Dictionary of Playground Slang (Online)

To vomit, indulge in reverse peristalis. Ok, it means throwing up. It's used for the action of throwing up or the stuff that you throw up (like puke). "I think I'm gonna barf." "Well don't get barf on the floor, my parents will get mad!". This was a pretty common word when I was in elementary school. It was used from kindergarten up to about fourth or fifth grade.

Rather than take blame for loud anal emissions, this provides something to blame when breaking wind loudly. Note: The name Barking Spiders was used by famed Australian rock band Cold Chisel for an incognito show at he Hordan Pavilion during the early 1970's. A live album ensued aptly titled "The Barking Spiders Live".

Fight. also a shout when a fight starts, e.g. "There's a right barney going on at the back of the gym!!".

A haircut resembling that of Bernard Sumner, lead singer of the group New Order.

Truce word and crossed fingers as in barleys, fainites etc.

Area halfway between balls and arse.

Gorgeous, highly attractive. Used for example as "She's bary hor man!", i.e. "She's gorgeous!". The 'ar' is as in 'car'.

This may have come down through Gypsy/Romany.

The stages in the development of a relationship as seen by American Youth:

First Base: snogging, kissing etc.

Second Base: french necking (tonsil hockey) with much groping of accessible parts of each others bodies.

Third base: oral sex.

Home plate: full sexual intercourse.

The "safe place" or thing you run for in tag and other such chase games.

Pronounced baa-shee. Derives from 'bad shit'. Used by garage clubbers to indicate when something is excellent... i.e. man dat was bashi!!!

Sexual intercourse.

It means you were considered to be insane. In 'the old days' before chemical straightjackets, the most difficult of mentally ill patients were controlled by strapping them literally into baskets. Therefore to be a basket case was to be uncontrollably mad - or more likely seriously odd or weird.

To beat up (as in fight), e.g. "I'm going to batter you after school.".

Excessive slapping about the head and ears, administered after a hair cut, till the victim shouts: "Nee (or nay) Batts!!!"

Most kids purchased their sweets from a corner shop, sweet shop, tuck shop, etc; in one school they bought from the Batty Fat Woman Shop. The shop still exists, although the proprietor is not the same Fat Woman who was undoubtably Batty. She was very, um, large, pale, unnecessarily ugly and she was constantly suspicious of everyone stealing stuff.

Contributor says that when she thinks on it now, since we were school children, that was probably wise. She spoke in a very thick Yorkshire accent, which of course was subject to years of torment and mocking as us south-western school children thought every word she uttered sounded hilarious. (ed: she also sent the address but thought we ought not publish it!)

A homosexual. Derived from the "Ali G Show".

Both Paul and 'El Binna' suggests the terms somewhat predate Ali G - They say they are Jamaican terms obviously deriving from 'botty' (bottom).

(ed: hey - got this from Thomas... anybody disagree?)

Batty was used in the mid 1980's at my school in Wiltshire (UK)... nowt to do with Ali g he just popularised it.

Penis. Hence, "to go off the bat" means to masturbate (ed: this makes no sense. Anyone want to elaborate?)

Used to describe a person with a large round head. e.g. "He has a big baw face". This is a Scots pronunciation of BALL + HEAD, BALL + FACE.