Anyone use "dink" for an extra passenger on a bike?

[Hacienda71]

usually room in an eskie for a slab.

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[steveindenmark]

In Hull a " croggie" was a ride on the crossbar.

Missing school on purpose was called skipping school or twagging.

Stealing Apples from trees was called chudding.

 

[Specialeyes]

You still in Southend ?

Yup, near Belfairs now

 

[taximan]

I was brought up in Tees-side and we would give a mate a croggie but one of my schoolmates came from the far north, (Bishop Aukland actually) and he called it a Tan. Pinching apples was known simply as orchard raiding.

 

[IBarrett]

I grew up near Wakefield and know both crog and backie for giving someone a lift on your bike.
I've also heard of giving someone a saddle but don't know where from.

No idea what it is here in Nottingham, I have enough trouble dragging my own fat arris around without putting somebody on the back.

 

[e-rider]

"I'll give you a backie" sounds wrong these days!

 

[hopless500]

Croggy/croggie

 

[T4tomo]

Backie or Croggie in North yorks

 

[simonsch]

Yeah, "dob in" is a very important verb in australia Not quite equivalent to "grass" - a bit more neutral. "Grass" has frisson of betrayal, "dob in" depends on context

"You're dobbed on" was a frequent playground retort. But I distinctly recall that nevertheless as a 5 year old, we took great pride in that we didn't dob. I think children's playground culture has a lot in common with criminal gang culture...

When I left New York after living there for four years (having moved from country Australia), they presented me with a long list of things I said which they had no idea what I meant, but had just been letting go to be polite. Now having been in the UK for over 10 years, my wife still occasionally picks words up (or my five year old son does). Since people often don't tell you, you don't realise the word isn't used here.

 

[PaulSecteur]

For the more adventurous cycle sharer dont foget the ET for having someone on the handlebars.

Obviosly... the ET was only for when the crog, backie and stunt nuts were all occupied

 

[Smokin Joe]

i know that a word of vulgarity here in the uk is very much common place in australia .. can ya guess what it is ?

Spunk.

Aussie for "Phoooaar"

 

[Profpointy]

i know that a word of vulgarity here in the uk is very much common place in australia .. can ya guess what it is ?

Bizzarely, to me at any rate, my Ausi colleages were baffled when I referred to a sub-optimal proposal as "bollocks". They really had no idea of its descriptive nor anatomic meaning.

Someone eventually called something "bullocks as you would say".

Couple of other Austrlainisms I liked was "spruiking" (sp?) which was standing outside a shop shouting out the bargains to draw in customers. A role we don't really have here. "hooning around" was another one for bad, usually youthfull driving.

 

[Gravity Aided]

O'er here in the States, a"flake" is a crazy person, not something stuck in your ice cream cone. Shortt for flaky. Dinky is a railroad term for running a switch engine cab-forward, or running an entire commuter train with the engine on the rear and a cab-controller car in front. I've only heard this part of the term used in Chicago and suburbs. It is also used in New jersey for the train to Princeton University.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_jjfQU65rk


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpF3dCEeAnI
Train in center of title card here is running dinky, hence white lights on "front"

 

[jefmcg]

"You're dobbed on" was a frequent playground retort. But I distinctly recall that nevertheless as a 5 year old, we took great pride in that we didn't dob. I think children's playground culture has a lot in common with criminal gang culture...

I remember more a "I'm dobbing" said with a distinct whine in the voice.

And I don't mean that Australians necessarily think that dobbing is a good thing, it's just the word itself is not pejorative. The Tax Office ran a "Dob in a tax cheat" campaign, but I can't imagine HRMC ever having a "Grass up a benefits scrounger" campaign. That's partly because you can't say "grass" with a Whitehall accent.

When I left New York after living there for four years (having moved from country Australia), they presented me with a long list of things I said which they had no idea what I meant, but had just been letting go to be polite. Now having been in the UK for over 10 years, my wife still occasionally picks words up (or my five year old son does). Since people often don't tell you, you don't realise the word isn't used here.

Took me quite a while to realise that "root" wasn't an obscenity in the UK, and I've only just sorted pavement/footpath/sidewalk.

(in Australia, footpath is the word for the pedestrian path that runs beside a road, while pavement is the actual surface, usually of the road itself. Yeah, so until quite recently I was very confused by "riding on the pavement", as in "where else? on the grass?")

 

[jefmcg]

Dinky is a railroad term for running a switch engine cab-forward,

Dinky? That's another thing entirely!