The term "wool"

[SuitsBlue]

i used to hear it as a kid, and was told it was 'cos of all of the fields.
my family are from st.helens and liverpool, my arl fella's mates used to say it when they found their way to us along the outback track that is the east lancs rd.
it's weird cos in liverpool and manchester people think your a bit wet behind the ears, yet where i am is only 17 miles to liverpool, 17 miles to manchester. st.helens, warrington, wigan and bolton are all within 6 miles so you dont exactly grow up not experiencing the same things (with some fields). living between the 2 city's meant you spent as much time in each when going out, although in the 80's the accent was a problem when going into liverpool (until the quad came along, and everyone fell in love).
when we were on about accents, and how the very broad scouse accent is difficult to understand, round here there's an accent thats like a step back in time, my mrs still struggles to understand it sometimes still.

note to self...

problem going out in liverpool?
17 miles here and there but bermuda triangle?
quads? huh?

im too pissed to realise. morning.

 

[Bundy]

I think it means you have a hairy vagina.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

My aroma is particularily pungent, a blend of stale piss and bollock sweat which has matured for several months.

Gorgonzola?

 

[Jamo Martinez]

I've often heard it used in reference to anyone who doesn't dress 'right'.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

I always thought it was about sheep shagging. Am I allowed to say shagging?

Yes. but 'sheep' is going too far

 

[coyney]

to many idiots believe you can't support Everton if your not from Liverpool.

Bainsey Im from Liverpool but rember in the eighties this "Wooly" was getting stick (not nasty) about coming from Wales Cardiff to be precise,and he turned the thing round with a simple statement that every game he goes to costs the same as we pay when we go away and the away supporters are the best so he should be included and he had a point.

 

[coyney]

i used to hear it as a kid, and was told it was 'cos of all of the fields.
my family are from st.helens and liverpool, my arl fella's mates used to say it when they found their way to us along the outback track that is the east lancs rd.
it's weird cos in liverpool and manchester people think your a bit wet behind the ears, yet where i am is only 17 miles to liverpool, 17 miles to manchester. st.helens, warrington, wigan and bolton are all within 6 miles so you dont exactly grow up not experiencing the same things (with some fields). living between the 2 city's meant you spent as much time in each when going out, although in the 80's the accent was a problem when going into liverpool (until the quad came along, and everyone fell in love).
when we were on about accents, and how the very broad scouse accent is difficult to understand, round here there's an accent thats like a step back in time, my mrs still struggles to understand it sometimes still.

Kel I speak with Liverpool accent but if I am in convesation with my son in law and his brother Im lost they sound like that ******** Carra how any one from outside the city understandthem I dont know

 

[Blue Ray]

I hope that nobody takes offence at the subject matter.

I am an Evertonian who was born outside of the City of Liverpool and who has no family connections with the Merseyside area.

The term i've heard used is "wool", as in "you wouldn't understand, you're a wool" which has been said to me in the past. As a Londoner, I don't know how to react. Am I being insulted? Is it an endearing term?

I was wondering if the terms is on the same level of when us southern folk talk about "Northerners" ~ used sometimes to denote someone not as sophisticated as southerners, or does the word have a much stronger association with such terms used for ethnic minority groups?

Can anyone help?

Its someone born in the north but not in Liverpool its nothing to do with ethnic minority groups. Its aimed more at people from St Helens, Warrington, Wigan and Runcorn.