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

Someone mentioning oxter as a word for armpit in another thread made me think about how great colloquialisms are.

In America my friends and I often used them exclusively, and spoke very fast, if we wanted to say something in private. The Yanks usually thought we were speaking Gaelic!

What are the best ones where you live?

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

Baffies

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

"Baffies"

Not a clue! What's that?

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

"Baffies

Not a clue! What's that?"

Slippers

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

I said sumin about keeping me trap shut, at the checkout in Aldi the other day n some bloke said he hadn't heard that for a while. I think alot of them are dying out which I think is a shame. Especially with the silliness they are being replaced with

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

"Baffies

Not a clue! What's that?

Slippers

Haha I often call feet, baffs

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

"I said sumin about keeping me trap shut, at the checkout in Aldi the other day n some bloke said he hadn't heard that for a while. I think alot of them are dying out which I think is a shame. Especially with the silliness they are being replaced with

Yeah most phrases my gran used no one would say now. My favourite of hers was 'ben the scullery' for 'in the kitchen'

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

You may as well be talking Gaelic now as ive no clue what you mean lol

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

Yeah most phrases my gran used no one would say now. My favourite of hers was 'ben the scullery' for 'in the kitchen'"

My gran used to say that as well

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

Yeah most phrases my gran used no one would say now. My favourite of hers was 'ben the scullery' for 'in the kitchen'

My gran used to say that as well

And the lobby was the hall.

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

"You may as well be talking Gaelic now as ive no clue what you mean lol"

You're in Wales too - you guys have some of the best ones!

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

I had to tell someone what "put it on the bunker" meant the other day.

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

Everyone's tried 'dogging' at some point up here too

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

"I had to tell someone what "put it on the bunker" meant the other day. "

Is that a freezer?

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

My gob is currently haunted by my mother apparently... Say alot of stuff she did and sound like her too.. Not everyone has a clue what I am on about

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

"My gob is currently haunted by my mother apparently... Say alot of stuff she did and sound like her too.. Not everyone has a clue what I am on about

That's what I like about them, it's like speaking in code

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

"I had to tell someone what "put it on the bunker" meant the other day.

Is that a freezer?"

Its the kitchen worktop

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

"My gob is currently haunted by my mother apparently... Say alot of stuff she did and sound like her too.. Not everyone has a clue what I am on about

That's what I like about them, it's like speaking in code"

My granddaughter will know them all lol.. My son moans about some of em tho

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

"I had to tell someone what "put it on the bunker" meant the other day.

Is that a freezer?

Its the kitchen worktop "

Ah, knew it was something kitcheny

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

"I had to tell someone what "put it on the bunker" meant the other day.

Is that a freezer?"
worktop

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

There’s one particular term Manchester way, that I always found fascinating for some reason.

Sadly I can’t remember it (bloody duh!!!) so perhaps someone here could help?

The said word depicts a place to store one’s bike (like a covered alley) as I recall.

Any ideas?

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

My whole family say piece instead of sandwich.

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By *ichydeeeMan
over a year ago

Leeds

Chuff or chuffer

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

"My whole family say piece instead of sandwich. "

Depending who I'm with, I would alternate between the two. Piece n sausage sounds so much better than a sausage sandwich

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

"There’s one particular term Manchester way, that I always found fascinating for some reason.

Sadly I can’t remember it (bloody duh!!!) so perhaps someone here could help?

The said word depicts a place to store one’s bike (like a covered alley) as I recall.

Any ideas? "

Ginnel, perhaps?

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

"There’s one particular term Manchester way, that I always found fascinating for some reason.

Sadly I can’t remember it (bloody duh!!!) so perhaps someone here could help?

The said word depicts a place to store one’s bike (like a covered alley) as I recall.

Any ideas?

Ginnel, perhaps?"

Or snicket?

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

"There’s one particular term Manchester way, that I always found fascinating for some reason.

Sadly I can’t remember it (bloody duh!!!) so perhaps someone here could help?

The said word depicts a place to store one’s bike (like a covered alley) as I recall.

Any ideas?

Ginnel, perhaps?"

My mum always called alley ways a jitty

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

"There’s one particular term Manchester way, that I always found fascinating for some reason.

Sadly I can’t remember it (bloody duh!!!) so perhaps someone here could help?

The said word depicts a place to store one’s bike (like a covered alley) as I recall.

Any ideas?

Ginnel, perhaps?"

That’s the one!

x I remembered it sounded somewhat like a fictitious internal organ or something but couldn’t remember exactly

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By *r.BlondeMan
over a year ago

Chester/Wirral

G'wed lad, Alright lid, that's boss, you Divvie,

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By *cousesubsallyWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere out there

"There’s one particular term Manchester way, that I always found fascinating for some reason.

Sadly I can’t remember it (bloody duh!!!) so perhaps someone here could help?

The said word depicts a place to store one’s bike (like a covered alley) as I recall.

Any ideas? "

Jigger??

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

"There’s one particular term Manchester way, that I always found fascinating for some reason.

Sadly I can’t remember it (bloody duh!!!) so perhaps someone here could help?

The said word depicts a place to store one’s bike (like a covered alley) as I recall.

Any ideas?

Ginnel, perhaps?

My mum always called alley ways a jitty"

Ah yes, jitties and ennogs are also used!

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

"Chuff or chuffer"

Wank?

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

"There’s one particular term Manchester way, that I always found fascinating for some reason.

Sadly I can’t remember it (bloody duh!!!) so perhaps someone here could help?

The said word depicts a place to store one’s bike (like a covered alley) as I recall.

Any ideas?

Jigger?? "

I think I’ve heard that term used in a different manner around these parts, as in swaying erratically when inebriated

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

"Chuff or chuffer

Wank?"

A chuff is a lady’s fromt bottom isn’t it?

Less vulgar however, it’s a term much akin to ‘buddy’ or ‘chum’.

It’s used as such Yorkshire way I believe?

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

Not from where I live, but recent conversations with folk from oop north have thrown up loads of new little sayings I was previously unaware of.

The one that springs instantly to the forefront of my mind would be schlep! Never heard it uttered until about 8 or 9 months ago.

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

"Chuff or chuffer

Wank?

A chuff is a lady’s fromt bottom isn’t it?

Less vulgar however, it’s a term much akin to ‘buddy’ or ‘chum’.

It’s used as such Yorkshire way I believe?"

Ah, so it's a Shereen Nanjiani or a mucker!

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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago

Hull

"Chuff or chuffer

Wank?

A chuff is a lady’s fromt bottom isn’t it?

Less vulgar however, it’s a term much akin to ‘buddy’ or ‘chum’.

It’s used as such Yorkshire way I believe?"

If I hear up yer chuff I take it to mean up your posterior and it applies to male and female

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

"Chuff or chuffer

Wank?

A chuff is a lady’s fromt bottom isn’t it?

Less vulgar however, it’s a term much akin to ‘buddy’ or ‘chum’.

It’s used as such Yorkshire way I believe?

If I hear up yer chuff I take it to mean up your posterior and it applies to male and female

So if someone says that they are chuffed...

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

As I come from an east Yorkshire farming background I have a fair amount of local dialect that nobody outside of a 50 mile radius of where I grew up would understand.

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

peg it yam. , .

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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago

Hull

"Not from where I live, but recent conversations with folk from oop north have thrown up loads of new little sayings I was previously unaware of.

The one that springs instantly to the forefront of my mind would be schlep! Never heard it uttered until about 8 or 9 months ago."

I think schlep is a Yiddish expression

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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago

Hull

"Chuff or chuffer

Wank?

A chuff is a lady’s fromt bottom isn’t it?

Less vulgar however, it’s a term much akin to ‘buddy’ or ‘chum’.

It’s used as such Yorkshire way I believe?

If I hear up yer chuff I take it to mean up your posterior and it applies to male and female

So if someone says that they are chuffed...

If you’re chuffed, you’re pleased or happy. If I tell you to stick it up yer chuff it’s probably cos it’s me that’s not happy

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

My mother would ask my dad “ what yer tekkin fer snap tonight” meaning what sarndwichrs would you like for work

and they went in a snap-tin not s lunch box

I would meet friends down the jitty then go and play in the spinney (the woods)

In the summer we swam in the local rezza (open reservoir) then came home along the cut (canal)

“Eh up cocka” meant hello how are you

“Fair to middlin” meant I’m well thank you

Parents were referred to as “ me mam and me dad”

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

"As theh got gutwack lad?"

"Did theh lon nowt at skee-al?"

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

We have our own language here

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Where I’m from, traditionally, a sentence must have ostensibly been perceived as overly time consuming or something, thus everything was abbreviated as best possible:

‘Ow do?’, ‘Ey be thee?’, ‘Av’ ye milked them there cows yet?’

As regards individual colloquialisms, the term Bodger originates from these parts although the original definition was decidedly kinder than is as frequently employed today

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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

"Baffies

Not a clue! What's that?"

Ken whit a' mean, lek?

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

"Baffies

Not a clue! What's that?

Ken whit a' mean, lek?

That's too East Coast for me, I'm a Weegie

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By *ryst In IsoldeWoman
over a year ago

your imagination

We're a peculiar bunch over here

Quare (very) - that's quare good!

Deadly (good) - that's quare deadly!

Scoop (a drink) - fancy a few scoops tonight?

Mullered (d*unk) - he was mullered after a few scoops

Banjaxed (broken/worn out) - I'm not a machine woman ffs.. I'm banjaxed!

The Big Smoke (Dublin) - are you goin up to the Big Smoke for the match?

Shticks (the countryside) - are you from town or out in the shticks?

Pookie (mushroom) - I'd love a feed of pookies

Feed (large portion) - A feed of pookies would be quare deadly

There's lots more...

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

"We're a peculiar bunch over here

Quare (very) - that's quare good!

Deadly (good) - that's quare deadly!

Scoop (a drink) - fancy a few scoops tonight?

Mullered (d*unk) - he was mullered after a few scoops

Banjaxed (broken/worn out) - I'm not a machine woman ffs.. I'm banjaxed!

The Big Smoke (Dublin) - are you goin up to the Big Smoke for the match?

Shticks (the countryside) - are you from town or out in the shticks?

Pookie (mushroom) - I'd love a feed of pookies

Feed (large portion) - A feed of pookies would be quare deadly

There's lots more...

Haha they're good! Scoop, deadly and schticks would pass here too. The schticks is where the teuchters (chookters) live

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By *ryst In IsoldeWoman
over a year ago

your imagination

"We're a peculiar bunch over here

Quare (very) - that's quare good!

Deadly (good) - that's quare deadly!

Scoop (a drink) - fancy a few scoops tonight?

Mullered (d*unk) - he was mullered after a few scoops

Banjaxed (broken/worn out) - I'm not a machine woman ffs.. I'm banjaxed!

The Big Smoke (Dublin) - are you goin up to the Big Smoke for the match?

Shticks (the countryside) - are you from town or out in the shticks?

Pookie (mushroom) - I'd love a feed of pookies

Feed (large portion) - A feed of pookies would be quare deadly

There's lots more...

Haha they're good! Scoop, deadly and schticks would pass here too. The schticks is where the teuchters (chookters) live

Culchies live in the shticks here

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By *ichydeeeMan
over a year ago

Leeds

A chuff is a Yorkshire term for bum as in the car behind me is reet up me chuff or your a pain in me chuffer

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

Alright bab

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

"Alright bab"

Or “alright me baby”

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

I'm still lying under my doona

Thinking about putting on my thongs and having a lamington or a snot block with my coffee for brekkie

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

A pokey hat for an ice cream cone x

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

Divvent gan near him he's a Radgie

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

"A pokey hat for an ice cream cone x"

Or a poke of chips. I actually know the origin of that one! Italians opened chip shops and used to say 'pochi' meaning 'a few' chips so people starting calling the bag a poke.

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

"I'm still lying under my doona

Thinking about putting on my thongs and having a lamington or a snot block with my coffee for brekkie"

Snot block

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

When my Turkish mate came over here, she was horrified at being called "Cock" in the shops of St Helens.

She said she thought they were being "very rude"!

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

"I'm still lying under my doona

Thinking about putting on my thongs and having a lamington or a snot block with my coffee for brekkie

Snot block

?"
vanilla slice

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

Put wood in't th'oil!

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

Betterer

Bestest

Worserer

Worstest

Alreet owde.

Cust tha kik a bo agin a wo an ed it till it bosts

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

I'm going to point Percy at the porcelain then pull on my strides

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

Olagonin

She's peeled

Stook

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

"I'm going to point Percy at the porcelain then pull on my strides"

Are you Australian?

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

"Alright bab

Or “alright me baby”

Bostin'

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By *ild_oatsMan
over a year ago

the land of saints & sinners

My ‘ansum

Giss on!

Bleddy

Dreckly

Emmet

Wasson

Rich

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

"Betterer

Bestest

Worserer

Worstest

Alreet owde.

Cust tha kik a bo agin a wo an ed it till it bosts

Erm, something about kicking and heading a ball??

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

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

"I'm going to point Percy at the porcelain then pull on my strides

Are you Australian?"
point Percy is a London term

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

I don't have a clue what anyone's saying anymore

!! Some of these are mental!

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

"I'm going to point Percy at the porcelain then pull on my strides

Are you Australian?"
lived with one for four years

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

"I don't have a clue what anyone's saying anymore

!! Some of these are mental!"
point Percy is have a piss

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

Olagonin is a moaner in irish

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

"I'm going to point Percy at the porcelain then pull on my strides

Are you Australian?point Percy is a London term "

Ah is it? Hadn't heard that one before. It was thongs, strides and doona I was thinking sounded a bit Aussie

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By *izzy.Woman
over a year ago

Stoke area

"Betterer

Bestest

Worserer

Worstest

Alreet owde.

Cust tha kik a bo agin a wo an ed it till it bosts

Erm, something about kicking and heading a ball??"

Can you kick a ball against a wall and head it until it breaks. ?

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By *izzy.Woman
over a year ago

Stoke area

People around here are nesh.

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

"People around here are nesh. "

Is that a good or a bad thing?

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

Lang may yer lum leak

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

"Lang may yer lum leak "

Reek

you don't want it leaking

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

"Lang may yer lum leak

Reek

you don't want it leaking "
reek spell check changed it ha

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

I'm in New Zealand at the moment..it's more about the ixint then the soyings...I got fufty sints in Moy change yisturdee ...the weethur ees wheat ryaning all the tam ..and the night was cold.. going darn to sex lust nart

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

Ay up

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By *orkie321bWoman
over a year ago

Nottingham

There are some great ones here in Nottingham.

Tabs = ears. Tab 'anging is listening to other people's conversations.

"It's a bit black over Bill's mother's" - it's cloudy over there, I think a storm is brewing.

"Put wood in t'ole" - please close the door.

Bobbar - usually said to a child meaning "don't touch".

"Giz a croggeh" - can I ride on the handlebars of your bike?

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