The Wanderer; A Thesaurus

[Little Green Man]

I like nesh, nesh is good.
Pillock too, that's a splendid word.
They're both Yorkshire I believe.

It's in use across much of the north of England. I've been described as nesh by several people over the years.

I first came across it in print in a book by Liverpool author James Hanley - I think it was Boy. It was written (incorrectly) with an i in the middle but it's also been used by Thomas Hardy, DH Lawrence and even Chaucer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesh

Nesh seems to have many meaning, all going back to Old English hnesce . In what sense was it applied to you, LGM, and what does LLS understand it to mean?

Susceptible to cold - that's the only meaning I've ever come across.

[bobo the clown]

Most women are 'nesh' ... in that they whinge about it being cold when you or I would be in a t-shirt.

[Little Green Man]

Most women are 'nesh' ... in that they whinge about it being cold when you or I would be in a t-shirt.

I'd be in two jumpers. But that's a Scottish summer for you.

[Prufrock]

A few points:

It's defo a barm. Fact.

The 'I'm going for't buy/do/see etc... something', that's Wigan.

Here it is pronounced 'Giv-ore' not 'Gi-ower' but either way it's a belting phrase.

'Nesh' is a great word, which means 'soft'.

As does 'mard', unless you're weird and from Yorkshire like the Arctic Monkeys where 'mard' means 'stroppy'. They're wrong of course.

[bobo the clown]

A 'barm cake' is a very specific bread bun/bap etc. It is quite different in taste to anything nowadays freely available.

I'd say anyone under 35 has probably never actually had one. We should campaign Warby's to restart production. A breaded-ham barm was a thing of beauty.

The word is used generically but I'm afraid, Pru, you've never actually tasted the delights of a real one.

[bobo the clown]

In fact, they were ... stonking.

Anyone who didn't think so was ... a divvy.

I'm now really wanting to recapture that taste. In fact ... I'm thrutching for one.

[thebish]

In fact, they were ... stonking.

Anyone who didn't think so was ... a divvy.

I'm now really wanting to recapture that taste. In fact ... I'm thrutching for one.

I always thought that word meant "straining" - as you might do on the bog....

[bobo the clown]

To strain may take many forms. One being to be extremely desirous, shirley ?

[thebish]

To strain may take many forms. One being to be extremely desirous, shirley ?

oh aye - no problem with you using it that way - just that I've never heard it used that way! you learn summat new every day!

i was about to take the dog out - but it's mizzling now...

[TANGODANCER]

A few points:

The 'I'm going for't buy/do/see etc... something', that's Wigan.

The correct pronunciation is " fer't, as in "I'm going fer't bus" and is decidedly Bolton.

Also Bolton is " You'll get a whinger in a minute". (A favourite of my mothers) and "you'll get a pelt if you're not careful" . Both terms of endearment. My dad, being Irish) had a vocabulary all his own which had nowt at all to do with Bolton.

Always liked " get up them dancers (stairs) although I've never figured out why that.

[PC1978]

Crumpet pizzas are the future!!!

[thebish]

A few points:

The 'I'm going for't buy/do/see etc... something', that's Wigan.

The correct pronunciation is " fer't, as in "I'm going fer't bus" and is decidedly Bolton.

aye... once again Pru embarrasses himself!! You're just to young to know this stuff Pru!!!

[Prufrock]

It's bloody Wigan! You're all a bunch of wannabe pie-eaters.

I know a girl who lives in Wrightington and insists she is from Wigan not Chorley. Now, Chorley is hardly fin de siecle Paris, but WIGAN?! Given a freebie and she didn't want it. Fecking Wigan sympathisers everywhere.

[CrazyHorse]

A few points:

The 'I'm going for't buy/do/see etc... something', that's Wigan.

The correct pronunciation is " fer't, as in "I'm going fer't bus" and is decidedly Bolton.

aye... once again Pru embarrasses himself!! You're just to young to know this stuff Pru!!!

lol

[thebish]

A few points:

The 'I'm going for't buy/do/see etc... something', that's Wigan.

The correct pronunciation is " fer't, as in "I'm going fer't bus" and is decidedly Bolton.

aye... once again Pru embarrasses himself!! You're just to young to know this stuff Pru!!!

lol

poo!

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Crumpet pizzas are the future!!!

Were they a success then?

[TANGODANCER]

It's bloody Wigan! You're all a bunch of wannabe pie-eaters.

I know a girl who lives in Wrightington and insists she is from Wigan not Chorley. Now, Chorley is hardly fin de siecle Paris, but WIGAN?! Given a freebie and she didn't want it. Fecking Wigan sympathisers everywhere.

Not sure about the present time, but Wingates (Westhoughton) has long been the Mecca of almost biblical expressionism, thee,thou (both pronouunced thar't) being typical. Wigan is just watered down Wingates.

[bobo the clown]

It's bloody Wigan! You're all a bunch of wannabe pie-eaters.

I know a girl who lives in Wrightington and insists she is from Wigan not Chorley. Now, Chorley is hardly fin de siecle Paris, but WIGAN?! Given a freebie and she didn't want it. Fecking Wigan sympathisers everywhere.

Not sure about the present time, but Wingates (Westhoughton) has long been the Mecca of almost biblical expressionism, thee,thou (both pronouunced thar't) being typical. Wigan is just watered down Wingates.

The west Bolton area & environs have an old Lancastrian tinge to their accent. So 'owfen, Wingates, Blackrod, 'orwich have trace of Wiggin in there. Add to that the Daist Hill, Atherton, Leigh areas where plenty of Bolton fans come from & thee, thy, thou and all thir extentions are a'plenty in the accent.

[Bruce Rioja]

It's bloody Wigan! You're all a bunch of wannabe pie-eaters.

I know a girl who lives in Wrightington and insists she is from Wigan not Chorley. Now, Chorley is hardly fin de siecle Paris, but WIGAN?! Given a freebie and she didn't want it. Fecking Wigan sympathisers everywhere.

In the interests of your education, Wiganners use "Fott", not "For't", and we use "Fert'".

[TANGODANCER]

"Crackers" as in thar't crackers mon", or "not reet". Polite form is "don't talk silly", impolite version "tha talks like a twxt".