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Regional words and Phrases
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Big with the Boy's Own crew late 80's too
Classic one is Grockles = tourists
My Grandma always used Duck too - but she was a Londoner born n bred
was wondering if this was just and East Midland thing , so spose this thread is the place to ask 
it was only the 3 east midlanders at work who knew it though, so here goes :
if you are twiddling/ twirling your hair around your finger, we'd say that is : to piggle your hair
anyone else? anyone? ....anyone...one..one...?
it was only the 3 east midlanders at work who knew it though, so here goes :
if you are twiddling/ twirling your hair around your finger, we'd say that is : to piggle your hair
anyone else? anyone? ....anyone...one..one...?
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was wondering if this was just and East Midland thing , so spose this thread is the place to ask
it was only the 3 east midlanders at work who knew it though, so here goes :
if you are twiddling/ twirling your hair around your finger, we'd say that is : to piggle your hair
anyone else? anyone? ....anyone...one..one...?
Yeah, I've heard that used but more in relation to picking and biting at fingernails or other such nervous/OCD behaviour! It's not a Brummie phrase though, my folks are from Kirkby-In-Ashfield (north Notts) and it's from there. A lot of the other phrases you've mentioned ('mashing' tea, m'duck and others) are things I've heard while visiting relatives in Kirkby. Might just be an East Midlands thing?
Was working back in Leicester the other week and heard a phrase i'd not heard for years, more from when we were kids and not allowed to use swear words I think
"Going for a bob" ~ which means going for a sh*t
Also was saying the other day that when youre a kid and on about getting told off we used to say "dont tell my mum, i'll get knackered" / "she'll knacker me" as in a bollocking but for some reason you didnt say get a knackering, it was always get knackered
at least it makes sense in that knackers and bollocks are the same thing but find it weird how it was only acceptable said in a certain way
in the same vein... calling someone a fat knacker was a common insult back then, lol. Think thats all over the country though..isnt it?
"Going for a bob" ~ which means going for a sh*t
Also was saying the other day that when youre a kid and on about getting told off we used to say "dont tell my mum, i'll get knackered" / "she'll knacker me" as in a bollocking but for some reason you didnt say get a knackering, it was always get knackered
at least it makes sense in that knackers and bollocks are the same thing but find it weird how it was only acceptable said in a certain way
in the same vein... calling someone a fat knacker was a common insult back then, lol. Think thats all over the country though..isnt it?
Other thing is... as well as being semi-interchangeable with bollocks, bollocking & bollocked, knackered also means buggered dunnit. Buggered as in fucked.
I know sometimes people say stuff like "that car's bollocksed", but it's not quite the same thing... or is it? Discuss!
In a similar vein, when we were kids, round ar way knackered would often get shortened to knacked.
"If me mother finds out I'm up the stick she'll knack us"
"How man divvent dee that man else yull knack it"
"Ahm ganna knack yee for that like"
"Chrissy Waddle's knacked now like but he's still Sunderland's best player".
etc.
I know sometimes people say stuff like "that car's bollocksed", but it's not quite the same thing... or is it? Discuss!
In a similar vein, when we were kids, round ar way knackered would often get shortened to knacked.
"If me mother finds out I'm up the stick she'll knack us"
"How man divvent dee that man else yull knack it"
"Ahm ganna knack yee for that like"
"Chrissy Waddle's knacked now like but he's still Sunderland's best player".
etc.
Following on from my 'bob' post... dont Yorkshire peeps say 'bab' for the same thing?
If so, i'm sure they think its mildly amusing to then hear brummies call everyone Bab
Round my way if you let someone ride on the back of your bike it was a 'Croggy' but i think any further south they call them 'backies'..just not the same...was also abreviated to 'crog'. Ed
When i was a kid i was always taught that a pap was a shite, but now i understand it's a breasticle.
When i was a kid i was always taught that a pap was a shite, but now i understand it's a breasticle.
Pap is a very old word coming from the latin papillae meaning nipple. Although to be honest it does refer more to a boob in its entirity
Just look at the paps of jura..From Nr Loch Ardnahoe Islay looking to Jura:: OS grid NR4271 :: Geograph British Isles - photograph every grid square!