Slang meaning of FOLKS. Online slang FOLKS

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TAF

That's All, Folks

Cats

Cats

Folks who play jazz music.I used to partake in late-night jam sessions with the "cats" over at Sid's.

Hanky panky

Hanky panky

Hanky panky - or "slap and tickle" as some older folks call it - would be making out in America.

pecker

pecker

n penis. A common misconception is that, to Brits, this means Â“chinÂ” - hence the phrase Â“keep your pecker up.Â” Sorry folks, but in the U.K. Â“peckerÂ” means exactly the same thing as it does in the U.S. The phrase Â“keep your pecker upÂ” is probably derived from a time when a Â“peckerÂ” was simply a reference to a birdÂ’s beak and encouraged keeping your head held high. I understand that the word became a euphemism for Â“penisÂ” after the poet Catullus used it to refer to his love LesbiaÂ’s pet sparrow in a rather suggestive poem which drew some fairly blatant parallels.

scupper

scupper

v obstruct; stymie: We were planning on having a party but then my folks arrived home early and scuppered that. The term derives from seafaring, where the scupper is a drain designed to allow water to flow overboard from the deck. To be scuppered is to be hit by a wave large enough to knock you into this drain. Of course, it could also derive from the more obvious seafaring source where scuppering something is sinking it, but hey. I make a lot of these up on the spot.

BSF

But Seriously, Folks

digby

digby

Peculiar to Exeter area: used in same way as "Joey Deacon", Digby was a hospital for the mentally ill (since turned into a new housing development) on the outskirts of Exeter. When it was still a hospital (with a high rate of patients wandering off and being found confused in people's back gardens), the word "Digby" was used in a similar way to "Joey" (same era) by schoolkids in the surrounding schools. This interesting little snippet came from NSW, Australia: This term, with exactly the same me aning, was used by a small group of children from Goulburn, NSW c. 1978-1981. Seemed to have been started by one particu lar boy with a vague knowledge of a crap Australian folksinger (I think) named Digby Wolf. Anyway, digby became 'ya dig by wolf' if someone was excessively stupid.

WOOF

WOOF

Well Off Older Folks

Resolutionaries

Resolutionaries

Folks that join the gym on New Year's Day and stick around for about a month

bless

bless

A term used when saying goodbye, feeling good about a friend, and or a term used to part company with someone considered family.Â "I'm heading out now folks...bless!"Â

TTFN

TTFN

Short for "ta ta for now". Which in turn means goodbye! Said by older folks and one Radio Two DJ in particular.

Youall(s)

Youall(s)

Slang term for the Americans. eg. "Did you see the size of that 'Youall' aircraft carrier?" Also prounounced as "U-Haul(s)". Derived from the penchant for American folks to say "You all?"

dobber

dobber

(1) A wanker in the insulting form of the word, as in "Ha you're a dobber" (2) a glass marble of around 25mm in diameter, and so around twice the size of the more usual sized variety. (3) a condom (term popularly used in Leicester and Surrounds. (4) In the Derby area of the UK during the 50's and 60's this was the popular name for a catapult - does this suggest that the folks in Leicester were hard put to find elastic for their weapons? (5) A person of questionable common sense. Example "whit'd ye dae that fur, ya fuckin' dobber!".