The following sayings are known to have been used in the local area but might not be solely used by the inhabitants of Thornton. As these sayings were rarely written down they are mainly spelt below as they were spoken.
a bit behind't door | not too clever |
baint | must not or will not |
bar'm pot | nutter |
barn't | without |
besum | bad tempered woman |
blatherin | constant talk |
child'a | children |
chunner | mutter, complain |
chunnerin | constant talking |
donkey stone | a white or sand coloured soft stone used to clean front door steps |
fair pow fact'd | weary, or daffled |
fangle | new ideas |
fettle | make or repair |
fire fangle | Red blotches on girls legscaused by sitting to close to the fire |
flit | leave, move |
moonlight flit | leave in a hurry without telling anyone |
flumeked or flumexed | puzzled dont understand also worried |
ga'n | go, went |
gat'e as in I mu'n be ga in | I must be going |
gawp | stare |
gobby | someone who talks a lot mostly rubbish |
irnin | farmers who start making their own cheese |
is'ta | are you |
keller | parafin |
leave t'door on t'latch | dont lock up |
moiderin or pesterin | constantly asking the same question |
mon | man |
moonlight flit | leave in a hurry without telling anyone |
mu'n | must |
ow'ert brush | unmarried couple |
panned out | tired, worn out |
pesterin or moiderin | constantly asking the same question |
powfact | tired |
put th'wood int'ole | meaning shut the door - 'put the wood in the hole' |
rigit stick | a marker to get a straight line for the first furrow when plowing |
set to | having a row, fight ect. |
shune | shoes |
si'thy | see, do you understand |
tackle | take on ,repair, make |
tagel bag | an average trawler catch |
tha mon | you must |
t't [tert] | to the |
wrong side o' blanket | children born out of wedlock |
yo'n | that (short for yonder) |
you've got more "shoes" than soft Mick | Mick is referring to a 19th century Irish shoe peddler in Lancashire |
you've got more "shoes" than you can shake a stick at | |
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