What is

1 POBBS?

2 a PISHTY?

3 TAXY-WAXY?

4 a GULLY?

5 a BUTTY?

it dunna matter if ya aint as pert as a spoon,have a guess.

s.g.d.

Not sure about that lot.

1. Pobbs? Are these river-worn stones? Sounds like a cross beween pebble and cobble, only not quite.

2. Pishty? Did think of the Ivor the Engine noise ('Pishty-Cuff, Pishty-Cuff'), but Clun has never had a railway (although the Bishop's Castle railway came quite close). But I think it's likely to be the state of being inebriated.

3. Taxy-waxy? I'm tempted to say that it's something used by the proud owners of Hackney Cabs to keep the metalwork gleaming. But I think I know this one - it's tough meat (beef).

4. Gully? In wider Midlands use this refers to a passageway or alleyway, perhaps it is the Clun equivalent of 'shut'.

5. Butty? Could be lots of things. Probably not a bacon sandwich though. There's the coal-mining use, where a butty was a middleman between the miners and the mine owners. Or there's the Welsh use where butty is a synonym for 'mate' (in the 'friend' sense). Given Clun doesn't have a coal-mining tradition, I'll go for the 'mate' definition.

well done Town_Walls

2/5 with some very imaginative attempts, I will post the answers later, in case anyone else fancies a go.

s.g.d.

hello Town_Walls

as nobody else is interested the answers are just for you.

1) porridge or sops
2)a sheepdog puppy
3)it is tough stringy meat(but I like you hackney cab version)
4)a gosling
5)it is a mate,or 1 of a pair - shoes etc

thanks for playing

s.g.d.

It wasn't that no one was interested. I was. I thought about them for a long time, and the only two I could decipher were the two that had already been guessed (and that was after I'd spent half an hour cheating :lol: ).

sorry Cloudscape

I didn't mean to sound "crowsty",I really am a "yarb" but before I clear up this "gwathel" can you stop me from being so "big-sorted" and tell me how you were cheating? ;) s.g.d.

I was using this here new-fangled internet thing. ;)

Google revealed there's a taxy-waxy in Manx dialect:

TAXY-WAXY, pax-wax, the ligament in the neck of an animal.
Ye can no more chaw this till taxy-waxy, is it beef ye're callin this?

http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fu...am1924/pt_t.htm

And butty shares a common root with bud and buddy

http://www.odps.org/glossword/index.php?a=...f5aacb1afada2af

I really like these regional words, or regional uses of words.

Cheers sgd

I was in London this afternoon and I considered shouting "taxy waxy" at a passing cab in the hope that the driver would think I was a foreign tourist who wanted to be taken to Madame Tussauds. Maybe next time...

Any more dialect words for us to translate? Someone must be able to improve on my current high score of 2 out of 5.

five more then?

1)a COGNOGGIN?

2)an ESS HOLE?

3)a FIGAIRIMENT?

4) FRETCHIT?

5)the WHITTY TREE?

good luck

s.g.d.

hello again

all these words have been taken from a little book called "Clun Dialect Words" which was compiled by Sheila Hamer.

s.g.d.

Right, I think I know 2 of these without phoning up my contacts around Clun

Ess hole - in the Black Country, and probably beyond, this is a hole for ash underneath the fireplace. That's probably the most polite usage I can think of!!

Whitty Tree - in the Wyre Forest, the whitty tree (or whitty pear) is a local name for the wild service tree, a close relative of the rowan. Apparently there are no longer any whitty trees left in Wyre Forest - and I didn't think there were any around Clun anyway. So is it a local synonym for a rowan tree (Sorbus)?

well done both correct

around Clun the Whitty Tree usually means the Mountain Ash which is a Rowan tree( i think)

I beleive it was used to drive away witches.

you still need one more to be an improvement ;)

s.g.d.

s.g.d.

Thanks

I might have better luck next time

Now here's a smiley I haven't used before :ph43r:

I'd better not visit Jack Straw dressed like that...