Posted by IamBensSister on 16/6/2007, 9:57:43 Barrer job - Work done for cash in hand by dishonestly using boss's tools and materials; eg. Me mate works for NTL - he'll fit you a digibox as a barrer job! Bealing - Crying Beer-off - Off-licence Benny on, get a - Become angry; see also monk on Blue - Term of endearment for a friend or family member; eg. We off up town tonight, Blue? Bob - A poo; eg. I fell ovver the hoover in the middle of last night Boke - Vomit, esp. at the back of a coach on a school trip; retch Bomb out - Transitive verb: fail without warning to fulfil a social engagement; eg. We was supposed to be playing togger down the Ploggers but me mates bombed us out! Bommy - Bonfire Bommy night - Guy Fawkes' night Borry - Borrow Buggerlugs - Deeply mysterious, not to say worrying, term of simultaneous endearment and abuse used by Grimsby parents addressing young children; eg. Now then, buggerlugs! Eat all that lovely fish or you'll get a clip round the lughole! Chuck - Throw (verb) Chud, Chuddy- Chewing gum Cob - Throw (verb) Cob on - see monk on Coro - Distinctively Grimbarian abbreviation for Coronation Street, Diesel - Equally lethal and sickly beverage comprising lager, cider Div - Idiot; contraction of NW England term divvy Does do - Verb form described by linguists as "the Grimbarian double performative"; most famous occurrence in GTFC 1997-98 season highlights video: McDermott won't keep that in... oh! He does do! Dolly, the - The Dolphin, extinct pub on a corner near Cleethorpes Down town - Synonym for up town used by my little brother in his Flyover, the - Overpass on the A180 running parallel to the docks Freemo - Freeman Street, trading thoroughfare that links Grimsby Giz - Give me; give us Goodies - Sweets Grimmo - Grimsby. Current research suggests that the term emerged in the mid-1990s as a humorous tribute to the townspeople's fondness for abbreviating words by taking the first syllable and adding the letter O (see Freemo, immo, Boato, etc) Grufty - Dirty Gullies - Gulliver's, smallest nightclub in the world and on Tuesday nights Grimsby's enduring sole concession to 'alternative' music. Raised area of seating opposite DJ booth, on the right as you go in, is known as Goth Corner, which is kind of self-explanatory Guts for garters, have your - Staggeringly gruesome threat of Immo - Immature; used in early teens to denounce behaviour of peer and confer spurious sense of adulthood on speaker; eg. You're dead immo, you are, Greenie! Kegs - Underpants Kinell - ####ing hell Lob - Throw (verb) Lug; lughole - Ear. For minor misdemeanours deemed not to justify having their guts for garters, wayward children may be issued with a clip round the lughole Mardy - Ill-humoured; irritable; arsey. By no means confined to North East Lincolnshire in its geographical reach, the term has nonetheless been given an amusingly Grimmo twist by the recent emergence of US tennis star Mardy Fish Meggies - Cleethorpes; originates from Meg's Island, an obsolete term for the area around Isaac's Hill Mell you in; mell your head in - Inflict violence upon you Mesen - Myself; eg. Well if you don't want yer goosegogs, I'll eat Mib - Small marble Monk on, have a - Be mardy. The disaffected Grimbarian may Now then! - Hello! Nunty - Style of dress and design suggesting poor taste, premature ageing and a hard life. Off - Going; eg. I'm off ovver to Ull tomorrer! Ovver - Over Packing up - Packed lunch Pag - Transitive verb: to (illegally) take a passenger on one's Pallie - Pallet, esp. when working in a factory that uses them Piggy-pag - Piggyback ride Precinct, the - Alternative term for the Freshney Place shopping Rammies - Ron Ramsden's supermarket, eg. Me mam used to work in Rammies! Reckon - Erroneously believe oneself to be hard; attempt to propagate such a belief. Also reckoner: one who reckons, eg. He's not hard - he's just a reckoner! I cobbed his packing up box ovver a wall and he started bealing! Right bobby dazzler, look a - Appear smartly dressed and groomed, eg. You look a right bobby dazzler! Off up the Bags' Ball, are yer? Roaring - Crying Scaffer - Scartho, well-to-do suburb in the extreme south of Grimsby. Alternative 'posh' pronunciation SCAW-thoe is used exclusively to take the piss Scafferbaffs - Swimming pool located on Scartho Road Scraps - Stray pieces of batter from fried fish supplied gratis by Slotties - Amusement arcades, esp. along Cleethorpes seafront; Soz - Sorry Soz, Mum! - Your strident and hectoring tone is becoming reminiscent of my mother's! Spoggy - Chewing gum; bubblegum Struts - Stickleback, esp. when seeking to catch them from Chapman's Pond or the Boating Lake using a flimsy net purchased cheaply on the seafront. Male stickleback that have acquired high colour during the mating season are known by some as red doctors. Well, probably just by me and the lad I used to go fishing with when we were kids, actually Taffled - Tangled Togger - Football as played in a park or recreation ground Tomorrer - Tomorrow Top Town - Area in Grimsby town centre, boundaries of which remain the subject of furious debate among Grimbarians. I always thought it was the bit around the Bull Ring but am bound to get 50 scrillion emails arguing otherwise. Home of Top Town Market, an alternative to Freemo market that also sells used Mills & Boon novels and pieces of foam rubber Traino - Former route of Grimsby-Louth railway, widely used (albeit probably illegally) as a convenient pedestrian shortcut and secluded area Tret - Past tense and past participle of treat; eg. I went round me Twag; twag it - Play truant Ull - Yorkshire city situated opposite Grimsby on the estuary of the Umber - River upon whose estuary Grimsby is situated; often Up town - Remaining area of Grimsby town centre not covered by the term Top Town Us - Used as first-person singular as well as plural; eg. I went Yersen - Yourself; eg. You off ovver to Ull by yersen? Yonks - Indefinite but lengthy period of time; eg. I haven't been to Wonderland for yonks! Again, not exclusive to Grimmo, but I like it Yorkie - Native of Yorkshire - representative of the outside world
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Bags' Ball - Uncharitable term for Wednesday nights at Cleethorpes Winter Gardens, when local tradition was once for sexually underutilised young men to relieve their frustrations with women of scandalous seniority
when I got up for a bob!
dryly without vomiting
which is truncated by the rest of the Anglophone world to "Corrie"
and blackcurrant cordial; less imaginatively referred to elsewhere as "snakebite and black"
marketplace; now 'Reflex', an 80s theme bar
early teens to try and sound all cool and American
from Riby Square
docks with the town centre and has mirrored the commercial decline of the fisheries accordingly. In its heyday, returning trawlermen would drink their entire wages between Riby Square and Hainton Square before getting home. Home of Freemo market, where products ranging from lamb fillets to slug pellets
can be procured at competitive prices and variable quality
punishment or retribution made mostly, again, by loving parents to young children (see also buggerlugs)
'em all mesen!
alternatively elect to have a cob or a benny on, presumably in the same place the monk is worn
pushbike in such a configuration that they occupy the saddle and hold onto one's hips for balance while one pedals and steers from a standing position; eg. I pagged him all the way from the Nunny! Also noun: the ride given in this manner; eg. Pags are dead immo!
centre; predates its construction and hence not used by Grimbarians aged under 35
chippies with your chips
derived from 'slot machines'
for illicit drinking and drug use, between December 1980, when the line was closed, and the mid-1990s, when the traino was obliterated by the Peaks Parkway section of the A16, opened to traffic in October 1998 (but it doesn't look much like a park to me, unless it's one with cars instead of trees)
Nan's and she tret us to some spoggy!
Umber; see also Yorkie
mistakenly called the sea
round me Nan's and she tret us to some spoggy!
and hence a figure to be feared and maligne
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