Sheffield slang

[paddywac 10]

I was thinking that too, but thought it would be rude to point it out! lol

How do you use the word 'mashin'?

 

Thanks anyway, though.

[sarah_d 10]

My mum says that when referring to making my dad's pack lunch.I don't use much Yorkshire slang now 'cos i'm in London and i'm fed up of explaining myself!The odd one will slip in now and again though.

[max 13]

Originally posted by t020

WTF?! How???

 

As in 'wha's tha got for thee snap?'

[t020 11]

Originally posted by max

As in 'wha's tha got for thee snap?'

 

 

I meant how is "snap" linked to the word "food" in any way?

[max 13]

Originally posted by t020

I meant how is "snap" linked to the word "food" in any way?

 

Sorry, forgot to translate. A snap tin is something in which one puts food for eating when away from one's home. Snap, therefore, is food.

 

Added:

 

However, meticulous research shows that snap is not peculiar to Sheffield. This quote:

 

Snap - Originally this was a packed lunch carried by coal miners (in a snap tin) nowadays it means food in general

 

comes from an East Midlands site:

 

Long Eaton site

[t020 11]

I see... kind of. But to be called a "snap tin" in the first place, snap must have meant food anyway. Is it just onomatopoeic?

[ladyovmanor 10]

an after tha's finished thee snap tha can av sum SPICE.......

[nsiebert 10]

Oh memories, my accent is still broad, but lost a lot of the little phrases, my Mother in law couldnt understand me when I came to New Zealand, but I remember "snap",

[extaxman 10]

What about 'causie' short for causeway (or pavement).

 

There's also 'sough grate' which means a drainage grate in a gutter. Think this is derived from an old lead mining term meaning drain as in Calver Sough.

[nsiebert 10]

extaxman

I remember cossie, as in swimming cossie, not the others

[jessycar 10]

"washing pots" this is used to confuse my ex coursemate who was from Bucks heehee

[nsiebert 10]

I still say "washing the pots"

Pots in New Zealand are saucepans.

 

giy us anuther one