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Quite correct:D:D:D

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You know, bud, I kinda figured you were going to say something like this;):D

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Well we hail from the same era mate:D:D

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A cry of astonishment - Harry Moyle!

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Gordon Bennett, another shock exclamation

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As children, if we were rooting about in Grans cupboard... (you know the one, the it's the one built to the side of the chimey breast with provisions in, just in case a state of emergency or WW3 were to be declared, I swear we could've stocked asda!), and we found something we hadn't seen before, asking 'Whats this for Grandma'? would bring the reply, 'Put it back, it's a catcher for meddlers'!
Also, if Gran said hello to anyone whilst out & about and we asked who it was, she'd say ' its Icky,t' fire bobby'

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Tha must be a fair age to have heard then sayings,
I was always told they were layors fur meddlers.
Icky t fire bobby, were any male who we met, and some times he could also be responible for events.
Such as "dad who did that", Icky t Fire Bobby.

Retlaw.

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A guy I worked with in the early seventies used the term WHAPINTHROSS, as in your a whapinthross whenever some one did anything wrong, where it came from I ain't got a clue

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:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

Just noticed this ... I'm slowing down in my old age.

I remember a quote attributed to John Arlott, though it's probably apocryphal: "And there's Ted Dexter at first slip, legs wide apart, just waiting for a tickle".;)

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The other famous cricket commentary was when John Arlott said "The batsman's Holden the bowlers Willis" after that the whole commentary box was full of giggles.

The batsman was Michel Holden and the bowler was Bob Willis.

Not a local saying but still funny.

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A good un I remember & I and still hear off him to this day "Where'd ya think you are, yer feythers yacht", put wood in't th'oyle, a reyt load a claptrap, Po fagged

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Confused about something "cant mek moss ner sand o yon" another me grandad used to call me when i was a nipper he would say "eh up its our john tommy crabtree"

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Another for someone who is a bit bog eyed "yons gettin football eyes one ome one away"

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just reminded me--------- me grandad used to say, hes geet teeth like snooker balls, just needs a white fert set.:D

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Blimey, forgot about the 'moss ner sand' one until you mentioned it, for when something was confusing.

Where on earth does that come from?

Amother one I heard yesterday was mither, meaning worry or fuss over something.

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Also pester.

'Stop thi mitherin' mi.'

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Sorry Gremlin the bowler was Peter Wiley, now a first class umpire

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OK John, it was a long time ago so forgive me if I got hold of the wrong Wiley.:o

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"ev a shufty", is another un they used fer having a look at summat.

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I remember it because it's not that long since I read Johnners auto biography:D

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Another mi Mum used to use was Pow Fagged meaning knackered:D

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I can go out tonight now,ive just got a snek-lifter!

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Which use to be a couple of bob;):D, or half that would get you a gill .... what is it now:confused:

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I had a half of Blond Witch in the Higher Trap a fortnight ago and it cost £1-40p

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So the couple of tanners and the threepenny bit my grandad used to give me wouldn't get me through the door ... and I doubt you could get a buzz out of a quid, eh:confused::mad: Of course, my first week's pay packet from Dutton's had less than a tenner in it;) But, we got free beer:alc: ... the good stuff from the middle of the brew:theband: I don't think that would go down well with the health and safety pc'ers. Imagine, a good part of the workforce, working around machinery, peed to the gills:D

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An expression of anger "blood and sand".
when your hungry i have heard " i could eat a scabbie hoss and go back fur jockey"
Also for someone who is not just right "if he's reet i know where theers a shed full"

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Once worked in the brewing room at Matthew Brown at Little Garwood, which entitled us to indulge in there Jazz (their name for free beer) It used to make me smile when the lads used to argue who's turn it was to to get um in, or in other words walk about 15 paces to the room they kept it in:D:D

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eccy thump was another old saying

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Tha never gets owt fer nowt.

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http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...unny-8779.html

Still don't really know where 'blood and sand comes from'.

:confused:

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http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...unny-8779.html

Still don't really know where 'blood and sand comes from'.

:confused:

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I can only think it comes from something maddening as my mother used to say it when I'd crossed the line:rolleyes:

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Worrit - to tease, or worry.

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Mentioned elsewhere, but just found this explanation for Dicky's medda (meadow), meaning in trouble, or lost as to what to do.

'I understand that the phrase dates back to the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. Henry Tudor (House of Lancaster) defeated Richard of York and became King Henry VII.
Bosworth Field was later referred to as Dickies Meadow - where Richard (Dickie) - the last of the Plantaganents - died & lost the crown.
It was the last Battle of the Roses.'
in dickies meadow in The AnswerBank: Phrases & Sayings

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Soft ha'p'orth - soft/simple, someone easily duped.

Why a soft half penny?

I'd love to know the origins of some of these expressions.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by garinda http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...s/viewpost.gif
Re: Nori bricks, my Dad never really swore, when we'd pushed him too far he'd say 'Bloody Nori', not really swearing as the bricks are red.

That swear word is Bloody Norah.
Nowt to do wi nori bricks, but don't ask me where it comes from.
Retlaw.

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Agreed. It was only a thought, because unlike bloody nora/flaming nora, it was pronounced nori locally.

Certainly in my primary school days.

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I still use an expression I recall from my childhood.
'play the white man'

It may seem racist by todays standards.
I think it derived from the days of playing cowboys and indians as a child.

I use it to address inanimate objects that are not co-operating
eg - when a jar doesn't unscrew as it should

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Dozy lummox - a stupid person.

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'Couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel' - A bow-legged person.

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Slutch - dirt, generally mud.

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As black as fire back - very dark.

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'Stop traipsin' abaht' - Stop moving about with no apparent purpose.

'Ah've oerfaced misen' - I have eaten too much.

'Ah'm sogginwetthrew' - I am soaking wet.

'Stopped for bobbins' - Unable to complete the task through lack of material.

'Throw your cap in' - Give up.

'Shape thisen!' - Behave properly!

'Yon mon keeps harpin' on abaht it' - He refers to it incessantly

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'Tha can allus tell a Yorkshireman, but tha can't tell 'im much!' - Self-explanatory.

:D

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'Can't sing fer toffee' - Not a naturally talented vocalist.

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Jip - trouble.

'Mi leg's givin' mi jip agen.'

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There was an old silent movie star named Ben Turpin of whom it was often said: 'Skenned like a bucket o' whelks.'

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One of my gran's favourite criticisms was to say: 'Tha's as dim as a church candle.'

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Your eyes are greedier than your belly.

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There was also dim as a Toc H Lamp

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Yons geten bats in't belfry

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Thara's dim uz a Toc Aitch lamp.
Retlaw.

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Tram Scotches, a reyt gradely thick slice o tuast, slathered i butter.
Retlaw.

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'Tek Shanks' pony.' - Walk.

'Feel like mi throat's bin cut.' - Very hungry.

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Gubbins - Odds and ends, a gadget, a silly person.

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Shekeled - Gathered money.

'I just shekled enough brass t'gether fer buz.'

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Fits like a glove on a chickens lip, poor workmanship, quality.

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Am fur clemmed
I am hungry.
Retlaw.

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Still?

You were fur clemmed in post 32.

'Thy needs t'get sommat proper down thi neck lad.'

:D

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Av ed mi tay unam still clemmed.
Retlaw.

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Not much proper tripe down yon Accy.

Tha needs sommat reet down thi neck.

A pie, wi' some meat in it, nay gristle.

;):D

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That would be revolting, I'm a vegitarian, been one longer than a lot of Accy Webbers have been living.
If it swims, runs or fly's I don't eat it.
Retlaw.

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If it swims, I catch it. If it runs or flies, I shoot it.

Just for the heck of it, and in the interests of expat participation in threads, there's an expression about duck hunting in these parts: Feet down; guns up.:uzi:

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the Kalifornia vegie loonies have a mantra, "if it has lips don't eat it"....... if I followed that mantra I would be Pope ;) :D :D

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ave sin more meat on a jockey's whip

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Vegetarian: Comes from an old Mohawk word meaning "can't hunt worth a damn";):D

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Another one for hungry.....'mi back and mi belly's floppin together'

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ahve sin moor meyt on a nasty fooark.
Ther's moor meyt on a sugar stealer.

her 'as legs thad ud cut baccy(my isn't she thin?)

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Aye me bellies rubbing agaiun me backbuan.
Retlaw

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My mum always said that she would side the table (for those that have never heard this expression she meant that she would tidy the table up)

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thats one i'd forgotten, most women used that phrase back in the day.:) me mam,nan, aunts,etc

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Yon lasses legs are so thin she's like a seagull wi wellies

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One that could still be pertinent today: 'Yon's an arse like a circus elephant!'

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Not confined to this area, but often heard locally.

Pandæmonium - A noisey place/wild uproar.

Odd really, such a literary word, capital of Hell in Milton's Paradise Lost, was widely used.

'There were a reet din in there, it were Pandæmonium.'

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remember the older folks being asked if they had their Portmanteau packed in the days before wakes weeks started .... travel was usually by a Charabanc ....... seems the older generation had a better/wider vocabularies than present day , can be sure the Mutha 'f ' word wasn't part of everyday conversation ;)

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As thick as pig muck - Not the full shilling - Stupid.

Though who tested the various dungs, to ascertain pigs' plop-plops was densest?

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What you say, I agree with.

I think our vocabulary has become smaller.

Just seems odd.

A biblical word, or saying I could understand.

Pandæmonium was widely used, and everyone would know what was meant. Though I can't imagine everyone was familiar with Paradise Lost.

Mind you, everyone would similarly understand Bedlam, to have a similar meaning, but almost no one would ever have been to London.

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getting on a thread wander here ....... think the same applies to penmanship (joined up writing ;)) , know that mine is no-where near as good as my parents or grandparents , think in particular my Grandma's who left school at 12 to go 1/2 time in the mill , her writing was damn near copperplate, and I'm thinking most of their work was done on slate

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Again, agreed.

Perhaps the school leaving age should be again lowered to ten or twelve.

Considering the good education many left with by that age.

:rolleyes:

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We've already had pow fagged, meaning very tired, but we also got our hair pow'd, meaning cut very short.

To rhyme with pow'd, there's cow'd - cold.

'Back of his neck felt reet cow'd now, after barber had pow'd him.'

Shut yer cake 'ole - Please cease speaking.

Flit - Move house.

Jiggered - Very tired.

Nouse - Common sense.

Kecks - trousers.

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How true, my Grandmother was working part time from the age of 9 and there was no-one better at managing money! The 3 "R's" were the order of the day -Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmetic - no messing....;)

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Just remembered , my brother-in-law says "Trolleys" for underpants -anyone heard that one?

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And how many of us had to get up in the morning when it was as cold a whore's kiss and beat (beet?) the fire?

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I have heard that before.
My first ex (a dingle) called them 'shreddies'

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I'm on tenterhooks, when your waiting for something to happen

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Estigettenony.
Retlaw.
Garinda will translate

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'Are you having any fun, with the young lady you're courting?'

:D

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Nay Gari
thad is didtigerony, or astiedidaway.
Estigettenony/Astigetenony = have you got any

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I apologise.

:o

I thought Estigettenony translated as 'Is thee gettin' any?'

Trust me to think rude things first.

:D

I'd have thought 'have you got some?' would be Asthigorrenny?

I acknowledge your expertise.

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Ids awreyt Gari.
Just depends which part of Accy you live in,
when I left school my first job was at Shepherd Bros Rising Bridge, every time bus stopped, and folk got on or off, there was a difference in the twang.
Not same today, its all muxed up wi folk having been brainwashed, by the one eyed monster in the corner.
Very few people these days, speak with the dialect I was brought up hearing.

Estigettenony= have you got any.
wadsfurmitay.
Retlaw.

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Always remember family n many people using the word "Laking" meaning the lazy beggers off work again, those who regularly had Mondays off me grandad always said hes having a "Miners Monday" worked wi a guy in 80s who always was laking on monday, he used to roll in tuesday morning n all the lads would sing a well known record of the time the Bangles - Manic Monday, though Miners was sung in place of Manic.:D

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I don't.

In Ossy we all think you speak foreign mumbo-jumbo down Accy.

:D

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I think it started before tv ... maybe the increased mobility during the Industrial Revolution ... I do remember hearing from Sam Wignall in a history class that Pitt reorganised the British army in the 1750s. The regiments would be re-formed on a regional basis to take into account the fact that someone from Blackhall Colliery would be unable to understand someone from Knuzden. But things change, not always for the better. And for your tay ... may I suggest black puddings, with lots of pork fat in 'em ... lashings of mustard. Or maybe a tiddy oggy.;):D

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I'm loving reading this thread. My dad spoke like Retlaw and reading his posts brings back some lovely memories, Thank you:D:D:D

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My mum used to work with a woman whose husband was a miner, she often said her hubby regularly miss going in on Monday because he paid to much tax if he did work 5 days:confused:

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Think perhaps he was conning her, Sunday night in my experience was the night the pit lads got really ratted,dunno why?

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The guy in question didn't drink:rolleyes:

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well then he musta been a knobhead.:rolleyes:

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He was a sober knobhead though:rolleyes: