Topic: Lost Scouse Lingo

[And Could He Play]

If I ever asked me Mam or Dad what we were having for our tea, I'd always get the same reply: "Shit with sugar on"

Not sure if it counts as lost scouse lingo, but all me mates mums and dads used to say it to them too. Could have just been that all the parents round our way were fouled mouthed yobs I suppose....

pig shit and onions me mar used to say to me.

[Only Me]

pig shit and onions me mar used to say to me.

Thought so-all scouse parents are just sarcy gets!

yeah defo, green lemonade.

Agreed,
Cream Soda = Green Lemonade
Cherryade = Red Lemonade

and, best one of all, Lemonade =White Lemonade!

Only exceptions to the colours rule was the brown stuff, because that could be coke, dandelion & burdock, or sarsaparilla depending on wether you bought Full Swing Lemo or Alpine....

And you got 2p back on the empty bottles, whatever the colour!

[apassant77]

If I ever asked me Mam or Dad what we were having for our tea, I'd always get the same reply: "Shit with sugar on"





We got that all the time as well, but we were about 45 minutes away from Liverpool so was obviously just Northern humour

I say it to my teenager these days.. keep the traditions alive

[hoppyLFC]

A few i remember were things like calling people.........

Bell end ( he's a fuckin' bell end 'im)

Arse wipe ( shurrup yer fuckin' arse wipe )

Tit'ead ( give it a rest yer tit ead )

Knob'ead ( as above)

Nugget........  (fuckin' 'nuggit')

Classy people i must have hung around with in those days

[Lenin.]

Thought so-all scouse parents are just sarcy gets!


Agreed,
Cream Soda = Green Lemonade
Cherryade = Red Lemonade

and, best one of all, Lemonade =White Lemonade!

Only exceptions to the colours rule was the brown stuff, because that could be coke, dandelion & burdock, or sarsaparilla depending on wether you bought Full Swing Lemo or Alpine....

And you got 2p back on the empty bottles, whatever the colour!

Schofields Lemo from their factory in Dalrymple Street off Scottie Rd was the best.

[Only Me]

Schofields!! ta mate- knew there was another one that my age addled brain couldn't remember.

[24/7]

Schofields Lemo from their factory in Dalrymple Street off Scottie Rd was the best.

Did you get the van coming round on deliveries? Ah the memories.

[L12]

Schofields Lemo from their factory in Dalrymple Street off Scottie Rd was the best.

Moorhouse Bros also

[Stevie-A]

Remember green lemo from 'The Alpine'. Massive truck full of sugary goodness 

[John C]

Did you get the van coming round on deliveries? Ah the memories.

By ours it was Alpine and Corona. Alpine bottles were dead cheap.

[Effes]

A few i remember were things like calling people.........

Bell end ( he's a fuckin' bell end 'im)

Arse wipe ( shurrup yer fuckin' arse wipe )

Tit'ead ( give it a rest yer tit ead )

Knob'ead ( as above)

Nugget........  (fuckin' 'nuggit')

Classy people i must have hung around with in those days

They are still being used, not "lost scouse lingo"

When I was a kid, anything big was "docker"

When you were eating chips, you'd always hold up a big chip and say "look at this, it's docker!"

Also - "giz a deck" - let's have a look.
I'm sure young'uns don't use that any more.

[monkeyharris]

My parents and grandparents would always answer the question..what colour is it..with

Sky blue pink with a finny addy border..

And if there was anything ever staring me in the face that I asked them I'd always get it pointed out with

What's this? Scotch mist

Sarky gets indeed scousers from a generation before

[24/7]

Don't remember "docker" - must be lost

Sky blue pink is something I still use today.

Here's one for the oldies - "the cazzie".

[monkeyharris]

Don't remember "docker" - must be lost

Sky blue pink is something I still use today.

Here's one for the oldies - "the cazzie".

The site of the international garden festival...
Back in its cazzie days me and a lad from our street had a boss day out with his evil knieval wind up motorbike toy as we launched it off some of the dunes..used to be a golf links?
Another mates dad used to take us down there with his air pistol - see if we could shoot the bouys in the mersey..as well as other discarded shite we found there...once found a shop mannequin head we took shots at..ah happy days

[Only Me]

We used "Docker" all the time - had forgotten all about that!

Anyone else use "Togger" for a game of footy? We never round our way, but heard it loads when I went to senior school in Crocky.

What about "the Lanny" instead of saying Pier Head - think it was just a shortening of Landing Stage. Me Dad used to say that all the time.

And of course, during the cold weather, there were absolutley no "Blammers" allowed...

[gregor]

Anyone else use "Togger" for a game of footy? We never round our way, but heard it loads when I went to senior school in Crocky.

Still gets used today.

[The Fletcher Memorial]

We used "Docker" all the time - had forgotten all about that!

Anyone else use "Togger" for a game of footy? We never round our way, but heard it loads when I went to senior school in Crocky.

What about "the Lanny" instead of saying Pier Head - think it was just a shortening of Landing Stage. Me Dad used to say that all the time.

And of course, during the cold weather, there were absolutley no "Blammers" allowed...

haha blammers 

[gregor]

Never heard of blammer, but cos of the cold weather reference I assume that it was one of those plastic footies that were like getting a cannonball fired at you if one of them hit you on a cold day?

[Only Me]

Never heard of blammer, but cos of the cold weather reference I assume that it was one of those plastic footies that were like getting a cannonball fired at you if one of them hit you on a cold day?

Sort of mate - it just meant no whacking the ball [any ball] too hard in case it left one of those indelible perfect red circles on your thigh. Wembley Trophy footballs were the worst if you got blammed with one. Can still feel the pain now.....

[Lenin.]

Sort of mate - it just meant no whacking the ball [any ball] too hard in case it left one of those indelible perfect red circles on your thigh. Wembley Trophy footballs were the worst if you got blammed with one. Can still feel the pain now.....

Fucking Frido balls.

[Mumm-Ra]

Sort of mate - it just meant no whacking the ball [any ball] too hard in case it left one of those indelible perfect red circles on your thigh. Wembley Trophy footballs were the worst if you got blammed with one. Can still feel the pain now.....

We called that a stinger

Do people still say "keep dixie" for keep a lookout?

[monkeyharris]

Wembley Trophys were known round ours as a "flyaway"
Anyone else?

Togger is a total scouse thing - I use it down south all the time - no-one ever gets what i'm talking about including wools and mancs i know...bit like gozzy..that loses everyone too

[TheKid.]

Wembley Trophys were known round ours as a "flyaway"
Anyone else?

 

That's not a flyaway, flyaways were the really cheap plastic balls

Like these

[kavah]

^ is right, Wembley Trophies were pretty heavy - hence no blammers

3 and in, 60 seconds - those were the days

[24/7]

Gozzy! Wow, not heard that for yonks. Where does that come from?? Oh and I found my "Lern Yerself Scouse" books.....

[gregor]

Do people still say "keep dixie" for keep a lookout?

Maybe not that common amongst kids, but for people my age (I'm 28) then yes.

Gozzy is just a normal word to me, had no idea it was just a scouse thing.

[Suspect Package.]

That's not a flyaway, flyaways were the really cheap plastic balls

Like these

Right, a heavy ball was a "Casey".

[Effes]

3 and in, 60 seconds - those were the days

And "SPOT"

And if someone got to "T" you'd add the "!" to it !

[Only Me]

^ is right, Wembley Trophies were pretty heavy - hence no blammers

3 and in, 60 seconds - those were the days

Is right.

60 seconds - boss game, as long as you adhered to the "No volleys after 40" rule.

[monkeyharris]

I stand corrected on the flyaways. I'm now picturing the Wembley ones and remembering being twatted on the legs on a cold day by one

Love a game of SPOT still to this day...I thinks thats quite scouse too - when you play it with people form arund the country there are loads of regional varaitions on the word used...some "cleverer" parts of the coun try use longer words!

What about the game Kerby too...that was best played with a flyaway

[TheKid.]

Kerby was brilliant

[monkeyharris]

Kerby was brilliant

Find me a street in Britain car free enough to play it these days!!

[JohnnoWhite]

monkeyharris posted :- Togger is a total scouse thing - I use it down south all the time - no-one ever gets what i'm talking about including wools and mancs i know...


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No iit's not mate - we used it in Ardwick east central Manchester. Mind you it was over 60 years ago......

[Roady]

Togger deffo isnt scouse.Ive heard it used down south quite regularly.Nor is Gozzy or SPOT or Kerby.

[monkeyharris]

monkeyharris posted :- Togger is a total scouse thing - I use it down south all the time - no-one ever gets what i'm talking about including wools and mancs i know...


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No iit's not mate - we used it in Ardwick east central Manchester. Mind you it was over 60 years ago......

You need to teach it to the young' uns Johnno!

[The Fletcher Memorial]

"Peg it" as in run away as fast as you can. Dunno if that's a purely scouse one but I don't hear it anymore?

[JohnnoWhite]

I wish lad - now if we were talking about 30 years ago I was still playing and could have sold it to the uninitiated. . . . .

On an associated topic, as I lad I had family links in Widnes (me mother's aunty) and I've stopped with her when I was about 11 during school holidays. Iwas always confused by the locals saying they wanted me to come and play football.
First they said they'd call for me - and they never did knock on the door.
I was sat there fuming and me aunty said "Aren't you going out then?"

I said "I'm waiting for them to call for me".

She said "they've been "calling" for you for 10 mins!"

Seemingly they were standing at the bottom of the garden path and had literally been "calling" John!! No-one told me that's how they did it!

Once outside, tthere was more disappointment when we went on the field behind the house to find them playing "football" - but with the oval ball !!

[The Fletcher Memorial]

Once outside, tthere was more disappointment when we went on the field behind the house to find them playing "football" - but with the oval ball !!

You sure it wernt an arl casey with an egg in it? Oh no hang on, Widnes? Yep, wronguns.

[monkeyharris]

Togger deffo isnt scouse.Ive heard it used down south quite regularly.Nor is Gozzy or SPOT or Kerby.

As per Johnno happy to be corrected on Togger being used by others (northerners?)
 
SPOT has loads of different names across the country and i guess its probably called SPOT in other places. Actually played it on holiday this year with a fellah born in Brum and he called it DONKEY

As I havent played Kerby since i was about 11 I cant vouch its not used by others but its got that Scouse way of making a word by adding a y to another word to make a new one

Gozzy though is met with utter confusion by everyone outside of Merseyside I've ever met. If others do use it I reckon its derivation is pure scouse

Just tested the theory on a mate of mine who lives in Greenock(as in Morton) he had no idea what togger or gozzy was but played kerby as a kid. Wierdly cannot fathom the rules of SPOT!

[JohnnoWhite]

I'd have settled for an arl deformed casey (one of them with the bubble pushing through the stitching yer know) so long as we'd been playing togger - meh no luck whatsoever....... They was playing that egg-ball game......

Also re the reply to the question what's for tea Mam? (shit with sugar on!) was said in our house too!