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

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions When we were little and it was bath-time we used to get called "mucky pups" is that Lanky?

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

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions Is that similar to Moither?

Forum: Questions and Answers 01-08-2012, 19:50

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions You know I'm an old-fashioned girl -this is what I use... Linea Talco - Borotalco (http://www.borotalco.it/prodotti-talco.php) Couldn't live without it in the summer especially.:D

Forum: Questions and Answers 01-08-2012, 10:41

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions Is saying "Chucky egg" a Lankyshire thing?

Forum: Questions and Answers 01-08-2012, 10:41

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions Minimum two showers a day at the moment Jay -and I always dust lightly with talc!;):D

Forum: Questions and Answers 01-08-2012, 07:13

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions This one came to me because it's so hot here - I remember people saying they were "sweating bobbers" -wonder what it actually means. Though of course everyone knows that horses sweat, men perspire...

Forum: Questions and Answers 29-07-2012, 07:39

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions Slutty = Dirty (no comments please):D Been doing a bit of research about tripe and discovered that "Black tripe" which is the abomasum, one of the cows "stomachs" (get's easily dislocated in dairy...

Forum: Questions and Answers 30-06-2012, 14:31

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions "An' all"......meaning the equivalent of "too". For example, Can I come with you an' all?

Forum: Questions and Answers 15-06-2012, 21:07

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions Here t'was a "Gray" day - dear Mr. Grayson!:D

Forum: Questions and Answers 14-06-2012, 14:12

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions You learn something new every day! Have a bad knee at the moment - "gammy" would describe it! Another rhyming adjective is "jammy" - if someone is a bit lucky. "Jammy devil" is one my Gran used...

Forum: Questions and Answers 14-06-2012, 09:12

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions Never heard of gigs or bins, some used to call them goggles - I distinctly remember one time "binning" my glasses when i was abut 8 or 9. I threw them down a drain at the side of the house and told...

Forum: Questions and Answers 14-06-2012, 08:57

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions That was me Margaret (I had and still have a "Lazy eye")-sounds better than a squint! In our class it was me and Michael Quirk who had the elastoplast treatment, he was bullied really badly. I...

Forum: Questions and Answers 14-06-2012, 08:39

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions Having worn them from the age of two - unfortunately -Yes! Had an elastic under my hair to keep them on! :D

Forum: Questions and Answers 12-06-2012, 00:30

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions I usd to get called Specky four eyes at junior school! (Not manure carrier though thankfully:D) had my revenge when many of those who taunted me ended up with specs at secondary school, by which time...

Forum: Questions and Answers 10-06-2012, 22:09

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions As fit as fleas I'd forgotten haven't heard it in ages -how about as bright as a button or as sharp as a razor! Think it means the same sort of thing. Used to "oin" mum and my Gran to death at one...

Forum: Questions and Answers 05-06-2012, 08:17

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions How about "heave" Jay?;)

Forum: Questions and Answers 05-06-2012, 08:16

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions Yep, it's one we used to say too -haven't heard it in ages though. When something made you feel like you wanted to be sick. There was a horrible smell on Frederick st. Ossy quite often from the mill...

Forum: Questions and Answers 02-06-2012, 22:57

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions One on 'is own - someone who is a bit different.

Forum: Questions and Answers 20-05-2012, 16:12

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions lugs -ears (I think)!

Forum: Questions and Answers 20-05-2012, 16:10

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions get a clout /a clip round the earhole/ a right pasting - corporal punishment usually given out by dad!

Forum: Questions and Answers 20-05-2012, 13:27

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions a right kerfuffle - an upset or a bit of fuss over nothing

Forum: Questions and Answers 20-05-2012, 13:21

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions To be taken badly... think it means to feel unwell.

Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 22:50

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions To true - except for Mr. Wilkinson who taught us road safety and cycling proficiency with Tufty!:D

Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 20:21

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions Luckily I didn't have to hear these - I seem to remember non PC things about "black men" to keep us in our place. Then there was Jack Frost:eek:

Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 20:00

Replies: 727 Old local expressions Views: 35,684 Posted By mobertol Re: Old local expressions Local version of "On top note" ? Perhaps..

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