Scopididdle/skopididdle what is it?

Dear all

I remember my grandma saying I was running about like a scoppididdle (not sure of the spelling) what does it mean and where does it come from?

 

Any ideas. Is it a real word. My family origonates from Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool.

 

Sue:loopy:

we have discussed this elsewhere in this section (i think in the "Strange Sayings" thread - Sheffield Rhymes and Sayings, I think it was called)

 

I seem to remember that it was decided that the owrk "Skopadiddle/ Scopididdle" probably referred to a mouse, in the way it scurries about, so fast.

 

My ex mother in law uses that very phrase.

 

PT

Thanks will search for it

 

Sue

A Scopadiddle is a small spinning top. That's what my grandmother always called them, she was born at Bents Green in 1911 but I don't know if it is particularly a Sheffield term.

Fantastic! I thought my mum invented Scoppididdle. I still use it a lot and people look at me gone out.

My Mother used to say I was jumping up and down like a scopadiddle, now you have me wondering what one is, I think it is a Sheffield saying.

A Skopadiddle was a toy clown which ran up and down a stick.

gularscute,you've just introduced another one 'looked at me gone out'. That's a good old Sheffield saying.

Thanks for clearing that up:hihi: So we have quite a few scopadiddles out there but not quite sure what it is only that it is fast moving.

 

Any more suggestions.

 

Thanks Sue:lol:

Dear all

I remember my grandma saying I was running about like a scoppididdle (not sure of the spelling) what does it mean and where does it come from?

 

Any ideas. Is it a real word. My family origonates from Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool.

 

Sue:loopy:

Dont know Sue but my Mother used the same saying when i was a kid in the late 20ties, Arthur