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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Do you have sayings in your area that others who aren't local, wouldn't have a clue what you were talking about. ?
I told someone that another person was " one sick puppy" and now they keep referring to my dog  |
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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago
harrow |
My sayings are mixed between Manc and London
But when I am in Manc and a local scaly is talking I am like wtf
2 of mates come from Wolverhampton. And even though I lived there for 3 years I often find myself saying wot? Or breaking in to the tune of yam yam yam yam (dambusters) |
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"My sayings are mixed between Manc and London
But when I am in Manc and a local scaly is talking I am like wtf
2 of mates come from Wolverhampton. And even though I lived there for 3 years I often find myself saying wot? Or breaking in to the tune of yam yam yam yam (dambusters) "
I guess the so called scallys (a Liverpool saying) fucker you off on purpose |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"ive found a lot of people dont know what the word nesh is - my grandma used to say it and she was a lancashire lass "
Mesh means cold n I'm from chesterfield x |
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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago
Titz Towers, North Notts |
One of my favourite local sayings is:
'Are you from Warsop?'
pronounced as:
'Ey up, are tha from Whaaaarssap?'
It means could you kindly close the door, please, it's getting cold in here.
It comes from the strike of 1926. |
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"Do you have sayings in your area that others who aren't local, wouldn't have a clue what you were talking about. ?
I told someone that another person was " one sick puppy" and now they keep referring to my dog "
Or 'one fucked up puppy' lol, my ex used to say that and I've adopted it. That and 'sod this for a game of soldiers'  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Do you have sayings in your area that others who aren't local, wouldn't have a clue what you were talking about. ?
I told someone that another person was " one sick puppy" and now they keep referring to my dog
Or 'one fucked up puppy' lol, my ex used to say that and I've adopted it. That and 'sod this for a game of soldiers' "
I usually say "sod this for a game of cowboys " |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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gradely - an old Lancashire word meaning "fine" - like "she's a gradely lass" - very rarely heard nowadays. And "brew" meaning hill - "he lives up't brew" |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Brass house is a northern saying but my London mates when I say have not a clue what it means
To me a brass house is slang for a brothel.
Brass (door)= whore."
This ^^^^
A brass house is a knocking shop. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Well as you know I have hundreds ..... And when I came here I was put in my place very quickly
First few weeks - don't say he is a wanker in public as its rude here in the UK and at home I just mean he is silly.
Putting on your Dags means putting on your house clothes to lounge around in and also the poo at the back of the sheep's bottom/it means casual - and being a dag is a sort of nerd ....
Of course thongs - flip flops are just weird - weird words
Flat out like a lizard drinking - thirsty
Bog in and have a bit of tucker - let's eat
As mad as a cut snake - angry
Back of Bourke - far away
Give it a burl - give it a go
It's carked - dead
It's a stinker - it's a hot day
Gee I miss home - some things just don't translate here xxx
Mwah
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
Bristol |
Proper job
Cheers, drive! (when getting off a bus)
Scrumping for nicking crops out of the field (not just apples)
All bring out my West Country accent.
Oh, and 'where's it to?' is a catch-all question round these parts that doesn't have anything to do with a location request. |
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By *aitinkCouple
over a year ago
York |
"reet fratchy"
A lot of northern slang is actually based on old norse.
And wanker means the same wherever you are and it is meant to be rude: actually it comes from times when a lot of mechanical devices needed a reciprocal movement to operate, the village pump, (yea that preceded the bicycle), organs, anything with bellows etc. The word stuck because it rhymes with crank which is a circular as opposed to up and down movement. I think wanker as a pejorative term is a recent phenomenon and it may have started as East End argot. |
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By *aitinkCouple
over a year ago
York |
"Well as you know I have hundreds ..... And when I came here I was put in my place very quickly
First few weeks - don't say he is a wanker in public as its rude here in the UK and at home I just mean he is silly.
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Even where you come from lassie 'wanker' is a darn site more rude than silly. It implies offensively stupid, jobsworth, stupidly stubborn and a public nuisance. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm a Lancashire Lass through and through.
I get lots of funny looks on my travels due to the overuse of the phrase 'cock' as a term of affection.
'Come on cock'
'How are you cock?'
'Alright cock, did you see the rugby score?' |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I don't use them.. But people in area use
Snatch - vagina
Rat - theif
Hench - very fit man
Tap - kiss
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tap here is to hit some one "i only gave him a wee tap " |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"One of my favourite local sayings is:
'Are you from Warsop?'
pronounced as:
'Ey up, are tha from Whaaaarssap?'
It means could you kindly close the door, please, it's getting cold in here.
It comes from the strike of 1926."
Were you born in a field? |
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"Does anyone outside of Sussex know what a Twitten is?
I didn't until I moved here
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Aye, but up here they call gennels 'jitties'.
It makes it far more complex when Mrs ddc wants it up the back alley...
Mr ddc |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"ive found a lot of people dont know what the word nesh is - my grandma used to say it and she was a lancashire lass "
Yorkshire girl here originally and I've always used that word 'nesh' but since moving down Devon I have to explain myself all the time.
The other one is when I say a jumper had gone pilly no one knows what I mean.... they use bobbly instead x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Does anyone outside of Sussex know what a Twitten is?
I didn't until I moved here
Aye, but up here they call gennels 'jitties'.
It makes it far more complex when Mrs ddc wants it up the back alley...
Mr ddc"
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Well as you know I have hundreds ..... And when I came here I was put in my place very quickly
First few weeks - don't say he is a wanker in public as its rude here in the UK and at home I just mean he is silly.
Putting on your Dags means putting on your house clothes to lounge around in and also the poo at the back of the sheep's bottom/it means casual - and being a dag is a sort of nerd ....
Of course thongs - flip flops are just weird - weird words
Flat out like a lizard drinking - thirsty
Bog in and have a bit of tucker - let's eat
As mad as a cut snake - angry
Back of Bourke - far away
Give it a burl - give it a go
It's carked - dead
It's a stinker - it's a hot day
Gee I miss home - some things just don't translate here xxx
Mwah
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I was trying to work out where those expressions come from.
Thongs tells me it must be oz? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think the foreign media (i.e. Hollywood) has kind of ousted our local identity and you are more likely to here kids from Alnwick to Penzance using terms like 'the feds' than the local vernacular for the police (terms like Bizzies, Scuffers, Plod seem to be dying out to be replaced by whatever Hollywood uses).
Locally don't hear many people referring to St.Albans as Snorbens much these days. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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There are loads of sayings local to me but I recon most of them are used elsewhere, But years ago a older Man I used to work with used to say to me
"Have you got a judy"
Not sure if it's a local saying or something from his time, He around 80 now |
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By *errygTV/TS
over a year ago
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"I'm a Lancashire Lass through and through.
I get lots of funny looks on my travels due to the overuse of the phrase 'cock' as a term of affection.
'Come on cock'
'How are you cock?'
'Alright cock, did you see the rugby score?'"
someone said that to , i pretended i didnt hear proper, and said you had what in your mouth |
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By *ty31Man
over a year ago
NW London |
"Well as you know I have hundreds ..... And when I came here I was put in my place very quickly
First few weeks - don't say he is a wanker in public as its rude here in the UK and at home I just mean he is silly.
Putting on your Dags means putting on your house clothes to lounge around in and also the poo at the back of the sheep's bottom/it means casual - and being a dag is a sort of nerd ....
Of course thongs - flip flops are just weird - weird words
Flat out like a lizard drinking - thirsty
Bog in and have a bit of tucker - let's eat
As mad as a cut snake - angry
Back of Bourke - far away
Give it a burl - give it a go
It's carked - dead
It's a stinker - it's a hot day
Gee I miss home - some things just don't translate here xxx
Mwah
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I heard some good Aussie slang terms when I was over there.
Your Shout= Your round
Bloody Oath= I totally agree
Drongo= Thick/stupid
Fair Dinkum= Honestly
Chunder= Vomit
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm a Lancashire Lass through and through.
I get lots of funny looks on my travels due to the overuse of the phrase 'cock' as a term of affection.
'Come on cock'
'How are you cock?'
'Alright cock, did you see the rugby score?'"
i say chuck - bit of hilda ogden in me i guess  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Dated a guy from near Wakefield and he asked me one day if id make his 'snap box'..
turns out its a packed lunch 
Down here in Torbay we call grockles 'Grockles'.. you know your one if you have to ask |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Well as you know I have hundreds ..... And when I came here I was put in my place very quickly
First few weeks - don't say he is a wanker in public as its rude here in the UK and at home I just mean he is silly.
Putting on your Dags means putting on your house clothes to lounge around in and also the poo at the back of the sheep's bottom/it means casual - and being a dag is a sort of nerd ....
Of course thongs - flip flops are just weird - weird words
Flat out like a lizard drinking - thirsty
Bog in and have a bit of tucker - let's eat
As mad as a cut snake - angry
Back of Bourke - far away
Give it a burl - give it a go
It's carked - dead
It's a stinker - it's a hot day
Gee I miss home - some things just don't translate here xxx
Mwah
I heard some good Aussie slang terms when I was over there.
Your Shout= Your round
Bloody Oath= I totally agree
Drongo= Thick/stupid
Fair Dinkum= Honestly
Chunder= Vomit
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So miss those xx
Mwah |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
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"In Bristol snow doesn't settle it pitches, and we don't stroke cats we smooth them.
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Ah! Bit more technical down yer in Daaarzet!
If a snow flake stays on the ground for a few seconds before melting, it`s pitching and probably means that sow will soon start settling (building up) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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one of my favourite sayings is in greek, used in the cypriot villages, or was....dunno if it is in much use any more tbh, i got it from the folk of my fathers generation.
i can't write it here as it just wouldn't read well but translated it means roughly
'you are your own village fete'
you would use it say when someone is being properly silly and entertaing themselves...
ahh...sounds stupid written down but hilarious if you speak or understand old cypriot village talk |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
A northern friend used to ask, Did you get off at Preston? She was asking if I stopped short of going all the way to 'Blackpool'.
We still say, Put wood in hole, for close the door and, You make a better door than a window, when someone is blocking the view.
I have a feeling we were too influenced by northern folk. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A northern friend used to ask, Did you get off at Preston? She was asking if I stopped short of going all the way to 'Blackpool'.
We still say, Put wood in hole, for close the door and, You make a better door than a window, when someone is blocking the view.
I have a feeling we were too influenced by northern folk. "
all the best things are from oop north |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"A northern friend used to ask, Did you get off at Preston? She was asking if I stopped short of going all the way to 'Blackpool'.
We still say, Put wood in hole, for close the door and, You make a better door than a window, when someone is blocking the view.
I have a feeling we were too influenced by northern folk.
all the best things are from oop north "
But I'm down here.   |
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"Whalley range
Lets see who gets thats one
i know the place
I used to work there - not touting for business mind "
Haha no its =. Change (as in money) theres loads from when i was younger tabaxed was one as well as in "taking something" from what i can remember
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A northern friend used to ask, Did you get off at Preston? She was asking if I stopped short of going all the way to 'Blackpool'.
We still say, Put wood in hole, for close the door and, You make a better door than a window, when someone is blocking the view.
I have a feeling we were too influenced by northern folk.
all the best things are from oop north
But I'm down here. "
only physically....you have a northern soul..
not like an album of northern soul you understand |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cwtch - hug/cuddles
I'll do it now in a minute
Achey - horrible, disgusting, usually said to little ones who pick up something they shouldn't. 'put it down, it's achey.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Do you have sayings in your area that others who aren't local, wouldn't have a clue what you were talking about. ?
I told someone that another person was " one sick puppy" and now they keep referring to my dog "
Isn't sick puppy an American one?
It always used to be in cop films/shows |
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"I don't know where it's from but "Charlie's dead" is one I've only heard rarely.
It means your fly is undone."
No! Is always was told that means your petticote is showing |
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"I don't know where it's from but "Charlie's dead" is one I've only heard rarely.
It means your fly is undone.
No! Is always was told that means your petticote is showing"
Petticoat i mean....and i think it's London/cockney |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"I think the phrase 'putting your parts on' is a local Norfolk one.
It means acting up, having a tantrum.
Do the locals go without pants normally?
PaRts not pants! "
I must have pants on my mind. |
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"I don't use them.. But people in area use
Snatch - vagina
Rat - theif
Hench - very fit man
Tap - kiss
tap here is to hit some one "i only gave him a wee tap " "
Two variations of tap really
I'd tap that... I'd fuck her/him
Tap off... Kiss
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over a year ago
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Well.. I don't know if it's a north Welsh thing but people from other areas don't seem to be familiar with the term moider which is basically another word for mither
Can't think of any others I'll get back to you if I can think of more
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Gi orr wi thi sen!"
"Fair to middlein"
"I faand it int snicket"
"Eee bahh gum"
My cousins are from Lincoln and they used to proper rib me and my sister when we were growing up, many times it was as if we spoke a different language
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"Pollywiggle is still the best.
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It is.
On a slightly different tack, my mind has been working on the issue if we end up with Trump as POTUS and Johnson as PM.
Trump = fart
Johnson = penis.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Oh! Just remembered. We have the best word ever for tadpole.
Pollywiggle.
A pollywiggle is a tadpole."
In parts of Wales an woodlice is known as a granny grey |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack! |
Not a regional one but a navy one - Getting out at Fratton - pulling out before ejaculating! Fratton is two railay stations before the one the Navy boys and girls need if they`re going to Portsmouth Dockyard. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We spake proper in the black country ... its yo lot that doe"
Miss this accent so much, born and bred black country, living in Essex far too long, when I go home, it's like music to my ears. |
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"All the different names for bread rolls.
Barms etc.
It's a bread roll.
I'm guessing a lot of folk won't know what a Bedfordshire clanger is though!"
I think you'll find it's a cob
Nothing better than the bemused look when asking for a bacon cob when not in the Derby/Notts area
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A north Warwickshire saying that stuck with me was marra another word for mate "
Mara's and Gary's are ecstasy tablets down here! Charge is cocaine. Buzzing means disgusting or smelly. Hanging is also disgusting. Daps are trainers. Half an half is half chips half rice usually with a curry. Rissole is something sold in our chip shops, sausage meat in breadcrumbs! A dwt is a small person. Cwtch is a cuddle. Lush is beautiful or very nice. Do it now in a minute means I'm on the case but I need a minute to complete the action! Alright or wha? Means hello! Chopsing means someone is mouthing off. Tampin means you are seriously annoyed or pissed off! A Bampi is your grandfather! |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
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"A north Warwickshire saying that stuck with me was marra another word for mate
Mara's and Gary's are ecstasy tablets down here! Charge is cocaine. Buzzing means disgusting or smelly. Hanging is also disgusting. Daps are trainers. Half an half is half chips half rice usually with a curry. Rissole is something sold in our chip shops, sausage meat in breadcrumbs! A dwt is a small person. Cwtch is a cuddle. Lush is beautiful or very nice. Do it now in a minute means I'm on the case but I need a minute to complete the action! Alright or wha? Means hello! Chopsing means someone is mouthing off. Tampin means you are seriously annoyed or pissed off! A Bampi is your grandfather!"
Daps, lush, chopsing, tamping and half and half mean the same this side of the bridge as well. My family always call me chopsy. Normally when I'm tamping. |
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"I don't use them.. But people in area use
Snatch - vagina
Rat - theif
Hench - very fit man
Tap - kiss
tap here is to hit some one "i only gave him a wee tap " "
Tap = scrounge... tap a fag then tap a light for fag was a pretty common thing where I grew up... "Your always tapping for something" was a usual reply...
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Me stomach thinks me throats bin cut.
Shit wi'sugar on.
put Wood in't'hole, where ya born in a barn?
scotch mist (nowt)
stop bein a mither arse.
chips fish and wet. (or lacquer)
chips and bit's
Got an'ole in me salfords.
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By *errygTV/TS
over a year ago
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"I don't use them.. But people in area use
Snatch - vagina
Rat - theif
Hench - very fit man
Tap - kiss
tap here is to hit some one "i only gave him a wee tap "
Tap = scrounge... tap a fag then tap a light for fag was a pretty common thing where I grew up... "Your always tapping for something" was a usual reply...
xx "
i knew a bloke they called jimmy the tap, always smoked OPs [ other peoples]on a big job cadge £3 off other contractors for bus fare home, if a job had 200 people on it mounts up, didnt always payback as a few were temps |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Oh! Just remembered. We have the best word ever for tadpole.
Pollywiggle.
A pollywiggle is a tadpole.
In parts of Wales an woodlice is known as a granny grey "
My mum always called them pigs |
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By *ty31Man
over a year ago
NW London |
"Strides (trousers)
Old Chap (penis)
Jakes (police)
I'd be interested in where Jakes comes from as on OE it means Toilet.
A"
Another slang for police is The Filth, maybe it cane from there. |
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