Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by CaptJohn » Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:30 pm

Volvoclaret wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:27 pm
It's poking the fire Ian.
Correct.
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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by 2 Bee Holed » Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:39 pm

Volvoclaret wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:27 pm
It's poking the fire Ian.
Correct, and it makes far more sense when you consider what the saying actually/usually means. :)
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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Bop » Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:54 pm

Vintage Claret wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:36 am
Turtarutter - otherwise known as a TV remote control
Turnarupper?
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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Bosscat » Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:59 pm

Bop wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:54 pm
Turnarupper?
Or Turn'erover but thats s completely different mindset 😉

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by RMutt » Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:06 pm

Dressinggown wrote:
Fri Nov 18, 2022 10:49 pm
'Followed the muck cart thinking it was a wedding'
(No idea what it meant).

'Giving it the Bacup look '
(Touching something that you are not supposed to)
Having a Bacup look. I always assumed this was only a Rossendale saying. Is this used further a field?

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by bobinho » Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:07 pm

2 Bee Holed wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:06 pm
What is it about Yorkshire men? They're the most narcissistic county, surely.
:lol:
Tha can allus tell a yorksheerman, but tha carned tell im much.

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Stayingup » Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:14 pm

Na then mi owd key

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Stayingup » Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:16 pm

RMutt wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:06 pm
Having a Bacup look. I always assumed this was only a Rossendale saying. Is this used further a field?
Na then waht about the Bacup kiss?

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by bobinho » Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:17 pm

Stayingup wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:16 pm
Na then waht about the Bacup kiss?
Like a Glasgow kiss but with more saliva….
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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Bosscat » Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:19 pm

bobinho wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:07 pm
Tha can allus tell a yorksheerman, but tha carned tell im much.
Tha's reet there Bob in hoo lad ah tell thee tha carn't us much what we doe'snit alreedy know

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by elwaclaret » Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:40 pm

Reet Gradely
He aimed fort wind but it wether
Yur overeggin’ puddin’
Nowt but wind and wather
Bob on
Our… mate or family member

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Bosscat » Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:46 pm

elwaclaret wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:40 pm
Reet Gradely
He aimed fort wind but it wether
Yur overeggin’ puddin’
Nowt but wind and wather
Bob on
Our… mate or family member
Thats also very South Yarkshire ... Barnsley Rotherham area too

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by 2 Bee Holed » Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:54 pm

Yorkshire, if that's so bl**dy perfect, wha's tha no east?
Or, carn't tha cownt t' fower?

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by wrj20 » Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:30 pm

My dad always used to say “you can’t have your cake and your ha’penny”

Obviously eating your cake wasn’t an option - you either had the cake or kept the money for it. That’s a very Burnley sentiment I think

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by dougcollins » Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:34 pm

It was actually the 'South' Riding that was absent - there was an East, West, and North.

I recall a fictional tv drama 'South Riding', but I can't remember anything about it.

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Volvoclaret » Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:36 pm

Local lasses were advised to "keep yer hands on yer 'apenny'
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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by CnBtruntru » Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:51 pm

It be reight

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by CnBtruntru » Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:52 pm

Volvoclaret wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:36 pm
Local lasses were advised to "keep yer hands on yer 'apenny'
Or Tuppence :lol:

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Bosscat » Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:57 pm

CnBtruntru wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:52 pm
Or Tuppence :lol:
Depends ow big t'lass was 😉

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by bpgburn » Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:10 pm

Keep ya neb out & keep ya sneck out

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Bosscat » Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:13 pm

Not being funny but a helluva lot of these are basically Northern sayings ... not just Lancashire 😉

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Duffer_ » Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:36 pm

Bosscat wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:13 pm
Not being funny but a helluva lot of these are basically Northern sayings ... not just Lancashire 😉
Ecky thump! Just shows our success in colonising your dialect, rent free. :D
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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Bosscat » Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:43 pm

Duffer_ wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:36 pm
Ecky thump! Just shows our success in colonising your dialect, rent free. :D
And Vice Versa old bean Don'tcha know

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Volvoclaret » Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:48 pm

True Duffer. We sent out Burnley disciples to all corners of the Northern England to teach them how to talk proper. Even unto darkest Long Preston where it needed disciples with an understanding of special needs.😉
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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by A15TG » Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:49 pm

Don’t be so Mard.
When are you flitting.

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by expoultryboy » Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:50 pm

Tha coudnt knock the skin off rice puddin . When I was misbehaving , my father became a time traveller - " I'll knock you into the middle of next week " !!
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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Bosscat » Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:52 pm

Volvoclaret wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:48 pm
True Duffer. We sent out Burnley disciples to all corners of the Northern England to teach them how to talk proper. Even unto darkest Long Preston where it needed disciples with an understanding of special needs.😉
Talking of special needs I know now why I understand you then Volvo 😁
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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Mondsley » Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:56 pm

When we turned up for a game my Dad would say "who's laykin today"? In other words who is playing
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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Volvoclaret » Sat Nov 19, 2022 10:15 pm

Bosscat wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:52 pm
Talking of special needs I know now why I understand you then Volvo 😁
We taught you well young Bosscat. May the Turf force be with you
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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by middleton claret » Sat Nov 19, 2022 10:17 pm

Suppin bout !!
Finished my drink & it's your round.

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by alf_resco » Sat Nov 19, 2022 10:18 pm

dougcollins wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:34 pm
It was actually the 'South' Riding that was absent - there was an East, West, and North.

I recall a fictional tv drama 'South Riding', but I can't remember anything about it.
There would never be a south riding. "Riding" is derived from Saxon for "third" ie "thriding."
Hence only three divisions.
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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by It Is What It Is » Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:30 pm

Eeeeh by gum lad !

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by IanMcL » Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:34 pm

Volvoclaret wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:27 pm
It's poking the fire Ian.
Agreed! Not sure why I put stoking.

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Stayingup » Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:37 pm

As geet a yeyd wark. Work that one out

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by IanMcL » Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:38 pm

IanMcL wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 5:54 pm
Surely....

Nowt as Queen as folk
Queer didn't appear as written!!!

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by elwaclaret » Sun Nov 20, 2022 12:45 am

Bosscat wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:46 pm
Thats also very South Yarkshire ... Barnsley Rotherham area too
Yes Yorkshire copied it when we annexed it after the War of the Roses :lol:
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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Dressinggown » Sun Nov 20, 2022 1:53 am

Something about not wearing your coat inside as you won't feel the benefit when you go out.

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Brucefanclaret » Sun Nov 20, 2022 5:51 am

dougcollins wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:34 pm
It was actually the 'South' Riding that was absent - there was an East, West, and North.

I recall a fictional tv drama 'South Riding', but I can't remember anything about it.
Book by Winifred Holtby, made into a TV series.

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Brucefanclaret » Sun Nov 20, 2022 5:56 am

RMutt wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:06 pm
Having a Bacup look. I always assumed this was only a Rossendale saying. Is this used further a field?
From Tod. Picking things up to look at them - my Dad would say “you from Bacup? They look with’ their fingers in Bacup”

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by BFCmaj » Sun Nov 20, 2022 7:41 am

My Nan always used to call "things" "doings". And if we weren't doing something very well, she'd say "you're shaping wooden".
My grandad would say "I'll Molly you" meaning "I'll thump you" (although it was always in a playful way. He was lovely and never laid a finger on us).

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by AGENT_CLARET » Sun Nov 20, 2022 8:14 am

pongers - feet
trollied - drunk
kecks -trousers
soz - sorry
gizza sken - can I take a look
peggit - run for your life
owt - anything
nowt - nothing
chuck it - throw it
bomb it - run away
ta ra - good bye

me mam - my mum
ducking - skiving
corporation pop - water
chucking it down - raining
Neckin - Kissing
Skanky - dirty/unclean
Wazzock - A nuisance
cewd - cold
ewd - hold
By eck - Oh Heck

Si'thi - Do you see/understand
Frettin - Worrying
Feetin - Fighting
Bunking off - Playing truant.
Crumblie - Old person.
Belm - A lie
Crusties - Underpants.
I afot do - I have to do it!'
Tickle Tackle - Gossip
Gob - mouth
Gobbing - spitting
Off your Head - Stupid or drunk
Piffie on a rock bun - exposed, embarassed.
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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Brunlea » Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:00 am

Mentioned this a while back but when clearing up at home with Mrs B told her she “had more shoes than soft mick” which is something my mum used to say to me donkeys years ago

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by bpgburn » Sun Nov 20, 2022 10:28 am

I Shamed - I was embarrassed

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by chorleyhere » Mon Nov 21, 2022 6:34 pm

"If he fell off the Co-op he'd land in the divvy!"

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Post by No Ney Never » Mon Nov 21, 2022 8:26 pm

I was up and down like a brides nightie.

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Dressinggown » Mon Nov 21, 2022 8:43 pm

" If I dived into a bucketful of t*ts I would come out sucking my thumb"

(I tend to be rather unlucky)

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Post by dvalley69 » Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:11 pm

rincon wrote:
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sidda, rovers geet licked agen
made me smile and brought back good memories of mi' granddad, always used to say a team 'got licked again'. God rest his soul.

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Post by PenfoldClaret » Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:13 pm

In Dickie’s Meadow

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Stalbansclaret » Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:17 pm

Many expressions I recognise from my parents and grandparents on this thread.
I'll contribute that whenever my mum was tired out she would tend to say "I'm jiggered" .

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Re: Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Post by Volvoclaret » Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:19 pm

Skivin, school or work.

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