AIBU to wonder exactly how one rocks up somewhere?

[RockingUp]

I keep seeing the term used on Mumsnet and I must know exactly what it involves. I'm picturing someone striding along with a '90s boombox on their shoulder but I suspect that isn't what they mean.

JudgeRudy, its is not just you ... 😂

Oi @stonebrambleboy you can't just rock up here and correctly shatter my long help belief on the lyrics to You're So Vain! 😨

I also like a good 'traipse'
"The builders came traipsing in at half past ten. (And they traipsed mud all over the carpet!)" Reminds me of my mum, who also favoured 'lollycadding' (lazing/reclining) 'maurading' (moving about quickly and not in silence) and 'Gadding'/'galivanting' (leaving the house).

We traipse in usually after a long day out or shopping after a lot of walking.

I used galivanting - and I checked the on-line dictionary I do seem to be using it correctly - go around from one place to another in the pursuit of pleasure or entertainment.

I imagine them arriving in a small boat, trying to get their balance as they climb out .

I'm in stitches laughing at the replies 😂
We've always used "rock up" round here as far as I can remember, definitely since the 90s at least if not earlier.
I'm now wondering what you'd picture for "bounced round" as in "aye we just bounced round tae Asda".
Genuinely never given these phrases any thought and now I have tears picturing the literal versions 🤣

Love all these too. Also like a good "showboating" or a wee "daunder"

Our teen likes to "thunder around the place, like a herd of bloody elephants"!!

Don't they all!!!

BIL is always "rocking up" somewhere, usually to have a "cheeky" drink.

Makes my teeth itch, he's only 51 bless him.

I know I'm getting old because I've started popping!
I pop out for a pint of milk, pop in Mum's after work, pop hankies in my handbag and pop to the loo.😆

Oh dear. I pop now too. Except to the loo. I nip there.

But do you hop on things? E.g. "Morning Ms Door, just pop your clothes off, pop them on the chair, and hop up on the couch while I nip and get a speculum, I'll just need to pop it in for a few moments and then you can hop off the couch and pop to reception"?

I might just do a bit of flouncing then 😂

@stonebrambleboy maybe you could swan out instead, on the spirit of the thread? 😆

I'm sure Teachers across the land are used to the phrase rock up, as in a continually late pupil rocks up late every day .

Just don't pop the speculum!

Pop it out, that is!

OK so what the hell is a gavottethen?

I thought rocking up was a side to side motion implying the rocker usually male has large testicles? So had to sort of rock up with them?

They rocked up eg Billy big balls...

But what is gavotting?

It's the name of the dance they're doing, the gavotte 🙃

@JarByTheDoor

Can't stand crack on agree it seems to be fading..

Oh its a dance!!

Haha I don't like "crack on" either 😄 Always has a weird sense of forced urgency I don't appreciate.
Yes a really old dance but I only know cause I had to ask my mum years ago when she loved that song 😄

I'm relieved that the gavotte is an innocent dance.

Who knows when it was reputed to be about mick jagger.

I love our language for all of this. Someone who swans around is a bit pretentious or thinks they are better than they are. Rocking up indicates a misplaced swagger. Our cat goes out marauding. She also rawls on the carpet.

‘Gavotte’ reminds me of the ‘Gavotte in G’ that I played for my Grade 1 piano exam. ‘Cat, marmalade cat, marmalade ginger ginger ginger ginger cat, marmalade cat, marmalade ginger ginger cat’. (That was the rhythm of it, to spell out the difference between triplets and quavers).

For some reason ‘rock up’ makes me think of large stones thrown at windows. 😂

My friends and I like to have a mooch around Home Bargains. We never just “go” there.

I’m also fond of a mooch around the shops. DH will often undertake a quick shufti, not being one to linger anywhere.