broxtowelad 175 Posted February 6, 2016 Report Share Posted February 6, 2016 "Yerv got eyes bigger than yer belly" ---- "Saucy" ----- or "Sore 'ole?" These were phrases used if you left anything on your plate. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted February 6, 2016 Report Share Posted February 6, 2016 Small change was always referred to as 'fiddlers money'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,599 Posted February 6, 2016 Report Share Posted February 6, 2016 Hold your horses! = you needed to stop doing something Home James, and don't spare the horses! = time for a quick getaway Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,090 Posted February 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2016 Re #1970, our name for a wasp was a wobby. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted February 6, 2016 Report Share Posted February 6, 2016 When I got stung by a wasp once, wobby wasn't what I called it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
daij1944 0 Posted February 6, 2016 Report Share Posted February 6, 2016 "thought followed a muck cart, he thought it was a wedding" said my mother who was from warrington. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted February 11, 2016 Report Share Posted February 11, 2016 Having a bit of banter with Hubbs tonight and I got the winning line in. YES! With out even thinking I followed it up with " So you can put that in your pipe and smoke it". Ahh; Mi mammy used to say that when she got the finishing line in! She could run quite fast so we never tried to answer that one. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beduth 202 Posted March 1, 2016 Report Share Posted March 1, 2016 Question : Where are you going Dad? Answer : Back of Knocker Street where they put clogs on ducks ! Second question ; What the ............... was all that about ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 13, 2016 Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 "Don't stand there looking all sucky!" Sucky seems to mean looking a little vacant - or is there another interpretation? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beduth 202 Posted March 13, 2016 Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 Yes Compo; You look like that when your gorping at somebody! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted March 13, 2016 Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 Damn My Fire...... That was another of dads favourites. Never did understand that one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted March 13, 2016 Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 It sticks out like a yard of pump watter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
broxtowelad 175 Posted March 13, 2016 Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 #1984 Hiya Compo I think a person could be described in Nottinghamese as: being,sounding, looking or acting "sucky" or "gormy". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
annswabey 599 Posted March 13, 2016 Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 Sucky to me means overly sentimental - such as a song or a film 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted March 13, 2016 Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 Haven`t heard anybody use it for years but I always understood 'sucky' to mean gormless in Nottinghamese. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
annswabey 599 Posted March 13, 2016 Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 Cakey meant gormless for me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,599 Posted March 13, 2016 Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 Chulla, my mum referred to really straight hair as like 'a yard of pump water' 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 13, 2016 Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 "Oi!!, long ears..move away! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,681 Posted March 13, 2016 Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 Today I came out with the sentence : "He was tazzin down the road" Haven't used that word for "donkeys" years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,427 Posted March 14, 2016 Report Share Posted March 14, 2016 "Oi!!, long ears..move away! I will not!!! Anyroad up yer supposed to say gerroutonnit!!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,090 Posted March 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 I think we said tazzin down when it rained heavy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Us kids wuz tazzin on our bikes escaping the rozzers ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 Just pondering the word, 'ditch' in the word association thingy and it popped into my head a word Mam would use for something really dirty. She`d say it was 'ditched'. Haven`t thought of that for years. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
broxtowelad 175 Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 Also there was "Ditch it" ! That meant throw it away. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
broxtowelad 175 Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 #1991 annswabey. I've never heard that one before. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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