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Soffit
Noggin
Girder
Flange (well someone had to)
Turboshaft
Dwang & Dook
Canook
Dipstick
Doohickey.
transom
Bevel
Thrust-Washer
Hammer
Staple and hasp
Adze
Joist
Mitre
Spigot
Maul
Thingamajig
Scaffold
Rotary ****el engine
Man word - gasket
Woman word - gusset
Fokker (German air planes)
Bauged
Torque.
Five-minute-job.
mullion
Ductile
Bint
Gert
Crowbar
I shall shortly be up a scaffold tower fitting some soffits and fascias with my neighbour. Proper man work, that.
Near Enough!
Baw hair (Unit of measurement)
Powertool.
Beer.
Swage
Gnat's cock (unit of measurement)
Rim butter
Grinder
Chuffed
Slip Ring 🙂
Swarfe
Wimet
Backlash
Mullion is a good call JT.
I only learned of it a couple of weeks ago.
Can I throw in:
Plenum
Crevice free
Mastic
Power
Arse
What are you all talking about??? 😉
gobbo/gobo
Ratchet
Wrench
Strut
Shunt
Frenum
Workshop
Mill' (measurement)
Flux Capacitor.
Megahertz
Rasp
thou (measurement)
Shed.
Grafters
chamfer
bastard cut
facing cut
ream
Hone
Parking
Blow torch.
Common sense.
bodge
ballcock
round here
moisturiser, calories. 😆
Massey Ferguson
'Job's ****ed'
Billhook
Clunge
Swarfega
Doily
Doily
Paper?
Gimlet
Anchor
Guns.
frozen
multi-meter
****-it
cave
Main bearings
Crank
McMoonter's log pile
Gudgeon pin
Woodruff key
dubrey
spindle moulder
biscuit joint
fettle
thrutch
Dreadnought
Spokeshave
Dab of opposite lock
Lift off oversteer
Wheelspin in third.
Reamer
Easy out
Buggered
Shafted
Podger 😆
Tumblehome
pot tweaker
thrust bearing
end-play
Pot tweaker is excellent, tx
Man Phrase's
"it's f..ked" - engineering diagnosis meaning "beyond further help", regional variations do exist
"fix bayonets" - british military term, normally a situational summary, has several meanings, to the British these can include
"oh dear, Johnny Foreigner has us surrounded and we're in the poo"
"oh dear, Johnny Foreigner has us surrounded and [u]they're[/u] in the poo"
To Johnny Foreigner hearing this phrase has only one clear meaning
"oh dear, the tommies have just fixed their bayonets, we're in the poo - big time!"
Man Words -
Woodruff Key
Autolube
Dry Sump
Bodged
Stilson
Reciprocating
Suck,squeeze,bang,blow
Flush
Proud
That'll do
Its reet/it'll be reet
"th'adjuster" (aka hammer)
Phillips 'ead
Cross 'ead
Flat 'ed
