Subject: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: *#1 PEASANT* Date: 28 Apr 11 - 11:01 AM 1. trump 214 up, 67 down buy trump mugs, tshirts and magnets Northern to midlands slang for a fart, expelling of wind from the anus. Oi who trumped? Urrgh yuck the dogs gone and trumped again. -Source= Urban Dictionary Conrad |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Ross Campbell Date: 28 Apr 11 - 11:04 AM Very appropriate, don't you think? |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Arthur_itus Date: 28 Apr 11 - 01:26 PM Just been watching Judd Trump in the snooker semi finals. Unfortunate name. |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: GUEST,glueman Date: 28 Apr 11 - 01:38 PM Me Mam used to ask who'd 'pimped'. |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: nutty Date: 28 Apr 11 - 01:38 PM Unfortunate name? Trumps are the top cards in a game of Whist |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Richard Bridge Date: 28 Apr 11 - 03:33 PM Nellie the Elephant... Off she went with a trumpety trump Trump, trump, trump |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Steve Gardham Date: 28 Apr 11 - 03:36 PM (first name) let a trump, (other first name) tried to catch it, (3rd first name) went behind the door And hit it with a hatchet. Old Fart. |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: GUEST,glueman Date: 28 Apr 11 - 03:46 PM Donald Trump did okay. And such hair. |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Steve Gardham Date: 28 Apr 11 - 03:48 PM Pugh, Pugh, Barney MacGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub! |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: GUEST,glueman Date: 28 Apr 11 - 03:53 PM "Fatty and Thinny went to bed, Fatty let off and Thinny dropped dead." Let off! Such innocence. I've always favoured 'guffed'. |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: catspaw49 Date: 28 Apr 11 - 03:54 PM Well damn Conrad.........One of the few times I totally agree with you! Spaw |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Gurney Date: 28 Apr 11 - 03:59 PM My aunt went to school with the Trump twins, Harry Will and Elsie May. You can pick your friends, but you are born with with parents, eh? |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Joe_F Date: 28 Apr 11 - 04:15 PM nutty: Not only whist. Do the bridge players in those localities have some other name for trumps? |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Steve Gardham Date: 28 Apr 11 - 05:02 PM Oh dear me! The bridge-playing lovies of the north don't trump, they 'break wind' or 'let Polly out of prison'. |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: GUEST,999 Date: 28 Apr 11 - 05:11 PM My grandfather used the word trump to mean fart over fifty years ago. |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Steve Gardham Date: 28 Apr 11 - 05:28 PM Whilst whist players do indeed trump, poker players have a run and a flush, but bridge players only drop one occasionally. Seriously, in Hull at least 50 years ago 'pump' was only slightly ruder but more common than 'trump' and 'fart' was a definite swearword. |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Abdul The Bul Bul Date: 29 Apr 11 - 12:31 AM Prefer the more poetic...trouser cough or maybe ..stepped on a frog. I'd forgotten 'Polly', thanks Steve. Al |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: GUEST,glueman Date: 29 Apr 11 - 02:36 AM Did an angel speak? That's a popular one. |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Richard Bridge Date: 29 Apr 11 - 03:35 AM Ducks are flying low today |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Brian Peters Date: 29 Apr 11 - 07:09 AM "Who's dropped one?" "Who's egged?" |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: MartinRyan Date: 29 Apr 11 - 07:28 AM Partridge has "trump" as "to break wind" and dates it to the 18th C. - "very obsolescent" by mid-20 C. Regards |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: YorkshireYankee Date: 29 Apr 11 - 07:41 AM If I have "trumped", my (English) husband always asks, "More tea, Vicar?" I was a bit puzzled the first time he said it, but it does make me giggle... |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: dick greenhaus Date: 29 Apr 11 - 02:32 PM TRump is the formal name for a Jews harp |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Dave Sutherland Date: 29 Apr 11 - 03:21 PM "Who'se dropped their guts?" That was a common one around South Tyne Folk and Blues - yes very common. |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Genie Date: 29 Apr 11 - 06:29 PM Trump Fart -- isn't he making a lot of noises about running for US President? |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Tootler Date: 29 Apr 11 - 06:44 PM When I was at school, "pumps" were a sports shoe - the equivalent of the modern trainer. When my daughter was at school "pump" meant fart. It always caused her amusement when I referred to trainers as pumps. |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Bernard Date: 30 Apr 11 - 09:58 AM More tea, Vicar?! |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Apr 11 - 02:28 PM I prefer the Dutch expression (apologies for spelling!) "Geev de boer een stool", or "Give the farmer a seat", along the lines of "who let that commoner in here? but more subtle" I've also seen a sign behind the bar, like a road sign with a trumpet with a line through it! Cheers Nigel |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Gallus Moll Date: 30 Apr 11 - 06:16 PM categories of passing flatus: silent and deadly loud and lethal |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Don Firth Date: 30 Apr 11 - 09:14 PM "It's not that I mind the smell so much, it's just that it makes my eyes smart." Don Firth |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: GUEST,Alan Whittle Date: 01 May 11 - 06:25 AM The late Dave Turner had a song called the farting. I contained every fart joke known to human kind. can't find a Youtube for it, or him http://www.myspace.com/daveturnernottingham |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Ebbie Date: 01 May 11 - 10:38 PM My nephew's little boy was traveling with the family when a sound was heard. His daddy: Dustin! Dustin: It wasn't me! He turns to his sister: Nessie, did you feel something? |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Genie Date: 01 May 11 - 11:33 PM I thought we once had a rather long thread here at Mudcat about "Farting Songs," but I couldn't find it last time I searched for it. |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Nigel Parsons Date: 02 May 11 - 08:07 AM Genie: There are several songs in the thread Farting in public Cheers Nigel |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Nigel Parsons Date: 02 May 11 - 08:07 AM Refresh: See associated discussion. Cheers Nigel |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email) Date: 02 May 11 - 09:18 AM Sounds like hot air to me ! |
Subject: RE: Folklore: Trump=Fart in folk speak From: ranger1 Date: 02 May 11 - 06:22 PM Barking spiders. always blame it ont he barking spiders. |
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