Sheffieldish - words & phrases

[cookingfat50 10]

I think it meant catapult.

 

yep thats what we called it to

 

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Tranklements.....

 

like bits of jewelery rubbishy stuff that is found at car boots

[trickyob 11]

liggin abaht (lying about )

[raymondo1952 11]

Slopp dosh:hihi:

 

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Slopp dosh:hihi:

 

when you mixed soil with water

[mikebatty 10]

da's dunitageun. Why dunt da ge'or?, dah nows nowt! So tek di ook!

 

Could anybody believe that someone who actually spoke like this as a kid, and never passed the eleven-plus, actually got to teach in a grammar school for a year?

 

School of hard Knocks and the university of life !

 

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Once heard a bloke in a pub say "i know she had no knickers on cus i saw't black rat":D

 

I had to dry my eyes before I could move on from that one .

 

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"gi' ore/ova yer wazzock = stop it you daft person, "larrap polish on me boot" = smack polish on my boot, "pikelet" = crumpet, "shift yer jeer" = move your bottom

 

wazzock , pillock and prat were always our expressions for dummy or fool .

 

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put peg in hoil=close the door/ put sneck on behind you= close the gate after you go thro it

 

purasocinit - shurrup .

[Thyme 10]

Bleedin, Blindin, Chuffin hell. Me dad's swear words. Always used in one sentence. The only ones he ever used bless him.

[mikebatty 10]

Bleedin, Blindin, Chuffin hell. Me dad's swear words. Always used in one sentence. The only ones he ever used bless him.

 

Bloody hell fire used to be my dads pet expression.

[scargill 10]

How about the 'coarsy', or coarsy edge

[grinder 10]

gerrit, gorrit, good...

[raymondo1952 11]

clobber= cloths / dicky docks=socks/

[baz48 10]

Know them all,what about sprottled for lying untidily i.e. sprottled on a settee

or airiated for overexcited or agitated

[autumn 10]

Love this thread brought back so many memories and words My family use to use when i was a child .

[willybite 10]

Love this thread brought back so many memories and words My family use to use when i was a child .

 

hiya, anybody remember on a hot summers day playing with the tar that oozed from between the road blocks g/g the number of times it found its way into kids hair, then their mothers tgried to get it out with a dab of butter, no plastercine during the war.