Thursday 27 June 2013

Lowdham


And Lowdham in Nottinghamshire tonight. Link here.

Last night, in Portsmouth, I was told of the word yinkle. A yinkle is, apparently, a bald man who has carefully trailed one strand of hair across his bare scalp. Anyway, I came home and checked the OED and Jonathon Green's big slang dictionary. Nothing. Although it is there in the Urban Dictionary.

Anybody else heard of it?

2 comments:

  1. No, never heard of it. Although I'm definitely going to persuade my dad to snip off his yinkle!

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  2. I think the word was coined in the 80s by comedian Rich Hall in his book "Snigglets".

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