For the benefit of readers residing in Wilmslow, Chelmsford or
Tunbridge Wells - and for Hiram P. Wankledorfer of Okmulgee, Oklahoma,
there now follows an explanatory listing of words in common 'Mancspeak'
useage:
| AFFLEET: |
A super fit person. |
| AKSHUL: |
Real, existing. |
ALECAN: |
An extremely non-abstemious person. |
| ALLUS: |
Always. |
| AMMERED: |
Exceedingly drunk or high on drugs. |
| ANALL: |
An old wood boring tool - or as in ‘Anall
the king’s orses anall the king’s men couldn’t
put Umpty togevver agen’. |
| ANGIN: |
Extremely unnatractive. |
| ANT: |
An industrious social insect – or the ultimate
contraction of
‘have not’, as in ‘I ant
got a clue what yer chunnerin on about’. |
| ARF: |
Fifyty percent of a whole. |
| ARKID: |
An allusion to a sibling – as in ‘Are
you all right arkid?’ |
| ASS-SED: |
As in ‘Ass-sed to im fink agen shit ed’. |
| ATEES: |
Comsuming alcohol on licenced premises after
official closing time. |
| A'UP: |
Word of warning or attention grabber, as in ‘A'up
there's a pianner about to fall on yer ed’. |
BAFF: |
Where one keeps one's coal. |
| BAKKUL: |
A heated conflict between two or more protagonists. |
| BANG ON / BANGIN: |
Very good. |
| BANT: |
Solid goodness, as in ‘there’s plenty
of bant in this meat an potato pie.’ |
| BARMPOT: |
A non-Einstienian person |
| BAVE: |
To immerse oneself in water with a view to removing
dirt or grime. |
| BANJO: |
An old stringed musical instrument, a shovel
- or ‘to banjo (hit, fump, kekkel, lamp, belt) someone’. |
| BAZZIN: |
Excellent. |
| BEEKUL: |
A member of a former Liverpool rock band, or
a chitinous covered insect. |
| BEENEEF: |
Under. |
| BELT: |
A leather strap - or to hit, (etc). |
| BELTER: |
Something very good - nothing to do with chastising
the missus. |
| BLADDERED: |
Inebriated, big time! |
| BLAVVER: |
Run off at the mouf. |
| BINS: |
Refuse receptacles, or spectacles. |
| BOBBINS: |
Cotton reels, or rank bad. |
| BOKKEL: |
A thin-necked glass receptacle - or degree of
intestinal fortitude. |
| BOVVER: |
worry, take care - or heated altercation. |
| BREEVE: |
Mark over short or unstressed vowel, musical
note – or to inhale frew the nose or mouf. |
| BREFF: |
As in a breff of fresh air. |
| BROFF: |
A thick nourishing soup. |
| BRUVVER: |
A male sibling. |
| BUBBUL: |
Air or gas filled globule - or to inform on
someone. |
| BUKSHEE: |
Free, for nothing. |
| CANGUL: |
A waxed taper. |
| CHUNNER: |
To rabbit on at length. |
| CLEMMED: |
Extremely hungry. |
| COB ON: |
To be very annoyed. |
| CORNCREET: |
A mixture of cement and gravel. |
| CUDDA: |
As in ‘I cudda danced orl night...dun a
fousand fings I’ve never dun before...’ |
| CUGGUL: |
A warm embrace. |
| CUT: |
To slice with a sharp implement - or a man-made
watercourse. |
| DEF: |
Cessation of life - or unable to hear. |
| DEKKO: |
A quick look. |
DIBBUL: |
A serving police officer. |
| DIGGUL: |
To cheat or figgul someone. |
| DIMP: |
An unsmoked remnant of a cigarette. |
| DUCKEGG: |
An extremely useless person. |
| EARWIG: |
A creeepy-crawly insect - or to eavesdrop. |
| ECK: |
As in ‘By eck!’ an expression of
surprise |
| EEVER: |
As in ‘I’m not bovvered, I’ll
take eever one.’ |
| FANKS: |
Word of appreciation. |
| FARVER: |
A paternal parent, or a greater distance. |
| FEEF: |
A purloiner of money, goods or chattels. |
| FEFT: |
Act of purloining money, goods or chattels. |
| FEVVER: |
Appendage of a bird's skin. |
| FIGGUL: |
Nero played one while Rome burned - or see ‘diggul’. |
| FIK: |
As in ‘Do you want a fik ear?’ |
| FIN: |
A dark triangular steering organ you definitely
do not want to see arrowing towards you in the sea - or as in
‘The fin red line’. |
| FINK: |
An American term for an untrustworthy person,
or as in ‘I fink Einstien’s Feory of Relativity
is fatally flawed.’ |
| FIRST: |
The prime imperative - or a need to imbibe liquid. |
| FIRTY: |
Comes after twenty-nine. |
| FORT: |
The past tense of fight, or as in ‘I fort
you was goin to the match terday?’ |
| FREW: |
As in ‘Frew the keyhole.’ |
FRILL: |
Decorative needlework on a female garment –
or a pleasant rush of pleasure. |
| FROAT: |
One sometimes finds a frog has taken up residence
in one’s. |
| FROKKEL: |
Vehicle accellerator - or to strangle someone
by the froat. |
| FUMP: |
See ‘banjo, lamp’, etc. |
| GAVVER: |
To collect. |
| GAWP: |
To stare at - or a fik person. |
| GERREERNOW! |
As in ‘Attend me post haste’. |
| GETT: |
A derogatory term. |
GETTERFUKOUTERIT! : |
An imprecation to go away - with alacrity. |
| GINNEL: |
An alleyway behind a house. |
| GOBBUL: |
A goose's call, to bolt one's food - or fellatio. |
| GUVMUNT: |
An elected collection of self-seeking pratts
prone to attacks of sleaze or moral turpitude. |
| H: |
Does not exist as an initial letter in Mancspeak. |
| INNIT: |
As in, ’Innit a luvly day’. |
| INT: |
Alternative to the above, as in ‘Int it
a bugger when yer wellies let in water?’ |
| KAFFLIK: |
A member of the Church of Rome. |
| KAK: |
Very bad – as in Man City were kak on
Satdee. |
| KAKKUL: |
A witch's laugh - or livestock animals. |
| KAYLIED: |
Very drunk. |
| KEKKUL: |
A receptacle for boiling water - or to seriously
fump someone (with total disregard for split infinitives). |
| KEKS: |
Trousrs or ladies panties. |
| KEMIK: |
Alcohol. |
| KITE: |
A flying toy - or one's face. |
| LAMP: |
A device for shedding light - or to ‘Kekkul,
Fump’, etc. |
| LATERS: |
As in I’ll see you in a short while. |
| LEATHERED: |
As in well beaten or very inebriated. |
| LIKKUL: |
Opposite of large - or as in one third of a seriously
unfunny comedy duo. |
| MADFRIT: |
Wanting something big time. |
| MANKY: |
Somewhat less than pristine. |
| MARD: |
A wimpy person. |
| MEGGUL: |
An award such as the Victoria Cross - or to
interfere. |
| MEKKUL: |
Element such as gold, silver, etc. |
| MEUSBAND: |
A married woman’s allusion to her uvver
arf. |
| MIGGUL: |
Something equadistant to each end. |
| MINGEE: |
Very mean. |
| MINT: |
A confectionary item, brand new, or dead good. |
MIZZLED:
|
Disappeared mysteriously. |
| MUGGUL: |
A state of disorder. |
| MUNF: |
It has firty days in September. |
| MUVVER: |
A maternal parent. |
| MYVER: |
To persistently annoy. |
| NAPPER: |
One’s head. |
| NEEVER: |
As in ‘Neever borrower nor lender be…’ |
| NESH: |
See ‘Mard’. |
| NORF: |
180 degrees to left or right of Souf. |
| NOWT: |
Nothing, zilch, zero, zip. |
| NOWTY: |
Personality trait opposite of pleasant. |
| NUFFIN: |
As in nowt, zilch, zero, zip, or as in ‘sumfin
or nuffin’. |
OWSYERFARVER: |
Enquiry as to the health of a paternal parent
- or nudge-nudge, wink-wink allusion to sex act. |
| OWT: |
Opposite of ‘in’ or ‘anyfin’. |
| PEGGUL: |
A bicycle has two. |
| PEKKUL: |
Constituent part of a flower - or term of endearment. |
| PILLER: |
A supporting column - or a soft headrest. |
| RAKKUL: |
As in ‘...of a dying man’, or as
in the non-business end of a North American desert
snake. |
| RARVER: |
A prefernece. |
| RATARSED: |
See ‘Kaylied’, or ‘Bladdered’. |
| RIGGUL: |
A conundrum, or to squirm. |
| SCRORPED: |
Scraped, as in I went arse over tit and scrorped
me knee. |
| SHARRER / SHARRERBANG: |
A private bus. |
| SHUDDA: |
Something one should have done. |
| SHED: |
A rough wooden hut - or one's head. |
| SHUNT: |
To move railway rolling stock - or opposite
of ‘shud’. |
| SHURRUP!: |
Instruction to keep one's mouf shut. |
| SKENEYED: |
Cross eyed - as in the immediate aftermath of
a good banjoing. |
| SKRAM: |
Instruction to go away smartly - or item of food. |
| SKOFF: |
To denigrate - or to consume food. |
| SLUTCH(Y): |
Mud or muddy - or to enjoy outrageous good luck. |
| SNIDE: |
Something that is not the real McCoy. |
| SOUF: |
180 degrees to the left or right of Norf. |
| SPANNER: |
A hand tool, or someone of very limited intelligence. |
STRIDES:
|
Large paces - or a pair of trousers. |
| SUMMAT: |
A mountain peak, a high level conference - or
‘something’. |
| SUMFIN: |
As in ‘summat’, or the opposite of
nuffin. |
| TARRAA: |
A verbal flourish - or goodbye, farewell, adieu. |
| TAKKUL: |
As in ‘wedding...’ or a defensive
block. |
| TEK: |
As in ‘Tek the ribbon from yer air, shake
it loose an let it fall…’ |
| THREPNEES: |
Threpnee bits – tits. |
| TORK: |
Twisting rotational force - or to articulate. |
| TROLLIES: |
Wheeled appliances - or men's briefs. |
| TROOF: |
Relating to veracity. |
| TURKUL: |
A hard-shelled member of the reptile family -
or a gay man. |
| TWATTED: |
See ‘Kekkul, Lamp’, etc. |
| UVVER: |
As in ‘Pull the uvver one’. |
| WARK: |
To perambulate. |
| WENSDEE: |
Comes after Tuesdee and before Thursdee. |
| WERF: |
Surname of an old comedian - or as in the value
of something. |
| WUDDA: |
As in ‘It wudda bin great if England cudda
won the World Cup’. |
| WUNT: |
As in ‘She wunt do wot she wuz told...’ |
| YERDOINME-EDIN! |
As in: ‘You are annoying me to such a degree
that I am developing a severe headache’. |
| YERWOT: |
As in ’I beg your parden?’ |
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