Skorri Slang

Want to know more about south Brinmark street slang? Here’s a handy guide, so next time you want to insult someone, you can feel free to call them a “blithering gormless, bodgy chizzer.”

A Guide to Cavnish Slang, Idioms, and Terms

 * A’right — all right (pronounced a’reet)
 * Aught — anything
 * Bits and bobs — odds and ends, whoozits and whatsits.
 * Blithering — intensifier, kind of like how we use freaking (as in, “you’re a freaking idiot!”)
 * Bodgy — idiotic, foolish, daft
 * Bog off — go away! (somewhere between “go away!” and a more obscene way of saying the same thing)
 * Boxy — cameraman, so called because of their big, box-shaped cameras
 * Breeks — short trousers that close below the knee, like knickers
 * Bum-rush — means to get the boot, or get kicked out of a place (often physically)
 * Cacky — like “blithering”, a general intensifier
 * Cake — value, worth. "What's the cake?" means something like, "What's it to me?" or "What do I stand to gain from this?"
 * Canny (adv.)— intensifier meaning really, used for positive descriptions
 * canny (adj.) — nice, sweet, dear, good
 * Chizzer — cheater, swindler, fake
 * Chunnering — blabbering, talking nonsense
 * Clagger — a train
 * Copper — policeman
 * Get copped — get arrested, nabbed by the police
 * Cranked  — in a tizzy, excited, frenetic
 * Daft/dafty — stupid, silly, ignorant; a silly person
 * Dan’ — don’t (pronounced dahn)
 * Dan’ na — don’t know
 * Dance in the dark — a highly nuanced phrase, referring to mischief that might verge on the sinister or dangerous — behavior that skims the line between the acceptable and the criminal
 * Devil in a doghouse — a whole lot of trouble, or something really bad/dangerous — like having a wolf by the ears or a tiger by the tail
 * Div’n — didn’t (“I div’n do it!”)
 * Div’n na — didn’t know (“I didn’t know” would be rather slurred together, as in, “I’d-uv-nah”)
 * Fitsy — nervous, anxious, twitchy
 * Free on the wing — on your own, independent
 * Gan — go
 * gannin’ — going
 * ganned — went
 * ganna gan — going to go
 * Gawp — stare; gape
 * Get fibbed  — be fooled, lied to
 * Goggle — look at, observe — get a goggle of something would be to get a peek at it, while keep a goggle on means to keep an eye on.
 * Gormless — clueless, dumb, sometimes worthless
 * Grobbing — intensifier meaning really, generally used for expressions of surprise, not as a common intensifier (so, you’d say, “That was grobbing huge!” but not “She’s grobbing nice” — see canny).
 * Hack — like a taxi, a coach-for-hire
 * Hackie — a hack-driver
 * Hack-stand — a covered place to wait for a hack
 * Heads or horns — basically “heads or tails” — the Cavnish gold standard coin has the face of the first monarch Caveni on one side and a stag’s head on the other
 * In the spits — in trouble, mischief — usually the kind of mischief that would result in being apprehended by the police
 * Jackstraight — straight as a board; bolt upright
 * Jake — great, fine, okay
 * Jixy — a mage, originally derived from the word “magic”, as in, “magicksy folks”
 * Katzo — a derogatory term for high streeters, especially the lower aristocracy. The word means "little piggy" and is a play on the title Katzpota.
 * Ken — as a verb, means "know/think." As a noun, it means "an idea/clue." So, "Where d'you ken he lammed off to" would mean, "Where do you think he went?" whereas, "I got no ken" would be, "I have no idea."
 * Manky — gross, foul, soiled, disgusting
 * Modock — an aviator, pilot
 * Moon-brained — loony, lunatic, crazy, clueless
 * Muck —  mess  —  all the phrases based on this word have a slightly obscene meaning, rather like “crap”
 * Muck around/about  — mess around, in the sense of getting into mischief, or starting conflicts with other people
 * Muck up  — ruin, screw up
 * Muckery — mess, nonsense
 * Naught — nothing
 * Newshawk — journalist, reporter
 * Nick —  jail, prison — used more for the common city jail, not the palace prison
 * Get nicked — get nabbed by the coppers
 * On the get — running from the police, making a getaway
 * Skappers — chow, food, dinner, munchies
 * Skapped — starving, as an exaggeration
 * Skitter—a child, not used for older teens
 * Skundered — very angry, furious
 * Slag — tease, pester
 * Stars — an expression of surprise, more like “Oh God,” than something like “gosh” or “golly”
 * Stoolie — a rat, informant, stool-pigeon
 * Stravitz — Kudric expression that means something like, “Cheers” or “To your health”
 * Swacked — drunk, completely intoxicated
 * Tag — a nickname or an identifier used instead of a name — usually it reflects something about the person’s personality or appearance
 * Tazimy — dragon-like beings from myth who used to devour the souls of the faithless
 * Tetchy — ornery, grouchy, argumentative
 * Thayo/thayoi — spirits — not necessarily evil like demons, but more like the Greek daemon, which can be benevolent or evil
 * Topsy — from topsy-turvy, meaning dizzy, head-over-heels, out of sorts
 * Tops an' a tarvies — basically means the same thing, but usually describes situations instead of emotions (chaos, uncertainty, chickens with heads cut off sorts of things). Of unknown etymology.
 * Trompers — boots
 * Trucky — plucky, combative, in a fighting mood (from truculent)
 * Web — the slang term for the South Brinmark train yard
 * Yam/yamming — to be eager for something, to go after something
 * Yammering — noisy, excited
 * Zotz — to kill or utterly destroy someone or something