Everybody's Talking About Jamie
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
The Black Bull: The name of a pub
Bollock: A testicle
Booze: Alcohol
Catwalk: Fashion runway
Chuffin’ hell!: A Sheffield expression of surprise
Ciggies/Cig: Cigarettes/A cigarette
Fighting Cock: The name of a pub
Finchley: A borough of London. (There is, sadly, no Novotel in Finchley)
Fit: Attractive
Get a wriggle on!: Hurry up!
In’t: In the OR Isn’t
Lah-de-dah: Thinking something is exclusive, fancy, higher class
Lippie: Lipstick
Looks lush on you: That suits you
Meadow Hall: Shopping mall in Sheffield
Meat raffle: As it sounds; a raffle (lottery) where the prizes are meat
Minger: Insulting term for an ugly girl (this is a big deal at the end of Act 1 – so make sure you remember it)
Nailed you: Put you in your place, got the measure of you
Nips: Nipples
Now’t special: Nothing special
Ow’t: Anything
Paki: Racist term for someone from Pakistan
Petal: Term of endearment
Povvo: Poor
Prick tease: A girl who flirts with a boy but won’t sleep with him
Put the bins out: Put the trash out
Ruddy: A mild expletive
Shake a leg: A phrase meaning ‘go on and do it’
Shit a brick: A crude exclamation of surprise
Shite: A less rude form of ‘shit’
The Social: Social Club, a venue for entertainment and drinking, usually in a working-class area
Southey Green: A social housing project in Sheffield
Spaccy: Insulting term for someone who is disabled
Speccy: Wears spectacles
Supertram: Tram service in Sheffield
Swotty: A swot, someone who works hard in school
Take the piss: To mock someone
Ta ra: Good-bye
Twenty pee: Twenty pence
Wanker: Insulting term, an idiot
Well jell: Very jealous
Year 11: The top year of an English high school, for kids aged 15 and 16, This is the year that pupils do their first round of important exams; their GCSEs.