The Wanderer; A Thesaurus

[Gary the Enfield]

If you're hungry, is anyone familiar with "Fair clempt"?

Yorkshire?

I first heard "Am fair clempt" whilst listening to Chippy Tea by the Lancashire Hotpots.

Fair enough. The Urban Dictionary concurs:

'Klempt is Wiganese for starving or about to starve to death'

[Lost Leopard Spot]

If you're hungry, is anyone familiar with "Fair clempt"?

Yorkshire?

I first heard "Am fair clempt" whilst listening to Chippy Tea by the Lancashire Hotpots.

Fair enough. The Urban Dictionary concurs:

'Klempt is Wiganese for starving or about to starve to death'

Is that why them hillbillies looked half starved to death? - the Klampits.

[Prufrock]

My folks are from Chorley area and have always said 'clempt'.

[TANGODANCER]

"I'm so hungry mi belly thinks mi throat's been cut"

[Always hopeful]

My folks are from Chorley area and have always said 'clempt'.

I'm from the Chorley area and I've never heard of it

[Lost Leopard Spot]

My folks are from Chorley area and have always said 'clempt'.

I'm from the Chorley area and I've never heard of it

I'm soooooo glad somebody else has never heard of it, I was beginning to get quite paranoid about it!

[Montreal Wanderer]

My folks are from Chorley area and have always said 'clempt'.

I'm from the Chorley area and I've never heard of it

I'm soooooo glad somebody else has never heard of it, I was beginning to get quite paranoid about it!

The Oxford English Dictionary never heard of it either and they include a lot of dialect. Well they do have clempt but in a different sense - "1488 (1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) viii. l. 1332 Throuch ii clempt thar hapnyt gret debait,..Ȝour king thai ast for to be thar ourman."

The Urban dictionary gives it as klempt and suggest it is restricted to Wigan. No reason you should be familiar with that dialect, Spotty.

[Always hopeful]

Have we had "sweating cobs" yet?

What the heck is a cob when used in this context? Anyone know?

[thebish]

Have we had "sweating cobs" yet?

What the heck is a cob when used in this context? Anyone know?

cobblestone?

[Always hopeful]

Have we had "sweating cobs" yet?

What the heck is a cob when used in this context? Anyone know?

cobblestone?

You might be right, but how do you sweat a cobblestone?

[thebish]

Have we had "sweating cobs" yet?

What the heck is a cob when used in this context? Anyone know?

cobblestone?

You might be right, but how do you sweat a cobblestone?

i guess you don't - hence the phrase - exaggeration for effect!

[Always hopeful]

Ah, I see. I was being a bit dim there for a minute.

Just done a bit of "Googling" and nobody seems to know its origins. Strange that.

[Bruce Rioja]

If anyone can find me the origin of 'By the blithering crin' then I'll be forever in their debt.

[Bijou Bob]

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

If its anything like it was in the 1980's, anything for a bottle of WKD.

[thebish]

If anyone can find me the origin of 'By the blithering crin' then I'll be forever in their debt.

i suspect the origin might be your grandad!

[bobo the clown]

"any road up"

[Bruce Rioja]

If anyone can find me the origin of 'By the blithering crin' then I'll be forever in their debt.

i suspect the origin might be your grandad!

Aye, 'appen thar meet be reet

[Lost Leopard Spot]

If anyone can find me the origin of 'By the blithering crin' then I'll be forever in their debt.

To blither is the same as to blather, to run off at the mouth, speak ten to the dozen, spout nonsense, talk for England. So we're halfway there, all we need now is to know what a crin is!

[Montreal Wanderer]

If anyone can find me the origin of 'By the blithering crin' then I'll be forever in their debt.

To blither is the same as to blather, to run off at the mouth, speak ten to the dozen, spout nonsense, talk for England. So we're halfway there, all we need now is to know what a crin is!

I believe it is horsehair.

Edit: Just looked up in the OED which tells me:
Horsehair braid; a fabric made from horsehair, alone or in combination with another fibre;
Crin is a firm but flexible material used for stiffening clothes, upholstery, hat-making, etc. It is now frequently produced using a polyester filament substitute for horsehair.

[Bruce Rioja]

Cheers, Guys. So, right now we've got 'By the talkative horsehair'

Sadly, along with his recipe for mouth-watering potato cakes, my Grandad took any explanation to his grave.