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Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or shock. Often used to mock the Northern dialects of Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Adj. Old fashioned. Possibly from antique(y) or antiquated. E.g."Oh no way! I'm not wearing those shoes, they're so antwacky." [Merseyside/West Lancashire use]
Noun. 1. The county of Lancashire. 2. The dialect of the county of Lancashire.
Noun. A person from Burnley (Lancashire). Generally derog, and heard mainly in football circles, especially by rival Blackburn fans.
(1) to have sexual intercourse with (2) breaking wind, farting etc. used in Lancashire school in early 1970's. Particularly amusing when a certain Ms Hough (aged 9) farted, when we could all cry out "Hough's Boffed!. (3) swot, a teacher's pet (prob. abbr. of 'boffin')
Noun. Nickname for the town of Heywood, Lancashire. Derog.
Lancashire lass is northern English rhyming slang for glass.
Noun. A person from Fleetwood. A traditional fishing port in the county of Lancashire.
Lancashire lasses is northern English rhyming slang for glasses.
Boiler explosion
Noun. Bonfire night, see 'bonnie night'. Possibly spelt bombie night from the use of fireworks. [East Lancashire/Merseyside use]
Spouse. Me boiler's always yammerin' on.
Verb. To pull faces. From the exagerrated expressions made on the faces of conversing mill workers, in an attempt to make themselves understood over the din of machinery. [Lancashire use. 1900s?]
Basically meant cigarette. "As in lend us a bain mate". Only ever heard in around Oldham, Lancashire, UK in the 1980's. We had a "bain path" behind our school were the smokers hung out.
Canal. During the 19th century there was prolific expansion of the industrial canal systems both in the Midlands, Yorkshire, and especially Lancashire. Canals were "cut into the ground" Thus "Cut" became synonymous with "Canal". "Where's little Jimmy?", " He's playin'in't fiels beside cut".
Friend. A term of endearment in the Lancashire town of Wigan. On meeting a friend a Wigan man would very often greet him with "Alreet marrer", meaning "how are you friend".
Adj. Exhausted. [Lancashire dialect and use]
adj useless junk. While quite recent slang, it’s rather charming: Did your grandmother leave you anything good? / Nope, just a complete load of ancient bobbins. One possible etymology: that it’s from the north of England (particularly the Lancashire and Manchester areas), which used to be supported largely by cotton mills. As the industrial revolution drew to a close, the mills closed down and the population found itself with a surfeit of largely worthless milling machinery. During that time the phrase “‘twas worth nout but bobbins” sprung up; years later we’re left only with the last word.
Person from Cheshire, Lancashire, Manchester
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Slangs & AI derived meanings
Short for Australian Barbecue
Blacks who are scholars at math.
An individual who constantly tells lies. e.g. "I wouldn't believe him mate, he is a bit of a Lyrebird
Faff is slang for to fuss, to behave in a confused or disorganised manner.
Tea caddy is London Cockney rhyming slang for an Irishman (paddy).
Request for a behaviour to be stopped. For example "Cool it you guys - the teachers coming down the corridor."
Air Force term for turning hard to avoid enemy fire or detection.
Where Many Have Gone Before
Stiffener is slang for a reviving or fortifying alcoholic rink.
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n.
In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
v. t.
To take out, or loose, the rivets of; as, to unrivet boiler plates.
v. t.
To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc.
n.
A pot for boiling things; a boiler.
n.
The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.
n.
One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series.
v. t.
One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.
n.
A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England.
a.
Having the power of extension by joints sliding one within another, like the tube of a small telescope or a spyglass; especially (Mach.), constructed of concentric tubes, either stationary, as in the telescopic boiler, or movable, as in the telescopic chimney of a war vessel, which may be put out of sight by being lowered endwise.
v. t.
To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning.
n.
A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.
v. i.
To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.
n.
A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion.
n.
The act or process of vaporizing, or the state of being converted into vapor; the artificial formation of vapor; specifically, the conversion of water into steam, as in a steam boiler.
n.
An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler.
a.
Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc.
a.
Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler.
v. t.
To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler.
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