Sheffield sayings and rhymes

[Plain Talker 11]

Surely tha means mabs?

 

Aye, mabs...

[willybite 10]

were an oyal cloth like a sou'wester?

 

Oyal case wuz like lino... Tha purrit on't floo-er and put a peg rug oo'er that.

 

(And if you weren't careful, my mother, her brother and sisters would use a red-hot poker to burn an oyal, int oilcase, big enough to play Marbles in. strategically hidden by the pegrug by the hearth.

 

Coyal Grate were we'eer t' coyal man poured the sacks of coyal into't cellar.

 

A clooers prop were what tha held Clooers line up wi', warnt it?

 

hiya thad luk a reightun wee a rowl ur oilcloth onthe heeard.

[willybite 10]

Surely tha means mabs?

 

hiya i remember playing mabs in a water grate in the school yard, and some kids wanted to play with ball bearings but that was not played against the glass cats eye mabs, nor pot ones they were called stonks.

 

ps there were two grates just over the wall at the corner of cavendish street and broomspring lane at springfield school.

Edited January 28, 2010 by willybite

[gemmaktekin 10]

My Grandad use to say loads of rhymes.. infact I hardly remember him talking normally just in rhymes...

 

I just got back from't station railway

where I met a bark and it dogged at me

so I pick a street outta a stoo ern

and nearly necked its knock off.

 

There were tons more... maybe someone could shed some light on this an all, dunno if it's a sheff thing or just my gramps but h used to call all girls in family "lizzie dripping from't lard factory" regardless of thier names.

Gem x

[BarrieM 10]

hiya i wore clogs around 1944 i was the only one i remember having them, my mum would take the steel from around the soul and nail bars of leather strips across the sole.the clog shop was at the bottom of brookhill and garden st, opposite townhead st, i still remember the ditty kids would say when i walked in them it was " cloggy one cloggy two give em a kick and that will do"

 

I too was born in 1938 and I remember walking to Morley Street school in clogs.

[Plain Talker 11]

My Grandad use to say loads of rhymes.. infact I hardly remember him talking normally just in rhymes...

 

I just got back from't station railway

where I met a bark and it dogged at me

so I pick a street outta a stoo ern

and nearly necked its knock off.

 

There were tons more... maybe someone could shed some light on this an all, dunno if it's a sheff thing or just my gramps but h used to call all girls in family "lizzie dripping from't lard factory" regardless of thier names.

Gem x

 

My grandpa was full of daft, and nonsense rhymes, which he used to recite for us,

 

I remember these:-

 

"Not last night, but the night before,

Three tom-cats came knocking at my door

One had a fiddle,

One had a drum,

And one had a pancake stuck to his bum!"

 

"One fine day in the middle of the night,

Two dead men got up to fight,

Back to back, They faced each other,

Drew their swords,

and shot each other"

 

"Old *insert name here" is a funny 'un

With a face like a Spanish onion,

And a nose like a squashed tomato,

We'll have her for tea!"

 

"Old *insert name here* In't no good,

Chop her up for fire-wood,

When she's dead,

We'll Stand her on her head,

And then we'll have some ginger bread!"

 

"Once upon a time,

The birds sh--*cough* the line,

And the monkeys chewed tobacco,

The little piggies ran,

With their fingers up their bum,

And asked,

What was the matter?' "

 

"The cat,

Crept into the crypt,

Cr*pped,

and crept out again!"

[grinder 10]

(Such-a-body) sells fish,

three ha-pence a dish,

don't buy it, don't buy it,

cause it stinks when you fry it....

 

Used to love the rude innuendo ones too..

 

Little miss muffet, did sit on her tuffet.

eating her curds and corn,

but it wasn't a spider, that sat down beside her,

it was little Boy Blue with his horn...

 

And then there was a cluster of "Mary had a little lamb" one's that we used to giggle at in a corner of the play ground..

 

It's funny how what's acceptable has changed over the years. I remember giving my fiancee a novel called "Forever Amber" and my future father in law saying to me "In't that a mucky book" ?

Well it may have been then, But today it's play school stuff

Edited January 17, 2010 by grinder

[Kidorry 189]

A pal of mine told me this one today and I had never heard it before.

If he told his dad he was bored his dad would say "P@@s up thi back an play wit steam"It`s a new one on me.

[BobbyDazzler 10]

My father used to say "If thy ad another wit, thad be an aif wit"

[Puffin4 10]

A pal of mine told me this one today and I had never heard it before.

If he told his dad he was bored his dad would say "P@@s up thi back an play wit steam"It`s a new one on me.

 

My father's version was "Pee dahn thy leg and play wit steam". Another of his, for a disgruntled man was "Ees gorra face like a rich man's arse". I'm not sure how many rich men he knew though!

 

Mike

[Treatment 10]

Derbyshire born,

Derbyshire bred,

Strong in't arm,

But weak in't head.

[ACE WASTE 12]

Mi dads favorite saying was "its like shi**in in bed wecken" when you did something he didnt aggree with,

he would say to mi mam put kettle on lass im avin a strip wesh toneet,