Floreat Salopia, Revisited

Very much obliged to a current inmate (4th form, Moser's) for a commentary on the old stuff, plus valuable new stuff. Most interesting!

Salopian slang, 2005 (compared with times immemorial)

• Alleybin
• Not used any more.
• Bedroom
• We just call them dorms.
• Benjy's
• Still exists.
• Bintzy
• Not used any more.
• Blue Book
• Are blue (Editor's Note: great! the world price of dye has come again within the envelope...)
• Blue penal
• Still used.
• Brusher
• Not used any more.
• Bs
• Still used.
• Bursary boy
• Just called scholars.
• Bushed
• Replaced with baited or bates.
• Cabbing
• Just called cheating.
• Capping
• Not used any more.
• Carp shop
• Called DT (Design Technology) Bs.
• Change
• Still used (e.g. someone who was ill would be said to be "Off Changes").
• Coffin
• Is now just a drawer under the bed referred to as "Sock Drawer".
• Colours Test
• Not used any more.
• Crash
• Used in different sense: to take a cigarette from someone.
• Doul call
• Not used any more (Editor's Note: yeay, there is yet hope for humankind...)
• Digging
• Just called praying.
• Digs barn
• Called Chapel (pronounced Charpel).
• Drop bottom
• Not used any more.
• Erection
• Called "back lawn football".
• Flog
• Still used.
• Freddy
• Not used any more.
• F-, B- and S-
• Not used any more.
• Furry thing
• We have proper fire escapes.
• Gated
• Still used, now spelt gaited.
• Gig lamps
• Called glasses.
• Greaser
• Sucking up to, inward slurping noise made.
• Grip
• Used in difference sense. Now means to bag a chair etc.
• Grip on
• Not used any more.
• Gripped
• Now "busted".
• Gutted
• Knackered.
• Head Man
• Jezza G, because the current headmaster is called Jeremy Goulding.
• Head Room
• Doesn't exist any more.
• Hell's
• F***ing, e.g. "F***ing cool".
• High Society
• Nonexistent.
• House brusher
• Just called house master.
• Johns
• Just grounds men.
• Kek's shelves
• Nonexistent; but there is a room called the McEachran room.
• Lat
• Bogs.
• Lat brush
• Tash.
• Lifty
• Still exists and can result in beating!!
• Locking-up
• Still used; but means the duty where all the doors have to be locked.
• Mutual
• Not used any more.
• New scum
• Turd form.
• Penal
• Still used; but also called papier-mâché.
• Postored
• Called Beaten.
• Praepostor
• Still exists.
• Private scum
• Not used any more.
• Pump stalls
• Just called urinals.
• Rabble portions
• Not used any more.
• Rotting
• Ripping.
• Scab
• Dayboy scum.
• Scrape
• Just called shave.
• Scum
• Either just a third former (if in first year) or a fourth former (if in second year).
• Sluts
• Dinner ladies.
• Sluttery
• KH (Kingsland Hall).
• Smokers
• Now behind the squash courts!!
• Spec off!
• Bouche (Bull S**t) or Yoi!
• Strafed-up
• Now Strafed Off
• Bollocked.
• Study scum
• Not used: you would just say that someone had a duty.
• Swill
• Not used any more.
• Take a brace (on life)
• Grow up you pube!
• Tea boy
• Not used any more.
• Top Schools
• Still used (the author is in it now!)
• Trixie
• Just called Matron.
• Tweak
• Gimp, Techie or Keeno.
• Wazz
• Not really used.

New slang

• Bald
• Pube (pronounced Bowed, but with l). Hard to explain!! Arggh.
• Bald Noise
• Noise made to call someone Bald. It is a squeaking noise made with the lips.
• Bouche
• Bull S**t (pronounced Boosh).
• Gimp
• Techie.
• Good
• Not good (pronounced Gward).
• House
• Strong person.
• Keeno
• Techie.
• Nice
• Not nice (pronounced Naaace with long aaa).
• Papier-mâché
• Paper.
• Pube
• Tree beard.
• Quite
• No way! (pronounced Kwaat).
• Shween
• Weak person or small penis.
• Swanzie
• Son, as in mate.
• Techie
• Clever person.
• Tree Beard
• (Dayboy slang) Person with no pubic hair.
• Yik
• Shrewsbury townsperson.
• Yoi
• No way!