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AIBU to ask for your local sayings?

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Minorityreports · 18/10/2019 19:25

I just looked down at my almost empty bottle of wine and thinking of the long night ahead said aloud (I live alone - not sure whether that makes it better or worse)... 'WELL THAT'S NOT GOING TO LAST ME PISSING TIME'.
I had it said before I realised it haha.

Love to hear your other little colloquialisms/madness/things yer Ma says that you still say

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TheNinkiestNonk · 18/10/2019 21:48

Black o'er our Jacks mother's

Wind thi neck in

Keep thi sneck art

Dontsayyouloveme · 18/10/2019 21:50

Icopiedyourusername check me out!! 😂😂

Howlovely well I am surprised! When I lived down there people thought I was mad when I said it!

Grinchly · 18/10/2019 21:55

Put wood in' toile ( shut door)
I'll go to t' bottom of us stairs ( satirical comment when told something very obvious)
EE wur à reet nip currant ( so mean he'd split a raisin in two)
Get everything off to a strait edge ( finish any outstanding jobs)
Home James and don't spare t'orses ! ( an old music hall expression, made popular in the 30s) said by a passenger to the driver - either horse or motor car- means let's go.)
Buggerlugs - affectionate name for someone who's a bit of a fool
Ee's got all 'is stairs at 'ome. A smart person

Howlovely · 18/10/2019 21:56

It's funny isn't it! I guess some sayings are sometimes super local.

'Chopsy' is one that people outside of my hometown don't seem to have heard of!

Grinchly · 18/10/2019 21:57

Chairs not stairs Blush

Paintedmaypole · 18/10/2019 21:57

I moved from where people see their arses to where they greet each other with a friendly "Iawn (alright) cont!" Couldn't believe my ears at first. They also moider or mwydro instead of mither.

Ginfordinner · 18/10/2019 21:59

Ey oop

CatteStreet · 18/10/2019 22:01

Oh yes, I grew up with 'going all round the Wrekin'. Haven't heard it in years.

Grinchly · 18/10/2019 22:02

Nowty to mean grumpy.
Also tenderly, from my father ' what's to do?' Meaning what's the matter.

Hearthside · 18/10/2019 22:13

Nesh -cold
Canna- can't
Dunna - don't
Mithering -fussing
Cob on -in a mood
Mon - friend
Mucker -driver
Mardy grumpy

JorisBonson · 18/10/2019 22:21

My nana used to say "as smart as a beesen brush" and we've never, ever found out what a beesen brush is

PierreBezukov · 18/10/2019 22:27

Do you think I came up the Bann in a bubble?
Were you born in a field?
It's spitting. It's drizzling.
How bout ye.
Over yonder.
Aye right.
Feel wick.

Shakirasma · 18/10/2019 22:28

Pissed as a fart
Missed me by a gnats knacker

BellatrixLeStrangest · 18/10/2019 22:29

Alright cocker
Where you born in a barn?
Put wood in thole (shut the door)
Stop fannying/ dicking about
Sweating cobs (what the fuck are cobs?!)

CalmConfident · 18/10/2019 22:29

Do you come from warsop?? shut the door!

369thegoosedrankwine · 18/10/2019 22:30

Loads up here......(I'm from Liverpool which has a dialect of its one and live now in the north east) the best from up here...

'Canny man canny'
'Haway'.
'What's the craic?'
'Bonny'
'It's mint'

CalmConfident · 18/10/2019 22:31

No one mentioned adding “our” to denote a family member e.g. I went to the pub with our Dave

Recognise lots of these Nottingham / Derbyshire border

Greenteandchives · 18/10/2019 22:33

Joris perhaps it was a besom brush? Like a witches broom?

Charmlight · 18/10/2019 22:33

JorisBonson It’s a besom brush - made of twigs bound together.

redredrobins · 18/10/2019 22:34

daft 'aiperth from the Liverpool side of my family i think.

Charmlight · 18/10/2019 22:35

How art me ewd?

CalmConfident · 18/10/2019 22:36

@BellatrixLeStrangest cobs are bread rolls in my part of the world !

JorisBonson · 18/10/2019 22:36

@Charmlight - you have just solved a 35 year old family mystery. I love you.

BobbinThreadbare123 · 18/10/2019 22:42

She's bin on the leccy beach - she has a tan from a sunbed
Soft lad - daft person
If I don't see ya through the week, I'll see ya through the windah - see you soon
Ee wouldn't stop a pig in a jigger - he has bandy legs
Ah seen me arse - I was very annoyed
Ah give im down the banks - I really scolded him

Scouser.

biggles50 · 18/10/2019 22:45

@11Gimmechipschocolateandcake
Donegal?

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