Does anyone use this word?

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It just came out of my mouth - and took me straight back to my youth.

Puthering.

What a lovely word.

I don't really use it much but if I did I would use it in the context of a little train puthering along, something smoking gently along. Is that your understanding of it? e.g.Puthering out smoke as it crossed the valley. Not necessarily a train.

I haven't heard that one.

I am a big fan of scurryfunging though. Both word and activity.

I thought it meant 'pouring' as in excess of liquid.

Eg. The water was puthering out of the broken pipe.

Not wanting to sound like Miranda, but scurryfunging is also a lovely word.

I googled it and it means pouring with rain. As in 'it's puthering down here'!

In Lincolnshire we say it’s siling or teeming down when it’s raining heavily.

I remember my grandma using the word puthering to describe a nose bleed.

When it was raining heavily, she used to say it was 'stair rodding' (metal bars used to keep stair carpet in place).