The MerseySpeak archive
How Liverpool talks.
A friendlier way to explore the MerseySpeak collection of Liverpool slang, sayings, phrases and local language.
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23thematic collections
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yunuckfrigid, not interested in sex. Spiegl suggests that this is a mispronunciation of "eunuch."
→MouthShe gorra mouf like a parish oven, i.e.,she is rather talkative, and her talk is vituperative..
→Alley applesstones, rocks. We wuz chuckin alley-apples: We were throwing stones.
→passion killerswomen's long underwear
→Flogging me gooliesstraining one's testicles, so that a much desired goal can be achieved?
→bread butty(also called a blind sarney)for the desperately poor, this was a sandwich with nothing in it.
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