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Words you use that isn't understood elsewhere.
For me, it's "Shunk". I won't say what it means as I want to see if anyone knows it.
'anging (Hanging with the 'H' dropped.) It means 'disgusting' or 'ugly'.
:-)
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a le key fik (say as you see, real spelling is debateable)
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Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
isn't
:hehe:
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As nag of “jockey’s whips”
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I once asked a woman in a bakers shop in Sunderland for a couple of baps. Her and her fellow workers all burst out laughing. I then changed it to Cobs and they looked at me like I had two heads:shrug:
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Originally Posted by
Joe Gillis
I once asked a woman in a bakers shop in Sunderland for a couple of baps. Her and her fellow workers all burst out laughing. I then changed it to Cobs and they looked at me like I had two heads:shrug:
You could have just asked for rolls and not wasted everyone's time.
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Originally Posted by
NYCBlue
You could have just asked for rolls and not wasted everyone's time.
He wanted something to eat, not a car
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Originally Posted by
B. Oddie
For me, it's "Shunk". I won't say what it means as I want to see if anyone knows it.
'anging (Hanging with the 'H' dropped.) It means 'disgusting' or 'ugly'.
:-)
Football Togs = Football boots.
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Originally Posted by
The Bloop
Half n half
So weird right? Why isn't half and a half a thing?
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Originally Posted by
BLUETIT
He wanted something to eat, not a car
Fail.
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Originally Posted by
B. Oddie
For me, it's "Shunk". I won't say what it means as I want to see if anyone knows it.
'anging (Hanging with the 'H' dropped.) It means 'disgusting' or 'ugly'.
:-)
Can imagine anging being used a lot in Wales and oop norf
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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)
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Originally Posted by
jon1959
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.
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Originally Posted by
MacAdder
Daps
Is it true that 'daps' is actually short for Dunlop Air Products? Or have I fallen for it, hook, line and sinker?
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I suspect a few on here will know the word, but years ago (OK, decades :old:) I made, and played on, a "gambo". It once came up on Call My Bluff.
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Originally Posted by
Mr Shhh
Is it true that 'daps' is actually short for Dunlop Air Products? Or have I fallen for it, hook, line and sinker?
Interesting.
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Originally Posted by
bobh
I suspect a few on here will know the word, but years ago (OK, decades :old:) 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.
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Mr Shhh
Is it true that 'daps' is actually short for Dunlop Air Products? Or have I fallen for it, hook, line and sinker?
:sherlock:
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/qu...in-of-dap-shoe
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Originally Posted by
Mr Shhh
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.
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Originally Posted by
MacAdder
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.
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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:hehe:)