Different terms for "Big Lads"

[Flinty]

i get called ,, "hey you hiding in the bushes " lol

 

[Jamie555]

Unit is the one I have heard most often. The first time I was called it I thought the guy was calling me a dick.

I have given my boy all my tonka toys that I had as a kid. The metal ones. Still going strong today.

Slightly off topic but I always wondered where the word tonk came from, it seems to have popped out of no-where round here and has become chav word of the month.

Tonk has been an expression around south wales for many years now (certainly when I first started training). I was told then that it comes from a tonka truck ie( having the solidness and presence of a big piece of earth moving equipment ).

Thanks pro - Native American linguistics was never my strong point .

J

 

[DesperadoDan]

i get called ,, "hey you hiding in the bushes " lol

 

[Spriggen]

'Tank' is often used around.

 

[Milky]

l get called a skinny tw*t coz they know it winds me up...

 

[Willis]

l get called a skinny tw*t coz they know it winds me up...

do they do the classic and ask

"have you lost weight" argghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[Milky]

do they do the classic and ask

"have you lost weight" argghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Oh yes.....

 

[ichigo]

normally the get called meat head of our lass :o
but yesterday got called the big muscle guy which was a nice ego boost as im feeling fat as **** at the moment on this bulk

 

[Prodiver]

Unit is the one I have heard most often. The first time I was called it I thought the guy was calling me a dick.



Tonk has been an expression around south wales for many years now (certainly when I first started training). I was told then that it comes from a tonka truck ie( having the solidness and presence of a big piece of earth moving equipment ).

Thanks pro - Native American linguistics was never my strong point .

J

Remember Longfellow's Hiawatha?:

By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.

Big-Sea-Water = Minnetonka (he kept the same metre).

The word Minnetonka comes from the Dakota Indian mni tanka meaning great water.

Minnehaha = laughing water. Minneapolis = the City on the Water (a macaronic). There's a place nearby called Minnetonka, too.

Lovely! Great word, tonka!

 

[Prodiver]

'Tank' is often used around.

Great word, too.

In WW1 we Brits had initially to keep our revolutionary tracked fighting machine secret, so the supply system called them "tanks" because they were big rivetted metal containers...

 

[CJ]

The government wanted to give the impression that they were manufacturing tracked water containers.

The first tank was called 'Little Willie'

That's about the only piece of WW1 trivia that I remember :-)

Strange how some information sticks

 

[Pepe]

I went to Tenerfie for a month last year and got called all sorts,
Tank,
Hulk (hence it been wrote on my back)
Rambo,
Ribena, apparently because ribena is a juice
but my favorite has to be muscle prawn, the guy that calls me it really likes the film District 9 and says im the size of one of the aliens ha

 

[Fatty]

Fat kunt there's another one

 

[control]

Hench, stead head, big fella, the usual that you'd expect...i always disregard comments as i never think they are talking about me i still think im a 10stone weasel at the best of times lol!

 

[JB]

A few yr ago some pissed up army lass in a boozer called me and a work mate a pair of meatheads lol the thing was the guy I was with was quite big but I wasn't in comparison to him