My Lexicon: Part the Second

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:03 pm

OutOfBreath wrote: (Not arguing, just informing )

I'd already read The Trail of Blood (here's the online edition-- I don't endorse it: http://members.aol.com/libcfl/trail.htm ).

Nanohedron wrote:OK, Walden, OutOfBreath: take it to the political/sometimes religious thr...oh, I give up.

My intention was and is to drop it.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:16 pm

kga26 wrote:Havin' a fag : Contrary to popular transatlantic belief this is nothing to do with George Micheals habits in central park, it means smoking a cigarette!

And here "fagged out" actually means fatigued/overly tired.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:58 pm

OutOfBreath wrote:
kga26 wrote:P.S. We have major sniggering problems with 'fanny pack', I am not prepared to reveal the reasons for that right now, but suffice it to say, transatlantic cousins, when you come here it is a 'bum bag'.!
Isn't "fanny" slang for the, er, opposite side of a female's body from the bum? That's what I heard, anyhow.

We no longer say "bum". It's "homeless person". (And which side of a female's body is a homeless person on, anyhow?)

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:29 pm

Not all homeless people are bums, and not all bums are homeless.

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:35 am

OutOfBreath wrote:Isn't "fanny" slang for the, er, opposite side of a female's body from the bum? That's what I heard, anyhow.

Yes, the front botty.

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:09 am

GaryKelly wrote:
OutOfBreath wrote:Isn't "fanny" slang for the, er, opposite side of a female's body from the bum? That's what I heard, anyhow.
Yes, the front botty.

only the freshest..

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:19 am

I thought Fanny was the author of children's stories. Fanny Hill?

Or I thought fanny = posterior, bum, arse, rear end, tail, etc etc

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:40 am

geek4music wrote:I thought Fanny was the author of children's stories. Fanny Hill?

The blind Fanny J. Crosby holds the world record for most prolific hymnist (according to a children's edition of the Guinness Book). She had written thousands, by the time of her death. In her case, Fanny was a nickname for Frances.

kga26 · Post by **kga26** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 1:33 pm

Isn't "fanny" slang for the, er, opposite side of a female's body from the bum? That's what I heard, anyhow.

Spot on John (can you see why the sniggering ensues?)

kga26 · Post by **kga26** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 1:52 pm

Also, a homeless person with a scabby dog on the end of a piece of string, often selling 'the big issue' (transatlantic cousins- don't even ask!) I have heard reffered to in the West Country as a 'Pickey'. Pronounced Piekey.

I don't think this is very polite though, probably not very P.C. I prefer 'person of no fixed abode', which is what I will be if I don't get off this site and finish my prep for the meeting I have tommorow!

'Bum' is nowadays an acceptable term for one's backside, but I remember years ago my father having a fit if my sister and I refferred to it as that, and had we had to say 'bottom'. My father also insisted that we refferred to the Pub as 'the pint shop' , but I think that this was more to protect himself from those essays you used to have to write at school about 'what we did at the weekend'. I think it made it look a lot better to say we spent the weekend at the 'pint shop' rather than the pub!!!!! He tried so damn hard to be middle class, ha ha, bless him.

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:14 pm

kga26 wrote:....those essays you used to have to write at school about 'what we did at the weekend'.

In my childhood (when dinosaurs roamed the earth) that sort of academic torment consisted of a required essay at the beginning of the school year on "What I did during summer vacation." I dreaded the beginning of school (otherwise, I loved school...what a geek) because of this feared assignment; my family never did anything during the summer even remotely interesting. I quickly realized the solution was simple, and started to make stuff up. That became fun. If I were any shakes at all as a writer (which I'm emphatically not), I'd pinpoint the origins there; as it stands, it's just the beginning of an unattractive tendency to confabulate.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:51 pm

geek4music wrote:I thought Fanny was the author of children's stories. Fanny Hill?

The children where you live must be pretty "advanced" (if that's the right word).

http://eserver.org/fiction/fanny-hill/01.html

Then there was Fanny Brice, who was the subject of Funny Girl. I used to hear her playing "Baby Snooks" on the radio. http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Brice_Fanny.html

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:58 pm

...and then there was Fanny Adams:
http://www.hants.gov.uk/museum/curtis/fannyadams/
...which dreadful story is strangly intertwined with the expression "sweet F.A.", which one of our UK brethren may feel free to explain, for I shan't.

kga26 · Post by **kga26** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 3:04 pm

O.K., I'll go for it. Sweet Fanny Adams in U.K. parlance means sweet F*** A"". i.e. nothing. Where the **** is toasty when you need him/her?

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:21 pm

kga26 wrote:Also, a homeless person with a scabby dog on the end of a piece of string, often selling 'the big issue' (transatlantic cousins- don't even ask!)

Yes, several copies of "The Big Issue" were waved at me last time I was on your side of the water.

Over here though, the fanny is the spankable side.

And the Baltimore area (aka "Balmer, Merlin") has a dialect all its own, with trademark phrases such as: Q. Where ya' goin' this weekend?
A. Downey Aishun. (down to the ocean.)