Sayings

Never heard of that one. It must be a very local saying from your neck of the woods. Looking it up it means whimpish boy and a reference to being gay. I've been called a whimp though...

Oh it is Angela, we’ve got some real gems.
Elizabeth

I've been called lots of things but never that, but tbh, my search skills have failed to provide me with anything convincing. And that is strange. I've tried two words, I've tried taking the 'e' off the end, I've made sure 'safe search' is off. But no.

Angela has obviously had more luck. And I'm struggling again. in that I've never seen 'whimp' spelt with an 'h'? Perhaps I've lived a more sheltered life than I thought, lol.

By the way wimp can be a perfectly respectable word these days:

"a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation; postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe"

I bet you didn't want to know that.

Marti xxx

Marti I’ve seen it spelt as Whimp.
Liz

Has Tha' ever bin called a " twazzock" ?

I think ( and hope) it is quite tame. Daft might be the meaning.

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Ekie-thump! I 've ne'er heard o' "ginny anne"

By heav'n as like, I'd no idea what the' means !.

Scotland and Northumberland have their own " power "words too !

Perhaps someone local might provide ??

My dad used to call my sister that, her name is Jane Anne so he used to call her Ginnyanny pain in the fanny. All in fun though.

That’s my epitaph!

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Speaking of epitaphs- hers one I saw in a church yard”

” I burnt my candle at both ends-

It would not last the night-

But oh my foes and ah my friends-

It gave a goodly light”

classic!!!

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Another phrase we use is “He sits down to pee”.
I loved the comedian Les Dawson especially when he and Roy Barrowclough played Cissie and Aida. They used sayings which the women of working class areas in the North of England used to come of with. We’d similar sayings in Belfast when I was growing up.
I don’t claim to be a Psychologist, but I often think has the way these women spoke rubbed of on me?
Elizabeth

Hi! I would love to be called that! Hugs!

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Some more sayings we have are
The lift doesn’t go to the top floor.
He’s a couple of slices short of a loaf.
If he’d brains he’d be dangerous.
You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
There was a football/soccer referee who had no hair and we shouted take the hair out of your eyes baldy.
Mothers used to say come over here till I hit you (after you’d done something naughty).
He swings both ways.
There’s a few others I’d like to post but they’re too crude.
Typical working class area, where there good honest plain speaking.
Liz