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I guess we all know about the use of "while" in Leeds meaning "until" as in Nine while nine. As a student of language, I thought it might be interesting/ amusing to share some phrases/ sayings you've come across on your travels. Explanations might be useful for non natives. I'll offer:

"Pot calling kettle grimey arse". One of my wife's favourites. Her version of "Pot calling kettle black" i.e. someone accusing someone else of something they're guilty of themselves.

Also "I could eat a scabby horse" meaning "I am extremely hungry". I think this one's probably of French origin.

"eeey, well i'll go t' top of aaar stairs!"

i gather it means "wow! i didn't expect that!"

'Hairy Arsed Wain' - precocious and badly behaved child.

N.Ireland.

ice cubes in the urinal

hallucienate wrote:ice cubes in the urinal

It's a South African thing. A bit like flyovers that end in midair.

'yar' - South African for 'umm'.

Johnny Boy wrote:

hallucienate wrote:ice cubes in the urinal

It's a South African thing. A bit like flyovers that end in midair.

'yar' - South African for 'umm'.

it actually means "yeah"

and those flyovers are part of my heritage, they've been around longer than I have

hallucienate wrote: it actually means "yeah"

Oh.

hallucienate wrote:and those flyovers are part of my heritage, they've been around longer than I have

And there was me thinking you were just a nation of frustrated Evel Knievels.

Bit bad this one...

Down our road, we say "Scut me fag mate" which means put my cigarette in that ashtray old bean..

Mate of mine from N'castle stayed with us, I asked him to scut me fag as I was on the phone, th esheer look of horror on his face kinda confused me...

Turns out up his way they say "going home to scut wor lass" which means, well you can guess what it means...

Language is WIERD!!

Johnny Boy wrote:And there was me thinking you were just a nation of frustrated Evel Knievels.

it happens more often than you think

murg

means to sulk. a bit like mardy. verb or noun.

Being an ex-pat Tyke, I have hours of fun confusing people at work with simple expressions. Even pronouncing words in a slightly different way can baffle sum fowk...

Rate, I'm just off to put sum watter in t'kettle. Gagging for a cup o' tee

We've got a good one up here...

"A bairn wi' a biscuit arse could do that"

Meaning that was easy, even a kid could do it.

No, I have no idea of the origins of a 'biscuit arse'.

I could eat a scabby hieded wean between two pishy mattresses (see first post)

Some useless pub information that i'm sure some of the Scots contingent have heard before...

Edinburgh Uni's Student Union ~ Potter Row...(spent many a pished evening there...)

i met up with an ex ex ex ex girlfriends school friend at the bar...
she asked where i was sitting...
i replied...
"over at the window by the puggy!"...pointed in the general direction of 'over there somewhere'...
to my amazement she had not the foggest idea what i meant...so i pointed again...more directly this time...
she looked at me again...and asked if i meant by the Fruit Machine...

thass cum rownd agin
Norfolk for Christmas is coming

I don't have a Norfolk accent thankfully despite being a Norfolk lass

I remember being confused by some Northerners whilsy working in a sandwich bar. WTF is a "breadcake" or a "cob"?? And I'm not a duck either!

a joey is both a taxi and a long fella or ringy. we have no word for rat

A fast black or Jesse Owen - a taxi, in Glasgow

So, the meal you eat in the middle of the day.

Dinner or lunch?

Me? I always had school dinners. And I wasn't in detention all that long

Anyone else know "nesh", meaning soft. Particularly in terms of shying away from bad weather.

Eg: "I'm not going out in that weather."
"Ah, divvent be so nesh, man."

I got that from my Mancunian mother, and it confuses everyone.

And, when at school, did anyone else use "hellish" to mean really good? Or was that exclusively a Sunderland thing? As in "git hellish as owt like, man".

Hopefully Radgie Gadgie and Workie Ticket are self-explanatory. I can do both to perfection.

@ AM

Nesh is good did you also have "you shape like my aunt sally~peggy~etc"?


Dinner and lunch that's just North/South divide isn't it? like that bank advert, where an O made with the fingers is good everywhere apart from South America. Like women drinking wine in pubs...just doesn't happen up north

paint it black wrote: Like women drinking wine in pubs...just doesn't happen up north

Exactly. Why drink wine when beer comes in a much bigger glass (and tastes nicer too!)