These usages are arranged alphabetically, all having something to
do with the theme of "food, eating, etc." For fuller information
about each usage, see the main list. There are twenty-six files there.
Just click on to the appropriate letter.
abnabs: sandwiches
afters: dessert
Bedfordshire Clanger: Cornish Pastie with fruit in one end for dessert
black tapioca: caviar
blind butty: bread, but nothing on it or between the slices
blind scouse: meatless stew
blushing bunny: a poor person's Welsh Rarebit
bullamacow: corned beef
burgoo: porridge
butty: sandwich
Calcutta: margarine
canary cake: saffron colored slab cake
carryin' out: packed lunch
Cheshire (or Chester) Plonk: the name for Nelson cakes, or wet nellies, in other parts of Britain
chip butty: french fried on buttered bread sandwich
chippy: fish and chips place
chuck: food
chucky egg: soft boiled egg, mashed, with butter
cob a chuck: bread
cokes: cocoa rooms
conny-onny: condensed milk
corpy hair oil: tap water
corned dog: corned beef
cottage pie: shepherd's pie(approximately)
cow juice: milk
cup of everton: coffee
curd: lemon cheese
depth charges: oysters
dip butty: bread in bacon fat
dog butty: corned beef sandwich
dog: corned beef
dolly mixture: assorted variety of children's sweets
doorstep sandwich: one made with a long loaf of bread
doorstopper: a large piece of bread
dry butty: slice of plain, uncoated bread
erby: mineral water shop
faggots: meat balls
finny-addy: lightly smoked haddock
flies symmetry(cemetery): eccles cake
fluke: flounder like fish, related to plaice
fly pies: eccles cake
funeral sugar: a lump or cube, filched from a pub
gerk butty: slice of plain, uncoated bread
gip butty(gippo): bread and gravy
gippo: gravy
hen fruit: eggs
jam butty: jam sandwich
jam rolly polly: a school treat
jockeys: french fried potatoes
kewins: small shellfish
last supper: fish and chips
limpet: a shelled mollusc
loblolly: food which bubbles on the stove
locusts: carob beans
lolly water: colored soft drink
lolly ice: frozen flavored water on a stick
loop de loop: soup
marrowfat peas: mushy peas
moo: milk
mug, to: to treat
nudger: sandwich made from a long roll
peawack: pea soup, from cheap meat
pine chips: meat pie and fried potatoes
pilchard: small sea fish, similar to herring
pobs: bread and hot milk
Pontefract cakes: teacakes
potato scallop: thick sliced potatoes in batter, deep fried
pozzy: jam or preserve
Quins: small shellfish
Red Gurnet: large spiney headed fish
rhubarb crumble: treat served at the school canteen
rodey bacon: bacon with alternate layers of fat and lean
salt fish: a Sunday breakfast custom
sarneys: sandwiches
savoury ducks: meatballs
scallops: pan fried, unbattered slices of pre-boiled potatoes
scouse: stewed meat, vegetables, ship's biscuit
scrag end: inferior end of mutton or veal neck
sea-pie: scouse
shoe nuts: oleo nuts
snot pie: cowheel pie
snot pudden: sago or tapioca pudding
soady batch: Welsh soda-bread
spiceballs: meatballs
sterry: sterilized milk
sticklebacks: small, spiney finned fish
stickjaw: a glutinous toffee
sticky lice: dried licorice roots
stiff moo: condensed milk
tanrogans: scallops
tiger nuts: European sedge nuts
togo: brown sugar
togy: raw sugar cane
tramstopper: large piece of bread
tripe butty: cold tripe sandwich
vappy: evaporated milk
wagon fat: inferior margarine
Welsh-butty: onion sandwich
wet neller, wet nelly: Nelson cake
wind instruments: beans, peas
winkle: periwinkle, a type of edible sea snail
SAYINGS (FOOD, ETC)
To a child complaining about being hungry: "go upstairs and eat the
monkey."
Or:" go upstairs and eat the dead monkey"
On thirst: "I'm as dry as a witch's tit."
On hunger:
"I'm so hungry I could eat a scabby donkey."
Or: a flock bed well pee'd
Or: a kid with scabby eyes
Or: a chow's bum through a cane chair
Or: the horse and chase the jockey
Or: The Lamb of God
Or: a scabby donkey (sometimes a scabby cat)
Or: a Greek wrestler's jock strap
Or: a child with the smallpox
Or: the chop I cleaned the barbecue with
Or: water cress soaked in vinegar
Or: a dead dingo's donger (Australian)
Or: a sweaty horse between two pissy mattresses
Or: a sweaty horse between two pieces of bread or two dockers' doorsteps
Or: a bloody corporation horse
Or: a horse( or a cow) between two breadvans
Or: a scabby pig without bread
Or: a scabby headed Chinaman
Me belly thinks me froat's cut: very hungry
he can half nosh: has a good appetite
(Has a good appetite)
give us a squirt, wack
(pass the vinegar bottle)
Muck in, yer at yer granny's, or:Eat up, your're at our ninnies.
(bon appetit!)
Me mam once said, "your dinner once won at Aintree."
Me mam once said that burgoo(porridge) will "put a skin on your belly like velvet."
Me mam once said "If yer eat too much yell end up lookin like Nell Mooney"(obviously generic for a beached whale).
You could eat your way through a jigger of shite
It pulls me bonnet strings: it has a sour, astringent taste