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HUMPHING slipped out this morning - "Moving about laboriously under the weight of a heavy, unwieldy burden."
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Ouse as in fluff.
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Just remembered "poorie". - milk jug


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Penny Tray wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 12:48 pm HUMPHING slipped out this morning - "Moving about laboriously under the weight of a heavy, unwieldy burden."
That takes me back to the Abattoir in Blakely Rd, Saltcoats. Humphing the meat on to the refrigerated lorries.

I think i can just about remember a different kind of Humphing, but not saying ... :wink:
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Gads - as in something very distasteful.
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That's a good one. Wondering what it's origin was, I see it's regarded as a mild oath in Scotland, an altered form of GOD.
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Ye gadz means my god but I don't think it's as old as it sounds.
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Carry me

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Bob's your uncle
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brian f wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 8:23 pm Bob's your uncle
This one's going back a bit.
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Snip, snip and Bob's your auntie.
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Brilliant J.D

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Begritten - tearstained. My mum used to say wee begritten face if one of us had been crying.
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