Reply With Quotecree for the safe area in a game of touch (or tag) is also very local to Cardiff.
no idea of the etymology of that one
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‘Mitching’ or ‘On the mitch’ is a term I’ve only heard in the Cardiff area. I think it was brought over from Ireland, where it’s also used.
cree for the safe area in a game of touch (or tag) is also very local to Cardiff.
no idea of the etymology of that one
We used cree up in the valleys. I've no idea where the term originates. It's one of those words I only ever used as a child, until now!Originally Posted by Rjk
looking on the internet, it might come from the word cross.
“Arf n arf” in curry houses outside local area can cause confusion for the waiters …………
Another word in English that has a Welsh language source is flummery - comes from llymru, a dish made with oatmeal or wheatmeal, boiled to a jelly.
Is goalie when/wen unique to this area?
I've never heard of this word.
How would you use it?
it was goalie rush when I was in primary school, I went several years thinking it probably had something to do with Ian Rush
2 meanings
1 - insincere flattery
2 - a milk pudding - this is where I came across it, in an old recipe book
I thought they were different?it was goalie rush when I was in primary school, I went several years thinking it probably had something to do with Ian Rush
Goalie rush is any one player at a time, whereas goalie when is a single player who is both keeper and outfield player.
you're probably right, but that distinction didn't seem to make it as far as my school
Aren't all keepers also outfield players though? They often come out of their penalty boxes.
"Like diarrhea with daps on" was a fetching simile for someone who could run particularly quickly.
it was goalie rush when I was in primary school, I went several years thinking it probably had something to do with Ian RushMaybe school playground rules have changed over the years?
Back in my day a keeper stayed in his area (either the semi circular hockey goal, or a combination of tennis court and netball court lines), and any transgression meant a free kick on the edge of the box.
It was always so unless you didn't have enough players and odd numbers on each side, when the goalie could come out and play. If he was 'needed' he had to sprint back and carry out his keepers 'duties'. too much effort for me even then.
linesthat must have been a posh school
I was working on the StPancras rebuiuld in 2006ish and used a turkish cafe behind Kings cross regularly. One day I opted for a curry and to my surprise the guy said !"Alf and alf?" I'd never heard it outside S Wales before. Where he got it from I don't know!“Arf n arf” in curry houses outside local area can cause confusion for the waiters …………
I'm not exactly 'down with the kids' myself
Having a kick about up Greenway Park nearly 60 years ago, some boys referred to it as Goalie If, only place I’ve heard that, it was always Goalie When to us.
Coombe as in Babbacombe, Iflracombe and Boscombe.
A mate of mine from Pontypridd calls a job on the side a “Hobble”, where as i’ve always called it a fiddle.
A Scottish mate of mine calls a throw in a “Shy” when watching a game.
I wonder if anyone under the age of, say 50, has been ‘out over gardens’ ?…..you did get a six for it though. Cricket had some great old traditional sayings. ‘One handed off the wall’, ‘Last man bats on’, ‘3 shies at the bat’ (if it was a contentious LB (never LBW
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aren't those as likely to have come from Cornish?
Many years ago I worked at Cambridge University in a maintenance dept. There was an old English language professor who could talk in English using only words with a French origin and then have the same conversation only using words with a German origin.
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