Coytes

[IRENE BAINBRIDGE]

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.

[cashman]

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. The Coytes were also a good place fer sentrys to hide, guarding Bonfire wood in back yards. lol

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by cashman

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. The Coytes were also a good place fer sentrys to hide, guarding Bonfire wood in back yards. lol

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.

[Bob Dobson]

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.

[maxthecollie]

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

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by cashman

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. The Coytes were also a good place fer sentrys to hide, guarding Bonfire wood in back yards. lol

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

[davebtelford]

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

[Bob Dobson]

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

[claytonx]

You could run length of back street on coyte's

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by Bob Dobson

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.

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.

[Margaret Pilkington]

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

[Michael1954]

Is this similar to coitus interruptus?

[Margaret Pilkington]

No Michael, nothing like it