carni 10,094 Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 If we were bieng cheeky or just too noisy Dad would say Da yere yo shut afe on it, meaning Do you hear you shut half of it, in other words, Be Quite. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted April 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 #764. I always thought I'll go to the foot of our stairs, came down from Yorkshire. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted April 27, 2013 Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 My dad had a great uncle who was a farm manager at Denton near Grantham, and he was completely illiterate. One day he discovered some passer-by had left a gate open, allowing the cows to stray into adjacent fields. He was not amused, so addressing one of his (many) daughters, he said, "Nah then, yo get a bit o' board and write on it 'Shut yah this gate an' sneck it' " "Yes, dad, I will," she replied, "but how do you spell 'sneck'?" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted April 27, 2013 Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 If I did something stupid (that happened a lot) Mam would call me a daft turnip, e.g. "you don't do it like that you daft turnip." If anyone was rushing around she called them a scopodittle, e.g. "she's running round like a scopodittle, I wish she'd calm down." Mam was born in Sheffield & moved to Symomds Yat when she was a teenager, she moved to Nottingham when she was in her 20's, No one I've asked has heard of a scopodittle. Can't see any reference to a scopodittle but there is a reference from Yorkshire for a scopodiddle , meaning a cheeky child . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted April 28, 2013 Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 My dad had a great uncle who was a farm manager at Denton near Grantham, and he was completely illiterate. One day he discovered some passer-by had left a gate open, allowing the cows to stray into adjacent fields. He was not amused, so addressing one of his (many) daughters, he said, "Nah then, yo get a bit o' board and write on it 'Shut yah this gate an' sneck it' " "Yes, dad, I will," she replied, "but how do you spell 'sneck'?" "Sneck" lifter. a drop of nice stuff Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted April 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 We, in Cinderhill, put our sneck down every night before going to bed, my hubby from Carlton Rd area, his family had never heard of the word. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted April 28, 2013 Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 We had a sneck on the back gate in Bulwell. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted April 28, 2013 Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 'netty sneck' it's also the name of a band Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted April 28, 2013 Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 i have never heard that one too please explain kath Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted April 28, 2013 Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 'Sneck' was in regular use in our house New Basford. I always thought it originally refered to one of the old type bar latches on doors and gates. Colin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notty ash 370 Posted April 28, 2013 Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 My gran used to call the local Co-op store the "Kwarp" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted April 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 Our sneck was the little catch you put down on the Yale lock to lock it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Keith Dawes 1 Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 In New Basford In the 1950s we called it a Nich ( Or was it a Snitch? ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 If you don't eat eat it now(dinner) you'll get it for breakfast. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sneintongal 12 Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 for sneck we would say put latch on,then again we really never locked the door because our radiogram was the size of a coffin,the tv weighed a ton of bricks,no one had gadgets----i pad mobile phones or spare cash lying around,therefore never heard of many robberies in our area especially muggings they were unheard of Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 Bit off topic but do recall a break in at a firm on Durnford St. New Basford, about 1961? The thick? baddies broke in this upstairs factory, stole the heavy safe, then either dropped it or deliberatly tipped it A over T down the iron fire escape, You can imagine the noise! (at about 2am), As half the houses in the street's lights came on and people came out of the houses to see what the noise was they did a runner before likes of sgt blaketon and pc alf ventress arrived on their push bikes! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Yer bloddy daft 'apporths! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beachbum 68 Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 I was always told to take my coat off when I went indoors as I would'nt feel the benefit when I went back out Quote Link to post Share on other sites
annswabey 599 Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Beachbum I was told that, too! Remembered another one - if it looked as though it was going to rain, my Mum used to say "It looks as as though it's going to parney" but parney for rain wasn't used in any other way. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darkazana 1,736 Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 "It looks black over Bills mothers" referring to the weather, but I could never understand why it looked black over my grandma's house (As you can guess my Dad was called Bill)! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 That must be about the 20th time someone has mentioned that in this thread !!............................... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
annswabey 599 Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 I assume you mean Bill's mothers rather than parney! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Bills Mams it is ! (Pretty sure there's actually a whole thread dedicated to the saying too..............LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 'Move yer carcass' - aka 'get out of my way'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
annswabey 599 Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Shift yer carcass - still say it to my sons Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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