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

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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
 
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
 
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!
 
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.)
 
What about Pucky? I grew up in east Devon, never heard of dimpsy though! I think there is colloquilism within the colloqualism.
 
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!
 
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!
 
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." :confused::eek:
 
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 :)
 
Ah if you are nesh, then you need to put your vest on :p

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?!
 
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