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Yonner

Just been called a yonner by a manc at work, what does it mean?

 

I'm sure it's been asked loads of times before, but I still have no idea :-k

 

PB

Yonner and proud

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Just been called a yonner by a manc at work, what does it mean?

 

I'm sure it's been asked loads of times before, but I still have no idea :-k

 

PB

Yonner and proud

 

 

No Idea never heard of that one :-k

they think we say 'it is over yon' as in it it over there

 

 

](*,)

i have never heard this one :-k :-k

I was looking up the word "yonks" yesterday, nobody knows where that comes from either :-k

I was looking up the word "yonks" yesterday, nobody knows where that comes from either :-k

 

You would indeed have to be from Britain or the Commonwealth to know yonks, since I don???t think it???s found in the USA at all. Everyone is as puzzled as you are by this curious word, which appeared in Britain in the 1960s with no apparent link to any other word in the language. It usually turns up in the phrase for yonks, for a long time.

Many people have told me that they have been told, or assume, that it is a corrupted form of aeons. Others say that they have heard it is an anagram of ???Year, mONth, weeKS???. These are intriguing and highly inventive speculations, but I suspect strongly that they are the usual well-meant attempts at finding an origin where none is known. The anagrammatic origin is too convoluted to be plausible (and virtually all attempts at finding anagram sources turn out to be specious, anyway).

A few reference books suggest that it might be a clipped version of donkey???s years, also meaning a long time. This sounds quite daft on first hearing, but if you think about it, you can see how the onk of donkey might just have been prefixed by the y of years, perhaps as conscious or unconscious back slang. Another way of looking at it is that the source was a spoonerism on donkey???s years???yonkey???s dears, from which yonks arose by clipping. It???s only a theory, mind???nobody knows for sure one way or the other.

Just been called a yonner by a manc at work, what does it mean?

 

I'm sure it's been asked loads of times before, but I still have no idea :-k

 

PB

Yonner and proud

 

A yonner is someone who lives on Halliwell road (fact)

I used to be a Yonner i guess.http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yonner

I'm a real yonner then, lived next to Halliwell Rd for 10 years. How do mancs know about 'the golden mile' though?

 

PB

I'm a real yonner then, lived next to Halliwell Rd for 10 years. How do mancs know about 'the golden mile' though?

 

PB

 

 

http://pb.urbanup.com/217824

 

 

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1. *pablo

 

hott, sexy, cute, smart, and athletic. who doesnt want a kid like him? BANGING! you look at him and you fall in love.

 

 

 

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Just been called a yonner by a manc at work, what does it mean?

 

I'm sure it's been asked loads of times before, but I still have no idea :-k

 

PB

Yonner and proud

 

A colleague of mine from Oldham reckons it's a bit of a backward inbred with a proper thick dopey accent. The retaliation is alledgely to call them a BIFFO. That's a big ignorant f*cker from oldham. Not that I'm down with the street so don't take my word for it.

Just been called a yonner by a manc at work, what does it mean?

 

I'm sure it's been asked loads of times before, but I still have no idea :-k

 

PB

Yonner and proud

 

A colleague of mine from Oldham reckons it's a bit of a backward inbred with a proper thick dopey accent. The retaliation is alledgely to call them a BIFFO. That's a big ignorant f*cker from oldham. Not that I'm down with the street so don't take my word for it.

 

[-X [-X The only time I've been to Oldham is to see Bolton play. Oh and I once went to see Oldham play Chelsea.

Sorry mate, I said BIFFO not BIFF, don't be so touchy!

I do keep getting told off on this forum. I might siddle over to the domination forum on www.s&m.com, they might be a bit more accomodating & les harsh!

Just been called a yonner by a manc at work, what does it mean?

 

I'm sure it's been asked loads of times before, but I still have no idea :-k

 

PB

Yonner and proud

 

A colleague of mine from Oldham reckons it's a bit of a backward inbred with a proper thick dopey accent. The retaliation is alledgely to call them a BIFFO. That's a big ignorant f*cker from oldham. Not that I'm down with the street so don't take my word for it.

 

[-X [-X The only time I've been to Oldham is to see Bolton play. Oh and I once went to see Oldham play Chelsea.

 

 

Biff :-# :-# :-# i typed in your name

 

http://biff.urbanup.com/224074

Its cos we say "yon-mon"

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