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Grimsby language translation
The Concise Grimmo n Meggies Dictionary
A far from exhausting collection of Grimbarian slang, vocabulary and dialect! (Only those with local knowledge, know the hilarity of it!)
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
bagwash laundrette
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!
bawk like boke if you're from Caistor
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?
Blundell Park little-known sporting arena located off the Grimsby Road - "behind McDonalds", as the flyer for a sale of electronic consumer goods held there in 1995 deemed it necessary to explain
Boato Cleethorpes Boating Lake
bob a poo; eg. I fell ovver the hoover in the middle of last night when I got up for a bob!
boke vomit, esp. at the back of a coach on a school trip; retch dryly without vomiting
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
budding the bizarre and probably obsolete childhood practice of pulling buds from rosebushes and throwing them at the windows of houses
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!
COMFORT = Yorkie tourist in meggies (Cleethorpes), com'for't'day... com 'for'day, stay'for'week!
celter rubbish; eg. Town's defence is absolute celter!
chimley chimney. Extensive research has now established that it isn't just my mum who says this
chuck throw (verb)
chud; chuddy chewing gum
clats derogatory term for unhealthy snack food taken between meals, usually used by your mum
cob throw (verb)
cob on see monk on
Coro distinctively Grimbarian abbreviation for Coronation Street, which is truncated by the rest of the Anglophone world to "Corrie"
diesel equally lethal and sickly beverage comprising lager, cider and blackcurrant cordial; less imaginatively referred to elsewhere as "snakebite and black"
Deffin / Deffing has to figure somewhere, i never heard that for years till i spoke to someone from grimsby today. (by Helen Kemp)
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 marketplace; now 'Reflex', an 80s theme bar
down town synonym for up town used by my little brother in his early teens to try and sound all cool and American
egging at back o' Doigs largely archaic term signifying an act of futility but used for purposes of evasion after speaker is interrogated as to their intentions or destination; eg. Where was yer last night? responded to by Egging at back o' Doigs! (cf. on Eastenders, when somebody asks: "Where ya gah-in' nah?" and the other person always replies: "Ahhht!") Egging was the act of collecting eggs from birds' nests (in the days when this was both legal and not considered morally dubious), while Doigs was a Grimsby shipyard, the surrounding area of which was bereft of wildlife; hence the futility of egging at the back of Doigs
Emmy, the New Empire pub, Runswick Road, scene of excessive consumption of Double Diamond in formative days of this lexicographer
Flyover, the overpass on the A180 running parallel to the docks from Riby Square
football obscure team sport watched by inhabitants of other towns
Freemo Freeman Street, trading thoroughfare that links Grimsby 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
giz give me; give us
glag; glag alley large marble
godge a look; eg. Giz a godge at yer glag alley!
goodies sweets
goosegogs gooseberries. I've just heard Ross Burden use this word on Ready Steady Cook and no way is he from Grimmo, but it's a nice one so I think we'll keep it in anyway
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 punishment or retribution made mostly, again, by loving parents to young children (see also buggerlugs)
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!
jiffle fidget (verb)
joskin rural type, esp. hailing from the Lincolnshire flatlands south of Grimsby
kaylie sherbet; not a homophone of Marillion song, is pronounced to rhyme with KY; origins unknown
kegs underpants
kinell flipping 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
meff schoolboy term signifying an unattractive female
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 'em all mesen!
mib small marble
monk on, have a be mardy. The disaffected Grimbarian may alternatively elect to have a cob or a benny on, presumably in the same place the monk is worn
now then! hello!
Nunny, the Nunsthorpe, housing estate of ill repute in the south-west of Grimsby. Drugs, joyriding, all that caper. Many Grimbarians insist that the Nunny is no worse than some other areas but just gets all the bad press when the Grimsby Telegraph runs one of its 'Crime: Let's Misrepresent It' campaigns
nunty style of dress and design suggesting poor taste, premature ageing and a hard life. See here for an unnecessarily detailed explanation
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 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!
pallie pallet, esp. when working in a factory that uses them
piggy-pag piggyback ride
Ploggers, the esoteric but universally employed vernacular for Hardy's Recreation Ground, an alarmingly desolate patch of grass between Ladysmith Road and Humberstone Road
Precinct, the alternative term for the Freshney Place shopping centre; predates its construction and hence not used by Grimbarians aged under 35
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
rose; roseeeey; rose on the nose (and not on the toes) negates preceding assertion for wind-up purposes; see also stuh
Scaffer Scartho, well-to-do suburb in the extreme south of Grimsby. Alternative 'posh' pronunciation SCAW-thoe is used exclusively to take the urine
Scafferbaffs swimming pool located on Scartho Road
scraps stray pieces of batter from fried fish supplied gratis by chippies with your chips
scrob mild term of abuse believed by some to have originally signified a Danish fisherman
slotties amusement arcades, esp. along Cleethorpes seafront; derived from 'slot machines'
soz sorry
soz, Mum! your strident and hectoring tone is becoming reminiscent of my mother's!
spoggy chewing gum; bubblegum
stitherum a convoluted account of events; eg. Butcher's match report is always a right stitherum!
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
stuh negates preceding assertion as per Wayne's World-style not; used by schoolchildren in 1980s for purposes of mockery and ridicule; eg. Nice pair of trainers, Greenie... stuh!
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 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)
tret past tense and past participle of treat; eg. I went round me Nan's and she tret us to some spoggy!
twag; twag it play truant
Ull Yorkshire city situated opposite Grimsby on the estuary of the Umber; see also Yorkie
Umber river upon whose estuary Grimsby is situated; often mistakenly called the sea
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 round me Nan's and she tret us to some spoggy!
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 and hence a figure to be feared and maligned
Bez- to travel fast, particularly on a bike ("You should'a seen us bezzin' down the hill!")
Oppen- open, the "o" sound is shortened in a similar fashion to "ovver".
Tiggy- game which in the rest of the English speaking workd is called "tag".
Trackie- a game of group catch played by schoolchildren and teenagers, the objective is to catch all the members of the opposing team and "tig" them. They then join your team. This carries on until only one person is left, and that person is the winner.
..............................plus the fact that most people swear at least once in a sentence,, and don't forget the funny one's like you got any off that sticky excrement, little fellers, bit of nose bag, down the front, bonkers bank, we off for a pint(we off to get drunk out or heads!!)
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