Suffolk sayings

[Wiirone]

My grandfather was from Suffolk and had a few phrases I remember him saying to me as a child. When we asked what was for dinner he'd say 'Bread and pullit'. Then in answer as to what to buy from a shop 'Half a pound of toidl-oi'. I had no idea what they meant but he made us laugh.
Anyone else have anything similar?

[Nummy]

I'm from the north east. When I used to ask what was for dinner, my mum said "chums and chair backs". No idea what she meant and nobody seems to have heard of the saying.

[naomi24]

'Bread & Pullit' is an old London saying too. I think it means just bread.

[Buenchico]

"Bread an' pullet" is attributed to Norfolk here, but I'm a Suffolk lad and I certain recognise it:
http://www.norfolkdialect.com/miscellany.htm

The titles of these books (which are widely available around here) beautifully illustrate the correct way to speak in these parts!
http://www.aldeburghb.../page/suffolk-dialect

The English language would be a lot easier for foreigners to learn if they were trained in Suffolk dialect, because they wouldn't have to worry about tenses. For example (so called) 'proper' English uses "I went", "I am going" and "I will be going" depending upon the time of the action. Here in Suffolk simply use 'garn':
"I wa garn darn tarn last week, I'ma garn darn tarn nar, and I'll be a'garn darn tarn tamarra"
;-)

[Buenchico]

OOps!
How silly of me. I wrote 'last week'. That should, of course, have been larst wik"
;-)

[annadomino]

Bread an pullit refers to greased bread on a string, swallow bread, use string to pullit for next diner.

[mojay]

ah, a similar answer in our house was 'duck' - under the table and out the other side

[Furthernorth]

An old one that was used in North East Scotland was tatties and point. The housewife said tatties (potatoes) and just pointed to whichever meat or smoked fish perhaps was hanging from the ceiling. Aye - in very olden days.
My mum, from north west England always said 'cows cock and custard' which I used to say to my kids and it still makes me smile every time. Hahaha!

[maggiebee]

Another Scottish (I think) saying when asking what was for dinner was "slaver and sharks teeth". That's what my mum said anyway and I say it too.

[trt]

I used to work with a boring Scots guy and he always called his boxer shorts/under pants, shreddies for some reason, no idea why!

[vulcan]

trt, your" boring Scots guy" may have been ex service. I served on Christmas Island [now Kiritimati] in the Pacific and with the combination of sea,salt heat etc, underclothing quickly wore out and indeed shredded. They were nicknamed shreddies.

[roanmanski]

my ex husband and his family were cornish and in the evening they would say "i wont be late out of bed" used to make me laugh whenever i heard it.

i lived in norfolk for a few years and they mocked my west country accent daily but the one thing i said that they had never heard was "backalong" as in a few weeks or months ago.