Following on from the what do you call a slice of hay thread

[Devonshire dumpling]

I was commenting the other day how it was getting Dimpsy!

The guy who is from the Cotswolds, looked at me like I was mad, now I thought it was in the dictionary until I looked it up , it must be a Devon word lol

 

[piebaldsparkle]

OK so what does Dimpsy mean?

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

Dimpsy is when the light is fading at Dusk, so if you were riding you would head for home as it was dimpsy! Still amazes me that people don't use that word everywhere, it's so normal here

 

[3Beasties]

Have never heard that used!

 

[DollyDolls]

Very Devon word...bit like "where's that to?"

 

[piebaldsparkle]

Think I may start using it, just to see the confused faces!

 

[TickyTavey]

Also say that in Somerset where I hail from Means dusk or half- light at end of day

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

Wheres that to, is perfectly good english! Bit like "is it not?"

Fousty hay and ewes are called yows lol

 

[JHC]

I was commenting the other day how it was getting Dimpsy!

The guy who is from the Cotswolds, looked at me like I was mad, now I thought it was in the dictionary until I looked it up , it must be a Devon word lol

Definitely a Devonshire word... I use it all the time!

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

Also say that in Somerset where I hail from Means dusk or half- light at end of day

Quick, let's stick together!!

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

Definitely a Devonshire word... I use it all the time!

But did you realise it was alien to outsiders?

 

[joeanne]

Little lass in school today told me she "fell off her Dilly on Saturday"
I thought Dilly must be her pony, but no, apparently in Cornwall a dilly is a homemade go-kart!

 

[Ellen Durow]

Little lass in school today told me she "fell off her Dilly on Saturday"
I thought Dilly must be her pony, but no, apparently in Cornwall a dilly is a homemade go-kart!

In my part of the North West that was called a "jigger" when I was a child in the 1950s. (It may still be so but I avoid children these days.)

 

[JenHunt]

Now, see, yows and foisty hay are Yorkshire words....don't be gan stealing them.

 

[JenHunt]

Bloody southerners....

 

[YorksG]

Here she would have fallen off her trolly while she was lakin' at the weekend

 

[FionaM12]

Does anyone muck out with a pikel?

 

[YorksG]

Now that would cause confusion, 'cos another name for a crumpet is a Pikelet

 

[Enfys]

What about Pucky? I grew up in east Devon, never heard of dimpsy though! I think there is colloquilism within the colloqualism.

 

[FionaM12]

Now that would cause confusion, 'cos another name for a crumpet is a Pikelet

Don't be silly, how can there be confusion. Crumpets are useless for mucking out.

 

[FionaM12]

What about Pucky? I grew up in east Devon, never heard of dimpsy though! I think there is colloquilism within the colloqualism.

What's Pucky then?

 

[cptrayes]

Are you nesh when it's dimpsy? And if so do you go and mash some tea? I found a whole new language when I moved north!

 

[Charley657]

I've never heard of dimpsy, its definitely not a word we use in Scotland. We say foosty hay up here though.

 

[YorksG]

Don't be silly, how can there be confusion. Crumpets are useless for mucking out.

This is true However I would be a bit miffed if you asked for my pikelet and then discovered that you wanted to muck out with it

 

[MissCandy]

Now, see, yows and foisty hay are Yorkshire words....don't be gan stealing them.

I'm a Yorkshire lass and never heard of yows or foisty hay!

Never heard dimpsy either.

And the predictive text on this iPad is making me mardy as its taken me yonks to write this little post and I'm still not sure it's right!

 

[YorksG]

Ah if you are nesh, then you need to put your vest on

 

[FionaM12]

I asked for directions in as I walked down a street in Lancaster and was told to "Go down the ginnell, and along the road as far as the monkeyrack."

 

[YorksG]

Grandmother, who was from Doncaster, used to call the back lane between roads, a tenfoot, I believe in parts of Lancashire they are called eightfoots

 

[Enfys]

What's Pucky then?

That is just a bunch of horse pucky.

Yows = sheep? That's what I was told, but then I suspect I was being fed a line about that

 

[Floxie]

Ah if you are nesh, then you need to put your vest on

My boss regularly calls me 'nesh' while I sit there shivering (under an open window in the middle of winter, may I add), and every time we have to have a big convo about what it means (I have an AWFUL memory!). He says it means 'rubbish and feeble', but from what you said I'm guessing perhaps it just means cold?!