Noggin ends.

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I was talking about compost with a colleague earlier (it happens), and I was saying that I generate very little compostable waste - usually onion peel, the core of a pepper, the noggin ends of a courgette.

He'd never heard the term 'noggin end' before. It's just always what we've called it. He knew exactly what I meant.

What family words have you got?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Not so rare really, my family used the same.
Amongst many things, Noggins are the short bits of wood in a stud wall or partition for example:
http://www.diydata.com/projects/partition/partition_framework.php

in other words, short bits or the off-cuts from long bits were used for Noggins. As Dad was a builder type it possibly originated there.

 

[rich p]

brother, sister, uncle........

 

[rich p]

Actually we have a family phrase which came about after an episode of Masterchef from India. When someone cooks a dish, invariably somebody will say in an Indian accent, "You make this? Very nice"

It's getting on my t*ts to be honest!

 

[Paulus]

The end crusty bit of a loaf of bread is known as a "nobby" in my family.

 

[Campfire]

I've never heard of that one. I'm struggling to find any words we do use for things like that.

 

[taxing]

My friend pronounced 'duvet' as 'duv-it' and we always used to laugh at her at school. She maintained that she was right all the way up until uni, when her new housemates laughed at her and she asked her mum about it. The rest of the family just said it for a laugh, but no one had thought to explain that to her.

 

[Stephenite]

Amongst brits in Oslo a 'noggins' is a norwegian.

I think the plural is 'nogginses'.

As for my family the only thing i can think of right now is underpants are known as 'grundies'.

 

[lukesdad]

" The Godbers" or "grizwolds" anybody in our families outside the 4 of us.

 

[TVC]

Mrs VC has 'noggy ends' for the end bits of a bread, I'd not heard it until I met her, but she's a Leicester lass - I'm not.

 

[J.Y.Kelly]

We generally call paté, PATE, after a guy at work years ago told me he had liver PATE sandwiches.

 

[summerdays]

The end crusty bit of a loaf of bread is known as a "nobby" in my family.

No - its the heel ... and my mum always made us eat it ... and I never do now as a grown up (unless its home-made bread).

Lots of words I used to get teased about as a child: shade=parting in your head, soot-case=suitcase, thristles=thistles, hot-press=air-cupboard, ofven=oven, gripe=fork etc etc etc.

 

[Over The Hill]

Loads - but can only think of a few-

Ikea - Ikky er
Herbal life shampoo - Horrible life (there was an Indian man saying it on TV once)
Blanket - blanky (Kids said it like that)
Alys Fowler from the Gardening program is called "Donkey Poo" as the first time we saw her on there she went on about it as a fertiliser and said it about six times.
The family has a load of words that we say in a Cheryl Cole Accent
- Joe, Proud, Get, Look, Right, You, Like.

 

[Hilldodger]

Mrs VC has 'noggy ends' for the end bits of a bread, I'd not heard it until I met her, but she's a Leicester lass - I'm not.

An ice cream is an 'oakey' around these parts.

We have our own names for most sports in our family - kick it the ball, run it the horse, bat it the ball etc. Dunno where they came from.

 

[TheDoctor]

I once heard someone pronounce Gazebo as gay-zee-bo and it's stuck ever since...