FabSwingers.com forum: Expressions you no longer hear

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Listening to the radio was just reminded that my Grandma would always ask:

Are you courting?

Never hear that said now and no idea where the term comes from.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This thread may just turn into amalgamation of Taff's general vocabulary

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By *argaryen starkCouple
over a year ago

pinxton

courting may or may not refer to taking people to court as in royal court back in the day but I am only guessing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Please and Thank you are quite rare these days!

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Dial a number...?

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By *awandOrderCouple
over a year ago

SW London

Sorry, I was wrong.

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By *laskan lovers 1984Couple
over a year ago

West midlands

Manners cost nothing

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By *onyneMan
over a year ago

Newcastle

To start courting....well that takes me back...

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs!

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By *ogsdangliesMan
over a year ago

Washington

Fuck me now..... Haven't heard that for a while

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By *unandbuckCouple
over a year ago

Sheffield

I like how we sometimes still say ' I'll tape it ' when talking about recording something off tv even though it's actually in the sky box or whatever.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The minced oath......" By Jingo"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Fuck me now..... Haven't heard that for a while

Fuck me now!!

There ya go...

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By *ogsdangliesMan
over a year ago

Washington

"Fuck me now..... Haven't heard that for a while

Fuck me now!!

There ya go...

lol thanks, doesn't feel quite the same when I have to read it

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By *G LanaTV/TS
over a year ago

Gosport

I love you. Its been years since I've heard that one and apparently lots of times I was told it I was being lied to.

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By *laskan lovers 1984Couple
over a year ago

West midlands

When I was a lad lol

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By *ackett1962Man
over a year ago

harrow

If you wanted to go somewhere...you went by shanks mare...In other words you walked.

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By *laskan lovers 1984Couple
over a year ago

West midlands

Put wood in the hole

Meaning shut that door lol

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France

" I say, what a spiffing wheeze!"

"Absolutely, old boy, any way, must be off now, so toodle-pip!"

"Whither comest thou, knave?"

" From London, Sire, ten leagues hence"

.......

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By *unandbuckCouple
over a year ago

Sheffield

Have that maiden bathed and sent to my quarters.

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By *KMaxMan
over a year ago

Bristol

I said to my kids the other day that they were always ' on the bum'

They looked horrified!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Flibbertigibbet ....

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By *laskan lovers 1984Couple
over a year ago

West midlands

A little but of what you fancy does you good lol

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Strumpet. Sturdy vagabond. What a caution! He's a pill.

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

Gadzooks!

I still use archaic language and phrases daily because I love words and language. I asked a teenage relative if they were courting just last week.

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By *ilthyjackcoupleCouple
over a year ago

Swansea

"Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs!"

I say this often!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I said to my kids the other day that they were always ' on the bum'

They looked horrified!"

What does that mean?

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By *r and mrs sanddancerCouple
over a year ago

BOLDON COLLIERY

and who has a friend who is "as daft as a brush"

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By *isa 59Woman
over a year ago

Newcastle

"Strumpet. Sturdy vagabond. What a caution! He's a pill."

I've never heard of 'he's a pill' but I love strumpet...it's second only to floozie

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By *r and mrs sanddancerCouple
over a year ago

BOLDON COLLIERY

"I said to my kids the other day that they were always ' on the bum'

They looked horrified!

What does that mean? "

a scrounger always borrowing

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

"I said to my kids the other day that they were always ' on the bum'

They looked horrified!

What does that mean? "

Always trying to borrow money or get something for nothing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thanks

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France

"I said to my kids the other day that they were always ' on the bum'

They looked horrified!

What does that mean? "

To get something for free; was common until quite recently

As in " can I bum a fag off you?"

Or "can I bum a lift to town!"

Presumably from the American use of "bum" to mean a down and out , or begger, so "bumming " became begging.

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By *ty31Man
over a year ago

NW London

Not on your nelly

Thrupenny Bits

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