Where about in the country does this come from?
"Im going to nick off out the house"
I’d thought was generic.
I know what it means - or can guess - but not a phrase I'd use in the northwest (grew up in Wigan)
If we are going to take NBT's approach and do it by process of elimination, it is also not from the places I've lived. Lincolnshire, Berkshire, Fife or the Borders
Not a Leeds/Bradford thing either
Isn't it Australian? Source: Home and Away and Neighbours. In about the 90s.
New to me. So not the SW.
Heard it said in Scotland,but not for a long time
e.g.
At a party..
Me .. "Where's Jamie gone?"
My new best friend .." Think he's nicked off "
Isn’t it Australian? Source: Home and Away and Neighbours. In about the 90s.
Rack off, you dropkick!
north west?
what about 'myopic roaster' - where does calling someone a short sighted baking tin originate from?
We definitely had nicking off in the northeast.
This month I've been enjoying "bite me banger ya bawbag". Think I heard it on a film.
Ive heard it, but not regularly so suggest its not north west (an area ive spent almost 50 years shuffling around)
I love local sayings and a bit of dialect.
In another life I used to work and travel all over the UK, it was always good fun trying to adopt some of the sayings and use them in conversations* with locals.
Communication is the key, init 🙂
*Obviously, without being patronising or taking the piss.
Communication is the key, init
Agreed.
Bite ma banger
One that i've been using my whole life and never really understood is "Doing a B-1"
It's fairly common parlance round these parts and if I were to say the someone has "done a B-1" it would be widely understood to mean that they have run away, buggered off, scarpered, absconded etc.etc.
It's periodically intrigued me.
To "nick off" was certainly used in 1960's north east. As in "are you nickin' off school the morra" Havn't heard it used for many many years.
Not a Leeds/Bradford thing either
Yes it is. I'm actually quite posh (by Leeds/Bradford standards) so probably wouldn't say it myself but it's definitely a thing, or was a thing.
what about ‘myopic roaster’ – where does calling someone a short sighted baking tin originate from?
'Roaster' is Scottish, is it not? Possibly Weegie.
Essex/ East London here - not part of my vernacular.
Chip off might be our local equivalent
"I'm chipping off to the pub"
"See you later, I'm chipping off home now"
I think the B1 is sort of rhyming slang for run isn't it?
An essex mate say nick off all the time. Can't say Ive heard it on site around here (fife and leith)
Another one here from the North East, Teesside, who says nicking off.
Yep, definitely North East. Always said it... and still do regularly to my kids!
North Cumbria as a teenager.
Nick/ nicking off was used.
As was "wee crack a' deek aboot"
Bolt ya radge
Where did "Can I get?" and "would of" originate?
What about ‘tootsies’ for feet, I think that’s common enough. But then ‘donnies’ for hands is a word i love. West Midlands.
Kift, meaning daft in pembrokeshre
I thought the saying was "Nip out for a bit" or "I'm going to nip off out".
"wants to know the far side of every fart" (i.e. nosy)
anyone heard that ? I only ever heard my nana say it (either Teesside or maybe Merthyr)
Load of tut was common round my way growing up, dismissive of something useless. Equally one's maiden aunt might be delighted to browse a shop "full of tut" on holiday and would happily return with an overpriced stuffed donkey wearing a sombrero that had subsequently acquired enormous sentimental value.
Quite a few in certain parts of Cumbria
"Away an' chess (/yaself)"
Not one you hear much these days but basically means go away/stop talking pish.
Full of tat, I've heard of...not tut though...
Yows' are ladgeful.
I sometimes read the forum while doing a Jedi
'Laiking' for messing, ie "Stop laiking about".
" Agait" for said or saying, ie "He's agait, is it thy round, lad?"
"Yon" for there, ie "He's over yon"
And many more - East Lancs. One of my Grandmas was born in 1885 and still spoke with a proper Lancashire dialect (she died in 1971). She wore a pinny, too (but not clogs)
“wants to know the far side of every fart” (i.e. nosy)
Ah now I know "going to the far end of a fart" as I used in a business meeting once to describe considering things we didn't really need to waste our time on. It met with much hilarity but I thought it was a common figure of speech.
Mind you I also once asked for a rubber in an American dominated drawing office.