The Wanderer; A Thesaurus

[PC1978]

I'll give it a try sometime, cheers.

[Lord Kangana]

Come the revolution, there'll be a law against anyone calling them anything but a barm cake.

Be warned, you're being watched.

[Wandering Willy]

Anyway.

"Prannock"

Courtesy of Quiffers.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Anyway.

"Prannock"

Courtesy of Quiffers.

Wasn't he the Tory candidate in the Croydon North by-election?

[Gary the Enfield]

Gobshite

Shitehawk

Mek do and mend.

Agait, as in ''what'n 'e agait?'' or 'What does he think he's doing?''

[Bruce Rioja]

Found myself quite inadvertently using a splendid word that I picked up when I used to work in Stockport.

Someone here was moaning about how cold it is, so I told them to stop being so nesh!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

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

[bobo the clown]

The old 'orwich vernacular for something you were felt certain to do was "tha's bearnt' fert".

As in "you are bound (certain) for to do".

Never fails to perk me up when I hear it from my uncle or cousins.

[bobo the clown]

Oh ... & 'Meat 'n' Potato pies', though that's quite another story.

[thebish]

I like the simple word 'appen...

as in - aye, 'appen it is..

lovely!

[Harry Genshaw]

Clemped as in hungry
Varney - A bastardisation of 'very nearly - As in 'Ooo he varney scored then'

but best of all

Bobbins

[bobo the clown]

"Stump".


Simply the vey best, non-sweary, insult.

[89bwfc89]

Bloody bobbins...Harry, that's my dad's favourite, most heard in the Reebok stadium

Fleein for cold, as in, oooo it's fleein out there!

[Bruce Rioja]

The old 'orwich vernacular for something you were felt certain to do was "tha's bearnt' fert".

That's not confined to Horwich though, Bobo. We all say it.

My mother and her side of the family are all from Wigan and as such I was brought up to understand various Wigan-isms to be everyday parlance. The main one being "Called" replacing "Supposed to be" as in "Thar were called getting here for seven" meaning "You were supposed to be here for seven".

[Bijou Bob]

I've been pondering some of the above recently along with the things my mother used to say when I was a kid.

If we came in covered in mud from playing footie or broke wind she'd come out with "Eeh, you dirty little arab"

Something tells me she wouldn't get away with that these days...........

[Bruce Rioja]

I've been pondering some of the above recently along with the things my mother used to say when I was a kid.

If we came in covered in mud from playing footie or broke wind she'd come out with "Eeh, you dirty little arab"

Something tells me she wouldn't get away with that these days...........

Read also "Ya thieving little Arab" when one had knicked summat trivial.

[Montreal Wanderer]

I've been pondering some of the above recently along with the things my mother used to say when I was a kid.

If we came in covered in mud from playing footie or broke wind she'd come out with "Eeh, you dirty little arab"

Something tells me she wouldn't get away with that these days...........

Well, she might get away with it. I read in the news:

A MIXED-RACE teenager was branded a "dirty little Arab" by a school bus driver, whose company later defended him saying the phrase was an "old Cornish saying".

The man, in his sixties, made the comment in front of other children after Newquay Tretherras pupil Alex Ruffon, 13, allegedly spat on the floor of the bus and picked his nose.

Is she Cornish?

[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

[Montreal Wanderer]

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?

[bedwetter2]

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?

What is wrong with all of you? Don't you want to be understood by anyone who lives more than 3 miles away? It is time that all recalcitrants are made to speak the Queens' English at all times, at the point of a barm cake if necessary. Good god, it is difficult enough having to speak and write Japanese without the addition of ginnels, etc.