Originally Posted by b rawlinson (Post 923653)

I know it isnt politically correct to use expressions like the following these days but how did the expression-he(or she) skens like a bucket of welks originate?:hehetable

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 923673)

ah'll skutch thi dinner up(knock seven bells out of you)

her as a face like a ruptured custard(she is ugly)/melted welly/joss arsed baboon.

ah'll tek a bit o' thee hooam in mi pocket(fighting talk)

dusta want some clog toe pie? (more fighting talk)

a'hm ony walkin' abeawt to save buryin' money. ah carnt afford to dee(I'm proper poorly)

a'hm wakkerin' laik a tripe doll(trembling, shivering)

I'm sure I can think of some more...just give me time.

Originally Posted by jelly baby (Post 924206)

I think the expresion is, in fact, 'skens like a basket o' whelps' ie new pups that can't yet see straight. The saying has been changed over the years as no-one seems to call pups whelps nowadays. As far as I know, whelks don't have eyes.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 924375)

I still think the funniest, very local colloquialism, is 'a gate'.

I were a gate.

You were a gate.

He/She/It were a gate.

:D

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 924379)

ged agate.....meaning get going...or get doing.

Jaysay...I think the word is tuttle......and I could be wrong but I think it is derived from an indian dialect word tutti which I think means 'dung'...or a less polite word for dung.
Like women would say....I just need to put a bit of 'tutti' on....meaning make up.

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 924377)

It's not 'a gate', it's 'agate'
Trouble at mill, lancashire,dialect,recipes

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 924377)

It's not 'a gate', it's 'agate'
Trouble at mill, lancashire,dialect,recipes

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 924392)

Doesn't even mention the meaning 'said' on here.

:confused:

Agate – working ‘He’s agate of his wark’,
also to go agate or accompany someone on a way


Lancashire Dialect Glossary A

Never even heard of that usage.

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 924450)

My little book of lancashire english shows;
agate (1) start , (2) against ("gerr agate quick ees agate on us")

My husband used to like going into The Crown on Whalley Road about 20-odd yrs ago, there was an old chap who used to lift his pint to him and say "Awlreet Cock" when he came in!:alright:

A real Accy one that my Nanny used to say was " If you can't si't Coppice it's rainin', if you can si't Coppice it's goin' to rain"

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 925841)

Remember those times that you came home after a day of running through puddles ... on those few days that it rained:rolleyes: ... and your socks were wet, and your wellies half full of water? And your mom tanned yr arse 'cause you wur witchurt (wichurt? ... not sure of the spelling).

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 925922)

Anyone remember "dancers" for stairs?

Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 925877)

Am fur clemmed.[/COLOR][/FONT][/B]
Retlaw.

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 925922)

Anyone remember "dancers" for stairs?

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 925930)

one me grandad used, i always assumed it meant he were starving?

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 925938)

I knew it usually as starving, or less commonly meaning freezing cold.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 925939)

Though we'd pronounce it clammed, not clemmed.

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 925940)

one he used to say to me when i was off out at 12/13, "Arte Gallivanting Agean"

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 925946)

I'd hear that too, but with Fanackapan tagged on the end.

:D

Urban Dictionary: Fanackapan

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 925946)

I'd hear that too, but with Fanackapan tagged on the end.

:D

Urban Dictionary: Fanackapan

Originally Posted by margaret pilkington (Post 925954)

terms of endearment: Arraminta, totty lime juice, little lily slapcabbage.
I got called all of those by my gran

Originally Posted by walkinman221 (Post 925945)

Mek sure thas gettin the ganzy on or thall ketch thi deeth.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 925958)

Gansey!

:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

If you had a fancy new one, you'd get teased more than when you'd just had a haircut.


gansey - definition of gansey by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 925951)

or 'ahm nobbut middlin'...that is not as good as 'fair to middlin'

Originally Posted by walkinman221 (Post 925959)

You say gansey i say ganzy lets call the whole thing off:D:D

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 925966)

You're right though.

It's pronounced ganzy.

Never twigged it came from Guernsey sweater.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 925978)

Someone brazen.

'More front than Blackpool.'

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 925958)

Gansey!

:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

If you had a fancy new one, you'd get teased more than when you'd just had a haircut.


gansey - definition of gansey by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 925980)

Not deemed politically correct nowadays.

'Stop pickin' yer nose, ya dirty Arab.'

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 925997)

Come down go t' pictures tomorra

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 925997)

Come down go t' pictures tomorra

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 926026)

On a cold drizzly night at Peel Park with my grandad, watching Stanley blow another one. Grandad takes his pipe out of his mouth and says, "They're lakin' like owd washerwimmin."

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 926026)

On a cold drizzly night at Peel Park with my grandad, watching Stanley blow another one. Grandad takes his pipe out of his mouth and says, "They're lakin' like owd washerwimmin."

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 925947)

My Nan also used 'pan shine' as a term of endearment.

Don't know where that came from.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 925958)

Gansey!

:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

If you had a fancy new one, you'd get teased more than when you'd just had a haircut.


gansey - definition of gansey by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 926098)

Remember mi aud gran saying about a woman who lived in't next street, her yon has fur coat and no knickers

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 926108)

Or of a tartily made up woman...'eeh, it's poor soil that needs a lot o' top dressing'.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 926057)

When I was serving my time one of the joiners had this very gerrish cardy on we used to call it his Gansey Shroud:D

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 926098)

Remember mi aud gran saying about a woman who lived in't next street, her yon has fur coat and no knickers

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 926223)

Where there's muck, there's brass .... if owt's worth doin', it's worth doin' well.

The first one reminds me of Basil Brierly ... those who knew the Village Blacksmith, and the Bottom Club in Clayton will know who I mean.;)

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 926132)

Didn't know you'd done time, bud;)

Originally Posted by walkinman221 (Post 926162)

Thas shappin like a one legged man at a shin kickin contest.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 926366)

Funny Joan was telling me about somebody she met whilst out shopping this morning, the description was skens like a bag of whelks, ain't heard that for a while

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 926367)

Go on.

Who was it?

http://www.therealmartha.com/MuchMis...oggle_eyed.gif

:D

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 926312)

I haven't

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 926422)

Not even the drunk tank:eek::D

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 926313)

I use a more graphical term than that WM:D