Sayings of Welsh Parents

[C0rdelia]

You tell them something mildly interesting.

Nooooor. I never.

My grandmother used to say "gudge a fi"

Do find myself saying...

There we are then
Poor dab
Pity
Now in a minute

@puzzledquiz

Cwtch confused me on Gavin and Stacy, my dm used a cwtch as cupboard or cubby hole, if she said something was in the cwtch she meant the cupboard under the stairs!

Yes the Cwtch is the cupboard under the stairs but also to have a cuddle! My auntie used to say it to my Hampster “come by yur and have a cwtch now then lav”

oh yes, my mum is from South Wales.

Uck a Vie

Come and have a cwutch

Ive just been all round the 'reakin

My nan, born and raised in the valleys funny saying was;

You've got the skin of your arse on your forehead.

I use it occasionally, much to the amusement of my colleagues.

Just remembered saying to my teens when we were clearing a garden, "Get on top of the twmp and tamp it down"

They looked at me as if I had two heads.

ah and my first cat was called Dewi. My first son has David as a middle name. Welsh through and through

This may be outing but we called my grandparents gramma and grancha. Is this unique to my family or is it a welsh thing ?

@AndNoneForGretchenWieners

Oh another one I've never heard anywhere else than from my gran (and my dad)

Stop rushing round like a will jill of hell

No idea what a will jill is, but I know she meant i was driving her barmy!

Wild child?

@NiceTwin we say that up north!

Croen dy din ar dy dalcen.

The best Welsh word without a doubt is:

Hiraeth❤️

Oh and:

Cynefin

@mejon

Tatws pum munud is like you describe but with lots of back bacon too. Although I’m not sure mum ever used oxo, think it was just very thinly sliced potatoes, slices of onion and bacon layered in a shallow, wide pan (what I now call a sauté pan) , covered in water and seasoned then simmered until all soft and delicious. We always ate it with peas. I loved it.

My nanny ( welsh grandma) would always say come and sit over by here it’s only bach. She was always making pics or pikelets and 2 mins in her house and she would have the kettle on and the table groaning with food her main enjoyment in life was feeding people

I always loved the word twti.
Used mostly to young children who needed a wee on a country walk.
Twti down by there

This may be outing but we called my grandparents gramma and grancha. Is this unique to my family or is it a welsh thing ?

Ah, my dad's parents were Welsh and he has mentioned having had a 'grancha'.

Such a lovely thread - I can relate to all, even though I've been out of the country 20 years @StringyPotatoes - kift in particular made me chuckle.

Do any of you listen to Under Milkwood on audible ? It's like stepping back into the village I grew up in.

I imagine this was a one-off: there was a farm near where I grew up that had a sign near the gate, with an egg painted on it and the warning “Dim Lions”

In primary school the Welsh teacher would lead us in singing. As encouragement she'd yell "Put a bit of HWYL into it!!"
She used it to mean "oomph" but it literally translates as "fun".

.....Which leads me to think that whilst "hwyl fawr" means goodbye it actually could be translated as "big fun"

DM (when hearing something unexpected): Well I do go to the foot of our our stairs!

Also Mawreddynol when exasperated.

We use scram for a scratch (the dog scrammed me) and smooth for stroke (can I smooth your dog?) which my English friends find amusing

@APJ1

This may be outing but we called my grandparents gramma and grancha. Is this unique to my family or is it a welsh thing ?

Ah, my dad's parents were Welsh and he has mentioned having had a 'grancha'.

There’s lovely!

My auntie when emphasising something someone does.

‘he do do it, he do’

Loving the thread. Seeing many links with Irish which isn't surprising!

[quote Toughie]@mejon

Tatws pum munud is like you describe but with lots of back bacon too. Although I’m not sure mum ever used oxo, think it was just very thinly sliced potatoes, slices of onion and bacon layered in a shallow, wide pan (what I now call a sauté pan) , covered in water and seasoned then simmered until all soft and delicious. We always ate it with peas. I loved it.[/quote]
We used to have that for dinner, but my mum called it Pan Haggerty!

It was lovely and I haven't had it since I was a child

My lovely mum and her family all spoke fluent Welsh but I was only taught it up to second year of high school. As such my Welsh is pretty sketchy, not helped by the fact I've lived in England for 20 years. When I moved here it was a genuine shock to see all the street signs etc written only in English. Also as a pp said, I grew up thinking that a lot of Welsh words were English because they were casually dropped into English sentences. I got so many confused looks from English people when I described someone as 'a bit twp' or when I said 'duw duw'

Does anyone have any idea what an exclamation of surprise/annoyance that my family used which sounded like 'wedi weto' might have meant? They said 'wedi dampo' too, I always suspected that one or other was actual Welsh and the other was a play on the English word wet/damp.

Fel wrech yn jar jam - like a fart in a jam jar ( means "useless")
Toc - a piece of bread and butter
Blodyn tatws - potato flower (term of endearment)
Hwnna mwnna - That thing there

Bad in bed is one I remember from childhood.

My mother used the word "magic eye" to describe any endoscopy type procedure. Although this may be her not that particularly Welsh.