Words sayings you don't hear too often

[hoolahoop]

Most if not all of those expressions are still in common usage. I use most of them and hear all the others used but usually by older folk these days.
Sadly this is probably due to the amount of American television programmes that kids watch noes days
Also kids are reluctant to leave there bedrooms after school and play 'kerby' for hours like we used to do.

[andy didcott]

Used to play nibs when I was a nipper.

[BigColSutherland]

Used to play nibs when I was a nipper.

Bit of the old marbles for you was it sir?

[Donnywolf]

You don't hear of many street games these days such as :

Hopscotch (Istill see some areas markd but does anyone play it still ?)
Whip and Top (anybody still do them ?)
Rallyco (remember the name but not exactly how it worked)
Tin can alley
Jack Jack Shine a light (basically Hide and Seek but with a torch)
British Bulldog
Husky Fusky Finger or Thumb (one for Cussy to explore no doubt)

[not on facebook]

French cricket

Conkers

[BigColSutherland]

You don't hear of many street games these days such as :

Hopscotch (Istill see some areas markd but does anyone play it still ?)
Whip and Top (anybody still do them ?)
Rallyco (remember the name but not exactly how it worked)
Tin can alley
Jack Jack Shine a light (basically Hide and Seek but with a torch)
British Bulldog
Husky Fusky Finger or Thumb (one for Cussy to explore no doubt)

I had a game of kerby a couple of years back in Oxford. Best stag do ever.

[IDM]

In my younger days, "spice" meant sweeties.

A leather football was a "casey".

Kegs were trousers.

A chip 'oyle was a fish and chip shop.

"laik" meant to play, as in games.

"Gay" was a posh word for "happy" in old films..

There was a slang word for licorice but I can't recall what that was now...

On a similar theme, sweet "cigarettes", smoking upstairs on buses, 2p bus fairs all around SY, respecting authority because the threat of getting a slap from parents/teachers/police was a proper deterrent.

[bigbadjack]

Do kids still play cuppys or headers and volleys

[Donnywolf]

Was Spanish the word you were thinking of for the Licorice ?

And speaking of Spanish we used to use them to dip in Kayli (Rainbow Crystals ?)

[Donnywolf]

Foggy = first
Seggy = second


Laggy = last
Neg Laggy = next to last

[IDM]

Was Spanish the word you were thinking of for the Licorice ?

And speaking of Spanish we used to use them to dip in Kayli (Rainbow Crystals ?)

That's the kiddie... "spanish" it was!

[not on facebook]

Shagger.....as on yer neck from a bint

[BobG]

Eccy thump!

BobG

[moses]

Laik is a Barnsley word surely?
When we moved back to Donny from Retford Wemblies became Cuppies.  And there were subtle rule changes such as the winner getting to go first in the next game. Very important to a 10 year old.

[Bentley Bullet]

My Grandma used to live near the railway line and when a train went past you could hear a rumble from her back passage. When I was a kid I used to park my bike in her back passage.

Houses don't have 'back passages' anymore.

[RedJ]

They do in Balby, if they're what I'm thinking of.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Yitten, Maungy, Segs.

And, as a Donny fan, a term you never hear anymore is "having some f**king balls and not moaning like a babby after a couple of defeats."

[BillyStubbsTears]

A couple from me grandad.

"Ah s'll mek third man!"
Trans. "You two really must stop fighting now, otherwise I shall be forced to act as the arbiter, which will involve braying the f**king pair of you senseless."

"Tha'd laugh if thi arse were on fire."

Trans. "My dear chap, your humour filter appears to be set at a preternaturally low level."

My grandad on the other side of the family used to sit by the fire saying "All ah want is a quiet life."
Which we found really funny. Until he took an massive overdose, had his stomach pumped and was given ECT to snap him out of his depression.

[roversdude]

Pretty sure back in dark and distant days growing up in Balby - we used to play a game called hot rice
Basically someone wangled a tennis ball at you if it hit you you were on their side, you could hit it away with fist - winner was last man standing
Backsies were ginnels

[bigbadjack]

Hot rice bounce twice not once but twice, bounce twice

[jucyberry]

Reading this got me thinking about how our regional sayings and dialects are disappearing and how sad that is.

This is one of the boy john letters written in Norfolk speak... the thing that makes me smile the most is the last paragraph, something I know BST will appreciate Lol.

  http://www.literarynorfolk.co.uk/Poems/the_boy_john_letters.htm

[glosterred]

Rovers played well today

COYR

[roversdude]

Seem to remember classic cars going down Balby road regularly on Sunday mornings don't know if there was a car club or just on route of a meeting

[Dutch Uncle]

'Corkie' for a cheapo cricket ball made of cork

[ravenrover]

Well a'll gu to foot of our stairs!
Bit black over Bill's Mothers
Nah then young un
Floppin eck
Is that young Bant (usually said to me by miners coming home from day shift - my Dad died down Broddie when I was 10 so all his mates had a bit of a soft spot for me)

[CusworthRovers]

Marra, Blue, Ribs, yucker.....a small child

Even r' lass is disappearing. You don't hear the younger ones referring to their partners in that term.

Scrumping.........Raiding an orchard for fruit.

Tabs, Lugs, Lug'oils...........Ears

Crow...............Bogie

Tide mark..........the line of scum around the neck for the great unwashed

Double ball..........throwing 2 balls against a wall in rotation

Cut.................Canal

On t' bar..............erection

[Mike_F]

Round our way (Wheatley Hills/Intake) Kegs were underpants and just about everybody got "kegged" at some point. Usually down at the Boato (Sandall Park).

A lift on someone's bike was called a "cog" (Giz a cog, mate).

Marbles had all sorts of names depending on the size & colouring.

Size:
- Peewees
- Nibs
- Dobbers
- Emperors
- King Emperors
- Super King Emperors

Colours/Types:
- Cats' Eyes
- Pearlies
- Chinkies
- Oilies
- Spotties
- Swirlies
- Steelies (Ball bearings)
- Glassies

Probably a few that I've misse there too. You could also have combinations of the above e.g. Spotty-Oilies. Rules would be set at the start of each match e.g. "I'll have you a game of oily sevens (7 marbles each), no chips (only good, unbroken marbles allowed). When 'bell goes it's either keep what you've got and share what's on 'pitch or more usually "grab what you can""

Cheap-shots were little punches or slaps out of the blue to take the victim by surprise. To which the response was often "I owe yer" menaing retributions would be made at the next opportunity.

Elastic bands were "laggies".

One craze in my youth was chewing up paper until it had the consistency of papier mache and throwing it or shooting samll bits through an empty biro casing. This stuff was called "Boris". I remember a house party getting out of hand with several bog rolls being soaked in the sink and the house next door being rendered with boris.

[IDM]

One craze in my youth was chewing up paper until it had the consistency of papier mache and throwing it or shooting samll bits through an empty biro casing. This stuff was called "Boris". I remember a house party getting out of hand with several bog rolls being soaked in the sink and the house next door being rendered with boris.

We had that when I was at school, but they were known as "tobegs".  Most classrooms had dried out mounds of chewed paper on the ceiling, windows etc.  One lad used to make them out of the whole sheet of A4, and would even occasionally flick them at the blackboard (using a ruler) whilst the teacher was writing on it.

There's another word, "blackboard"...

[ravenrover]

Her's another one CANE

[not on facebook]

Round our way (Wheatley Hills/Intake) Kegs were underpants and just about everybody got "kegged" at some point. Usually down at the Boato (Sandall Park).

A lift on someone's bike was called a "cog" (Giz a cog, mate).

Marbles had all sorts of names depending on the size & colouring.

Size:
- Peewees
- Nibs
- Dobbers
- Emperors
- King Emperors
- Super King Emperors

Colours/Types:
- Cats' Eyes
- Pearlies
- Chinkies
- Oilies
- Spotties
- Swirlies
- Steelies (Ball bearings)
- Glassies

Probably a few that I've misse there too. You could also have combinations of the above e.g. Spotty-Oilies. Rules would be set at the start of each match e.g. "I'll have you a game of oily sevens (7 marbles each), no chips (only good, unbroken marbles allowed). When 'bell goes it's either keep what you've got and share what's on 'pitch or more usually "grab what you can""

Cheap-shots were little punches or slaps out of the blue to take the victim by surprise. To which the response was often "I owe yer" menaing retributions would be made at the next opportunity.

Elastic bands were "laggies".

One craze in my youth was chewing up paper until it had the consistency of papier mache and throwing it or shooting samll bits through an empty biro casing. This stuff was called "Boris". I remember a house party getting out of hand with several bog rolls being soaked in the sink and the house next door being rendered with boris.

Fancy a game Of pog fella?