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Just a random guess.. I'd say a stick would have a higher IQ than a clog.

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..and my sod, beats both your stick and clogs.:D

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Soft Mick was routine speak in Colne when I was a boy (early sixties), and still is. It's an interesting blog but we have not cracked it yet. more suggestions please.
About localising; do Barlickers (people from Barnoldswick) use Soft Mick? If so it probably means your roots are Lancastrian in spite of the coming and going.
By the way, Barmy Mick did the Nelson Markets as well.

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Another one I remember from childhood, which would certainly result in a race relations claim, was 'dirty Arab'.

As in, 'stop scratching down there, you dirty Arab!':D

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also not PC to say you have been "jewed" anymore :rolleyes:

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I'm from Colne too and was gunna say that we use it.... u got there first lol

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What about Bobby Dazzler, anyone remember him :D
Used when you put new clothes on, they'd say "ya look a reight Bobby dazzler I' them"

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Anyone who was "a sandwich short of a picnic" in pre-decimal days was only tenpence/shilling - or even "pots for bluebells" - but I lived in Rishton !

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hehehe my bros used to get that one off me mum when they put their best clothes on .
lol I always seemed to be the dirty arab cus i was such a tom boy .. (and no not for any rude reasons lol) purely cus i was always getting mucky .:hidewall::p

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yeh i got "dirty arab" frequently.:D

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Going back to the title of the thread, according to Mrs MTB, Soft Mick was very big in Bolton, apparently everyone talked about over here too!

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Other slang words.
Tha talks like Billy's weekly liar.
Aif eten syrup butty.
Powfagged, as in worn out.
Skorrick, as thas nod left a skorrick.

Retlaw

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I know the phrase "soft mick" well from when I was a kid, my mother and her siblings used it in context of "she's had more illness than soft mick" etc etc. but they're not from Accrington - they grew up in Fallowfield/Crumpsall areas both around central MCR. their parents were Welsh mother and Irish father. just thought I'd add my tuppence worth as this kind of thing I find fascinating!

BTW I'm not right festered is one phrase I remember from Lancashire youth that I haven't heard since , meaning I'm not really bothered!!

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Trouble at mill, lancashire,dialect,recipes

There are quite a few on that link
some had me flummocksed

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There's some good ones on here as well.

Lanky talk

I particularly like this one.:p

Muck midden pride - a carriage weddin' an' a wheelbarrow flittin'.