The man a'rm uncle toreply to a nosy childs question who,s that mam icky the fire bobby
no liverpool i,m irish born but lived in the pool till i were 18I thought Icky the fire bobby had a Manchester origin
lolI thought Icky the fire bobby had a Manchester origin
What a great thread. My Nan always said “make haste” when I was leaving to go back home. I only lived eleven doors away. We always called bread and butter a piece. I still use the word chobbling and my husband loves a piece of jam. . More happy memories.That was always called a "Piece" when we were kids.
Maybe she meant jed. Dead.I think it means drunk too.There was a saying as children when we got frozen clothes in off the washing line.... as stiff as yer father. I never really knew what it meant. Hope it wasn't rude as I think it might be now!!!
If a big word came up say on TV, "we ad one of them but it died, or we ad one of them but the wheels fell of it"Following up on Senoraruz, the conversation around our family was:-
“Where’s the whatnot gone?”
”It’s ’angin’ up, on the floor, be’ind the jug!”
Molly Coddled appears to be universal. These are the lyrics to an American song called Molly CoddledYo'wm muthered an' smothered,..... Nan thought I was molly coddled.I 'Ees mammy licked..... of a very timid child I was at school with. I wonder where Molly Coddled originates?