[mrjonathanr]

Another Barnsley one. "Are thi lake'in". To mean "are you coming out to play".

Norse, dialect from Vikings I believe

Norwegian lek = play


edit, just seen johnx's post

[galpinos]

I grew up in Whitehaven, West Cumbria where you would affectionately refer to inhabitants of nearby Workington as "Wukinton jameataz", meaning they could only afford to eat jam sandwiches i.e. were poorer than you. Or, even worse, you would call someone from your village a Wukinton jameata..

Working at Sellafield there was forever someone calling someone else a jam eater and everyone getting upset about it.

[butters]

This phrase isn't geographical but I've always liked 'Elevenerife' when desrcibing someone who's always trying to one up you, you've been to Tenerife - well they've been to......

I know that as a "two shits" as in "I've just had a shit". "Well I've had two!"

[tomtom]

There's a threads worth from Australia...

[Oldmanmatt]

There's a threads worth from Australia...

Couldn't give a Fetid Dingo's kidney, mate!

[Oldmanmatt]

Another Barnsley one. "Are thi lake'in". To mean "are you coming out to play".

Norse, dialect from Vikings I believe

Norwegian lek = play


edit, just seen johnx's post

Does that connect to Loki then?

Wasn't he the Norse god of mischief/bad luck/trouble?

[jwi]

I suspect “lake” comes from Old English via the Proto-germanic “laiką”, and is not borrowed directly from Old Norse. So it is more a coincidence that it is a cognate with the Swedish/Norwegian/Danish words for play.

The name of the Norse God Loki has not been convincingly explained. Lots of people have noted that it is close to “lock” (lúka in Old Norse). I'm far from convinced. Don't think it has to do with “lek” either since there has never been an o>e vowel-shift in Norse afaik.

[mrjonathanr]

I suspect “lake” comes from Old English via the Proto-germanic “laiką”, and is not borrowed directly from Old Norse. So it is more a coincidence that it is a cognate with the Swedish/Norwegian/Danish words for play.

Viking influences are strong linguistically across all the north of England and beyond extending as far west and south as Dublin and Wirral. Thorpe- thwaite- toft- keld- by et al show settlements... there's an intertwining of linguistic inheritances which it would be very difficult to disentangle I imagine.

'Laiking out' could well come from Norse or Old English -maybe both?

[Fultonius]

There's a threads worth from Australia...

Yeah, WTF does "Hands down, balls out" even MEAN?  Have you ever seen an Aussie with his hands down and balls out, I mean....really?

[Oldmanmatt]

There's a threads worth from Australia...

Yeah, WTF does "Hands down, balls out" even MEAN?  Have you ever seen an Aussie with his hands down and balls out, I mean....really?

Ummm...

Yeah.


They're odd like that.

[DaveC]

There's a threads worth from Australia...

Yeah, WTF does "Hands down, balls out" even MEAN?  Have you ever seen an Aussie with his hands down and balls out, I mean....really?

I've lived here most of my life and I've never heard of that one. Think you might have met someone who just makes shit up. I reckon he might have had a kangaroo loose in his top paddock....to coin a phrase.

[Fultonius]

There's a threads worth from Australia...

Yeah, WTF does "Hands down, balls out" even MEAN?  Have you ever seen an Aussie with his hands down and balls out, I mean....really?

I've lived here most of my life and I've never heard of that one. Think you might have met someone who just makes shit up. I reckon he might have had a kangaroo loose in his top paddock....to coin a phrase.

 

I'm pretty sure I heard Russell Crowe say it on some TV show or another, but it may have been Hugh Jackman. I've hard it elsewhere too. Clearly not that common.

[DaveC]

Crowe is actually a kiwi anyway..

[tregiffian]

You're so quick you'll meet yourself coming back.
Bradford 1960ish.

[lagerstarfish]

Crowe is actually a kiwi dickhead anyway..

[JM]

A couple that were common in Grimsby as a youth but I've never heard anywhere else:

"Gone egging" or "Gone egging back o doigs" Usually said to someone being nosy about where you or someone else has gone - "Where you off to?" .... "Egging". "Where's Nanna?" .... "Gone eggin'"

"Barrer job". Always assumed this was an accented version of "barrow job" (as in wheelbarrow) but not sure if I'm honest. Meant a cash in hand job someone would do for you, usually using their employers tools and materials.

A couple of general ones I'm currently fond of:
"Face only a mother could love"
"an't got the brains he were born with"

[Fultonius]

Crowe is actually a kiwi dickhead anyway..

Yeah, I was worried I might invoke some equivalent form of Godwin's law or something by using him as a source.

[SA Chris]

I suspect “lake” comes from Old English via the Proto-germanic “laiką”, and is not borrowed directly from Old Norse. So it is more a coincidence that it is a cognate with the Swedish/Norwegian/Danish words for play.

The name of the Norse God Loki has not been convincingly explained. Lots of people have noted that it is close to “lock” (lúka in Old Norse). I'm far from convinced. Don't think it has to do with “lek” either since there has never been an o>e vowel-shift in Norse afaik.

I always thought it was regional pronunciation of larking? Which may well come from the same place though.

[jwi]

Larking probably comes from skylarking? 'Lake' for 'play' is apparently much older than either.

Speaking of Old English and Old Norse. I've been looking for a English word for cattle from the Old English foeh
( http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/feoh ) for a while. I realise that it has to be dialect since foeh is only used as "fee" in standard English (afaik)

And dialects of English is not my strong point to put it mildly.

[jwi]

I need it to translate a poem from the poetic Edda. (The translations I've read are worse than useless)

[Will Hunt]

To describe an unattractive member of the female sex:

"She looked like a robber's dog"


I've just googled that and seen some other gems.

"I've seen healthier faces on a pirate's flag"

"A face like a bust sofa"

 

[Wood FT]

To describe an unattractive member of the female sex:

"She looked like a robber's dog"


I've just googled that and seen some other gems.

"I've seen healthier faces on a pirate's flag"

"A face like a bust sofa"

 

bulldog chewng a wasp

[SA Chris]

bulldog licking piss off a cactus.

[andy popp]

In Stoke, an ugly person (or thing) is simply "bosted".

[Sloper]

Jn16, i.e. the Stoke turn off.