Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

[CaptJohn]

It's poking the fire Ian.

Correct.

[2 Bee Holed]

It's poking the fire Ian.

Correct, and it makes far more sense when you consider what the saying actually/usually means.

[Bop]

Turtarutter - otherwise known as a TV remote control

Turnarupper?

[Bosscat]

Turnarupper?

Or Turn'erover but thats s completely different mindset

[RMutt]

'Followed the muck cart thinking it was a wedding'
(No idea what it meant).

'Giving it the Bacup look '
(Touching something that you are not supposed to)

Having a Bacup look. I always assumed this was only a Rossendale saying. Is this used further a field?

[bobinho]

What is it about Yorkshire men? They're the most narcissistic county, surely.

Tha can allus tell a yorksheerman, but tha carned tell im much.

[Stayingup]

Na then mi owd key

[Stayingup]

Having a Bacup look. I always assumed this was only a Rossendale saying. Is this used further a field?

Na then waht about the Bacup kiss?

[bobinho]

Na then waht about the Bacup kiss?

Like a Glasgow kiss but with more saliva….

[Bosscat]

Tha can allus tell a yorksheerman, but tha carned tell im much.

Tha's reet there Bob in hoo lad ah tell thee tha carn't us much what we doe'snit alreedy know

[elwaclaret]

Reet Gradely
He aimed fort wind but it wether
Yur overeggin’ puddin’
Nowt but wind and wather
Bob on
Our… mate or family member

[Bosscat]

Reet Gradely
He aimed fort wind but it wether
Yur overeggin’ puddin’
Nowt but wind and wather
Bob on
Our… mate or family member

Thats also very South Yarkshire ... Barnsley Rotherham area too

[2 Bee Holed]

Yorkshire, if that's so bl**dy perfect, wha's tha no east?
Or, carn't tha cownt t' fower?

[wrj20]

My dad always used to say “you can’t have your cake and your ha’penny”

Obviously eating your cake wasn’t an option - you either had the cake or kept the money for it. That’s a very Burnley sentiment I think

[dougcollins]

It was actually the 'South' Riding that was absent - there was an East, West, and North.

I recall a fictional tv drama 'South Riding', but I can't remember anything about it.

[Volvoclaret]

Local lasses were advised to "keep yer hands on yer 'apenny'

[CnBtruntru]

It be reight

[CnBtruntru]

Local lasses were advised to "keep yer hands on yer 'apenny'

Or Tuppence

[Bosscat]

Or Tuppence

Depends ow big t'lass was

[bpgburn]

Keep ya neb out & keep ya sneck out

[Bosscat]

Not being funny but a helluva lot of these are basically Northern sayings ... not just Lancashire

[Duffer_]

Not being funny but a helluva lot of these are basically Northern sayings ... not just Lancashire

Ecky thump! Just shows our success in colonising your dialect, rent free.

[Bosscat]

Ecky thump! Just shows our success in colonising your dialect, rent free.

And Vice Versa old bean Don'tcha know

[Volvoclaret]

True Duffer. We sent out Burnley disciples to all corners of the Northern England to teach them how to talk proper. Even unto darkest Long Preston where it needed disciples with an understanding of special needs.

[A15TG]

Don’t be so Mard.
When are you flitting.

[expoultryboy]

Tha coudnt knock the skin off rice puddin . When I was misbehaving , my father became a time traveller - " I'll knock you into the middle of next week " !!

[Bosscat]

True Duffer. We sent out Burnley disciples to all corners of the Northern England to teach them how to talk proper. Even unto darkest Long Preston where it needed disciples with an understanding of special needs.

Talking of special needs I know now why I understand you then Volvo

[Mondsley]

When we turned up for a game my Dad would say "who's laykin today"? In other words who is playing

[Volvoclaret]

Talking of special needs I know now why I understand you then Volvo

We taught you well young Bosscat. May the Turf force be with you

[middleton claret]

Suppin bout !!
Finished my drink & it's your round.

[alf_resco]

It was actually the 'South' Riding that was absent - there was an East, West, and North.

I recall a fictional tv drama 'South Riding', but I can't remember anything about it.

There would never be a south riding. "Riding" is derived from Saxon for "third" ie "thriding."
Hence only three divisions.

[It Is What It Is]

Eeeeh by gum lad !

[IanMcL]

It's poking the fire Ian.

Agreed! Not sure why I put stoking.

[Stayingup]

As geet a yeyd wark. Work that one out

[IanMcL]

Surely....

Nowt as Queen as folk

Queer didn't appear as written!!!

[elwaclaret]

Thats also very South Yarkshire ... Barnsley Rotherham area too

Yes Yorkshire copied it when we annexed it after the War of the Roses

[Dressinggown]

Something about not wearing your coat inside as you won't feel the benefit when you go out.

[Brucefanclaret]

It was actually the 'South' Riding that was absent - there was an East, West, and North.

I recall a fictional tv drama 'South Riding', but I can't remember anything about it.

Book by Winifred Holtby, made into a TV series.

[Brucefanclaret]

Having a Bacup look. I always assumed this was only a Rossendale saying. Is this used further a field?

From Tod. Picking things up to look at them - my Dad would say “you from Bacup? They look with’ their fingers in Bacup”

[BFCmaj]

My Nan always used to call "things" "doings". And if we weren't doing something very well, she'd say "you're shaping wooden".
My grandad would say "I'll Molly you" meaning "I'll thump you" (although it was always in a playful way. He was lovely and never laid a finger on us).

[AGENT_CLARET]

pongers - feet
trollied - drunk
kecks -trousers
soz - sorry
gizza sken - can I take a look
peggit - run for your life
owt - anything
nowt - nothing
chuck it - throw it
bomb it - run away
ta ra - good bye

me mam - my mum
ducking - skiving
corporation pop - water
chucking it down - raining
Neckin - Kissing
Skanky - dirty/unclean
Wazzock - A nuisance
cewd - cold
ewd - hold
By eck - Oh Heck

Si'thi - Do you see/understand
Frettin - Worrying
Feetin - Fighting
Bunking off - Playing truant.
Crumblie - Old person.
Belm - A lie
Crusties - Underpants.
I afot do - I have to do it!'
Tickle Tackle - Gossip
Gob - mouth
Gobbing - spitting
Off your Head - Stupid or drunk
Piffie on a rock bun - exposed, embarassed.

[Brunlea]

Mentioned this a while back but when clearing up at home with Mrs B told her she “had more shoes than soft mick” which is something my mum used to say to me donkeys years ago

[bpgburn]

I Shamed - I was embarrassed

[chorleyhere]

"If he fell off the Co-op he'd land in the divvy!"

[No Ney Never]

I was up and down like a brides nightie.

[Dressinggown]

" If I dived into a bucketful of t*ts I would come out sucking my thumb"

(I tend to be rather unlucky)

[dvalley69]

sidda, rovers geet licked agen

made me smile and brought back good memories of mi' granddad, always used to say a team 'got licked again'. God rest his soul.

[PenfoldClaret]

In Dickie’s Meadow

[Stalbansclaret]

Many expressions I recognise from my parents and grandparents on this thread.
I'll contribute that whenever my mum was tired out she would tend to say "I'm jiggered" .

[Volvoclaret]

Skivin, school or work.