Mangled and abused words and phrases

[Toddy]

Ah, well, that's the context. We use all of those as particular 'types' of rain. That the words are used as adjectives elsewhere doesn't preclude them being rains.
Smirr is fine, fine, but soaks through, haar is the air filled with wet mist that leaves everything sodden, teeming is so heavy but with no wind behind it, it just comes down upon us and once it's on, it's on
Stoating on the other hand is the kind of heavy rain that falls with force behind it enough to bounce it off the roads and roofs. Dreich is the grey overcast wet that doesn't need a brolly but will leave you damp all the same.
Bucketing is so much rain that it's as though the heavens are sending us bucketloads, usually a deluge but not persistant.
Spitting rain is just the little spots, just there and no much more.
Drookit is a double, I admit. One may end up drookit, but drookit is the surprise kind that soaks the hair and runs down the back of the neck, leaves a body cold and miserable. Wringing wet though doesn't have the same edge of chill to it, just sodden-ness, iimmc

M

p.s. cold and wet and walking splashily through the wet mud.

 

[Hoodoo]

now toddy words and especially frases facinate me due to many modern frases come from navel terms

for instantance

posh

cant swing a cat in here

let the cat out the bag

dont spill the beens

and there are many more but i just cant think of them right now. Now the reason for the fasination is that i love navel history

Hmmm...don't worry, no one is going to spill the beens here.

 

[Retired Member southey]

From my extensive knowledge derived from watching an episode of of QI I now know that "there is not enough room to swing a cat in here" came in to the world before cat-o-nine tailes were invented.

 

[santaman2000]

Ah, well, that's the context. We use all of those as particular 'types' of rain. That the words are used as adjectives elsewhere doesn't preclude them being rains...

True enough, but the point of my original post was that if the different types of rain were as important to our culture as the types of snow are to the eskimo, then we wouldn't need adjectives to describe them. They'd have their own separate names.

 

[shaggystu]

....and there are many more but i just cant think of them right now.....

cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey?

 

[Hoodoo]

Your quite right, it should be "did you find everything okay"

Ok, I had to look this one up. I guess it's actually OK and we can blame the Scots.

 

[santaman2000]

cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey?

Cold as a well diggers a**?

Cold as a witch's t** in a brass bra?

 

[mountainm]

let the cat out the bag

Isn't nautical either - they used to sell pigs in sacks at market - but unscrupulous traders would switch the pig for a cat in the bag at point of sale.

 

[shaggystu]

Cold as a well diggers a**?

Cold as a witch's t** in a brass bra?

not really nautical phrases as far as i'm aware

 

[Toddy]

Santaman, those 'are' types of rain, and seperate words for them.
Och aye is pretty common really, not just among the Gaels.
It's a softly spoken set of vowel sounds used in quiet agreement, not hard sharp as in OCK EYE, but ocheye.

cheers,
M

 

[santaman2000]

not really nautical phrases as far as i'm aware

But definitely in a sailor's vocabulary. LOL.

 

[tinderbox]

Ok, I had to look this one up. I guess it's actually OK and we can blame the Scots.

However, Ok is not OK, or even okay.

 

[santaman2000]

Santaman, those 'are' types of rain, and seperate words for them.
Och aye is pretty common really, not just among the Gaels.
It's a softly spoken set of vowel sounds used in quiet agreement, not hard sharp as in OCK EYE, but ocheye.

cheers,
M

Some of them may be Mary (I really don't know the Scottish words although my mother's maiden name was Wallace) but others aren't; teeming, drenching, lashing.

 

[Retired Member southey]

However, Ok is not OK, or even okay.

oll korrect

 

[santaman2000]

However, Ok is not OK, or even okay.

Starting to sound like the scene in Bill Jack where the court was questioning OK Corrales.

 

[drewdunnrespect]

cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey?

yep thats another one

 

[sandbender]

A discussion about language.

[video=youtube;hnHv7NGWb0k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnHv7NGWb0k[/video]

 

[armie]

Or a context error. To me "defiantly" would mean someone did something in an attempt to "defy" someone.

I looked up

"site:www.bushcraftuk.com" "defiantly"

on Google. As far as I could see from the search results, there weren't many people defying something or someone.

 

[Hoodoo]

However, Ok is not OK, or even okay.

Which is why I said in my post that it is actually OK. OK?

 

[ol smokey]

The one that bugs me, is when the B B C weather men or women say, There is weather coming in. When they should say, There is bad weather coming in , or there is good weather coming in. WEATHER is there all the time, be it good or bad. GRRRR Glad to get that off my chest.