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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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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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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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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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.