Slang words/phrases

[CouldItBe]

I’ve always called ears Lugs or Lug’oles I’m from London so no idea where I picked it up ?

 

[Keith_Beef]

I’ve always called ears Lugs or Lug’oles I’m from London so no idea where I picked it up ?

Lugs are things that stick out from other things, like the bits that stick out from a watch case to hold the spring bar that holds the strap, so I'd expect it to be a nationwide thing to call ears "lugs".

 

[doodle]

Not slang I don’t think but I love the word driech.

 

[Baywonder]

When I was a child, if I was standing in front of the TV, my dear old mum used to say "Shift yer noggin!"

 

[Sandstone1]

Were you born in a barn, If leaving a door open.

 

[SatansLittleHelper]

Wasps - jaspers, or stripey f***ers.
Hedgehogs - Tiggyhogs.
Tap water - council pop.
Rubber necking -being nosey.

My Mum always said "Ifits" for tea, as in ifits in the cupboard lol.
If we asked where anything was it was always "up my a##e on the second shelf" ??

 

[Shilasdair]

Not slang I don’t think but I love the word driech.

What does your 'driech' mean? There's a Scots word 'dreich' for somewhat uninspiring weather.

 

[doodle]

What does your 'driech' mean? There's a Scots word 'dreich' for somewhat uninspiring weather.

That’s what I was meaning. It just sums it up so perfectly

 

[Shilasdair]

That’s what I was meaning. It just sums it up so perfectly

I quite like 'haar' too - not sure where it's used, though.

 

[SashaBabe]

Kipper hips - referring to someone with a small bum (not me, unfortunately!)

 

[View]

I quite like 'haar' too - not sure where it's used, though.

Was in common use in Glasgow and Lanarkshire when I was a youngster.

 

[doodle]

Common here too in Perth

 

[rabatsa]

Haar is common all down the East coast.

 

[[59668]]

Grew up in Plymouth so lots of local slang!
Jaspers = wasps
Me loverrrrrrr = a term of endearment
Swilly = a run down area
Mufti = non uniform
Tuck = elevenses
Janner = someone from Plymouth
Lugholes =ears
Ifits = if its there you can have it for tea

 

[Keith_Beef]

Were you born in a barn, If leaving a door open.

I used to get that too.

Or if I stood in front of the TV, it would be "you make a better door than a window"

 

[Muddywellies]

Mum had some really weird ones :

When she didn't know what we were having for tea, "Catch as catch can"
Thirsty "Spitting feathers"
General despair "Blood and sand"
When you asked her age "Same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth"
If she saw something odd "Things you see when you haven't got your gun"

She had loads more. They all made absolutely no sense but they were just her, and it makes me smile thinking of it.

 

[ElleSkywalkingintheair]

Yes it was a shocking murder. Poor, poor girl.

And even worse that her name is now use to describe/associated with something that's insignificant or unimportant

 

[Keith_Beef]

Mum had some really weird ones :
Thirsty "Spitting feathers"
When you asked her age "Same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth"

My grandmother used these, and I use them now (and in French, sometimes).

Another that she used for feeling famished was "me belly thinks that me throat's been cut".

 

[ponynutz]

I'm from Lancashire myself where we say a lot of things like 'beltin', 'scran' 'put the big light on' and 'mingin'. But my mum's from Essex and she says things like 'put your slap on' and my fave 'awaaa' for shock. My dad is from NI so I get a lot of 'ach aye', and 'sweet fanny adams' and the classic fave 'mrrr' mirror

 

[Tarragon]

The plant cleavers are Sticky Willy/Willies

I think we are talking about the same plant, but we call it goose grass!

 

[Tarragon]

My husband's mother, from the North East, would call the action a cat does when it kneads with its paws, "ploating". I was convinced she had made it up.
(That was a tricky paragraph to write for someone who has problems with where to put apostrophes!)