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Re: Ower Father, who art in Heaven.
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Originally Posted by garinda
Has anyone else heard of the term crammed, or cramned, according to Margaret Rutherford (  )?
I'm sure I once found it in a slang or Lancashire dialect dictionary, meaning grumpy, or bad tempered, but can find no reference to it now, under either spelling.
It's a term used a lot in our family...though never to describe me. |
In our family it's most often used to refer to little ones when they are grizzly.
One my gran used a lot was "his nibs." Is that Lancy or is it common everywhere?
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