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

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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.


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?")

We call the sidewalk that which is the pavement in Britain, a path is usually unpaved, and a trail is usually independent of the road, set aside for recreation. It may be paved with asphalt, or made of gravel, or just dirt. Sidewalks are usually concrete, unless near the ocean or a large river. Then they are a boardwalk, and generally made of wood.. At least where I am. A great deal of local variation. In my area, a potluck supper is called a scramble dinner. Flapjacks and pancakes are the same thing. We would call what you call a flapjack a bar cookie. Expensive is spendy.

 

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Admittedly, I speak a more urban dialect than some around me, as I grew up in Peoria (Poor-yah) so sound more Chicagoan. Pop for soda, or sody pop.
The parlor is the front room, pronounced frunchroum. And I use "over by" to refer to "in the vicinity of". "Goes" for "says" or "replies". and "Jah-Jah" for yes, or "correct" When you think about it, it is a wonder anyone understands us at all.

 

[Firestorm]

Yup, near Belfairs now

I am at the other end of Town,

 

[steveindenmark]

Spunk.

Aussie for "Phoooaar"

Spunk is a salty sweet in Denmark.

 

[jefmcg]

Spunk is a salty sweet in Denmark.

(I'm going to get censored again)

And in England!

 

[jefmcg]

"Goes" for "says" or "replies".

That's Chicagoan? Interesting. That usage was very popular amongst Australian teenagers a while back (may still be, I'm out of touch).


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lsWA3vIFv8


(that's a comedian, not a teenager. She uses 'dob' for bonus points)

 

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I note a Blues Brothers poster behind the comedienne as well. All filmed in Chicago and over by Joliet and dem dere.

 

[rossw46]

I grew up in South Africa. Left there when I was 19 to come to the UK. Tuck shop is common over there. When we left school to go do something we felt was more important was referred to as "bunking". i.e. we bunked school that day. Another one my english mates at uni found strange was my use of the word "cotch". In SA, you drink too much, or get food poisoning, and you cotch, aka the techni-colour rainbow...

 

[flake99please]

O'er here in the States, a"flake" is a crazy person, not something stuck in your ice cream cone.

I resemble that comment. Which part, I'll leave up to you.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

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.

All this in Beverley apart from nicking apples is scrumping and we used croggie whether the second person was on the saddle or the bars

 

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from the web. Mine was green, and had a girlfriend on back the seat there.
Our equivalent to the Raleigh Chopper was the Schwinn Stingray(also made in Chicago, over by Western Ave.) You rode in front, doing the pedaling, while your girlfriend rode behind, leaning against the " sissy bar " until you wised up, and bought a car, so you two could get in some real trouble. Any smaller siblings could be carried on the handlebars.