― 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
"Crotchety" - someone who's angry and upset: "Don't get crotchety". I've never heard this used since, but it's pretty great!
― S- (sgh), Monday, 28 November 2005 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Really? I've heard this all over the States, but usually only in conjunction with phrases like "crotchety old man."
― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 28 November 2005 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Gadgie/gadgiecoff = a blokeBurach/guddle/midden = a great big untidy mess (much like my house at the moment)
The best insult I ever heard my dad shout at the football was to any useless striker who couldn't direct a header = "he's got a head like a Tobermory Tattie". (it's a sweetie).
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 28 November 2005 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link
ailsa: i think yr etymology might yet be proved correct. either way: thank you all who responded.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link
i've seen this at the bookstore and one day i'm going to sit down in the starbucks and read it:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312307411.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIlitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,32,-59_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 03:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link
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― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link
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― estela (estela), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 04:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 05:15 (eighteen years ago) link
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― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 08:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:04 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 October 2022 11:58 (one year ago) link
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
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― 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 (ten 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (six hours ago) link
Mercy, that's one I haven't heard in yonks
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:04 (five hours ago) link