25 definitions by The Fat Welshman
In Lancashire it means someone who either has mental illness or impaired capacity for other reasons. The allusion is to the traditional rag and bone man who collected rags in exchange for small trifles such as a jam jar or a balloon. If you were pots fer rags (pots for rags) you would do the reverse of the common sense expected approach.
by The Fat Welshman June 22, 2022
A Scot living on the English south coast as refugee from miserable unemployment typically but not exclusively Glaswegian.
From Donald Farfrae the emigrant Scot in Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of Casterbridge.”
His name is a play on words cos he’s far frae hame.
From Donald Farfrae the emigrant Scot in Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of Casterbridge.”
His name is a play on words cos he’s far frae hame.
by The Fat Welshman August 27, 2022
Concealed way of saying phuct. Both ways of pronunciation have been in use since the 1980s. I first heard the expressions used in Lancaster University.
by The Fat Welshman February 8, 2021
A loudmouth, someone who habitually says it like it is and some. Also implies a gossipy context to whatever is announced.
Probably Lancashire dialect or urban slang.
Probably Lancashire dialect or urban slang.
by The Fat Welshman January 11, 2021
by The Fat Welshman November 15, 2022
by The Fat Welshman April 16, 2020
Fancy way of saying that someone’s arse (ass) is not connected to their elbow - derived from the saying that some idiotic person “can’t tell his arse from his elbow”.
by The Fat Welshman February 8, 2021