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Bomzit - An untidy place.

I could never work out if a bomzit meant 'a bomb's hit', or it was like 'a bomb site'.

Either way, my bedroom was very often described as being like a bomzit, apparently.

:D

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Bomb Site = bomsite
Retlaw

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Seems it could still have two meanings, bomb site, and bomb's hit.

• look like a bomb has hit it
  
  informal
  to look very untidyYour bedroom looks like a bomb has hit it!
  
  http://www.macmillandictionary.com/e...ages/tinyT.gifThesaurus entry for this meaning of bomb

bomb - definition of bomb by Macmillan Dictionary

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He were agate like this eer!

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Dad used to put me to bed and say "Neckle bless".....wonder where that came from?

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Thad wud a sounded like, "luks lyk a bomsitit".
Never cum across a Lanky Thesaurus, weyr du yu ged um fro, a cu du wi one o them.
Retlaw.

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I'm not sure but it could just be that it was 'Night, God Bless'...in a contracted form......I am sure soldiers used to say something like(and Retlaw might be able to help out here)...'its all mi eye and something(can't remember the word) martin'....this saying was supposed to have its roots in a french saying...but was bastardised by troops who didn't understand the french language.
Well, that is unless anyone knows anything different.:)

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Complete change of tack but where does "as daft as a brush" come form?

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It would if we were translating received pronunciation.

Round here, where you never heard much of the Queen's English, they'd say,
'Looks like a bomb's hit.'

Which in Lanky would be shortened even further to,
'Looks like a bomzit.'

We're never happier than when shortening words, or dropping them all together.

Why waste time and energy, when you're pow fagged from a hard day's graft, saying two words, when one'll do?

That's my take on it, and what was said where I lived. Though as you posted, there will be deviations in speech, even within a radius of a few miles.

So really, seeing as Lanky dialect was spoken, and never intended to be written down, at least by the ordinary man, there's really no right, or wrong.

If it seems reet, it is.

:D

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All that mouthin' off....:eek:

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A face that could curdle cream/turn milk sour - A stern, grim faced person.

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'Scuse me but cows are beasts of great dignity - used by man every day...I know because i work with them...utmost regard for their sufference....

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I've remembered it now......'it's all mi eye and betty martin'(meaning it's nonsense or unbelievable)...amazing when you stop trying so hard it comes to you.

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Always like when asked which way somebody went the answer could be he went up bonk or down bonk.Once said that while working in london bloke looked at me gone out:D:D

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Or a face like a slapped arse- a sulker.