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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I come from airdrie and we call it a carry code but I’ve heard people call it a co carry up in Cumbernauld. A piggy back and a backie but wondering what other names people use for this term. Even better if you know where the saying came from |
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Piggyback: It started out in the sixteenth century as pick pack, carrying something on the back or shoulders.
Pick is a medieval version of pitch, so it meant a load that was pitched on to a person's back for carrying.
A little later, pickpack meant a ride on somebody's shoulders. |
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Carry coal bag was always what I grew up calling it, uncle was a coal man this is how they carried the coal bags swinging them up over their shoulders/sides onto their backs and then putting their hands down to grab the bottom of the bag and then carrying them on their backs so always made sense to call it that and still do to this day
Piggyback other people used but tbh never seen pigs cadging a lift  perhaps frogs or monkeys etc but never seen a pig getting carried around by another one so this really never made sense to me !!!! Still doesn’t tbh
Backie is term for going two up on a bike where I come from and still use the term now you going airbags is sitting on the handlebars |
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"It depends what you are talking about. Up here a piggy back and a back ie are two totally different things"
Exactly the same here, two different things. I'm not even sure which one the OP is referring to |
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By *uietbloke67Man
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"Carry coal bag was always what I grew up calling it, uncle was a coal man this is how they carried the coal bags swinging them up over their shoulders/sides onto their backs and then putting their hands down to grab the bottom of the bag and then carrying them on their backs so always made sense to call it that and still do to this day
Piggyback other people used but tbh never seen pigs cadging a lift perhaps frogs or monkeys etc but never seen a pig getting carried around by another one so this really never made sense to me !!!! Still doesn’t tbh
Backie is term for going two up on a bike where I come from and still use the term now you going airbags is sitting on the handlebars "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Carry coal bag was always what I grew up calling it, uncle was a coal man this is how they carried the coal bags swinging them up over their shoulders/sides onto their backs and then putting their hands down to grab the bottom of the bag and then carrying them on their backs so always made sense to call it that and still do to this day
Piggyback other people used but tbh never seen pigs cadging a lift perhaps frogs or monkeys etc but never seen a pig getting carried around by another one so this really never made sense to me !!!! Still doesn’t tbh
Backie is term for going two up on a bike where I come from and still use the term now you going airbags is sitting on the handlebars
One concurs "
Mostly this but it was a coal carry where I came from  |
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"Carry coal bag was always what I grew up calling it, uncle was a coal man this is how they carried the coal bags swinging them up over their shoulders/sides onto their backs and then putting their hands down to grab the bottom of the bag and then carrying them on their backs so always made sense to call it that and still do to this day
Piggyback other people used but tbh never seen pigs cadging a lift perhaps frogs or monkeys etc but never seen a pig getting carried around by another one so this really never made sense to me !!!! Still doesn’t tbh
Backie is term for going two up on a bike where I come from and still use the term now you going airbags is sitting on the handlebars "
I thought going airbags was a euphemism for burrying and my face in your chest and trying to hold my breath for as long as possible .  |
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"Carry coal bag was always what I grew up calling it, uncle was a coal man this is how they carried the coal bags swinging them up over their shoulders/sides onto their backs and then putting their hands down to grab the bottom of the bag and then carrying them on their backs so always made sense to call it that and still do to this day
Piggyback other people used but tbh never seen pigs cadging a lift perhaps frogs or monkeys etc but never seen a pig getting carried around by another one so this really never made sense to me !!!! Still doesn’t tbh
Backie is term for going two up on a bike where I come from and still use the term now you going airbags is sitting on the handlebars
I thought going airbags was a euphemism for burrying and my face in your chest and trying to hold my breath for as long as possible . "
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"It depends what you are talking about. Up here a piggy back and a back ie are two totally different things
Exactly the same here, two different things. I'm not even sure which one the OP is referring to"
I think it is carrying someone on your back in which case its a piggy back. A backie is getting a lift of the back of a pushbike. |
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"I come from airdrie and we call it a carry code but I’ve heard people call it a co carry up in Cumbernauld. A piggy back and a backie but wondering what other names people use for this term. Even better if you know where the saying came from"
I'm Edinburgh we called it a "collie bucky" or piggy back. |
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"I come from airdrie and we call it a carry code but I’ve heard people call it a co carry up in Cumbernauld. A piggy back and a backie but wondering what other names people use for this term. Even better if you know where the saying came from"
I'm originally from Airdrie but stay in Coatbridge now but it's definitely a carry code.....only posh people call it piggy back! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I come from airdrie and we call it a carry code but I’ve heard people call it a co carry up in Cumbernauld. A piggy back and a backie but wondering what other names people use for this term. Even better if you know where the saying came from
I'm originally from Airdrie but stay in Coatbridge now but it's definitely a carry code.....only posh people call it piggy back! "
I'm no posh, I can gaurentee you that! |
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