rob237 89 Posted January 1, 2006 Report Share Posted January 1, 2006 A BBC2 series on words is launched tomorrow evening, entitled Balderdash and Piffle http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/progr...00_4224_8470_50 My late mother’s Nottinghamese produced regular use of the world ‘piffle’, often used in conjunction with ‘rammel’ and ‘twaddle’. Her word for a fried meal was ‘frizzle’, my use of which at school once caused me to be dragged to the front of the class for the ritual humiliation. She also used a collection of her own particular local phrases, which both my children revel in repeating to this day. Some examples were: “I’d want two of them for that price!” “Not for the likes of us” “Yer look like the Devil!” “I’ll clip yer earhole, in two minutes” “Stop slopping and slormin’” “That what yer can’t eat”….. covering any reference to sexual matters. I’ll get my kids to remind me of some others. Cheers Robt P. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tutanic 8 Posted January 1, 2006 Report Share Posted January 1, 2006 Remember the sayings very well, add to it 'Cheap at half the price', and you have the total sum of conversation for a good part of Nottingham. The word 'frazzle' conjurs up cheese on a plate cooked in the oven at the side of the fire, also the bacon edges and the black smoke emitting from the pan when it was being cooked. I like the edges of a fried egg when they have been 'frizzled'. they have a taste that can never be copied. Do you remember when chicken was a luxury? we had a beef joint for Sunday lunch and my dad always got the first slice off the joint, it was always a bone of contention with me. My dad kept chickens during and after the war, we killed one for Sunday lunch. It was plucked, stuffed and roasted and it then went straight in the bin as nobody could eat it, we had the oldest chickens on the estate as they all died of old age, some war effort... A Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted January 1, 2006 Report Share Posted January 1, 2006 Anyone pronouncing their "aitches" were also ridicluled as being stuck up! I recall when at school I called the teacher "Mester" and had the pee taken out of me! We always had a roast on the table every Sunday, chicken was our Xmas dinner! Once a year and that was it. Dad always told me "Never tell yer Mam yer likes anything"! WHY??? You'll get it seven days a week! too bloody true! Wonder if he told her he liked sex Quote Link to post Share on other sites
angi 3 Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 I heard a word the other day I'd not heard for ages that is pure Nottingham. Mardy! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 GLOSSARY: M Yorkshire term Definition mardy- moody, sulky, stroppy mester mister From The Beeb Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 GLOSSARY: M Yorkshire term Definition mardy- moody, sulky, stroppy mester mister From The Beeb Them Yorkies 'ul nick owt, even the way we speak Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pemberton 15 Posted January 14, 2006 Report Share Posted January 14, 2006 They were the days - we only had chicken at Christmas, how things have changed - My mam also did 'bubble and squeak' on mondays for tea - it was the left overs from sunday lunch fried up in the pan - lovely. I remember when folk had a big pot annd into it went all the left overs and it was constantlky on the stove cooking a 'stew' ugh- But we weren't scared of eating owt then and never picked up all these modern ailments folk seem to get now - it's because they are cosseted so much - no immunity! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mr rob t 11 Posted April 22, 2006 Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 we used to have a capon at xmas cause it was bigger and everything had salt on it. anyone remember getting sent to the chippie with a pudding basin to get filled with chips and peas on top. i did`nt mind going cause i always asked for some fishbits Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted April 22, 2006 Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 we used to have a capon at xmas cause it was bigger and everything had salt on it. anyone remember getting sent to the chippie with a pudding basin to get filled with chips and peas on top. i did`nt mind going cause i always asked for some fishbits "Me Mam 'ud do that Rob" Jeeze thats 'reet" we alus 'ad chicken at Xmas too, it were a luxury in the 50's early 60's. Me Dad was a lorry driver and when I were off school on hols, he'd tek us wi 'im! There was this 'ere place in Brum that served chicken dinners most day 'o week, and if 'e were on the Brummie run, 'ed tek us in there at snap time and gerrus a chicken dinner! Now imagine that lot in the old Nottm dialect that we all spoke, every word is true though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mr rob t 11 Posted April 22, 2006 Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 the thing is, i still prefer a chicken for my xmas dinner to this day. something else about nottm talk is that when you were a kid it was always " tek over that car dad " never " over take that car " as it should have been. i still tell the kids now that men are called mesters never master. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 the thing is, i still prefer a chicken for my xmas dinner to this day. something else about nottm talk is that when you were a kid it was always " tek over that car dad " never " over take that car " as it should have been. i still tell the kids now that men are called mesters never master. I left Nottm around 1975 Rob, I went to work in what was then Cleveland, a part of what Ted Heaths lot created from North Yorks, I understand it's back as North Yorks. I went to work at the brand new Boulby Mine near Staithes. One of the other electricians was from a south Yorks city, can't recall which one now, but he always said mester! So it wasn't peculiar to us Nottm folks, t'old lad. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,871 Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 In the sixties if you went in a chip shop a quarter of chicken was twice the price of a fish or a meat pie. Does anyone remember the phrase 'Yitnee' Some one who was scared or cowardly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Yes I remember that one? In Southampton Where we would call someone 'youth' they would say 'MUSH' Anyone heard that before? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 Why did we only have chicken at Christmas? Was it really more expensive than the beef, lamb (O.K., mutton), and pork that we had the rest of the year? I bet it wasn't until 1968 or '69 that we had turkey for Christmas - I wasn't impressed - except for the size it was just like chiken! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 Yeah I remember Mush & Yitney being used when I was a kid. Wasn't mush also used to describe your face too? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 Mush was face in some areas yes, but the South coast it meant mate or mucker or youth? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 I remember mush as mouth As in shut yer mush or ow abaht shut yer gob Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 In our household, your face was your clock. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Over here if someone is chatty, they talk a lot. In my Nottingham days, if you were chatty, you were dirty, like ground-in dirt. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Over here if someone is chatty, they talk a lot. In my Nottingham days, if you were chatty, you were dirty, like ground-in dirt. We used to call being dirty, ditched and if something was having a "bodge job "ie not being done correctly or only partly it was called "a lick and a promise" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Hi Beefsteak, we used those words too. You forget them until someone reminds you. Kath Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Mum used to say come here & I'll give you a lick & a promise , as in a quick wash with a flannel until she could do a proper job Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted May 4, 2007 Report Share Posted May 4, 2007 Did any one mention "it's a bit black owwer bill's movvers" meaning it looks like rain is on it's way? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted May 5, 2007 Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 I still say something like that now BF,when the black clouds roll over the mountains,I say oo it's black over bills backyard,obviously been in Oz too long I can't even remember the old sayings of my childhood Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted May 5, 2007 Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 just remembered (or rather been reminded) of a couple of others a gap between two houses was a twitchel and a chod bin (at work) was were all the cr*p went Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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