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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:
EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 14/12/2019 18:46

Croggy also Nottingham

Imtryingveryhard · 14/12/2019 18:47

In Australia we called it a dinkie or a dinkie back.

IncyWincyGrownUp · 14/12/2019 18:47

Croggy - East Yorks.

Wolfcub · 14/12/2019 18:49

Backsy

LlamasSitOnPyjamas · 14/12/2019 18:49

Croggy - Leicester

chuck7 · 14/12/2019 18:50

A backy - durham

StarySkyTonight · 14/12/2019 18:50

I call it a 'pag' or a 'piggy pag', DH calls it a 'paggy'. We're in NELincs.

ArfArfBarf · 14/12/2019 18:51

I’m pretty sure it was a question in this quiz form the NY times because it’s really good at predicting where you grew up:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html

wishingitwasfriday · 14/12/2019 18:52

A backy- am in the south west

user1486723488 · 14/12/2019 18:52

Croggie - Nottingham and Yorkshire Dales

Botherfreedays · 14/12/2019 18:53

A doubler

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 14/12/2019 18:54

A hitch

KenAdams · 14/12/2019 18:54

A croggy

HettyStThomas · 14/12/2019 18:54

Backy, originally from the midlands

f00k · 14/12/2019 18:54

A backy. Grew up in SE.

fruityconfusedhotdog · 14/12/2019 18:55

Backie here too, Scottish

Adelais · 14/12/2019 18:55

Croggy - also from Nottingham

wontletmelogin · 14/12/2019 18:55

Backy in Essex

ItWasntMyFault · 14/12/2019 18:56

Backy in Oxford

Toadstool52 · 14/12/2019 18:56

A croggy! (Teesside)

TheBigFatMermaid · 14/12/2019 18:56

Backy! South West!

QueenofPain · 14/12/2019 18:56

A croggy, also east mids.

haverhill · 14/12/2019 18:56

Craggy, Cambridgeshire

Blahblahblahnanana · 14/12/2019 18:56

It’s a backie from where I’m from in West Yorkshire. Bacci/baccy is also slang for rolling tobacco...

haverhill · 14/12/2019 18:56

Croggy!!