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What does ‘leg-up’ mean in your regional dialect?

48 replies

RingsteadBay · 14/12/2019 20:35

My husband calls it a bunk up (he’s born and bred south Northamptonshire ).

I call it a leg-up (grew up in Herts, mucho time in Wiltshire).

When you use your hands for someone to stand on to reach something. Or ‘boost me up’ if you play too much Uncharted Grin

OP posts:
Littlepond · 14/12/2019 20:36

A bunk up is a shag! A leg up is a boost.

TheNameGames · 14/12/2019 20:37

Give me a leg up (so I can reach this open window to break into this house)

And by I mean regional. Not me!

Tiredandgrumpytonight · 14/12/2019 20:37

A punty

PotteringAlong · 14/12/2019 20:38

A leg up = helping someone

Bunk up = sex!

TotheletterofthelawTHELETTER · 14/12/2019 20:38

I’m with littlepond.
Leg up is a boost. Bunk up is a shag.

Shockers · 14/12/2019 20:38

NW- I’d say leg up for a boost; bunk up means something completely different!

TweaksDadsHat · 14/12/2019 20:38

A punty up!

yasle · 14/12/2019 20:39

Leg up: help/advantage to do/get/achieve something

Tinty · 14/12/2019 20:39

A leg up where I’m from means helping someone.

Stupiddriver1 · 14/12/2019 20:39

A leg up is a boost, often used in association with chucking someone up onto a horse.

Stupiddriver1 · 14/12/2019 20:40

Do hope your dh doesn’t say to work colleagues “can you give me a bunk up”. 😂😂

isabellerossignol · 14/12/2019 20:40

A leg up would be either helping someone up physically, or metaphorically.

I don't think I know the term bunk up in any context, it doesn't sound like something I've heard. If I had to guess at it though, it sounds like sharing a bed.

Aragog · 14/12/2019 20:41

Leg-up. - helping hand

Bunk-up - sleeping with someone though not in general use round here in my age group anyway

South Yorkshire

reginafelangee · 14/12/2019 20:42

I'd call that a footy up

museumum · 14/12/2019 20:42

A leg up is when you stand in their hands as a kind of step.
Also used metaphorically when it seems someone has been given an unfair advantage at work.

To bunk up together here means live together as lovers.

CallarMorvern · 14/12/2019 20:47

I'm from Lancashire, leg up means giving someone a boost either career wise or physically like getting on a horse.
Getting a leg over is a shag.

Expressedways · 14/12/2019 20:55

Leg up is getting on a horse or getting a boost from someone to scale a wall or something. Could also mean being given a favourable opportunity, often at work and as a result of nepotism.
Leg over is of course a shag.
Bunk up I’ve never heard of but it sounds like your allocating rooms on holiday and who is sharing with who.

OrangeTwirlGate · 14/12/2019 21:33

A ‘Leg-Up’ in my job means
legislation update Grin

StopMakingATitOfUrselfNPissOff · 14/12/2019 21:36

I'm actually from a very similar area to him OP and bunk up most definitely means shag!
Leg up would be what I'd call it

eurochick · 14/12/2019 21:38

A leg up is a boost or a help.

A bunk up is sharing a bed. Your husband's colleagues are probably a bit confused if he has ever asked them for one.

CatteStreet · 14/12/2019 21:41

Yy, a leg up is a boost, literal or metaphorical.

The Germans have a great word for the literal variety Räuberleiter (robbers' ladder).

HellonHeels · 14/12/2019 21:41

Bunk up is a shag in London, but haven't heard it said for years.

CatteStreet · 14/12/2019 21:43

I think 'bunk up' to me would be to share accommodation, probably in a provisional or temporary or impromptu way, like when you're staying with someone.

Justonemoremojito · 14/12/2019 21:46

Leg up or a boost....... I'm from northants too

Biscuitsneeded · 14/12/2019 21:48

A leg-up is either literally helping someone climb something by using your hands as something they can stand on, or metaphorically as a way of helping someone to progress with something eg she was given a leg-up in the business by her aunt.