Do you know what a bishy barnabee is?

[Queijo]

Was talking to my lovely friend today and said I had an influx of bishy barnabees. She looked at me like I was quite mad!

I didn’t realise it was such a local colloquialism! What’s your one that confuses everyone?

Yep. And jaspers.

Rum bunch, int we.

Crikey Jasper's!

Yup. From Norfolk here too. They even have a street named after them.

I've got a shiver in my finger.

My MiL calls my DC jifflebums

Yep, but should be bishy bishy Barney bee. The second bishy is important.

Chicken pigs?!

Babies bottle, cigarettes, narrow cut between houses or alleyway

Good guesses

Horse
Ears
And yes a small gap between houses

I got satched when I went for a plodge. Didnt help that it was hoying it down. Me mam played war with me but at least she didnt bray me

Are you laiking out this aft?

I was born in London, lived in Yorkshire, went to school in Lancashire and now live in Norfolk. I have a very jumbled bag of slang!

Scrage
Babber
Daps
Gurt

Yes - Norfolk though 🙂

Yes - Norfolk too!

Gurt I don’t know, gert I do know because I fell in love with a Bristolian when I was 17! He is in my past but that word isn’t 😂

Gert lush!

Yep also know ginnel and spelk and my mum used to say haway when we needed to leave the house and say I was hacky after brownie camp; my dad would tell me to stop being mardy - Norfolk but with very Northern parents 😬

Piffy on a rock bun.
Means something that's too small for where it is.
" That looks like a piffy on a rock bun".

Tanks.

It means enforced standing about being useless- “I’m stood here like piffy on a rock bun” if something has caused you to wait (for example waiting for someone to take a brew from you.m)

Or sometimes used to mean left out- so you might say “stood here like piffy” if no one passes you the ball in a football game- you are hanging around doing nothing.

There’s an estate nearby that has a bishy barney bee drive and lots of the houses have ladybirds on. There’s also a polywiggle road which I’d never heard of despite living in Norfolk my whole life

Ah. Isn't it jollop though, or is that something else?

Chiggywigs!

Correct. Also in the land of daps, and a bit north of the babbers.

I am from Norfolk too but have lived all over the place.

Many years ago, when living in Surrey, I clocked that my son's music teacher was from Norfolk as well when she told him to stop 'jiffling about' 🙂

And I love you for 'on the huh'! My very favourite Norfolk expression by a mile.

@Gatekeeper Divvent be daft lass, ye wunnit get wrong, ye Mam knaes that plodgin when it’s hoyin it doon is propa belta.