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Had an enjoyable hour looking at Hunslet Remembered this afternoon (yes I should be working), its well worth a visit.http://hunslet.org/index.htmlBelow are a few memorable sayings which are on the site, some of which I had totally forgotten myself, do you remember them, or can you add to them.Black-bright (= very dirty)Blackclocks (=cockroaches)Brass (=money)Bray (=smack,hit)Britches (=trousers)Buggerlugs (=cheeky person)Calling (pronounced "kalling")(=chatting, especially with neighbours)Chelp (= to answer someone back cheekily or aggressively)Chumping (= collecting wood for the bonfire in the days before November 5th)Chunter (= to grumble under one's breath)Coal ole (= hole in the bottom of an outside wall, covered by a metal plate, down which the coal was delivered to the cellar)Corser edge (= edge of the pavement next to the gutter)Flags (= stone slabs forming pavement)Flit (= move house)Frame yourself (= get moving/working)Fratch (= to argue,fight)I don't know if I'm on this earth or Fullers (= I'm harassed / confused)Gab (= to chat)Gawp (= to stare)Gollop (= to bolt your food down)Gormless (= stupid)Gorm ("Don't take any gorm of him) (= ignore him)Hoss work (= hard manual work)Jiggered (= extremely tired)Laking (=playing)Lannigans ("She's having Lannigans")(= having a good time, perhaps at someone else's expense)Ligging/lolling about (= lazily lying about the house)Lops (=fleas)Marsden's monument ("don't stand around like Marsden's monument")(= do something) Maungy (= uncheerful/sullen)Mi sen (= myself)Reight chuffed (= very happy/pleased)Running wick (= lots of insects/bugs in the house)Siden the table (= clear the table)Spice (= sweets)Swill (have a swill) (= wash face and hands, especially other than in morning and last thing at night)Think on (= consider what I've just told you)Traipsing (= walking somewhere, especially reluctantly)Waff off (= go away) Winteredge (= clothes horse)Yorp (= to sing sing loudly; to complain or moan, to the irritation of the listener)

Im from Hunslet and i will say i have used almost all of the words on this list.There are only three or four i have never heard i will give it some thought and see if i can come up with any more.

Chuffing eck that is a good list buffaloskinner having had a skeg through it. I've used (stiill do) most of them but some I can't recall hearing. I'm from East Leeds, so near enough to Hunslet.

Hunslet v Leedshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv8Ykiuotfg

i am originally from the other side of the pennines. I live in Hunslet now and heard most of these words in the chip shop tonight.It is interesting that most of the local dialect words we use in the North of England (especially Yorkshire and the North East) are actually of Swedish & Scandinvian origin. My degree was in linguisticsFor example - all these words are Swedish.Flit (move) = Flytta in SwedishLaking (play) = Lekerbairn (child) = barnenOther stuff likeBeck (stream) = BekkerFlag (stone) = FlagaTraipse (walk) = TrappaSkrike (scream) = SkrikkeAlso - the swedish word for town is "By"only to the east of this area do towns so frequently end in Grims-by, Weather-by, Hax-by, Sel-by, barl-by, Whit-by etc. This is where the english word By-Law comes from. (town law)

I have heard/used most of those words too and I am a North Leeds native, makes me wonder if they are general words used throughout Leeds or even the West Riding.Regards.

sirjohn wrote: i am originally from the other side of the pennines. I live in Hunslet now and heard most of these words in the chip shop tonight.It is interesting that most of the local dialect words we use in the North of England (especially Yorkshire and the North East) are actually of Swedish & Scandinvian origin. My degree was in linguisticsFor example - all these words are Swedish.Flit (move) = Flytta in SwedishLaking (play) = Lekerbairn (child) = barnenOther stuff likeBeck (stream) = BekkerFlag (stone) = FlagaTraipse (walk) = TrappaSkrike (scream) = SkrikkeAlso - the swedish word for town is "By"only to the east of this area do towns so frequently end in Grims-by, Weather-by, Hax-by, Sel-by, barl-by, Whit-by etc. This is where the english word By-Law comes from. (town law) Leggo comes from the same word as Leker.Obviously thwaite and thorpe (thrup) are Scandanavian in origin.And holm. In fact if you travel a little further North and investigate the area between York and Thirsk, you'll find place names like Flawith, Helperby, Alne, Aldwarke, Sessay, and Thollthorpe - not English sounding at all. If you look at many of the people, they are of slim build with sandy hair and narrow eyes. Very Scandanavian looking. Obviously until the 19th century and the advent of the railway these villages would be very isolated.

Hats Off wrote: I have heard/used most of those words too and I am a North Leeds native, makes me wonder if they are general words used throughout Leeds or even the West Riding.Regards. Could be, and probably are if they are of scandinavian origin.But some would be used more frequently in one area so they may have become of localised use.About 50,000 hunslet people left the area and dispered through Leeds so I'd guess many of these words migrated out to the council estates like Halton Moor for instance.

Leodian wrote: Chuffing eck that is a good list buffaloskinner having had a skeg through it. I've used (stiill do) most of them but some I can't recall hearing. I'm from East Leeds, so near enough to Hunslet. You popped "skeg" in deliberately Leo? Big north east Leeds word we used a lot in seacroft."Summat" was another although a drivation from the quens english.

The Parksider wrote: Leodian wrote: Chuffing eck that is a good list buffaloskinner having had a skeg through it. I've used (stiill do) most of them but some I can't recall hearing. I'm from East Leeds, so near enough to Hunslet. You popped "skeg" in deliberately Leo? Big north east Leeds word we used a lot in seacroft."Summat" was another although a drivation from the quens english. I was brought up in Osmondthorpe, so I'm an Ossy lad. Sort of between Hunslet and Seacroft. buffaloskinner mentions spice. I recall many years back mentioning spice in a shop in Lancashire and getting a totally baffled look and I had to explain it was a word for sweets. Talking of slang words is scraps still used when buying fish & chips as in "fish & chips with scraps on"?. There is no fish & chip shop near me, so I've not used one in very many years.