| On the huh 09:11 - Jun 11 with 10017 views | Merthyrblue |
Recently I've been irritating my (non-Suffolk) partner by using the phrase "on the huh" at every appropriate opportunity. Really annoys her. Any other Suffolk phrases used that irritate their partners? |  | | |  |
| On the huh on 18:52 - Jun 11 with 2656 views | yesjohn99 |
A tripper.
Suffolk for pram/push chair. |  | | |
| On the huh on 18:57 - Jun 11 with 2643 views | SonOfSpock |
| On the huh on 10:36 - Jun 11 by le2blue |
‘I’m on the drag’ is a favourite of mine, especially in public places. |
I've used this when on a call with American colleagues - 5 minutes later and they were assured it wasnt what they initialy assumed... |  | | |
| On the huh on 10:24 - Jun 12 with 2507 views | Merthyrblue |
| On the huh on 18:52 - Jun 11 by yesjohn99 |
A tripper.
Suffolk for pram/push chair. |
Again, forgotten this one. Good timing as partner has a new grandchild | | | |
| On the huh on 12:32 - Jul 25 with 2206 views | Merthyrblue |
A thread about what it was like before the NHS reminded me of another phrase my Father used. When ill he would say he was "on the club" presumably referring to something pre NHS. Anyone else recall this being said? | | | |
| On the huh on 13:31 - Jul 25 with 2153 views | You_Bloo_Right |
| On the huh on 12:32 - Jul 25 by Merthyrblue |
A thread about what it was like before the NHS reminded me of another phrase my Father used. When ill he would say he was "on the club" presumably referring to something pre NHS. Anyone else recall this being said? |
Oh yes "on the club" was a common phrase for my parents and grandparents. I think it is a reference to the Friendly/Mutual Societies of the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
One dictionary I've seen references this from Sons & Lovers:
"Then he crept up the stone stairs behind the drapery shop at the Co-op., and peeped in the reading-room. Usually one or two men were there, either old, useless fellows, or colliers "on the club"." |  |
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| On the huh on 13:47 - Jul 25 with 2128 views | stickymockwell |
| On the huh on 13:31 - Jul 25 by You_Bloo_Right |
Oh yes "on the club" was a common phrase for my parents and grandparents. I think it is a reference to the Friendly/Mutual Societies of the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
One dictionary I've seen references this from Sons & Lovers:
"Then he crept up the stone stairs behind the drapery shop at the Co-op., and peeped in the reading-room. Usually one or two men were there, either old, useless fellows, or colliers "on the club"." |
My old boss used to say "hummer" for the biggest vegetable in the crop, because that's the one you'd always take hum (home) to your mum. In fact if anything was big he'd call it a hummer! |  |
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| On the huh on 15:28 - Jul 25 with 2067 views | NthQldITFC |
| On the huh on 14:07 - Jun 11 by yesjohn99 |
Can’t remember specifics but it’s a nautical term.
Something like in high winds or currents they drop something in the water called a drag, it’s slows the boat right down and make the journey last longer but keeps them on course…...hence the expression, sorry I’m late, was on the drag. |
Presumably that's the same as a sea anchor, which is a bucket or some such trailed astern to stop the boat yawing around too much. |  |
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| On the huh on 16:00 - Jul 25 with 2052 views | DinDjarin |
I actually have book called On The Huh.
Really interesting book about old Suffolk dialect. |  | | |
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| On the huh on 16:21 - Jul 25 with 2042 views | azuremerlangus |
| On the huh on 14:07 - Jun 11 by yesjohn99 |
Can’t remember specifics but it’s a nautical term.
Something like in high winds or currents they drop something in the water called a drag, it’s slows the boat right down and make the journey last longer but keeps them on course…...hence the expression, sorry I’m late, was on the drag. |
The correct term is Drogue but I should imagine that is has simplified to drag over time. |  |
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| On the huh on 17:07 - Jul 25 with 2011 views | ronnyd |
| On the huh on 12:32 - Jul 25 by Merthyrblue |
A thread about what it was like before the NHS reminded me of another phrase my Father used. When ill he would say he was "on the club" presumably referring to something pre NHS. Anyone else recall this being said? |
""On the club" meant that you had got a signed note from your doctors surgery. Usually had to wait 3 days before your benefits started. Not many firms paid sick pay back in the day. | | | |
| On the huh on 17:20 - Jul 25 with 2002 views | GavTWTD |
| On the huh on 18:25 - Jun 11 by Cafe_Newman |
My old man used to get hooly riled at times. He'd talk about the dag we'd loikly av tamaara. He'd cuss summit rotten if he ever got a bush or a slither in his finger and just about everyone he knew was a "rum 'ol" something or other.
RIP Old Buh |
My gran would say "well I be jiggered" like, to express surprise. |  |
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| On the huh on 17:28 - Jul 25 with 1995 views | jaykay |
ought or nowt the same for nothing |  |
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| On the huh on 18:08 - Jul 25 with 1972 views | swede |
| On the huh on 18:32 - Jun 11 by blueislander |
The random use of the word “together” pronounced “tagither” as in WATCHOO DOIN TAGITHER” is very Suffolk. |
My Mum always used to say to us kids "What are you tagither up to?" | | | |
| On the huh on 18:51 - Jul 25 with 1926 views | yorkshireblue |
| On the huh on 17:20 - Jul 25 by GavTWTD |
My gran would say "well I be jiggered" like, to express surprise. |
Unless Charles Dickens has some Suffolk heritage I’m aware of, that’s not a Suffolk phrase. |  | | |
| On the huh on 19:21 - Jul 25 with 1916 views | NthQldITFC |
| On the huh on 18:25 - Jun 11 by Cafe_Newman |
My old man used to get hooly riled at times. He'd talk about the dag we'd loikly av tamaara. He'd cuss summit rotten if he ever got a bush or a slither in his finger and just about everyone he knew was a "rum 'ol" something or other.
RIP Old Buh |
I'd forgotten about a 'slither'. My old Grandma used to talk of slithers, and Grandad used "rum ol'" quite a bit too. | |
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| On the huh on 20:59 - Jul 25 with 1887 views | You_Bloo_Right |
| On the huh on 17:28 - Jul 25 by jaykay |
ought or nowt the same for nothing |
Not Suffolk but when asked the score of a local match a friend of my grandfather said, "They're playing a draw; nought each apiece". "Nil-nil" would have sufficed, Joe. | |
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| On the huh on 21:08 - Jul 25 with 1881 views | WeWereZombies |
| On the huh on 20:59 - Jul 25 by You_Bloo_Right |
Not Suffolk but when asked the score of a local match a friend of my grandfather said, "They're playing a draw; nought each apiece". "Nil-nil" would have sufficed, Joe. |
Ought ought aught always be the way to say it, even if you are in a spacecraft heading for the Oort cloud. |  |
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| On the huh on 21:26 - Jul 25 with 1863 views | buoyant |
| On the huh on 19:21 - Jul 25 by NthQldITFC |
I'd forgotten about a 'slither'. My old Grandma used to talk of slithers, and Grandad used "rum ol'" quite a bit too. |
I genuinely thought it was sliver. Say at all'a toym |  |
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| On the huh on 21:59 - Jul 25 with 1846 views | Bugs |
I think the word 'hull' might be a word used mostly in north Suffolk. But it's still used quite a lot, or was when I worked in a pub 25 years ago. I have used this word for as long as I can remember, and it came as a shock to me when I found out the rest of the English-speaking world didn't use it apart as a name of a town.
It means to throw, as in "Hull us the ball buh" |  | | |
| On the huh on 22:01 - Jul 25 with 1841 views | buoyant |
| On the huh on 21:59 - Jul 25 by Bugs |
I think the word 'hull' might be a word used mostly in north Suffolk. But it's still used quite a lot, or was when I worked in a pub 25 years ago. I have used this word for as long as I can remember, and it came as a shock to me when I found out the rest of the English-speaking world didn't use it apart as a name of a town.
It means to throw, as in "Hull us the ball buh" |
Hull or hoss. Interchangeable. | |
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| On the huh on 22:14 - Jul 25 with 1830 views | Bugs |
| On the huh on 22:01 - Jul 25 by buoyant |
Hull or hoss. Interchangeable. |
As far as I can remember, I have never come across "hoss".
"Slang ways" I have, which also means on the huh.
I used to have an old retired Suffolk chap come in the pub and reel off all these Suffolk words and sayings, most of which I had never heard. I wish I could remember more than slang ways. I remember some of the stuff he came out with he called Suffolk squit. [Post edited 25 Jul 2023 23:30]
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| On the huh on 06:01 - Jul 26 with 1763 views | IPS_wich |
| On the huh on 13:35 - Jun 11 by iamatractorboy |
Until I used that to my partner at the time a few years ago, who wasn't from these here parts, I had no idea it wasn't in common usage and was a Suffolkism. |
Same - had no idea 'on the drag' was a Suffolk phrase until I went to Uni up north and everyone (northerners, southerners, brummies, scots and welsh) all said they had no idea what I was going on about. Even mates from Essex and Norfolk had no idea.
My Dad isn't that much of a Suffolk old boy in terms of his accent, other than pronouncing 'u' as 'oo' (fooneral, compooter) and the end of every day as a 'dee' (Mondee, Thursdee) or the wonderful combination which I still think of as the most Suffolk pronunciation ever that is 'Toosdee' - yet when my wife met him for the first time her mind was blown by his accent (I guess I didn't really have one - most friends at Uni when they first met me thought I was Australian!!. I did have to point out to her that as a Geordie she had no right to scoff at other people's accents. | | | |
| On the huh on 08:39 - Jul 26 with 1726 views | Swansea_Blue |
| On the huh on 06:01 - Jul 26 by IPS_wich |
Same - had no idea 'on the drag' was a Suffolk phrase until I went to Uni up north and everyone (northerners, southerners, brummies, scots and welsh) all said they had no idea what I was going on about. Even mates from Essex and Norfolk had no idea.
My Dad isn't that much of a Suffolk old boy in terms of his accent, other than pronouncing 'u' as 'oo' (fooneral, compooter) and the end of every day as a 'dee' (Mondee, Thursdee) or the wonderful combination which I still think of as the most Suffolk pronunciation ever that is 'Toosdee' - yet when my wife met him for the first time her mind was blown by his accent (I guess I didn't really have one - most friends at Uni when they first met me thought I was Australian!!. I did have to point out to her that as a Geordie she had no right to scoff at other people's accents. |
I always used to get the Australian thing. Less so now I’ve a right old mongrel of an accent. |  |
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| On the huh on 10:47 - Jul 26 with 1714 views | Tractor_Buck |
I seem to annoy my partner by referring to her as 'bab', calling my friends 'jockey', and using the words 'sommat' instead of something, 'ar' instead of yes, and 'dunna' instead of don't (as in 'dunna worry'). These are all West Midland/Birmingham/Telford-isms.
Her issue is that she is the West Midlander, whereas I am from Essex and moved up here 30 years ago.
I will still never forgive her and all of the locals for referring to a roundabout (the circular traffic junction) as an Island, which around here is pronounced 'Oiland'. It's even on the road signs - apparently I live just off Heath Hill Island in Telford. It's a ruddy roundabout!!! |  | | |
| On the huh on 11:16 - Jul 26 with 1700 views | Merthyrblue |
| On the huh on 19:21 - Jul 25 by NthQldITFC |
I'd forgotten about a 'slither'. My old Grandma used to talk of slithers, and Grandad used "rum ol'" quite a bit too. |
I still use the term slither and tbh hadn't realised it wasn't in common parlance! | | | |
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