Local phrases and sayings

[marknotgeorge]

Or a t cake, pronounced taycake.

If you ask for a teacake round 'ere, you'll get a cob with currants in. Preferably toasted, with lots of butter...

 

[Cycleops]

Thought there ought to be a bit of cockney rhyming slang. Sometimes the rhyming word is left out so only those in the know will understand. Here are a few examples:

Myleene Klass Arse, eg What a Myleene

Jimi Hendrix. Appendix eg just had me Jimi Hendrix out

Callard and Bowser's. Trousers

Runner Bean. Queen.

Chalfont StGiles Plies. Eg: Ooh, me Chalfonts are giving me gyp.

Gold Watch. Scotch

Rug rats. Toddlers/children, Brats

Ruby Murray. Curry

Camel's hump. Dump. Eg He's on the throne have a camel's.

 

[Gravity Aided]

How are you today?-
Finer than a frog's hair.
(optional-split three ways)
Also use rug rats for brats.

 

[MontyVeda]

In yorkshire it would be used as a term of sarcastic astonishment, as in "well would you believe that"

ASJT

 

[Julia9054]

A great Pontefract expression i heard recently.
"Half a coyt (coat)" to describe a young lad who had recently grown alot.

 

[classic33]

An old Scottish word: nobber. Apparently it means nincompoop.

County Meath, Ireland.

 

[Cubist]

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

QED

That's very good!!

Mistranslation can give the odd giggle. The Suzuki owners manual warns that certain driving behaviour may result in "ernsthafte Verletzung"

 

[steve50]

Auto Schlussel Hosen (Car key trousers) ?

 

[Roadhump]

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

My grandmother, a born and bred scouser, used to use that one to refer to being cold as well. I remember a tale she once told about my dad being minded by his cousins one winter's day when he was about 3 years old. When my nan returned from wherever she had been to collect him, they told her they were worried about him because he kept complaining that he was starving, but wouldn't eat any of the food they tried to give him to put that right. Shu duly advised them to give him an extra pullover to wear next time he complained about the same thing.

My parents moved away from Liverpool when they got married which resulted in me growing up in Ormskirk, thus making me a woolyback - a Liverpool expression for someone who is a non-scouser....sometimes shortened to wool

 

[ufkacbln]

Auto Schlussel Hosen (Car key trousers) ?

Squaddies have Khaki

 

[User482]

"Were you made in St Helens?"

I'll leave you to work it out...

 

[ufkacbln]

"Were you made in St Helens?"

I'll leave you to work it out...

.... as the Nurse said after giving a pencil to a constipated mathematician

 

[steve50]

Squaddies have Khaki

Ah, gotcha.

 

[Lancsman]

"Were you made in St Helens?"

I'll leave you to work it out...

But if you are in St Helens it would be "were thee made at Pilks?"

 

[Supersuperleeds]

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

Bread cake here. I refuse to acknowledge all other terms as a bread cake is a bread cake and nowt else.