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Brummagem Sayings

Dennis Langan 21:02, Sun 24 May

B_C_F_C   0
Replying to debully   08:26, Sun 31 May
debully
Just with the old man watching the final

He's added "bomb hole" in Blythe and apparently everywhere had a local "bomb wreck"

His brother always wanted to go to bomb hole to catch fish but all he every caught was his own ear in a weird casting off incident!

He's never understood why my nan called me "peeky" but remembered the old phrase "cheeky blinder" reaffirming an earlier poster. Sorry to bore everyone 😀

Bomb Peck surely?

The "rec" was shortening of recreation ground (e.g. Fox Hollies recreation ground)
23/01/20 Mad: I'll stop moaning now.
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simonparker   1
Replying to B_C_F_C   20:53, Mon 1 Jun
When you got lost or took an age to get home. “We went right round the Wrekin to get there”
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Wyndcliff   -1
Replying to B_C_F_C   08:01, Tue 2 Jun
B_C_F_C
debully
Just with the old man watching the final

He's added "bomb hole" in Blythe and apparently everywhere had a local "bomb wreck"

His brother always wanted to go to bomb hole to catch fish but all he every caught was his own ear in a weird casting off incident!

He's never understood why my nan called me "peeky" but remembered the old phrase "cheeky blinder" reaffirming an earlier poster. Sorry to bore everyone 😀

Bomb Peck surely?

The "rec" was shortening of recreation ground (e.g. Fox Hollies recreation ground)

Bomb Peck. Takes me back.

We used to play football, cricket, soapbox trollies and the olympics on the bomb peck in Millward St, which runs from Little Green Lane to Green Lane.
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newblue   0
Replying to Wyndcliff   08:09, Tue 2 Jun
Seems to me a lot of the supposed Birmingham dialect words are really just common slang. There’s a few idioms referred to here which are unique to the area.

Bomb peck is something I’ve never heard elsewhere, or the charming ‘donny’ for a child’s hand. Never heard ‘riffy’ for dirty/infested elsewhere either though that might be slang.


The north east has a lot of dialect words in common usage still but I think it’s diminishing quite quickly.
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fradge   0
Replying to Rab C Nesbitt   09:42, Tue 2 Jun
Rab C Nesbitt
Cock a deaf ‘un - makes more sense to me

It's also not just Brum.
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Angelsey Blue   0
Replying to newblue   11:58, Tue 2 Jun
newblue
Seems to me a lot of the supposed Birmingham dialect words are really just common slang. There’s a few idioms referred to here which are unique to the area.

Bomb peck is something I’ve never heard elsewhere, or the charming ‘donny’ for a child’s hand. Never heard ‘riffy’ for dirty/infested elsewhere either though that might be slang.


The north east has a lot of dialect words in common usage still but I think it’s diminishing quite quickly.

My dad used donnies. Best idea of origin is WW1 with French and Belgian hungry hold their hands out to British soldy and saying donnez (give).
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Rab C Nesbitt   0
Replying to fradge   12:17, Tue 2 Jun
fradge
Rab C Nesbitt
Cock a deaf ‘un - makes more sense to me

It's also not just Brum.
Most of these aren’t. As usual
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Wyndcliff   1
Replying to newblue   12:37, Tue 2 Jun
newblue
Seems to me a lot of the supposed Birmingham dialect words are really just common slang. There’s a few idioms referred to here which are unique to the area.

Bomb peck is something I’ve never heard elsewhere, or the charming ‘donny’ for a child’s hand. Never heard ‘riffy’ for dirty/infested elsewhere either though that might be slang.


The north east has a lot of dialect words in common usage still but I think it’s diminishing quite quickly.

Quite right, but I’ve never heard anyone mention bomb peck outside of Brum
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Sheev Palpatine   0
Replying to Wyndcliff   12:44, Tue 2 Jun
When my dad told me about playing on the bomb peck when he was young I genuinely thought that they were playing around unexploded ordnance leftover from the war and were just extremely casual about it
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Burlington Bertie   0
Replying to Angelsey Blue   13:15, Tue 2 Jun
A nause is someone being annoying, there are many examples in this thread.

Nothing to do with being unpleasant, my kids can be nauses, I love them dearly and they're far from unpleasant (most of the time).
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Angelsey Blue   -1
Replying to Burlington Bertie   14:37, Tue 2 Jun
Burlington Bertie
A nause is someone being annoying, there are many examples in this thread.

Nothing to do with being unpleasant, my kids can be nauses, I love them dearly and they're far from unpleasant (most of the time).

Root is nauseous. Primarily a northwest word. Liverpool and Manchester.
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