Towly Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 Greetings all, I am compiling a glossary of slang terms used by Southampton fans on this very forum for my degree and I was wondering if you guys could help me out? Basically, any slang that you have heard or use or can think of if you could post it (with a short definition if you think it requires one!) that would be most helpful. It does not necessarily have to be slang that is specifically used by Southampton fans alone, it can be anything at all, but if that is the case then even better! Thanks guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericofarabia Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 "Lazy student wanchor, do your own bloody course work" .... is a common one. Seriously what course are you doing that this could be of any use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goatboy Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 "Lazy student wanchor, do your own bloody course work" .... is a common one. Seriously what course are you doing that this could be of any use? English? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Towly Posted 15 February, 2015 Author Share Posted 15 February, 2015 "Lazy student wanchor, do your own bloody course work" .... is a common one. Seriously what course are you doing that this could be of any use? Yes I thought there might be a few comments such as these! I have trawled through this forum for hours (don't worry!) this is just to see if anybody has any I've missed. I'm studying English and this is part of a module focusing on slang. Seeing as we were allowed to choose our own subject area, I thought football slang, or more specifically Southampton slang, was an interesting one to look at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 This appears to be a perfectly cromulent course of action Towly. Hopefully our contribution can embiggen your work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goatboy Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 You sound a bit acoprotic though. Is your course a slomdiggerer or do you find it vingy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Towly Posted 15 February, 2015 Author Share Posted 15 February, 2015 Many thanks Colinjb for your genuine and honest appraisal of my work. And Goatboy...c'mon of course I find it vingy! I mean who doesnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 (edited) You may as well start with "mush", though as an outsider I always thought it was a London thing as a kid. Squinnying/squinny for a whiny complain. Chud for chewing gum. I may recall some others as time passes. Though I'll try and keep them to innernets forums stuff. Edited 18 February, 2015 by The9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 Contrafibularities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattio Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 I didn't even know Saints had any slang to be honest, other than player names. What do you have so far? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 A local saying that everyone says is "if it's pies you want, it's pies you'll get". Some scientists are investigating a possible link to that oft-posed question, "who ate all the pies?". Plested have apparently denied any responsibility in the case of the missing pies, claiming that pies don't hurt people; people do. They also remarked that if it's pies you want, you'll get them at Plesteds. "If it's pies you want, it's pies you'll get". Everyone says it. Bonafide Southamptonshire saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattio Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 A local saying that everyone says is "if it's pies you want, it's pies you'll get". Some scientists are investigating a possible link to that oft-posed question, "who ate all the pies?". Plested have apparently denied any responsibility in the case of the missing pies, claiming that pies don't hurt people; people do. They also remarked that if it's pies you want, you'll get them at Plesteds. "If it's pies you want, it's pies you'll get". Everyone says it. Bonafide Southamptonshire saying.That's more of a Hampshire saying to be fair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goatboy Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 shrammed-really cold banjaxed-ruined Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 Doris - a lady. Shatner's bassoon - the affectionate name given to a run in with a bouncer in New York, New York (a club in town) in the 90s. Blort - angry. - "Why isn't [x] in the team?" - "He was in town last night. Got Shatner's Bassoon for groping some Doris and fell down the steps at New York's. - " Flippin 'eck. Chris Nichol's going to Blort all over him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 Dinlo? Budgie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 IIRC The B side to the Woolston Ferry was a song called (something like) It's Great to be Back in Southampton, which was full of Southampton slang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coxford_lou Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 Dinlo? Budgie? Oh I love dinlo! Haven't used that for years. SO Southampton. Think I'll bring back into my repertoire just to confuse the Londoners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 Oh I love dinlo! Haven't used that for years. SO Southampton. Think I'll bring back into my repertoire just to confuse the Londoners. If you grew up in Shirley Warren I'd imagine you know a host of colourful Sotonian words? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 MLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coxford_lou Posted 15 February, 2015 Share Posted 15 February, 2015 If you grew up in Shirley Warren I'd imagine you know a host of colourful Sotonian words? You'd think, but I've completely forgotten it all now. I'll have a think tomorrow, dinlo started to bring it all back! I do still say 'you alright love' and 'make us a cuppa tea, love' after we used to take the mick out of an annoying neighbour who always said it to his wife all the time. But I'm sure there are way better examples than that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 "Jonno quick" for someone who's fast. I use it all the time now. This is an oddly specific question by the way. Not just slang, but football slang. And not just football slang, but Southampton based football slang. And not just Southampton based football slang, but Southampton based football slang used on an internet forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 IIRC The B side to the Woolston Ferry was a song called (something like) It's Great to be Back in Southampton, which was full of Southampton slang. "What's on the mush, how's the nipper?". Proper Southampton phrase, still in use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 (edited) "Jonno quick" for someone who's fast. I use it all the time now. This is an oddly specific question by the way. Not just slang, but football slang. And not just football slang, but Southampton based football slang. And not just Southampton based football slang, but Southampton based football slang used on an internet forum. It's going to make for a bedging dissertation, and no mistake. I can't wait to kloft the final version. He's gushing the porthole with this one and that's for sure. Straxcellent. Edited 16 February, 2015 by CB Fry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericofarabia Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 "Jonno quick" for someone who's fast. I use it all the time now. This is an oddly specific question by the way. Not just slang, but football slang. And not just football slang, but Southampton based football slang. And not just Southampton based football slang, but Southampton based football slang used on an internet forum. But apart from that how does it meet the OP's criteria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutch Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 If you want to find out who does the tinpottest nutjobbery, then head over to the PTS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ant Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 "Howard’s Arse" means "prison". "One nil at half time" means "food". "Woggy coconuts" means "air breaks". "Gazza" is a "gas coin", used as currency for cigarettes. "Plank sanction" is a one-for-one fag exchange. "Sue my chin" means give us a fag, I’ll give you two next week. "Buff my pylon" – give us a fag, you owe me two, so I’m letting you off the other one. "Don’t buff my pylon" – switch over the telly. And lastly, very important this one: "Portillo" means "Look out behind you". Learn the language, better communication. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 "Loaded for pony" - this is a little archaic in the sense that people forget where it comes from, but the meaning is "drunk, hungry and prepared to do something about it". The phrase pre-dates late-night kebab emporiums. Drunken Sotonians would head for the New Forest wielding two slices of bread looking for a late night pony sandwich. Getting trampled to death by a pony was the number one cause of death amongst drunken hungry people in the 1920s. You were not allowed to eat ponies during the war years (rationing), and the introduction of the donner kebab in the 1950s killed the practice, but the saying still remains in common use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bateman Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 "Jonno quick" for someone who's fast. I use it all the time now. This is an oddly specific question by the way. Not just slang, but football slang. And not just football slang, but Southampton based football slang. And not just Southampton based football slang, but Southampton based football slang used on an internet forum. All I can think of is the over use of exclamation marks with some mis-typing!!!!!!!!1111oneone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coxford_lou Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 "Loaded for pony" - this is a little archaic in the sense that people forget where it comes from, but the meaning is "drunk, hungry and prepared to do something about it". The phrase pre-dates late-night kebab emporiums. Drunken Sotonians would head for the New Forest wielding two slices of bread looking for a late night pony sandwich. Getting trampled to death by a pony was the number one cause of death amongst drunken hungry people in the 1920s. You were not allowed to eat ponies during the war years (rationing), and the introduction of the donner kebab in the 1950s killed the practice, but the saying still remains in common use. That's a great phrase and story. I've not come across it before. Reminds me of a chapter from The Ragged Trousered Philathropists. Have you read it? Phenomenal book. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ragged-Trousered_Philanthropists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 Also bear in mind that nationally used words can have a different local meaning. e.g. Northerner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucks Saint Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 Also bear in mind that nationally used words can have a different local meaning. e.g. Northerner Am not having that. No way that I am a northern, ill educated, irrational disklike of intelligence, benefit claiming, dressed like the 80s have not finished, pie eating, ale swilling, whippet racing fan, washing in the street, chips with gravy, alcoholic, oasis & stone roses wannabie, with a complete lack of tolerance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 "Lazy student wanchor, do your own bloody course work" .... is a common one. Seriously what course are you doing that this could be of any use? I thought that, wtf are they teaching in overpriced british unis these days, sounds like the sort of bolloaks I knocked up in the bike sheds when gracing Taunton's second form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 Am not having that. No way that I am a northern, ill educated, irrational disklike of intelligence, benefit claiming, dressed like the 80s have not finished, pie eating, ale swilling, whippet racing fan, washing in the street, chips with gravy, alcoholic, oasis & stone roses wannabie, with a complete lack of tolerance Button it, mate. We know where you keep your lard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartan_saint Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 'Cacker' - a tracksuit clad, sovereign ring wearing member of society. Frequently seen at Power in the Park in the 90's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 Greetings all, I am compiling a glossary of slang terms used by Southampton fans on this very forum for my degree and I was wondering if you guys could help me out? Basically, any slang that you have heard or use or can think of if you could post it (with a short definition if you think it requires one!) that would be most helpful. It does not necessarily have to be slang that is specifically used by Southampton fans alone, it can be anything at all, but if that is the case then even better! Thanks guys. Here's one for you "tête de teub", look it up, oft used when certain languedoc dwellers start giving their advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 When we were kids it was "going over the the floaty, 'safty with some nippas to watch Saints from the chockies!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippineSaint Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 Also bear in mind that nationally used words can have a different local meaning. e.g. Northerner I am hoping that the divide line goes through Winchester The scale is just a little off for me to tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 (edited) Mongboard is the only slang word that will last the test of time - hell, people will be disappearing down academic wormholes, devoting entire PhDs to the term. Can imagine it now - "A philosophical, sociolinguistic interpretation of the mongboard: A critical reappraisal of John Stuart Mill's marketplace of ideas". Edited 16 February, 2015 by shurlock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 I am hoping that the divide line goes through Winchester The scale is just a little off for me to tell. That's the intent. My southern brethren would not thank me if I excluded The Wall. It's an important feature for keeping the wildlings out, and you're right, Winchester is a key location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 That's the intent. My southern brethren would not thank me if I excluded The Wall. It's an important feature for keeping the wildlings out, and you're right, Winchester is a key location. Castle Black then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 'Cacker' - a tracksuit clad, sovereign ring wearing member of society. Frequently seen at Power in the Park in the 90's. Cacker is up there with Dinlow as genuine high points of the English language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coxford_lou Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 Cacker is up there with Dinlow as genuine high points of the English language. That reminds me of "I cacked my pants" don't think of ever heard that outside of Southampton (though that could be because it's such an awful phrase!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 That's the intent. My southern brethren would not thank me if I excluded The Wall. It's an important feature for keeping the wildlings out, and you're right, Winchester is a key location. I was only there the other week, looks a lot different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 That reminds me of "I cacked my pants" don't think of ever heard that outside of Southampton (though that could be because it's such an awful phrase!) I thought it was a Gypsy term of endearment and used instead of darling!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 Also bear in mind that nationally used words can have a different local meaning. e.g. Northerner My son's view is that you draw a line west to east, from the Mersey estuary to the mouth of the Humber, and that is the line that demarks The North from The South. As for Southampton slang, is 'Skate' slang or a proper noun ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint-scooby Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 Fancy some space docking luv (great chat up line) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 HCDAJFU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 HCDAJFU ...is just about the only one on here that fits the criteria outlined by SC below.... "Jonno quick" for someone who's fast. I use it all the time now. This is an oddly specific question by the way. Not just slang, but football slang. And not just football slang, but Southampton based football slang. And not just Southampton based football slang, but Southampton based football slang used on an internet forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simo Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 HCDAJFUIn the urban dictionary credited with TSWF too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dellboypete Posted 16 February, 2015 Share Posted 16 February, 2015 Also bear in mind that nationally used words can have a different local meaning. e.g. Northerner Haha that made me smile. When I was a kid (pre M3 days) on the A34 just north of Winchester there was a massive road sign that just said. "A34 The North" and my dad would say we were just about to leave the glorious south of England so I always thought that's where the north of England started. So this map is pretty accurate! (also always remember the huge sign next to the railway line near basingstoke on the way back to Soton that proudly boasted "You are now entering Strongs Country". (note for the younger generation - Strongs was a half decent beer (IE better than Brickwoods!) before it was bought by shytebreads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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