Welshisms

[niclas]

Bangor ai
Holywell nai
cos they say ai and nai after everything, nai...

Llanelli has a great way to say glam-oh-rus - i do love it.

 

[phildwyer]

He's twp in the 'ead.

There's lovely.

 

[poisondwarf]

In London, no-one knows what I'm talking about when I say "Well, it'll be a challenge for me..."

Barry Welsh was fantastic!

 

[Clair De Lune]

In London, no-one knows what I'm talking about when I say "Well, it'll be a challenge for me..."

I loved that show, I even had a cat called Siadwell

 

[Belushi]

now just instead of just now.

 

[Yetman]

Who's boots are those shoes??!

So I went to the fridge, opened the door, AND THERE IT WAS!!............GONE!

 

[mwgdrwg]

Cwtsh dan star is the Welsh for cupboard under the stairs - much nicer isn't it!?

"Twll dan grisha" up here

 

[mwgdrwg]

Bangor ai
Holywell nai
cos they say ai and nai after everything, nai...

Llanelli has a great way to say glam-oh-rus - i do love it.

Ai lad

 

[ginger_syn]

There's that extra vowel that get jammed into certain words like schoo-al ect

 

[Strumpet]

So I went to the fridge, opened the door, AND THERE IT WAS!!............GONE!

 

[1927]

"If you go and play that silly rugby, and you break your legs, dont come running to me!"

" Are ewe reading that paper *youre sitting on?" *rhymes with sewer.

 

[tarannau]

I always associate Wales with the word 'parlour' for an occasional front room and the phrase 'hellish good,' which you rarely hear around here.

 

[davesgcr]

"CARIO CLECKS"

(Carrying gossip)



"CLECKAN"

(gossiping)

 

[Belushi]

"CARIO CLECKS"

(Carrying gossip)



"CLECKAN"

(gossiping)

We used to have a local newsletter called 'Clecs Y Cwm'

 

[Clair De Lune]

haha I had fogotton about that, my mum had a mate we nicnamed Carol clecs, as she was such a big gossip

 

[cesare]

Isn't clecking on someone, telling tales on them as well?

 

[Clint Iguana]

Boy-n-arf im (he's a boy and a half)
Youm a right pair you three is
bosh (sink)
tidy (good, as previously mentioned, but..)
Half tidy (strangely, even tidier than tidy)
tidy like innit
Gog (someone from north wales)
whose beer is this pint?
grog (to phlegm)
chuck (to be violently sick)
half a quarter (a sixteenth )
squint (to have a butchers hook at something)
I AM NOT BLOODY ENGLISH (shouted irately when abroad and accused of being English)

And from the terraces ...
we shag 'em, you eat 'em (response to being called a sheep shagger)

 

[davesgcr]

I do beleive that "clecs" also includes telling tales - wonderful phrase I think


Other Welshisms include great nicknames - one from Ammanford being "Dai Double Yolk" (proud father of twins) , Mrs Jones Africa (her face looked like a map of the continent , Doris fach (6ft 3 lady) , Ossie Checks (always boasting about his bank acount) Nellie Rissole (chip shop proprietor) etc etc

 

[cesare]

My great grandmother was Mrs Williams Gwallt Gwyn and it certainly runs in the family

 

[ddraig]

like like

 

[ddraig]

can't think of many that haven't been mentioned sof ar tbh

clecs is definately telling tales
and clebran is talking like

like you know like

 

[ajk]

there's lovely

 

[mwgdrwg]

Is 'moidering' and being a 'moiderer' a Welshism?

 

[jannerboyuk]

Is 'moidering' and being a 'moiderer' a Welshism?

more like brooklyn

 

[mwgdrwg]

more like brooklyn

Ha...remember "Heart to Heart"....when they met, it was moider!

 

[jannerboyuk]

fillum
polis

 

[phildwyer]

 

[Strumpet]

Ha...remember "Heart to Heart"....when they met, it was moider!

 

[Belushi]

Other Welshisms include great nicknames - one from Ammanford being "Dai Double Yolk" (proud father of twins) , Mrs Jones Africa (her face looked like a map of the continent , Doris fach (6ft 3 lady) , Ossie Checks (always boasting about his bank acount) Nellie Rissole (chip shop proprietor) etc etc

Heh, no one ever believes me but in our village the only openly gay man was Dai Poof who ran the woolshop with his mam

 

[phildwyer]

Heh, no one ever believes me but in our village the only openly gay man was Dai Poof who ran the woolshop with his mam

We had Dai Latin (teacher), Dai Post (postman), Dai Deaf-and-Dumb (obvious), and Dai Jones (unemployed).