Slang words and phrases from your youth

[gib]

Hoss - to go really fast. Example: I was really hossing it.

Sussing someone out - 1) to get the better of someone. Example: Ha! Sussed!

2) to have one's suspicions confirmed. Example: Yes we had him sussed out right from the start. This secondary meaning lives on but do any other subscribers remember using the primary definition? I'll be honest, I never really understood it at the time.

Do any of you still occasionally have to really hoss it one? Please post the first thing that springs to mind.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

Flid

[jobotic]

Shhtyle

[Voltan (Man of Steel)]

On the jack - tumescent.

[DrGreggles]

Skill

[The Boston Crab]

Rank.

That's rank.

As in, that's good, but also sometimes that's bad depending.

[solidified gruel merchant]

Lickies.

Whilst doing that finger clicking thing that Ali g does

[touchingcloth]

"Shame". If someone was low status and/or did something silly, everyone would wave one hand in a manner similar to Ali G doing the finger snap thing but over and over again and with no snaps. Shaame. Shaaaaaame. Shaaaaaaame. Ahhhhhhh, shaaaaame.

"Bust", to mean "give". Bust us a quid. Bust us one of them Rolos. Bust us a rubber, left mine at home. Bust us a chuddy.

"Chuddy", for chewing gum.

"Snide", for unfair. "I only spat a bit of chuddy out and I got detention. Pure snide."

"Left-handed", and "Swiss". I don't know where these came from, but one year people started calling things and people they didn't like by these names. "X Factor? Nah, mate, it's well left-handed, that, Simon Cowell is proper Swiss."

"Ox bow lake". We couldn't move for these in school, but I've never in my adult life heard someone say "look - an ox bow lake", or "I'll probably go to the ox bow lake today", or "do you have directions to the ox bow lake?"

"Cress."

[gib]

Baccy - pubic hair

[Colin Sanction]

Lappish - a good looking girl. "have you seen the woman on the Barbarian poster in the Games Store? She's lappish". This later got extended to lappeeesh for better looking girls.

Geed - something of excellent quality. "have you seen the graphics on Barbarian? They are geed" This later got extended to Geedi for higher quality items

[Sebastian Cobb]

"Ox bow lake". We couldn't move for these in school, but I've never in my adult life heard someone say "look - an ox bow lake", or "I'll probably go to the ox bow lake today", or "do you have directions to the ox bow lake?"

Me and a mate observed this, so when I was driving with him in Scotland I pulled over as we both clocked it and jumped out and looked at it. No discussion, it was accepted by both of us we were stopping.

[bgmnts]

Wendy meant a special kid in Caldicot but not round my way, which is weird.

[Butchers Blind]

Malt - a term for a girl as in "Get yer hands off me malt"

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

" Quabbing it " ( very frightened )

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

Dime Bar - A stupid person. An idiot.

[Mrs Wogans lemon drizzle]

Boss

[Bingo Fury]

"Keep shottie" - keep a lookout

"Shottie!" - someone's coming

[wooders1978]

I do recall that "chavs" were originally known as "charvers" but that might have been just my home town

[Cold Meat Platter]

Your mum.

[Icehaven]

When my cousin and I were vandalising my Uncle's newspaper before he read it we always used to write SLAP or, if there was room, SLAPHEAD on any photos of bald or balding men.

[Tikwid]

Lappish - a good looking girl

Sean Connery's Steven Universe Opinion [/The Day Today horse names]

[Mark Steels Stockbroker]

You don't really hear pillock any more
Or wazzock.
Bob Monkhouse killed wally.
Dickhead seems to have gone flaccid, maybe Jasper Carrott is to blame.

[Howj Begg]

A colleague said wicked to me recently, and I got very nostalgic.

[Mark Steels Stockbroker]

When my cousin and I were vandalising my Uncle's newspaper before he read it we always used to write SLAP or, if there was room, SLAPHEAD on any photos of bald or balding men.

Me and my mate tried to make it a quantitative science. "That's a .9... that's an .85 slap..."

[checkoutgirl]

Cat. Meaning bad or of poor quality. "That film was cat".

Waldo. Meaning an incompetent boob or silly person. "Shut up you big Waldo".

Spahole. Meaning an annoying person. "Ye fuckin' spahole".

Spa. See above.

Smart. Meaning sly, devious, deceitful. "I don't trust that lad, he's a smart bastard".

[king_tubby]

Steg. Stegga. Steg-o-saurus.

An unkempt or smelly child. One who picked food from the floor and ate it.

Derived from Stig, the titular character from Stig of the Dump.

[checkoutgirl]

"Keep shottie" - keep a lookout

"Shottie!" - someone's coming

To instruct someone to keep a lookout we'd say "Keep dick".

"Sketch" meant someone's coming.

[shiftwork2]

Regional context needed surely.  Sort it out you Rodney plonkers.

70s / 80s Merseyside -

Sag: to play truant.
Tish: to break a window.  Quite pleasing isn't it?

[Gulftastic]

'Skit' a harsher version of 'oh, what terrible luck '

Playing truant was called 'knocking off'.

'Shaaame' to highlight someone's embarrassment. Coupled with pretending to warm your hands on their red face.

[mothman]

At prep school, the marmalade we had with breakfast was called "College," short for "College Muck." Seriously.