The Queen's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, so it's good enough for me

[venta]

We haven't had one of these in a while... yup, it's a word I use that no one else knows.

If I suggested you get someone to give you a croggy, would you know what I meant? I just used this phrase in the office (for context, to my boss who's currently having transport issues as his car's in dock). He looked at me funny.

He does that a lot anyway, but I think it was the word "croggy" in this instance.

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[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't have the faintest clue.

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Not a word I know at all.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Never heard it before. It sounds vaguely like something that vicious kids might inflict on each other in the playground.

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

I think I'd look at you funny too.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Is that related to the word-choice, or just a general policy?

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

Not a clue, but it sounds like the sort of thing ex-president Clinton might have done with an intern.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's all suitable for a family audience. In fact, you're much more likely to do it as a kid than you are as an adult :)

[marjory.livejournal.com]

I looked it up and was properly and suitably impressed.

No, I had no flaming idea what a croggy was.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Dammit, you're from the same town, I was relying on you!

[rabbit1080.livejournal.com]

having a guess before reading comments ... some kind of extra-warm jumper?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Wow.

No :)

I should have got everyone to guess what they thought it was.

[brrm.livejournal.com]

[x] Funny look

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

No idea, but a guess from context: giving someone a lift? Though why you'd need to call that a croggy rather than a lift or a ride (which is what they said round my childhoodhood) I don't know.

And yes, I've always looked at you. Funny.

[lnr]

We sometimes have quite a bit of slang in common, but not this time.

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

I was thinking something food-related, too.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Never heard of it, I would have guessed food.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I would know exactly what you meant.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I am from the East Riding originally, but I am not sure if I picked it up from there.

[j4.livejournal.com]

I'd think you meant a ride on the back of your bike (other folk I know seem to call this a 'backie', but they are clearly wrong. :)

[j4.livejournal.com]

PS I did post this before looking at comments :)

PPS Everybody who finds kids' slang fascinating should read "The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren" by Iona and Peter Opie (I may have recommended this before, I often do)

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

No idea, sounds like a more unsavoury version of wedgie. (I grew up in Saarf London, so if this is some kind of Northern lingo.)

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Yes, that sort of direction. Of course, now I've read what was actually meant, I still stand by my "unpleasant ordeal" definition - I never did understand the appeal of being perched precariously on the back of someone else's wobbly conveyance.

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Without reading anyone else's comments, I think I'd be a bit worried you were suggesting a rather unpleasant ordeal, all the more disturbing for not having any idea what it consisted of.

[reddragdiva]

Never heard it in my Australian life!

[venta.livejournal.com]

But did you agree with the other Aussies (http://venta.livejournal.com/334855.html?thread=4894727#t4894727)... ?

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Yes, in accordance with other respondents to this post, but only from context. Without context, I'm sure I've also heard the word used as a synonym for "wedgie". I dunno, you westerners...

[hendybear.livejournal.com]

Not a clue.

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

From the context given in your post, and before having read the comments, I'd have guessed some kind of lift, but without any details. I've never heard the word before, and apparently have been slightly sheltered in my upbringing in that the only way two people were on one bike was if it was a tandem.

One of the many reasons I like your journal is the way it occasionally turns into an informal game of 'call my bluff'.

[venta.livejournal.com]

It's OK, one of these days you'll all realise I just make these words up on the spot for entertainment value :)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

*dredges memory* Is it a piggyback ride? I don't think it was a phrase used in my family though.