My school chums and I were talking about words we used at school that we no longer hear.

These are our favourites. Does anybody still use them (we've started a renaissance)?

Have you got any others?

'way up' - a general taunt, used when something humiliating happens to someone.

'get down' - see above

'thrap' - to soundly trounce

spanner (from Steve Wright in the afternoon) the dim witted hooligan

was aimed at anyone a bit thick

I remember "tremming" down to the shops.. (ie going somewhere quickly).

Anyone remember using an unspellable word together with sticking your tongue out behind your lower lip? Went something like "Agabelm!" Used as an insult toward others (although in hindsight would now appear to possibly make yourself look a little retarded).
:confused: :suspect: :huh: :help:

Skosh- a word for school itself!

Essent. Meaning excellent.
We also used to say Effort a lot too and if we thought someone was lying we`d stroke our chins and say Chinneyyyyyyy

if you didnt like someone at my school, they were a 'freak', not very PC i know!

apart from that, i remember everyone starting to use 'like' after every word :)

if we thought someone was lying we'd stroke our chins and say moose.

if we thought someone was lying we'd stroke our chins and say moose.

Ha! Ha! i used to go to Ashleigh school and i hav"nt heard that said or done since i left.

"Rare Good" - Meaning very good
"Foggys That" - Meaning I would like that very much, a bit like "Baggsys"
"Chin On It" - Meaning I don't believe a word you are saying

What about "Bobar" we used to think it was rude to say that.

I used to like Donny for somehing unfashionable. "Urrgh, them trainers are reyt donny!"

..........

Words are very "of our time" think of all the words that have come in and out of fashion to say something is great, ie:- fab, brill,spiffin,wonderbar,fantab, I am sure you can all add loads to this.

Lots of lingo at school, lots of blubbing squits also.

What about SLOP DOSH for mud or MONGY for horrid.....he he he

Skosh- a word for school itself!

That's where I went

We used to say "spakka" meaning "foolish person" (not nice, I know).

if we thought someone was lying we'd stroke our chins and say moose.

Same here, but we'd say 'Jimmy' ( as in Jimmy Hill ).

Someone who was intellectually challenged was " a reyt niller"

If something or someone wasn't very good it was "Weth". Eg, thas abart weth thee

We also used Essent,ace and pearl;all meaning great.When somebody lost their temper we'd say 'Don't tek tiff'(I think that meant 'Dont have a fit'.).After going out in a group we would say 'We had a reyt good jive' (presumably a good time).We also stroked our chins saying 'yus,yus,yus,' when we knew someone was exaggerating.One of my mates went a step further by putting his tongue into one cheek and scratching it when he thought someone was making stories up.....in fact he still does,and hes 43.:D

Skosh- a word for school itself!
We used the word---Skoyal

That's where I wentI recall using that term, in fact all of us did that went to All Saints at Pitsmoor in time 1934-8 Arthur.

That's where I went
we all called it skoshin my day Arthur

we all called it skoshin my day Arthur

Tha's gorra be joshin' (you've got to be joking)
Are we goin' forra game a togga (are we going for a game of football)
Are tha gonna't youthy (are you going to the youth club)
Am buzzin' (I'm excited)
That a reyt wazzock (You are a pillock)
Are tha bringin' thi casey (are you bringing your leather football)
Are tha bringin' thi corky (are you bringing your proper cricket ball)

I'll probably think of some more...hehe

Chinny reckon
Kick yer under
Soz 'ard

:)

yes i remember soz ard! And when someone was rambling on. We'd say 'get a bath'.

"Not many Benny!"

Meaning "I should say so"

"Yuss" - same as moose and chinny

spanner (from Steve Wright in the afternoon) the dim witted hooligan

was aimed at anyone a bit thick
There was a girl at school called '' spanner'' (every time we saw her our nuts tightened).

Skutch! - Accompanied by a clip round the head to acknowledge someone's new haircut.

"tek a stub", or "get stubbed"

was shouted when somebody was (allegedly) proved wrong at Brook Schoyal

yes i remember soz ard! And when someone was rambling on. We'd say 'get a bath'.

i remember that one too!!

one word kids used to say at our school was "skank" meaning "ha!! take that" or summat of the sort :hihi:

If we were telling someone something pretty unbelievable, we used to say "well,:o I thought dig!?".....

Wagging it was playing truant (never did it myself):)

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah skank!

please and thankyou
you dont hear them words very often now:hihi:

Thanks to several of the above people for bringing back some forgotten words. We used "Skosh" (or maybe "scosh" - I never saw it written down) during my time at Gleadless County, and "togger" for soccer too. But Lee, a "corky" was, at least round our way, not a leather "proper" cricket ball: it was a composition ball with a cork-like texture, hence the name. It still bloody hurt when it got you on the leg and you weren't wearing pads, though.
Does anyone else remember "lunch" being used to mean "elevenses snack" rather than "midday meal"?

Skutch! - Accompanied by a clip round the head to acknowledge someone's new haircut.

Did you go to "Burny" in the 60's

please and thankyou
you dont hear them words very often now:hihi:

What do they mean then?

Thanks to several of the above people for bringing back some forgotten words. We used "Skosh" (or maybe "scosh" - I never saw it written down) during my time at Gleadless County, and "togger" for soccer too. But Lee, a "corky" was, at least round our way, not a leather "proper" cricket ball: it was a composition ball with a cork-like texture, hence the name. It still bloody hurt when it got you on the leg and you weren't wearing pads, though.
Does anyone else remember "lunch" being used to mean "elevenses snack" rather than "midday meal"?

Ah! I bow to your greater knowledge my friend! I asked mi dad and he said you're right about the 'corky'! But yeah, i did still hurt whatever it was! :hihi:
What ya don't see much now is kids using jumpers for goalposts!

Did you go to "Burny" in the 60's

What's Burny? I didn't - wasn't born til '76.

Ha! Ha! i used to go to Ashleigh school and i hav"nt heard that said or done since i left.

i used to go to ashleigh and remember the "MOOOSE" and the chinney - i think (and it was a long time ago, so be kind!) it started as chinney and somehow transmogrified into MOOOOOOOSE!

haven't read all the posts - has anyone mentioned "essense"???

we used to say it when something was reight good.

What's Burny? I didn't - wasn't born til '76.

"Burny" was our slang for Burngreave school. It was the highest school in Sheffield, (built on a hill) Burngreave secondary modern, to give it official title. We used say Skutch! - Accompanied by a clip round the head to acknowledge someone's new haircut. We were saying it in the 60's before you was born.

"Burny" was our slang for Burngreave school. It was the highest school in Sheffield, (built on a hill) Burngreave secondary modern, to give it official title. We used say Skutch! - Accompanied by a clip round the head to acknowledge someone's new haircut. We were saying it in the 60's before you was born.

Wonder if it originated in Sheffield, never heard it anywhere else. :)

My friend just used the word marmalize. I'd completely forgotten that one, what a lovely word.

Sorry, "marmalize" was just Ken Dodd, tho' it might have been scouse before that; sounds quite expressive, all the same.
I've tried to think what expressions we had at "skoyle", & apart from the colourful names we had for the masters @ King Ted's, the only things I can remember were the playground games @ Carterknowle Juniors: we were always playing "tiggy", & its variants "tiggy-off-ground", where you could be "kings" if you got your feet off the ground, & "chain-tiggy", where once you were caught you had to join the line, hand-in-hand.

Geoffrey.

Rare skilly, for anything skillful. 'swats' or 'spice' for sweets. calling people 'flid' and then being told 'thy art'.

"tek a stub", or "get stubbed"

was shouted when somebody was (allegedly) proved wrong at Brook Schoyal

Ha Ha, stub on you! I haven't hear this since my days at Gleadless Valley Comp!

Ha Ha, stub on you! I haven't hear this since my days at Gleadless Valley Comp!

I went to chaucer and we used to say..."Ha! Thats stubbed you out!"
Also used to say to someone who were talking rubbish..."tha needs to tek a tablet"...later became ..."tha needs to tek a chill pill!"

if we thought someone was lying we'd stroke our chins and say moose.

Ah ! We did this at Brook school and while stroking our chin we would say "YUS-must believe"

Another saying for some good was "it was ACE"

Ha Ha, stub on you! I haven't hear this since my days at Gleadless Valley Comp!

my daugter used to say skanked for being stubbed our id ave a go at her for summat n if i was wrong shed say harrr youve just been propper skanked ,med me chuckle everytime that did

"Finger, thumb, or rusty bum bum." It was a game we used to play at school. One kid would place his hands against a wall to brace himself, head down. Others would form a line behind him all with heads down, head to bum. Another line of kids would each in turn take a run at this human chain, sitting on top of it. The head kid would than ask the ones being sat on whether the hand signal he was making was a finger, a thumb or "rusty, bum bum." Anyone ever play that game. Popular at High Storrs in the '50s.

"Finger, thumb, or rusty bum bum." It was a game we used to play at school. One kid would place his hands against a wall to brace himself, head down. Others would form a line behind him all with heads down, head to bum. Another line of kids would each in turn take a run at this human chain, sitting on top of it. The head kid would than ask the ones being sat on whether the hand signal he was making was a finger, a thumb or "rusty, bum bum." Anyone ever play that game. Popular at High Storrs in the '50s.


Sure did. We would often TRAZ(run fast) home from skosh to play it.

dip-stick - not very smart
buger - as in bogey
chuddy - chewing gum

oh and soz for sorry

We had wazzocks, buzzards and waaaarts at Ecco comp.
We also went through a phase of saying "Oo aar" instead of Yes.
1975 and I met the Stocksbridgers and "Worra" and "Whatto" were familar greetings.

Some of these are really funny !!

We used to call people 'duggy', not very nice but really funny....

I think this must be a dearne valley thing though because no one from sheffield seems to know it. Toby Foster mentioned it on Radio Sheffield the other week and no one knew what he was talking about. (I went to Wath Comp)

Ah, we had duggy's at Ecco as well...loads of 'em.

Denk meaning money

10 denk
20 denk
50 denk
ect ect

"Finger, thumb, or rusty bum bum." It was a game we used to play at school. One kid would place his hands against a wall to brace himself, head down. Others would form a line behind him all with heads down, head to bum. Another line of kids would each in turn take a run at this human chain, sitting on top of it. The head kid would than ask the ones being sat on whether the hand signal he was making was a finger, a thumb or "rusty, bum bum." Anyone ever play that game. Popular at High Storrs in the '50s.

We used to play it we never got to the end, once 5 or 6 had piled on they would jump about until the whole lot collapsed.

I went to chaucer and we used to say..."Ha! Thats stubbed you out!"
Also used to say to someone who were talking rubbish..."tha needs to tek a tablet"...later became ..."tha needs to tek a chill pill!"

Remember that saying very well

"Stubb on you" when you were either laughing at someone or you had been proven right, and another was "Make Me"

although my own teenagers drive me insane with "init" "get me"
and the one i hate most "Swear Down" *#*#*
lol i must have driven my own crazy as well

You spaz (spastic) would be banned under our PC laws today.

Wow! A lot of these sayings sounds very familiar, makes me cringe thinking back lol.

Some great words what about

'chip oyl' meaning chip shop

' on mi todd' by my self

I know this ones not very pc but it makes me laugh when i think about it 'yer bummer'

'Thump' to hit and a mate of mine used to ask 'are y cortin yet' Do you have a girl friend

cant think of any more yet but im sure they ll come back.

Some great words what about

'chip oyl' meaning chip shop

' on mi todd' by my self

I know this ones not very pc but it makes me laugh when i think about it 'yer bummer'

'Thump' to hit and a mate of mine used to ask 'are y cortin yet' Do you have a girl friend

cant think of any more yet but im sure they ll come back.

I imagine it would be more like "o tha cooatin yet thee"

someone once pointed out to me the Sheffielders obsession with the superfluous pronoun as in " I'm going out tonight ME"
Or perhaps thats not a pronoun

There was a girl at school called '' spanner'' (every time we saw her our nuts tightened).

Treatment which school did you go to????

Spanner:hihi:

hi i remember nosh for food . trous for trousers . nowt for nothing . give thee a good hiding for i will smack you .

Treatment which school did you go to????

Spanner:hihi:
Nowhere near Halesworth Road duck. :heyhey:

Skutch! - Accompanied by a clip round the head to acknowledge someone's new haircut.I said this to my two lads last night.They asked me what it meant.We used to say skosh-school
non gud, reet gud, kids always called others spaz,spanner,trog, chudy-chewing gum,spice-sweets, bobor- poo, waz-wee, soz ard,stub you out.pillock.

Nowhere near Halesworth Road duck. :heyhey:

Who are you? PM me?:suspect:

We had:- Yitten for a wimp, ense was pense and fettle, crocus, benedictine and sweet stinger were all mild forms of torture we inflicted upon each other.

Do Sheffield blokes still call each other "love", they did when I was a kid, it was a source of extreme amusement to anybody NOT! from Sheff.

Do Sheffield blokes still call each other "love", they did when I was a kid, it was a source of extreme amusement to anybody NOT! from Sheff.

Guilty!!!!!!

BIG WOW! when we thought something someone was telling us was un interesting!

we used the following word at school. It was my own invention as far as I am aware and several years of lads used it..


kekkypoo****spoon

:thumbsup:

I remember a lot of the kids used say 'Cooger' or Cooger Baby' Does anyone else remember this :loopy:

`how about JOEY DEAKIN for someone who was abit thick or SPAZZY, we would stroke our chins and say mmmmm Chinny when we thought someone was lying or exaggerating, murkle for a nice lass-as in "look at that murkle o'er dere",

Scran or nosebag for dinner
keks for trousers
togger for football

My school chums and I were talking about words we used at school that we no longer hear.

These are our favourites. Does anybody still use them (we've started a renaissance)?

Have you got any others?

'way up' - a general taunt, used when something humiliating happens to someone.

'get down' - see above

'thrap' - to soundly trounce

Good morning
Good evening
Please
Thank you

Good morning
Good evening
Please
Thank you

I like those.

Plus Skidaddle.For go or gone away.

I like those.

Plus Skidaddle.For go or gone away.
Thanks
Toodle Pip

Thanks
Toodle Pip

And T.T.F.N.:hihi:

And T.T.F.N.:hihi:

once told teacher to BEAT IT meaning go away, got cane:sad:

Should have said BEATs me because they did.

to true.had some cane, and chalk thrown at me ,,thought i was a good girl ?..

to true.had some cane, and chalk thrown at me ,,thought i was a good girl ?..

I got the same at Burngreave.I was a pest.

daft as a brush/half baked/half baked wap????

your dinner will be (collopped cowd )my mum used to say to me meaning your dinner (will get cold).

take it in like a dustbin,believed anything

We used to say 'beard' as in 'chinny beard'!

That was a "pearler" (or "purler?"), meaning "great."

That last goal by Fantham was a pearler.

Going slightly off subject (are there any mods looking :suspect:)

At Hatfield House Lane school, back on the sixties, a popular trick with the boys was to go outside at break, or dinner time, and catch a bee or wasp in your hanky.

We would then take it into the empty classroom and release it into a girls desk :evil:

The reaction when she opened it, during the next lesson, was always a sight to behold :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: