The Wanderer; A Thesaurus

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Thar really should familiarise thissen wi' Partridge, Spotty.

Alan: You are a homosexual

Nick Ford: Bisexual

Alan: Don't pussy-foot

Nick Ford: I'm not pussy footing.

Alan:The point is, there are blokes involved

Maybe you had to be there,

[Montreal Wanderer]

Partridge suggests military usage from WW1 and I'd go with him.

I remember Alan Partridge advising Conrad Knight to "Put a Conrad Knight sock in it" on Knowing Me, Knowing You!

Never heard of Alan or the show - I referred, of course, to the lexicographer of English slang, Eric Partridge.

Knowing Me, Knowing You was really rather good Monty.
Unfortunately the show never had a second series commissioned as Alan tragically shot and killed guest Forbes McAllister live on air during the last show, leaving his career in tatters. I'm surprised it never made the news over in Canada tbh.

I am ashamed to admit I started laughing when I thought this was serious information. I have since checked matters on wiki and youtube, and am now au fait.

[tankcopters n aids]

Peggy bout teeth

you Gobbin

[bobo the clown]

A miserable person was said to have "a face as long as Chorley New Road" in our house.

It only works in that area btw !!


Also, mater would pronounce "I'll swing for thee". I never quite knew whether she meant she planned to "give me a good hiding" or that, one day, she'd end-up on a rope due to my misdemeanours.


"Peggy 'bout teeth", b-hell that's an owd 'un.

[bobo the clown]

... Mind you, either way, it was a certainty that "I'd be laughing on the other side of my face".

[Andy Waller]

Thar really should familiarise thissen wi' Partridge, Spotty.

Alan: You are a homosexual

Nick Ford: Bisexual

Alan: Don't pussy-foot

Nick Ford: I'm not pussy footing.

Alan:The point is, there are blokes involved

You are sowing your seed, yet reaping no harvest....

[General Mannerheim]

You feed beef burgers to swans.

[Bruce Rioja]

No way you big spastic, you're a mentalist!

[tankcopters n aids]

Soz hard : This saying was used in 90's Westhoughton when Pogs were being played.

[Andy Waller]

"If he fell of th'Co-Op, he'd land int' divvy". That was one of my grans.

[Bruce Rioja]

"If he fell of th'Co-Op, he'd land int' divvy". That was one of my grans.

Brilliant.

My Grandad used to say "By the blitherin' crin". Sadly, we never did find out exactly what a blitherin' crin actually was.

[Always hopeful]

"Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs".

[Andy Waller]

Does anyone know the meaning of "clough" as in Deane Clough and Stoneclough? I think it means a small valley type of thing but I've always wondered.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Does anyone know the meaning of "clough" as in Deane Clough and Stoneclough? I think it means a small valley type of thing but I've always wondered.

It does indeed mean a valley, usually a steep sided wooded valley as in Wildboarclough - the last place in England where wild boars were to be had.

[thebish]

Does anyone know the meaning of "clough" as in Deane Clough and Stoneclough? I think it means a small valley type of thing but I've always wondered.

or Brian Clough...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Does anyone know the meaning of "clough" as in Deane Clough and Stoneclough? I think it means a small valley type of thing but I've always wondered.

or Brian Clough...

... the last place in England where Brians were to be found.

[Andy Waller]

Lord knows what's to be had down Deane Clough?

[Montreal Wanderer]

Does anyone know the meaning of "clough" as in Deane Clough and Stoneclough? I think it means a small valley type of thing but I've always wondered.

It does indeed mean a valley, usually a steep sided wooded valley as in Wildboarclough - the last place in England where wild boars were to be had.

As I recall the town in Uppards was halfway up the clough.

[Gary the Enfield]

It may be well known to the folks on here but apparently the origin of the areas 'Smithills' and 'Sharples' comes frome the 'Smooth Hills' and Sharp Hills' thereabouts.

Also Doffcocker is from the gaelic 'Dubh' meaning dark (or Black) and 'Cocker' meaning winding stream.

Dubh Linn (Dublin) means Black Pool.

[Montreal Wanderer]

It may be well known to the folks on here but apparently the origin of the areas 'Smithills' and 'Sharples' comes frome the 'Smooth Hills' and Sharp Hills' thereabouts.

Also Doffcocker is from the gaelic 'Dubh' meaning dark (or Black) and 'Cocker' meaning winding stream.

Dubh Linn (Dublin) means Black Pool.

Doffcocker is plausible but not certain. Another version is that it was named after a Scotsman who was passing through the area and had to cross the stream. Its waters were exceptionally high following heavy rain, so to keep his stockings (cockers, as they were known in Scotland) dry the man was obliged to "doff" them. Furthermore, according to A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use: With Their Etymology, 1829 COCKERS, or COGGERS, properly half-boots made of untanned leather, or other stiff materials, and strapped under the shoe; but old stockings without feet, used as gaiters by hedgers and ploughmen, are often so called. Cockers occurs in Bishop Hall's Satires. In Lancashire the word is often used for stockings. There is a small place not far from Bolton, called Doff-Cocker, where, my friend, Mr. Turner, informs me, it used to be the fashion for the country people who came from church or market to pull off their stockings and walk barefoot home.

Re Sharples I read: Sharples was recorded in documents as Charples in 1212, Sharples and Scharples in 1292[1] and the manor was part of the Barony or Lordship of Manchester in the Middle ages. Sharples was the name of a local family who lived at Sharples Hall, the last was Dr John Sharples Lawson who died in 1816.

But I'll give you Smithills!