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Old Word Resurrection

My girlfriend has just entered the front room and proclaimed.....

 

'The dog is having a Benny'.

 

I've not heard that turn of phrase for years and I am now determined to begin using it again.

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    Demick

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    I'm trying my best with "Chinny reckon" ...and the rubbing of the chin to go with the words...

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    Chinny belm

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    We didn't use chinny reckon. Instead we used to push out tongue into our bottom lip and say 'bemph'.

     

    If somebody said something really implausible then it was a 'mega Bemph'.

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    Demick ,idiot ,idiot, stoopid, etc etc

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    Demick ,idiot ,idiot, stoopid, etc etc

    I have literally never heard that word before. It sounds right somehow?

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    Tished.

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    Tished.

    Ha ha - as in tishing a window?

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    That's the one.

     

    Not heard it for years!

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    That's the one.

     

    Not heard it for years!

    Belting revival.

     

    'I've just tished my Mum's window. She's bound fot have a Mega Benny. I'm a right Demick'.

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    Flid

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    Flid

     

    That's used regularly

     

     

    Well, I hear it often enough :angry2:

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    Baz.

     

    As in to throw.

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    Thrombo

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    Thrombo

    Eppy

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    Tight & slack

     

    It was utterly ridiculous that they meant the same

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    Shady

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    Wazzock

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    "perlin" for brilliant and "shot down and pissed on" meant you'd clearly proved your point and won the argument

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    Pow-fagged.

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    Klempt.

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