Slang words/phrases

Keith_Beef

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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".

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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" ??
 

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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
 

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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.
 

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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".
 

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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
 

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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!)
 
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