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

475 replies

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:
StormOfSekhmet · 15/12/2019 14:28

A double

Doubleaxel · 15/12/2019 14:29

Backie. Or maybe hurl, but you can take someone for a hurl in a car so that’s not very specific

WatchingTheMoon · 15/12/2019 14:30

A backy

RunningNinja79 · 15/12/2019 14:48

Croggy. Originally from York.

nespressowoo · 15/12/2019 15:01

A backie. I grew up in Milton Keynes.

MrsHardbroom · 15/12/2019 15:21

Backy or Chewie- W Yorks in the 80s

dottyblanket · 15/12/2019 15:23

Croggie - east Yorkshire

unicornsrule · 15/12/2019 16:56

Backy

Riddo · 15/12/2019 17:11

A croggy. My mum called it that, she was born in Leicester.

shggg245 · 15/12/2019 17:12

Croggy East Yorkshire

mintchick · 15/12/2019 17:12

I'm from East Yorkshire and it's croggy!!

Gatekeeper · 15/12/2019 17:14

Croggy- SW Durham

iheartchristmas92 · 15/12/2019 19:38

@rainallnight are you from Dublin? i thought I was the only jant-er too 😂

MrsDilligaf · 15/12/2019 19:39

Backie

Rockbird · 15/12/2019 19:54

Back saddle. London Irish.

NobJobWinker · 15/12/2019 19:56

Croggy

I grew up on North Yorkshire coast (near Scarbados)

Scoose · 15/12/2019 19:59

A taken/takie Liverpool

Scoose · 15/12/2019 20:00

Takey not taken

ghostmouse · 15/12/2019 22:32

A saddles I'm from Sussex originally

ghostmouse · 15/12/2019 22:34

Arghh no saddler not saddles. Bloody autocorrect

ClaireDendie · 15/12/2019 22:34

Croggy: Hull lass Grin

ClaireDendie · 15/12/2019 22:34

Either that or 'ger on bars'

RedSheep73 · 15/12/2019 22:35

I've never heard of croggy or backy, I'd just call it dangerous.

TheUnquestionedAnswer · 15/12/2019 22:38

A backie. Brought up in Lancs.

hettie · 15/12/2019 22:44

Backie (Devonian)