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Do you have any words or sayings that you use that you have no clue what they mean or where they came from?
I dunno, the thought just came to me the other day, I was talking to my friend and he said 'haha, look at him pegging it across the car park' (pegging means running really fast just in case anybody didnt know
) and i was thinking where the hell did the phrase 'pegging it' come from?! i mean i say it every now and then!
Also something i say a lot is 'faffing' haha like 'i hate faffing about' but i dont know where that comes from either. in fact faffing is one of my favourite words. haha.
These two might just be northernisms but i just thought i would post em as examples
any others?
I dunno, the thought just came to me the other day, I was talking to my friend and he said 'haha, look at him pegging it across the car park' (pegging means running really fast just in case anybody didnt know
) and i was thinking where the hell did the phrase 'pegging it' come from?! i mean i say it every now and then!Also something i say a lot is 'faffing' haha like 'i hate faffing about' but i dont know where that comes from either. in fact faffing is one of my favourite words. haha.
These two might just be northernisms but i just thought i would post em as examples
any others?
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I also say twoddle, as in "that's a load of twoddle" and puss (said pus meaning mouth), as in "shut your puss!"
That's all I can think of just now
Also, if someone owned you, you say "Ah ripped out!"
If you 'lunch' something you fuck it up.
If something 'covely' it's wrong and in a fucked up kind of way.
If somedodyes 'quibbed' they're wasted.
I add the suffixes 'est' and 'age' onto a lot of things. Like 'that was a good bit of run-age' after going for a run or something! I don't know how that started!