Sad remains of Rover.

[pressman]

Where i was brought up in Cornwall a mush was an ex convict or someone who had done time

[The Garfish]

Originally Posted by codprawn

and also call people "me old mukka" - to be honest most of them are also the dregs of society!!!

orl rite mee owld mukker.

gArf

s.p wot de fuk iz a dregg

[hard1]

Originally Posted by codprawn

70% of the people in Swansea would NEVER use the term - it is considered very "common".

Well la li bleedin' la my old mucker. Having been fahnd in Sfamtn 'n drugged up in Sarf Landan seems like I've been a mush all me life. But 'aven't done time yet although I've got enormous potential so the rozzers rahnd 'ere fink anyway.

[Andy Stevens]

You know why Germany and Japan made good stuff after the war? We rebuilt their factories whilst ours carried on, knackered from making war stuff!

Billions was pumped into German by the US after the war.

[Mollers]

Mush is Romany, it's a friendly term for a man as is gerrie. A Wrackly is a women, a juvval is an old women. I could on.

[Richard B]

http://www.virtuapikey.com/
(always select "slow")

[hard1]

Originally Posted by Mollulnan

Mush is Romany, it's a friendly term for a man as is gerrie. A Wrackly is a women, a juvval is an old women. I could on.

Please do....Wrackly a woman! Great stuff, let's 'ave some more my 'andsome...

[codprawn]

Originally Posted by Mollulnan

Mush is Romany, it's a friendly term for a man as is gerrie. A Wrackly is a women, a juvval is an old women. I could on.

Should have guessed you were a gippo.......

[John Kennett]

Originally Posted by hard1

I shall have to call you a Mush. Now a Mush is also sort of a compliment as it signifies a native of Southampton.

Surely the word you're thinking of is SCUMMER, not mush!

John

[Mollers]

Originally Posted by codprawn

Should have guessed you were a gippo.......

I was waiting for that. I'm no pikey. I had a surfacing company for many years and had some Cornish settled Gypsies that worked for me. A great bunch on the whole. Hard working, loyal and a bloody good laugh. It was rare that a gorgie (non-gypsy) was allowed to pick up their lingo. If they were in Gypsy company I had to pretend not to understand. It's well handy when it comes to getting rid of peg sellers and fortune tellers.

[Hugh Jardon]

An interesting story came the posse's way a few weeks back about the true origin of the term scummer or scum. Apparently, just before the first world war, a dispute broke out between a local fishing company and it's employees. We don't know the name of the company, but we do know that it had two branches, one in Portsmouth and the other in S***hampton. The dispute, over wages, escalated and eventually the union called a strike, which was solid among both the Portsmouth company union men and the S***hampton company union men. Nothing was resolved, and after some weeks the S***hampton company men broke the strike and went back to work, thus ensuring the collapse of the dispute without any gain for the employee's of either company. Not suprisingly, the Portsmouth company were incensed at the actions of thier fellow workers, and apparently one wag noticed that the first letters of the S***hampton Company Union Men spelt SCUM. Hence the name Scum or Scummer as a term of abuse for anyone from S***hampton was first coined. Taken form the hard copy of the April/May 1996 issue of Frattonise

Just doing my google bit here!

[hard1]

Sooo, having been born within the ambit of S***hampton (why the asterisks? it's catching) I'm genuine born 22 carat scum then?

Cool or what?