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Nibs?

Posted: 22 Aug 2007 13:01
by barto
Where the chuff did :stake: come up with this nickname for :baron:

His Nibs - is it supposed to be some scouse term?

Posted: 22 Aug 2007 13:02
by jamarmiller
LOL I have been wondering the same thing for the longest time as well

Nibs?

Posted: 22 Aug 2007 21:54
by Red Laser
As far as I know it is cockney in origin.

Posted: 23 Aug 2007 12:37
by barto
Thanks fellas. I'm from the Wirral and I've never heard it said by a scouser... that's what got me wondering.

So what where the writers thinking having a liverpudlian use some cockney terminology!?

Nibs?

Posted: 27 Aug 2007 18:42
by Red Laser
barto wrote:Thanks fellas. I'm from the Wirral and I've never heard it said by a scouser... that's what got me wondering.

So what where the writers thinking having a liverpudlian use some cockney terminology!?
just rank it up there with Dick van Dyke's terrible cockney accent.