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.

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

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

[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!

[venta.livejournal.com]

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

[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

[marjory.livejournal.com]

From the same town, but being brought up by people filling my head with Scottish slang instead (seriously, there were times throughout my childhood when it would twig that certain words and phrases were not part of the Queen's English).

I also was the type of cowardy custard who would never have croggied without full safety gear!

[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 :)

[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.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

My first thought was something like a pasty, because my grandad used to eat something with a similar name. Now I'm going to have to try and work out what word I am thinking of.

[lnr]

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

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Your choice ;)

[metame.livejournal.com]

Giving someone a lift on the back of your bike?

Kid's slang is the least likely to be harmonious country-wide, right?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Result :)

Kid's slang is the least likely to be harmonious country-wide, right?

I'd have thought so, but given the failure of Durham and Yorkshire respondents to know what I was talking about, the success of a Dorset boy sort of knocks a hole in that theory.

I believe "croggy" is an abbreviation of crossbar, but the most common mechanism when I was a kid was to let someone sit on the saddle (with their legs flapping free) while the bike's rider stood on the pedals.

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

I was thinking something food-related, too.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Presumably you're not thinking of "oggy" ?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Never heard of it, I would have guessed food.

[rabbit1080.livejournal.com]

:)
Aaaaahhh, the internet says it's a dinkie on a bike. Who'dve thought it.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yup, the next question was going to be "so what would you call it?"

Glad to hear you have a word for it, even if everyone else is going to say "er, I called it a lift on a bike".

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I would know exactly what you meant.