Warwick Glossary

Every university has its own lexicon and phraseology that's a little hard to
pick up, so here's the fast track with our guide to Warwick-speak.

accountancy -- a metaphor for having graduated and left Warwick.  Example: "I
used to see him a lot, but not since he got a job in accountancy".

bit of a boar article -- an essay that has been written at the last minute
before the deadline without any research, and with all the facts and quotes
made up to sound plausible.

bus route -- a conversation with a highly emotional person who seems unable to
speak english, which wanders about all over the place leading them to break
down frequently.  Despite your best efforts to alter this conversation, they
will never make any change.

canley -- adjective, means a bit scruffy and dirty, but you wouldn't mess with
them.  Example: "She pulled some bloke last night she thought was kenilworthy
but who turned out to be rather canley".

catching the first bus back to Leam -- a bizarrely specific phrase which refers
to a second year student pulling a first year but realising just too late that
they have made a terrible mistake and sleeping on their floor before creeping
out at the earliest opportunity. 

cheeky -- loud and irritating

cryfield -- when someone has suffered a painful breakup with a partner, and is
at the stage of wandering around the campus aimlessly wishing the world would
end, this is known as "going to cryfield"

decadance (obsolete) -- to force yourself to the front of the Cooler stage and
proceed to make a complete idiot of yourself.  Example: "I'm getting drunk in
the Airport tonight.  Then I'm going to decadance."

drink while you think --  University campaign to remind students to consume
lots of water when revising in May to avoid heat exhaustion

eating at the Varsity tonight -- to have one's parents down to visit

feeding the ducks -- to have a hangover on Sunday 

fresher's fair -- a "meat market" for returning students to pick-up first
years.  Example: "Top B in first week is always a fresher's fair".

hearsall commoner -- a permanent resident of Coventry.

koan -- a giant white sculpture with blue neon lights that rotates slowly after
dark.  The object of worship from some of the stranger accommodation blocks.

leamington spa -- is robin swell [sic]

lecture notes -- pieces of gossip passed around the morning after a big event. 

lemming -- 1. someone who misses the last bus and decides to walk back to 'spa
along the middle of the road  2. revulsion at the more unpleasant parts of
leamington 3. the people from TSG who rig the lights over the marketplace 4.
small furry mammal.

9am lecture -- a weak excuse for not going out with someone.  Example: "I'd
love to go to Top Banana with you, but I've got a 9am lecture."

piazza -- chaeese and taomato on a carispy baread baase.

physicist -- wanker.  Officially, the derivation comes via physicist's frequent
use of "the right hand screw rule".  Unofficially, it's because physicists tend
to be tossers.

raw DJ -- a person who talks incessantly about themself.  Example: "The worst
thing about Ruth is that she's a raw DJ".

red and purple -- verbs meaning to drink so much cheap alcohol and be so
violently ill that the vomit is flecked with blood.

rootes reception -- an overly enthusiastic response.  Example: "The plan to
dress up for Boogie Nights had a rootes reception."

shopping at Tescos -- a phrase peculiar to lakeside that means having a party
that day.

sitting in cholo -- to be close to one's overdraft limit ("the bar").

sslc rep -- future civil servant

steward -- a man called stewart who has a cold

strawpedo -- to make slanderous allegations about celebrities and politicians.

surfing the web in his room -- wanking

swim at the sports centre -- an simple goal, like tidying one's room or
reading a book, that still never actually gets carried out.  See also,
"visiting Warwick Castle".

think while you drink -- University campaign to persuade students to be more
careful when consuming alcohol

tocil -- none at all, nothing, nowt (pronounced toss-all).

up gibbet hill -- to be in a dire predicament, work wise (by analogy with 'up
shit creek').

vice-chancellor -- chancellor in charge of vice

xanana's -- obscure sixties band that recorded that old song that gets played
at Top B every week.