Old local expressions - Page 2

cashman · 07-08-2011, 22:39

yer skriking like yeh got yer balls stuck int mangle.

jaysay · 08-08-2011, 08:20

Was talking to Joan last night watching the TV, and there was a woman on who looked a real mess I just said, well she don't half look a tuckle, Joan looked at me strange, she'd never heard the saying yet it was quite often used in my early years by the then elder people

emamum · 08-08-2011, 08:29

the "big pencil" shuttle in nelson has some local sayings written on the blocks around it, written in local dialect (confused ty who couldnt understand it lol) i'll write some down next time im there

garinda · 08-08-2011, 09:57

I still think the funniest, very local colloquialism, is 'a gate'.

I were a gate.

You were a gate.

He/She/It were a gate.

MargaretR · 08-08-2011, 10:03

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Originally Posted by garinda

I still think the funniest, very local colloquialism, is 'a gate'.

I were a gate.

You were a gate.

He/She/It were a gate.

It's not 'a gate', it's 'agate'
Trouble at mill, lancashire,dialect,recipes

Margaret Pilkington · 08-08-2011, 10:04

ged agate.....meaning get going...or get doing.

Jaysay...I think the word is tuttle......and I could be wrong but I think it is derived from an indian dialect word tutti which I think means 'dung'...or a less polite word for dung.
Like women would say....I just need to put a bit of 'tutti' on....meaning make up.

garinda · 08-08-2011, 10:04

I also like 'Ar'tee'.

'Ar'tee gonna put wood in th'oil?'

'Or wer'thee born in a barn?'

jaysay · 08-08-2011, 10:08

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

ged agate.....meaning get going...or get doing.

Jaysay...I think the word is tuttle......and I could be wrong but I think it is derived from an indian dialect word tutti which I think means 'dung'...or a less polite word for dung.
Like women would say....I just need to put a bit of 'tutti' on....meaning make up.

Was debating whether it was tuckle or tuttle Margaret and as I didn't know the origin I opted for tuckle

garinda · 08-08-2011, 10:15

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

It's not 'a gate', it's 'agate'
Trouble at mill, lancashire,dialect,recipes

I only left a space so those outside the area didn't think I meant a fine-grained, fibrous variety of chalcedony with colored bands or irregular clouding.

cashman · 08-08-2011, 10:16

me grandad always used to say "Yandeed" meaning agreement - yes indeed.

garinda · 08-08-2011, 10:19

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

It's not 'a gate', it's 'agate'
Trouble at mill, lancashire,dialect,recipes

Doesn't even mention the meaning 'said' on here.

Agate – working ‘He’s agate of his wark’,
also to go agate or accompany someone on a way

Lancashire Dialect Glossary A

Never even heard of that usage.

garinda · 08-08-2011, 10:22

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Originally Posted by garinda

Doesn't even mention the meaning 'said' on here.

Agate – working ‘He’s agate of his wark’,
also to go agate or accompany someone on a way

Lancashire Dialect Glossary A

Never even heard of that usage.

I think that's wrong.

If you substitute 'about', it makes more sense.

garinda · 08-08-2011, 10:45

Not confined to Lancashire, but not really used much nowadays, except by those who heard it as a child.

'No better than she ought to be.'

mobertol · 08-08-2011, 13:58

My little book of lancashire english shows;
agate (1) start , (2) against ("gerr agate quick ees agate on us")

My husband used to like going into The Crown on Whalley Road about 20-odd yrs ago, there was an old chap who used to lift his pint to him and say "Awlreet Cock" when he came in!

A real Accy one that my Nanny used to say was " If you can't si't Coppice it's rainin', if you can si't Coppice it's goin' to rain"

emamum · 08-08-2011, 14:09

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Originally Posted by mobertol

My little book of lancashire english shows;
agate (1) start , (2) against ("gerr agate quick ees agate on us")

My husband used to like going into The Crown on Whalley Road about 20-odd yrs ago, there was an old chap who used to lift his pint to him and say "Awlreet Cock" when he came in!

A real Accy one that my Nanny used to say was " If you can't si't Coppice it's rainin', if you can si't Coppice it's goin' to rain"

we have one of those over here "if you cant see the top of pendle its raining, if you can see the top of pendle its going to rain"

thats one of the ones written round the "big pencil" shuttle