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

[chomalungma]

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?

@Pickles89 way back in the 1970s

DP has a version of that song that continues...

You put me in a lorry
You never said sorry

@PuppyMonkey

What, the kangaroo one? Was he from Nottinghamshire too? I don't know why but I find it fascinating, the way it's mutated through time and according to location. I wish I could zap back to my infant school and find out if the kids there are chanting the same thing I used to or if it's changed again.

I can distinctly remember watching Neighbours one evening when it was at it peak - possibly around 88? I was at high school at that time. Anyway they used the term “dobbing in” on one episode and thff ref next day the term was being used all over my school and it never stopped from tgst point onward. I’ll always believe that it originated from the Aussie soaps.
Also apparently most kids my age have a discernible Aussie Rwanda yo their dialect due to their youth of watching Neighbours Gday

Rwanda yo = twang to
We also said “chinny rub” and Jimmy Hill to someone telling tall tales, we came out with some right shit in the 80s

We used it it Wiltshire when I was a teenager. Now that I live in Wales, my DC are 🙄 if I use the phrase (because, clearly, I'm old and uncool)

Sneak? Do you mean Snake? 😂

Grassing someone up? I’d say it’s a common term from where I’m from (Essex) never in my life have I considered it an Australian phrase and certainly haven’t picked it up from shows as I’ve bever watched them!

Yes here in West Midlands dobbing someone in is used.

I know it because of Neighbours (Gen X). I'm Scottish and grew up saying clipe.

Interesting article in the Sydney Herald says it's British

So, is it possible to be both a fair dinkum Aussie and serial dobber? "I'm afraid not," says Sue Butler, publisher of the Macquarie Dictionary and acute observer of changing customs and linguistic practices. "Although increasingly Australians are wrestling with the issue to decide when and where dobbing is permitted." As Butler explains, "to dob someone" probably comes from 19th century British dialect meaning, more physically, to "knock them over" or "put them down", though it did not enter the Australian vocabulary until the mid-1950s.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.smh.com.au/national/the-new-culture-of-dobbing-20021209-gdfxqd.html

Well known phrase here, and I grew up long before Neighbours / Home and Away hit our screens. Skippy, OTOH

I just asked my 18 yr old, and she knows what 'Dobbing someone in' means, but has never seen Neighbours, and I don't think every watched any Australian series.

Dh says he used it at school in the 1970s. And he's never watched Neighbours

I’m familiar with it and am in the UK.

I'm from Cheshire, born in the early 60s and used that term growing up...WELL before any kind of Aussie soaps, so it can't have come from that 🤷‍♀️ (and yeah...to mean telling on someone, to 'dob them in' 'grass them up') We used to say, all dramatic, "ahhh I'm gonna dob you in to me mam if you don't stop!" 😂🤣 (usually aimed at a sibling 🤦‍♀️)

Yes, used a lot growing up in South Wales.

Yes, I used it growing up in, pre-Neighbours.

Don’t dob me in you

I loved neighbours

Don’t dob me in you dag

I loved neighbours

It was a commonly used term in our part of Lancashire long before the Australian soaps hit the UK.

I'm in North East England and we would say 'dropping someone in it' rather than 'dubbing' but it means the same... Reporting someone.

@CoolShoeshine- we used to say chinny reckon, Jimmy Hill, or big Bellamy beards (Whilst stroking a long imaginary beard) .

Yes, used it as a kid growing up in Lancashire many years ago.

Chinny reckon, itchy chin, and Jimmy Hill all meant someone was lying back in the 80s.

As for dobbing we used that before Neighbours was on.

If be very surprised if anyone in the UK is correct in thinking they used it before 1986 when Neighbours hit our shores. I remember hearing it for the first time back then, and it quickly gained traction.
I'd lived in three different areas of the country before then (North, Midlands and South) and never heard it

@saraclara I already had my first child by the time Neighbours had started in 1986 😂😂 Please don’t presume to ‘know’ what language I used as a child myself 👍