| And They Call Us Wurzels 13:31 - May 20 with 1186 views | SaintNick |
Saw a link to this
Dinlow, or dinlo, is the Romany word for an idiot or fool. It has also been incorporated in the rural dialects of some farming communities, such as Portsmouth in Hampshire, where there is a large gypsy population.
A worzel overheard talking in a Portsmouth inn: "I are a right dinlow when I bin shanting."
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dinlow |  |
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| And They Call Us Wurzels on 13:54 - May 20 with 1123 views | franniesTache |
They're such a special breed. They keep trying to pretend these words are "theirs" and "unique' to Portsmouth, despite most of them being used up and down the south coast.
I (and most of my mates) grew up using din/dinlow, squiiny, mush etc. I had no idea they thought they were "pompey" words until that scag addict on the derby days thing said they were.
Also i'm sure i remember one of the people at their university did research into "the pompey dialect" and had to admit it didn't exist and wasn't unique to them. |  | | |
| And They Call Us Wurzels on 14:15 - May 20 with 1082 views | SaintNick |
| And They Call Us Wurzels on 13:54 - May 20 by franniesTache |
They're such a special breed. They keep trying to pretend these words are "theirs" and "unique' to Portsmouth, despite most of them being used up and down the south coast.
I (and most of my mates) grew up using din/dinlow, squiiny, mush etc. I had no idea they thought they were "pompey" words until that scag addict on the derby days thing said they were.
Also i'm sure i remember one of the people at their university did research into "the pompey dialect" and had to admit it didn't exist and wasn't unique to them. |
The word Mush came from when the big liners used to sail from Southampton and were crewed mainly by people from here and Scousers.
The southampton crew members were always called mush's by the scousers due to the fact that they always used to call people mush as in Alright Mush.
It was never a word associated with people from Pompey, even though no doubt they may have also used the word | |
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| And They Call Us Wurzels on 14:57 - May 20 with 1027 views | franniesTache |
| And They Call Us Wurzels on 14:15 - May 20 by SaintNick |
The word Mush came from when the big liners used to sail from Southampton and were crewed mainly by people from here and Scousers.
The southampton crew members were always called mush's by the scousers due to the fact that they always used to call people mush as in Alright Mush.
It was never a word associated with people from Pompey, even though no doubt they may have also used the word |
I always thought the origins of mush was dockers shortening the word monsieur from the french, I know it's used pretty commonly in a lot of places on the south coast, and weirdly even parts of the black country use it too.
Plus pretty famously it was used in london, as you can hear on the only fools and horses theme tune
We've got some
Half price cracked ice
And miles and miles of carpet tiles
TVs, eep freeze
And David Bowie LPs
Ball games, gold chains, what's-names
And at a push
Some Trevor Francis track suits
From a mush in Shepherds Bush
Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush | | | |
| And They Call Us Wurzels on 15:41 - May 20 with 975 views | PatfromPoole |
| And They Call Us Wurzels on 14:57 - May 20 by franniesTache |
I always thought the origins of mush was dockers shortening the word monsieur from the french, I know it's used pretty commonly in a lot of places on the south coast, and weirdly even parts of the black country use it too.
Plus pretty famously it was used in london, as you can hear on the only fools and horses theme tune
We've got some
Half price cracked ice
And miles and miles of carpet tiles
TVs, eep freeze
And David Bowie LPs
Ball games, gold chains, what's-names
And at a push
Some Trevor Francis track suits
From a mush in Shepherds Bush
Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush |
"Mush" is a shortened version of "Monsieur"?
As they say, every day is a school day..... |  |
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| And They Call Us Wurzels on 15:58 - May 20 with 948 views | franniesTache |
| And They Call Us Wurzels on 15:41 - May 20 by PatfromPoole |
"Mush" is a shortened version of "Monsieur"?
As they say, every day is a school day..... |
Might be an urban myth but that was the story i was told | | | |
| And They Call Us Wurzels on 16:04 - May 20 with 939 views | Wints76 |
| And They Call Us Wurzels on 15:58 - May 20 by franniesTache |
Might be an urban myth but that was the story i was told |
That was my understanding as well, but could well be the Romany origin as well. Guess there may be a tie in |  | | |
| And They Call Us Wurzels on 16:16 - May 20 with 921 views | dirk_doone |
| And They Call Us Wurzels on 14:57 - May 20 by franniesTache |
I always thought the origins of mush was dockers shortening the word monsieur from the french, I know it's used pretty commonly in a lot of places on the south coast, and weirdly even parts of the black country use it too.
Plus pretty famously it was used in london, as you can hear on the only fools and horses theme tune
We've got some
Half price cracked ice
And miles and miles of carpet tiles
TVs, eep freeze
And David Bowie LPs
Ball games, gold chains, what's-names
And at a push
Some Trevor Francis track suits
From a mush in Shepherds Bush
Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush |
No, mush is just Romany for man.
https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/heritage/glossary-of-romani-terms/ |  |
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