Why in Lancashire?

[Greeny]

My hubby a left handed crown green bowler and gets called a keypodder.

[DaveinGermany]

Keypodder, Kaypodder, with the evolution of language & more so in dialect, peculiarities, (a chance to indulge my fanciful imagination here ) could the words stem from such phrases as "Keep hold of" or "Cape holder"?

Keep hold of - keep 'old of yer purse - keyp od er! As Left handers in Latin were deemed sinister, bad, evil. equating to cut throat or villain.

Kaypodder - Cape holder - Kayp 'older! Could equally stem from days of yore when Knights or latter-day landed gentry would have squires/ seconds for tourneys or duels, these would doubtless stand to the left as most combatants would be right handed.

Or maybe none of the above, but just wild speculation & rather imaginative waffle.

[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

Keypodder, Kaypodder, with the evolution of language & more so in dialect, peculiarities, (a chance to indulge my fanciful imagination here ) could the words stem from such phrases as "Keep hold of" or "Cape holder"?

Keep hold of - keep 'old of yer purse - keyp od er! As Left handers in Latin were deemed sinister, bad, evil. equating to cut throat or villain.

Kaypodder - Cape holder - Kayp 'older! Could equally stem from days of yore when Knights or latter-day landed gentry would have squires/ seconds for tourneys or duels, these would doubtless stand to the left as most combatants would be right handed.

Or maybe none of the above, but just wild speculation & rather imaginative waffle.

Whatever you are drinking nowadays it isn't good for you

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

Whatever you are drinking nowadays it isn't good for you

Neither are the quantities!

[Lost in Cornwall]

I never knew how to spell keypodder but it's what I still call left handers. Not that anybody round here knows what I'm talking about.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Lost in Cornwall

I never knew how to spell keypodder but it's what I still call left handers. Not that anybody round here knows what I'm talking about.

Ask Jethroe, bet he knows

[pompeylass]

Could the word be split to make two, like in 'keep odder' as in 'consistently being odd'. Just a thought!

[GJWatson]

it originates from the past past meaning'' Great lovers'' hehehehe

[jelly baby]

Originally Posted by pompeylass

Why in Lancashire are left-handed people called "Kaypodder's"? (spelling?).

It's an aberration of the words 'keep hold' ie key pod o' that.

[westendlass]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

Keypodder, Kaypodder, with the evolution of language & more so in dialect, peculiarities, (a chance to indulge my fanciful imagination here ) could the words stem from such phrases as "Keep hold of" or "Cape holder"?

Keep hold of - keep 'old of yer purse - keyp od er! As Left handers in Latin were deemed sinister, bad, evil. equating to cut throat or villain.

Kaypodder - Cape holder - Kayp 'older! Could equally stem from days of yore when Knights or latter-day landed gentry would have squires/ seconds for tourneys or duels, these would doubtless stand to the left as most combatants would be right handed.

Or maybe none of the above, but just wild speculation & rather imaginative waffle.

My ex husband is a left hander, wish I'd known of the sinister, bad , evil bit when I met him. Nobender.