Words you use that isn't understood elsewhere.

[jon1959]

Re: Words you use that isn't understood elsewhere.

Nesh (feel the cold)

Suet (overtime)

Spice (sweets)

Snap (food - usually packed lunch)

Wazzack (idiot, numpty, plank....)

Oil (hole)

Breadcake (roll, bap, cob....)

Mardy (miserable)

Chuff/ing/ed (wazzack or flippin' or pleased)

[dembethewarrior]

Re: Words you use that isn't understood elsewhere.

Nesh (feel the cold)

Suet (overtime)

Spice (sweets)

Snap (food - usually packed lunch)

Wazzack (idiot, numpty, plank....)

Oil (hole)

Breadcake (roll, bap, cob....)

Mardy (miserable)

Chuff/ing/ed (wazzack or flippin' or pleased)

There's a few mardy bums on here.

[Mr Shhh]

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Daps

Is it true that 'daps' is actually short for Dunlop Air Products? Or have I fallen for it, hook, line and sinker?

[bobh]

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I suspect a few on here will know the word, but years ago (OK, decades ) I made, and played on, a "gambo". It once came up on Call My Bluff.

[NYCBlue]

Re: Words you use that isn't understood elsewhere.

Is it true that 'daps' is actually short for Dunlop Air Products? Or have I fallen for it, hook, line and sinker?

Interesting.

[The Bloop]

Re: Words you use that isn't understood elsewhere.

I suspect a few on here will know the word, but years ago (OK, decades ) I made, and played on, a "gambo". It once came up on Call My Bluff.

My old man made me a bogie when I was a nipper. Pram wheels, odd bits of wood and steering with your feet and a bit of old rope. Great fun.

[jon1959]

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Is it true that 'daps' is actually short for Dunlop Air Products? Or have I fallen for it, hook, line and sinker?

One folk etymology that doesn’t work, however, is deriving daps as an acronym from the factory name “Dunlop Athletic Plimsoles,” as Dunlop did not take over the original manufacturer, the Liverpool Rubber Company, until 1925, fifteen years after the first mention in Cardiff.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/480871/origin-of-dap-shoe

[MacAdder]

Re: Words you use that isn't understood elsewhere.

Is it true that 'daps' is actually short for Dunlop Air Products? Or have I fallen for it, hook, line and sinker?

Could be.
All I know is I've used it before and people have gone "what??"

The term "FAGS" for cigarettes was derived from "For A Good Smoke" so seems feasible.

Edit: just seen post above.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Re: Words you use that isn't understood elsewhere.

Could be.
All I know is I've used it before and people have gone "what??"

The term "FAGS" for cigarettes was derived from "For A Good Smoke" so seems feasible.

Edit: just seen post above.

The term 'fags' for cigarettes existed before packaging slogans and labels.

[splott parker]

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They may say marbles elsewhere but they’ll always be alleys to me, and the big silver ones are bombas, the second ‘b’ pronounced the same as the first. Also its gobs, jacks or five stones indeed!!!!!!!!! And a gully is the correct term for a small lane/path between houses, you can shove your ginnels or cuts up your jacksie (not arse)

[az city]

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"Pal" is a troublesome word. In England I always got the impression it was likely to precede a punch but when I moved to Scotland people seemed to use it as a term of vague friendship.

[MacAdder]

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The term 'fags' for cigarettes existed before packaging slogans and labels.

Now you mention it, I think the advertisement made the slogan up from the term.

FAGs were also gofers for the public school toffs (another princess of useless information!)

[ToTaL ITK]

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bap daps gnib gnobs

[splott parker]

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Baps are soft, cobs are hard and crusty

[Its been emotional]

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Mun