Michael Booth 7,364 Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 Yes, katyjay, It's a fishermans jersey but I can remember saying 'Have a gansey' meaning 'Have a look' when I was a kid down the Meadows. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted July 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 We had a gander, for a look. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,158 Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 We also had, 'giz a goz' 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 Or a 'butchers'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 I mashed at work in a billycan, they'r usually white ain't seen one for ages. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 I wanted a longweight a chap said he'd get me one, I waited ages but he never came back Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stephsamson 0 Posted August 7, 2014 Report Share Posted August 7, 2014 Ya want to clean ya lugholes aaht! Lugholes is not used for ears where I've lived for the past 44 years but it still pops out sometimes - especially if I've had a few. Another thing I still say is "what's going off ?" when everyone else seems to say "what's going on?" - I must just be back to front, upside down or inside out - or just from Nottingham. And don't get me started on "Ay-up" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted August 7, 2014 Report Share Posted August 7, 2014 This thread seems to be turning into this thread. http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2446 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted August 7, 2014 Report Share Posted August 7, 2014 Goose Gog for gooseberry - Cogin for apple core - Giz a Goz for give us a look as with #53 or Give us a Dekko for the same thing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bazza 123 34 Posted September 8, 2014 Report Share Posted September 8, 2014 There are some strange names that I remember from my childhood in Nottingham,one was for teeth and we called them Teggies,anybody got anymore?. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted September 8, 2014 Report Share Posted September 8, 2014 Gozz = to look, as in 'gizz a gozz'... Bat = to hit, as in ' I'll bat yer tab (ear). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 808 Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 Knock me up so i dont sleep in. Knock me up in Canada means to get someone pregnant. Â Â Â Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 808 Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 Confuse the Americans just say a week from Saturday coming. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted August 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 A word not used any longer just popped in me head, snaps. As in I just got my film developed, here are my snaps. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted August 26, 2020 Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 I remember that from the days when photos were on proper films and had to be developed. Â These days some people take more photos in a day than we used to take in several years. Endless snapping on a large scale. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,416 Posted August 26, 2020 Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 One of dads words was 'shufti' as in lets have a shufti or take a shufti at this... Means take a look at... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted August 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 Mine too Brew. He brought several words back with him from his time in India in WW2, like coggage for newspaper. Decko for look and chota pice for small change. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted August 26, 2020 Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 How about "Blackclocks" for cockroaches. Â Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted August 26, 2020 Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 Me mam used to ask me if I  wanted a 'Chukky Egg' for tea.  I'm assuming a chukky was a chicken.   Always thought Black clocks were big black beetles, Eyeup.  Never thought they were roaches.  Yer learn summat new every day here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted August 26, 2020 Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 I'm with you there, Loppy. In my family the term Blackclocks referred to black beetles. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted August 26, 2020 Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 On a Facebook site this morning I someone was asking if anyone had ever heard  of the expression ‘tripe hound’ I remember my dad saying it but not sure what it meant, only that it was wasn’t a compliment!   Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted August 26, 2020 Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 My relative, Emily Ward, who lived in Garden Street had lots of odd sayings. In particular she would often ask, "What are you a gate?" meaning what are you up to or what are you doing. Â She was born in Castle Donington in 1894 but lived most of her life in Nottinghamshire. Never heard anyone else use that term. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted August 26, 2020 Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 It always puzzled me why a roach was called a blackclock, a couple of years back I decided to use Yahoo, pre the Google days. Lo and behold the answer was there. Seems it was derived from German, during WW1 German POW's were put to work in the coal mines in and around Nottingham among many places. Due to pony's being stabled underground, there were roaches, I don't recall the German for roaches, but to the loacl miners it sounded like "blackclocks" They were a pest when I was growing up in the slums of St Anns, probably due to flour being used for wall paper paste. Council used to send a chappie with a pot of creosote, he'd pull the skirting boards off and spray creosote along the bottoms of the walls. Remember those weren't the American brown variety we find everywhere this side of the pond and in the tropics, they were the large European black roaches, maybe that's why you associate the word with large black bugs. They have to be the most disgusting insect on earth. Â 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted August 26, 2020 Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 Don't know about the most disgusting. Â The brown ones are pretty bad and it doesn't mean the place is dirty. Â Mrs. L says they can nip in from a bag of spuds from the store. Â They are pretty common in Ga. Â I think they like the heat and humidity. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart.C 491 Posted August 26, 2020 Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 According to google translate Cockroaches in German is Kakerlakes so maybe with a German accent it would sound like blackclocks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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