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pigale

28th June 2015, 15:17
He still is Rusty, he is making quite a career in singing - very pleasant personality.
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doglet

28th June 2015, 15:18
I think it is a good word for being wet wherever it came from
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rusty

28th June 2015, 15:20
Elle is like a small whale? OK
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i can't find it anywhere, Jazzgirl?
I have "pogge", a fish.
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elle

28th June 2015, 15:21
It is , isn't it, Doglet!
Like 'parky' for cold , but that IS in Chambers!
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rusty

28th June 2015, 15:24
Elle, I am sure you are right.
Lots of local words are not in dictionaries.
Most of my Dundee/Donegal dialect is not in Dictionaries.
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chrisg

28th June 2015, 15:24

elle

28th June 2015, 15:25
Rusty, I'm not talking to you anymore! Who are you calling a small whale?
Haven't you got some golf to watch?
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jazzgirl

28th June 2015, 15:25
Thanks ChrisG
That's good news.



poggy
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poggy
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rusty

28th June 2015, 15:28
Not guilty, m'lud.
It was Jazzgirl!
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elle

28th June 2015, 15:30
It wasn't used as such, though, Chrisg!
and it was in fairly common usage, meaning 'wet'.
Maybe some relevance to whales needing to be wet? Who knows how these dialect words originate?
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