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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #126 on: Sunday 10 May 09 18:28 BST (UK) »
Never heard of "Nesh" before  ??? ..interesting...on the subject of dinner...if we asked what we were having my Mum would say "If-fit"...If it goes round the table you get a bit  ;D
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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #127 on: Sunday 10 May 09 19:15 BST (UK) »
Here are a few scouse sayings;

to give someone 'down the banks' meant a good telling off.
 Someone was 'gammy handed' or 'cack handed' if they were left handed.
a 'gezzunder' was a chamber pot cos it goes under the bed
'Gorra cob on' in a bad mood.
S/He was 'made up' meaning very pleased.
Its 'cracking the flags' meaning its very hot -flags being flagstones or pavement.
'carry out' packed lunch
'muck in, yer at yer Grannies' Bon Appetite!
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Jones - Denbighshire
McCormack/McLoughlin - Liverpool
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Turnell - Northamptonshire
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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #128 on: Sunday 10 May 09 19:21 BST (UK) »
Nice one L.L...I'm a left hander and was called..."Cack-Handed" or "Golly-Handed"...we also had a Gazunder....so called because it "Goes under the bed"...cracking the flags is a new one to me though.. I have heard of the rest 8)
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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #129 on: Sunday 10 May 09 19:51 BST (UK) »
Here are a few scouse sayings;

to give someone 'down the banks' meant a good telling off.
 Someone was 'gammy handed' or 'cack handed' if they were left handed.
a 'gezzunder' was a chamber pot cos it goes under the bed
'Gorra cob on' in a bad mood.
S/He was 'made up' meaning very pleased.
Its 'cracking the flags' meaning its very hot -flags being flagstones or pavement.
'carry out' packed lunch
'muck in, yer at yer Grannies' Bon Appetite!


These take me right back to my Liverpool childhood, although I have to admit I'd forgotten some of them  ;) 
'Cum 'ed our kid' ....come along or come on then usually to make a smaller child hurry up  ;D


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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #130 on: Sunday 10 May 09 20:24 BST (UK) »
Of a courting couple neither of whom were very nice looking ," best they `re together then neither of`um ull spoil another pair " Viktoria.

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« Reply #131 on: Sunday 10 May 09 20:42 BST (UK) »
Love that Viktoria  ;D 

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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #132 on: Sunday 10 May 09 23:59 BST (UK) »
I mentioned in my earlier post that my mum used to say "they'd spoil another couple" although she'd use it to describe a pair who were nutty rather than ugly, or a couple who deserved each other, I think we all know what that means!

Mum was also one for spoonerisms, our cars were always old bangers and one day when Dad came home with a Moggy Miner, she announced that we should hang on to this one as one day it would be a "colliters ectum", this became a family saying.
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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #133 on: Monday 11 May 09 00:17 BST (UK) »
Although I've heard cack-handed means left-handed, I've always used it to mean clumsy, in fact I called His Nibs that only today! I think it's because cack means crap in Welsh, at least according to my Granddad it does!

Granddad was from that generation of Welsh whose parents actively discouraged their children from learning the language even though it was their own first language.
Great-Granddad used to say "I speak three spokes, English, Welsh and rubbish".

Apart from cack and the usual Welsh everyone knows, the only other Welsh that crept into his vocabulary was "wedi mynd", used when something was unfixable. Mum told me it meant "gone west" actually wedi means past and mynd means go, does that mean the Long Mynd in Shropshire is Long Gone? !!
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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #134 on: Thursday 14 May 09 02:45 BST (UK) »
Growing up here in NZ in the 60s used to here some of those expressions, particularly from my maternal grandparents.

When asking what was for dinner you would get told 'Dimplets", which meant S**t with sugar on usually .

'Mad as a meat axe' was another one

My paternal grandfather had one expression 'Silly as a two-bob watch'

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