Getting on my Wick?
 

Can anyone shed any light on where this phrase originates, I found myself saying it to my daughter, I know I shouldn't, but she was, anyway it made me wonder!

Re: Getting on my Wick?
 

it could be something to do with candles.or something ruder

Re: Getting on my Wick?
 

Ok ... found summat in a book of Coronation Street Talk :-

Get on one's wick: get on one's nerves. The expression, oddly enough, comes from Hampton Wick', an area of London, which became rhyming slang for prick!! >>>>> just quoting from the book :D

Re: Getting on my Wick?
 

you just behave yourself latex........you cant say thiat on the forum.......its a familey site....pmsl:D

Re: Getting on my Wick?
 

That can't be right. getting on my ..... na it's means someones annoying, thats not what i'd class as annoying.

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This thread is starting to get on my thru'penny bits.:D

Re: Getting on my Wick?
 

a true cockernese would have said frupney's!!!!

Re: Getting on my Wick?
 

Thanks for that folks, if what Katex says is right I'll make sure I dont say it again.

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Fank you Miss Eliza Doolittle, nhow go back t'sellin' y'bleedin' flowhers.:D :p

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Good point rindy, that doesn't make sense either.

Re: Getting on my Wick?
 

It does to Miss Romps, who was born within the sound of Bow bells.;)

Re: Getting on my Wick?
 

how old do you think I am!!!

The Bell were destroyed on 11th May 1941 about the time you were clubing in the west end Rinds!!! at T'hipadrome!!!!

Re: Getting on my Wick?
 

In 1941 I was working at the Kit-Kat club, posing in a naked tableaux.

Re: Getting on my Wick?
 

Well, was only quoting what was printed in a book, however, if you go to www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk .. then Frank Bough's book endorses this... look up cockney to 'English' ... under Hampton Wick.

As for the sense of this, yes, can think of the reasons why it makes sense, however, as Staggers has already pointed out, youngsters are viewing this site, so will whisper in yer ear at the next meeting ;)

Re: Getting on my Wick?
 

We all know that to get on someone's 'wick' is to annoy them. Where does the saying derive from - what has the 'wick' got to do with anything?
get on one's wick/tits vBulletin British

to irritate, annoy or vex. The 'wick' in question, unknown to many speakers, is a now rather archaic shortening of hampton wick, rhyming slang for prxxk (which is nowadays more usually shortened to hampton). In spite of the implied gender difference, both versions of the expression are used indiscriminately by both men and women.

Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, © Tony Thorne 1997
wick The pexxs. From Hamton Wick, rhyming slang for prxxk. Dip the wick is sexual intercourse, a widespread male expression. 'It gets on my wick' i.e. 'it gets on my nerves' has the same root, but the expression is so many stages removed from its origin that the literal meaning pexxs is generally forgotten and women _and_ men use the expression.
Hampton Wick Pexxs. Cockney rhyming slang for 'prxxk' often shortened to Hampton. The name comes from the London suburb, and it is one of the more widely known rhyming slang terms.

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