Dictionary of Playground Slang (Online)

Special past participle of got, similar to the American 'gotten', as in 'Aa've getten a new pair of biots?' or 'Me mam's getten a new car!.

To understand, e.g. to 'get' a joke. (ed: when I was in school in Wales I heard a 'get' was the son of an Irish prostitute!)

When in a conversation, and something is weird, unusual, not ordinary, you will say "that's ghetto" or if about someone, "your so ghetto".

(1) a booger (dried up snot) floating in mid-nostril suspended by nose hair. Most commonly occurring when looking up at teachers.

(2) in the game of playground handball, when people who were discluded from the game could run about the squares yelling GHOSTIES! and generally disrupt the game. (They were considered invisible because they were ghosts so anyone who hit the ghosties with the ball were out of the game).

Indication of disbeleif in tale being recounted shown by a stroking of the chin. Was used in Wednesbury (ed: what a great name for a town), West Midlands.

Sweets, or lollies in some parts of Aust.

Female genitalia.

Rubbish, crap, shite.

Reasonable ability at dancing

an appointment to entertain... usually used by 'artists' as in "Me and the band had a great gig at the Albert Hall last year... I'm told...".

Means 'a lot', 'the total amount of something'. For example, "I have a gimanchio of supplies in my truck."

Handicapped, usu with limp. That guys leg is all gimp, and he can hardly walk. Can refer to a particular body part or an entire person.(USA).

(1) An excessively stupid or unpleasant person.

(2) Someone who sucks up to a teacher and does well at school. Influenced by the movie Pulp Fiction.

Self explanatory and was used to refer to people presumed to have ginger coloured pubic hair. The person responsible for this 'crime' was thus referred to as a 'GINGER MINGER'.

More interestingly, the phrase survived the trip from Primary to Secondary education, although with a few notable changes. The pronunciation altered so that the phrase was pronounced with French vowels: "gonge monge".

Furthermore at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, the contributor can remember that the phrase was also used to refer to a particular sort of ginger cake available at school dinners. They had a red haired hard of hearing dinner lady in charge of cakes, and so much pleasure was derived by asking for this cake by its nickname. Asking the woman: "Can I have a slice of ginge minge please?" was a phrase so loaded with meaning that at the time it seemed the schoolboy equivalent of Shakespeare.

Male homosexual. From Cockney rhyming slang, ginger beer = queer.

Person with ginger hair, (the word is pronounced ging-vah.)

To cry.

(1) A small passage way or alley way.

(2) Contraction of the expression 'fucking hell' spoken quickly as 'fugginell'.

Person with ginger hair.