Topic: Lost Scouse Lingo

[rob1966]

Reminds me of 'getting an eggy on' - someone getting narky.

I also remember Quegg and Quentin for a homosexual - I think it came from Quentin Crisp.

And Meff for an unpleasant person.

I remember all those too, especially what the fuck have you got an eggy on for?

[kesey]

Reminds me of 'getting an eggy on' - someone getting narky.

I also remember Quegg and Quentin for a homosexual - I think it came from Quentin Crisp.

And Meff for an unpleasant person.

You can't use the word egg on here as it's disrespectful to vegans . As for the other word. Eh ?

[liverbloke]

Was Jimmy Chin Chin or Jimmy Hill or Chinny Chin Chin or Jimmy (yep, all based on Jimmy Hill with the long chin) a Liverpool thing?

Was meant for a liar or teller of tall stories - stroking your chin with one hand would usually accompany the sentiment.

[kavah]

Was Jimmy Chin Chin or Jimmy Hill or Chinny Chin Chin or Jimmy (yep, all based on Jimmy Hill with the long chin) a Liverpool thing?

Was meant for a liar or teller of tall stories - stroking your chin with one hand would usually accompany the sentiment.

 

[rob1966]

Was Jimmy Chin Chin or Jimmy Hill or Chinny Chin Chin or Jimmy (yep, all based on Jimmy Hill with the long chin) a Liverpool thing?

Was meant for a liar or teller of tall stories - stroking your chin with one hand would usually accompany the sentiment.

Probably a Scouse thing.

Asked the missus and they called it chin wag.

[Medellin]

Chinny Hill..

..and it was en-errr too, index finger bent..bit of a V shape below the tongue inside the lower lip.
If you were in a group conversation with someone who exaggerated the truth a bit the en-errr would be silent & you would sometimes see someone do it sneakily that way too

[kavah]

 

^ right! Where is it from?

[So… Howard Philips]

Don't know if it's specifically Scouse but "Get out me light" oft used by my Dad when he was trying to repair a badly made piece of British householdappliance when I crept up behind him to see what he was doing and blocked out the light falling over his shoulder.

[Medellin]

^ right! Where is it from?

Fuck knows..probably off some 60's or 70's tv programme like Some mothers do av em or alike, would be very surprised if this was done anywhere else but here.
It did later develop to just the tongue in the lower lip & silent too before it disappeared..started doing it again yesterday. 

Me arl fella also used to say get out me light too. 

[liverbloke]

Fuck knows..probably off some 60's or 70's tv programme like Some mothers do av em or alike, would be very surprised if this was done anywhere else but here.
It did later develop to just the tongue in the lower lip & silent too before it disappeared..started doing it again yesterday. 

Me arl fella also used to say get out me light too. 

In the colder months when the heating was on my dad used to say to us 'shut that front door you're warming the street'   

[redbyrdz]

Don't know if it's specifically Scouse but "Get out me light" oft used by my Dad when he was trying to repair a badly made piece of British householdappliance when I crept up behind him to see what he was doing and blocked out the light falling over his shoulder.

Think it comes from this...

Thereupon many statesmen and philosophers came to Alexander with their congratulations, and he expected that Diogenes of Sinope also, who was tarrying in Corinth, would do likewise. But since that philosopher took not the slightest notice of Alexander, and continued to enjoy his leisure in the suburb Craneion, Alexander went in person to see him; and he found him lying in the sun. Diogenes raised himself up a little when he saw so many people coming towards him, and fixed his eyes upon Alexander. And when that monarch addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, "Yes," said Diogenes, "stand a little out of my sun."[7] It is said that Alexander was so struck by this, and admired so much the haughtiness and grandeur of the man who had nothing but scorn for him, that he said to his followers, who were laughing and jesting about the philosopher as they went away, "But truly, if I were not Alexander, I wish I were Diogenes."[8]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander

[Medellin]

In the colder months when the heating was on my dad used to say to us 'shut that front door you're warming the street'   

The most popular one we got on those lines was 'were you born in a field'?
Barn I think was also used..maybe a wool thing? 🙊

[liverbloke]

The most popular one we got on those lines was 'were you born in a field'?
Barn I think was also used..maybe a wool thing? 🙊

Ha ha yeh - that one was for our front gate 'Were you born in a field?' 'No dad' 'Then shut the bloody gate' 

[liverbloke]

Was Divvy a Scouse thing?

Obviously meaning unintelligent person/dickhead/idiot

Just asking ya divvy

[So… Howard Philips]

Was Divvy a Scouse thing?

Obviously meaning unintelligent person/dickhead/idiot

Just asking ya divvy

Well it was in use in the mid Sixties so it's certainly vintage, if not quite antique.

[gregor]

People still use divvy quite a lot.

[liverbloke]

People still use divvy quite a lot.

I haven't heard it since the 90s

Maybe I'm just not mixing with the right people 

[rob1966]

I haven't heard it since the 90s

Maybe I'm just not mixing with the right people 

My kids call their Grandad (my Dad) divvy Bob.

He always called me a divvy when I was a kid and I've always used the word and still use it now messing about with my kids. Probably better than dickhead

[Dr. Beaker]

Sponk!😁

[So… Howard Philips]

Sponk!😁

Verb - Sponking off.

[rob1966]

Sponk!😁

Noun - a Sponky to catch it in

[Indomitable_Carp]

People still use divvy quite a lot.

Yeah divvy is still used in a friendly put-down kind of way. I definitely still use it.

I always thought it was Scouse, but then I heard my friend from Sheffield using it so it might be more of a Northern word generally, but maybe it gets used here more then in other places.

[So… Howard Philips]

Noun - a Sponky to catch it in

A sponky was a used Johhny

[rob1966]

A sponky was a used Johhny

Ah, when I was a kid, like about 8, I was taught it was just another version of a johnny and it stuck. Mind you, this was the same kid who said his brother pissed in his birds fanny and got her pregnant


Punk Girl " Is that Johhny Rotten?"

Punk Lad - "Nah, I've only used it twice"

[Tesco tearaway]

Noun - a Sponky to catch it in

Sponkbag.
Not you rob 

EDIT...
When I was about 13 me and my mate were sitting in our lobby just gabbing.
My dad was shoveling up some coal in the cubby hole to put on the fire.
As he lifted it the shovel tilted and the coal fell off.
"Fucking sponkdust!" He muttered.
We both fell on the floor laughing our tits off for about ten minutes 
Still makes me smile when I think about it 

[Dr. Beaker]

I used to love the verbal sparring between the young lads of Anny Comp and their female counterparts of Stanley Park School for Girls. There were many examples to choose from, but one that came back to me recently was this particular set piece.

Young swain of Anny Comp, "Aye girl, 'ave yiz gorra match"?

To which the young demoiselle would reply rather coquettishly, "Yeah, your face an' my fuckin' arse".

[liverbloke]

Re: Sponky 

man haven't heard that for donkeys

I remember seeing a johnny in the road when I was a little kid and picked it up and was just about to blow it up thinking it was a balloon and my dad snatched it out of my hand

I started to cry and he said 'never touch those balloons son as they're full of harmful chemicals'

I was confused but happy to say that to this day I have never ever blown one again (had to be careful with my wording there - still doesn't read right to be fair  )

[rob1966]

Re: Sponky 

man haven't heard that for donkeys

I remember seeing a johnny in the road when I was a little kid and picked it up and was just about to blow it up thinking it was a balloon and my dad snatched it out of my hand

I started to cry and he said 'never touch those balloons son as they're full of harmful chemicals'

I was confused but happy to say that to this day I have never ever blown one again (had to be careful with my wording there - still doesn't read right to be fair  )

Nick will find something to rip you apart with

[Medellin]

Two words i heard yesterday which I ain't heard in a long time..

Flim & Flange.

Behave..they weren't in the same conversation and it wasn't any sort of proposition neither. 

[Tesco tearaway]

Two words i heard yesterday which I ain't heard in a long time..

Flim & Flange.

Behave.. they weren't in the same conversation and it wasn't any sort of proposition neither. 

Flim deal of red leb... 

[kavah]

Flim deal of red leb... 

ha ha - right

flim/flimsy - five pounds (£5), early 1900s, so called because of the thin and flimsy paper on which five pound notes of the time were printed.

https://www.businessballs.com/amusement-stress-relief/money-slang/

[kesey]

Flim deal of red leb... 

Flashbacks to the Bow n Arrow 

[Mumm-Ra]

ha ha - right

flim/flimsy - five pounds (£5), early 1900s, so called because of the thin and flimsy paper on which five pound notes of the time were printed.

https://www.businessballs.com/amusement-stress-relief/money-slang/

No way, is that where it's from? I always thought it was just because it was a flimsy little stick of rocky. I remember explaining to my perplexed uni housemates, a flim is a fiver is a gram, its all interchangeable

[Tesco tearaway]

Flashbacks to the Bow n Arrow 

Same for me in the Brewers Arms 
What a time to be alive 

[So… Howard Philips]

Hard cack - Bad luck or sheer indifference.

[AlphaDelta]

Grock - thats a proper scouse saying, as in "yer fookin big grock"

Haven't heard it for years, means big hard looking person but not particularly intelligent, think 'Shake Hands' off Boys From The Black Stuff.

Another one which I genuinely don't know is scouse or not is 'yard dog'. Now I think it could mean one of two things if I mentioned it in a pub, the first is a particular type of footy player, think the entire Everton squad, think Harry Maguire....... the other meaning is a cross-bred dog that sits outside all day, or the types that used to live on the roof of pubs on estates in the 80s and 90s and would bark down at you if you walked past. There was a few on Canny Farm.

[afc tukrish]

Grock - thats a proper scouse saying, as in "yer fookin big grock"

Haven't heard it for years, means big hard looking person but not particularly intelligent, think 'Shake Hands' off Boys From The Black Stuff.

Another one which I genuinely don't know is scouse or not is 'yard dog'. Now I think it could mean one of two things if I mentioned it in a pub, the first is a particular type of footy player, think the entire Everton squad, think Harry Maguire....... the other meaning is a cross-bred dog that sits outside all day, or the types that used to live on the roof of pubs on estates in the 80s and 90s and would bark down at you if you walked past. There was a few on Canny Farm.

Yard dogs lived on the roof?

Roof dogs?

[Medellin]

Aye a Grock was a big c*nt & hard with it, we used to call other big fuckers a plank.
Yard dog was always a shit hoofing centre half to us.
Skinheads on a raft..don't hear that anymore.
Sagging..

[kesey]

Same for me in the Brewers Arms 
What a time to be alive 

Use to score from Lourdens too ( Page Moss ) , The tennies on St Oswalds in the Swan , Hartsbourne Heights in Childwall Valley too.

What a time it was when the top of the bus was full of people chonging 

[rob1966]

Yard dogs lived on the roof?

Roof dogs?

Evil bastards is what they were.

Windmill Pub, Tower Hill. Used to walk past the back of this on the way to/from school and this pair used to lean over the edge barking like fuck trying to get at you. If they'd ever had got the balls to jump we'd have been dead.