Old Fashioned Words We Should Bring Back

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    I still use that. I must be getting old... :(
     
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    A word used in Barnsley (well by my mother) of similar meaning was SKERRICK. Some internet searches say it’s origin is ANZAC but others say it is Scandinavian (Viking) and was exported to Botany Bay by convicts from Yorkshire. I think it is the latter as I remember 40 odd years ago it came up on “Call my Bluff”.
     
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    How about THOIL another of my mother’s. It means ‘to afford’. Her regular saying on Thursday before Dad got paid “We can’t thoil a skylark a pair of leggings”. I never understood what she meant until I was older.
     
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    Both are Johnson terms. I refuse to call him Boris.
     
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    Not heard it since I was a kid.
     
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