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Friday, May 11, 2007

Nana (2)

My Nana's other famous line was "Never let it be said your mother reared a jibber!"

Which was applied variously to mean :
Don't be such a wimp
Don't be such a lazy git
Don't be such a wimpish lazy git
Don't let anyone find out that you are a wimpish lazy git

3 comments:

Akelamalu said...

They had a language all of their own!

Hayden said...

tonky pig and now jibber! great words and fun to say!

Tickersoid said...

Not British then, your Nana?

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