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Do you know what a bishy barnabee is?

55 replies

Queijo · 09/03/2024 20:18

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?

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Damnloginpopup · 09/03/2024 21:25

Yep. And jaspers.

Rum bunch, int we.

hexsnidgett · 09/03/2024 21:26

Crikey Jasper's!

BlessedBeTheFruitCake · 09/03/2024 21:29

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

JoeLovesGina · 09/03/2024 21:37

I've got a shiver in my finger.

Picklewicklepickle · 09/03/2024 21:45

CommeIlFaut · 09/03/2024 21:07

Absolutely! I was raised in Norfolk so it’s what I call them. Our hibernating house bishies have been about too this week.

Barbaby was Bishop of Norwich and had a ladybird on his coat of arms.

I also jiffle, not fidget
And that picture over there’s on the huh

But I’m from a multicultural Jewish/ French Norfolk home so I done just mardle. I also kvetch and babille 🙂

My MiL calls my DC jifflebums

Yourowncase · 09/03/2024 21:45

Chocolatehobnobs25 · 09/03/2024 20:20

It’s a ladybird but I’m a Norfolk gal!

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

Yourowncase · 09/03/2024 21:47

johnboyo · 09/03/2024 20:47

Nope they're chucky pigs

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Chicken pigs?!

Gatekeeper · 09/03/2024 21:50

MixingPlaydough · 09/03/2024 20:24

Not a clue.

The ones I use which tend to throw people off are Bobbo, Tabs and Ginnel.

Babies bottle, cigarettes, narrow cut between houses or alleyway

MixingPlaydough · 09/03/2024 21:54

Gatekeeper · 09/03/2024 21:50

Babies bottle, cigarettes, narrow cut between houses or alleyway

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Good guesses

Horse
Ears
And yes a small gap between houses

Gatekeeper · 09/03/2024 21:55

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

TragicMuse · 09/03/2024 21:59

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!

MrsMoastyToasty · 09/03/2024 22:10

Scrage
Babber
Daps
Gurt

TheOnlyAletheia · 09/03/2024 22:11

Yes - Norfolk though 🙂

Yearendjoy · 09/03/2024 22:11

Yes - Norfolk too!

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Queijo · 09/03/2024 22:12

MrsMoastyToasty · 09/03/2024 22:10

Scrage
Babber
Daps
Gurt

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!

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AntheasAccessories · 09/03/2024 22:16

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 😬

AngelinaFibres · 09/03/2024 22:28

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

LunaNorth · 09/03/2024 22:30

mathanxiety · 09/03/2024 20:57

Roly polys.

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Tanks.

Yourowncase · 09/03/2024 22:40

AngelinaFibres · 09/03/2024 22:28

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

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.

Birthdaycake369 · 09/03/2024 22:41

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

citrinetrilogy · 09/03/2024 23:38

MikeRafone · 09/03/2024 20:30

Jolop

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

Pozz · 09/03/2024 23:39

hexsnidgett · 09/03/2024 20:34

Slaters are woodlice. So cute...

Chiggywigs!

SmashedPrawnsInAMilkyBasket · 09/03/2024 23:42

johnboyo · 09/03/2024 20:47

Nope they're chucky pigs

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

RenoDakota · 09/03/2024 23:54

CommeIlFaut · 09/03/2024 21:07

Absolutely! I was raised in Norfolk so it’s what I call them. Our hibernating house bishies have been about too this week.

Barbaby was Bishop of Norwich and had a ladybird on his coat of arms.

I also jiffle, not fidget
And that picture over there’s on the huh

But I’m from a multicultural Jewish/ French Norfolk home so I done just mardle. I also kvetch and babille 🙂

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.

Spareincoming · 10/03/2024 00:02

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