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You daft apeth

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Kasterborous · 30/10/2013 08:50

No, not you but I heard this phrase yesterday and haven't heard it for ages. We used to say it when anyone had done something daft, but in a lighthearted way.

Another old favourite is 'crosspatch' as in 'don't be a crosspatch' when someone is being -well - cross.

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TrumptonVandal · 30/10/2013 09:14

"Bomsytit" Grin PMSL!

DawnOfTheDee · 30/10/2013 09:12

I thought an apeth was a big foot too AnyCluffy!

Also, vexed. Vexed is a dad word too.

DawnOfTheDee · 30/10/2013 09:11

Aw that brings back memories of childhood. My dad was forever calling me a daft apeth.

I also got called Madam Patty if I was being, well, a little madam. Apparently Madam Patty was a welsh opera singer. This may have been specific to my family.

Oh and a 'cotton picking nuisance'. Very old school....

AnyCluffyflumpFucker · 30/10/2013 09:10

I love 'daft apeth'! I use it on my lot. I did think an Apeth was a huge, hairy, creature, like 'big foot' Grin.

DH tells DC to 'pack it in!'.
I always laugh and tell him that it's such a Dad thing to say. I have only ever heard Dads say it and I thought it was left back in the 80s!

roadwalker · 30/10/2013 09:07

I use ha'porth all the time- the kids think I'm nuts! I have just learned how to spell it
I also say- I'm not standing around like cheese at 4pence- when waiting for them
I use wild woman of Borneo to describe my or DD's hair

Lurleene · 30/10/2013 09:06

Oh I always thought it was daft dapeth Blush. I feel silly now.

Mind you I always thought the saying was "your room looks like a bomsytit" til I got called out on it as an adult.

AnkaretLestrange · 30/10/2013 09:02

Or the wild woman of Borneo, whoever she was.

AnkaretLestrange · 30/10/2013 09:02

Yes it's ha'porth or something. Means half a penny,

I always say wreck of the Hesperus about the state of my hair.

FacebookWanker · 30/10/2013 09:01

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=apeth

You're both correct

FacebookWanker · 30/10/2013 09:00

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=apeth

DanielHellHoundMcSpaniel · 30/10/2013 08:57

My dad has taught DS1 to say "Xxxx Xxxx ain't no good, chop him up for firewood" about his baby brother which I remember my grandparents often saying to us as children and don't hear very much now. I haven't revealed the existence of the other two lines yet. (When he's dead we'll boil his head and eat him up with lava bread)

FacebookWanker · 30/10/2013 08:55

'I'll be down on you like a ton of bricks'....perhaps it's just something that teachers say...

Jacksterbear · 30/10/2013 08:55

My great aunt used that phrase. Also, she used to call me a little rum'un (as in, funny little thing). I used to wonder, as a child, what on earth a Rumman was!

thepurplepenguin · 30/10/2013 08:54

I like it too, but isn't it daft ha'porth? Ie half a penny's worth...

GiddyStars · 30/10/2013 08:53

I say these to my DC. I'm in my twenties Blush I think one day I just woke up and had turned into my mother...

I hope nobody comes along and says they have awful underlying connotations now!

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Kasterborous · 30/10/2013 08:52

Meant to add, so what are your favourite similar phrases that you don't hear much these days.

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