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Just glad ya know your place cashy:p:p:D

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Does anyone el use the term 'slaking' to indicate that an underskirt is showing below the hem of a dress/skirt? I think I've got the word right, but am ready to be corrected.

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I thought "slaking" meant wetting something through or slaking your thirst?

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That too, Dave, definitely that too.

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The term which means 'slip showing' is slated, not slaked.

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wrong thread

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You can still buy it at the builders merchants Walter, its commonly known as hydrated lime, used to help prevent shrinkage and crazing in cement render, and an ingredient in some plaster finishes. It also acts as a plasticiser in mortars to make them more workable.

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I know that nowadays underskirts/slips are rarely worn, but in my youth they were daily apparel.

Having your slip showing was to appear immodest, so your friend would advise you using obscure terms such as 'your're slated' or even 'Charlie's dead'.

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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.

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Us lads were it did more to the point susie "hoy thi slips showing":D

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I`ve heard it referred to in reference to Spanish bullfighting.

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My Auntie used to use caughtning (no idea how to spell it) to mean a baby that was about to be sick, she is from Accrington.

May Dad often used the phrase a 'Jockey for a pig dealer' - meaning someone was bow legged and Ganzey to describe a jumper or cardigan - my Dad was born in Southport....

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My mother used to use caughtning if you thought you were going to be sick but managed to swallow it back down. I don't know how to spell it either.

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I know of all those phrases......and a apron was a 'brat'......unless it was frill, then it was a pinny.
My grandparents had very well developed lancashire dialects.....it was like listening to another language to the uninitiated, but it was also rib ticklingly funny.

They used to say of someone who was having a shot gun wedding.....he'd had a bite o th'apple before he'd bowt (bought) the tree'......or he'd been playing hide the sausage.
I was not supposed to know what these things meant, but.....I did.