Definitions by Blue Cawdrey
Pants and Butter
Bosun: You are required in the captains cabin at 1900 hours with your trousers neatly ironed, folded over your right arm and a half pound of butter.
Ordinary Seaman: Feckorf!
Ordinary Seaman: Feckorf!
Pants and Butter by Blue Cawdrey November 21, 2004
Scrambled Egg
Military: Describes the uniforms of higher ranks that have excessive gold braiding or decoration on the caps and sleeves.
The dictator Idi Amins uniforms were famous if only for the massive amounts of scrambled egg on them.
Scrambled Egg by Blue Cawdrey November 21, 2004
Nine bob note
UK: Term leftover from before the decimalisation of British currency (1971).
It implies that something is dodgy or not kosher.
A ten bob (shilling) note was legal pre-decimal paper currency.
It implies that something is dodgy or not kosher.
A ten bob (shilling) note was legal pre-decimal paper currency.
Chaz: So 'you going to buy that Capri from Honest Johns?
'arry: Nah Chaz, the fekah's bent as a nine bob note.
'arry: Nah Chaz, the fekah's bent as a nine bob note.
Nine bob note by Blue Cawdrey November 21, 2004
squady
squady by Blue Cawdrey November 21, 2004
Barrack room lawyer
1) UK: A member of the British army that knows every paragraph, clause and sub clause of the Kings or Queens regulations, a book regulating discipline in the British forces.
2) A person that can get out of trouble by a thourogh knowlege of the rules.
2) A person that can get out of trouble by a thourogh knowlege of the rules.
Squady 1: Private Houdini's been charged with insubordination, do you think he will be found guilty?
Squady 2: Nah! He will get away with it again by quoting Queens regulations, he is a true barrack room lawyer.
Squady 2: Nah! He will get away with it again by quoting Queens regulations, he is a true barrack room lawyer.
Barrack room lawyer by Blue Cawdrey November 21, 2004
High wee
High wee's: Game played by male schoolkids mostly in the school toilet.
The objective being to see who can leave the highest and wettest mark above the urinal.
The objective being to see who can leave the highest and wettest mark above the urinal.
Johny: Hey mommy guess what?
Mommy: What Johny?
Johny: I won at high wee's today.
Mommy: (Thought bubble)Wonder what high wee's are; mentle shudder; better not ask....
Yes dear.
Mommy: What Johny?
Johny: I won at high wee's today.
Mommy: (Thought bubble)Wonder what high wee's are; mentle shudder; better not ask....
Yes dear.
High wee by Blue Cawdrey November 21, 2004
piss in the wind
Doing something that is a complete waste of effort and time for which you can expect no results and may even backfire on you.
Telling the president that invading other countries is unpopular with many voters is like pissing in the wind.
piss in the wind by Blue Cawdrey November 21, 2004
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