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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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17/11/2004
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Opening text too long so I've moved it to the first response.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk
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marilyn
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Posted - 25/09/2010 : 07:51
You must be worn out after that search, Gearce!
get your people to phone my people and we will do lunch...MAZ  |
gearce
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Posted - 25/09/2010 : 10:20
Aye! Just a little bit all of the below
The Online Scots DictionaryTranslate from English to Scots!
Scots is the Germanic language,related to English, spoken in Lowland Scotland and Ulster, not the Celtic language Gaelic! | | Words with the same and similar meaning are returned! | | Found the following 'translations' for worn out: | | ", exowstit, forfochten, puggelt, wabbit" | exowst [ɛg'zʌust]
v. To exhaust.
pt. pp. exowstit
exowstin adj. Exhausting. |
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| forfecht [fər'fɛçt, MN. fər'fe:çt, S. fər'faeçt]
v. To exhaust, wear oneself out, be overcome.
pt. pp. forfochten [fər'fox(t)ən, fər'fɔx(t)ən, fər'fɑ:x(t)ən, S. fər'fjux(ʍ)ən] adj. Exhausted with fighting, worn-out.
From for- + fecht and pp. fochten. |
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| puggle [pʌgl]
v. To baffle, nonplus, defeat, do for.
pt. pp. puggelt adj. At a standstill from exhaustion or frustration, done for, at the end of one's resources. |
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| wabbit ['wabɪt]
adj. Exhausted, tired out, played out, feeble, without energy. |
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LANG MEY YER LUM REEK
There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all  |
Tizer
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Posted - 25/09/2010 : 11:12
Have we had `argy bargy'?
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catgate
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Posted - 25/09/2010 : 15:11
quote:
Tizer wrote:
Have we had `argy bargy'?
Yes, He was a recalcitrant South American operator of a boat on the Leeds-Liverpool canal in the Victorian period.
Every silver lining has a cloud.
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marilyn
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Posted - 26/09/2010 : 03:06
No 'argy bargy'. Just a storm in a D cup.
My Essex born hubby has a quaint expression...
"All mouth and trousers"
(though the placing of it in this post is not in reference to anyone on this site or topic! So dont imagine I am talking about anyone in particular...)
get your people to phone my people and we will do lunch...MAZ |
Stanley
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Posted - 26/09/2010 : 06:40
Maz, I've heard that one as "All mouth and no trousers". Usually used by women in certain situations.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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marilyn
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Posted - 28/09/2010 : 07:18
I always take it to mean 'someone full of their own importance'....at least that is the context that Febby uses it in.
Oh Dear...I'm trying to grasp the meaning of the NO trousers.
Funny thing is that each time he uses the expression, I visualise an enormous pair of trousers with a mouth on top.
get your people to phone my people and we will do lunch...MAZ |
Stanley
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Posted - 28/09/2010 : 16:47
I think the gist was all talk and no action Maz.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Tizer
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Posted - 28/09/2010 : 16:54
Over lunch today Mrs Tiz mentioned her Scottish grandparents and how she knew them as as `Nanna' and `Pop', while her English grandparents were Grandma and Granddad. I wonder what other names people have used to distinguish grandparents?
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Posted - 28/09/2010 : 20:18
Grandaughter number 1, Ruby who is nearly two refers to her uncle Jack as "Jack", to her grandma my wife Sally as "sayyi" and to me as "GanMa". A bit of work to do there yet!
Isla who is grandaughter number 2 refers to everyone at the moment as "wa, wa, wa, wa, wa, wa ........", mind you she is just about to have her first birthday so she is excused for the time being!
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Stanley
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Posted - 29/09/2010 : 06:19
I used to call me mother 'mammy' funny thing is I can't remember calling my dad anything!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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marilyn
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Posted - 29/09/2010 : 06:32
My husband's grankids call me 'Mowlin'....which they elongate in the middle, so it becomes Mowwwwwwlin. Very cute.
get your people to phone my people and we will do lunch...MAZ |
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Posted - 29/09/2010 : 10:04
I went to a wedding in St Helens years ago and my mate's family (a St Helens folk) referred to the grandma as 'mother'.
I've come across 'pop' before for a Scottish grandad.
In Sheffield, grandmas are often called 'nanan'.
One of my great grandparents was my 'nan', her daughter my grandma.
Richard Broughton
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Tizer
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Posted - 29/09/2010 : 12:43
I should have mentioned that Mrs Tiz's English grandmother lived later in New Zealand and was known to her relatives in Canada as `Kiwi Nanna'.
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Bodger
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Posted - 29/09/2010 : 19:58
Another local dialect dictionary, Leeds,some that i recall, SWARM up a rope, SWILL t'flags,
http://books.google.ie/books?id=Uo4SAAAAIAAJ&dq=mill%20chimney&pg=PA231#v=onepage&q=mill%20chimney&f=true
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Dialect and other regional matters.
