Bobbins

[lankeela]

My mum used to use this word to describe something as bad or nasty, and I have never heard anyone else use it till Chesney on Corrie the other night, he said he had always been bobbins at something or other, meaning not good at it. I have just looked it up and found out it is Manchester rhyming slang (didn't know they had such a thing up there) for bobbins of cotton (rotten).

[kawakiri]

Yes I first came accross this phrase when I played American Football in Manchester.

[factor-fiction]

It just means Rubbish.
- as in England/ Rob Green/Wright Philips were bobbins tonight

[scotman]

Some more info here

http://www.urbandicti...fine.php?term=bobbins

[crisgal]

my brother and his family use it, they live in rochdale. We are not that far away, in blackpool, but we don't say it.
It is usually shortened:
'I really tried but i was bob'