Dictionary of Playground Slang (Online)

Wanker (a person who masturbates).

Someone with a squint.

Used in the description of something being very "cool" or awesome, used most commonly in reference to really good food or some event that has happened to you that benefits you in some way. Sometimes used in the shortened form of "totally tasty" or "3tp".

Never used in with sexual connotations, but sometimes is mistaken to be when "totally tasty" is left out. Because then it becomes "thermal pastry" which has been known to refer to the place between of womans legs, and it's uses when not covered in clothing.

Attractive female.

Descriptive means of describing faecal urgency, i.e. really having to go to the bathroom to crap (as in, a turd's just beginning to touch the cotton of your underwear.). Used as "Dude, I'm touching cotton... I'll be right back.".

British criminal and youth slang from the eighties. ie "What were you done for?", "I got a month for touching the dogs arse".

(1) Person (usu. of middle-eastern origin) wearing traditional head-dress.

(2) A person suspected of doing this (i.e. wearing headgear) when nobody is looking.

Similar in definition to Chatham Chav, Kappa Slappa, Essex Girl, Shazza etc. They are girls who wear reebok trainers, kappa-sportswear, white puffa jackets, clowns (a really foul type of jewellery which involves a gold, jewelled, preferably moveable, clown (yes, a clown), the bigger the better hanging off a gold chain), lots of reeeeeally tacky 'Ratners' style gold jewellery and hair which can be any of the following hairstyles - plastered to head with a small thin section curled and styled with half a tub of gel and forced to hang next to face; the pineapple (hair in pony tail right on top of head) or extravagant bun (very long hair twisted into an overexaggerated bun) - all of these hairstyles MUST use a gold scrunchie and as much gel as is humanly possible.

These girls normally get pregnant by the age of 12 and have boyfriends called Gazza and Kevin. I know you've seen them walking down the street - sadly, everyone has had the misfortune at some time of their life. (ed: now that's what I call a definition!)

Talking of definitions, we received this... and I forgot to note who sent it (sorry):

I was surprised this one wasn't in the dictionary already. (ed: which it was of course... but never mind the technicalities). I first came accross the word in the early nineties when I was 10-15 years old. We used it to mean exactly the definition you have listed for 'scally'. At some point, perhaps around 1995, 1996 using the word 'townie' went out of fashion and people gradually began to use 'scally' all the time. Today, in the area I come from (Manchester, but esp. South Manchester) you wouldn never hear 'townie' used in this sense, always 'scally'.

I have a friend at university who still uses it as we would've done in Manchester in the early nineties. She's from North Yorkshire and says it's still used a lot there.

Further still, another university friend, from London, says that to him it means something different from 'scally' and always has done. I'm not quite certain of his definition but he may say, for example, "I don't like going out in Leeds on a Saturday night because it's full of townies" - meaning more like the general 'locals' of any social class, age, dress-style., Sorry for the lengthy explanation! What fascinates me most about this word is the way it was used consistently by people in the area I lived in when I was a younger teenager and then suddenly, within about a year, everyone was using 'scally' instead and 'townie' had become an almost uncool thing to say. I remember thinking to myself - I must start trying to say 'scally' instead of 'townie' so that I sound cool. It's been suggested I pass you on to this url for a fuller description of the phenomenon: http://www.geocities.com/chatham_girls/home.htm

Abbreviation of "trailer park trash" - i.e. poor and possibly married to your father/mother/brother/sister.

Trainers.

BMX or Trial Bike stunt. Involves standing on the bike when it is stationary, keeping balance for as possible without touching the ground or moving. Slight adjustments can be made by pedalling or moving the handle bars.

Origin: the stereotype that poor people (especially in the midwestern United States) live in trailer-homes.

(1) Anyone who scavenged, scabbed crisps/cigarettes etc, or was dressed poorly. Even if they weren't particularly badly dressed they could still be called a tramp if they were unpopular, and of course their mother/father/brother/sister might be a tramp too.

(2) An out of work individual who wandered, literally 'tramped' from town to town living off their wits and anything they could steal or beg. Often did handyman jobs in exchange for food. Post WW2 were often ex-servicemen who were suffering post traumatic stress syndrome, but as the condition wasn't understood as well was never diagnised or dealt with properly.

Note: not to be confused with the American definition of 'tramp' which is a female who has the sort of liberated sexual attitudes that men object to, whilst taking advantage of, at any given opportunity.

To be very intoxicated, usually by alcohol.

Something really good 'thats so treasury' it comes from the treasury casino ad where the chick is like 'she thinks she's SO treasury' and if someone is up themselves you say she thinks she is so treasury.

Discussed harshly by friends or others in your absence. Used as "You got treated wit a capital T man!".

At the contributors secondary school they had a grass banking used for sunbathing on hot summer days. Sunbathing was, however, fairly risky as it was likely that a group of two of more boys would grab your legs (usually without warning) and drag you down the banking into one of the many tree's impacting with legs on either side the tree!

There were only two defences agaist this:
(1) Rolling onto you stomach so you legs were twisted. This protected your testicles but caused nasty injuries to the inner legs due to the speed of impact (normally a full run)

(2) Putting you hands in the way before impact. This sometimes failed due to the force of the impact or was not an option if the group of boys grabbed your arms as well as you legs., I'm afraid to say that I have been both the recipient and the giver of 'a good treeing'.

An outcast; a freak.

Origin: a particularly odd group of peculiar people wear black trench coats; "Look at those trench coats over there!"

Insulting the appearance of a penis by saying looks like a capital 'L'/