Powsy Poucy?

Forgive me if this has been asked before, but how do you spell powsy, meaning not very good?

This actually goes against the grain for me as I don't particularly like written dialect. I always get the impression of some middle class sort putting-it-on (on paper), when they'd stick out half a mile if they tried to vocalise it in some pubs etc.

A schoolteacher comes to mind who liked to do a mock Wigan accent.

A bit like how systems analysts etc join folk groups and sing about a tough life at sea etc. or down a Cornish tin mine.


Anyroad, google isn't helpong with powsy.

I'd spell it 'poucy', Dostaf.

I would spell it pousy but then again spelling isnt a strong point of mine

Ah, a dispute.

Thanks ladies, As you see, there is no 'real way' of writing dialect.

Never heard of it myself.

However I have heard of the Builth Wells Golf Club, Golf Club Lane, Builth Wells, Powys.

Llandrindod Wells is in Powsy

Poucy/pousy - poor quality, Joseph.

Google keeps chucking Welsh stuff at me, isn't it.

Thanks Jo Anne.

An example.

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:26 am Post subject:

That is lovely....it really really makes mine look powsy....it favers an excuse ours compared to that Likkle Jim! and our flowers int basket are called surfianias. they are meant to trail or summat....bloody awful they are

Here

powceh

Anyway, Dostaf. Have you had a spell of bother with something powsy, poucy, pousy or powceh?

Is that typed in a Manchestuh accent, Micky?

worked to long with them mancs.

Reminded me of 'Monkeh'

So I googled it;

"Monkey (also known as ITV Digital Monkey or PG Tips Monkey, and often pronounced "Monkeh" in imitation of Johnny Vegas' faux Lancashire accent) is an animated puppet advertising character in the form of a knitted sock monkey."


Wikipedia (won't link)

Faux Lancashire accent?

I know Wikipedia isn't real, but surely that calls of a telegram for Tonker.

Sorry Jo Anne, Just seen your question.

No I haven't had a troubling time. It's just that the word came to mind the other night and I wondered had it been used frequently on here.

Seems not.

Never mind monkeying about, Dostaf. See ^

Glad to read that.

I've seen ^

Is it related to lousy?

a mock Wigan accent eh dostaf now that would have been really worth listening to.

She talked posh the rest of the time, Peawapp.

Though I do wonder if she was reverting to type. She always seemed to do it with a sneer.

I'm afraid the Leyther cant help with Pousy,Powcy query as it is an alien word to us all in the fair town of Leigh very refined you see us lot.

i would speel it powcy.. but than agin tha nowe wor am like thaa noes ..

I mentioned your (Peawapp's) lot in dispatches too.

See pie thread.


Nothing here either

just seen it dostaf when you state that the Leythers will be laughing at you,you are of course correct in your assertion, we like a good laugh at our humble pie consuming neighbours

dostaf according to The Lancashire Dictionary by Alan Crosby it is quote 'Powse rubbish, waste or worthless material. Taylor qoutes the derogatory expression, current in the nineteenth century', 'The-awr't a dirty powse'.

Excellent.

Cheers Ayrefield.

Time to educate folk from a nearby town.

Incidentally, the Brains Trust at the Urban Dictionary came up with this;

Pouse

Mystical creature that is like a yot. It is meant to have many parties on per week.

If your tired of having parties on yots come on over to a party on my pouse.

Not a yacht of people know that.

Says someone who has given us UD 'evidence' recently.

Sayest ye, "The UD - the-awr't a qwerty powse'.

Cheek!

I thought it might be the type of thing you'd say, Dostaf.

Speaking of which;

I can't find where I suggested Leythers would laugh at us on the pie thread.

See Peawapp 18:00 ^^^

Pie Thread

It was adopted by followers of their local Rugby team and oh how they laughed. 17 Dec 14:35

Ah. Thanks Jo Anne.

Did laugh, not will laugh.