New words/vocab on these fora, boards..

[bogmyrtle]

Jockxit

It’s about SNP / Scottish blithering about leaving the U.K. Good luck with that

We blether in Scotland

[mercalia]

furbabies
Spare me the ‘furbabies’ – the humanisation of pets has gone too far Melissa Kite

Owners call their pets ‘furbabies’. The term is meant to be sweet but becomes more creepy the more you think about it. Some women have taken to calling themselves ‘fur mummies’

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2020/02/pet-peeve/

[Cyril Haearn]

FSO
Fixie-Shaped-Object

Looks like a fixie but close examination reveals a freewheel

[mercalia]

leaplings or leapers


Those born on the 29th february so only have a birth day every 4 years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-51662371/leap-year-what-it-s-like-being-born-on-29-february

does that mean you are likely to die when you are 25? or less

[Mike Sales]

We blether in Scotland

Mither or moider in various English or Welsh dialects.

Moedrodd yn Cymraeg.

[Mick F]

We blether in Scotland

Mither or moider in various English or Welsh dialects.

Moedrodd in Cymraeg.

Yep.

As a kid in Wigan, it was moider.
Mrs Mick F was a kid in Liverpool, and she says mither.

I was born in Wales, but we left there when I was two, so although I have a Welsh birth certificate, I can't speak the lingo.

As for Scotland, it depends on where you are from my experience from living in Scotland for years and years.
They don't all blether ........ I guess it's a Glaswegian expression.
Ask someone from Edinburgh or Inverness.

[bogmyrtle]

We blether in Scotland

Mither or moider in various English or Welsh dialects.

Moedrodd in Cymraeg.

Yep.

As for Scotland, it depends on where you are from my experience from living in Scotland for years and years.
They don't all blether ........ I guess it's a Glaswegian expression.
Ask someone from Edinburgh or Inverness.

I beg to differ.
Blether is commoly used throughout Scotland, even in furry boot city
[url}https://www.facebook.com/events/inverleith-st-serfs-church-lunch-club/bite-blether/2357459834513676/[/url]
https://en-gb.facebook.com/blethercults/
https://www.huntly.net/visitors/information/doric.php
https://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-word-week-blether-1567604

[Pastychomper]

People certainly blether in Caithness, often while occupying two 4x4s parked window-to-window in the middle of the road.
Some find it annoying, I think it's rather civilised (as long as their engines aren't left idling).

[Cyril Haearn]

People certainly blether in Caithness, often while occupying two 4x4s parked window-to-window in the middle of the road.
Some find it annoying, I think it's rather civilised (as long as their engines aren't left idling).

An effective way to prevent speeding crime too, plusminus, but a bit impolite I think
Mind, I did something similar in the food store, met someone I hadnae seen awhile, we talked for half an hour

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,

FSO
Fixie-Shaped-Object

Looks like a fixie but close examination reveals a freewheel

Complete with mandatory honey coloured leather Brooks, And olde worlde shop window or lamppost to lean against

[mercalia]

Covidiot

Derivation

‘Covidiot’ has been used to describe the people who crowded into seaside resorts and public parks, when most of the nation was avoiding public contact. It also denotes the drinkers who crammed into pubs for their last pint before lockdown. Those drunken groups who clinked glasses and put their arms around each other as they sang Neil Diamond’s ‘Sweet Caroline’, have been branded as irresponsible and foolish. Those who had ‘one last kiss’ before lockdown may now be suffering from more than a hangover.

Covidiocy is highly infectious: the condition is unpredictable with a short incubation period. In China, for example, Covidiocy made an appearance as soon as the peak infection rate subsided. Once the epidemic was under control, a new Covidiocy virus spread rapidly. Starting in Chinese state media, the daft theory that the US military intentionally released the disease in Hunan province, quickly infected media across the world. The Iranians followed, by blaming the Israelis and some of their allies said that it was God’s punishment on non-believers.

Experts are worried that Covidiocy will make an appearance in the UK once the lockdown ends and that various strains of the virus will evolve simultaneously. Covidiotic viral theories include the belief that this national emergency should form the basis on which society is organised in the future; that the government should pay our wages on a permanent basis, that industry should be run by the state and that we should close the borders and grow our own potatoes. One of the more dangerous strains is the belief that the Covid-19 is nature’s punishment for human indulgence. Super-spreaders of this theory may include Extinction Rebellion and George Monbiot.
Use

“Oy, get off, stop licking my face your covidiot.”

(Andy Shaw, The Spectator)

https://life.spectator.co.uk/articles/word-of-the-week-covidiot/

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We blether in Scotland

Mither or moider in various English or Welsh dialects.

Moedrodd yn Cymraeg.

Where I come from the word mither meant to pester, (not necessarily vocally).

[Bonefishblues]

We blether in Scotland

Mither or moider in various English or Welsh dialects.

Moedrodd yn Cymraeg.

Where I come from the word mither meant to pester, (not necessarily vocally).

And me, also.

[Mike Sales]

Mither or moider in various English or Welsh dialects.

Moedrodd yn Cymraeg.

Where I come from the word mither meant to pester, (not necessarily vocally).

And me, also.

The Bangor usage has that idea in it too.

"Don't moider my head."
Meaning, "leave me alone, don't give me that nonsense."

[Cyril Haearn]

BSO bike-shaped-object, also:

BSO, Brick-shaped-object, saw a new building mostly of concrete, but BSOs are added to make it look less brutal, also:

BSO, Book-Shaped-Object, not quite a book
..
PCSO: Police and Community Support Officer, also:

PCSO: Police Car Shaped Object, vehicle used by security firms, looks rather like a jam sandwich (cop car)