Coytes
 

Would any of you know what I was talking about if I said that "He's up on't'coytes,my husband (who's from ( Salford ) didn't have a clue.:confused:

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Certainly Coytes was never off em when i was a lad, was the ledges, bogs/coal nook roofs at bottom of yard that ran the distance of the back alley, Tell yer hubby No culture in Salford.:D The Coytes were also a good place fer sentrys to hide, guarding Bonfire wood in back yards. lol

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Them wert days Cashy, thony truble wert wet bread folk chucked up ontut coyts furt pidjuns, id wur slippy untha cud throw a purler if tha wernd kerful.

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This is a dialect word .ie it used to be in standard English and means a covering. In Lancashire, these large pieces of stone covered t'petty and t'coyle hoyle.

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we were always playing on t coytes. and seeing how far we could go before any of the neighbours came out to rollock us.

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Happy memories cashy guarding bommy on the coytes every night, also having fun with a small button and a piece of thread led on the coytes and pinging the kitchen window, kids don't have good clean like wot we ad:D

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We also used "coytes" for wooden sheds 'Where's Joe?', 'He's in't 'en coyte'

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Then there's the township of 'uncoyt'. It was always an overcoyt cowder up 'uncoyt.

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You could run length of back street on coyte's

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According to Battersby's Dialect book in the Reference Library Bob:

Cabin as in fowl cabin.
Old English word from way back. All manner of housing for domestic animals were "coyts"

Pigeon coyt; en coyt, pig coyt and rabbit coyt.

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Our lads used to lie on the coyts and aim peas through a pea shooter at the heads of passing children...mainly girls.

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Is this similar to coitus interruptus?

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No Michael, nothing like it :)