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Couldn't find the nurses treader.

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maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 25 Mar 2020 23:54

In Cornwall,I was told "It must be fun to bike down that ope you live in".
'Yes" I replied, "I live in hope, but I've never considered cycling down it".

I was as confused as you probably are :-S

'Ope' is an alleyway in Cornish dialect.
I still suffer from the misunderstanding :-(

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

ZZzzz

ZZzzz Report 25 Mar 2020 23:34

My sister did that Sharron and almost always ended up with a tyre puncture that she nick named her bike puncture.

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Frame mainly from. Reading Berkshire. Vos from Netherlands. Nelson and Sowerby from Newcastle. Pickles from Saddleworth and Australia. Bainbridge from Durham. Willmot, Wilmot. Wilmott from Berkshire.

Sharron

Sharron Report 25 Mar 2020 23:26

I have been known to go up a twitten on my treader.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 25 Mar 2020 23:19

*Whispers* Sharron isn't from Lincolnshire or Kent :-S

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

ZZzzz

ZZzzz Report 25 Mar 2020 22:40

My husband says treader for bicycle and hoofing it for walking. He is from Kent so maybe local to there.

Researching:
Frame mainly from. Reading Berkshire. Vos from Netherlands. Nelson and Sowerby from Newcastle. Pickles from Saddleworth and Australia. Bainbridge from Durham. Willmot, Wilmot. Wilmott from Berkshire.

Andysmum

Andysmum Report 25 Mar 2020 22:11

I have never heard the word but according to Google it is Lincolnshire dialect for a bike. :-)

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 25 Mar 2020 21:11

Rose, it could so easily have been a typo for 'threads', as in the nurse hung up her clothing/outfit. :-D

Horse doofers will 'do fer' the roses! :-D :-D

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 25 Mar 2020 20:45

My academic used to refer to horse’ roofers. I had no idea what a treaded is or was and actually thought it was a typo.

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Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

Sharron

Sharron Report 25 Mar 2020 20:11

Doofers are dog-ends that will doofer later. You can put them behind your ear for Ron.(lateron).

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 25 Mar 2020 19:26

Well, I meant push-bike, but only because I thought of the pedals, and I do remember in the far distant past, in another land (or County), some local referring to pedals as 'treads'. :-D :-D :-D

It's like the word 'doofers' - apparently "an object or device of unspecified name or nature", but according to my dad, 'doofers' referred specifically to horse poo!

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Sharron

Sharron Report 25 Mar 2020 19:01

Yes. That was what I was saying.

Oh do keep up at the back!

Or did you , maybe, not mean push-bike.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 25 Mar 2020 18:52

I thought it was an alternative name for a bike.

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Sharron

Sharron Report 25 Mar 2020 18:50

Oh right.

I think she thought it was something filthy.

I thought it was just a general thing which shows how much I know!

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 25 Mar 2020 18:39

Ummm...Yes it is! :-D :-D :-D

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Sharron

Sharron Report 25 Mar 2020 18:13

So,I submitted my usual article to the village magazine, one about the old doctor and how the district nurse would come round on her push-bike.

I ended it with something about the village surgery being closed and the nurse hanging up her treader.

Urgent e-mail this morning because the editor didn't know what a treader was and couldn't find it in the dictionary.

Surely that is not specialized slang is it?