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In between lapses of memoryI recall a couple of my mothers sayings "Gormless" and "Gawking" .

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Tha gormless begger, wod arti gawpin at.
Stood theer wi thi gob opun.
Retlaw.

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Didn't need a violin either:D

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Wouldn't urinate on ya if ya were on afire (cleaned that up for a family site):D

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My Mum also used to say "Are you reading that Paper your sat on?"

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"Buttering up" - flattering someone in order to get them to do something for you.

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(Give someone the) glad eye - A look of interest and/or seduction.

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When I started work (in forestry) the company were based in Scarisbrick right out in woolly land & their carrying out they'd call "Baggin", which rather concerned me as the bosses dog was also called Baggin.

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I used to think it odd that a girl I knew, from the wilds of Yorkshire, called what we'd say was a funfair, a 'feast'.

Until I realised that fairs would have been held on feast day, in days gone by.

Even if they didn't have waltzers, and dodgem cars.

Quite sweet, it's still in usage.

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'Walla'........this was the term given to anything that was short on flavour.(I have never seen it written down, so I am not sure that my spelling is correct)

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Good word, though I've never heard it said.

We'd say 'Tastes like dish watter', to mean a similar thing.

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A lick and a spit, or a lick and a promise - A hasty wash.

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You are probably much too young to have heard it said G.

It was used by folk of my grans generation.
Maybe Retlaw will enlighten us....not casting aspersions on Retlaw, trying to say he is as old as my grans generation, but he might have heard it said as he was growing up.

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I prefered the company of older relatives as a child, many of whom were born in the nineteenth century, all of whom spoke broad Lanky.

Much more interesting talking to them, than chattering about Andy Pandy with my contemporaries.

:D

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Aye tastes like dish watter were common.
another one was when tasting a brew of tay.
Wods this, "thas spoyled sum bluudy gud hot watter".