Yes a hogger was a hose pipe, but 'hoggers' in pitmatic are pants; dirty trousers worn down the pit- hence 'pit-hoggers'.Hose pipe
Our gully knife was the bread knife.
And the gully was the big kitchen knife in our house.
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Yes a hogger was a hose pipe, but 'hoggers' in pitmatic are pants; dirty trousers worn down the pit- hence 'pit-hoggers'.Hose pipe
Our gully knife was the bread knife.
nipples like scania wheel nuts!
Brass organ stopsChapel hat pegs
In a similar vein, glakey & micey. (Both of which I still use).Gormless, someone who's a sandwich short of a picnic.
Are you garna work ya ticket and act the goat?Gonna gan me ends.
Leave as ya nipper dinnit put a ducks arse on it.
Why, Will yer gan leet?
DINNIT GAN TIGHT ON THE WHITE
And be weatherproof?
Giz ya dumpa mate.Leave as ya nipper dinnit put a ducks arse on it.
That gets used all the time for a colleague who has no gorm.Gormless, someone who's a sandwich short of a picnic.
Still used daily in Hartlepool
Chapel hat pegsNipples like
Juggernaut dustcaps
Coffee stains
Hoover handles
Fighter pilots thumbs
Cigar butts
Liquorice torpedos