British slang help needed

Daisy julie_balfour at hotmail.com
Thu Dec 5 12:49:11 UTC 2002


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <lupinesque at y...> wrote:
> The new Mark Knopfler album is out, which means, yep, time for head-
> scratching Yanks to write to OTChatter and ask for a few 
translations....

....hadaway


Hadaway is an expression only used in the North East of England, 
particularly by those from Newcastle ("Geordies") - where Mark 
Knopfler is from.  They seem to use it in almost any sentence, but 
most often as an expression of surprise or pleasure, or when swearing 
("hadaway and shite" being a Geordie expression for "Piss off".)

Daisy





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