As is usual these days, I had forgotten to do something usually done by habit. I then use an expression I havn't heard or used for many years. I called myself a " Barm pot" [don't know if that's the way to spell it]. It was an expression we used to use often when you did something silly. Wonder where it came from ??
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My mum used that, and she was from Yorkshire
Radiorails
master brummie
Anyone watching Last Of The Summer Wine would get the impression of Yorkshire as it is frequently used in the scripts.
Stokkie
master brummie
Barm
1. the yeasty froth on fermenting malt liquors
2. an archaic or dialect word for yeast
Collins English Dictionary. It is an ancient word. Old English bearm; related to beran to bear, Old Norse barmr barm, Gothic barms, Old High German barm see ferment..
Tipsy, barmy, air-head? silly... Literally a pot full of yeasty froth. Mom, born Ladywood with links to Tipton used to call me a barm pot if I did something foolish. As a term of affection.
1. the yeasty froth on fermenting malt liquors
2. an archaic or dialect word for yeast
Collins English Dictionary. It is an ancient word. Old English bearm; related to beran to bear, Old Norse barmr barm, Gothic barms, Old High German barm see ferment..
Tipsy, barmy, air-head? silly... Literally a pot full of yeasty froth. Mom, born Ladywood with links to Tipton used to call me a barm pot if I did something foolish. As a term of affection.
Janet Hunt
master brummie
The term "barm pot" was used in our family often as well, had relly's from Yorkshire and the Black Country
I’m 71 and remember the term pig bin and it was just that as it was collected by the pig farmers to feed the pigs,so it was not regular dustbin.TMX
Richard Dye
master brummie
I'm 80 and I well remember the pig bins, they used to be right alongside the dust bins. In many cases they looked like a regular dust bin. Although the only thing I really remember about them was the smell!
I remember as a child if you fell over you would " SCRAGE" (graze) your knee and you went into the house crying and my nan used to say "GO SUCK YOUR ORANGE" not sure if that was a saying or it was something she made up, has anyone else heard of it.
Richard Dye
master brummie
The version we used was "go suck a lemon."
Ha Ha you are probably right memory not so good now a days, after all that was about 60 years ago, lemon it is.
Richard Dye
master brummie
Yes, the years do make a differance!
my mom said it often and she was an out and out brummie with no yorkshire connections so i guess she just heard the saying
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Richard Dye
master brummie
That was a very well used saying by my family!
Agreed but as i remember my nan used to like a tipple or three in the Lea Hall Tavern so i suppose on another day it could have been go suck your apple, ha ha happy days.
Yes it must be a brummie saying as my nan was born in Aston in about 1880 living in Oxygen Street then the family moved to Folliot Road Lea Hall for the rest of her life and as far as i know didnt live anywhere else.
Another one thats just come to mind, my uncle would say your nans gone to bed she came home KAYLIED.
Radiorails
master brummie
Here it would be said the someone was "dree sheets in the wiind". It has connections with sailing ships and trawlers.
Richard Dye
master brummie
The version we used and still do, “three sheets to the wind” same connection means you are drunk.
Stokkie
master brummie
Scrage is still used in the Midlands I think. Looked in the Oxford English Dictionary and was surprised:
OED's earliest evidence for scrage is from 1841, in Bristol Mercury. But people might well have used it in speech before then. A blend of scratch and graze. Scraze is given as an alternative. As a verb this is older: OED's only evidence for scraze is from 1703, in the writing of John Evelyn, diarist and writer.
OED's earliest evidence for scrage is from 1841, in Bristol Mercury. But people might well have used it in speech before then. A blend of scratch and graze. Scraze is given as an alternative. As a verb this is older: OED's only evidence for scraze is from 1703, in the writing of John Evelyn, diarist and writer.
Radiorails
master brummie
Someone, no drunk but tipsy would be said to be "shippin some water".