Crinting

English slang from the South-West, it means to try to cry in order to evoke sympathy. Usually practised by children under ten in order to try to gain concessions from parents.

But Mum, everyone else is going!
Well you're not, so stop your crinting and live with it.

Potted

1) To get high smoking marijuana, derives from pot one of the alternative names for marijuana.
2) To be really drunk, derives from pot, the Australian slang for a beer glass.
3) To be fired from your job, possibly because of one on the two preceding definitions or maybe both.
4) British Army slang, to shoot and kill an enemy combatant, derives from the old hunter's expression 'one for the pot', referring to a rabbit, pigeon shot and killed.
5) Buried, derives from the slang for burying the victim of a hit, by extension it is applied to someone who has received a put down so vicious that they are figuratively dead and buried.
6) Fish, especially conger eel, cooked by simmering in vinegar with herbs and spices.

1) I don't what that stuff was, but three tokes and I couldn't find my ass with both hands, totally potted!
2) Bruce broke up with Sheila, so 'is mates took him down the pub an' got 'im potted.
3) Joe called his boss a wanker and got potted.
4) You know that sniper that's been giving us trouble, Jimmy's potted the bastard.
5) Did you hear what that bitch said to him? Man she totally potted him.
6) What's for tea? Potted conger? Great!

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Molly Piss

British Westcountry slang for an ineffectual male. The epithet carries with it implications that the recipient is also impotent, effeminate and incompetent. The origin is unclear, perhaps deriving from the expression 'not worth Molly's piss' meaning to be of no account or worthless, although who Molly was we'll never know.

Malcolm's got all emotional again 'cos he can't get the computer to work, says it's something technical.
Did he plug it in?
No, but he threatened to raise a grievance against me 'cos I laughed at him!
What a Molly Piss!

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Pavement Fairy

British Navy slang dating from around the First World War. A Pavement Fairy is the name for a prostitute or woman of easy virtue. The pavement part comes from these women having 'beats' on the pavement of a particular street, whilst the fairy has nothing to do with homosexualirty, but possibly derives from Cinderella's Fairy Godmother who makes wishes come true.
There's a rude version of the Irish folk song 'The Spanish Lady' that mentions it:

As I walked into Plymouth City,
Union Street it was late at night,
There did I see a pavement fairy
Washing her snatch in the pale moonlight,
First she washed it then she dried it
Over a fire of red hot coal
In all my life I ne'er did see
So much singed hair round a dirty great hole.

Joe's out on the razzle tonight, but he's goin' for the pavement fairy first before he gets too pissed.

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Buggerance Factor

Buggerance Factor: This is derived from the English slang buggerance meaning an annoyance, an untimely interruption or something else that interferes with the smooth progress of work. Its use became particularly prevalent in project management where it became necessary to allow additional time for these unforseen and unforseeable events. Where it was not possible to allow this time against a particular element of the project, a non-specific increase in time was allowed to cover these eventualities which became known as the Buggerance Factor.

The Buggerance Factor is there to cover the extra time needed to rectify those things, which never ever go wrong, but invariably do if you fail to allow for them. It is usually added because of a sixth sense on the part of the project manager that something unexpected is going to happen and is the factor that allows for the law of project management that states Parkinson, Murphy and Sod are alive and well and working on your project.

Malcolm's managed to wangle his way on to the next project!
That fuckwit! We'd better increase the buggerance factor in that case.

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R 'n R

Us Army slang meaning Rest and Rereation, Rest and Recuperation or Rest and Relaxation. The term was certainly used during the Korean and Vietnam Wars but most likely dates from World War Two.

Get your gear packed! e got a pass for 48 hours R 'n R in Saigon!
Number One!

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Sycophancy

Sycophancy is the fawning behaviour of a a servile self-seeking snotrag who attempts to win favour by flattering and pandering to influential people. A person who does this is known as a sycophant or more informally as ass-kisser, crawler, toady, lackey
apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveler, groveller, or truckler

Malcolm has sycophancy down to a fine art

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