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Post by kedigato on May 21, 2010 10:58:39 GMT
Say - are you all speaking a foreign language?
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Post by letitia on May 21, 2010 14:57:16 GMT
This is perhaps not old English but it's been around a long time CUSHAT
a) a soft comfortable seat b) a word used to call the cows for milking c) a wood pigeon
Kedi , I think its a case of old inglish as she is spoke ;D ;D
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Post by DAG on May 24, 2010 5:25:06 GMT
C) a wood pigeon?
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Post by kedigato on May 24, 2010 11:44:27 GMT
I'll go for "a" as it sounds like a cushy place where you can sit (you sat on).
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Post by letitia on May 24, 2010 12:24:47 GMT
Well done Dag! We live not far from Berwick upon Tweed where they are not only called Cushats but also pudjns (thats the nearest I can come to it ) On holiday in South Yorkshire Alfie told Johnnie to look at the pudjn and a man nearby said you must come from Berwick because thats the only place to call them that. ;D ;D Sorry Kedi but it looks like the men do ot again
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Post by DAG on May 24, 2010 16:02:45 GMT
All goes to prove that they are a funny lot up north! ;D
Right, I expect this is probably well known up there as well:
CUDDY
a) Left handed person
b) A small wooden box
c) A wooden scoop for bailing out water in a small boat
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Post by kedigato on May 24, 2010 19:31:39 GMT
C - That sounds like something that would be used to bail water out of a boat.
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Post by nazimundo on May 24, 2010 19:57:22 GMT
Dag, up here a cuddy is a donkey or short for the name Cuthbert as in Saint Cuthberts Cave which is called Cuddys Cave, and Eider Ducks which live around Lindisfarne ( Holy Island to us ) where St Cuthbert lived are called Cuddys Ducks.Its also a thing for sawing logs on probably a sawhorse to you lot dahn sarff. ;)I've never heard any other cuddy except in the phrase "cuddys are faster than bogeys" ;D ;D ;D
My guess is b) a small wooden box
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Post by letitia on May 26, 2010 12:32:00 GMT
Dag I think its a) a left handed person
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Post by DAG on May 26, 2010 13:58:22 GMT
Letitia, you are correct!
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Post by letitia on May 26, 2010 14:21:23 GMT
OK lets try
SLITTER
is it
a) to work messily.
b) a person who guts fish.
c) small sharp knife
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Post by DAG on May 26, 2010 17:54:42 GMT
My guess is
b) a person who guts fish.
This one sounds too obvious but I shall still go for it! ;D
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Post by capney on May 29, 2010 16:39:54 GMT
Me to.... a person who guts fish
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Post by kedigato on May 31, 2010 1:06:59 GMT
If it isn't a person who guts fish, then it is the knife to slit the fish with. So, since two of you have already gone for "b", I'll go for "c".
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Post by nazimundo on May 31, 2010 12:23:42 GMT
All wrong I'm afraid, it's a Scottish word meaning to work messily with water etc ( as Ann say's when I'm painting you've slittered it all over the place ) ;D ;D
Alfie
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