AKACroatalin's definitions

Lie Doggo

British slang meaning to hide and keep quiet, possibly deriving from the phrase let sleeping dogs lie in the sense of not making a noise or causing a disturbance. It probably originating in the 19th Century, and was used by poachers who would hide and keep quiet in order to snare rabbits or to avoid being found by gamekeepers and their dogs.

If we just lie doggo for a bit, he’ll go away.

by AKACroatalin October 19, 2016

Chuggypig

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’.

Malcolm is as much use in the workplace as a chuggypig is in the Royal Air Force.

by AKACroatalin June 17, 2017

Toe Rag

A toe rag was originally a foot wrapping used, since mediaeval times up until the mid-nineteenth century, to protect the foot from chafing by boots or shoes. As these were, quite literally, rags they weren’t usually washed, and so with use they became very smelly until they were thrown away. Because of the similarity in smell, toe rag also became the name applied to dried, salted cod or other things with a strong, unpleasant, fishy smell. It didn’t take that long before the name was applied to someone who was an obnoxious, unpleasant OIC.

1 “Socks! Those aren’t socks you smelly git, they’re toe rags!”
2 “What have you been cooking? Smells like toe rag!”
3 “I can smell ‘er fanny from ‘ere, proper toe rag.”
4 That Heale Malcolm is a right toe rag.

by AKACroatalin November 29, 2016