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[Mysteryman]

In Liverpool a back alley is a 'Jigger'. I know why, but have a guess without your friend google.

5 Dolla long Time type jigger??   

You're not daft Broocie:
Look up "Jigjig" African sailors terminology for having sex ie when they came into port in liverpool and a few scoops the next thing on the agenda was a prostitute and the only place they could go was the back entry(Jigger)



Someone who was bandy 'Couldn't stop a pig in a jigger'.

brighton is full of jigger bashes so im told

 :-? :-?

[hotel21]

As to jigajig, go to any seaport in the globe but in particular, the far east, and jiggyjig is very much the professional phrase of choice.     Normally quickly followed by a variation of the evenings menu and pricings...   

[hercules]

Someone who was bandy 'Couldn't stop a pig in a jigger'. 
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are you lot still talking english?!  :-/ :-/

hast tha ner heerd that un,its towld as thills tha noz

[Webby the Bear]

hast tha ner heerd that un,its towld as thills tha noz

youre just drunk mate 

[Mysteryman]

Bally-Ann day? Usually Wednesday.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Down here in Kent, certainly when I was a child, we used the word "wreck" to describe the grass and play areas (swings, slides, etc). 

All locals (of High Brooms) which included my dad, and the children around me grew up using that term, but although I have known others from that area who used the same word, I have never yet found it in use elsewhere!  Where, and how it was originally used I do not know but it went back many generations

The word "wreck" is used around the stockton on tees area for the same description,not used very often thesedays ,possibly a generation thing?

That's interesting.

[Dishevelled Den]

Practically all the terms H21 would use are evident in the language used by the Ulster/Scots speakers near to where I'm stuck - very unfortunately - at the moment.

[bigegg]

around where I was brung up, we used the word "lake" to mean "play".
as in "laking football".
comes from old norse "laik" or modern norwegian "lek",

as in "lego".

strangely, two miles in any direction, nobody had heard of it.

[Pitchfork]

Down here in Kent, certainly when I was a child, we used the word "wreck" to describe the grass and play areas (swings, slides, etc). 

All locals (of High Brooms) which included my dad, and the children around me grew up using that term, but although I have known others from that area who used the same word, I have never yet found it in use elsewhere!  Where, and how it was originally used I do not know but it went back many generations

The word "wreck" is used around the stockton on tees area for the same description,not used very often thesedays ,possibly a generation thing?

That's interesting.

I always thought that it was 'Rec' an abbreviation of Recreation Ground

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Down here in Kent, certainly when I was a child, we used the word "wreck" to describe the grass and play areas (swings, slides, etc). 

All locals (of High Brooms) which included my dad, and the children around me grew up using that term, but although I have known others from that area who used the same word, I have never yet found it in use elsewhere!  Where, and how it was originally used I do not know but it went back many generations

I think that this is "Rec", which is short for
'Recreation Ground.'

Could be wrong, though; frequently am. 

It may be, it would be logical, but it was spelt as "wreck", and said in that full sense.  Maybe it was nicknamed "wreck" when recreational grounds first came into use, and it stuck in certain parts.

Many words, and names, of course started out in history in one form and metamorphised into the terms we know today.   

[Grumpy]

When one of my friends was 'performing' in a Jigger,
the chosen lady was so unimpressed with him she was
eating a bag of chips over his shoulders, waiting for
him to finish. 

[hercules]

hast tha ner heerd that un,its towld as thills tha noz

youre just drunk mate 

nay av only ad one can toneet happen

[Mysteryman]

When one of my friends was 'performing' in a Jigger,
the chosen lady was so unimpressed with him she was
eating a bag of chips over his shoulders, waiting for
him to finish. 

Does it help you to use the third person, Grumpy?

[Pitchfork]

around where I was brung up, we used the word "lake" to mean "play".
as in "laking football".
comes from old norse "laik" or modern norwegian "lek",

as in "lego".

strangely, two miles in any direction, nobody had heard of it.

Lost in the Armley Triangle!!

[Webby the Bear]

When one of my friends was 'performing' in a Jigger,
the chosen lady was so unimpressed with him she was
eating a bag of chips over his shoulders, waiting for
him to finish. 

are you sure the bird just weren't really fat and was just hungry?  :-/ :-/