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

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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

A 'bunk' up here (Newcastle) means to help someone over something. I.e. 'Billy, I need to get owa this wifeys fence so I can chore (steal) all ov a xmas presents, give us a bunk up, hew'.

I’d use bunk/ bunk up to mean helping someone over something. Had no idea some people thought it meant sex

Are you not all confusing it with bonking?

Leg up -is helping hand to progress career wise

Never used bunk up in a sentence before

Southwest England

Leg up = help/boost up
Bunk up = sex
Leg over = sex

We called it a bunk-up when I was a kid (SE England).
But as an adult I realise that is something entirely different

Foot up or footer where I am in NI. Leg up sometimes too.

A bunk up is most definitely a shag!

I used bunk-up for the standing on hands thing when I was growing up (Sussex) but realised as an adult that most other people say leg-up.

Leg-up in my family (from Yorkshire).

Bunk-up at school (Sussex)

Leg up means a boost breaking in somewhere before 14 years of age and help thereafter. Croydon. The breaking in might be a croydon thing.

Bunk up = shag
Leg up = give a hand, usually to do with nepotism at work
Or, holding someone up but not been in that position for a while!

In my area bunk up is most definitely a fuck so if you live down south, best he doesn't ask colleagues for one

“Ey Kev mate give us a leg up this fence will yer” 🤣

I’m a Manc from Trafford.
I’d use it to refer to a “hand ladder” or “boost”.
I would definitely also use it about someone gaining an advantage.

“Am gettin a flat in town! Mum an dad gave us a leg up. Parties are gonna be top!”

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Bunk up means have sex with and leg over rather than leg up also means to shag

when I was a kid bunk up was put your hands out cupped so someone can climb on them to reach a higher place. (london)
Haven't heard it since!

leg up was more metaphorical- just meaning a helping hand in getting to a higher position.

Where I live, a leg up means assistance to get ahead , ie my brother helped me to get a job at his workplace, so he gave me a leg up in my career.

Leg up - give someone a boost (physically or in their career)
Bunk up would mean a shag but I would never use this phrase

Leg up: a boost, literal or metaphorical. Helping someone climb up something or giving an opportunity to progress.

Bunk up: sleep with. Literally sharing a bunk or a euphamism for sex. Bunk barns/houses are basic accommodation for outdoor activities. May just literally be 4 walls, a roof and bunkbeds... actually I can think of a few that didn't even have the beds!

Leg over: definitely sex.

I hope OP is breaking the news gently to her DH

Probably not used now but growing up in the North, a bunk up was a ride in the back of someone's bike!

Leg up = helping someone to get somewhere / achieve something

Leg up to me is a boast so for example when you have rich parents who have run a business, they'll give you a job as a leg up rather than the traditional application process.

It's also physical so. Someone helping you get up to something higher.

Sex is a bunk up.

I'm in SE

To move a lower body limb upwards?

Leg up/boost - help over/on to something
Bunk up - never heard of
Bunk in - to stay in the same room as (non-sexual)
Leg over - sex

Scotland, varying regions of!

Leg up-boosting someone up onto a horse or giving someone help, often financially/with supporting them to get a job.

@happystory nah mate that’s a “backie” 🤣🤣

Language is great isn’t it