Haggis basher: a Scot
Source: SL
Hail Mury: a prayer, a penance, a Catholic
Source: LS2
half a quid: ten shillings
Source: LS1
half a bar: ten shillings
Source: LS1
half a crown (obsolete): twelve and a half pence
Source: GU
half chockers: half bricks
Source: PM
half-cut: intoxicated
Source: ZCAR
half hundred, a: fifty pounds.
Source: LS1
half a dollar: two shillings/sixpence
Source: LS1
Half Hundred: sexual intercourse
Source: LS3
Half (pronounced aahf): very, indeed( a rhetorical understatement)
She caahn aahf jangle. That women is rather garrulous.
Source: LS3
Half Hundred: fifty pounds
Source: LS3
Half a Gross(rhyming): venereal disease. The rhyme is with dose.
Source: LS3
Half-cut: half drunk
Source: SL
half-inch, to(rhyming): to pinch, or steal
Source: SL
Half seas over: drunk, especially a drunk who is lurching or staggering.
Source: LS2
half-sovereign, a: a broken piece of china with a gold line, used
by children for pretend money.
Cf. banny mugs
Source: LWAT
hammer-rods: piles
Source: LS2
Hampton Wick (rhyming): penis. The rhyming component should be obvious
Cf. "Never gettyer 'Ampton Court"
Source: LS3
Hanch-apple(Lancashire): the game of snap apple, or biting at an apple
floating in water or suspended by a cord.
Source: GLD
hand of bananas, a: a stack of bananas
Source: MV
Handful, a: five pounds, also called a Ching, a Fiver.
Source: LS1, LS3
Hanging the latch: being an unwelcome person at a pub
Source: Shaw ST
Or: angling to be bought a drink
Source: Shaw ML
hankee poo: a sexual encounter
Source: SL
Hansel money: money which changes hands on the first Monday of the New
Year and is therefore thought to bring luck for the rest of the year. In
the fourteenth century (Northwest Midland), "handsel" meant gift. The Scots
have a custom that if you give a purse as a present you must hansel it
for luck with silver coins. In Lancashire, honsil, or hondsil , was the
gift presented by the seller to the buyer ofthe first purchase of goods
at a fair or market.
Source: SL
hard crap: bad luck. Also said: hard cheese, hard cheddar
Source: LS2
hard skin: someone who get's the work done, whatever the elements.
Sometimes the phrase suggests that the person is very tough, but mainly
in his own estimation.
Source: MM, LS2
Harry Petty's: lunch room for Liverpool office boys from 1912-1932.
Everyone seems to have been there at one time or another. The food
was nourishing and not expensive. On the crowded and tragic beach of Gallipoli
was a cheerful sign which said "Welcome to Harry Petty's."
Source: MM
Harry Blogs: another generic reference to a person, i.e., Joe Blow,
your average citizen, etc.
Source: SI
Hat. Ere's yer at, wur's de urry? It has been nice to meet you, but
I now have pressing business to attend to.
Source: LS1
hard man: a player known for roughness on the soccer field
Source: GTH
hare coursing: the sport of chasing hares with greyhounds, by sight.
Source: SL, OED
Harry Freeman's: a place where someone gets something for nothing, usually
mentioned because of the unlikelihood of that happening anywhere
Source: SL, LS1
hat trick: any threefold victory by an individual or team in sports:
three goals, three wins, etc.
Source: GTH
hatches is off, de: the pub is open
Source: LS1
hav-a-go, a: a type of cab customer who wants to fight the cabbie for
the fare
Source: SL
Have a try? : this is an invitation to fight
Source: O'Mara ALS
have the shutters off, to: a street brawl in which shutters are torn
from shop windows and used aa weapons.
Source: LS2
Head. Ee's gorran ed as big as Berkened. He is rather too self-assured.
Source: LS1
heading ball: a goal scored with the head, sometimes described as having
been "glanced in," "nodded home," etc.
Source: GTH
Heavy on Ton Weight: childrens's game (called elsewhere Sedate, Weak
House, Solomon's Donkey)
Source: Shaw III
Heck, Heck!(obsolete): a warning, usually given by a lookout, that the
police are on their way. Cf. "Eck, eck!"
Source: SGS
helter-skelter(rhyming slang): an air-raid shelter
Source: DS
Hempstead Heath, Cowdenbeath (rhyming): the teeth
Source: LS3
hen fruit: eggs
Source: LS3
Henry the Eighth: a man who has had a lot of children by different women.
The source here is the music hall song, "(H)enry the Eighth I am..."
Source: LS3
herdsman: this is a term heard among police or in the judiciary infrastructure
for the person who is a lawyer for cows, or prostitutes.
Source: SI
he spewed his ring up: he vomited.
Source: LS2
hessian: material used for packing bales. It was a strong, coarse cloth,
a mixture of hemp and jute.
Source: LWAT, OED
Heysel: the stadium in Brussels which was the site of the tragedy in
1985 at the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus. In a melee,
a wall collapsed, crushing or suffocating 39 spectators and injuring 454
others.
Source: GTH
Hi ding dong: serious quarrel, a raucous fight
Sources: ST, Shaw II
him: my husband
Source: LS2
Hi-rip lads(obsolete): pimps
Source:ALS
Hillsborough: the site of a tragedy in 1989, when Liverpool was playing Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup semi-final at the Sheffield Wednesday Football Club, Hillsborough Ground. Because of miscalculations about the number of people in certain sections, disastrous overcrowding caused 96 Liverpool supporters to be crushed or suffocated.
Hiss in the mist, to go for a: to go urinate
Source: SL
hissed: thoroughly drunk, as in "royally hissed."
Source: SL
Hit and miss(rhyming): urinate
Source: LS3
hite bownus: extra pay, overtime?
Source: JML
Hoardings: billboards, construction site fences on which notices are
posted.
Source: SCHUR
Hob: the iron plated sides of a small grate, on which things may be
set to warm. To hob-nob is therefore to socialize.
Source: OED
Hobbledehoy: intruder
LS3
Hogget: a yearling sheep
Source: SL
hog jockey: a term of abuse
Source: LS2
Hole: in football, the space between midfield and the combined forward
players, which offers important possibilities as well as risks, if the
players are skillful enough.
Source: GTH
Hols: holidays
Source: SL
holesaler: a brothel keeper
Source: LS2
Holy Ghost(rhyming): the Post
Source: Shaw II
Holy Ground, the: the red light district of Scotland Road in the nineteen hundreds. At the time, most of the ground there was owned by the Roman Catholic Church.
Holy Land, the: David, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses streets in Liverpool
Source: SL
Holy-stone a deck, to: scrub thoroughly
Source: ALS
Homies: fellow family members
Source: SL
Honto Crise: non-blasphemous substitute for "Holy Christ!"
Source: Shaw ML
hoodles(obsolete): perks enjoyed by senior stewards on ships in return
for cash to specific members of the crew. The people the steward
was responsible for seeing served would this way have good choices for
high quality meals, etc. See also "bloods."
Source: SL
hooks(rhyming): criminals
Source: ZCAR
Hooley: party, or dance.
But hooley can also refer to a dispute, a fight or a riot, and may
be the root in the coinage "hooligan."
Gilhooly was the name of a famously pugnacious Irish family.
Source: Shaw ST, PM, LS2
Hooray Henries: posh bores; a similar phrase would be "Hooray Landed
Types."
Sources: Sir Paul McCartney, Stan Kelly-Bootle.
Hooter. Dee ooter. The nose.
Source: LS1
hop it!: beat it, get out of here
Source: SL
hopping(obsolete): picking hops, to earn extra money
Source: MEM
Horse Box: police van for moving prisoners to and from court
Source: LS4
horses for courses: certain traits will play out, or: each kind seeks
its like.When it is a sardonic response to repeated bad or unfortunate
behavior by someone, it might be "Well, what do you expect from a pig but
a grunt?"
Source: SL
hospital pass: in soccer, a pass to a receiver who is sure to suffer
a violent tackle from an opposing player. It's sometimes called a "hospital
ball." In American football, the equivalent is throwing high and down the
middle to a receiver, who will risk a damaging tackle as he rises to bring
it in.
Source: GTH
hot kecks, to have: to be amorous
Source: LS2
House of Commons: a prostitute's vagina
Source: LS3
Housey: bingo hall
housie housie: low or riotous behavior. Originally "Housey-Housey"
referred to a version of bingo.
Source: A,LS2, LS3, Moloney
Hovis: formerly a brand of brown bread, now used to refer to all brown
breads.
Source: SCHUR
Huge soft barney: noisy quarrel about something silly or inconsequential
Source: ANS
hummer: a children's toy made from a perforated can-lid and a loop of
string. Sometimes the hummer is a wood lath whirled around at the
end of a piece of string.
Source: LS2
hutspot: a traditional Dutch stew of simmered meat, potatoes, carrots,
and onions resembling lobscouse or Liverpool scouse
Source: SL
hymn sandwich, a(obsolete): a simple service of non-liturgical hymns,
prayer, scripture reading and address
Source: TAGD
hysterical rectomy: Liverpudlianism for hysterectomy
Source: BLH