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