Dictionary of Playground Slang (Online)

Used as substitute for fat bastard. Can be said it front of teachers and it almost gets you into trouble until they realise what you said.

A "shout" (often accompanied by crossed fingers) created temporary immunity from being made "it" when playing sticky toffee, stuck in the mud, tag, etc.

Side of the head - temple, cheeks. (ed: ok, but why sent it in?? Is it slang? If so - why?)

Used as punctuation variant of 'fuck' to avoid opprobrium.

Nice looking, e.g. "That car is fed!"

A dumb blonde.

Impossible to describe tactfully. Felching is a real grossout term for the incredibly grotesque act of orally extracting (sucking, slurping etc.) semen from someone's anus after anal intercourse without a condom. Generally used as a derogatory statement about homosexuals. "that guy is a real root smootcher, I bet he felches, too".

A term of abuse to describe a person from a poor family you know, Tesco trainers, Oxfam clothes, smelt bad and always, always seemed to eat egg sndwiches which added to the general bad aroma!

Describes a vicous and nasty punishment for 'first year' boys where they were lifted by all four limbs and repeatedly slammed into the end of a fence in the school playground so that the fence hit them between the legs.

Drunk or messed up, e.g. 'Buddy over there is just ferjackered!'

Homosexual.

Insult aimed at someone with "precious" beard and/or moustache growth.

Funny.

A fezzer is a Ford Fiesta car. All Ford Fiester's are called Fezzers in Essex, UK. Especialy by Gary boys and Kev's!

The field was not just the grass playing field, but anything green (apart from the walled shrubbery at our school which was out of bounds anyway). Every year around April you'd wait for the whisper to go around - "field!" - which meant the caretaker had decided we could go on the grass again. In a wet spring you might wait until late May, and Field was banned again by late October most years. Ditch, however, was out of bounds all year around, and thus the cool place to hide at all times. Going Ditch in winter was the ultimate in "hardness", although you always got found out because of the mud.

Means 'really jolly good'. Used to excess by Peter Powell on his Radio 1 show to describe his favoured tunes of the time. , Peter Powell also coined the wonderful phrase 'Triple Wow'. Priceless! (ed: iirc he also used 'hello mate' ad nauseum too.)

Had a haircut.

Cautionary announcement that mass wrestling is to commence at break-time.

A post-pubescent (usu.) behind the bike sheds favourite pastime. Involves inserting your finger(s) into the genitalia of female (if willing). Act often followed by the "fingerer" running over to his mates and inviting them to "Smell my fingers !!" as proof of having done the dirty deed.

Cryptic message from Jacqui, who suggests under Finger/Fish fingers, we could add the explanation of Finger Pie, as found in The Beatles' Penny Lane, and blithely sung by many people unaware of the "fingering" meaning to this Liverpool piece of slang. Would someone like to explain what she means please?