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Old 05-09-2011, 14:45   #331
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Re: Old local expressions
Narky - annoyed.

Mosey - a look around.

Lanky - tall and thin.

Gradely - good/excellent.

Daft as a brush - simple/stupid.
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I just hope that I'm not in the band of Accywebbers this word describes.
No Margaret.
Theres another word for some of them as well.
A bit Manky, descibes mouldy things etc.
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Narky - annoyed.

Mosey - a look around.

Lanky - tall and thin.

Gradely - good/excellent.

Daft as a brush - simple/stupid.
Like, thas a gradly bit o snap in thi bait tin.

Wods u med up fer thi tuday, nod cheese butts agaeun.
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Old 05-09-2011, 17:56   #334
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Well.........I wouldn't say that, but you can!
Yes, an imbuggerance won't kill you...but it can make you feel like killing someone else.
Ya when you come to think about it
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Old 05-09-2011, 18:00   #335
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Sneck - the latch on a gate/door.
Heard your nose called that too Rindi
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you wish.
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"Yer a giddy kipper..."
Something i was always called as a girl, could still apply at times!
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Old 05-09-2011, 21:00   #341
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Said of someone mean - Wouldn't give you the snot of their hanky.

Stop picking fer crows - Take your finger down your nose.

Deaf as a door post.

Common as muck.

So sharp they'll cut themself.

Feel like a washed out rag - not feeling very perky.

Like a dog with two dicks - An excedingly happy person. Perhaps someone who'd won a lot of money at do's.
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Another of Mums sayings was "I favour him/her etc......_
Whilst "favour him/her etc" may have meant "looks like - Margaret Pilkington" it also meant "prefer or "to lean towards someone".
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i always knew it as prefer.
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What about "Living over the Brush (Defacto relationship)" also "Don't moither me ( meaniong to bother, pester etc)
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Whilst "favour him/her etc" may have meant "looks like - Margaret Pilkington" it also meant "prefer or "to lean towards someone".

I've heard it mean both things, but more commonly favvers meant looks like where I came from.
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