A “bird” in the pub still says lush, but then she is a bit retro.
Kosher. Dont hear that much nowdays.
Squash.
When you really mean a juice drink diluted in water.
Only old people like The RaleighBoy use the term squash nowadays.
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Back in the day squash was orange, so you knew what you were going to get if you asked for it. Now, if someone comes round and asks for squash, it takes several trips to the cupboard to accurately inform them of the flavour choices now available. Our daughter knows to just ask for cherries and berries - she would turn her nose up at the squash from way back.
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Totally agree captaintim and whilst The RaleighBoy and his squash are totally 1940s, fowllyd would offer you cordial from the 1840s.
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Somewhen. When I first used this word talking to Mrs Ex-Trader No.2 she gave me a strange look as if I were talking Klingon.
She came from the Camberley area by way of Chiswick.
Turncoat. Current meaning = Koeman
Somewhen is very much a Hampshire word I think. I’ve never heard anyone from outside of god’s own use it. Good word too.
foliage
Originally posted by @Sfcsim
foliage
What? That’s just a normal word that is still used today. What’s odd is that by implication, you used to say “foliage” a lot but don’t anymore, which either means you used to be some sort of botanist or as a child you were a fucking dork.
dork.
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Originally posted by @Fowllyd
Originally posted by @Ex-Trader
Somewhen. When I first used this word talking to Mrs Ex-Trader No.2 she gave me a strange look as if I were talking Klingon.
She came from the Camberley area by way of Chiswick.
Somewhen is very much a Hampshire word I think. I’ve never heard anyone from outside of god’s own use it. Good word
Proud to be a son of this fair county.
By the way, what’s happened to our fucking cricket team?
It is not a specific word, more a phrase, but anyone that has gotten into junior fisticuffs in Southampton will know it.
“Come on then”
The Liverpudlian fight phrase is quite similar in theme.
“Come 'ed lad”
I have heard both, believe it or not.
My last actual fight took place in 1995. Didn’t use the phrase then. Probably 1990 for that.
The last time I saw anything squashed was when some rake of a child leant on Bletch and his crumbly shoulder went pop.
He needs to drink more milk.
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Originally posted by @Fowllyd
Originally posted by @Ex-Trader
Somewhen. When I first used this word talking to Mrs Ex-Trader No.2 she gave me a strange look as if I were talking Klingon.
She came from the Camberley area by way of Chiswick.
Somewhen is very much a Hampshire word I think. I’ve never heard anyone from outside of god’s own use it. Good word too.
Now it’s been mentioned Mrs EoA told me it wasn’t a real word, but she’s a norvener and can’t pronounce words like book, cook and look correctly and calls a bread roll a Barm Cake and uses made up words such as Mardy … so who is she to start on me?
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Oik
Toe rag
Vandal
A reverse.
In the context of an away win in football.
yoghurt, was always spelt like this on the pots in the 80’s and is the English preferred spelling, but now we have taken on the american spelling of Yogurt.
Ok you still say it the same, but a lost spelling of a word, because of the bloody west (USA).
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Reverse sounds like something that would have happened to California Surf against the Aztecs in 1980.
At a Soccabowl.
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Spiv
Lucifer - match
Beef-witted.
I have just come across the meaning for this word, my dad used to use for me and my sister. Used to say to my mum, blinking how he is so beef-witted.
I now know it means to be a clot head, silly or stupid.
Thanks dad!
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I never quite got handle on how to pronounce it. Sometimes I say yor-gut, sometimes i say yow-gut, sometimes i say yer-gut. Sometimes, rather than gut i say gert.
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