Dictionary of Playground Slang (Online)

Fart. Similar in use to 'cut the cheese'.

None too flattering description of facial features.

Person who wanders around city streets rummaging in rubbish bins and the like. Can often be seen picking up half eaten ice-creams etc and eating them. Occasionally these people collect waste for re-sale, e.g. tin cans and the like. The name "bag-person" derives from them usually carrying their entire worldy posessions in two or more Tesco shopping bags (tho' often as not these days pushing a supermarket trolley with the bags etc inside).

Female homosexual, i.e. bagel being the bread role with the hole, bearing some (albeit very little) resemblance to a vagina. Contributor isn't sure if the word dates to school days, and was more likely at sixth form college.

Derogative of faggot. Used by strange code language talking individuals who cannot be bothered to pronounce their "f's", wish to remain anonymous in front of their attackettes and who like to drive force into their cusses.

A mate who says he'll turn up for something but doesn't. Used as "Me'n Jack were going to the club. I turned up but he bagged!".

Tasty roundish root vegetables such as swedes or turnips. Pronounced using an 'a' as in 'shame'.

Someone with an oddly shaped head would get called "Tattie heid", or "Bagie heid", or just "Bagie". Yet another example of how cruel kids can be!

Wonderful old TV series:

Emily's cat Bagpuss
The most Important
The most Beautiful
The most Magical
Saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world

You can find lots of detail at http://www.smallfilms.co.uk/bagpuss/intro.htm

Person who shags cats (actually a specific person in one school - after a drunken 6th Form party.) From the TV series 'Bagpuss'.

To lay claim to a thing. Used as "That's my seat I bagsed it just now!", "I bagsey that horse!", "Bags I that cake!".

Becky send in the following addition:

When we used to 'bagsy' something and claim it as our own you could also say 'turn around, touch the ground bagsy ...' and perform the actions to go with it which would override anyone who just said plain old 'bagsy' and so guaranteed that you won the 'bags'.

Interesting suggestion from 'The Ayatollah' who says:

Bags and bagsey actually come from public schol slang from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The opposite was "fains" as in "fains I cabbage", although this use never became common.

(ed: anyone got any information to back this up?)

Trousers

To "give up" on something "I was supposed to dive off the five metre board but I bailed when I saw how high it really was!"

Basically meant cigarette. "As in lend us a bain mate". Only ever heard in around Oldham, Lancashire, UK in the 1980's. We had a "bain path" behind our school were the smokers hung out.

Lunch usually a packed lunch, packed in a 'baitbox'.

Sharp smack about the back of the head, administered to victim "to bring good luck" in the aftermath of a haircut.

(1) Literally, on the soccer pitch, one who has enough skill to fool around with the ball and not enough sense of the common good to pass it on to someone better placed to score(p) (2) Figurativeally, the same thing, but in a business context.

A male who has sex with many females and never takes responsibility for the actions he undertakes.

Street basketball player with skill:eg: "check out that mad baller" or "he's a baller".

In Manchester they used the word "Balley's" in the same way as Barley's (and Fainites). The pronunciation was definitely without the "r" sound, but was probably a corruption from the same source (understandable when taking into account the harsher vowel sounds of a northern accent).