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Re: origin of donnies = hands in W Midlands slang

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Subject: Re: origin of donnies = hands in W Midlands slang
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by: Jan Manning - Sat, 11 Jun 2022 12:56 UTC

On Friday, January 3, 2020 at 10:25:50 PM UTC, Peter Percival wrote:
> marktu...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 12:46:37 AM UTC+12, mon...@mediawatchwatch.org.uk wrote:
> >> Does anyone know how "donnies" came to mean "hands" in the W Midlands
> >> of the UK?
> >>
> >> Is it rhyming slang? If so, who was Donny?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >>
> >> Dave
> >
> > Grandmother from Cannock Staffs, always used the word when she wanted me to hold her hand. I still use the phrase
> >
> Dona (Highland Flingers) is (was?) rhyming slang for music hall singers.
> Why not also for fingers and thus hands? Just guesswork.I

Just to add to the geographical coverage of the term donnies , it was common in 1940s Shropshire, so not just Black Country usage

I've got a bad feeling about this.

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