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Re: Words we used
HUMPHING slipped out this morning - "Moving about laboriously under the weight of a heavy, unwieldy burden."
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Just remembered "poorie". - milk jug
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That takes me back to the Abattoir in Blakely Rd, Saltcoats. Humphing the meat on to the refrigerated lorries.Penny Tray wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 12:48 pm HUMPHING slipped out this morning - "Moving about laboriously under the weight of a heavy, unwieldy burden."
I think i can just about remember a different kind of Humphing, but not saying ...
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Gads - as in something very distasteful.
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That's a good one. Wondering what it's origin was, I see it's regarded as a mild oath in Scotland, an altered form of GOD.
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Ye gadz means my god but I don't think it's as old as it sounds.
Those wimin were in the nip.
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Carry me
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Bob's your uncle
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Brilliant J.D
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Begritten - tearstained. My mum used to say wee begritten face if one of us had been crying.