Words you use that isn't understood elsewhere.

[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'.

[xsnaggle]

a le key fik (say as you see, real spelling is debateable)

[Taunton Blue Genie]

isn't

[Allez Allez Allez]

isn't

[BLUETIT]

As nag of “jockey’s whips”

[Cleve van Leef]

Joey Barton

[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

[NYCBlue]

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

You could have just asked for rolls and not wasted everyone's time.

[BLUETIT]

You could have just asked for rolls and not wasted everyone's time.

He wanted something to eat, not a car

[MacAdder]

Daps

[The Bloop]

Half n half

[stan butler]

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.

[NYCBlue]

Half n half

So weird right? Why isn't half and a half a thing?

[NYCBlue]

He wanted something to eat, not a car

Fail.

[dembethewarrior]

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

[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)

[dembethewarrior]

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]

Daps

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

[bobh]

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]

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]

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]

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/qu...in-of-dap-shoe

[MacAdder]

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]

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]

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)