Hull words and phrases of yesteryear and today
Tenfoot: Obvious this one. It's the 10ft-wide alleyway around the back of your house.
Comfers: Anyone from West Yorkshire who's come for the weekend.
Bool: To push something along, like a pram or a bike.
Bains: Children.
Flittermoose: A bat.
Pattie: A fish shop delicacy.
Chizzac: Cheesecake. Probably to be eaten after your pattie.
Breadcake: A bread roll to everyone else in the world (and they're wrong).
Flaycreak: Scarecrow.
Are you Larkin? Are you coming out to play?
Gassunder: A chamber pot for all you Victorians out there.
Nunty: Unfashionable.
Kecks: Trousers. As in nunty kecks.
Spanish: Liquorice.
Balling: Crying.
Awlus: Always.
Tha's right brahma: You're a good chap, you are.
Aud: Old.
Clarty: Sticky.
Hoop: A tyre.
Err nerr: Oh no.
Am nithered: I'm freezing.
I'm mafting: I'm boiling.
Kirk-a-curler: Coca-Cola.
Bray: To beat someone up. As in I'm gonna bray you.
Twagging: Skipping school.
Scragging: Fighting.
Lingy: Someone who is athletic.
Dowly: Someone who is miserable.
Yope: To shout.
I'll snicker-sneeze you: I'll get you back. Bizarrely originates from Dutch knife-fighting, according to this blog.
Merberl fern: A mobile phone.
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