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Local saying?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The only funny joke i heard Lenny Henry tell post-Tiswas was about an elephant from Dudley zoo with the punchline:
"Did you come here to die?"
"No i came here yesterday" (say it a brummy accent)
Do you know that joke mightyWBA?
Anyway - it is glorious that in this Starbucks mono culture we supposedly live in that local sayings still exist.
Try telling someone to stop 'mithering' you outside Manchester.
Stop mithering me - stop bothering me
Cant be mithered - cant be bothered
Another one i like is 'Bobbins!' when something is rubbish - from cotton bobbins / rotten.
Click here for an earlier AnswerBank thread on 'mither', Gary.
'Miskin' is just a Midlands variant of 'mixen', the Old English word for a dung-heap or refuse-pile, so its use as an alternative for 'dustbin' is easy enough to understand. Whether it is used anywhere other than Birmingham today I do not know, Narolines.
Ay Mighty WBA, yo doh arf talk posh! While yo may say "Oh, Don't Be Saft", ussen all 'ere'd say "'ere yo, doh talk saft, yer twerp!"
An' surely any fuel knows what 'saft' means! Ar, it means SAFT, day it? See, yo Baggies fans day know yer faerce from yer elber, even in broad daylight ...
Evrywun over ere in the real black country [Cradley Ee'ath] all know as 'ow saft's linguistic derivation is a dialectical compromise between the anglo-saxon "daft", the old latin derived 'silly', and the specific psychiatric term 'soft' [derivation as per the DSM-V Psychiatric Diagnostic Manual, the black country translated edition of which defines 'soft' as: "SOFT (adj) as in 1. "E's soft in the yed, ay 'ee?", 2. A bit of an idiot, 3. Most likely to serport the Baggies"]
So "Saft" is a gentle daftness, lack of general intellectual vigour, relatively armless. And it is probably a quite reasonable aim to have in life to be able to move gently in and out of a state of saftness ...