Whats in a name?
Can someone define:
Blunties: Crabs: Bombheads: Ragpackers: Squiiffers: etc etc.. Would love to find more to add to list as well please! |
Add:
Plumbers Armourers (A, I'm an armourer, B I'm an armourer, C I'm an armourer too) Leckies Electricians Fairies Avionics Squippers Safety Equippers Rigger Airframes Sooty Engines More I'm sure to follow |
Although this topic has been raised before here are a few more.
Greenie - Electrician Pinkie - Radio/Radar Blackie/Grubber - Airframe Engine Bombhead - Armourer Blanket stacker/Advanced duvet technician - Storeman Thats just a few to be going on with! |
Blunties - RAF ground branch personnel (i.e. not at the "sharp end").
Crabs, crabfats - Naval term for the RAF. From the light blue colour of RAF uniform, which was the same as that of a fatty ointment used to treat sailors for pubic lice. Bootneck - Royal Marine Fish-head - non-flying RN officer |
Here is another:
WAFU - Flying RN Officer (acronym for Women Always Fancy Us, or something like that) |
Willies are for us?
:D |
Steelies - (Steely Eyed Killers - the two-winged master race) :D
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WAFU= Wet And F***ing Useless
...according to Rick Jollie's book. |
Shinies - same as Blunties (shiney bums caused by sitting on them all day.)
Commissioned Ballast - Navigator Directional Consultant - Another Navigator |
Shinies ( Admin clerks etc, because of their shiny trouser arse.);)
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Food-powered checklist reader - Yet Another Navigator
Self-loading baggage - Probably Not The Last Navigator Gingers - engineers (Cockney rhyming "ginger beers") |
ginger beer
ginger beer is not cockney rhyming slang for engineer, it rhyming slang for queer! ever seen carry on up the khyber?
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Iron is cockney rhyming slang for queer, as in iron hoof,
I always thought ginger beer was slang for engineer. |
Stovies - RN Fast Jet Pilots
Junglies - RN Helo Pilots (Marines carrying for the use of) Pongos - RAF term for army types |
Grow bag:Generic term for aircrew.
Winch weight:Loadmaster(usually preceded by"ding ding i'm a...") Meat bomb:People stupid enough to depart 'S' a/c,eg:Para. |
Knocker : NCO aircrew
Knuck: Fighter pilot (RNZAF), now extinct species |
Moles - engineers
Mole control - Sengo Mushrooms - most aircrew Limp wristed gay bar loiterers - Jaguar pilots Expensive chaff - F3's OCFA - Senior Spec aircrew Sqn Ldr Nothing matters very much, most things don't matter at all. |
Knuck: fighter jock (still used in Aus)
Trash Hauler: Herc Pilot Bluntie: anyone non-aircrew Fish head: P3 driver Mud slinger: F111 driver (not common name, only heard it a few times) White hander: avionics fitter Black hander: Engines/airframe fitter Spits: Service Police Doggies: Dog handlers AJ's: Army Jerks |
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