The Lurky Spread Of Language

[kvalidir]

Have you ever spread a local 'languageism' to people who don't use it or inadvertently adopted one.
I have managed to spread to Georgia the use of 'pure' in the Irish sense, got in turn from my dad.
'Oh God, that's pure lovely that is!'
and
'It's black over Bill's mother's' - for when it looks like rain :)

I have also adopted 'cattywampus' meaning all over the place, awry or unstraight.

they have loads of very colourful language here, especially the older people.

I love regional language, what's unique to where you are and what have you spread or acquired? x

[Mamyalynne]

" Standing there like one of Lockhart's" - said of someone idling about.

It refers to the dummies that stood Lochart's Tailors window Bolton.

Other places have variations on the same theme.

[Mamyalynne]

* scuse typos and missing words, having a wobble today.

[spathiphyllum]

I got the word 'dread' (As in that's dread, that's awful) used quite a lot around where i am..(didn't coin it though) I'd like to think i coined the phrase savage also but alas i probably didn't

[kvalidir]

..and me Mamy, I'm all over the place today, just cannot get my *** together :/

[spathiphyllum]

you a bit cattywampus toady mamy?

[spathiphyllum]

Kval, usually the toilet collects it for you.. Try going in one place, and it'll all be together, ya vibe?

[retrocop]

Bob's a Dyin' meaning kicking up a rumpus as in Answerbank threads :-)

Whigs on the Green: squaring up for a squabble ditto Answerbank :-)

[Mamyalynne]

I'm a bit Womp Womp.

[Jackdaw33]

Paddy's Market, meaning extremely untidy. The reference is to a stall on Newcastle Quayside where everything was just piled higgledy-piggledy.

[Buenchico]

You've just spread a new word to me, Kvalidir!

I had to consult the OED to find out if 'lurky' was actually listed and, if so, its meaning. I see that it's classed as 'rare' (which probably explains why I've never encountered it before) and defined as "Inclined to be concealed".

[kvalidir]

My Dad uses lurky a lot too Chris so you can blame him :)

Some great ones, none of which I've ever heard before :)

There is a great old guy around here who is a pleasure to listen to and one of my favourites he's come out with is
'She was a real 'double bagger''- meaning apparently that she was very ugly, and that he needed a bag for her head and one for his own in case hers fell off he said :)
Horrible but quite funny.

[AuntLydia]

'Thats Fettled then' as in Oh thats f!!!!!!!ed but can also mean that's fixed it

'Its mizzling' or mizzly meaning fine rain

'yarping on' a lot of that done on AB :-)

I love dialects me !

[spathiphyllum]

It's a well known phrase but "a goer" is one i've started between my friends, any phrases we don't use but are commonly used i try to get them involved

Of course when you say goes you need to tense your bicep, put it in front of you and slap it with your other hand

[kvalidir]

'Goer' as in something that;s going to happen ' this is a goer then?' or as in 'She's a real goer?'

[Mamyalynne]

Powfagged (Tired/exhausted) is so wonderfully descriptive.

[spathiphyllum]

As in... She's a right goer, or it could be used to describe a machine etc..