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rexwatson
 Post subject: sweating cobs
PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:36 pm 

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sweating cobs : sweating profusely !

Sometimes 'buckets' not 'cobs'

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 Post subject: Re: sweating cobs
PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:25 pm 
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Joan
 Post subject: Re: sweating cobs
PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:17 pm 

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Sweating cobs, definitely a phrase I remember very well, and still use on occasion in our humid summers. Does anyone else remember boiled eggs being referred to as 'chucky eggs?' Chucky was also a term of endearment, usually used by an adult to a child, as were chicken, and lovey.

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 Post subject: Re: sweating cobs
PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:24 am 
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Chucky eggs - I had chucky eggs as a child.

They call everyone duck around here - I hate being called duck to the extent that I completely ignore the person saying it.

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 Post subject: Re: sweating cobs
PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 6:37 pm 

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You get 'duck' all over Lincs and I think much of the midlands. But not here in South Cambs.

Here you might get 'my love', a bit like Bruce Forsyth !

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 Post subject: Re: sweating cobs
PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:07 am 
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sweating bobbers is another one.

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