Ford talk - colloquialisms, rhyming slang..

[Andreas Rex]

Is 'taking the wet' a Stafford saying? I can't remember anybody else using it outside of here?

I've defo heard 'taking the wet' from others more northerly than us, but it doesn't mean it didn't originate in The Ford. We should start a Forum saying and see how quickly it spreads...

Soz if this is a pea roast. Another one i've thought of is scutty. As in: 'I'm not going round to (insert name of scutter here)'s house....it's well scutty'...or 'He/She is a proper scutter.'

Not sure if this is specific to or originates from Stafford, but i've not heard it elsewhere.

Scut me up

 

[db]

Soz if this is a pea roast.

you're a genius

 

[Scuttlingb]

Scut me up

I beg your pardon?

 

[BORO-PIKE]

SGROGGNEY
and SCROGGY
SCUTTER all having the same meaning of dirty or unpleasant
were ones I used to hear when I was schooling within the "FORD" at middle school and high school.




BORO

 

[Stafford Soljah]

I remember using "pleb" a lot a school as in "you pleb". I think it means commoner.
Marra is a word used in the pits of the North East, or it was until the government shut 'em down.
It means mate etc. The geezer you worked with was ur marra.

 

[Andreas Rex]

I remember using "pleb"

I haven't just thwacked this into btw; this is stored somewhere in my brain under 'Useless Knowledge'...it's a very busy place. Pleb, as far as i've ever known, was a Roman term meaning 'Hoi Polloi', commoners, riff-raff...the general people with no notable high-ranking position. The use of it nowadays (less so since it was when I was 16ish) pretty much means the same...unfortunately not a specifically Staffordian word. Does anyone watch Balderdash and Piffle on BBC2? It examines the first uses of certain words and phrases....would be good if we could get them to look into the Stafford words we've come up with so far. I'll start writing to Victoria Whatsername eh?

 

[db]

I remember using "pleb"

I haven't just thwacked this into btw; this is stored somewhere in my brain under 'Useless Knowledge'...it's a very busy place. Pleb, as far as i've ever known, was a Roman term meaning 'Hoi Polloi', commoners, riff-raff...

i didn't realise it was roman in origin, but i always just figured it was a shortened version of "plebian" which, as you guys have said, is a poncy word for common folk..

 

[tek-monkey]

Another one i've thought of is scutty. As in: 'I'm not going round to (insert name of scutter here)'s house....it's well scutty'...or 'He/She is a proper scutter.'

Not sure if this is specific to or originates from Stafford, but i've not heard it elsewhere.

Well there were scutters in Red Dwarf, the little service droid things. Not sure where the writers are from though.

 

[Andreas Rex]

Another one i've thought of is scutty. As in: 'I'm not going round to (insert name of scutter here)'s house....it's well scutty'...or 'He/She is a proper scutter.'

Not sure if this is specific to or originates from Stafford, but i've not heard it elsewhere.

Well there were scutters in Red Dwarf, the little service droid things. Not sure where the writers are from though.

Pair of Mancs who studied in Could be a national ting though

 

[theflamingred]

This must be Stafford's own version of Balderdash and Piffle.

I confess - I'm not originally from Stafford :meh:. When I moved here it felt like another country. My first encounter with a local was calling a taxi. When the operator said, "Thanks duck," I looked behind me for any incoming missiles (don't laugh). Know that's not a Stafford thing but thought I'd share the trauma.

Still have to ask the boyf to translate on the odd occassion and I've been here for 8 years now.

And yes, I'm what you locals refer to as a Southern Softie / Fairy. Cheers.

 

[age'd parent]

a couple more for discussion, kecky handed ( spelling?) meaning left handed, dad used to say cack handed,
and blow me (stop it!) its from blow me down, an expression my mum uses (thanks to "petal" for reminding me)

 

[MISS T]

a couple more for discussion, kecky handed ( spelling, my own) meaning left handed,
and blow me (stop it!) its from blow me down, an expression my mum uses (thanks to "petal" for reminding me)

I used to say 'cack' handed, referring to lefties.

 

[db]

a couple more for discussion, kecky handed ( spelling, my own) meaning left handed,
and blow me (stop it!) its from blow me down, an expression my mum uses (thanks to "petal" for reminding me)

I used to say 'cack' handed, referring to lefties.

or, as brian from BB would say, "cock handed" lol

 

[age'd parent]

blimey, editing and got beaten to the cack handed line, what are you doing up at this hour?, my excuse is i just finished work

 

[FooFighter]

Is cack (having a crap) handed in someway linked to the muslim faith in that the left hand is used to clean up after defecating?

Could have come from the Moorish influence on europe

 

[Attaboy!]

My dad used to tell me to " take of your brummigum gloves" if I had my hands in my pockets, and to pass him the "brummigum screwdriver" when he wanted the hammer. Pronounced brum-ee-jum, he later in life told me it meant Birmingham. Don't know where it came from, he's "proper Stafford"....maybe he just didn't like Birmingham!

 

[Attaboy!]

Is cack (having a crap) handed in someway linked to the muslim faith in that the left hand is used to clean up after defecating?

Could have come from the Moorish influence on europe

This is great .... even more Balderdash and Piffle !!
Nice one, Foo !

 

[theflamingred]

I always giggle when someone walks in to my local and all the regulars shake their heads and say, "He's a Clay Head."

 

[Mrs M]

My dad used to tell me to " take of your brummigum gloves" if I had my hands in my pockets, and to pass him the "brummigum screwdriver" when he wanted the hammer. Pronounced brum-ee-jum, he later in life told me it meant Birmingham. Don't know where it came from, he's "proper Stafford"....maybe he just didn't like Birmingham!

I still call it Brum-ee-jum, thought it was just me until now.

 

[age'd parent]

My dad used to tell me to " take of your brummigum gloves" if I had my hands in my pockets, and to pass him the "brummigum screwdriver" when he wanted the hammer. Pronounced brum-ee-jum, he later in life told me it meant Birmingham. Don't know where it came from, he's "proper Stafford"....maybe he just didn't like Birmingham!

that "brumingham screwdiver" has been around a long time I first heard it at my first job in 1960,from my boss a 50 year old man, along with "a set of dogs" meaning a pair of pliers.