: Questions and Answers 02-08-2012, 17:43

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions mither - Wiktionary (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mither#) According to this mither and moither mean the same though moither is down as Yorkshire, and moider means somethng sightly different. It...

Forum: Questions and Answers 02-08-2012, 13:14

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions It's the same, as is moider, just different spelling. Think mucky pups is widespread. Just add the accent and anything can sound Lanky! As for chucky eggs - general countrywide baby talk I...

Forum: Questions and Answers 01-08-2012, 19:59

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions It's quite hard to find decent talc over here now, everyone goes in for body sprays but I prefer powder - except on the floor as I said before - and R is worse than me for throwing his baby powder...

Forum: Questions and Answers 01-08-2012, 17:50

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions So am I when it's all over our bathroom floor and I have to clean it up.

Forum: Questions and Answers 15-06-2012, 17:32

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions Got it in one, Steve.

Forum: Questions and Answers 15-06-2012, 17:17

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions Fey = otherworldly, enchanted, magical, fairylike

Forum: Questions and Answers 15-06-2012, 13:48

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions Quite right Joe... Polari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari)

Forum: Questions and Answers 14-06-2012, 21:13

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions Both right, according to this... World Wide Words: Josser (http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-jos1.htm)

Forum: Questions and Answers 14-06-2012, 14:36

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions I've never heard it anywhere else - think it's very local.

Forum: Questions and Answers 11-06-2012, 22:33

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions What's Hoddlesdon University when it's at home?

Forum: Questions and Answers 22-05-2012, 19:43

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions This is what Wikipedia has to say, Anne: "Joe Soap" is British rhyming slang[/URL] denoting a foolish stooge or scapegoat. Joe being an ordinary person, with Soap as a rhyme for dope. The phrase...

Forum: Questions and Answers 08-05-2012, 08:28

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions I find myself wanting to say that - but my southerner other half hasn't a clue what it means, even if I keep explaining, so I don't say it. Jolly useful expression even so. Mind you our table is...

Forum: Questions and Answers 17-03-2012, 19:20

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions Yep Margaret, me too... or mither as in mithered.

Forum: Questions and Answers 17-03-2012, 10:00

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions So it's no good trawling through the dead parrot sketch then?

Forum: Questions and Answers 16-03-2012, 21:07

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions see post 437

Forum: Questions and Answers 16-03-2012, 20:51

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions Never heard of it but Wikipedia says Used in the Republic of Ireland to describe a Protestant, usually from Northern Ireland. Urban Dictionary says If a Catholic altar boy kneels on only his left...

Forum: Questions and Answers 16-03-2012, 20:47

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions RT says first recorded as recently as the 1970s but probably around in spoken English long before. Pop is used in the sense of pawn, ie someone who is dead no longer needs their shoes. Same as in...

Forum: Questions and Answers 16-03-2012, 20:42

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By susie123 Re: Old local expressions It was in the Radio Times the other day - I'll see if I can find it.

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