Michael Booth 7,364 Posted September 1, 2014 Report Share Posted September 1, 2014 Keep the Nottingham flag flying in Thailand, Bing. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveN 1,118 Posted September 1, 2014 Report Share Posted September 1, 2014 I've got a book called "Ey Up Mi Duck" (dialects of Derbyshire and the East Midlands) that includes a lot of the words and phrase that people in Notts use. http://www.countrysidebooks.co.uk/book-catalogue-book-details.php?book=511 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,268 Posted October 23, 2014 Report Share Posted October 23, 2014 Order given by older boy about to do mischief... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 Not heard that for years! Keep a lookout Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 Never heard that one. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,268 Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 Keeping conk was a regular term in Radford/Hyson Green for keeping a look out. Usually it was keeping conk for park keepers, coppers on the beat, teachers, spirit tapping or for another street nicking your bonfire rubbish. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 A directive well known in Comyn Street and surrounds, and if memory serves me correctly, which it don't allus nowadays, was also heard in the pastoral gentility of Ruddington in the mid 50's! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 'Keeping conk' was a saying we'd use as kids in the Meadows. Like mick2me wrote, it was keeping a lookout when we were up to something we shouldn't have been. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 Scrumpin' 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 Fetching back the ball from that funny woman`s yard. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 Someone used to keep conk for the teacher at Trent Bridge Seniors. Unfortunately Mr Marciniak snuck in by a different corridor so evading the lookout & caught me in the act of drawing a male appendage on the blackboard, of course I suffered pain for it.. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,674 Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 "And I kept conk" crops up in quite a few court cases in the Evening Post , earliest I could see was 1919 and then are there mentions up to 1949 . 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Just got up in the middle of the night, and 'poddled' to the bathroom. Don't know what brought that old word back into my memory. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Did it come to you as you 'Wendled' back to bed 'Katyjay' ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Maybe I wendled my way in, and poddled my way out. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 katyjay, are you sure you meant 'poddled' or did you mean 'piddled' 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Volly 6 Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 I can always remember playing marbeles on the cobeled streets of Hyson Green as a youngster in the late 50s, a shout of "no notes" would go up, meaning no rules! Or me Dad would tell me to "ge or a bit now then", meaning to stop moaning, or whinging. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 Welcome to Nottstalgia, Volly. I look forward to reading your posts and sharing your memories. If you ask someone if they'd been to the Forest game: 'Didjagadahn' 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Volly 6 Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 Welcome to Nottstalgia, Volly. I look forward to reading your posts and sharing your memories. If you ask someone if they'd been to the Forest game: 'Didjagadahn' Thank you for the welcome. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 We had some new neighbours and I asked my dad what they were like.. rayt frahstyboggers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stevie12 4 Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 ar ya comin weus or ama goin by me sen. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 Poddling! now that is a word I use often and no one knows what I am on about. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tony1 118 Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 oo worrie wee? Worrie wee is sen? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tony1 118 Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 Azzy gorrer wee im ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 My Mrs is Russian and speaks perfectly good English, but does have problems with dialect. I have problems with Russian dialect. For some years, whenever there was something to do, which needed doing, but she was unwilling to do, and I had a tad of frustration, I would often say "I'll goomesen" For years she thought I was swearing at her. She actually used that term, pronounced perfectly, and challengingly but totally out of context, in a pub in London. She thought she was saying something like "Stuff you" (or worse) , but after some discussion ( and some hilarity on my part) that I explained. Her reply now is "gerrtityersen then" in a totally authentic Nottingham accent. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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