Dialect phrases to describe Hyndburn (Greater Accrington)

[Margaret Pilkington]

more workin in a Beechams pill.
as lazy as ludlums dog, who leaned against t'wall t' bark.
skrike more......tha'll pee less.
he hez a face like a melted welly.
Tha looks like tha fell off a flittin(you are a bit unkempt)
To someone picking their nose 'doant tek them pictures deawn, we'r not flittin'

I'm sure I know many more but I can't bring them to mind right now.

[katex]

Tha's no oyl in thi lamp ... to intelligently challenged person.

[Retlaw]

She's a face like 5 mile o bad ruoad.

Lucky sod, fell in a muck cart an came out wi a gold ring.

Let thi food stop thi noise.
(used for people talking while eating)

Talks all day an says nowt.

If tha goes out like thad thall ged whitchard

Mutton dressed as lamb.

[yerself]

He's abaht as bright as a TOC H lamp.

[steeljack]

I'm sure reading this thread will be like learning a new language to some 'non natives',


"skrike more......tha'll pee less."

[katex]

Can't let it go without ... 'Trouble at t'mill.'

[Retlaw]

Up & deawn like a P1ssing cricket.
Ouze a face on er like a smacked arse.
Stood there like a clock 1/2 struck
We don't live in a tent, shut door.
I'm fair clemmed, (I'm hungry)

[katex]

Tha' meks a better doower than a winda' .. obstructing someone's vision.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Tha can caw me what that wants, but don't caw me late fer mi dinner.
(translation - you can call me what you want, but don't call me late for my dinner)
When we used to ask what was for dinner, Ma used to tell us it's duck and roll....duck under't table and roll or tha'll bang thi ead.....another one was....to the same question...a run and jump up the buttery (pantry) door....which meant we were getting nowt.

When our hair was a mess, my gran would say she had seen better hair on bacon(I never understood this...I never saw hair on bacon).

and to those of us who always wanted our own way,that was ME......she would say 'She wants all er own rooad and a bag to purrit in.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by katex

Tha' meks a better doower than a winda' .. obstructing someone's vision.

Tha might be called Pilkington, but you're no pane of glass!

[Benipete]

Weaving bout weft.

Th'orse is clamming while grass is growing.

[jaysay]

I've a mauth like a pram bottom P S and biscuits (work that out for yourselves)

[jaysay]

I'm guin bi mi sen

[Margaret Pilkington]

I can do owt, bar wheel missel in a barrow.
(I'm quite talented and I know it)
referring to someone who thinks themself to be smart(as above) it would be said...'he has ten bob on hissel'(he has ten bob on himself)
A women with a lot of make up on......'bad soil teks a lot of top dressing'....top dressing being manure.

said before a fight......'dusta want some clog toe pie'

Going back to the old days, my grandad was a most mild mannered man...except when he had had a skinful....and back then he could be inebriated off just a couple of pints(was beer stronger back then?)........he used to drink in the Woodnook.....my gran would go down there and shout through the door 'George...hasta fowt yet? Get fowt, your dinners ready'

I don't really remember this but my auntie Phyllis(his daughter) used to tell me about it.
He mellowed with age and took to singing(badly) instead of fighting.

[sm_counsell]

I can remember being whacked on the head by a nun at Paddock House when she overheard me telling some friends what my Gran had said the day before,
"They fun im deid yon petty doer...." Do I need to translate??