Body & physical appearance
The usages are arranged alphabetically here, all having something to do with the theme of "the body and physical appearances." For fuller information about each usage, see the main list, which is also alphabetized in twenty-six files. Just click on to the appropriate letter.
172 entries
angel mask, acaul over a newborn babe
caul over a newborn babe
Full A–Z entry →bald as a meloncompletely bald
completely bald
banner socketnavel
navel
Full A–Z entry →Barnet Fairhair
hair
Basil Bellyfat man
fat man
beef to the heelshefty legs
hefty legs
bell bottom legsthick legs
thick legs
Full A–Z entry →bellers to mendshort of breath
short of breath
Full A–Z entry →bewdlenose
nose
bike on the noseeyeglasses
eyeglasses
blowing for tugsshort of breath
short of breath
boatsshoes
shoes
Full A–Z entry →boncehead
head
Full A–Z entry →bottlearse
arse
bristlerswoman's breasts
woman's breasts
buglenose
nose
bum-dropsshort legs
short legs
cack `andedleft handed
left handed
cakeholemouth
mouth
Full A–Z entry →Charlie's footrotathlete's foot
athlete's foot
chesty, to behaving chest congestion
having chest congestion
Full A–Z entry →chopped-up eyebrows
Listed in this collection only.
cleverin good health
in good health
Full A–Z entry →clock, deface
face
Full A–Z entry →coat and vestchest
chest
County Kildairehair
hair
Cowdenbeathteeth
teeth
cracker, aa beautiful individual
a beautiful individual
Full A–Z entry →crater faceacne
acne
Full A–Z entry →crown jewelshead injuries
head injuries
Full A–Z entry →Cunard feetbig splay feet
big splay feet
Full A–Z entry →custybeautiful
beautiful
Full A–Z entry →dialface
face
Full A–Z entry →diddymanof small stature
of small stature
dock, to be into be hospitalized
to be hospitalized
Full A–Z entry →dollypegslegs
legs
drackprotruding teeth
protruding teeth
Full A–Z entry →duck's diseaseshort legs
short legs
Full A–Z entry →Eden, dressed fornaked
naked
egg-shell blondbald
bald
Full A–Z entry →eyes like pee holes in snow:
Listed in this collection only.
fangsteeth
teeth
Full A–Z entry →flappersears
ears
Full A–Z entry →forkshands
hands
Full A–Z entry →four-eyed sodbespectacled
bespectacled
frilly lips
Listed in this collection only.
gairmillness, disease
illness, disease
Full A–Z entry →gammy-(h)andedleft handed
left handed
gazumped; extremely weary
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GBHgrievous bodily harm
grievous bodily harm
Full A–Z entry →gnashersteeth
teeth
Full A–Z entry →gobmouth
mouth
Full A–Z entry →gob-achetoothache
toothache
Full A–Z entry →Gregory Peckneck
neck
Hempstead Heathteeth
teeth
hooternose
nose
I supposenose
nose
jaxiearse
arse
kay-fistedleft-handed
left-handed
Full A–Z entry →King Konga runt
a runt
Full A–Z entry →kipperface
face
Full A–Z entry →kithogueleft-handed
left-handed
loaf of breadhead
head
lugoleear
ear
Mae Westsbreasts
breasts
Manchester Citiesbreasts
breasts
Marya pot belly
a pot belly
messy gobunattractive mouth
unattractive mouth
milkshakesbreasts
breasts
Full A–Z entry →mince pieseyes, ties
eyes, ties
mobile dandrufflice
lice
Full A–Z entry →moeymouth
mouth
Full A–Z entry →mooshmouth
mouth
Full A–Z entry →naughty pinsunshapely legs
unshapely legs
not too foulattractive
attractive
Full A–Z entry →nuthead
head
nut-poxringworm
ringworm
Full A–Z entry →on the club, to bepregnant
pregnant
Full A–Z entry →on the panel, to behospitalized
hospitalized
Full A–Z entry →one eye and a whelkan eye injury
an eye injury
pegslegs
legs
Full A–Z entry →pinslegs
legs
Full A–Z entry →piss-prophetphysician
physician
Full A–Z entry →piss trackmale uro-genital system
male uro-genital system
Full A–Z entry →plates of meatfeet
feet
railingsteeth
teeth
Full A–Z entry →reambeautiful
beautiful
Full A–Z entry →seatwormspin worms
pin worms
segscallouses
callouses
shelf kitbreasts
breasts
shingleshort haircut for women
short haircut for women
shortarsedof small stature
of small stature
skinny mm'linksteasing label for a thin person
teasing label for a thin person
snot candlescamphor candles
camphor candles
soul casebody
body
tatty hurhair in need of washing
hair in need of washing
ticker quackcardiologist
cardiologist
Full A–Z entry →under the arm, to befeeling poorly
feeling poorly
Full A–Z entry →urgent note, to be onon the critical list
on the critical list
Full A–Z entry →Vanity Fairhair
hair
Vera Lynnchin
chin
websfeet
feet
wingyone armed person
one armed person
Zimmer, aorthopedic walker
orthopedic walker
SAYINGS : THE BODY AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCES
To a child about a bump on the forehead: "That will be a pig's foot in the morning"…
Or: "That'll be a Duck Egg in the morning"
In defense after just having farted"It's a poor arse that doesn't rejoice."
"It's a poor arse that doesn't rejoice."
On thinness"She was so skinny, if she stood sideways and stuck her tongue out, she'd look like a zip fastener"
"She was so skinny, if she stood sideways and stuck her tongue out, she'd look like a zip fastener"
About someone with "big sticky out ears like Prince Charles"--" He looks like a taxi with the doors open."
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Or: looks like an elephant with the wind behind it
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"Iz mudder cuddint breast feed'im. Ee was dahr'ugly eed curdil deh milk."
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"Eez feet are dat big, da'iff he threw a shoe in deh river,.it'id be a hazard to shipping."
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Sheez dahr'ugly, she's frighten a monkey out of a banana tree."
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"Iz tarts(girlfriend) dahr'ugly, sheed frighten a sailor off a raft."
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"Ders more fat onna chip dan imm"
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(h)e spewed (h)is ring upvomited heavily
vomited heavily
(h)ere's (h)is(h) ed,(h)is arse is cummin'…
(said of a hump-backed or hunched forward physique)
(hair) like a mop hanging over the bannisters
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gob(mouth) like the bottom of a birdcage, a(halitosis)
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sawdust's cummin outa me knees, the(I'm exhausted)
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once around Maggie, twice around the gasworks(Margaret is quite stout)
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looks like the unchback of Knotty Ash(An ugly specimen from an ugly part of town)
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can eat an apple through a tennis racket(protruding teeth)
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can sing a duet on her own(obese)
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nose running like a glassblower's ass
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face like a ruptured custard, a
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has a back on him like a warehouse rat(a powerfully built man)
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looks like a bleeding horse(Hanoverian good looks)
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legs like knotty pine
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sweat's hoppin' outa me armholes
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spittin like a Flemish Comeedjin
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seen more meat in a priest's house on Good Friday(a thin person)
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There's more meat on a butcher's pencil
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There's more fat on a chip than on (h)im.(The man's thin)
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There's more meat on a milk bottle
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Or: he couldn't win a race; the tape would cut his neck
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Or: (a thin person in the pool): who threw those braces in the water?
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teeth queuing up to get to the front
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teeth like the ten commandmentsall broken
all broken
teeth like a row of bombed houses
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when she sucks a lemon, the lemon pulls a face
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gorra chin like a docker's kneecap
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looks as if he's lost a tanner and found a ha'penny
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face like a burnt (or busted) wellie(boot)
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a face like a blind cobbler's thumb
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a face like a wet whit weekend
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a face like a dollop of mortal sins
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a face like a forty shilling piss pot
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an ugly looking preacherwith a face like a bagful of hammers, his nose was going north and his ears were going south
with a face like a bagful of hammers, his nose was going north and his ears were going south
about someone's big noseif it were upside down, it 'd be a shithouse for two
if it were upside down, it 'd be a shithouse for two
a woman with hair permanenly in curlersshe had a head like a bucket of chips
she had a head like a bucket of chips
over-mascara'd eyeseyelashes like Shell Park railings
eyelashes like Shell Park railings
a neck like a mad giraffe
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shoulders like a Hungarian grave digger
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Her legs were like corned beef from the gas fire
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Me mum did say if I didn't pluck the fluff outa me bellybutton, it'd turn into a black pearl
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fat as mud
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She's got an arse like two dinner cobs in a docker hankie
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He's/She's so bandy, they couldn't stop a pig in an entry
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He walks like a Scotland Road trimmer(cargo loader, balancer, with a sea roll in his stride)
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Of an item of clothing which looks too largeit would fit Ned Spread Eagle
it would fit Ned Spread Eagle
Of a woman in her best Sunday dressshe was walking around like a pigeon in a frock
she was walking around like a pigeon in a frock
Very well dressedgot up like a dog's dinner
got up like a dog's dinner
All dressed up like a tuppence apenny toff
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Of a man smoking Abdullah cigarettessmells like an Arab shit house
smells like an Arab shit house
Her legs look like yer could run a flag up without it dragging in the sanda long-legged lass
a long-legged lass
You know our____has got nice legs, but it's like putting diamonds in a brass setting
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a chin like a bag of hammers
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a bum like two eggs in a navvy's hankie
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a face like a robber's dog
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enough make up on to sink a ship
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gob the color of boiled shitexasperated
exasperated
Dressed like a dummy out of Burton's window
Listed in this collection only.