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Quake
Posted by Dave Holley on 3 July 2009 - 6:12pm.
Andrew Harrison has just used the word "quake" in the thread about the ridiculous amount of time some of you spend posting on this darned site. Haven't heard the word for a while.
In a moment of serendipity I have just had a conversation with my daughters and used the word jip (or possibly "gyp"?) as in giving somebody jip. They had never heard of it. Ditto "aggro".
Are they out of use? Any other words that we used when we were young that are long gone?
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"gammy"
as in I've got a gammy leg
Or gammy eyes - once Schalk Burger had a go
Bloke
"Bloke" is to "guy" as red squirrel is to grey.
I'm doing my bit to protect it. Are you?
Squiffy
I feel a bit it regularly. Do da yoof?
Snap
I grew up with parents working in car factories (remember them?). To eat at work they took their snap, in my dad's case in a special little bag you bought on the market. I still take my snap but don't know others who do. Any of you?
Squiffy
now - if truth be told
Jollop
A colleague had some kind of rash and was advised by my boss to go the the chemist for some 'jollop'. He was about to leave thinking it was a brand name.
Whatever happened to Wally?
Nobody shouts it at gigs anymore, usually in the interval before headliners arrive onstage. One night at Manchester's Free Trade Hall we got everyone shouting Wilbur...
Wally!
Wally
The loudest one I ever heard was at Earls Court for one of The Wall shows in 81. The man responsible for the initial shout actually stood up and took a bow. I think he went down better than the utter tosh that followed for the next 2 hours or so courtesy of da Floyd.