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Not like me, am usually too datetal for that....:hihi:

 

Grinder, sorry for telling you your clock was wrong. I didn`t realise ALL POSTS were GMT + 1 hour. Can`t think why they do that. It could cause a few arguments !

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Well I never did = 'means' a short form of "I never did hear of such a thing before", = surprised at some thing,

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i think you mean manking?

 

" Mankin " sarnds abert reight to me .

" Manking " sounds as if it is said with a plum in the mouth or, " Wi a plum int gob".

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In a roundabout way this is what it means

 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Manking

 

Tride to look mankin up drew a blank = nothin found

 

Well every body to there own, but in my day if you where MANKIN,/ MANKING. man or woman, you were up to no good with a person of the opposite sex....

 

If some thing was Manky, it was unclean..

 

Wonky was wobbly...

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Well every body to there own, but in my day if you where MANKIN,/ MANKING. man or woman, you were up to no good with a person of the opposite sex....

 

If some thing was Manky, it was unclean..

 

Wonky was wobbly...

 

 

Spot on grinder, never heard of Mankin though

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Spot on grinder, never heard of Mankin though

 

In our area mankin' was courting. More serious than "messin' abaht".

 

A "mankin' piece" was a girlfriend.

 

---------- Post added 24-03-2014 at 09:15 ----------

 

Minjie = miserly, ungenerous.

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Spozzy /mozzy........lucky ...

clanger...... a mistake.

Dead.....Very...(as in dead Lucky..dead clever..dead awkward.....etc,etc..)

Pasting....what you got when you didn't do as you were told...

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doss house was a kind of o workhouse

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doss house was a kind of o workhouse

 

the saying was tidy house up it looks like a doss house

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