Dialect/slang

Si · Post by Si » Wed 17 Dec, 2008 8:35 am

Trojan wrote: Si wrote: "Clart" sounds to me like a silly Waugh affectation. After all, the word comes from the French "clairet" (pronounced "clairay") meaning "pale," as Bordeaux wine was originally a rose, unlike the more powerful red (cabernet sauvignon) produced today. I think "clart" is a local version of "clout" = cloth. As in shart = shout abart = about etc. Doesn't it mean muck? When I lived in the north-east, I heard it used this way. Clarted-up - covered in muck, clarty - mucky, clarts - sods, etc.

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Wed 17 Dec, 2008 10:10 am

I remember Lord Harewood being interviewed on telly once. He was asked the correct pronunciation and said it was 'harrwood'. Clart or clarts, yes. North east speak for mud or clumps of mud.

mariner74 · Post by **mariner74** » Wed 17 Dec, 2008 11:01 am

How about 'Fuddle' - as far as I'm aware meaning something along the lines of a feast where everybody brings something to share. Usually a christmas thing, certainly where I work, which takes place on the last day before the christmas break.

Si · Post by Si » Wed 17 Dec, 2008 11:23 am

mariner74 wrote: How about 'Fuddle' - as far as I'm aware meaning something along the lines of a feast where everybody brings something to share. Usually a christmas thing, certainly where I work, which takes place on the last day before the christmas break. Funnily enough, I heard this (fuddle) for the first time just last night.

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Wed 17 Dec, 2008 6:14 pm

Si wrote: mariner74 wrote: How about 'Fuddle' - as far as I'm aware meaning something along the lines of a feast where everybody brings something to share. Usually a christmas thing, certainly where I work, which takes place on the last day before the christmas break. Funnily enough, I heard this (fuddle) for the first time just last night. Oh that brings back awful memories of ladies who worked in the mills coming for their hair doing after their christmas "fuddle"the day they finished for the holidays.They were sozzled!One had projectile vomiting while having her hair shampooed and I was on the receiving end,and got a liberal coating of regurgitated cherry B! Once they were under the hairdryer and fell asleep we had all on waking them up.

Loiner in Cyprus · Post by **Loiner in Cyprus** » Wed 17 Dec, 2008 8:22 pm

When I worked at Miggy Pit in the early 60s the fitters and electricians always had their christmas 'fuddle' i.e. met at a pub for a few beers. I remember going to Tommy Wass's on Dewsbury road and the Cherry Tree on York Road. they were men only. But one year we went, with the rest of the pit plus wifes, to the Henry Berry Social club on Hunslet Road.

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Wed 17 Dec, 2008 9:50 pm

FLOJO wrote: Si wrote: "Clap-cold" - cold.Does anyone know the origins of this?My wife can't say cold without saying clap-cold! Si, my mother would say you have let your tea go clap cold, I still say it and don't know where it comes from. i've had clap cold tea...but never the clap..is the clap cold...is it a kind of icey std???

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Sun 28 Dec, 2008 12:27 pm

i was at a party last night in a house where there was what i refer to as a clothes rack hanging up in the kitchen.It is an old victorian house.The rack was pointed out as an old and efficient means of hanging up clothes to dry and an old lady there who was originally from Emley moor top told us that they called it a "Sheila" in her youth,something confirmed by another old lady present.anyone else come across this? it was a new one on me.

Arry Awk · Post by **Arry Awk** » Sun 28 Dec, 2008 1:12 pm

Steve Jones wrote: i was at a party last night in a house where there was what i refer to as a clothes rack hanging up in the kitchen.It is an old victorian house.The rack was pointed out as an old and efficient means of hanging up clothes to dry and an old lady there who was originally from Emley moor top told us that they called it a "Sheila" in her youth,something confirmed by another old lady present.anyone else come across this? it was a new one on me. Seems strange to us oldies that folks haven't come across the 'Airing racks' which were suspended from the ceiling above the fireplace or range. They were hoisted via a rope and pulley suspension gear and the airing clothes were pulled up above the heads of the people in the room until ready for them(the clothes!)to be removed and folded up for ironing. If the suspension ropebroke,everyone had half damp vests,pants shirts etc draped round their heads! In the type of house we lived in then,there was nowhere to 'retire' to only upstairs to the bedroom!Happy days what? Don't remember them being called owt except'the pulley' or 'Airer'Does anyone remember a lanky person being referred to as'A long streak o' mawky bacon'? A 'Mawk' being a maggot!No quips about 'Arry Mawk' please!

Si · Post by Si » Mon 29 Dec, 2008 11:33 am

I remember those airing racks. Wooden slats between two cast iron frames. It was called a "creel."