Sheffieldish - words & phrases

[lyndyloo]

Hey we'll have none o that eer:hihi:

[grinder]

Skinnybalinks.......A thin person.

[kidley]

Stuck up = some body who thinks they are better than any body els

[grinder]

If you had played a "BLINDER" or had a "STORMER", you'd had a good game.....

Edited May 30, 2013 by grinder

[buck]

When you disapproved of summat, you would slap yourself under the armpit and say it's bang under't arm. If it rained hard it were silin' it down.

[davebrmm]

can any one remember the word cattawang and what it was:hihi:

 

it were catawallin m ent makin a row

 

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shut dee oil up an gi thee arse a chance

 

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da's dunitageun. Why dunt da ge'or?, dah nows nowt! So tek di ook!

 

Could anybody believe that someone who actually spoke like this as a kid, and never passed the eleven-plus, actually got to teach in a grammar school for a year?

 

neya ah dynt toe lyke dat

 

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tintintin = it is not in the tin

 

shintin she,s not in oowa shi wee wa shee we asen

 

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I always thought "nippers" meant young uns, little kids. In Newfoundland, they call mosquitoes nippers, for obvious reasons.

 

weers newfoundland neer barnsley

 

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Joan, mom is a word we don't see very often now, or mam

 

dus da mean di mudda

[trastrick]

 

 

dus da mean di mudda?

 

It should be muvva.

[lyndyloo]

I'm goinna tell mi muvva on thee an shell have thiy.So thad berra watch theesen su there.:P

[buck]

It should be muvva.

Folks in the Bronx have muddas, they also have foddas, sometimes.

[old tup]

What about when you finally get rid of someone who your fed up with who gets on your nerves its "Goodbye and goodshuts!",ever heard that one?.