Hello Malcolm,
another Barry McKenzie fan! It is thought that Barry Humphries made up a lot of Bazza's expressions, but let us be grateful for "technicolour yawn", "point percy at porcelain", "don't come the raw prawn" and "as dry as a dead dingo's donger".
Regards,
John
Meaning of "cheipicks and dandylerie"
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Hallo Jo G, Malcolm and other contributors,
Thanks. I will settle for:
cheipicks = cheapskates
dandylerie = dandiprats
chunt = grumble
- in my treatise which doesn't have to be word perfect! All the other Scots words that she uses in other poems are given meanings in orthodox Scots-English dictionaries.
You won't find Janet Reid's poems published anywhere, Malcolm. I found a Victorian collection of 34 of her broadsides which started me off. There are a few more broadsides in the British Library, the Scottish National Library, the Mitchell Library, the Welcome Library, Dunfermline Central Library, and a copy of a little booklet of her poems that she published in Glasgow University Library. In all I have located 71 broadsides and 60 poems. I reckon she probably composed double that number and I am still searching for more. I would like to republish them one day. They are lousy poetry but fascinating social history.
I have spent 3 separate weeks in Scotland over the last 5 years tracking down her broadsides, visiting where she lived, and reading up local history on their subject matter. I have a few hunches still to be followed up but it means another major expedition from Basingstoke (and perhaps I should own up here that I am not a Scot) which maybe I will do later this year.
If there is any volunteer within easy reach of the Scottish National Library who has time to spare to look for more of her broadsides I could explain what I think are the possible leads and they might find it enthralling!
David
Thanks. I will settle for:
cheipicks = cheapskates
dandylerie = dandiprats
chunt = grumble
- in my treatise which doesn't have to be word perfect! All the other Scots words that she uses in other poems are given meanings in orthodox Scots-English dictionaries.
You won't find Janet Reid's poems published anywhere, Malcolm. I found a Victorian collection of 34 of her broadsides which started me off. There are a few more broadsides in the British Library, the Scottish National Library, the Mitchell Library, the Welcome Library, Dunfermline Central Library, and a copy of a little booklet of her poems that she published in Glasgow University Library. In all I have located 71 broadsides and 60 poems. I reckon she probably composed double that number and I am still searching for more. I would like to republish them one day. They are lousy poetry but fascinating social history.
I have spent 3 separate weeks in Scotland over the last 5 years tracking down her broadsides, visiting where she lived, and reading up local history on their subject matter. I have a few hunches still to be followed up but it means another major expedition from Basingstoke (and perhaps I should own up here that I am not a Scot) which maybe I will do later this year.
If there is any volunteer within easy reach of the Scottish National Library who has time to spare to look for more of her broadsides I could explain what I think are the possible leads and they might find it enthralling!
David
Researching Janet Reid, poetess of Carnock, Fife, and of Bridge of Allan, 1830s-1850s.
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