Sheffield sayings and rhymes

[Kidorry 189]

If someone is greedy, my family says that they could "eyt two taters more than a pig!"

Another one was ...I could eyt a orse an gu back fo saddle,

[Plain Talker 11]

Another one was ...I could eyt a orse an gu back fo saddle,

 

yep. "Eyt an 'oss between two bread vans, and come back for the saddle."#

 

 

( I liked Lily Savage's take on that saying:- "I could eat a nun's backside through the convent gates" - only she didn't call it a backside!)

[ACE WASTE 12]

The one that sticks in my mind though i wish it wouldnt was when a work friend of mine phoned me and said tell the boss im not comming in today ive been sh**in through the eye of a needle all neet and mi ar*e is like a blood orange tha could lite a fag of it. Nowt like telling it as it is,is there

[HeadingNorth 11]

And why is it only those two times that are expressed so?

 

 

The German word for twenty-five is "funf-und-zwanzig;" literally, five and twenty. Since English evolved from the same origins as did German, I suspect that "five-and-twenty" is the older, original number, and "twenty-five" was coined much later.

 

(Compare "thirteen, fourteen, fifteen" ... which are basically corruptions of "three and ten, four and ten, five and ten...")

[HeadingNorth 11]

If my dad was getting frustrated or fed up with something, he'd say he was

 

browned off with it. I wonder what the origin of that is.

 

I'm fairly sure this comes from cooking; meat gets browned off when it's slightly heated. "Browned off" = getting a little hot under the collar.

[HeadingNorth 11]

shut thee cake hole

 

 

It was "pie hole" in my youth but the intent is clearly the same.

[darra 10]

Pikelets seems to be a Sheffield/Yorkshire word,every where else it's crumpets. 14 pages in and nobody has mentions Ee by gum, why, because don't know about you lot but i've never heard anybody say it

[Plain Talker 11]

darra! oh dear! showing your foreigner credentials

 

Pkelets and crumpets are two different things

 

Crumpets are about the diameter of a mug rim, and thick.

 

Pikelets are about the size of a saucer rim, same sort of depth as a crumpet.

(maybe oatcake sized, in diameter)

[chimay 10]

Has 'mardy' been mentioned? It's a brilliant word. I use a lot but no one dahn south know what I mean. Katie cornered is a phrase that is unknown dahn south.

[darra 10]

darra! oh dear! showing your foreigner credentials

 

Pkelets and crumpets are two different things

 

Crumpets are about the diameter of a mug rim, and thick.

 

Pikelets are about the size of a saucer rim, same sort of depth as a crumpet.

(maybe oatcake sized, in diameter)

Very true but even though it said Crumpets on the packet they were always called pikelets.

[chrishall 10]

Loppy, as in dirty.

[beechnut 10]

Loppy, as in dirty.

 

Yes indeed - see post #49 on this thread.