Slang words and phrases from your youth

[non capisco]

I've no idea why but at primary school whenever anyone farted all the other kids were duty bound, along with the usual scrunched up disgusted faces and exaggerated hand wafting, to go "GORRRRRR! CHAS AND DAVE!" Still the first thing I think of whenever I'm reminded of the 'Rabbit' hitmakers.

[Icehaven]

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

I've just gone through a whole Wetherspoons magazine and slapheaded half the pictures.


I'm not happy. I made a sad pizza too

I feel bad for it.

[Cold Meat Platter]

Everyone chanting 'penis' at people who dropped their lunch tray. Sorry this is medical terminology

spinbiff.

[touchingcloth]

Growing up in the north west, "chav" didn't hit my radar until I went off to university, and seemed to be a word that literally everyone else used for what I knew as a "scally". I'm not sure if chav is a new word or one from far away.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

"You've dropped your gay card mate."

*Kid looks on floor*

"HAHA GAY."

[Drop Dead Fred]

Gopping- something disgusting, ugly or downright unpleasant.

Wampy- acting in a pissed-off or stressed manner.

Rem- someone of limited intelligence. Shortened from remedial/slow learner unit at school.

[touchingcloth]

We used to use "rem", and "RTA / Road Traffic Accident" because some kids used to be taught in a separate Remedial Teaching Assistance" block :(

[Sebastian Cobb]

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

Mint.

[DrGreggles]

"WOTCHA!" - an informal greeting (that I've never seen written down before)

[Lost Oliver]

'Well'. Still use this too.

"Seen her there? She's well fit."

"I've been awake for 57 hours mate, am well tired."

"Have you read that slang thread on CaB? It's well good."

[Misspent Boners]

Recall once when I was 17 I kept wedging my index finger into my gf at the times backdoor cleavage protruding from the waistline of her jeans and penetrating it in and out in a comical motion; she kept protesting saying "stop finger-wanking my botbot!"

I mean it never caught on to an extent that it became part of the vernacular of the youth of the day but I think.its a fantastic phrase; "stop fingerwanking my botbot".

[hummingofevil]

"You've dropped your gay card mate."

*Kid looks on floor*

"HAHA GAY."

"Are you a heterosexual?"

"NOOO!"

"HAHA GAY."*

*MY 40 year old self does not endorse this previous behaviour.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I know someone whose son played the 'gay card' joke on him so he sat him down on a progressive talk on why gays shouldn't be othered and that, but then got overtaken by a moment of childishness and finishing it off by miming picking up and inspecting a card and going 'no, actually this one's yours' and handing it back to them.

his son was 28 at the time, etc.

[touchingcloth]

It's a shame that kids these days are unable to do the dropped gay card bants thanks to the system having been phased out in favour of biometric gay authentication.

[steve98]

I called someone a word from my youth today: "boggin'" [Bogging: smelly and repellant]. Another one would be "loupin'" [Louping: smelly and repellant]; and "Clatty" [Always paired with "bastard": "Clatty bastard"] [Smelly and repellant and disgusting].

[Jittlebags]

Twll dy din di Ffaro.

Still in use I believe and involves a Pharoe's rusty sherrif's badge

[Jittlebags]

Also "o'r cae 'na!" - get out of that field. Optionally delivered Shut That Door style.

[bgmnts]

Llang phrases from your use.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

Were all your slang and phrases delivered in Klingon?

[Colin Sanction]

"WOTCHA!" - an informal greeting (that I've never seen written down before)

Did you go the Grange Hill Comprehensive in the late 70s?

Gange - to look. "Gis a gange at yor footy stickers"

[Misspent Boners]

Twll dy din di Ffaro.

Still in use I believe and involves a Pharoe's rusty sherrif's badge

"NACHEU, DOS I GYSGU!"

think some crusty old fruit shouted it into our dorm in the dead of night one stint at Llangranog and ot just kond of stuck...you'd shout it if someone asked for something you didnt wanna give to them

[JesusAndYourBush]

"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?"

Similarly, I remember learning that a dry river bed is called a wadi.  When the teacher was out of the room the kid sitting next to me would say "Wad-eeeeeeeeeee" in a silly voice.  I've not thought about wadi for 3 decades until this evening a tv programme mentioned the phrase 'dry river bed' and instantly I recalled "WAD-EEEEEEEEEEEEE."

[a duncandisorderly]

something the three of us in my band use to this day, which was peculiar to a very small area of teesside in the 70s, is saying 'slips' when one breaks wind.

we're not any of us sure of the etymology, but I always assumed/imagined that it was a humorous 'alert' to an imaginary cricketing fielder to catch the departing fart & return it whence it came. apart from that, it also acknowledges that you are the source of the fart, which is the polite thing to do in company.

gange, we used- let's have a gange at that. but also skeg. let's have a skeg. this latter was more in the sense of an inspection rather than perusal.

[buttgammon]

Jacuzzi as an exclamation, or a gesture of excitement.

Wagging - playing truant.

Well shady - very unfair.

[king_tubby]

We had 'gleg' instead of 'skeg'

'Ere, gizza gleg of that hedge porn, mine's all covered in white dog shit and spangles'

[madhair60]

Used to go "mate Francis Ford this" then break wind loudly. Francis Ford COP A LOAD OF THAT WAYYYYYYY

[Sebastian Cobb]

Used to go "mate Francis Ford this" then break wind loudly. Francis Ford COP A LOAD OF THAT WAYYYYYYY

A kid called kevin in my school used to do 'table skimmers' where he'd sit on a table and lift a cheek and break wind.

He once tried it on the counter of the corner shop. 2 week ban.

[Huxleys Babkins]

Chawling - Stealing.

Grint - Fart. Mostly used by the kids off the dive estate.

Frankfurters - Very tanned, smooth legs on a girl.

Beard - Insult used when it felt like someone was bullshitting. A deviation from "chinny reckon" where the chin that was being reckoned had a long, wizard's beard, accompanied by miming stroking said beard. A massive, obvious lie would be met with "Beardsmore" after AFC Bournemouth legend, Russell Beardsmore.

[Chollis]

Greb - unwashed hair, skateboard (accessory), Korn/Slipknot hoodie, baggy jeans with a long chain
Spod - teacher's pet, goody-goody, precursor to our adoption of the American geek/nerd

[hummingofevil]

Jacuzzi as an exclamation, or a gesture of excitement.

Wagging - playing truant.

Well shady - very unfair.

Definitely latter two but jacuzzi is new one on me. One that was very specific was that there was group of lads in St.Davids around 1993 who would call everyone and everything "a fucking Sznerch" after all round pretty nice fella and materials teacher Mr Bruno Sznerch. There is reference to him here when he must have moved on to Clywedog to get a promotion.

https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/15943122.olympic-hero-tom-a-hit-with-wrexham-school-pupils/

The fucking Sznerch.