- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
Yes, weans or wains seems to be west coast, bairns more east coast.not from the north, but from the soft south, wernt children called bairns or weans up north to scotland?
Yes, weans or wains seems to be west coast, bairns more east coast.not from the north, but from the soft south, wernt children called bairns or weans up north to scotland?
BarmcakeTeacake around here is a plain Bap, in Sheffield it's a Breadcake, others think of it as a bap with fruit added.
Still used widely in East Yorkshire barns is Norse for childrennot from the north, but from the soft south, wernt children called bairns or weans up north to scotland?
Still used widely in East Yorkshire barns is Norse for children
Larking is an east york’s word for playing ‘can I lark?’
‘Is Tom allowed out to lark?’
Bairns still used here weans is deffo north of the border thonot from the north, but from the soft south, wernt children called bairns or weans up north to scotland?
not much used here any longer,it was disappearing fast 40yrs ago or so even.and since as the older generation has departedA start in ploughing is a bye, a finish is a clash and short runs are pothigs. The channel in middle of cow house is a Gribber ,cleaned out with a grep , pulled off the cart with a grep thane into pollags ready fer spreading. We have sallies here too, and scutch grass. Ragwort are cushags .Cow chains go round" the dog" , the stack yard is called a haggart, the yard between farm house an outbuildings known as the street, a sack round your neck for sowing "manure" (artificial fertiliser) is a brat. If I get the tractor bellied out It would be "stuck in to the crothagg" . All in use here with the older generation.
I always thought a yarbie was a likeable idiotI can remember my grandfather talking about yarbs, not sure if it means young men (definitely not the word yobs), can anyone from Hereford tell me?
Yan tan tethera.....1 2 3'Wan' means 'one'....... in Devonshire dialect.
not much used here any longer,it was disappearing fast 40yrs ago or so even.and since as the older generation has departed
I thought that was CumbrianYan tan tethera.....1 2 3
A bing is a pile of stuff, so you could say "thats some bing of bales etc", you also get pit bings which are the huge piles of waste coal.Bing - The place normally with walls on three sides where you store a heap of beet or grain. I think father brought the term down from Scotland along with a few others.
Shuck - ditch or watercourse
Grape - fork
Pinch - bar with pointed end used for making holes to start off bashing stakes into the ground
Mell - hammer for knocking fence stakes in, sometimes called a mall down south.
Peely wally - dizzy, woozy, faint
Tumbrel - cattle feed trough
Sticky Willy - cleavers (the weed)
Biniccles - Ragwort