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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #200 on: August 3, 2011, 01:12:13 am »
Loosies! As in loose bifters.

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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #201 on: August 3, 2011, 03:04:05 am »
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #202 on: August 3, 2011, 05:35:19 pm »
Is lemo used outside Liverpool?

I don't know, but it is now used in Liverpool for something that's definitely not lemonade!

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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #203 on: August 3, 2011, 11:13:40 pm »
Quite a lot of the words mentioned on here are familiar to me and I grew up in Blackburn, so I guess they're just Lancashire words. We also said Lolly ice instead of ice lolly.

There are others that I had never heard of in my life before I moved here, like antwacky, meff and jigger. Antwacky's got to be one of the best words ever!
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #204 on: August 4, 2011, 08:14:39 am »
Anyone ever use Danny for car ? Played footie with ab uber scouse lad from Scottie rd who always said that.

And another one is done a dusty l= done one = gettin' off= gone home/elswhere
Happy to have my eye wiped on this but I believe Danny comes from a form of rhyming slang for Danny Marr who was a boxer....there was a documentary on in the early 80's about scouse car thieves called whizzing' a danny which was the talk of the playground the next day
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #205 on: August 5, 2011, 12:51:07 pm »
I don't know, but it is now used in Liverpool for something that's definitely not lemonade!

Lemo? What the fuck does it mean now?  ???
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #206 on: August 5, 2011, 01:41:56 pm »
I don't know, but it is now used in Liverpool for something that's definitely not lemonade!


Beak? As in sherbet lemo?
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #209 on: August 5, 2011, 11:31:11 pm »
When I used to get the bus with my mum years ago, if we were going into town we'd go upstairs so she could have a smoke. But if we were only going a few stops, she'd say "just go inside" (meaning stay downstairs) Anyone know if that's a local thing? Or a generation thing?
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #210 on: August 6, 2011, 12:01:41 am »
a pint of larger and a glass of guniess (a glass half)

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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #211 on: August 6, 2011, 06:57:18 am »
I read leggy earlier. Never heard that before.

But 'legger' or 'to get legged' as in getting chased by say a golf course security guard after you played golf with your mates and didn't pay.
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #212 on: August 6, 2011, 01:29:11 pm »
When I used to get the bus with my mum years ago, if we were going into town we'd go upstairs so she could have a smoke. But if we were only going a few stops, she'd say "just go inside" (meaning stay downstairs) Anyone know if that's a local thing? Or a generation thing?

My Grandad used to say that as well, I always assumed that old buses must have been open topped and that's why he said it.

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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #213 on: August 8, 2011, 12:31:05 am »
Surely security guard would be the cocky watchman?
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #214 on: August 8, 2011, 12:42:28 am »
We used to get leggers off the Chubbys in the grounds of Fazak ozzy


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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #215 on: August 8, 2011, 10:50:21 am »
They were Chubbys because that was the security firm, Chubb.
Used to get leggers off then myself

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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #216 on: August 8, 2011, 04:08:28 pm »
For some reason I always remember my cousin calling her sister a meff, still haven't got a clue what it means. Mind you, she lives in Widnes now so that might explain it....

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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #217 on: August 8, 2011, 07:40:04 pm »
Surely security guard would be the cocky watchman?

Definitely lost now, along with their coke braziers and little huts.

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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #218 on: August 9, 2011, 07:34:45 am »
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #219 on: August 9, 2011, 08:15:09 am »
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #220 on: August 9, 2011, 08:31:47 am »
My Dad used to say "The Gear". As in  "That new Liverpool striker Suarez is The Gear"

I am sure that is a Liverpool expression, Lived most my life outside Liverpool and never heard it once.
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #221 on: August 9, 2011, 10:01:35 pm »
My Dad used to say "The Gear". As in  "That new Liverpool striker Suarez is The Gear"

I am sure that is a Liverpool expression, Lived most my life outside Liverpool and never heard it once.

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those 70s Scousers loved that expression

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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #222 on: August 9, 2011, 10:34:03 pm »
those 70s Scousers loved that expression
If my memory serves me right I think it was more 60's lingo, though professional scousers in the media spotlight might have carried on using it into the 70's.
Certainly with me and my mates, by the 70's, I think the word 'ace' had replaced it in everyday speech as meaning something really good, and instead the word gear was only being used to describe clobber.
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #223 on: August 10, 2011, 12:04:07 am »
I have a 'Learn Yaself Scouse' book me nan gave me about 2 days ago. Its quite old (80s I think) but its funny, took it to work today and the lads have have had a laugh with it (I live and work in Manchester).
re published in hte 80s, but originally a 60s tome...much of the lingo was a good 20 years out of date by then, but still funny. the author - fritz spiegl -  was a musician who settled in liverpool, fell in love with the city and the lingo. good ear he had, i'll say that...cracking sense of humour too, a fine example of a genuine scouser born far far away from the sound of the one o'clock gun! (shankly being another).
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #224 on: August 10, 2011, 02:35:46 pm »
.....I believe Danny comes from a form of rhyming slang for Danny Marr
Yep.  Cockney rhyming slang originally as was 'Sherbet'  (dab)  for cab.

Another one for a cab was 'Joe Baxi'.

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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #225 on: August 11, 2011, 12:44:08 pm »
Disavvy
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #226 on: August 11, 2011, 01:39:38 pm »
If my memory serves me right I think it was more 60's lingo, though professional scousers in the media spotlight might have carried on using it into the 70's.
Certainly with me and my mates, by the 70's, I think the word 'ace' had replaced it in everyday speech as meaning something really good, and instead the word gear was only being used to describe clobber.

Or Drugs in the 80's
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #227 on: August 11, 2011, 09:17:59 pm »
We used to get leggers off the Chubbys in the grounds of Fazak ozzy

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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #228 on: August 11, 2011, 09:19:12 pm »
'Ead the ball.

Not heard that in years until I heard it tonight on Emmerdale of all places!
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #229 on: August 14, 2011, 09:35:23 pm »
Bomdy - House in a state of  disrepair
Olla - wasteground
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #230 on: August 15, 2011, 10:14:51 pm »
Bomdy - House in a state of  disrepair
Olla - wasteground

ha ha. Just brought some flashbacks that. Seeing them together (different word like)  just made me think of bonfire night.

Are we havin the bommy on the olla?  Oller????





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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #231 on: August 16, 2011, 09:07:14 am »
I remember 'the gear' used in gyms when someone was on some sort of growth hormone i.e. steroids.

'He's on the gear.'
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #232 on: August 16, 2011, 11:37:06 am »
probably already been said but 'gave him/her down the banks'

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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #233 on: August 16, 2011, 08:56:25 pm »
Laced. Used to describe a heavy defeat in a football match.

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Son: We got laced six nil.

No idea of the derivation.

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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #234 on: August 17, 2011, 01:28:33 pm »
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #235 on: August 18, 2011, 01:39:55 am »
'Ead the ball.

Not heard that in years until I heard it tonight on Emmerdale of all places!
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #236 on: August 22, 2011, 11:32:39 pm »
'Ead the ball.

Not heard that in years until I heard it tonight on Emmerdale of all places!

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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #237 on: August 27, 2011, 09:14:35 am »
Soft Lad...not heard it in years. or scone head.
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #238 on: August 27, 2011, 09:03:23 pm »
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Re: Lost Scouse Lingo
« Reply #239 on: August 28, 2011, 12:46:55 pm »
'Lets get a Jobe'

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