Topic: Lost Scouse Lingo

[kesey]

Next week ... the lads will be on Blob !

[Stevie-A]

Skiddies in your grundies..maybe grundies was just a family thing.

Grundies was fairly common when I was young. Derived from Bill Grundy I assume, hence a similarly frequent use of the word 'bills' to describe undies. I also recall the use of the more elaborate term 'piss stain Bills'. Simpler times. 

[Medellin]

Grundies was fairly common when I was young. Derived from Bill Grundy I assume, hence a similarly frequent use of the word 'bills' to describe undies. I also recall the use of the more elaborate term 'piss stain Bills'. Simpler times. 

Aye or Solomons too..still widely used i think Bins=spectacles/glasses.

[kesey]

Grundies was fairly common when I was young. Derived from Bill Grundy I assume, hence a similarly frequent use of the word 'bills' to describe undies. I also recall the use of the more elaborate term 'piss stain Bills'. Simpler times. 

Bills is 100% Scouse.

So many times I've said to a non Liverpool girfriend .

Where's me bills or are me bills dry yet ?

It was always met with a look of confusion .

[Tesco tearaway]

Has 'skinny ma links' been mentioned yet?
Can remember using it as a skit at skinny mates when I was young; don't know if it was just a Liverpool thing though.

[Medellin]

Maybe not lost but fuck i haven't heard it for ages..

Doing a job earlier..this fella says 'alright'...

I says 'yeah good thanks,how are you'?

'Sound as a pound' was the reply..

Sounded like a Scandinavian or somewhere alike..defo had a Molby twang about him,loved seeing him embracing our lingo!

[kavah]

Maybe not lost but fuck i haven't heard it for ages..

Doing a job earlier..this fella says 'alright'...

I says 'yeah good thanks,how are you'?

'Sound as a pound' was the reply..

Sounded like a Scandinavian or somewhere alike..defo had a Molby twang about him,loved seeing him embracing our lingo!

Ha ha love it. I always think that expression was most popular with that generation after the Beatles but before punk. Only because my family from that era were always using it, and the expression "the gear" when something was boss, and "he's a case him" when someone was a bit of a rapscallion 

[Medellin]

Ha ha love it. I always think that expression was most popular with that generation after the Beatles but before punk. Only because my family from that era were always using it, and the expression "the gear" when something was boss, and "he's a case him" when someone was a bit of a rapscallion 

 
Yep from what i took from 'he's a case him' was the person in question was a cheeky c*nt!
Back to 'Jan' who i bumped into earlier..when he said 'sound as a pound' he may have forced it a bit,put it on heavier doing his best scouse impression an all that..after saying it he was keen to see my reaction & yeah..both buzzed off each other for a few seconds! 

[Indomitable_Carp]

Probably already been done, but my Granddad always called the Bizzies the 'Scuffers'

[kavah]

Yep from what i took from 'he's a case him' was the person in question was a cheeky c*nt!
Back to 'Jan' who i bumped into earlier..when he said 'sound as a pound' he may have forced it a bit,put it on heavier doing his best scouse impression an all that..after saying it he was keen to see my reaction & yeah..both buzzed off each other for a few seconds! 

ha ha - Did you ever come across the bouncers in Amsterdam that could do really good Scouse accents just like Jan

[Teacher]

Has 'skinny ma links' been mentioned yet?
Can remember using it as a skit at skinny mates when I was young; don't know if it was just a Liverpool thing though.

I remember this from my childhood in Northern Ireland (1970s), so not a phrase exclusive to Liverpool/Scouse.

Hadn`t heard it for years though and your post brought a smile to my face!

[Medellin]

ha ha - Did you ever come across the bouncers in Amsterdam that could do really good Scouse accents just like Jan

Bucket list Amsterdam..everyone i know can't believe i ain't been there,probably because i have never done drugs. 

[FiSh77]

Bucket list Amsterdam..everyone i know can't believe i ain't been there,probably because i have never done drugs. 

Yer can't say that

Mind you I laughed my bollocks off when my mam and dad told me they were going for a weekend

[Qston]

On blob..blob on!

Skiddies in your grundies..maybe grundies was just a family thing.

Or grundies known as a pair of skids

[vivabobbygraham]

On blob..blob on!

Skiddies in your grundies..maybe grundies was just a family thing.

Bill Grundy's > Undies
A pair of Bill's > Undies

Either/or

[rob1966]

Bucket list Amsterdam..everyone i know can't believe i ain't been there,probably because i have never done drugs. 

I did Amsterdam with an ex who didn't drink/do drugs. Plenty to see if you aren't interested in that side of life.

[tinner777]

meither

as in fuck off you mithering git

someone who is constantly at you

[So… Howard Philips]

Acting the goat, basically arsing around.

[kesey]

Not lingo at all but..   who know's where the Dockers steps are ?

I'll give youse a clue .

They're South of Parly.

[lucabrasi]

Noisy Oyster. Whenever I was loud. That’s what I was called.

[Yosser0_0]

Ha ha love it. I always think that expression was most popular with that generation after the Beatles but before punk. Only because my family from that era were always using it, and the expression "the gear" when something was boss, and "he's a case him" when someone was a bit of a rapscallion 

I always remember people saying 'that's gear that' before people saying it's Boss, in fact when did 'Boss' start? Somewhere in the '80s I expect? For me 'he's a case' just means he's a headcase, could mean a cheeky fecker, or funny (comedy) or just a bit of a loon (Another expression). Either way, it described unusual behaviour.
 

I was surprised to learn that 'scally' seems to be used throughout the North West nowadays, I watched a film called 'Spike Island' last night and Mancs were using it. I'm pretty sure it originated in Liverpool though as I don't remember it being used much elsewhere years ago.

[The Gulleysucker]

I remember the first time I heard anyone use the expression Boss was from a lad I worked with in around '77.

Gear seemed to fall out of use as an alternative for being Great and became instead an alternative for Clobber and even for a shortwhile amongst some people, as a reference to a Score of say Cannabis resin.

[Tesco tearaway]

I remember the first time I heard anyone use the expression Boss was from a lad I worked with in around '77.

Gear seemed to fall out of use as an alternative for being Great and became instead an alternative for Clobber and even for a shortwhile amongst some people, as a reference to a Score of say Cannabis resin.

I reckon you're spot on with the '77 shout; first time I heard it too
Spot on about gear being used for Red Leb or Morrocan Black as well 
So then... 'Spot on'... Lost Scouse Lingo?

[The Gulleysucker]

I reckon you're spot on with the '77 shout; first time I heard it too
Spot on about gear being used for Red Leb or Morrocan Black as well 
So then... 'Spot on'... Lost Scouse Lingo?

I think I've mentioned on here before that many of these phrases seemed to originate in different areas of Liverpool and then either became de facto vernacular throughout Liverpool or got mutated to mean something else, a lost in translation sort of thing.

I really can't remember exactly when Spot On became common, certainly very early 70's as far as I was concerned, and I could be wrong but it seemed to gradually replace the expression dead right which I think we used to commonly use in the late 60's.

[Tesco tearaway]

I think I've mentioned on here before that many of these phrases seemed to originate in different areas of Liverpool and then either became de facto vernacular throughout Liverpool or got mutated to mean something else, a lost in translation sort of thing.

I really can't remember exactly when Spot On became common, certainly very early 70's as far as I was concerned, and I could be wrong but it seemed to gradually replace the expression dead right which I think we used to commonly use in the late 60's.

Spooky! ( sort of )
I was listening to my daughter practicing her guitar earlier.
When she finished playing her piece I said to her "That was dead good that."
She looked at me like I was an alien 
I had to explain the it meant really good 

[vivabobbygraham]

That was 'bang on'...

[Claire.]

I reckon you're spot on with the '77 shout; first time I heard it too
Spot on about gear being used for Red Leb or Morrocan Black as well 
So then... 'Spot on'... Lost Scouse Lingo?

I keep hearing 'spot on' in American things, I wonder if it's Irish 🤔 it proper grates when I hear them say it as well.

[Medellin]

That was 'bang on'...

Blob on.

[rob1966]

I always remember people saying 'that's gear that' before people saying it's Boss, in fact when did 'Boss' start? Somewhere in the '80s I expect? For me 'he's a case' just means he's a headcase, could mean a cheeky fecker, or funny (comedy) or just a bit of a loon (Another expression). Either way, it described unusual behaviour.
 

I was surprised to learn that 'scally' seems to be used throughout the North West nowadays, I watched a film called 'Spike Island' last night and Mancs were using it. I'm pretty sure it originated in Liverpool though as I don't remember it being used much elsewhere years ago.

With Spike Island only being up the road in Widnes, the Mancs probably picked it up from the Scousers who went the gig. I've never heard a Manc use the word.

[Yosser0_0]

With Spike Island only being up the road in Widnes, the Mancs probably picked it up from the Scousers who went the gig. I've never heard a Manc use the word.

They used the term before getting Widnes and I must admit it was a bit odd, but was a film. What terms do the Mancs use for 'scally' then? I think they do have a term but I can't for the life of me think what it is, I should know as I went to University there.

In terms of that 'Spike Island' film, it was OK, nothing special but I did find the standoff between the Mancs and the Scouse security team on the bridge to the island quite amusing.

[afc tukrish]

They used the term before getting Widnes and I must admit it was a bit odd, but was a film. What terms do the Mancs use for 'scally' then?

"Gallagher..."

[Yosser0_0]

"Gallagher..."

I think they say 'Chav' come to think of it, but yeah both terms are interchangeable when referring to a certain Gallagher brother I think.
 

[kavah]

Manc scallies were called the perry boys weren't they? defo robbed scally off us later on.

[Mumm-Ra]

Bill Grundy's > Undies
A pair of Bill's > Undies

Either/or

Well I never, so that's where 'bills' comes from?!

[Dr. Beaker]

Well I never, so that's where 'bills' comes from?!

Sadly Liverpool has always been big on Country and Western music, and this resulted in all the jukeboxes in the pubs (of my youth) having, amongst others, loads of Jim Reeves records. One of them had the lines, "He wined them, and dined them and gave them lots of thrills. But the senoritas always wound up with his bills".

Always gave us lots of amusement that.

[So… Howard Philips]

Manc scallies were called the perry boys weren't they? defo robbed scally off us later on.

I take it the Perry boys are Fred?

[an tha]

Don't know if already mentioned but when i was growing up 'me tart' to describe the wife/girlfriend was widely used...

I used it recently and got it down the banks for doing so from a much younger crowd - all who claimed they had never heard it/thought it was rude....

[So… Howard Philips]

Don't know if already mentioned but when i was growing up 'me tart' to describe the wife/girlfriend was widely used...

I used it recently and got it down the banks for doing so from a much younger crowd - all who claimed they had never heard it/thought it was rude....

As was "me bird" and, in the mid sixties "me beef".

Gone the way of casual homophobic and racist slang.

[an tha]

As was "me bird" and, in the mid sixties "me beef".

Gone the way of casual homophobic and racist slang.

Not in the same sphere IMHO, but hey.

Was always used as a term of endearment.

[So… Howard Philips]

Not in the same sphere IMHO, but hey.

Was always used as a term of endearment.

Language is much more sensitised now.