Colloquialisms

6 Jun 2007

I was just reading one of my posts in the chat forum, titled 'Hairy Fit' and cherrytree posted a picture of hairy feet underneath it!
It struck me that this might just be a Scottish or even Edinburgh phrase, or it might just even be one my mum made up (she tends to make up an awful lot of them!)
What words/expressions/phrases do you have in your area?
I still think Scottish ones are the best - here's my favourites:
'You've slaisterd all doon yersel ye dirty midden'
Slaister/ slaistered: You've dropped all your dinner down your top you filthy ho!
Midden - mess
'Look at that wee beastie, I think it's a slater'
Slater- Look at that small creature, I think it may be a wood louse.
'Goany chum me doon'
Chum: Will you come with me down to.... or go and come along with me, I would like some company.
'I've a fair drouth on after that munch'
Drouth: I'm fairly parched/thirsty after having consumed a considerable amount of alcohol at the munch last night.....

6 Jun 2007

I was talking to a foreign person the other day (they are Welsh :lol2 smile

and said "You broke your duck!". Meaning that you've done something for the first time. The other person was quite confused. lol

6 Jun 2007

Quote by Kiss
I was talking to a foreign person the other day (they are Welsh :lol2 and said "You broke your duck!". Meaning that you've done something for the first time. The other person was quite confused.

We take duck breaking very seriously in Wales! mad

6 Jun 2007

I have never heard that one! lol
I'm going to try n use that this week!
It's funny that even close regions of edinburgh and lothians have different words, i get awfy confused when I move hopsitals, some places its jammies, some its nightie, some its goonie, it took me ages to work out what baffies were- or bathies even - slippers! and thats only in a town half n hour away from me, with different words!
m xx

6 Jun 2007

Quote by BiWelshMinx
I was talking to a foreign person the other day (they are Welsh :lol2 and said "You broke your duck!". Meaning that you've done something for the first time. The other person was quite confused.

We take duck breaking very seriously in Wales! mad

As seriously as sheep shagging? lol

6 Jun 2007

Quote by Freckledbird
I was talking to a foreign person the other day (they are Welsh :lol2 and said "You broke your duck!". Meaning that you've done something for the first time. The other person was quite confused.

We take duck breaking very seriously in Wales! mad

As seriously as sheep shagging? lol

:giggle: :giggle: pmsl!!!

6 Jun 2007

Quote by BiWelshMinx
I was talking to a foreign person the other day (they are Welsh :lol2 and said "You broke your duck!". Meaning that you've done something for the first time. The other person was quite confused.

We take duck breaking very seriously in Wales! mad

I did actually feel a tiny moment of worry then when I saw you had replied to my post. :scared:
kiss

Another one is I often say to my boss that "I'm going down the wooden hill." Which comes from "Up the the wooden hill to Bedfordshire."

6 Jun 2007

Quote by Freckledbird
I was talking to a foreign person the other day (they are Welsh :lol2 and said "You broke your duck!". Meaning that you've done something for the first time. The other person was quite confused.

We take duck breaking very seriously in Wales! mad

As seriously as sheep shagging? lol

Well of course!! We send the ducks into a field to scare the sheep over to a quiet area where we can entertain them! How can we do this with broken ducks ? lol

6 Jun 2007

Quote by BiWelshMinx
I was talking to a foreign person the other day (they are Welsh :lol2 and said "You broke your duck!". Meaning that you've done something for the first time. The other person was quite confused.

We take duck breaking very seriously in Wales! mad

As seriously as sheep shagging? lol

Well of course!! We send the ducks into a field to scare the sheep over to a quiet area where we can entertain them! How can we do this with broken ducks ? lol

:giggle: Stop it!!!!
I have to go to work but all this talk of sheep shaggin is too funny!!! :giggle: maybe I should pull a sickie! lol

6 Jun 2007

I'm shocked and appalled at the piss taking of that very serious and often used pastime of sheep shagging!
SHOCKED AND APPALLED I TELL YOU!!!!!
It's a well known fact that when the Valleys Slappers, which migrate the major towns and cities of Wales every weekend, get well pissed on 2 Bacardi Breezers and pass out in a taxi somewhere, the local men have no choice but to play 'hunt the wooly back' in order to relieve their sexual tension. Without them, the testosterone levels in the Valleys could cause fallout of catastrophic proportions, the shockwaves being felt ( and heard confused

) as far afield as Frisby On The Wreake and Chipping Sodbury!
Hands off the sheep shaggers!!!
Sassy wanders off to ring the RSPCA while singing 'High on a hill lives a lonely goat, yodel-ay-yodel-ay-yodel-ay-ee-oo' :karaoke:

6 Jun 2007

Thanks for that Sassy now we know! We have sheep here in Sussex but of the unmolested variety - I think. But some of us play Katherine Jenkins Cds! lol

6 Jun 2007

Quote by seasider
Thanks for that Sassy now we know! We have sheep here in Sussex but of the unmolested variety - I think. But some of us play Katherine Jenkins Cds!

Ah well, no accounting for taste! :giggle:

6 Jun 2007

There is definitely no accounting for taste lol

6 Jun 2007

As an estuary english speaker I think all our language has been stolen by the mockneys in the media. You just have to think of Euston Films in the 70's and Eastenders now. Loads of RADA trained luvees pretending to be common.
Oh did I forget the lovely Blur. Grammar school educated boys from Colchester. 50 miles from the sound of Bow bells yet speak like good old cockneys mad

6 Jun 2007

Quote by keeno
As an estuary english speaker I think all our language has been stolen by the mockneys in the media. You just have to think of Euston Films in the 70's and Eastenders now. Loads of RADA trained luvees pretending to be common.
Oh did I forget the lovely Blur. Grammar school educated boys from Colchester. 50 miles from the sound of Bow bells yet speak like good old cockneys

....not to mention Jamie Oliver, who grew up in the very rural Essex/Suffolk border area near Saffron Walden. rolleyes

7 Jun 2007

heard on busses,generally through Hammersmith
*moist*... I believe to generally mean; rather good
*drum*... place of abode, modern pop-tastic application of cross-cultural rhyming slang; 'drum n base', Place
I rather like 'moist'
lp