The Wanderer; A Thesaurus

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Is it only me calls 'em a Flour Cake?

I'd call them turds. What are they?

[89bwfc89]

It's a bloody barm!!!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

It's a bloody barm!!!

Not when it's that colour it's not.

[Gary the Enfield]

Is that Status Quo "In the Navy"?

Yes. Yes it is.

[TANGODANCER]

Is it only me calls 'em a Flour Cake?

Flour cakes are called that because they have flour on them. They seem to call them oven-bottoms these days and flour cakes as such are like them but with more flour showing. What you showed is a barm.

[Harry Genshaw]

No. They're all Barm cakes. Oven bottoms are big barm cakes, flour cakes are fancy barm cakes, muffins are posh folks barm cakes. You can have a chip barm and perhaps get away with a chip muffin but try going into a chippy and ask for a chip flour cake. You'd get yer head kicked in!

[Little Green Man]

Ginnel - A passageway.

As in 'He's so bow-legged he couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel.'

I've always been fascinated with the various regional dialect words for passageway which include Ginnel, Jennel, Jitty,.

snicket, snickleway, twitten (GG might have heard this one), gulley (midlands)

twitchel, backsie, wynd, close, tenner... the list is massive

vennel, ten-foot

[89bwfc89]

Yep, definitely always a barm in my eyes. A muffin is sweet not savoury, like choc chip or blueberry!

[Annoyed Grunt]

In Cumbria (unsure if all parts) they call barms - tea cakes.

[89bwfc89]

In Cumbria (unsure if all parts) they call barms - tea cakes.

Noooo....they have raisins in!

[CrazyHorse]

[89bwfc89]

Yeah I'll give you that! I love them as well.

[Bruce Rioja]

I bought some of those recently. Nae blob o' jam int' middle anymore!!!!!!!

[Bruce Rioja]

Oh, and last week I learned a brill word. Snollygoster.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Oh, and last week I learned a brill word. Snollygoster.

It is what too many of our politicians here are at all levels of government.

[General Mannerheim]

I always like to use these words conversing with londoners, especially foreign ones

"how is you meal sir?"

"bang-on, flower - belting!" their faces are a picture.

also, my housemate down here never heard the word for the path between our two blocks as a ginnel!?

"some fukker's been sick in the ginnel"

"_______?" couldnt believe it. he's never heard of parkin either.

give over is a great one, esp as its usually pronounced 'gi-ower' my my elders.

[Bruce Rioja]

give over is a great one, esp as its usually pronounced 'gi-ower' my my elders.

I like to use "come art' road' for 'stand aside'. It always draws a similar effect.

[General Mannerheim]

all my life i have gone into the chippy or the bakers or the butty shop and asked for a chip muffin or a pastie on a muffin or a sausage muffin. its a fecking muffin.

[CrazyHorse]

Muffin is what lesbians do. It's a barm.

[General Mannerheim]

the other week we were in a steakhouse when the waitress clearing our plates asked ' how was you're dinner?' my dad replied 'didnt have any, love - was saving myself for that!'

we know what they mean but its fun to play them a bit innit..