DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS

[Stanley]

That'll be right! Funny thing language.....

[Bodger]

When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate.
-A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
-When the smog lifts in Los Angeles U.C.L.A.
-The batteries were given out free of charge.
-A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.
-A will is a dead giveaway.
-With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
-A boiled egg is hard to beat.
-When you've seen one shopping Centre you've seen a mall.
-Police were called to a day care Centre where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
-Did you hear about the fellow whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
-A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
-When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
-The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine is now fully recovered.
-He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
-When she saw her first strands of grey hair she thought she'd dye.
-Acupuncture is a jab well done. That's the point of it.

[Cathy]

Love it Bodge, very good, made me smile

(What happened to the 'Like' button?)

[Pluggy]

(What happened to the 'Like' button?)

It was one of the plethoria of addons that made the 2012 version of OGFB slow and unreliable. It was removed when we got professionals involved in repairing the site last October. It went the same way as the Arcade and the Portal among many others. Its Pluggy OGFB rather than Doc OGFB if you like.

[Stanley]

And much better. Bodge's list reminded me of the little girl who was convinced that laughing was a crime. She had come across 'manslaughter' in a newspaper.

[Stanley]

Have we had a look at 'powfagged'? My mother was often struck by this mysterious form of lassitude!

[Cathy]

A few days ago I thought of the word yonks as in 'I haven't seen you for yonk's' meaning for ages. My internet search refers to donkeys . Anyway I let that one go.
Yesterday I heard 'for the first time' the word gubbins/gubbings. In context it referred to what happens in a laundry. The Oxford Dictionary talks of electronic gubbins which in this case probably means the washing machine, clothes dryer and iron etc. Does anyone use or remember 'gubbins' ?

[PanBiker]

Gubbins to me refers to anything that is the "workings" or "innards" of an item.

[Bodger]

a nice word in Ireland for something broke, its "banjaxed"

[LizG]

A few days ago I thought of the word yonks as in 'I haven't seen you for yonk's' meaning for ages. My internet search refers to donkeys . Anyway I let that one go.

I googled it and got this. Make of it what you will.

"British Slang, Measurement of Time;

1) The unit of 'Yonk' is known to be exactly 3 Months and 13 Days.

--> Used to describe a long period since you last saw someone or something. Usually termed 'Yonks' rather than a 'Yonk'.
1)
BOB: "Gee Willy, I haven't seen you for Yonks!"
WILLY: "Yeah, must be about 3 Yonks actually." "

[Stanley]

That's my understanding of 'yonks' and 'gubbins' as well. I've come across banjaxed occasionally but always by someone from Ireland. (Could have heard it in Liverpool as well, big Irish community)

[Bodger]

i may have posted this before, but well worth another listen,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPKbg06eJ2M

[chinatyke]

I googled it and got this. Make of it what you will.

"British Slang, Measurement of Time;

1) The unit of 'Yonk' is known to beexactly3 Months and 13 Days.

"Make of it what you will"...
Which 3 months EXACTLY? Jan/Feb/March = 90 or 91days; Feb/March/April = 89 or 90 days; and if the months are not consecutive: Feb/April/Sept = 88 or 89 days, Jan/March/May =93 days ... How can an imprecise measurement be deemed 'EXACTLY 3 months and 13 days' when that can mean anything between 101 and 106 days?
Sounds like Daily Mail reporting has spread to Google.

[Stanley]

Bin mon's bin and bin's non bin sin sin.

[Cathy]

Well ah av pur twoa bins art t'neet 'n 'ah 'ope thee will both be emptied by wee garbologists' n be theear for uz to collect tomorrow.

[Stanley]

Perfectly understandable......

[Stanley]

Have we had a look at 'puther'?

[Cathy]

Collins says ''lots of smoke but very little flame', haven't heard of it myself but I aligned it with gossip magazines or 'making a mountain out of a molehill'.

[Stanley]

Collins is right. It's what happens when a fire is hot enough to drive the volatiles off the fuel but not hot enough to ignite them. In idustrial boilers you get the same thing if you fire too much coal without enough draught to supply combustion air.
I used 'slack' this morning as a description of very fine coal. Was this just a Northern term or more widely used?

[Stanley]

'Foreigner' was a term for something done at work for private use. Was this a widespread term?

[David Whipp]

Have used 'foreigner' in that sense for as long as I can remember; with the meaning including any work on the side.

[Bodger]

used in Cheshire when i was an apprentice

[Stanley]

Almost a hundred years ago!

[plaques]

Clever Clogs. I know this has been used by Bruff, But why 'Clever clogs' ?

[Stanley]

I think it's the alliteration P. It rolls nicely off the tongue and just feels right. Everybody knows exactly what it means I think.