Why 'outside of'?

Annobel

Wheniwasyourage , My dad used to say 'stick in till you stick oot' as well. He was by far the slimmest member of the family - unfortunately I inherited my mother's genes - and another of his favourites was (smugly) 'I know when to stop'.

I used to be told 'Get outside of that!'

That makes sense though!

Bagitha, there could be a problem if the host/ess mishears....!

Next time someone gives you something lovely to eat, you could exclaim "Oh! how gusting!" or "I'm utterly gusted with this! Thank you so much!"

BTW, with regard to the OP, didn't Bertie Wooster talk about putting himself "on the outside of" food?

kittylester so glad that there is another"gruntled" fan out there!

Any thoughts on "gusted" ?

phoenix I love gruntled and a favourite saying in our family is "I'm not very gruntled about that"

Husband and I went for a walk this afternoon, between showers, and as we were passing the pub at the top of the road we heard a young man in the smoking area bellowing into his phone "Will you stop f***ing eggnoring the phone when I f***ing ring you"

me gusto/a works in Spanish!

Before a meal my late FIL used to say "Stick in till you stick oot". It was very apt in his case...

For ages I have advocated the use of "gruntled", I think it should be adopted as a proper word!

I have also given some thought as to wether one might be able to be "gusted", but somehow it doesn't seem to work.

One of my favourite Yorkshire phrases, spoken by my great uncle Charlie (who wanted to travel as a young man but had to serve in WW1 trenches, after which he thought that perhaps "Addingham weren't s' bad" and was happy to remain there for the rest of his life) when we went there for tea. Great auntie Mary would set out all sorts of delicious stuff – including bridge rolls sliced crosswise like a big loaf and the tiny slices neatly buttered – and then Uncle Charlie would say: Reach to, lass, reach to (help yourself) .

And in Somerset also 'where be 'e to?' where is it?
In the black country we used bist, be they not!

In deepest Dorset they used say "where be 'e at?" (where is he?)

To go back a bit (in 2 different directions), what about "meet with" or even "meet up with" when you just mean "meet"? Also, I am always pleased by the idea of drawing curtains, which you can do in both directions. (Not to mention with a pencil, if you are gifted in that way.)

em and annobel will also be familiar with furth as an even more esoteric variation on "outside" or "outwith" in a geographical sense. It always makes me smile when I read it in communications from St. A's.

In Leicestershire people 'knock the door' and 'go town' both of which make me feel really weird.

Greatnan, we used to sing that all the time at Brownies - possibly the only song our Brown Owl knew - but then, we were 'the folk o'the west'!

I remember 'couthie' from singing 'Westering Home' at school - 'canthy and couthie and kindly the best......'

Anyone suggest an explanation for disgruntled / gruntled? Could go and look it up I suppose but prefer GNetters' more light-hearted comments. Not sure if I'd use couthie as the opposite of uncouth though.

Anyone remember the Candid Camera episode where Jonathan Routh wandered around a northern town asking people where he could get some 'gorm' because he wanted to please his girlfriend, who told him he was 'gormless'? It was so funny watching motherly ladies attempting to help him out by telling him he wasn't gormless - when he patently was.

It's looking a bit black over Bill's mother's

Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs!

Same in coroners courts.
We're you born in a barn? Is another one.