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04-03-2007, 19:00
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Re: Soft Mick.
Like 'cack handed' Does this mean left handed? not 100% sure why I think that but something in the back of my mind seems to think so.
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04-03-2007, 21:40
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Re: Soft Mick.
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Originally Posted by garinda
Not sure if this is the right thread, but who else says 'skrike', or however it's written, meaning cry?
I was going to post in another thread I was having 'a good skrike', as it's a word we use in our family, but then I thought perhaps no one else uses it, or wouldn't inderstand what I meant.
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yep we said it too,,,i think i put it on this thread at the first or second page,,,i must have cried a lot as a child ,because i kept being told that i was a skrike arse,,, ooh the indignity of it
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04-03-2007, 21:48
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Re: Soft Mick.
We used to say skrike a lot in our family too.
Excellent thread, brought back loads of memories!
Cack handed, we used to say that meaning left handers.
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05-03-2007, 00:08
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Re: Soft Mick.
i still say skrike, didnt realise people dont use it much, one we used to use i dont hear now is (shes knickers for curtains.) where the hell did that come from?
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05-03-2007, 00:12
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Re: Soft Mick.
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Originally Posted by cashman
one we used to use i dont hear now is (shes knickers for curtains.) where the hell did that come from?
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Never heard that one before!
What does it mean?
Ones I do know for showy women are 'she's all fur coat and no knickers' or 'look at her, up and down like Lady Docker'.
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05-03-2007, 00:44
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Re: Soft Mick.
means not the full shilling, or a bit dotty.
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05-03-2007, 22:28
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Re: Soft Mick.
I've heard the fur coat and no knickers one but not the other one.
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05-03-2007, 23:45
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Re: Soft Mick.
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I've heard the fur coat and no knickers one but not the other one.
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thats probably cos you aint an owd fart like me.
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05-03-2007, 23:50
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Re: Soft Mick.
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Originally Posted by grego
I've heard the fur coat and no knickers one but not the other one.
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Found this about Lady Docker.
When asked why the seats were done in zebra skin, Lady Docker famously replied, “Because mink is too hot to sit on.”
http://web.mac.com/mwstorer/iWeb/Per...C0D19721B.html
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03-05-2007, 19:21
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Re: Soft Mick.
Soft Mick, the person with everything in abundance. Also a phrase used in Halifax generally to describe having lots of things - shoes, toys, kids, money, blokes, women etc etc. But always more than Soft Mick.
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14-05-2007, 20:32
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Re: Soft Mick.
I used a term the other day which caused a couple of odd looks , I told some friends kids who were visiting , not to bring any "slutch" into the house from the garden, guess it's one of those Lancashire words which isn't used anywhere else .
checked my OED (small edition) and its not listed there
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22-06-2007, 23:30
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Re: Soft Mick.
I was just answering a pm from LancYorkYankee, were I called him a clever clogs.
Clever clogs?
Where does that come from?
Clogs that were clever, and walked themselves to the mill?
Did anyone have more clever clogs than Soft Mick?
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22-06-2007, 23:38
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Re: Soft Mick.
Ummm "clever clogs".. a very common saying, while we are at it what is a "clever dick" ????
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22-06-2007, 23:39
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Coffin Dodger.
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Re: Soft Mick.
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Originally Posted by steeljack
I used a term the other day which caused a couple of odd looks , I told some friends kids who were visiting , not to bring any "slutch" into the house from the garden, guess it's one of those Lancashire words which isn't used anywhere else .
checked my OED (small edition) and its not listed there
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i still use that word, but agree never heard it outside lancs.
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23-06-2007, 00:00
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Re: Soft Mick.
It would never have occurred to me that slutch was a Lancashire word.
On the subject of clever clogs - we usually had clever sticks. How clever can a stick be? Can it be cleverer than a clog?
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