Author Topic: Lost Scouse Lingo (Read 301368 times)

rusty-la · « **Reply #400 on:** December 30, 2012, 02:02:46 am »

I know this isn't lost lingo, but I'd not heard 'Gozzy' for years (about 20) until I came in here a few months ago and someone called Moyes a 'Gozzy eyed twat'.

Since then I've spent hours trying to get Mrs Rusty and the kids to use 'Gozzy'. We live in Cheshire, its not working. Sigh!!

vicgill · « **Reply #401 on:** December 30, 2012, 09:19:48 am »

Quote from: Turkey-la on December 30, 2012, 02:02:46 am

I know this isn't lost lingo, but I'd not heard 'Gozzy' for years (about 20) until I came in here a few months ago and someone called Moyes a 'Gozzy eyed twat'.

Since then I've spent hours trying to get Mrs Rusty and the kids to use 'Gozzy'. We live in Cheshire, its not working. Sigh!!

The word for "Gozzy" here in Spain is "Twerto" perhaps that might work better in Chester

TheKid. · « **Reply #402 on:** December 30, 2012, 02:26:04 pm »

Quote from: Candlelight vicgill @ Christmas Eve on December 30, 2012, 09:19:48 am

The word for "Gozzy" here in Spain is "Twerto" perhaps that might work better in Chester

Yeah tuerto literally means blind in one eye so I can see that

Salacious B. Crumb · « **Reply #403 on:** December 30, 2012, 11:19:10 pm »

When talking about the act of shitting, 'either bolt the door or paint the door with it' haha Bootle eh

Dr. Beaker · « **Reply #404 on:** December 31, 2012, 12:13:13 am »

Flock o' sparrers - a particularly explosive shit.

caradan · « **Reply #405 on:** December 31, 2012, 12:37:12 am »

head the ball and calling your woman your beef were about in my day, not very politically correct the second one now methinks, been living on the south coast for over 30 years now, so its now mush matey and my good woman.

monkeyharris · « **Reply #406 on:** December 31, 2012, 01:01:12 pm »

Quote from: Salacious B. Crumb on December 30, 2012, 11:19:10 pm

When talking about the act of shitting, 'either bolt the door or paint the door with it' haha Bootle eh

Pebbledash the pan....

monkeyharris · « **Reply #407 on:** January 6, 2013, 10:24:28 pm »

Had one come back to me today

Me ma always used to tell us to put rubbish in the bitbin..

That's got to be lost scouse?

The Highway Man · « **Reply #408 on:** January 6, 2013, 11:09:15 pm »

I moved from Liverpool to West Cumbria 16 years ago, I'm still trying to understand what they're saying!!!

The Fletcher Memorial · « **Reply #409 on:** January 8, 2013, 10:48:08 am »

Quote from: monkeyharris on January 6, 2013, 10:24:28 pm

Had one come back to me today

Me ma always used to tell us to put rubbish in the bitbin..

That's got to be lost scouse?

What's a bitbin? Never heard of that one I don't think?

NOTBORNIN1982 · « **Reply #410 on:** January 8, 2013, 10:50:29 am »

Quote from: The Fletcher Memorial on January 8, 2013, 10:48:08 am

What's a bitbin? Never heard of that one I don't think?

It's just a standard bin or at least it was in my house.

Not heard that for a long time.

monkeyharris · « **Reply #411 on:** January 8, 2013, 12:54:24 pm »

Yeah it was just the bin in the living room...always called the bitbin though...I'm guessing the bin to put bits in
Always a bit of a struggle getting rubbish into ours with the mounds of ciggie butts in there from me ma's ashtray

RedJim · « **Reply #412 on:** January 9, 2013, 12:07:00 pm »

When I would used to do or say something stupid as a kid me nan would say i was "thick as a docker's butty". I don't know if that's just her though who says that.

She's told me about the dockers umbrella as well but that's probably not used anymore I've never heard anyone young say it

JohnnoWhite · « **Reply #413 on:** January 9, 2013, 01:58:32 pm »

The "docker's umbrella" was the old docks Overhead Railway - sadly demolished long since.
I had the great experience of travelling on it as a kid - and me a Manc an' all !

JohnnoWhite · « **Reply #414 on:** January 9, 2013, 02:38:57 pm »

In Manchester, if you were waiting for someone and they were late - pretty late an' all - after the initial "where the fook you bin til now ?" you would add "I've been sitting here like Piffy on a rock bun." Don't ask - I have NO IDEA.....

Witherkay · « **Reply #415 on:** January 9, 2013, 04:01:39 pm »

Quote from: Johnnowhite on January 9, 2013, 02:38:57 pm

In Manchester, if you were waiting for someone and they were late - pretty late an' all - after the initial "where the fook you bin til now ?" you would add "I've been sitting here like Piffy on a rock bun." Don't ask - I have NO IDEA.....

Round here that'd be 'standing here like one of Lewis's' wouldn't it?

Working Class Hen-Pecked Hero · « **Reply #416 on:** January 9, 2013, 06:14:12 pm »

People with giggs always getting called bogeyes in school
Round Kenny everyone always referred to anything that resembled a mr freeze as a freezy, even them shit 5cm ones

Pyabs

Bifter

Putting head on where people are from ( noggy ed, swan ed, tocky ed)

smashing a window was always potted

Fuck me I miss home

OOS · « **Reply #417 on:** January 9, 2013, 06:21:30 pm »

Quote from: The Fletcher Memorial on December 18, 2012, 03:18:25 pm

"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?

I haven't heard that phrase since I was in Primary school.

Only 7/8 years ago as well haha

Cato · « **Reply #418 on:** January 10, 2013, 02:49:57 pm »

Owl arse, meaning crafty, sly, lazy or canny. Not the same as Arl arse, which means old.
Owl arse was interchangeable with cute, which meant the same. It doesn't mean cute like a baby or kitten, I think it comes from an Irish word meaning sly.
(Awaits corrections from anyone Irish!)

Dr. Beaker · « **Reply #419 on:** January 10, 2013, 04:45:28 pm »

Pobs.

Stevie-A · « **Reply #420 on:** January 10, 2013, 08:09:34 pm »

Quote from: WcHEMc7 on January 9, 2013, 06:14:12 pm

Pyabs

Can't stop laughing at that!

Dickie_Mint · « **Reply #421 on:** January 11, 2013, 07:30:44 pm »

Surprised no one has mentioned "away with the mixer" or "head the ball" (pronounced 'ed)

As in "That one from next door is away with the mixer" = The woman from next door is slightly mad.

or "Their Vinnie is a fuckin' head the ball" = His brother Vinnie is a psychopath.

Effes · « **Reply #422 on:** January 12, 2013, 01:45:12 am »

Quote from: Dickie_Mint on January 11, 2013, 07:30:44 pm

Surprised no one has mentioned "away with the mixer" or "head the ball" (pronounced 'ed)

Quote from: caradan on December 31, 2012, 12:37:12 am

head the ball

Everyone used to put "la" at the end of statements, it's rare now.
I miss that.

Dr. Beaker · « **Reply #423 on:** January 12, 2013, 09:52:15 am »

Quote from: Effes on January 12, 2013, 01:45:12 am

Everyone used to put "la" at the end of statements, it's rare now.
I miss that.

Yeah, 'La' was like a full stop in general conversation. When you were at the bar getting the ale in, 'Queen' served the same purpose - unless it was a bloke behind the bar, in which case of course, 'bollocks' was used.

Effes · « **Reply #424 on:** January 16, 2013, 11:05:47 am »

I don't here "Wazzuck" often (name for a daft person)

Is it unique to Liverpool? Or do others use it?

SamAteTheRedAcid · « **Reply #425 on:** January 16, 2013, 01:26:44 pm »

Quote from: Effes on January 16, 2013, 11:05:47 am

I don't here "Wazzuck" often (name for a daft person)

Is it unique to Liverpool? Or do others use it?

My Dad used to say it and he's from rural Cheshire so maybe not?

JohnnoWhite · « **Reply #426 on:** January 16, 2013, 02:10:10 pm »

I've heard it round East Cheshire too - Wazzock.

The Fletcher Memorial · « **Reply #427 on:** January 17, 2013, 07:16:03 pm »

Geg, that must be scouse, if not lost.

Dowling10 · « **Reply #428 on:** January 18, 2013, 02:47:47 pm »

Is "give ye head a wobble?" a scouse shout?

And is that where the shout comes from for "wobbly head" comes from? As in "he's a bit daft him, bit of a wobbly head."

B0151? · « **Reply #429 on:** January 19, 2013, 09:49:50 pm »

Quote from: The Fletcher Memorial on January 17, 2013, 07:16:03 pm

Geg, that must be scouse, if not lost.

defo not lost

Only Me · « **Reply #430 on:** January 24, 2013, 10:39:51 am »

Bit of a disgusting one, but what about "Golly" meaning to spit? Used to hear it all the time years ago, but haven't done for ages.

It would come up in coversation something like this:

"Eeeee - see that twat Rijkaard Gollying all over that German fella last night?"

JohnnoWhite · « **Reply #431 on:** January 24, 2013, 01:26:42 pm »

Oooooooooo-hhhh. Horrible that! Hate anything to do with gobbing.

Dr. Beaker · « **Reply #432 on:** January 24, 2013, 01:27:04 pm »

Quote from: Only Me on January 24, 2013, 10:39:51 am

Bit of a disgusting one, but what about "Golly" meaning to spit? Used to hear it all the time years ago, but haven't done for ages.

It would come up in coversation something like this:

"Eeeee - see that twat Rijkaard Gollying all over that German fella last night?"

And 'yockering'.

gregor · « **Reply #433 on:** January 24, 2013, 01:34:52 pm »

Quote from: Only Me on January 24, 2013, 10:39:51 am

Bit of a disgusting one, but what about "Golly" meaning to spit? Used to hear it all the time years ago, but haven't done for ages.

It would come up in coversation something like this:

"Eeeee - see that twat Rijkaard Gollying all over that German fella last night?"

Golly seemed to evolve into grock - which itself is also used to describe a meathead.

Same word, two totally different meanings for no apparent reason.

Mumm-Ra · « **Reply #434 on:** January 24, 2013, 06:57:12 pm »

Never heard grock used for anything but a meathead. And it was 'yocking' not 'yockering'

Was it just my circle, or would other people say "Fazakerly!" to mean "exactly!"

gritsvanilla · « **Reply #435 on:** January 25, 2013, 12:57:41 am »

Quote from: Mumm-Ra on January 24, 2013, 06:57:12 pm

Never heard grock used for anything but a meathead. And it was 'yocking' not 'yockering'

Was it just my circle, or would other people say "Fazakerly!" to mean "exactly!"

No still hear it used regularly.

"Get your ed down" used to do me head in, every girl in our school used it usually trailing it with a massive "eeeeeeeeeeeeee".

Stevie-A · « **Reply #436 on:** January 25, 2013, 07:36:21 pm »

When a lad, my family would collect carrier bags full of cockles and whelks from local beaches. Eaten with a safety pin, whelks were known as (pardon the very rough spelling) queuewns. Never heard this outside of the Bullring. They tasted of shit, it must be reported.

Only Me · « **Reply #437 on:** January 25, 2013, 10:36:03 pm »

Quote from: Stevie-A on January 25, 2013, 07:36:21 pm

When a lad, my family would collect carrier bags full of cockles and whelks from local beaches. Eaten with a safety pin, whelks were known as (pardon the very rough spelling) queuewns. Never heard this outside of the Bullring. They tasted of shit, it must be reported.

No, known as cuins [spelling - no idea!!] round our way in town mate. And they were bloody lovely.

Used to go cockling in Moreton loads when I was a kid.

Stevie-A · « **Reply #438 on:** January 26, 2013, 08:20:44 am »

Probably the same thing mate. I am far less succinct in my spelling!

Lenin. · « **Reply #439 on:** January 26, 2013, 11:21:36 am »

Quote from: Stevie-A on January 25, 2013, 07:36:21 pm

When a lad, my family would collect carrier bags full of cockles and whelks from local beaches. Eaten with a safety pin, whelks were known as (pardon the very rough spelling) queuewns. Never heard this outside of the Bullring. They tasted of shit, it must be reported.

I've always thought that was the correct name for them (not with that spelling though

)? They werent cockles or whelks. They were like minature mussels. My ma used to buy them for me da from the fish shop in Greaty.