These are priceless, and some of them hilarious. My favourite is Squirrel up:
- Half chop - finishing work at dinner time on a Friday
- Early dart - finishing work early
- Roman spear - finishing work early
- March past - not going into work on a Monday
- Put the stones in - the order to finish work, in other words put a couple of shovel of stones and a couple of buckets of water in the cement mixer, then run it to clean the inside of the barrel.
- Poke - money
- Tank - money
- Boxed off - paying for something
- Maverick - money put aside for an emergency
- Squirrel up - staying indoor during the winter
- Where is your next drop - what's the next job
- Are you in collar - are you in work?
- Have you got a bend - did you get work
- Compo - mortar
- Bucket of shite - bucket of mortar
- Cod hod - Hod carrier who supervises other hod carriers
Every field of work has its own slang. What's yours?
Hiya Wirelector. Thats a great list.
ReplyDeleteHas your brother ever showed his "letter box"?
This is a saying myself and my friends use(and Im sure other women) when we see a workman bending over with his jeans low down and his shirt rideing up showing the top part of his bum.
Here are some Lollipop Lady (now school patrol) phrases that I used.Other Lollipops might have varied a bit:
Window winder: A driver who wound their window down to say something.
A dasher: a driver who,when he/she saw you getting ready to go to the middle would accelerate past quickly.
A creeper: A driver who would creep forward slowly as you were crossing children.
A rat runner: A driver who would turn quickly into a side street to avoid the wait.
A chatterer: A child who would stand talking with you a long time after arriving to cross.
A ****** ****** A driver who carries on driving when you are moving into the middle of the road(after giving them plenty of time to stop).