| 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. |
