Soft Mick.

Efos said:
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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I'm from Colne too and was gunna say that we use it.... u got there first lol
 
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"
 
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 !
 
K.S.H said:
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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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
 
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!
 
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
 
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!!
 
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'.
(The price you pay for being "showy".)

I'd forgotten about a place being called a midden.:D​
 
Hi guys n guyesses,
just joined and had to go straight to this thread.

Absolute class ...memories come a flooding back like a sackful of black puddings

Mard was always pertaining to soft or chicken ...As in "Don't be so Mard and stop Scrikin' ....correct spelling of Scriking ?
Agate ...my Mam! ...used it all the time eg..."She's agate ..."sod off" ...and he's agate ..."I will then!" ...as in She was saying or doing..... But ...so I am led to believe ....here we go..
Lots of towns have streets or areas named Petersgate ...or hillgate or billingsgate ...although they had no gates!! ... apparently gate refers to ... "The WAy to or walk to ....so hillgate is the 'walk up' or walk to' the hill, and is a direct transposition from Gait ...or way of walking/ stance. ...so imagine someone describing the way that charlie chaplin walks...with a bandy legged impersonation...and saying ..."Charlie was agate .." ...it all seems to make sense ish :)
My parents often said ether "soft as Mick" .. as in very wimpy.... AND used the phrases like "More money than soft Mick" ...are these 2 related?? dunno

Layores for meddlers .. I feel might refer to 'Lures for Meddlers' as in Traps for meddlers (cheats, interferers or burglars) ...things set in motion that people should not know about...'less said' etc.

'Skenn Eyed git' ...always remember that after missing an open goal!
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"Christ church up Heaton Norris" (instead of uttering just 'Christ') probably a Stockport reference there!

Also if you drank like a fish ...you were a 'slutch pump' I assume something like a dredger ...pumping slutch from a river ??
and why when we were suprised ...did we go to the 'foot of our stairs' ?
 
oh ...and I forgot ....who was Mrs Bocking???
as in my mother always used to say -if something was out of the ordinary ...
..."Shocking, Mrs Bocking"
 
This thread made me giggle, even more so when I just called my daughter a "gormless mornin" Where did that come from? My dad was very broad and I seem to have picked it up from him. My son speaks the same way now and he's only 20. My grandma (from Rishton) used to say people were "pots for rags" this is another one I still come out with lol.
 
suedarbo said:
My grandma (from Rishton) used to say people were "pots for rags" this is another one I still come out with lol.
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That reminds me of another thing I used to hear, 'pots for bluebells', meaning someone was daft.

They both probably come from rag and bone men, though getting new pots for a bunch of bluebells seems a good deal.
 
I have loved reading this thread, as with others here it brought back loads of memories.
I am originally from Eccles in Manchester and we used most of the terms that have been remembered here. As well as Soft Mick, we have Soft Ned, we used skrike, like crying her/his eyes out. Mardy meant somebody who cried all the time. Put t'wood int'h t'hole was always used. Dimp was a cigarette end that you 'pecked' and put in your pocket! "Dad have you got any dimps?" We also had Argie Bargie, and we all know thats an argument or loud discussion.
There are millions of them, but the most popular one in our house was, Put kettle on mother! regardless of who you were asking to make a cuppa.
Bonny x
 
A fast-declining dialect, more's the pity.

I once got told off by my mother for saying "I was agate" at home. It was not acceptable in our house but my dad used to say "Making Layo'ers for medlars" in response to "What are you doing, dad?". As explained in another thread, some time ago, I believe it refers to nets laid over medlar pears.

"Mard" was a word we used and, amongst my friends, the expression "Pots for jamjars" was used for an idiot and we all knew what "skriking" meant.

The bad-tempered were referred to as being "crammed" or "nowty" and our elderly next-door neighbour would call anyone whose honesty was a bit suspect an "ill 'un".
 
what did " I'm reet fair clemmed" mean ?, did it mean you were hungry, or you were cold , can't remember :confused:
thanks
 
Yep gallant.. I recall "skeen eyed" i took it as "bog eyed".. anyone heard of "kack handed" I think the slang is meaning the person is useless with both hands ?..
 
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