"Dobbing someone in" - do you know what it means?

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I use this term - but according to an article i read, it's an Australian / New Zealand term.

I have lived in Australia - and watched Australian TV growing up, like people did - so I can't remember when I learnt it.

Do you know what it means - and do you use it?

Scottish here, used to call it cliping, have never heard any one else use this though 😊

Dobbing in was definitely used in Yorkshire in the 80s. I grew up knowing it and using it

I learnt it from Neighbours and Home and Away in the late 80s/early 90s. It means grassing someone up.

I’ve heard of it, and know what it means. I’ve always assumed it’s used more in a kids/school context, but I don’t know if that’s the case or not.

It's used where I live in the NW.

Yes I know what it means. I'm in north Wales. Just asked DS age 14, he had no clue

Yes and I've never watched Neighbours. I thought it was an English expression.

Prisoner Cell Block H is where I heard it, in the 80's/90's, the original series when the entire thing was shown late at night.

I used to use it in cornwall at school.

I'm sure I remember using at school in the late 70s/early 80s pre Neighbours.

Yes. Also known as 'getting them done' when I was at school in Yorks.

London, definitely used it pre-Neighbours. And 'snitches get stitches' is one of those terrible blanket sayings. There are times when it's the right thing to do, there's times when it's a killjoy miserable bastard thing to do. It's working out which is which that makes you look at what your moral lines in the sands are, and it's going to change from person to person.

From Norfolk and we were always dobbing each other in at school!

So consenses is yes it,s used all over uk, means to tell on someone.

I'm from Norfolk as well, and used it growing up in the 80s - I'm sure I used it pre-Neighbours as well.

I'm from NW England, I know what it means but I did watch a lot of Neighbours/Home & Away as a teen so it could be from that!

We used it at School in the 70s (small Oxfordshire town).

We used it in Devon back in the 60's.

'Telling on' someone.

In Scotland it means telling one someone, especially letting the authorities know ie she dobbed him take the polis

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Yes in North Yorkshire, have always used it, was v common at school. But we're a generation greatly influenced by neighbours and home and away so that could well be where it came from!

Telling on someone or turning them in eg to police

I've known it since a kid, but I was the Neighbours generation too so we could have picked it up then! Never thought about it.

Yes ya wee clipe !!!

I’m nearly 70, grew up in Middx, only learnt it recently - within the last 10 years I reckon. DH, Lancashire, same.

Kids born in 80s, did watch Aussie soaps, but at primary it was “telling over” - don’t know what it would have been at secondary.

Have to say I love the phrase dobbing in, but not if it’s done to be sneaky