| 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. |
