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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl
Also at this time, Joey Deacon was in the news - he had cerebral palsy, and in those days we called those people spastics. So spastic, spazz, spazzer, spac and spaccer while twitching about in your chair were also terms of abuse.
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Yep. Those too. Plus 'Joey' as in 'you Joey'.
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Oh, stroking your chin to signal disbelief. I think people still do that today (I do!) but in those days you also said Jimmy Hill (a sports commentater with a big chin)
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We used to say chinny win win. Or Chinny chin chin.
My Mum uses that one a lot.
One we used to use in school was 'slaphead' for bald. Usually accompanied/replaced by the action of slapping one's forehead vigorously.