https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/p...n-portsmouth-but-not-in-southampton-1-6958379 Mush, a word you’ll never hear in Southampton
I think that this is a banana skin. We will not have Redmond which will make a difference. I am grateful that this tie did not happen last season and we would have been thumped under Hughes. Portsmouth do not appear to be the same team as last season but this does not mean we should under estimate them. It will be a fa more difficult task than Fulham.
Funnily enough, I always associated it with Pompey. It was only in recent years that I realised it was a full Hampshire word. Dinlo and Squinny are both pretty common too.
By the way, Vestergaard is going to score the winner for us in this and become a Saints legend for all time. We’ll sign a CB in January and he’ll hardly get a look in again, but will remain a hero for all time.
Had completely forgotten the word 'lairy'...usually used as 'he's a bit lairy'. .Not heard it in decades.
You post regularly on this forum Fran... has the expression “Fats is getting a bit lairy” really not spring to mind at all?
I don’t think “lairy” originated in Hampshire. For example, Ricky Wilson of the Kaiser Chiefs, born and raised in Leeds, sings “watching the people get lairy” in the song I Predict A Riot. Come to think of it, he may have had this game in mind...
Lairy was common currency in Somerset also. I suspect though, that it might have origins in Cockney slang and spread from London. Slang is great IMHO, and chopsy (as in he's a chopsy ****er) is a Somerset term that FLT would wear with ease, and is something I've been called more than a few times, unsurprisingly . I've heard it outside of Somerset a few times, but only from people that knew Somerset expats.
You could have an argument by yourself in a lift FLT so it's pretty fitting, plus chopsy is not particularly insulting, just descriptive.
