Do you bark your shin? Had a potato in your sock?Strange family sayings

[julia5]

My DP thinks my family a bit strange for our sayings. What things do you say that are incomprehensible to others?
Btw barking your shin is when you catch the bony part on the front of your lower leg; a potato occurs when your toe pokes through your sock!
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Claggy means sticky to me, especially things like mud. When talking about sticky food (like toffee) we would say it was clarty.

"piffy on a rock bun Phrs. Heard in phrases expressing upset that one has been ignored or left out of an activity. Often heard shortened to "like piffy on a rock", and also just "like piffy". Etymology unknown. E.g."She forgot to tell me the meal had been cancelled, and left me standing in the rain like piffy."[North-west use]"

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Have just been on holiday to the North Pennines and DH bought a very funny book called 'Larn yersel' Geordie'. He's lost his accent after 20 years of living with me, poor man.

DS1 is always getting potatoes in his socks. (What else could one call them?) And I'm always barking my shin in the woods.

In my family, a wet echo's a drippy person. I don't think that's a reference to a newspaper. A friend uses "wet fart" with the same meaning. I've also come across Patience on a monument and generally look like the wreck of the Hesperus.

It's lemons we "don't stand there like", though.

When telling ds and dd to hurry up the stairs at night they are told to "get up the stairs like a linty". If they are wandering aimlessly around they are "tappy lappying"

We have several in our family, one is similar to dinosaurs'
'a run round the table and a kick at the pantry door'
My dad loves to say when we are out and about 'the things you see when you haven't got your gun'
'I may be cabbage looking but I'm not green' is another.
I think my Nan used to say the potaoes in the socks thing too.

what a lovely thread!!!

nan says clawpy - if somethings lumpy like custard!!

dh still doesnt understand 'owt' ie. need owt from shops?

never understood - not as green as your cabbage looking wtf?

im from manchaester and have lived all over uk and i love the different sayings and greetings!!!

oh nesh is good. it means you're a pansy who can't stand good old northern weather! needing a coat in anything less than a blizzard means you're a soft southerner!

does anyone hear 'its black at the back of bills mothers' anymore? (which means it looks like rain)

The cabbage looking thing means I may look stupid / innocent but I am not.
We also say that Tea is 'mashing'- brewing DH from the south hates me saying this.

oh yes my Mum says black over Bill's mothers and when I was very little she said this on a day trip out and I went up to a lady and asked her if she was Bill's mother

hi julia5, great thread
we used 'spuds' in socks,
dad says 'they could eat an apple through a letterbox' about someone with protuding teeth
see how you like them apples?

My mum says 'it's black over Bill's mothers'. Another northwesternism I think. Some more:

'dumberdash' for 'short, heavy rainstorm'.

'ganzy' for 'jumper' (comes from 'Guernsey', I think)

My granny said to me recently that her ganzy had 'lost its bant'. Which means it'd gone all floppy and worn.

spot on mytwopenceworth, Clary and StGeorge - 33 and 1/3p each

peachygirl, I remember when I was little, my dad saying 'I am going to see a man about a dog' and I truly believed we were getting a puppy

Greeeny, your "two kicks at the cupboard door" is a bit like our "run round the table and a kick at the cat". But possibly more humane.

I used to be a bit of a sleepy head when I was a teenager and my mum used to say:-

"you will sleep your brains into train oil"

'I've got a bone in me leg' - when complaining of something hurting.

'up the wooden hill' - going upstairs to bed

'I'm off to see a man about a dog' - when asked where you are going.

mytwopenceoworth... I always believed Bills mothers was somewhere at the back of our field at home... "mothers" always pronounced "moth-ers" not "muth-ers"!
I bet i can fox you all........
Does anyone know what
"hes took his bat 'ome (home) means??
great thread, one of funniest ive seen in ages.
Grandad always used to tell me i was "a rum lass"
When complaining of my short legs as a teenager, mum always uses to say "well they reach your bum what more do you want!"

'whats for tea?'
'3 runs round the table and a kick at the cellar door'
and....
'whats that?'
'Shim shams for meddlers! do you want it hot?'

Does it mean "he's flounced"?

and mother in law, if discussing anything to do with her husband or men in general -
"im all for getting rid, not setting on!"
pikelets - i think soft southerners may believe they are called crumpets!
"got mards on" when someones being childish

pretty much. Came from when they used to have cricket matches on village green type thing i think - basically hes not playin any more