an Obree strange word

In his wonderful book "The Flying Scotsman", on page 111, there is a
strange word that Google cannot help with.
The context is ..."the lads called it 'pishrust tubing'..." and the
rest of the paragraph does not help me.
So... does anyone know what "pishrust" means?
If you do know, you might put it on to the urbandictionary.com page?
On page 1, GO says "...and our bogie was set on fire" The only
relevant meaning I can find is that a bogie is a small barrow or truck
used for carrying coal and it is a northern dialect word. I suppose
that fits.

 

That's a new one on me.

You need a better dictionary! It's a standard railway term. It means
the unit with a few pairs of wheels on which a railway carriage or
(sometimes) parts of a locomotive are placed.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

 

Pish can be used to mean poor quality, rubbish, nonsense. Rust is iron
oxide.

ITYF that its use is somewhat broader and it can be applied to anything
resembling a small cart.

 

'Pish' is a west of Scotland word for 'rubbish' or 'very poor'. A
'bogie' or 'guider' is a a steerable cart made usually with the axles
of an old pram, on which children sit to go down hills very quickly. I
think the Sassenach equivalent is 'soapbox cart'?

 

"Pish" is pretty standard Scots. As "Shite" is to, errrr, a very
similar word to itself, as is "pish" to a different, very similar
word to itself (i.e., despite sounding very similar is more jokey
and typically considered less rude).

"Not very good", in other words.

The addition of "rust" would probably give a graphical despcription
of exactly /why/ it was "pish".

Pete.

 

Pishrust sounds like a typical scottish colloquialism to describe an
item - it's pish (=piss) quality because it rusts easily. The scots are
very good at inventing words like this.

A bogie is a scottish term for a child's toy cart - the sort of thing we
used to lash up from an orange box and a set of pram wheels. "Soapbox"
is the nearest equivalent.

Biggles

 

Including one built for or by a child to play in.

 

Well, maybe. It could also be tubing that had already rusted, or
tubing that was not stronger than stuff that was rusted through,
or ....


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

 

"pish poor" was a term I've used from 30+y ago as a Lancastrian,
meaning a product of an inferior grade (too generous). A bogie to me
is a lightweigth 4 wheeler which can be pushed, towed carrying goods
such as glass or plywood or ridden on downhill if so dsigned.
"soapbpox racer" is an Amrican term if I'm not mistaken. It was
certainly alien to me, the term used by me was "go-kart".

 

Which reminds me: a grey-bearded storage guru speaks of the outside of
the disk (where sectors run fastest under the heads) as the "fastest
rust".

Guy

 

Thanks for all the above answers. Now I know. It is a bit weird that
no one has ever used the word before on the 'net?
And my best wishes from Mangakino, New Zealand, to Graeme if he reads
this.

 

Hi there. Wrong I’m afraid. Pishrust meant corrosion caused by urine, pish (to urinate) rust (metal corrosion). The story goes there was a bag of tubbing stood in the messy toilet in the cycle shop. When the guys used the loo standing up the splashes would land on the tubes and they rusted that’s why they had no qualms about giving Obree the tubing for free.