I have friends in the U.S.A. and other places, and have managed to have to explain some of OUR words, and the differences they mean, ie Curtains,= Drapes.Nappies = Diapers etc.
Anyone from anywhere, any Country tell me some of the words they use, which have the same meaning, but named differently.
Lincoln. 7
By: Lincoln 7 - 5th May 2011 at 22:06
COLD COMFORT, somewhere up North.
Lincoln .7
By: mike currill - 2nd May 2011 at 15:28
Which does not eliminate the likelihood of it being used elsewhere as well, as we have read in earlier posts.
Agreed , after 22 years of mixing with people from all over the country in the army and 31 married to a mad jock I’ve picked up no end of words that are not local.:D
By: mike currill - 2nd May 2011 at 15:25
That’s not how I see, you BB………;)
Me either. I think she’s lovely.
By: mike currill - 2nd May 2011 at 15:22
A Cludgie is a Bog. More accurately, the outside Bogs found in most of Glasgow.
These days acceptable use is for any Bog.For Americans, Bog = Toilet, the actual toilet, not the “Washroom”.
I was aware of that but wondered how many of our other forumites were.:D
By: Lincoln 7 - 13th April 2011 at 14:03
I could’ve told you that Jim, without you driving to Cornwall!
It’s an old word for ant, hence emmets swarming all over the place like ants!
Oh, Cheers James, If it were not for going there to visit my son, I would be giving you some stick,It’s been on thhe forum re me going down there. I wish I were younger, and could afford the house prices down there, would be there like a shot.
I tried many yrs ago to get a transfer down there whilst in the Force, but they wanted you to be a Sgt, and also you had to be able to buy your own house neither of which, with 3 kids, we could do.
Ah, well, come the day I win the lottery, 1st, a Sunseeker, then………………..
Lincoln .7
By: pagen01 - 13th April 2011 at 12:37
I could’ve told you that Jim, without you driving to Cornwall!
It’s an old word for ant, hence emmets swarming all over the place like ants!
By: Lincoln 7 - 13th April 2011 at 09:11
Having just come back from Cornwall, and after a few enquiries, visitors to Cornwall are EMMETS.
In Devon, they are Grockles.
The Toll Booths now charge £1.50.for a car, to leave Cornwall, unless you go the back door way, and pay nothing. 😀
Lincoln .7
By: Sky High - 6th April 2011 at 08:16
😀
By: PeeDee - 5th April 2011 at 22:31
That’s me ! I’m a grockle ! 😀
No, you’re a Twirly!!!!
As in, boarding the Bus at 09:25am, when the cheap pensioner rate starts at 09:30.
“Am I Twirly?”
By: inkworm - 5th April 2011 at 16:16
Which does not eliminate the likelihood of it being used elsewhere as well, as we have read in earlier posts.
I know but it still makes me smile thinking about it.
By: spitfireman - 5th April 2011 at 16:06
An emmett is an ant, which rather tells you how some inhabitants of Cornwall see tourists (on whom they largely depend to keep the economy afloat.)
Edgar
I’ve lived and worked here since 1981 (and 4 years in Devon)
I still get called emmet now, I believe you have to have webbed toes to be called non-emmet.:)
By: Nashio966 - 5th April 2011 at 15:35
Geordie
Boogard = unserviceable
wayaee = yes
wayaee ya bad booga = yes mate
bandits boogard man = the one armed bandit appears to be unserviceable, mate
ee want a pint of Newcastle brune ya bad booga = breakfast?
This made my day mate :D:D
By: Sky High - 5th April 2011 at 15:35
Which does not eliminate the likelihood of it being used elsewhere as well, as we have read in earlier posts.
By: inkworm - 5th April 2011 at 15:28
I certainly remember as a kid talking to some old boy (Wilf) who had known my grandfather and been friends since they were at school some 100 years ago now, at this point a car pulls up and asks for direction. Wilf rattles of something or other which left this person totally bemused but made sense to me.
As the car pulls off and turns the wrong way, Wilf turned to me and said bloody grockles.
I think apart from the war he never left Somerset at all so I’m happy to agree with it being a West Country thing.
By: Edgar Brooks - 5th April 2011 at 14:02
An emmett is an ant, which rather tells you how some inhabitants of Cornwall see tourists (on whom they largely depend to keep the economy afloat.) Many years ago a friend went into a chemist’s shop, for some sunblock for her 2 year-old son. “Coconut oil,” said the girl,”It’s what the locals all use.” “Yes, and I’m not an emmett, so can we try again, please?” Red-faced, the girl got her the correct item (the boy would, literally, have fried, if she’d used the oil on his soft skin; locals, with skin like leather, are impervious.)
Edgar
By: Sky High - 5th April 2011 at 12:50
That’s not how I see, you BB………;)
By: BumbleBee - 5th April 2011 at 12:45
a nickname for a small elderly lady
That’s me ! I’m a grockle ! 😀
By: Sky High - 5th April 2011 at 10:55
No arguing about Emmet.
Torquay claims Grockle due to a film, in 1962.My old fella picked Grockle up from BlackPoo, in the late 40’s after he came home from the War. We heard it as kids and asked him what he was talking about, he explained that in BlackPoo, that’s what they call visitors.
Who cares? I’m not from either place LoL.
Peedee – that is an interesting point – about your father using it in the late 40s. This is from the Oxford English Dictionary, which confirms the rest of your comment.
“Grockle’ is an informal and often slightly derogatory term for a tourist. It was first popularized because of its use by the characters in the film The System (1962), which is set in the Devon resort of Torquay during the summer season. Some older dictionaries suggested that it might be a West Country dialect word. Other scholars have put forward the theory that it originated in a comparison of red-faced tourists (wearing baggy clothing with handkerchiefs on their heads) to ‘Grock’, a clown and music-hall performer who was famous in the first half of the 20th century.
The word ‘grockle’ was indeed picked up by The System’s scriptwriter from local people during filming in Torquay. However, it was apparently not an ‘old local dialect word’. According to research by a local journalist in the mid-1990s, the word in fact originated from a strip cartoon in the children’s comic Dandy entitled ‘Danny and his Grockle’. (The grockle was a magical dragon-like creature.) A local man, who had had a summer job at a swimming pool during as a youngster, said that he had used the term as a nickname for a small elderly lady who was a regular customer one season. During banter in the pub among the summer workers, ‘grockle’ then became generalized as a term for summer visitors.
This development seems to have occurred in, or only shortly before, the summer in which The System was filmed: the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary has no examples of the word dating from before the release of The System (though one or two people from the south-west remain convinced that they knew it before then).”
By: PeeDee - 5th April 2011 at 00:20
No arguing about Emmet.
Torquay claims Grockle due to a film, in 1962.
My old fella picked Grockle up from BlackPoo, in the late 40’s after he came home from the War. We heard it as kids and asked him what he was talking about, he explained that in BlackPoo, that’s what they call visitors.
Who cares? I’m not from either place LoL.
By: spitfireman - 5th April 2011 at 00:07
Grockles means tourists in just about every holiday town I’ve been too. It’s nowt do wi Devon lad.
It might do now, but it was derived in Torquay, which IIRC is in Devon.
Emmet was derived from Cornish, which is er…….Cornwall.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-emm1.htm
Baz
Sign In
March 23, 2011 at 3:57 pm