Friday, July 12, 2019

fri., 12 july, 2019: romany words of advise, iii.: give us This Day our Daily Curse


[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]
ROMANY GYPSY:  Gel...  / Gel on... ‡
ROMANY GYPSY:  Gavver... (s.)  / Gavvers  (Pl.)  ‡‡
ROMANY GYPSY:  Gavva... (s.)  / Gavvas  (Pl.)  ‡‡‡

   ‡)  (1)  [To] split / [To] get out of Dodge /  [To] get the fuck away =  i.e.,  Fuck off...” ; (2) sometimes used to advise someone to Fuck off...” — esp. if the Gavvers are on their way; or if they’re really pissing you off ;  NOTE: idiom used in S.E. England  [Urban dictionary] ;   
  ‡‡)  Cop / Cops, Pig / Pigs =  a derisive word for the police (whether m. or f.), whose pending arrival might occasion the use of the phrase Gel on” ; NOTE:  idiom used in S.E. England [Ibid.] ;
‡‡‡)  The legal establishment, including Cops / Pigs , any police station or jail, courts, & etc. To be avoided at all costs.  NOTE:  idiom used in S.E. England  [Ibid.]

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