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What do you call it when someone gives you a lift on their bike?

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EoinMcLovesCakeJumper · 14/12/2019 18:27

I was talking to a colleague the other day about what we were doing for Christmas, and he said he was heading off early because he had to go and collect his mum from the airport. He cycles everywhere, so I jokingly said "Are you going to give her a croggy?" He had no idea what I was talking about, and after I had hurriedly explained what it was, i.e. not a euphemism for something dodgy, he said "Oh, you mean a backie". I had never heard of that term - but a quick straw poll round the office revealed that everyone else called it a backie as well. We're all from various parts of Yorkshire, for reference, but I am the only one from North Yorkshire...

I am sure I haven't invented the term croggy, so I'm wondering if it's one of those regional oddities where only people from one specific town say it.

Where do you stand on the backie/croggy issue, and where did you grow up?

OP posts:
Boxerbinky · 14/12/2019 22:37

A takey!

Boxerbinky · 14/12/2019 22:39

Also Liverpool Grin

OhDear2200 · 14/12/2019 22:42

Croggy- East Yorkshire

DH - backie - Norfolk.

Obviously he’s wrong

IceBearRocks · 14/12/2019 22:43

I'm from liverpool and its always been a Takee...

Babyroobs · 14/12/2019 22:43

Croggy - East midlands.

OhDear2200 · 14/12/2019 22:43

“Dangerous and illegal”

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Justwanttotravel · 14/12/2019 22:43

Croggy

imip · 14/12/2019 22:47

A dink - Melbourne, Australia

IWantToBeNynaeve · 14/12/2019 22:50

Backer - Ireland

IsletsOfLangerhans · 14/12/2019 22:51

Croggy - East Yorkshire

KenDoddsDadsDog · 14/12/2019 22:51

Backer - North East

ClemDanFango · 14/12/2019 22:54

Backie- SE London

wineandcatsandlego · 14/12/2019 22:55

A cog! S Yorks here

Thismummyruns · 14/12/2019 22:55

Backy!

Strictly1972 · 14/12/2019 22:57

Peggy! Great word.

SymbollocksInteractionism · 14/12/2019 22:57

A backie

itsaldramarama · 14/12/2019 22:58

A tan , north east

LadyofDispleasure · 14/12/2019 23:00

A dink (Australia)

bionicnemonic · 14/12/2019 23:00

Crossie
(as in cross bar I’d always assumed. Essex)

Firecarrier · 14/12/2019 23:00

A backy. Midlands

fanniboz · 14/12/2019 23:14

Backy

alexafindfilms · 14/12/2019 23:15

a backie

EL2019 · 14/12/2019 23:15

It was a seatie where I grew up in Suffolk

shitshappens · 14/12/2019 23:26

always thought it was a called a Chucky and I'm from the black country

Papergirl1968 · 14/12/2019 23:30

Yes shithappens!
It’s the first time I’ve seen anyone else know it as a chucky.
I’m from Dudley area.