Local phrases and sayings

[Dave 123]

This may have been done before, but...

Prompted by a BBC website article

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37550178

So one from my Wirral youth is 'cracking the flags' meaning it's very hot, it cracks the flagstones.

What can you add?

 

[TrishE]

In the article the 'couldn't stop a pig in a passage' is an agricultural term as they said but referred to old ploughmen when I heard it due to developing bandy legs from walking in furrows when working horses. I heard 'You can tell an old ploughman he couldn't stop a pig in a passage'

 

[steve50]

Tha' can allus tell a Yorkshireman, but tha can't tell 'im much.(You can always tell a Yorkshireman, but you can't tell him much.)

Put wood inth ‘ole, (close the door)
Brass - money

10 while 11 - 10 o'clock until 11 o'clock

Mardy - moody

Scran - food

Dinner - lunch

Tea - dinner

Teacake - bread roll

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tha' can allus tell a Yorkshireman, but tha can't tell 'im much.(You can always tell a Yorkshireman, but you can't tell him much.)

Put wood inth ‘ole, (close the door)
Brass - money

10 while 11 - 10 o'clock until 11 o'clock

Mardy - moody

Scran - food

Dinner - lunch

Tea - dinner

Teacake - bread roll

All known in the Wakefield area too, but 'Lunch' is the southern word for dinner (I guess you used the word to illustrate it for the less fortunate down south)

Tea is the meal served in the late afternoon/early evening


Barnsleyites used the phrase 'Starved', to also mean they are cold

 

[Paragon]

Every craw caws its ain bairn the whitest.

 

[winjim]

Teacake - bread roll

There's nothing people in Yorkshire like more than having that stupid conversation about bread. I've lived here half my life for pity's sake, I've worked out how to order my lunch.

I'm originally from the Surrey/Hants/Berks border where we don't have any local dialect or idioms.

 

[Markymark]

I like some London sayings.

Get out my feckin way

I haven't time to be nice I have money to earn

Tax is for northerners.

I didn't pay all this money for a huge car to get stuck behind losers like you

 

[ufkacbln]

I love the term "Squinny"

It has an older definition in terms of a squint or eye defect. Shakespeare used it as in "I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou squiny at me?" in King Lear

However it has been adopted by the Portsmouth population

It describes a moaner, complainer or wimp, and is used as a verb as well as a noun

Someone can be a squinny, or can be accused of squinnying

 

[ufkacbln]

@Dave 123

The services have a massive vocabulary of phrases and sayings

Some are civilianised and used by both, others are more specific

For instance:
When you cough up a load of phlegm and either cough it into your hand / handkerchief or on the pavement it is known as a "Dockyard Oyster"

Are you happy with military as well, or would you rather keep to Local

 

[marinyork]

Nesh.
Bobar. Rubbish
Spice. Sweets
Tranklements.
Mardy.
Nayow sometimes spelt ne-ow. No way.
Duck and luv.
Going t' pictures.
What's up wi dee? How are you?

 

[steve50]

There's nothing people in Yorkshire like more than having that stupid conversation about bread. I've lived here half my life for pity's sake, I've worked out how to order my lunch.

I'm originally from the Surrey/Hants/Berks border where we don't have any local dialect or idioms.

It's not just yorkshire people, in a mixed group you will find the same piece of bread is called many different things dependent upon the location, Lancastrians call it a barm, others would call it a bun, roll, bap or bread cake

 

[winjim]

@Dave 123

The services have a massive vocabulary of phrases and sayings

Some are civilianised and used by both, others are more specific

For instance:
When you cough up a load of phlegm and either cough it into your hand / handkerchief or on the pavement it is known as a "Dockyard Oyster"

Are you happy with military as well, or would you rather keep to Local

If we're going military we could even do squaddie German. Can anybody translate Autoschlusselhosen?

It's not just yorkshire people, in a mixed group you will find the same piece of bread is called many different things dependent upon the location, Lancastrians call it a barm, others would call it a bun, roll, bap or bread cake

QED

 

[Poacher]

[QUOTE 4543403, member: 259"]He's got a monk on - he's in a bad mood. (Derbyshire) (well in fact we would have said "gorra" not "got a".)[/QUOTE]
What's black, white and brown, and moans a lot?
A nun with a monk on.

 

[ufkacbln]

If we're going military we could even do squaddie German. Can anybody translate Autoschlusselhosen?

One of those where translation is too literal....

 

[marknotgeorge]

It's not just yorkshire people, in a mixed group you will find the same piece of bread is called many different things dependent upon the location, Lancastrians call it a barm, others would call it a bun, roll, bap or bread cake

Well, they're all wrong. It's a cob.