― Archel (Archel), Monday, 28 November 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rumpie, Monday, 28 November 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link
And she called the dining room the 'middle kitchen'.
― C J (C J), Monday, 28 November 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Please Snap StressTwig (kate), Monday, 28 November 2005 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rumpie, Monday, 28 November 2005 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Obv don't shoot'em in the head cause there's nothing vital there.
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 28 November 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 28 November 2005 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 28 November 2005 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Expressions have been as rare as teeth in a chicken here.
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Monday, 28 November 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Please Snap StressTwig (kate), Monday, 28 November 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
that's awesome!
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 28 November 2005 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― haru h, Monday, 28 November 2005 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 28 November 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rumpie, Monday, 28 November 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― elmo (allocryptic), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Monday, 28 November 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
"Cooch"????
― Dan (Where You Stick The Cucumbers) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 November 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 28 November 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Racist) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 November 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 28 November 2005 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link
My step-dad always says 'it takes a man not a shirt button' whenever anyone mock-threatens him.
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 28 November 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Sorry i just realised i didnt phrase this very well . Shes a british granny and instead of saying twenty five past five, would say five and twenty past five
I say jiffy
― Shin, Monday, 28 November 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Touche.
― Dan (Cross Thread ROFFLES) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 November 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
it will very much affect a headline in next week's her4ld magazine.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Ni99er, p@ki, etc etc... Not that I actually use them myself, obviously, but I suspect eyebrows would be raised if I did...
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Here's another: es't = 'That is'. ie. es't proper reet, lad = 'That is very good, young man'.
cob on = a sulky manner
― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 28 November 2005 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link
"I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse between two bread vans."
...although, most of them are just "standard" Irish/Lancashire turns of phrase that sound CRAZY and out of place in Minnesota.
― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 28 November 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 28 November 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 28 November 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
I love all the Caithness/Doric ones that my mum comes out with which I have no idea how to spell. FOr example, the word for a dog is a bowf (maybe bouf, I'm not sure) but our dog Sandy was always referred to as "the bowf", "bowfy" or "Sandy-bowf". This is not weird to people in the North of Scotland, but elsewhere can cause much hilarity. My mum also has a fab word for feeling a bit weak and queasy, which is pronounced fee-oun (rhyming with noun) which I use a lot and have never heard anyone else say.
A piece of jam - a jam sandwich.
See, up here that's a piece AND jam. Unless you are Oor Wullie, in which case it's a jeely piece.
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 28 November 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 28 November 2005 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Er, my Gran used to call teeth 'rackles'. "Rub yer rackles or the English'll get yeh", she used to say.
True story.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 28 November 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 28 November 2005 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
bowg = stomach (that's a Caithness one, definitely)keeker = black eyebauchle = a scabby old shoe (or a skanky person by extension)away in a dwam = daydreaming (OK, I have heard that off other people, but not that many)
I can't even think of things that might be odd because I just use words I grew up listening to and it never occurred to me that they might be odd. I only found out a couple of weeks ago that scaffy wasn't in common usage down here (focus group = three blokes in the pub).
Xpost = Fit as a butcher's dog, innit?
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 28 November 2005 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link
Face as long as a wet weekend.
xp: my mom says "fat."
― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 28 November 2005 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Puggled = exhausted, spent, on your last legs.
"Huv seen the state o' yon Boris Johnson? Looks puggled tae me".
― Captain Beeftweet (Tom D.), Friday, 5 June 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
Switch = to beat (eggs) or mix.
"Gie's that egg and ah'll switch it up in a cup fer ye."
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
Clap = to pat affectionately, caressingly, approvingly.
"Ye can gie the dug a clap, he'll no' bite ye."
― "Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
these are so great.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 23:04 (two years ago) link
Tea jenny = A person who drinks a lot of tea; a tea addict; someone fussy about tea. noun.
― "Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 August 2021 10:45 (two years ago) link
Stave = 3. To sprain, bruise or contuse a joint of the body.
"Whit's wi' th' bandage?" "Oh this? A' staved ma' thumb last night".
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 11:05 (two years ago) link
Pronouncing "lunatic" to rhyme with "pneumatic".
― Meet the Irish Queer Archive Poet In Residence (Tom D.), Monday, 28 February 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
My Gran (Paisley born) had a brilliant reserve of bastardized French terms, I really wish I had written them all down before she passed, I only remember the more obvious ones - Stank, Ashet, Jigot.
I think my fave saying of her's was 'What's fur ye, will no go by ye'
― Maresn3st, Monday, 28 February 2022 20:02 (two years ago) link
Now you're talking my language... literally.
― Meet the Irish Queer Archive Poet In Residence (Tom D.), Monday, 28 February 2022 20:06 (two years ago) link
I don't know if this is a Paisley/Renfrew thing or not, but I also liked her punctuation of 'says I' (start) and 'ah sais' (end) in a sentence.
With the added potential confusion of 'aye' and "I', I remember her saying to me once 'says I, aye, ah sais'
― Maresn3st, Monday, 28 February 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link
What are "stank, ashet, jigot"?(sounds like a law firm...)
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 28 February 2022 20:21 (two years ago) link
Overshoes meaning boots
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 28 February 2022 20:38 (two years ago) link
Stank as in very smelly in the past tense?
Ashet is a cooking dish, and specifically one you make/buy a steak pie in and is from assiette.
Jigot is spelled gigot, like the French, because it's a centre cut lamb leg chop.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Monday, 28 February 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
Stank is a drain, but I think it's also used to describe stagnant water.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 28 February 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link
That's me learnt.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Monday, 28 February 2022 21:12 (two years ago) link
Ta (as my granny used to say...)
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 28 February 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link
XP or Telt :)
― Maresn3st, Monday, 28 February 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link
oh yeah as in “that’s that doon the stank”
― ok what the fuck is happening in the uk (rain) (wins), Monday, 28 February 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link
Stank is a drain, from Old French, estanc for a pond or lake
Ashet, I know from ashet pie, is a large dish, from the French for plate, assiette.
Gigot (not Jigot) is a leg of mutton or lamb, taken directly from the French
― Meet the Irish Queer Archive Poet In Residence (Tom D.), Monday, 28 February 2022 22:54 (two years ago) link
To this day, I call those Vicks inhaler sticks "mentholatum," as that is how my grandfather (1917-1993) always referred to them.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 00:39 (two years ago) link
Beelin' = angry, furious
"Ah'm beelin' Scotland were in Pot 2 in the Euro draw and still ended up gettin' the same sides they aye get".
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― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 October 2022 11:58 (one year ago) link
Oops...
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Fuck it, it's refusing to work.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 October 2022 11:59 (one year ago) link
'Aye...funny man, d'y think his heid zips up the back...?' (told to a young me, in reference to my Grandad)
― MaresNest, Sunday, 9 October 2022 12:06 (one year ago) link
“if it’s me on bongos and Mark E Smith, then it’s The Fall”
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 10 October 2022 12:47 (one year ago) link
https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/kBYAAOSwmoxh6BP9/s-l300.jpg
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 08:31 (one year ago) link
My old nan was from Wakefield. She'd mostly lost her accent by the end of her life but never sounded so Yorkshire as when she used her catchphrase: 's/he's short of nowt he's got'.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
my grandma was kind of a self hating cockney who took elocution lessons and alcohol would change her accent and manner entirely (in a good and fun way most of the time)
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
keeker = black eye
Which, of course, is derived from one of my favourite Scots words.
https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/keek_v1_n1
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 June 2023 15:15 (one year ago) link
I bet ye were up tae high doh!― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:53 (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:53 (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Couthy continuity announcer on Channel 4 has just used this phrase.
― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 08:01 (six months ago) link
fellas I’ve had a good run but I think I’ve finally had the radish
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 November 2023 09:22 (six months ago) link
I heard a Northern Irishman use 'up tae high do' a few years ago, interesting that it had legs, and I always wondered if it was related to 'do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do'
― MaresNest, Thursday, 30 November 2023 10:08 (six months ago) link
My sister just sent a message to say she's got some terrible cleg bites on her leg.
cleg: another term for horsefly
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 14:23 (one month ago) link
Mercy, that's one I haven't heard in yonks
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:04 (one month ago) link