| Expression |
Translation |
Contributors |
| Newt |
: New
boy |
Craig
MacIntosh |
| To let
off |
:
To fart or as school dictionary would say
'slight explosion between the legs' |
Ste Greenall |
| Crow |
:
Name
given to describe nasal pickings aka a
bogey, hence "How many crows can
pick from your nose in an English country
garden". |
Steve
Evans |
| Greeny |
:
Name
given to a lump of phlegm |
Steve Evans |
| Sagging |
:
Skiving, truanting, skipping a lesson |
Trevor Powell |
| C.W.B |
:
Rough book... aka your class work book' |
Trevor Powell |
| Murkin |
:
Name applied to the less attractive girls
from PGGS |
Trevor Powell |
| Tea
Party |
:
Gilbert
Burrows' misnomer for vocabulary test
detentions |
Trevor
Powell |
| Yocker |
: Spit or
spittle - as in "We're having a
contest to see who can yocker highest up
the bus-stop pole". (OED please
note!) |
Mick Howarth |
| Twanked |
: Severely
beaten....derivation obvious |
Jeff
Easthope |
| Lucy/Loosey |
: Used to
denote a loose cigarette, especially when
purchased from Maisie's cafe. |
Anon. |
| Detto |
:
Detention after school |
Dawn
Lawrenson |
| The Nab |
: He was the
prefect they sent out from the school
canteen when there were two or three
spaces left at the first sitting at
dinner-time. If you wanted to eat with
your mates at the second sitting (thus
avoiding a cold dinner if you were caught
by The Nab) you moved quickly in the
opposite direction! |
Paul Gerrard |
| High Pressure/Low
Pressure |
:
Frank Webster's graphic illustration of
this involved the introduction of a ruler
to the backside, low pressure with the
flat side and the more painful high
pressure applied with the thin edge.
Painful! |
Paul Gerrard |
| Cherry |
:blush. The
announcement "He's got a cherry
on!" was guaranteed to enhance and
prolong the sufferer's embarrassment |
Alan
Jolley |
| Poser |
:an
exhibitionist, a show-off, an attention
seeker. Possibly a mispronunciation of
"poseur", but the
related forms
pose(v)
- to show off
pose(n)
- the act of posing
were also
in common use. |
