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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:
SpamChaudFroid · 15/12/2019 09:53

A backy, S E.

a pegg Grin not on the back of a bike! (ouch, imagine going over the bumps)

Juanbablo · 15/12/2019 10:03

A backy

Listenkid · 15/12/2019 10:11

Croggy in notts

userxx · 15/12/2019 10:14

Peg

Heaviestdirtyestsoul · 15/12/2019 10:17

DP (northern Ireland) said backie or carry, I say croggy, north east.

Grafittiqueen · 15/12/2019 10:47

Backie

Blaziken · 15/12/2019 10:56

Croggy. I'm from the midlands.

EoinMcLovesCakeJumper · 15/12/2019 10:58

Can't believe there have been over 400 posts about thisXmas Grin. MN loves a dialect thread!

OP posts:
DogAndCatPerson · 15/12/2019 11:01

Backy

(Grew up in Manchester)

HunterHearstHelmsley · 15/12/2019 11:04

Backy - West Midlands

JumpyLiz · 15/12/2019 11:12

Only three of us said pillion. I wonder if we’re all close by (W Yorks here)

20viona · 15/12/2019 11:12

A backy

ButterflyBitch · 15/12/2019 11:24

I have no word at all for this.
Confused

northernknickers · 15/12/2019 11:37

@Surfskatefamily peggy here...south Manchester 👍

bedtimestories · 15/12/2019 11:42

Yorkshire lass here, we call it a cog

missmouse101 · 15/12/2019 11:47

Croggy!

PrincessHoneysuckle · 15/12/2019 11:48

Coggy

TolpuddleFarter · 15/12/2019 11:54

Backy!

LoseLooseLucy · 15/12/2019 12:12

Backy here in Manchester.

MiniMum97 · 15/12/2019 12:13

A backie. I'm from London.

Stormblessed · 15/12/2019 13:14

A backy - Newcastle

LucilleBluth · 15/12/2019 13:17

A backy, Mancunian 😀

Singinghollybob · 15/12/2019 14:03

A takey
Liverpool

IdleBet · 15/12/2019 14:12

Seater (70s/80s).

Arsenicinthesugarbowl · 15/12/2019 14:25

Croggy from North York’s too

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