'What were they on about?' What Grandparents from Sheffield used to say.

[grinder 10]

For two pins,- why two pins ?

Well I'll go to foot o our stairs.- why ?

[saxon51 10]

I always took 'Fettling' to mean putting the final touches to a job. IE. Polishing, sanding down, tidying away, drying off etc.

[BettyBooHoo! 10]

My grandad had a language of his own I think!

'Eey, just look at you in your stocking feet, you'll catch your death'. That meant put your slippers on.

'Stop chewin' fat'. That meant stop moaning.

He also used to tell me that I was the girl who fought the monkey in a dustbin and come out without a scratch. No idea what that meant!

RIP Grandad, I miss you.

[jackydarnall 10]

my mum used to say if nothing went right somat ill turn up if its only your toes

[mrs grissom 10]

My Dad worked in a foundry and I thought fettling was cleaning of the rough bits off castings. I was talking to a friend on MSN the other day and said I've got to gerron cos I've got to fettle the upstairs , and they couldn't stop laughing and said that i was the only woman they had heard use that term.

[Kthebean 10]

Loppy is my favourite Sheffield word.

 

What does loppy mean??

 

Must admit I always thought fettle was something rude

[BettyBooHoo! 10]

What does loppy mean??

 

Must admit I always thought fettle was something rude

 

 

Loppy means mucky.

[Kthebean 10]

Mucky as in covered in muck or mucky as in dirty minded?

 

Also I really love

 

He also used to tell me that I was the girl who fought the monkey in a dustbin and come out without a scratch. No idea what that meant!

RIP Grandad, I miss you.

 

that really made me smile.

[BettyBooHoo! 10]

Mucky as in covered in muck or mucky as in dirty minded?

 

Also I really love

 

 

 

that really made me smile.

 

I have no idea what he was on about bless him!!!

 

Mucky as in covered in muck!

[Grandad.Malky 11]

It’s a pig in a poke ………. Work that one out.

[saxon51 10]

It’s a pig in a poke ………. Work that one out.

 

Summat to do with poke=sack.

 

You'd buy a pig tied up in a sack from someone on trust, only to find out when you opened it up that you'd bought a dead dog or something else just as worthless.

 

Similar to these bent sales pitches that sell sealed boxes for a fiver.

[SILLY 10]

Mine always used to say tha looks like thas lost a bob and found a tanner.