Topic: Lost Scouse Lingo

[Medellin]

Aye I worked with a fella from Lodgy who used it too, never caught on or heard it anywhere else other than him tho.
If I still worked with him now he'd defo be getting called Virgil as he was originally from Vandyke st.

[rob1966]

Aye I worked with a fella from Lodgy who used it too, never caught on or heard it anywhere else other than him tho.
If I still worked with him now he'd defo be getting called Virgil as he was originally from Vandyke st.

Some boss nicknames

I was telling my lad that we nicknamed a kid in school Fatty Cannon due to being the spit of the TV detective. He's too young to explain why we called one lad Turkey though.

[liversaint]

Some boss nicknames

I was telling my lad that we nicknamed a kid in school Fatty Cannon due to being the spit of the TV detective. He's too young to explain why we called one lad Turkey though.

Ha.

My favourite was a lad I worked called Robert, funnily enough.

He became Roberto, then Baggio, then onion. Still gets it 20+ years on..

[The Gulleysucker]

It was quite popular back in the 60's but I'm unsure if Marmalise(d) as an alternative to Batter(ed) is still in widespread use.

Also, does anyone still say I'll do you! as a threat of possibly impending fisticuffs?

[Dr. Beaker]

Anyone fold a private leaf in half clamp it between thumbs and blow - sounded like a duck being run over. Could also be done with a broad blade of grass but a bit more difficult.

[The Gulleysucker]

Anyone fold a private leaf in half clamp it between thumbs and blow - sounded like a duck being run over. Could also be done with a broad blade of grass but a bit more difficult.

Yes, though living in the Council house end of West Derby, I used privet rather than private leaves... 

As you say, it sounded rather like a wonky Elmer Fudd duck attracter once you got it going, but it was a tad hit and miss.

I found a flattened 3" length of old bicycle inner tube could be made to work a treat though, a bit like the working farty noise part of a whoopy cushion as advertised in the tiny catalogue folded up inside a pack of Bazooka Joe bubble gum.

But despite best efforts, I could never do the thing with a blade of grass, I think I may even have cut my lip trying it and gave up after that.

[24/7]

Anyone fold a private leaf in half clamp it between thumbs and blow - sounded like a duck being run over. Could also be done with a broad blade of grass but a bit more difficult.

Always used a blade of grass. Great fun that. Was there a name for that action?

[24/7]

It was quite popular back in the 60's but I'm unsure if Marmalise(d) as an alternative to Batter(ed) is still in widespread use.

Also, does anyone still say I'll do you! as a threat of possibly impending fisticuffs?

Yup - used both - still use marmalised at times. Anyone not from Liverpool just looks at me strangely when I say it though   I just look serious and say, "It's like gettin jammed but more bitter. It comes from Everton."

[rob1966]

Anyone fold a private leaf in half clamp it between thumbs and blow - sounded like a duck being run over. Could also be done with a broad blade of grass but a bit more difficult.

Done all that, with varying degrees of success.

Also still say marmalised, it makes the kids laugh.

[Medellin]

Heard one yesterday that I haven't heard in a long time.

Sloshed.

[jambutty]

Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

Is used in Brooklyn.

Dead succinct, us.

[Tesco tearaway]

Good skin.
As in "He's a good skin that lad."

EDIT...
Has "Custy" as in "Custy mate." When someone has done you a favour, been mentioned?

[rob1966]

Our kid has just been chatting to his daughter, she's born and raised in Bournemouth and he mentioned it ratting it down when talking about raining. He can't find any reference to it anywhere, is it just a Scouse thing?

[kesey]

Rattlin in down ?

[The Gulleysucker]

...Has "Custy" as in "Custy mate." When someone has done you a favour, been mentioned?

Not in that sense.

I knew a lad back in the mid to late 70's who used custy when referring to particularly attractive girls as in she's dead custy..

It was the only, and last time, I ever heard it used.

[kavah]

^ Aldo’s bit in the Anfield Wrap on top of the pops   

[rob1966]

Rattlin in down ?

We used to say rattin (no L) not rattlin, maybe just a Kirkby thing?

[rob1966]

Not in that sense.

I knew a lad back in the mid to late 70's who used custy when referring to particularly attractive girls as in she's dead custy..

It was the only, and last time, I ever heard it used.

Custy was a favourite word of ours as a kid, before sound and boss started getting used.

[24/7]

Yeah custy laaa is very familiar...

[kesey]

We used to say rattin (no L) not rattlin, maybe just a Kirkby thing?

On second thoughts I could be wrong.

[only6times]

On second thoughts I could be wrong.

"Rattlin" due to thesound it made as it bounced off corrugated roofs

[kesey]

"Rattlin" due to thesound it made as it bounced off corrugated roofs

So I didn't just make it up then ?

 

[Tesco tearaway]

So I didn't just make it up then ?

 

My dad used to say that the rain was rattlin off the windowpane 

[Lad]

I’ve worked in London for years now and ages ago a female colleague walked in the canteen and announced ‘the sun is cracking the flags out there’...I was like ‘ that’s the first time I’ve ever heard a cockney say that’ and she goes ‘oh yeah I know, I used to be married to a Scouser’ 😊

[rob1966]

I’ve worked in London for years now and ages ago a female colleague walked in the canteen and announced ‘the sun is cracking the flags out there’...I was like ‘ that’s the first time I’ve ever heard a cockney say that’ and she goes ‘oh yeah I know, I used to be married to a Scouser’ 😊

You'd never hear a Manc say that

[kesey]

Gozzy is Scouse.

I used it once in London in work and everybody looked puzzled and asked what it meant. I worked with a Bootle lass and said Ey Trace . If something is not straight it is ? She said gozzy and everyone looked even more puzzled.   

[only6times]

"Rattlin" due to thesound it made as it bounced off corrugated roofs

We had an outside bog and in winter my brothers would pull the window up and piss onto the shed roof rather than trek to the bog

[Dr. Beaker]

We had an outside bog and in winter my brothers would pull the window up and piss onto the shed roof rather than trek to the bog

Could be worse.

[Big Red Richie]

Ollies.

As in the context, "the ball smacked him in the ollies".

And not the slang name for marbles.

[rob1966]

Ollies.

As in the context, "the ball smacked him in the ollies".

And not the slang name for marbles.

I taught my kids that one - missus wasn't happy. I said its better than bollocks (They also know goolies)

[Tesco tearaway]

Ollies.

As in the context, "the ball smacked him in the ollies".

And not the slang name for marbles.

We had a block of flats at the end of our road that had a wall with a rail on top.
A lot like the attached picture below, but with a wider rail at the top.
The aim was to balance along the whole length right around the flats.
Sometimes you made it all the way round.
Sometimes you fell off to the right.
Sometimes you fell off to the left.
Sometimes your ollies got turned into pancakes 

[The Gulleysucker]

Not sure if it was uniquely Scouse, but we used to say boff for fart back in the mid to late 60's.

[rob1966]

Not sure if it was uniquely Scouse, but we used to say boff for fart back in the mid to late 60's.

Lad in school, be about 1981, drew a superhero comic Superfart and Boff, fart jokes galore

[kesey]

Not sure if it was uniquely Scouse, but we used to say boff for fart back in the mid to late 60's.

Who's just boffed ?

Deffo was still around in school in the 80's.

Edit.

I've just had a vision of young Liverpudlians gigglin all over the place.

[Tesco tearaway]

Not sure if it was uniquely Scouse, but we used to say boff for fart back in the mid to late 60's.

Eggy Boffs 

[kavah]

Frank Bough and Bill Grundy 

[jambutty]

Watched a movie the other day.  A Yank sez to a Brit:  "Only 2 good things ever came out of England:  America and the Beatles!"

Brit sez; "The Beatles weren't English.  They were Scouse."

True dat.

[Dr. Beaker]

A boff was a silent fart.

[Tesco tearaway]

A boff was a silent fart.

Sbd 

[kavah]

Sbd 

Who smelt it dealt it