Old words we should use more

[Paulclem]

Are there any old words that you think we should use more?

I like the word "yonder", as in:

"Where is it?"

"Why, over yonder," - meaning generally over there where I'm pointing.

My older relatives used to say yonder when they meant anywhere but here, as in:

"Where's Bill?"

"Yonder".

Yonder - good word.

[dafydd manton]

Personally I love the good old insults of "Buffoon" and "Poltroon". So evocative.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Oh, great thread. Basically lots of words and phrases from the turn of the century the likes of: "such a bore" "dashing" "old chap" things like that. (Actually I still use those.)

Edit:

Such a good fellow...

[Paulclem]

Oh, great thread. Basically lots of words and phrases from the turn of the century the likes of: "such a bore" "dashing" "old chap" things like that. (Actually I still use those...)

I use old chap. "Such a bore" has to go with a look, or the palming gesture.

[dafydd manton]

Oh, absolutely, bang on! Wizard prang, what. Capital wheeze.

[papayahed]

- Goon

- Hooch

- Cripes

[dafydd manton]

Corks, chaps! Yaroo!

[LitNetIsGreat]

Infernal thing...

[dafydd manton]

Which Jeeves and Wooster was it where Bertie says about Jeeves:
"In this matter of shimmying into a room, the chappie is rummy to a degree"? Brilliant

[LitNetIsGreat]

Jeeves and Wooster classic stuff. Everybody should speak like Jeeves and Wooster and the world would be a beter place!!
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Captial. Capital, capital.

[Paulclem]

Which Jeeves and Wooster was it where Bertie says about Jeeves:
"In this matter of shimmying into a room, the chappie is rummy to a degree"? Brilliant

:lol:

Hither and thither and thrice. I still use thrice occaisionally - usually to the withering looks of my family.

Thrice times is useful too

[Hurricane]

"Behoove."

I try to bust it out in everyday speech every once in a while, but people just look at me weird.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

This is a grand idea.

Here are a few off the top of my "noggin"

“bully” as in “Bully for you”
“sodbuster” or simply “sod”
“Chum” - not fishing terminology. As in friend, buddy.
“fortnight”
“Fiddle sticks” - A less crass alternative to the other F word.

Gilliatt

[Paulclem]

"Behoove."

I try to bust it out in everyday speech every once in a while, but people just look at me weird.

Just looked it up. Great word.

[Paulclem]

Saucy

Such as when Lord Capulet remonstrates with Tybalt and says

"Go to thou saucy boy - go to!"

Whenever I was teaching Romeo and J I would come across it and remember to use it on the lad. :lol:

[dafydd manton]

What a top-hole piece of taradiddle this is. Corking!

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

What a top-hole piece of taradiddle this is. Corking!

"Taradiddle" ??

A few more:

Hey there Thelma Jean, how do you like my new hotrod? Looks smashing doesn’t it?
Only the best for my favorite dame. It’s a gullywasher out there, so you best throw on this mackintosh.
You don’t want that girdle getting soaked!

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[Sebas. Melmoth]

conniption: a fit of rage, hysteria, or alarm.

[Maximilianus]

I'm going to love this thread. It's so educative :p Such language revival threads should be stickied, in my humble opinion :D

[Delta40]

slimikin adj 1745 -1745
small and slender
She was a slimikin young woman who often flirted with the schoolboys at the academy.

[Whifflingpin]

malapert

[BibliophileTRJ]

one of my favorites.... Prolix


pro·lix   [proh-liks, proh-liks]
–adjective
1. extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.
2. (of a person) given to speaking or writing at great or tedious length.

[MANICHAEAN]

At one time the adjective "cross" was used almost as a description of Jove like wrath. In today's context its use can be compared to the vultures tearing out the liver of Prometheus & asking if he were "piqued"

[LitNetIsGreat]

Rot, rotter - "don't talk such rot", "that fellow's a damn rotter".

[Emil Miller]

Vapours.

As when women were feeling particularly fragile they were said to be having a 'touch of the vapours.'
Going from the Victorian to the Elizabethan, two more that I like are 'Zounds!' and 'Gadzooks!'.

[Lokasenna]

I remember that when we did Chaucer's The Merchant's Tale at A-Level, we decided, after reading the dénoument, that the verb 'to throng', as used in the context of Damyan's enjoyment of May, should be brought back into the language:

Ladyes, I prey yow that ye be nat wrooth;
I kan nat glose, I am a rude man --
And sodeynly anon this Damyan
Gan pullen up the smok, and in he throng.

[MANICHAEAN]

There is habit of saying something followed by a loud exclamation of: "WHAT, WHAT!"

Very British & I presume means "Take serious note" or "Do you agree?"

[Emil Miller]

Some others of a derogatory nature:

1. Popinjay.

2. Strumpet.

3. Flibbertigibbet.

[dafydd manton]

Sadly, "Forsooth" has gone, as has a "wench" being a "Comely maid".

[LitNetIsGreat]

Sadly, "Forsooth" has gone, as has a "wench" being a "Comely maid".

:lol: Ah, gone are those days when you could take a frothy jug of ale, have a big beefy pie and have a comely tavern wench on your knee.

:leaving:

[dafydd manton]

"Landlord - two stoups of your finest Brown Bastard"

[The Atheist]

Personally I love the good old insults of "Buffoon" and "Poltroon". So evocative.

I just have to throw in the occasional "niggardly" just for shock value.

Other than that, I use most of the words so far!

:lol:

Cads, the lot of you.

[dafydd manton]

Inded, Sirrah!? (I actually used to know an oldish guy in Derbyshire who always called the bus drivers Sirrah or Sirree. Quaint!)

[Emil Miller]

:lol: Ah, gone are those days when you could take a frothy jug of ale, have a big beefy pie and have a comely tavern wench on your knee.

:leaving:

These days it's more likely to be crumbly tavern pie and a big beefy wench on your knee.

[dafydd manton]

I'm coming to your local!

[Paulclem]

Waifs and urchins. I still refer to little kids playing on the street as urchins.

[dafydd manton]

My Mother may her snobbish bones rest in peace, referred to other peoples' children as "gutter urchins". Sadly, she wasn't joking!

[Emil Miller]

I'm coming to your local!

It's not my local now, I moved out when the ubiquitous Elvis Presley lookalike moved in. I don't mind Elvis lookalikes but I won't stand for Elvis sound alikes.
The beefy wenches are still there for those who like 'em big.

Incidentally, and I know that you have set the new avatar to see who mentions it first, but does it mean that you will now be known as Daffyd Duck?

[JuniperWoolf]

I've got one: alack.

Kid drops ice cream cone on sidewalk.

Kid: ALACK!!!

[dafydd manton]

It's not my local now, I moved out when the ubiquitous Elvis Presley lookalike moved in. I don't mind Elvis lookalikes but I won't stand for Elvis sound alikes.
The beefy wenches are still there for those who like 'em big.

Incidentally, and I know that you have set the new avatar to see who mentions it first, but does it mean that you will now be known as Daffyd Duck?

I don't think I have a deal of choice Brian. It seems to have been foisted upon me by certain urchins, such as Jerrybaldy, Hawkman, Haunted, Delta40, Maryd, Hillwalker and many others. Bunch of miscreants, felons, bad eggs!

[Basil]

Only the best for my favorite dame.

I always thought it was entertaining to refer to women as skirts.

But you have to be careful; some broads don't like it when you call them that.

[Emil Miller]

I don't think I have a deal of choice Brian. It seems to have been foisted upon me by certain urchins, such as Jerrybaldy, Hawkman, Haunted, Delta40, Maryd, Hillwalker and many others. Bunch of miscreants, felons, bad eggs!

Clearly I am, as usual, behind the LitNet times, but as one who has to smile indulgently and say "I wouldn't mind Rowan Atkinson's money," I sympathise with your plight.

[dafydd manton]

Terrible blackguards, what?

[Emil Miller]

Terrible blackguards, what?

Let's be kind and call them misguided poltroons.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Top form Brian and Dafydd. :lol: Young Basil is right though you have to be careful what you call these wenches these days, they can get the face on quite easily y'know. Tally-ho!

Paul, yes Mrs Neely still uses urchins quite a lot.

Other words/phrases I like include the betting slang - "I've just had a monkey on that at double carpet" etc, etc.

Edit: oh, oh "ruffians" that's a good one. "Good egg" too!!

[Paulclem]

I like the word sup as in "Lets sup", or "Are we supping tonight?"

It was used in Yorkshire quite a lot when I was there.

[Paulclem]

I've got one: alack.

Kid drops ice cream cone on sidewalk.

Kid: ALACK!!!

I sometimes use alas. Good for comedy.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Imagine the following in the voice of Fat Bastard from Austin Powers:

Lassie your look’n awfully fetching in your new crinoline corset.
I’m suddenly feeling a bit randy !.
How do you Americans put it?...ah yes,… “I’m feeling frisky !.”
I hearken back to the days when we were uh court’n


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[MANICHAEAN]

1. Perforce.

Forcibly, unavoidably, of necessity.

2. Apt.

Becoming, appropriate, proper.

3. Depredations.

The action of plundering, pillaging or despoiling.

[Emil Miller]

Some others with somewhat pejorative connotations:

Rapscallion.

Whippersnapper.

Pipsqueak.

Scallywag.

So much more refined than today's vernacular, I'll wager.

A word that I would welcome back into general use would be 'Dudgeon' as in:

'He went off in a high dudgeon.'

[dafydd manton]

I like the word sup as in "Lets sup", or "Are we supping tonight?"

It was used in Yorkshire quite a lot when I was there.

Still is, Paul. Only yesterday morning heard the line "Ee we supped some stuff last neet.!"

Whatever came of "sennight" for a week? And "eventide"? "This very morn" seems to have gone by the board as well.

[MANICHAEAN]

They keep getting dragged up from the little grey cells!

1. Contumely.

2. Divers.

3. Felicity.

4. Lo.

5. Sally forth.

6. Hath.

7. Nipping.

[Paulclem]

Still is, Paul. Only yesterday morning heard the line "Ee we supped some stuff last neet.!"

Whatever came of "sennight" for a week? And "eventide"? "This very morn" seems to have gone by the board as well.

I wasn't sure if it was still used.

I like "on the morrow".

[Paulclem]

They keep getting dragged up from the little grey cells!

1. Contumely.

2. Divers.

3. Felicity.

4. Lo.

5. Sally forth.

6. Hath.

7. Nipping.

We still use nipping, as in nipping to the shops. Also nippy - as in cold.

[Lokasenna]

I don't know whether to be happy or alarmed that I still use most of the words mentioned...

[Emil Miller]

Another peculiar expression that must convince foreigners that we are truly mad, even though it isn't used so much these days, is 'razed to the ground.'
Since being English is no longer "having drawn a winning ticket in the lottery of life" as the saying went, I sympathise with foreigners when they hear this phrase. I don't think it's worth trying to explain the difference between raze and raise though. :svengo:

[LitNetIsGreat]

I think that we should make some sort of Masonistic pact, whereby we few fellows (and wenches - after all it is the 20th century!) attempt to bring these words back into general usage. We should adhere to the principle, that as the majority of the above words make life fun again, add colour to our grey skies, we should do everything in our power to restore them, to resuscitate their beauty and richness to the everyday. Those in agreement should compete the following:

I ...Neely..., good egg and ...fellow/wench... jolly well pledge to the principle of fully restoring quaint and almost out of fashion words into general usage. I will converse as much as jolly well possible with such words listed above and to encourage other chaps to do the same. I will reject outright all modern word usage, such as "chilax" and such dreadful monstrosities as threatening and dangerous to the good olde English as we want it. What's more if any scallywag, ruffian or cut purse should attempt such an insult to language in my presence I shall sally forth most promptly from such a conversation, what?

Signed ...Neely...

Neely :smilewinkgrin:

Consider it a protest in the name of good language and charm.

[prendrelemick]

We use "thee" and "thou" and "tha" and "yon" and "dost" all the time. More to do with the local accent being a bit old fashioned.

I have heard myself use "heaven forfend" and "Maister" lately, while "divers" is becoming one of my favourites too.

[dafydd manton]

I say, Neely, what a thoroughly nifty idea, old bean. Right on the button, don't you know. The Beak would have been chuffed to Naafi Breaks.

[Paulclem]

We use "thee" and "thou" and "tha" and "yon" and "dost" all the time. More to do with the local accent being a bit old fashioned.

I have heard myself use "heaven forfend" and "Maister" lately, while "divers" is becoming one of my favourites too.

Mick, I was thinking about words we used as kids on the estate in Wakefield. I remembered using the word "jewed" meaning conned, (though i had absolutely no idea that it referred to a racial stereotype). Did you use that one?

Disturbing as it is as an example of racism embedded in the language, it does point to a fascinating insight into past attitudes towards minorities. There were pogroms in York, and these may well have gone on in smaller cities.

By the way , I'm not advocating we start to re-use it. It's just an interesting social snippet.

[prendrelemick]

Yes we did use it, in fact I heard it used the other day in that context, and it really jarred.

[Sebas. Melmoth]

behemoth: something of monstrous size or power

leviathan: something large or formidable

[Sebas. Melmoth]

Some others with somewhat pejorative connotations: Rapscallion, &ct.

Can't believe you forgot blackguard.

[dafydd manton]

Post # 42 refers. We don't do our "olde worlde" by halves, good Sir.

[Paulclem]

Yes we did use it, in fact I heard it used the other day in that context, and it really jarred.

I bet it did. I remembered it and wondered if it was still used. It's funny how it is an unconscious racism passed down in the language.

[Paulclem]

We use "thee" and "thou" and "tha" and "yon" and "dost" all the time. More to do with the local accent being a bit old fashioned.

I have heard myself use "heaven forfend" and "Maister" lately, while "divers" is becoming one of my favourites too.

I had cousins in Fitzwilliam who spoke like that. We thought were a bit more... cosmopolitan in Wakefield.

I used to like telling my GCSE students a few years back about the cousins, and pointed out that their language was more Shakespearian.

:lol:

[MANICHAEAN]

Neely sign me up. I have for some time had private disquisitions, stirred no doubt by a premonitory echo, of the current usage of words in the English language. I have however endeavoured to maintain an imperturbable insouciance whilst assuming an air of urbane comprehension in the face of modern day disparagement.

What! What!

[Neo_Sephiroth]

Hmmm...Maybe you could pick a word out of this or not at all but I always say..."What in the blue blazes is going on here?!"

Perhaps that's a little homedown country but I like it.

[prendrelemick]

two words I have read recently concerning personalities :- Virago and Tartar.

[Paulclem]

I'll wager.

Not often you hear, I'll wager on the end of a sentence.

[prendrelemick]

A recent one that has had its day in the sun and has almost died out is - so and so "Rules OK", a Graffitti based phrase I never quite understood.

[dafydd manton]

I saw a rejoinder to that, in Wolverhampton (of all places) Queen Elizabeth Rules UK

[papayahed]

Trollop.

[BienvenuJDC]

I've always thought that the word, 'acquiesce' was a beautiful word.

[Paulclem]

I like kerfuffle and fracas.

Kerfuffle was given a nerdy twang by Lou in Little Britain, and just denotes a slight disagreement up to a bit of shoving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMBG4CzAL1w&feature=related

Fracas is a bit more serious and can be a full blown scrap without serious consequences, or can be a euphemism about a serious fight. I used it in this sense once to a visiting Staff Officer who came to our Officer Training Corps unit and questioned me about a huge black eye I'd got. He laughed about it fortunately.

[Propter W.]

I can't think of any old words, but I prefer to spell connection as connexion.

[MarkBastable]

I can't think of any old words, but I prefer to spell connection as connexion.


....Why?

[Propter W.]

....Why?


It's a lot cooler with the X :coolgleamA:

[Patrick_Bateman]

Sobriquet, remonstrate, supercilious, jejune and obsequious

[dafydd manton]

May I "shew" you something.....I've only ever know one person use it, which is probably a good thing.

[Paulclem]

Roustabout

Good word roustabout - as in "bugger off you young roustabout".

[dafydd manton]

Don't hear much about the Hobbledehoy, either, poor lad.

[MANICHAEAN]

Words that evoke Olde England:

Roistered.
Wenched.
Spunk.

Words I remember growing up in North London:

Gaff.
Barney.
Khazi.
Clobber.
Gelt.
Scarper.
Doss.
Schmutter.

Polari word from the 1950's / 60's imortalised in "Around The Horne":

Munjare.
Bona.
Naff.
Bungery.
Dally.
Fantabulosa.
Lallie tappers.
Mince.

[Paulclem]

Don't hear much about the Hobbledehoy, either, poor lad.

Do you hear the word leke much Dafydd? Leke - scandanavian word meaning play. We always used it in Wakefield.

[prendrelemick]

I bet tha were alus laikin on them slag eaps, Paul.

Once read in The Dandy, about 1968 - "Odds bodkins! we are undone."

[dafydd manton]

Zounds - I like it! Paul they laik cricket wi' corkies in Barnsley, lad. (There is a road near a cricket ground called Cover Drive!)

manichaean - how bona to vada your dolly old eek again, ducky! (Not me, Kenneth Williams. All just repeated on Radio 7. Not missed on of them. Bona! 'Scuse me,must troll.

[MANICHAEAN]

Dafydd. You swore you'd never tell!
Go on, purge yourself and lav your luppers on the strillers bona.
M

[altheskeptic]

Crackpot.

[papayahed]

This is more of a phrase but I never hear "Knuckle Sandwich" anymore.

[prendrelemick]

What! Fistycuffs?

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

My son and I were watching Star Trek last night (TOS)...

(Captain Kirk) : "They're coming to brain us."

(It was the episode with the creatures that look like fried eggs that would latch on to people and drive them mad)

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[dafydd manton]

This is more of a phrase but I never hear "Knuckle Sandwich" anymore.

Ah, a Bunch of Fives up the Bracket!

Whatever became of all thos lovely words for nose, such as beak, snitch, conk, hooter....

[Paulclem]

I bet tha were alus laikin on them slag eaps, Paul.

Once read in The Dandy, about 1968 - "Odds bodkins! we are undone."

Aye, 'an ah'd get a clip round t'ear when ah got 'ome covered in muck.

Ah, the old lingo.


My son and I were watching Star Trek last night (TOS)...

(Captain Kirk) : "They're coming to brain us."

(It was the episode with the creatures that look like fried eggs that would latch on to people and drive them mad)

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My Dad used to tell us that my Grandad used to keep a stick at the side of the table and would "nap" them on the top of the head if they messed about at the table.

[Emil Miller]

I think there is no better word to describe the women of today than 'pulchritudinous'.

I bet that's got some of them reaching for their dictionaries.

[Scheherazade]

My Dad used to tell us that my Grandad used to keep a stick at the side of the table and would "nap" them on the top of the head if they messed about at the table.I used to read in old books how they boxed someone's ears. Wish it was used today too! Sounds kewl:

"Don't make me come up there and box your ears!!!"

[Paulclem]

I used to read in old books how they boxed someone's ears. Wish it was used today too! Sounds kewl:

"Don't make me come up there and box your ears!!!"

I never knew what that was. We used to get a clip round the ear, which was a slap at the side of the head. Arrestable now.

[hazelk]

How about : "If I catch you I will skin you alive".

[MANICHAEAN]

Ere

Morn

Guerdon

Sage

Twain.

Bespake.

Bidden.

Aught.

Hither.

Wan.

Anon.

[dafydd manton]

By Jove, fellows, might I crave a boon? That we include "curmedgeon"?

[prendrelemick]

Recently read in a book. "Naif" which appears (from its context) to be the forerunner of "Naff."

[MarkBastable]

Recently read in a book. "Naif" which appears (from its context) to be the forerunner of "Naff."

It's French, the masculine form of 'naive'. Before 'naive' became an accepted English word, many writers felt that you should use either the masculine or feminine form according to context.

There's one other adjective currently used in English of which this is true - it has masculine and feminine forms, although these tend to manifest themselves, oddly, when the French adjective is used as an English noun.

What is it?


By Jove, fellows, might I crave a boon? That we include "curmedgeon"?

Only if we spell it right.

Though, actually, I'm not sure it's ever fallen out of use. A lot of people who know me use it all the time.

[dafydd manton]

Only if we spell it right.

Though, actually, I'm not sure it's ever fallen out of use. A lot of people who know me use it all the time.

Ah, sorry, Mark, the dreaded tryping errot. In light of your comment, I believe you! Cheers.

[prendrelemick]

Is being afianced to a blue stocking, worse than being betrothed to a harridan?

[dafydd manton]

Neither is as good as an assignation with a Trollop.

[prendrelemick]

or a dalliance with a strumpet

[Paulclem]

It's the fleshpots of Halifax again...

[Emil Miller]

A word that seems to have fallen into disuse is 'Collywobles' to describe anything from the bubonic plague to a head cold.

[Paulclem]

Collywobbles - we used to use that in Yorkshire.
There are a lot of dialect words we used to use in Yorkshire such as the word "spice" for sweets when we were kids. We also used the word "spogs" for the same - which I've never heard since.

Money we referred to as "kell" which I've also never heard anywhere else. Your lunch was referred to as "snap" - which I've heard referred to in Irish circles. My mum and Dad used this word all the time.

[prendrelemick]

It's the fleshpots of Halifax again...


I hope our ribald japery hasn't earned your disapprobation sir.

[Beautifull]

To those who will lend thy ear,
From over leaps and bounds
and places near,
it's good to hear this sound


Of mine own peace.

To those who give care to this greeting, Hello, how do you do?

[Paulclem]

I hope our ribald japery hasn't earned your disapprobation sir.

Profoundly sir!

[dafydd manton]

"Snap" is still in common use, or "packing up" for the same thing. I like the old Scots "scran" for food, still common in the Armed Forces but nowhere els, it seems.

Another one I haven't heard for a while is "Spanish" for liquorice. When I worked on the buses in Sheffield, often women would give the children the money to give to the driver, with the injunction "Gie' it mester!" And one woman who asked for one and a half to the Ternimus. Her little dear asked why it was called a Ternimus, and she said (I promise) "Cos when 'e gets theer, 'e must turn, ter coom back!" Oh well.

[L.M. The Third]

Maybe we can add 'rogue' and 'roguery' to the invectives.

[dafydd manton]

Along with "felon" and "felony", perhaps!

[L.M. The Third]

I think 'miscreant' is in relatively common use. But...

[papayahed]

nincompoop

nitwit

[Paulclem]

"Snap" is still in common use, or "packing up" for the same thing. I like the old Scots "scran" for food, still common in the Armed Forces but nowhere els, it seems.

Another one I haven't heard for a while is "Spanish" for liquorice. When I worked on the buses in Sheffield, often women would give the children the money to give to the driver, with the injunction "Gie' it mester!" And one woman who asked for one and a half to the Ternimus. Her little dear asked why it was called a Ternimus, and she said (I promise) "Cos when 'e gets theer, 'e must turn, ter coom back!" Oh well.
:lol:

I've used scran too. A mate of mine who was in the paras used it.

We used Spanish for liquorice when i was a kid. My wife, when she first came to Yorkshire, was asked by a kid if she wanted some "Spanish". She just thought he was being cheeky and gave him a punch - probably.

The malapropisms are great aren't they?

[prendrelemick]

we used snap and scran and spanish, though spanish was the liquorice shoe laces only.
Another word for your pack up was "baggins".

"Felon" still means mastitis in cows round here..

[Paulclem]

we used snap and scran and spanish, though spanish was the liquorice shoe laces only.
Another word for your pack up was "baggins".

"Felon" still means mastitis in cows round here..

Fascinating.

I remember my dad talking about tups - referring to sheep.

[hazelk]

Scrumptious.

[Paulclem]

Scrumptious.

Truly?

[prendrelemick]

Aye, the Autumn Tup sales are upon us at this moment. (Tup=Ram)

When my daughter was eight she was playing junior Scrabble at a friends house, and shocked the parents by spelling out "Tup":D

Other sheepish words are:- shearling, wether, gimmer, hogg and rigg, also,but not from round here, tegg and hogget.

[Paulclem]

Aye, the Autumn Tup sales are upon us at this moment. (Tup=Ram)

When my daughter was eight she was playing junior Scrabble at a friends house, and shocked the parents by spelling out "Tup":D

Other sheepish words are:- shearling, wether, gimmer, hogg and rigg, also,but not from round here, tegg and hogget.

Did you ever see that edition of the generation Game, (it was when there was now't on and only 3 channels of now't), when Brucie was taking the mick out of a couple who answered some sheep related question with "Tup"?

I've heard of wether and gimmer. I seem to remember gimmer being a term of abuse on the estates of Wakey. I think it implied some kind of disability. Terribly un-pc was the language then.

[Whifflingpin]

A young sheep could be a yeanling

[Paulclem]

I'll always remember my Grandma telling us not to "tummel" when we used to run about in her house.

E.g. Tha'll tummell. (You'll fall)

I suppose it comes from tumble.

[prendrelemick]

A young sheep could be a yeanling

Where is that from? I wonder if it is a variant of weanling or weaner.

[Silas Thorne]

'jobbie'
Nothing to do with jobs, except those born of hard work in the second category (ie not 'number ones').

[Delta40]

lol. My scottish Grandma used to call them that! 'Go and do a wee jobbie'

[L.M. The Third]

Albeit.

[prendrelemick]

bow-pot

[Paulclem]

bow-pot

What's a bow pot?

[Whifflingpin]

"A young sheep could be a yeanling"

"Where is that from? I wonder if it is a variant of weanling or weaner"

To yean is to give birth, a yeanling is a newborn.

Add yean to the list.

[prendrelemick]

Excellent WP. Thanks for that.

A Bow pot is a bouquet - according to Vanity Fair by William M Thackray

[Silas Thorne]

glaikit (from Scottish English)
pronounced 'gleekit'
stupid, foolish.

peely-wally (also from Scottish English)
sickly, pale

[BibliophileTRJ]

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[papayahed]

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Nice!!!

[Paulclem]

What a fine word brouhaha is.

[prendrelemick]

What a fine word brouhaha is.

indubitably

[Paulclem]

I found out today that wassail is Norse "ves hei" meaning good health.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1239580/Mulling-drinks-My-Wassail-Cup-hot-favourite.html

When I was a young lad in Yorkshire , we used to refer to the baubles on the Christmas tree as wassail cups. I've no idea whether this was a local corruption of the original meaning or it has something to do with dressing the tree. Did you refer to them in this way Mick?

What is certain is that it was brought to England by Viking Invaders who settled the North of England and established Danelaw. What's really interesting for me is that it was part of the language heritage that I grew up with - in complete ignorence - but which has stayed with me. L

leke - meaning play - is another word we used all the time in Yorkshire, but I've never heard anywhere else. (I've mentioned this before elsewhere). This is also a Nordic word and came to me and my fellows through the Norse occupiers of the North of England.

It's fascinating stuff.

[prendrelemick]

No we never called them that.

But eke has a long and proud back story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuP1eycaA6c

[Paulclem]

No we never called them that.

But eke has a long and proud back story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuP1eycaA6c

The Goodies - how we all watched them then - how outdated they seem now. Ekky Thump still resonates though.

I made a mistake - I meant to write leke - I have corrected the post.

[Paulclem]

Balderdash - it's a word that speaks its mind, but which is not too offensive. Good for certain situations where an edge of comedy is needed.

[prendrelemick]

Balderdash is often twinned with twaddle

[Paulclem]

Balderdash is often twinned with twaddle

.......two towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire.