grinder Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 My gran used to say: Yer know what thought did, follered a dust cart and thought it worrer weddin' Bit posh that in it ? When I heard it it were a muck cart... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grinder Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 (edited) Being obstroculess was some thing I remember being accused of as a kid ,anybody know what it means ? Oh and creating Pandemonium. They weren't short of big words back then were they, but by, they did shut you up.. Edited July 17, 2012 by grinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Being obstroculess was some thing I remember being accused of as a kid ,anybody know what it means ? Oh and creating Pandemonium. They weren't short of big words back then were they, but by, they did shut you up.. obstroculous was a corruption of "obstreperous":- Noisily and stubbornly defiant. Aggressively boisterous. [From Latin obstreperus , noisy, from obstrepere , to make a noise against Pandemonium:- 1. wild confusion; uproar 2. a place of uproar and chaos [coined by Milton to designate the capital of hell in Paradise Lost, from pan- + Greek daimōn demon] 3. the abode of all demons; Hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janber Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Hi Grinder The correct word is obstreporous but I like the Sheffieldism best. It means awkward as in a right okerd little beggar. This is the first time I've heard it in years. I also wer called it a lot as a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janber Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Ah bur he dint he ony thought he did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grinder Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 (edited) Am not aife as green as am cabbage lookin.. Edited July 19, 2012 by grinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willybite Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 Am not aife as green as am cabbage lookin.. hiya i remember 60 odd years ago watching sheff united c c and a missed catch by frank melling when a wag shouted for him to bend his blxxding back, another saying was his cockled oar reight, and that old joke when the lad went to have his haircut like tony curtis the barber gave him the short back and sides, to which he said " thats not how tony curtis has his cut" he would if he come in here farr his air dun said the barber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrejuan Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 My Grandmother used to say (when any of us stumbled or nearly fell) "Steady Barker!" Is this known to anyone else ? I always assumed it was just her saying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveDenton Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 My uncle used to say that all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christram Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 My Grandmother used to say (when any of us stumbled or nearly fell) "Steady Barker!" Is this known to anyone else ? I always assumed it was just her saying it. "Steady Barker" was one of the catch-phrases of Eric Barker, a popular comedian on the radio during and after the war. He was probably best known for a series called "Just Fancy" with Deryck Guyler, Pearl Hackney and Kenneth Connor, which was broadcast on the BBC Home Service between 1951 and 1957. I remember it well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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