The Prescotian

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.