Dialect/slang

jonleeds · Post by **jonleeds** » Wed 19 Nov, 2008 4:14 am

Does anyone remember a word young kids (usually lads) use for nicking apples from trees in autumn? I am thinking the word is something like 'chumping' but that is also the word we used to use for getting wood for the bonfire on 5th of November, I think its a similar word to 'chumping' but I have tried hard to remember what the word is and thinking too hard about it has made it impossible to recall it, I mentioned it to a friend of mine and he ended up just as frustrated and we are both unable to recall the word in question. Please someone put me out of my misery!

jeffn · Post by **jeffn** » Wed 19 Nov, 2008 4:26 am

jonleeds wrote: Does anyone remember a word young kids (usually lads) use for nicking apples from trees in autumn? Please someone put me out of my misery! Think you mean scrumping . . .

jeffn · Post by **jeffn** » Wed 19 Nov, 2008 4:29 am

jeffn wrote: jonleeds wrote: Does anyone remember a word young kids (usually lads) use for nicking apples from trees in autumn? Please someone put me out of my misery! Think you mean scrumping . . . made me think , Quadrophenia - The Who - 5:15On a raft in the quarrySlowly sinking.On the back of a lorryHoly hitching.Dreadfully sorryApple scrumping.Born in the warBirthday punching.

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Wed 19 Nov, 2008 11:30 pm

yeh right .. scrumping (from scrumpy .. cider) but that's not what it was called in Leeds. Got to rack the brain a bit more .... and Chumping is getting firewood for Guy Fawkes night.

jeffn · Post by **jeffn** » Wed 19 Nov, 2008 11:58 pm

zip55 wrote: yeh right .. scrumping (from scrumpy .. cider) but that's not what it was called in Leeds. Got to rack the brain a bit more .... and Chumping is getting firewood for Guy Fawkes night. While you're racking your brians Phil,I think the term might have been 'Apple Knocking'

Uno Hoo · Post by **Uno Hoo** » Thu 20 Nov, 2008 12:28 am

jeffn wrote: zip55 wrote: yeh right .. scrumping (from scrumpy .. cider) but that's not what it was called in Leeds. Got to rack the brain a bit more .... and Chumping is getting firewood for Guy Fawkes night. While you're racking your brians Phil,I think the term might have been 'Apple Knocking' I always referred to obtaining combustibles for Bonfire Night as chumping - that was Calverley. But a mile down the road in Greengates, foreign territory of Bradford, it was called "progging". Still used AFAIK.Poaching apples was scrumping in Calverley parlance, usually followed by bellyache.

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Thu 20 Nov, 2008 12:45 am

jeffn wrote: zip55 wrote: yeh right .. scrumping (from scrumpy .. cider) but that's not what it was called in Leeds. Got to rack the brain a bit more .... and Chumping is getting firewood for Guy Fawkes night. While you're racking your brians Phil,I think the term might have been 'Apple Knocking' Correctamundo .... and of course you'd be an expert on apples .. being a Newton ... how are you pal?

TelBoy · Post by **TelBoy** » Thu 20 Nov, 2008 1:41 pm

I'm not sure if this has cropped up before (a quick search didn't show anything) but does anybody know the origin of the phrase'got t'monk on' as used for someone who's a bit maungy.As in 'Whats wrong with young Enoch, he's a bit quiet?' 'Oh, ignore him he's got t'monk on.'My father used to use this phrase (born in Hunslet in the '20s) but I haven't heard it in day to day usage in years.I did read somewhere that it may have originated from the vows of silence that monks used to take. If someone has taken umbrage and is refusing to talk then he has become monk like or perhaps got the monk's habit on ie got t'monk on.

simong · Post by **simong** » Thu 20 Nov, 2008 1:58 pm

TelBoy wrote: I'm not sure if this has cropped up before (a quick search didn't show anything) but does anybody know the origin of the phrase'got t'monk on' as used for someone who's a bit maungy.As in 'Whats wrong with young Enoch, he's a bit quiet?' 'Oh, ignore him he's got t'monk on.'My father used to use this phrase (born in Hunslet in the '20s) but I haven't heard it in day to day usage in years.I did read somewhere that it may have originated from the vows of silence that monks used to take. If someone has taken umbrage and is refusing to talk then he has become monk like or perhaps got the monk's habit on ie got t'monk on. I learned it probably 25 years ago and I still use it. I've always assumed it meant to sulk silently like a monk. I can't remember where I heard it first now though. My school had quite a wide intake and took in the north-west suburbs of Doncaster and the pit villages east of Mexborough, which themselves were inhabited by people from other mining areas in the country. 'Get face on' and 'get ar5e on' mean the same thing.

FLOJO · Post by **FLOJO** » Fri 21 Nov, 2008 12:05 pm

I can remember as a kid if I said I thought my mother would say you know what thought did he followed a dust cart and thought it was a wedding, I dint know if that was just a Yorkshire saying or not.