General Chat

So,I submitted my usual article to the village magazine, one about the old doctor and how the district nurse would come round on her push-bike.

I ended it with something about the village surgery being closed and the nurse hanging up her treader.

Urgent e-mail this morning because the editor didn't know what a treader was and couldn't find it in the dictionary.

Surely that is not specialized slang is it?

Ummm...Yes it is! :-D :-D :-D

Oh right.

I think she thought it was something filthy.

I thought it was just a general thing which shows how much I know!

I thought it was an alternative name for a bike.

Yes. That was what I was saying.

Oh do keep up at the back!

Or did you , maybe, not mean push-bike.

Well, I meant push-bike, but only because I thought of the pedals, and I do remember in the far distant past, in another land (or County), some local referring to pedals as 'treads'. :-D :-D :-D

It's like the word 'doofers' - apparently "an object or device of unspecified name or nature", but according to my dad, 'doofers' referred specifically to horse poo!

Doofers are dog-ends that will doofer later. You can put them behind your ear for Ron.(lateron).

My academic used to refer to horse’ roofers. I had no idea what a treaded is or was and actually thought it was a typo.

Rose, it could so easily have been a typo for 'threads', as in the nurse hung up her clothing/outfit. :-D

Horse doofers will 'do fer' the roses! :-D :-D

I have never heard the word but according to Google it is Lincolnshire dialect for a bike. :-)

My husband says treader for bicycle and hoofing it for walking. He is from Kent so maybe local to there.

*Whispers* Sharron isn't from Lincolnshire or Kent :-S

I have been known to go up a twitten on my treader.

My sister did that Sharron and almost always ended up with a tyre puncture that she nick named her bike puncture.

In Cornwall,I was told "It must be fun to bike down that ope you live in".
'Yes" I replied, "I live in hope, but I've never considered cycling down it".

I was as confused as you probably are :-S

'Ope' is an alleyway in Cornish dialect.
I still suffer from the misunderstanding :-(