SHsheff Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 I'm thinking of phrases such as 'keeping your nose to the grindstone', 'whetting the appetite', 'being on tenterhooks' and such like. I haven't thought for too long and I am sure there are loads more, but can anyone help me out here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubydazzler Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 Stop teeming and ladling with that milk, you'll have it all over the floor. I'll have to give the worktop a good fettling before you put any food on it. Who left all the rammel in this corner? Just off the top of me 'ead, like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHsheff Posted May 11, 2012 Author Share Posted May 11, 2012 Ahah - 'no use crying over spilt milk'. The others weren't known to me; I'll go look up fettling and rammel. Thank you! PS, isn't 'fettling' something courting couples used to do?! Edit: fettle Look up fettle at Dictionary.com "condition, state, trim," c.1750, Lancashire dialect, from fettle (v.) "to make ready, arrange" (14c.), perhaps from O.E. fetel "a girdle, belt," from P.Gmc. *fatiloz (cf. Ger. fessel "fetter, chain," O.N. fetill "strap, brace"), from *fat- "to hold." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubydazzler Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 Ahah - 'no use crying over spilt milk'. The others weren't known to me; I'll go look up fettling and rammel. Thank you! PS, isn't 'fettling' something courting couples used to do?! teeming and ladling is what they used to do with the molten steel. Pouring it between containers to cool it down. fettling is cleaning up cast metal, taking all the swarf off. rammel is all the waste from a process. No, lol, you may be thinking of furtling ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHsheff Posted May 11, 2012 Author Share Posted May 11, 2012 teeming and ladling is what they used to do with the molten steel. Pouring it between containers to cool it down. fettling is cleaning up cast metal, taking all the swarf off. rammel is all the waste from a process. No, lol, you may be thinking of furtling ... Ahah, I KNEW I'd missed out on something in my youth! And, what's more, not a word that is seemingly known to Google's etymology sites. But you're quite right, it's a Sheffield term. I remember being asked to 'bring something for a furtle' at one place I worked at - turns out they meant food for a bit of an office party! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubydazzler Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 Ahah, I KNEW I'd missed out on something in my youth! And, what's more, not a word that is seemingly known to Google's etymology sites. But you're quite right, it's a Sheffield term. I remember being asked to 'bring something for a furtle' at one place I worked at - turns out they meant food for a bit of an office party! I've never heard that one ... we used to say 'a bit of a fuddle' .. maybe they had the wrong word as well! hehe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carosio Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 We must cut our coat according to our cloth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hard2miss Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 Going like the clappers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ sheffield Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 teeming and ladling is what they used to do with the molten steel. Pouring it between containers to cool it down. fettling is cleaning up cast metal, taking all the swarf off. rammel is all the waste from a process. No, lol, you may be thinking of furtling ... Or felching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubydazzler Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 Or felching.what's that AJ? *blinx* *whatever it is, she just wants to make him post it* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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