Dictionary of Playground Slang (Online)

(1) smelly, disgusting, ugly, horrid, putrid, gross

(2) adj. ugly: often applied to a swamp donkey

(3) extremely drunk

(4) horrible.

Same as mosher really but used by older metal fans to "put down" the youngsters for liking such wimpy "nu-metal" bands(linkin park, papa roach, korn etc) and making them feel old. (ed: doesn't really tell us what it *is* does it??)

Karen writes the following:

I know where this originates from. I lived in Sicily, Italy, for a number of years, and the way to say "What the fuck?" or more specifically "What the cunt?"in sicilian is pronounced 'minkeeah'. (ed: well thar ya go... next time I go to Italy I'll use this and end up behind bars... again!)

Used in place of "What the fuck?) Apparantly everyone in Oswego NY uses this word - no one knows where it comes from. (ed: any suggestions?)

Describing someone who is disgusting or dirty. i.e. "Quit picking yer nose, Mink!", or "He's a Fort William Mink!". Mostly used north of the border, Scotland but under stood if used with enough venom anywhere. Possibly comes from either 'MINKY' brand cleaning cloths or 'Tink' being a tinker or tramp.

(ed: I think that bearing in mind the strong historical links between Scotland and France it is more likely that it is more closely related to the French word 'manque'.) Should also be noted that if you are a mink you can be described as a 'Minker', or as being 'Minkey'. c.f. manque circa. 1970's UK (Scot)

Denotes a lad or set of lads that basically "sucked up", "arse licked" etc any or all of the most good looking girls in the school. The contributor says it was used because they said they used to serenade the girls with their lutes like Minstrels used to do in Tudor society. They used to say f-ing minstrels or lute players (often spelled as loot).

Really they were just jealous of one set of popular lads, but it was funny. He also said his best mate was one of those lads and he still sometimes call him it today if he is chatting up a bird.

Excellent.

At school there was a red haired lad who complained that he was being called ginger minger. The teacher, seemingly unaware of what a minge was and slightly hard of hearing, was nevertheless outraged by the upset caused to this boy and held a special assembly n the school hall. He said that it was no longer acceptable to refer to red haired pupils as 'ginger minters'.

As a result the word Minter immediately became the most popular word in the school, being used with gay abandon at anyone who had even the merest hint of ginger in their hair. To my knowledge this term of abuse travelled to a number of universities when the boys in that year left school.

Be absent from school without permission.

A somewhat unattractive girl that you are sexually attracted to for some reason.

Derived from the reference to a small, poorly powered motor bike as in, "It's fun to ride, but you wouldn't want your friends to see you on it".

To be hit by another, very hurtful.

Someone who says dumb things by mistake. Contributor says he has a mate who is not the sharpest tool in the box, and also makes great deals of mess whenever he is eating, drinking, etc. so if anybody in their group now says anything extremely dumb, or makes a mess, or they just want to take the piss out of them, they just call them a 'mockett'.

The dumbest thing he's said in his time, was when finding that his girlfriend was late (with the painters) was, "I don't wanna be pregnant!" it then took him several minutes to work out that HE couldn't actually be pregnant, although it does appear that he just got words mixed up - still, a stupid thing to say.

Dirty, filthy

A group of disaffected, somewhat alienated youths who were the first obvious manifestation of the baby boomer phenomenon post WW2. This group had a relatively high level of disposable income and held the opinion that the world owed them a good time. They would dress in the latest fashions, dance to their own type of music and live life as they saw fit.

In summer, they could often be seen in huge groups wearing fur trimmed parkas, and riding motor scooters (Lambrettas or Vespas usually) to the South Coast of the UK where they would repeadedly enter into violent battles along the foreshore with Rockers (Greasers) and usually winning out through sheer weight of numbers and an often almost suicidal desire to 'prove' themselves. Over time the movement lost its impetus and they can be seen to have mutated over time into the group that became the 'New Romantics'.

Originally a traditional Cape Malay male transvestite. The word is applied, by extension, to any gay man, a straight man suspected of unmanliness, ("Are you such a moffie you can't even kick a ball straight?") or even an insufficiently robust object. "(I don't like those moffie Chardonnays.").

An update and slight correction was sent in by John:

Your entry for Moffie is correct except the expression has been current since at least the early 70s. There is a close companion expression "Coffee Moffie" used to refer to a male airline ste ward. Whilst almost all airlines have their fair share of homosexual male staff, in the 80s and 90s South African Airways seemed to have a policy - the camper the better.

Dimunition of, and supposed improvement on, the original insult "mother fucker".

Added verbatim): 'moger' (pronounced, mo -[as in 'go']- ger) exceptionally and consistantly stupid person; naturally stupid; most likely 'slow' (i.e.mental) one step beyond mongo. This was used most commonly in relation to poor girl they knew called Moore and who was therefore 'Moger Moore'. It was weeks before I found out her real first name.

Moose-based sculpture made at lunchtime by trying to fit as much of one's packed lunch into the moose as possible and then eating it.

(ed: ok, but what was a moose??)

Named after the hairstyle of a Native American Tribe, the Mohican Cut was originally (and still is) a form of haircut in which the hair on both sides of the head are cut very high in order to leave a strip a few centimetres wide running from front to back. A form of this has always been popular with punks etc who also dye it garish colours.

Lately however with the advent of 'high-cut' swimwear for women, the name has been applied to the remnants of the womans pubic hairs after they have been cut back to avoid the dread phenomenon known as "spiders legs".

A person who is bald, The word is pronounced like the "mo" in "moth". The action associated with this word is less violent than the slap: the perpetrator covers the victim's 'slap' (forehead) with his hand, palm inwards, and utters the word "MmmmmmmmmOH" in a loud voice, while pushing the victim backwards. However, rapid tapping of the finger-tips on the 'slap' can also be used to perpetrate this assault.

A sub-varient of this involves the perpetrator holding his hand in a way that suggests knocking at a door, and making a knocking motion, while saying the word. This may be done by wags sitting at the back of a class being taken by a "chrome-dome" (bald teacher, gender non-specific), or in a hallway behind a teacher that you know that if you say it often enough, they'll start to cry.