A thread dedicated to all those little words and phrases

that get bounded about all over the place, I'll start with one that everyone uses today to explain absolutely everything:

"Well,

it's all relative isn't it?"

'Literally' in every sentence, (when it isn't literal at all.)

'For sure', after every sentence when they get stuffed. (Certain useless managers

only.)

'At the end of the day'. (You go to bed?)

'To tell the truth'. (To ****ing lie)

'absolutely' is another

one after every sentence.

"I

can't be ar$ed".........arggghhhhh!!! :disgust:

Here's one that generally baffles non-scousers, the word "arl-arse"(if thats how you spell it) I.e. meaning to be slack to someone or

someone how is slack is known as an "arl-arse".
Can anyone help?? i've never heard it said outside of the city.

Here's one that

generally baffles non-scousers, the word "arl-arse"(if thats how you spell it) I.e. meaning to be slack to someone or someone how is slack is known as an

"arl-arse".
Can anyone help?? i've never heard it said outside of the city.

old [ohld] arse

[ahrs]

–adjective
1. of or pertaining to geriatrics, old age, or aged persons.

–noun
2. Slang. an old person.

(vulgar).

Note: It is now probably illegal to use such a derogatory term. :D

:rolleyes:

Note: It is now probably illegal to use such a derogatory term. :D



:rolleyes:


:D

'awl ar$e' pronounced 'owl ar$e' :D

... doesn't have to mean an

eldery person ... but can mean a mean spirited person - a nark, or someone sly.

I've always heard it used that way too lindy, when someone gets one over on somebody else.

Antwacky (is that how you spell it?)

Ha,ha, that's a good one. I remember

people saying it a lot years ago. :)

He's a brick short of a load.

Antwacky?As in "old", "ancient", "out of fashion"

etc. The Scouse pronounciation of antique I believe.

'turned around and said .... as in - ''she turned 'round and said to me ....''

is it a mainly L'pool'ism or do they say this in other regions?

I get a vision of someone spinning around to say something. :D

"At the end of the day" is the newest UK vogue saying. I have heard it on radio and tv broadcasts and almost everyone in Britain seem to be using the expression. Another quite irksome expression is the use of the word? "Yeah" after every sentence which, in my experience, is unique to the UK.

"At the end of the day" is the newest UK vogue saying. I have heard it on radio and tv broadcasts and almost everyone in Britain seem to be using the expression. Another quite irksome expression is the use of the word? "Yeah" after every sentence which, in my experience, is unique to the UK.

Hi, Sloyne

I agree that the "Yeah" after every sentence is irritating and seems a sloppy way of talking. Other additions to English speech from when I lived in Britain in the Sixties are the use of the word "Brilliant" or simply "Brill" and the expression "Cheers" for thanks.

Each of these expressions, now widespread, I believe was unknown in prior decades or at least not as prevalent as they are now.

I have to wonder whether some of these things come from TV characters? Can anybody illuminate these two expats, Sloyne and myself? :snf (41):

Thanks in advance.

Chris

It seems that the vocabulary changes every time I go back to the Uk.
One of the first expessions I noticed even before I left was "At this time", seems like a waste of letters, 10 as against 3 in 'now', which means the same. I first noticed this expression being used by trade union representatives in TV interviews, I don't know if they originated it.
I blame TV presenters for inventing a lot of nonsense, I notices years ago they started pronouncing 'golf' with the O sounding like OA in 'goal'. I had never heard it pronounced this way anywhere I had been in the UK.
The 'yeah' after every sentence I find annoying too, Canadians say 'eh' after every sentence this sounds just as stupid to me.
I still speak the way I have always done, but there are words in use in the UK that aren't in use here that I don't use any more. I probably sound like a foreigner to the modern generation in the UK. There are words I refuse to use over there too, gobsmacked is one, where did that come from?, gutted is another, sounds like something you do to a fish.
Another thing I find annoying, I think politicians on TV are to blame for this one. People asking a question then immediately answering it themselves.
Americans have an annoying habit of phrasing questions as a statement, like 'You do" said in an enquiring tone instead of 'Do you?'.
While I am on my soapbox I might as well ***** about everything. People who make a parentheses sign with their fingers while talking. Who started that?
People making a telephone sign with thumb and forefinger, looks really childish to me.
It sems that if some people were handcuffed they would become dumb.

It seems that the vocabulary changes every time I go back to the Uk.
One of the first expessions I noticed even before I left was "At this time", seems like a waste of letters, 10 as against 3 in 'now', which means the same. I first noticed this expression being used by trade union representatives in TV interviews, I don't know if they originated it.
I blame TV presenters for inventing a lot of nonsense, I notices years ago they started pronouncing 'golf' with the O sounding like OA in 'goal'. I had never heard it pronounced this way anywhere I had been in the UK.
The 'yeah' after every sentence I find annoying too, Canadians say 'eh' after every sentence this sounds just as stupid to me.
I still speak the way I have always done, but there are words in use in the UK that aren't in use here that I don't use any more. I probably sound like a foreigner to the modern generation in the UK. There are words I refuse to use over there too, gobsmacked is one, where did that come from?, gutted is another, sounds like something you do to a fish.
Another thing I find annoying, I think politicians on TV are to blame for this one. People asking a question then immediately answering it themselves.
Americans have an annoying habit of phrasing questions as a statement, like 'You do" said in an enquiring tone instead of 'Do you?'.
While I am on my soapbox I might as well ***** about everything. People who make a parentheses sign with their fingers while talking. Who started that?
People making a telephone sign with thumb and forefinger, looks really childish to me.
It sems that if some people were handcuffed they would become dumb.

Yep I agree that "gobsmacked" is a ubiquitous term in the UK today.

Don't you mean make a quotation sign with their fingers not a parentheses?

I agree that the telephone sign with thumb and forefinger, beloved of standup comedians, always looks odd since a phone doesn't look like that. Hmmmm.....

And getting to BBC English as opposed to English as it should be spoke, doesn't the pronunciation of "auction" as "ork-tion" get to you when you hear it on "Antiques Roadshow" or "Cash In the Attic"???!!!! :disgust:

Cghris

My mistake Chrisgeorge, I did mean quotation marks,apologies.:037:

Looking for a sense of 'closure', used in all aspects of people's lives. A great phrase that describes exactly the feeling when you have moved on with something or other. Surely this phrase has come from watching too many episodes of Friends? :celb (23):

It sems that if some people were handcuffed they would become dumb.

Speak to the hand .... :D because the head ain't listening ...

Whats that all about ..

Looking for a sense of 'closure', used in all aspects of people's lives. A great phrase that describes exactly the feeling when you have moved on with something or other. Surely this phrase has come from watching too many episodes of Friends? :celb (23):

That and saying a person has "passed" rather than passed away, died, deceased, snuffed it. . .

Chris

That and saying a person has "passed" rather than passed away, died, deceased, snuffed it. . .

Chris


You forgot 'kicked the bucket' :D

.... or 'croaked' lol!

Or 'gone on the big row boat to'eaven' :D

shuffled off this mortal coil. . .

'popped his clogs' :D

fell off his perch:PDT_Aliboronz_11:

fell off his perch:PDT_Aliboronz_11:

pining for the fiords. . .

'oven ready' :o

stripped to the wishbone. . . :rolleyes:

Dead as a door nail.............kerputt!

This one is poular of late:

Q- '' How are you?''
A- ''I'm good''

'I'm good' also used in other contexts as well.

Hearing a lot of tv presenters using it. :rolleyes:

This one is poular of late:

Q- '' How are you?''
A- ''I'm good''

'I'm good' also used in other contexts as well.

Hearing a lot of tv presenters using it. :rolleyes:

Blame USA Sit Com Friends for it all.

'Dya knoworramean?'
'Right' - said in every sentence at least 4 times
'PYARR BEAST!' :rolleyes:
'Boss'
'Get the stun' - haha, this phrase was actually banned from my School, as it was said so much it annoyed the teachers.

I like saying boss.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

And getting to BBC English as opposed to English as it should be spoke, doesn't the pronunciation of "auction" as "ork-tion" get to you when you hear it on "Antiques Roadshow" or "Cash In the Attic"???!!!! :disgust:

Cghris

No, because 'ork-shon' and 'ock-shon' are both valid pronunciations, and I prefer the former.

'turned around and said .... as in - ''she turned 'round and said to me ....''

is it a mainly L'pool'ism or do they say this in other regions?

I get a vision of someone spinning around to say something. :D


It is used in other parts of the country but, wherever it's said, it really annoys
me!

Blame USA Sit Com Friends for it all.

another American one that caught on is, '' you're not all that !''

'he's not all that'

:rolleyes: ..... all what !! ?? grrr !

Here's one that makes me grit my teeth;

PLUMPED ... grrrrrrrrrr

When talking about a choice. ie; 'I plumped for that one'

ugh!!

Anyone noticing how the Liverpool Echo are increasingly using colloquial terms in their news reports ?
I noticed they used the word 'Offie' for Off-Licence !

Perhaps they think their readers will understand slang better ! :rolleyes: :)

Also; advertisment for womens' pyjamas - ' Wincy PJ's ' !!! lol !

Wincy PJ's .. what chance would a foreigner make of that !! as my old gran would say ! ha!

I'm bumping this thread up - 'cos Ged made me smile by talking about lino and 'oil cloth' - remember that ! :) :)

Also, he said about the living room being called the kitchen. Is this a Liverpool thing or was it the same elsewhere? You don't hear a living room being called that these days.

I get laughed at 'cos I say vestibule .. the part between the front door and the second hall door - -well it IS a vestibule! :unibrow:

it was only when we got a 'through lounge' that I stopped saying front parlour and back parlour !! ha,Ha.

:)

And just in case anyone thinks we had a cooker behind the sofa or something, the place where the cooking was done was the 'back kitchen'

In the tennies, these were quite tiny, but adequate and of course luxury to the old sculleries in pre 1930s housing.

I think it was a generational thing as now of course, it's simply the living room for where your 3 piece and telly is and the kitchen where you cook.

Like everything else of its age, tiny terraced streets have little parking facilities because there were no car owners back then, kitchens were small as kids were seen and not heard and certainly wouldn't be allowed to raid the cupboards which of course back then would be the larder or pantry (what's a fridge)


We also had coal holes and a cough loft or something that sounding like that anyway :)

I have to check myself that I don't slip up and say front parlour !! 'cos the young kids look at me blank - and say 'what's a parlour ! ?' ha,ha.

What about the council houses we used to call 'parlour houses' - and there were the ones called 'sunshine houses' :)

Did anyone ever have their 'mam' (not mum) tell you she'd 'marmalise yer' as in 'Brain yer' as in 'do yer in'

Do you remember keeping 'dixie'

or leggin' it.


Custy was great.

yeah, I think I used the expression 'marmalised' not so long ago ... giving my age away ! :rolleyes: :D


here's one to confuse any non-Scousers looking in - - we call the yard door into the entry (alleyway) a backDOOR and not a backGATE.

I have argued this many times ! :D I think it's only outside of L'pool they call them backgates.
The backdoor leads into the entry. The door going into the house is the kitchen door 'cos it leads into the kitchen! simple as that ! :unibrow:

ps,
gates are in gardens and not backyards ! :)

When my dad was young, to mug someone was to buy them a pint, to be gay meant to be happy (not that gays might not be you understand)

How meanings change.

The term to mug someone - meaning to treat them to something nice was still used up until approx 1970s. I remember quite clearly people saying it, 'common' I'll mug you to a night out at the pictures' - or something similar.

I wonder where the new meaning came from ? To attack and rob someone ??

I remember my Mum saying "Are you going to mug me?" when I got my first pay packet (another phrase that has slipped out of use). This was in the 60s. How times have changed.......... My Dad also used to call men who were not to his liking "Yard Dogs". Its a fabulous phrase and sums up people who dont stand their round, lazy sods who dont put the bins out on the right day etc, but is now sadly out of use. Anyone remember it? Americans say "junkyard Dog".

The most stupid new phrase I have heard in to "deplane" as it to get off an airplane. Heard whilst in Florida last year

Havn't heard that one Partsky - deplane.

Havn't heard that one Partsky - deplane.

Yeah, that little bloke on Fantasy Island used to say it all the time
"Boss, deplane!"

What about these ones,
Cabbaged, done in and knackered = tired
yer doin ne ead in = you are annoying me
me judie= my wife, girlfriend (or feminin civil partner now):eek:
jigger = back alley

When I was in England in December, my aunt often said "flip an egg". Is this a common expression or is it rather rare?

you might mean 'flippin' heck' .. we drop our 'H's so it sounds like 'flippin' eck'

Me Danny - My Car.
The owld girl - My Mother

We used to refer to back entries as 'ennogs' (don't know if that's how it is spelt).
Hate it when football players/pundits say the perennial 'hit the back of the net'. The back of the net is behind the goal. Also 'first things first.'
Another: 'near miss' - shouldn't it be near hit?

you might mean 'flippin' heck' .. we drop our 'H's so it sounds like 'flippin' eck'

I see. But what does it mean?

Don't really know what the words 'flipping and heck' mean exactly, ha ha,

but the phrase it'self means something like, ' Good God !' or, ' dear me !'

I remember my Mum saying "Are you going to mug me?" when I got my first pay packet (another phrase that has slipped out of use). This was in the 60s. How times have changed.......... My Dad also used to call men who were not to his liking "Yard Dogs". Its a fabulous phrase and sums up people who dont stand their round, lazy sods who dont put the bins out on the right day etc, but is now sadly out of use. Anyone remember it? Americans say "junkyard Dog".

The most stupid new phrase I have heard in to "deplane" as it to get off an airplane. Heard whilst in Florida last year

I still use the word yarddog to describe someone who is quite unskilled when i'm playing footy, a yarddog in my mind is someone who boots the ball anywhere without thinking

We used to refer to back entries as 'ennogs' (don't know if that's how it is spelt).
Hate it when football players/pundits say the perennial 'hit the back of the net'. The back of the net is behind the goal. Also 'first things first.'
Another: 'near miss' - shouldn't it be near hit?

yep, we used to say 'Ennogs' when we were at school - - and 'cemmog' for the cemetery which was behind our school ( Stanley Park comp).

We used to say Ennogs or Jiggers. We called cats "Jigger Rabbits."

We used to refer to back entries as 'ennogs' (don't know if that's how it is spelt).
Hate it when football players/pundits say the perennial 'hit the back of the net'. The back of the net is behind the goal. Also 'first things first.'
Another: 'near miss' - shouldn't it be near hit?

One of the things that gets me is when they say "denied by the paintwork" or "denied by the post" which is simply not true: the shot wasn't going in. Here's a poem of mine that appeared on the Football Poets (http://footballpoets.org/p.asp?Id=16053) website to which I have contributed a number of poems, though not for a while:

Denied by the Paintwork

It was a screamer of a shot, everyone agreed,
headed for the top left hand corner: guaranteed.
However, the paintwork denied him, once again.

Denied not by the ref, for offside, or for handball,
denied not by the linesman's flag. He was glad,
it was a screamer of a shot, GOAL all the way,

headed for the back of the net -- what a pay day!
Aye, it wuz a bullet of a shot! All the ball he'd got!
Yet goal, it wuz not. Erk! Denied by the Paintwerk!

Christopher T. George

We used to say Ennogs or Jiggers. We called cats "Jigger Rabbits."

And called cats "moggies," eh, Steven? :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Chris

And called cats "moggies," eh, Steven? :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Chris


You probably remember the Davy Crocket hat craze here in Liverpool Chris ? Lots of Moggies went missing.

You probably remember the Davy Crocket hat craze here in Liverpool Chris ? Lots of Moggies went missing.

Actually I had not heard that, Steven. At that time I believe I was in school in the US, circa 1957 or so wasn't it? -- I returned to Liverpool in January 1961 to go to Rose Lane School.

Chris

if someone wants to learn some middle-Germany slang:

The word "ge" is said very often like your English ".., isn't it?"

For instance: "Lovely day, ge?"
Speak it like the word "gag" but without the last G. Or like "gay" without the Y. --> ga

You can put it also at the beginning of the sentence. --> "Ge, that's stupid!"

yep, we used to say 'Ennogs' when we were at school - - and 'cemmog' for the cemetery which was behind our school ( Stanley Park comp).

Cemmog - I've never heard that one lindylou. We referred to the railway as the 'raller' (or is it rallah??)

ha,ha, I'm the opposite to you -'cos I had never heard of 'raller' until my son started saying it .. when he goes riding his bike on the raller. :)

We Fazakerleyites always said "Raller". Also did anyone have steep steps referredto as "dizzysteps"? Ours were the ones leading up to the railway by Wango Lane bridge. My best mate always says "Batroom" for bathroom and I have heard that a million times. I miss the term "Blurt" as per Terry and Barry on Brookie. Such a good put down

We Fazakerleyites always said "Raller". Also did anyone have steep steps referredto as "dizzysteps"? Ours were the ones leading up to the railway by Wango Lane bridge. My best mate always says "Batroom" for bathroom and I have heard that a million times. I miss the term "Blurt" as per Terry and Barry on Brookie. Such a good put down

"fillum" is another great one for cinematical extravaganza

and what about 'chimlee'?

and what about 'chimlee'?

a big saying at crimbo

Yes. Crimbo - always used that!

I am throwing some Hawaiian slang in for anyone interested...

Aloha... means: Hello, Goodbye, Love

Mahalo.. means: Thankyou..

Da kine.. Used when you can't think of the name quick enough.. LOL.. Like saying..." Ya know Willa.. da kine sauce you made the other night?" Ya automatically know what the other means... (or do ya?):hug:

That's going to come in useful when I go into Liverpool City Centre today in the pouring rain, freezing and with the wind howling round me.

That's going to come in useful when I go into Liverpool City Centre today in the pouring rain, freezing and with the wind howling round me.
you'll be able to surf down church street by the sound of it

you'll be able to surf down church street by the sound of it


Sing this to any of the beach boys tunes :- lol

There's a new sport that's going around
but it's taking some time to get off the 'ground'
It's called, Sludge Surfing in the UK.

Now you don't need a board or a motor boat,
all you need are wellies and an overcoat,
to go sludge surfing in the UK.

So join in now and just be cool,
and get yerself down to Otterspool
and go Sludge Surfing in the UK.


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we use to say ralla when we lived in edge lane it was at the back off our flats. ennog (enrty),ozzie (hospital) lazzie (elastic band) erie (areoplane) leccy (electric) still say them all now and my kids are welsh and when they where younger they would look at me funny (like what the hell is she saying ) now they know.
doe,s anyone ever remember scratching their chin saying( edna) when you knew someone was lying?

no I don't remember that one about the chin, but I do remember when we were kids we would hold a buttercup under our chins, and if there was a yellow reflection that meant you liked butter! :)

yep i remember doing that.

we use to say ralla when we lived in edge lane it was at the back off our flats. ennog (enrty),ozzie (hospital) lazzie (elastic band) erie (areoplane) leccy (electric) still say them all now and my kids are welsh and when they where younger they would look at me funny (like what the hell is she saying ) now they know.
doe,s anyone ever remember scratching their chin saying( edna) when you knew someone was lying?

Yes - I remember the chin - we used to say "auntie Edna" (and stick your tongue in the front of your lower teeth and rub your chin) (LOL). Yes when somebody was telling porkies!

Yes - I remember the chin - we used to say "auntie Edna" (and stick your tongue in the front of your lower teeth and rub your chin) (LOL). Yes when somebody was telling porkies!

Never heard of it :shock: :)


what about 'ginnel' for a small narrow alleyway. I know a few people that say ginnel, but it sounds more Lancashire than Scouse.

Never heard of it :shock: :)


what about 'ginnel' for a small narrow alleyway. I know a few people that say ginnel, but it sounds more Lancashire than Scouse.

And weren't those bin containers built into the wall called a 'midden?'

Yeah, they could have been. Although I always imagined a midden to be something in the ground like a pit of some sort for tipping rubbish into.

I Googled the word Ginnel, and it seems that it is a Yorkshire word.

... I've just thought of another one - - -pallyass - I don't know how it's spelt.

I hasten to add that it is an old word - a bit before my time !

my grandmother always used to say it.:D

It's a bed, and when my grandmother was changing the bedclothes, she'd say to me, 'give us a hand with the pallyass'

when we were kids and chips were 6d a bag and chippies never sold chinese just the usual old english fare we would go into the chippy staring at the pickled eggs and say to the woman behind the counter"hey luv, have you got pigs feet?" , she would reply "yes", and everytime we'd say " well trot round the back and get us a bag of chips will ya.

I knew someone that would run into the chippy and ask for a bag of chickens lips ! lol !

what about daydoodo dontdaydo, they do though dont they though

Lindy,it's this word:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=palliasse

My nan used to use "mug" in the old sense up until she died a few years ago,incidentally.

Dave.

Thanks for the link. :)