Sheffield sayings and rhymes

[Jozafeen 10]

This thread has made me giggle like mad - brilliant stuff!

 

I bumped into a mate who speaks broad Sheffield and, on hearing the news I was going out with an old friend said "It's took tha two daft chuffs long enough to get cooertin!" - does anywhere else apart from here still use 'courting'?

 

Some of my dad's favourite phrases were:

 

I cud eyt Dick Monk and Dick Monk's father - they were two big blokes from the Wicker I think

 

E's offen't 'ooks - If anyone could explain what the hooks were and why illness made you come off them, that'd be fab!

 

Er weet nooers, that moon-faced un, ten to two legs - physical description at its finest I reckon!

 

Anyone else have that problem where it's easy to write in Sheffieldish but can't actually speak it?

[Plain Talker 11]

This thread has made me giggle like mad - brilliant stuff!

 

I bumped into a mate who speaks broad Sheffield and, on hearing the news I was going out with an old friend said "It's took tha two daft chuffs long enough to get cooertin!" - does anywhere else apart from here still use 'courting'?

 

Some of my dad's favourite phrases were:

 

I cud eyt Dick Monk and Dick Monk's father - they were two big blokes from the Wicker I think

 

E's offen't 'ooks - If anyone could explain what the hooks were and why illness made you come off them, that'd be fab!

 

Er weet nooers, that moon-faced un, ten to two legs - physical description at its finest I reckon!

 

Anyone else have that problem where it's easy to write in Sheffieldish but can't actually speak it?

 

 

I use the phrase "courting", and "off't hooks" in those same senses, too.

 

My mother used to use the phrase "I could eat a horse between two bread-vans!" for feeling hungry. i loved that comment, and still use it, myself.

 

my ex husband, I used to say, had "quart' t' three feet!" as they were like charlie chaplin's! lol

[Jozafeen 10]

My mother used to use the phrase "I could eat a horse between two bread-vans!" for feeling hungry. i loved that comment, and still use it, myself.

 

 

I worked in Leeds for a long time and picked up their version - "I could eyt a scabby-assed donkey and't cart behind it"

 

Obviously they couldn't afford horses in West Yorkshire until recently

[Gangan 10]

In the 60s a lady moved north to Sheffield. One day she stood at her door calling to her dog."Tha berrar not stan theer an shout that name roun ere Missus " said her new neighbour.Its norra nice word ere!" The dogs name was Chuff! Apparently it was an acceptable name down South!

[Falls 10]

Hi,

 

Was the expression "Moonlight Flit" (people who moved out of a house in the middle of the night without paying the rent) just local to Sheffield or is it used in other parts of the country?

 

Regards

[PopT 10]

If I'd been out with Dad and we'd missed a meal and felt hungry, he'd always ask.

 

"Could tha' heyt afe a meight pie,son? Cus I cud Heyt other afe!"

 

Happy days!

[Treatment 10]

My Grandad used to sing the'' Eyela jackala '' song which was about counting the beats. The ending was:

 

'' If th'all be willing

I'll bet thee a shilling

There is no more than thirty two''.

[PopT 10]

How about a favourite of mine when referring to some knowall.

 

"Eez gorra hee-ad as big as a fifty bob cabbage."

 

Happy Days!

[Heeley tyke 10]

A slightly risqe one from the late fifties - - sung to the tune of "Ghost riders in the sky"

 

And all at once a mighty herd

Of red eyed cows I saw -w - w!

Coming out the Barleycorn - n - n!

And trotting down the moor.

Yippee i o-o-o-o-o

Yippee i o -o-o-o-o-!

Night riders in the Sky!

 

Apologies.

 

 

I first heard that being sung on stage at a Working Man's Club by Ron Delta in the late 60s.

[Heeley tyke 10]

Can anybody tell me what a skopodiddle is ? Our mum was always using the word. Must have been something that wriggled a lot

 

A scopadiddle was a Lancashire expression. It referred to a flying shuttle on a weaving loom.

[babyboom 10]

How about "supwidee"?

 

ahlsupwithee if thahtpayin

[Wadsleyite 10]

All reight - ahl sidee in t' orse & jockey Friday neet.