My dad used that one a lot but it was more like "listening to that'll turn your brain to train oil", or "your brain'll turn to train oil if you keep on watching that". He would have been talking about stuff like the Boomtown Rats and Rentaghost so probably OTM.
― everything, Friday, 1 May 2020 00:48 (four years ago) link
'train oil' was most likely in the form of a greasy sludge
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 1 May 2020 03:04 (four years ago) link
I thought it was 'dod' but apparently it's 'daud'.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/daud
... as in "Gie's a daud o' that bread".
Not really grannyspeak because I say it myself, but only in my head, as no-one else would know what I was talking about.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 1 May 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link
"Gie's a daud o' that bread"
iirc one of the Apostles says that in Billy Connolly's 'Crucifixion' routine
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Saturday, 2 May 2020 09:33 (four years ago) link
LOL that must have been deep in the memory banks somewhere.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 May 2020 10:24 (four years ago) link
Sclaff
As in, thank you BBC Scotland for allowing the nation to once again relive Billy Bremner sclaffing that ball wide of the post against the worst Brazil team in history in the '74 World Cup.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 May 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
My mom's golf group was called the Sclaffers.
― brownie, Monday, 18 May 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
had no idea it was an actual word that other people used!
― brownie, Monday, 18 May 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link
Yes, it's used a lot in golf!
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 May 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
Along with skite.
I sclaffed my shot and it skited off a tree
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Thursday, 21 May 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
and skliff
I sclaffed my shot and it skited off a tree so I skliffed off to find the ball
― conrad, Thursday, 21 May 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
I think that just means a segment of an orange where I'm from.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 May 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link
I use sclaff. I have not heard skite or skliff. But I have used skiff - to very barely hit something. Usually in Subbuteo or pool. "That's two shots." "Naw, I skiffed it."
― Eyeball Kicks, Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah, skiff is another one. Surprised you haven't heard skite, it's quite a common one.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
Michael Rosen’s Twitter feed has an absolute treasure trove of these that he either retweeted right before going into hospital or someone in his family RTed for him
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:53 (four years ago) link
i.e.
"I'm standing 'ere like cheese at fourpence......."— David Setchell (@DGSetchell) March 27, 2020
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:56 (four 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 (three 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".
Aye = always[img=https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/kBYAAOSwmoxh6BP9/s-l300.jpg]https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/kBYAAOSwmoxh6BP9/s-l300.jpg[/img]
― 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 (eleven months 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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