Not used often now, but can mean a number of different things:
1 A person who takes bribes from both sides of a dispute;
2 A double-dealer, crook or cheat;
3 A person able to play (musical instrument or sport) with either hand;
1 A person who takes bribes from both sides of a dispute;
2 A double-dealer, crook or cheat;
3 A person able to play (musical instrument or sport) with either hand;
by AKACroatalin March 05, 2019
1) From the South-West coast of England it means cooking fish, especially conger eel, by simmering in malt vinegar with herbs and spices. Usually eaten hot, at one time it was stored in pots for later consumption; effectively pickled fish.
2) Buried, possibly deriving from “potting”, the process of planting seeds or seedlings in earth or compost, it is the slang term for burying the victim of a hit. The use has been extended to apply to someone who has received a put down so vicious that they are figuratively dead and buried.
3) British Army slang, to shoot and kill an enemy combatant, derives from the old hunter's expression 'one for the pot', referring to a rabbit, pigeon shot and killed.
4) To be fired from your job, either because you are a total WOFS or some other reason.
5) To be really drunk, pissed or rat arsed; derives from pot, the Australian slang for a beer glass.
6) To get high smoking grass, derives from pot one of the alternative names for marijuana.
2) Buried, possibly deriving from “potting”, the process of planting seeds or seedlings in earth or compost, it is the slang term for burying the victim of a hit. The use has been extended to apply to someone who has received a put down so vicious that they are figuratively dead and buried.
3) British Army slang, to shoot and kill an enemy combatant, derives from the old hunter's expression 'one for the pot', referring to a rabbit, pigeon shot and killed.
4) To be fired from your job, either because you are a total WOFS or some other reason.
5) To be really drunk, pissed or rat arsed; derives from pot, the Australian slang for a beer glass.
6) To get high smoking grass, derives from pot one of the alternative names for marijuana.
1) What's for tea? Potted conger? Great!
2) What a silly cow! She tried to diss him, but his comeback totally potted her.
3) You know that sniper that's been giving us trouble, Jimmy's potted the bastard.
4) Jimmy got caught stealing petty cash and got potted.
5) Sheila’s just had a baby boy, so Bruce’s mates took him down the pub and got him potted.
6) I don't what that stuff was, but three tokes and I couldn't find my ass with both hands, totally potted!
2) What a silly cow! She tried to diss him, but his comeback totally potted her.
3) You know that sniper that's been giving us trouble, Jimmy's potted the bastard.
4) Jimmy got caught stealing petty cash and got potted.
5) Sheila’s just had a baby boy, so Bruce’s mates took him down the pub and got him potted.
6) I don't what that stuff was, but three tokes and I couldn't find my ass with both hands, totally potted!
by AKACroatalin January 18, 2017
Necrophobia is the irrational fear of corpses, not just those of people but animals as well. Also included in this fear are the people, objects and ceremonies associated with death such as undertakers, morticians, coffins, tombstones, cemeteries and funerals. In a another way necrophobia could also be used to mean a fear of the dead by a cultural group, that their spirits will return to haunt the living, causing them harm in some way.
by AKACroatalin June 10, 2015
This is a term that was originally applied, not to clergy, but to a female with an unsightly arse. The arse in question might be fat, lopsided or saggy, it could be overly skinny or have strange looking lumps and bumps on it, or it may just not look right. Any of these attributes would turn her into a cassock wearer. It all goes back to a saying that started in England just after World War II. At that time, most people went to church and would kneel for prayers on a sort of cushion called a hassock. These hassocks could be lopsided or saggy, frequently skinny and often had strange looking lumps on them. Somebody made the comparison of an unsightly female arse to a hassock and from this grew the rhyme “with an arse like a hassock she should wear a cassock”, which was shortened to cassock wearer. It has now become a term applied generally to an unprepossessing female.
by AKACroatalin February 22, 2016
First used in 1938 by Huddie William Ledbetter ‘Lead Belly’ in Scotsboro Boys. The phrase was repeated, by a union official, in 1940 to J Saunders Redding, who used it in an academic article in 1942. When Redding wrote “stay woke”, he meant stay alert for injustice, discrimination, prejudice, unfairness, to anyone, irrespective of race, colour, religion, sexual orientation or anything else.
When Redding said "Stay Woke!" He meant is as an injunction, a wake-up call, not the entry to a club or a fashion accessory.
by AKACroatalin August 09, 2021
In Cornwall in the South West of England, this is a dialect name for a woodlouse, so although not strictly slang it still owes its origins to dialect and common usage as slang words do. The difference between dialect and slang is that dialect is not constant, for example just across the Tamar in the county of Devon a woodlouse is ‘chickypig’ while in Somerset it’s ‘gramfy-coocher’ and in Gloucestershire ‘johnny-grump’.
by AKACroatalin June 17, 2017
Tom derives from Cockney Rhyming Slang and like so many other rhymes it has been shortened to just the initial word of the phrase e.g. bread and honey (money) became bread. However, unlike many others, Tom has multiple meanings which often can only be inferred from how it is used. Some of the common meanings of Tom are listed below:
1. Tom from Sir Thomas More = whore;
2. Tom from Tom Tit (old English name for a Blue Tit) = shit;
3. Tom from Tomfoolery = joolery (jewellery); incidentally don’t blame me for their pronunciation.
4. Tom from Tom Cat = twat/prat;
1. Tom from Sir Thomas More = whore;
2. Tom from Tom Tit (old English name for a Blue Tit) = shit;
3. Tom from Tomfoolery = joolery (jewellery); incidentally don’t blame me for their pronunciation.
4. Tom from Tom Cat = twat/prat;
“That bloke is a real Tom (4). He gave a lot of tom(3) to a right old tom(1). Didn’t do ‘er no good, mind; it was a load of tom(2).”
by AKACroatalin February 16, 2016