Green’s Dictionary of Slang

see separate entry.

(UK society) diarrhoea, or very painful defecation.

1982		Barr & York Sloane Ranger Hbk 159: ringburner n. The results of a heavy curry the morning after.
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 977/2: 1960s.

see circle jerk n.

a male homosexual.

1997

Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: ring master n. 1. The master of ceremonies at a circus. 2. A botter (qv).

1. the anus; thus (1990s+) ringpiece licker, an anilinguist.

1967		J. Orton Diaries (1986) 19 May 174: ‘He looks rather tight-arsed,’ I said. ‘Don’t you believe it, laddie, she’s had camels up her ring-piece.’.
1979		‘Abdul Abul Bul Amir’ in Bold (1979) 3: Old Abdul the fool left the flange of his tool / Up the ringpiece of Ivan Skavar!
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 1279/2: twittering ringpiece [...] A state of extreme nervousness: RAF; since ca. 1939.
1996		J. Baker Death Minus Zero (1998) 184: He had the trots, rushing off to the lavatory every five minutes. ‘My ringpiece is doing a dance,’ he said coming back for the fifth time.
2003		N. Griffiths Stump 155: Have a fuckin ringpiece like a blood orange.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 365: I feel shivers running up the backs ay my legs [...] as my ringpiece starts to go intae a spasm.

2. a general term of abuse.

2001		OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 ringpiece n.adj. arsehole, idiot.
2019		M. Hyde Guardian 26 Mar. 🌐 These are dark days for the ERG Brexit ultras. The Fellowship of the Ringpieces finds itself divided on their next move.

a male homosexual, a sodomite.

1993–2003

Dave on Urban Dict. 🌐 ring raider A battyman or bum bandit ass bandit or gay Backs to the wall lads – there’s a ring raider on the loose.

a sodomite; thus ring-snatching, sodomy.

1966		Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 18: the man who fucks in anal intercourse, as opposed to the one who is fucked [...] ring snatcher.

a painful act of defecation, attributed to a meal with an excess of hot spices.

1997		Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: ring sting n. Inflammation of the ring (qv) as a result of pissing rusty water (qv) such as after visiting the Rupali restaurant in Newcastle and sampling the world’s hottest curry.
2000		N. Griffiths Grits 316: Oo. Big one ther. Birruver ring-stinger, that . . . a red-wine dump, poo, mud-out, crap, shite.
2001		OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 ring-sting adj. the results of excreting stools heavily impregnated with chilli or last nights curry.

to perform anal intercourse.

1980

E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 158: A sizable vocabulary is associated with [anal intercourse...] (to ask for/buy the ring, to take on some backs, to throw a buttonhole on someone).

anal intercourse.

1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks 1/1: A bit of ring, buggery; sodomy (prison).
1941		G. Legman ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry Sex Variants.
1965		Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 4: bit of ring, to have a (v.): The act of pedication. (Prison slang.).
1982		Maledicta VI:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 147: From them she might pick up and more to startle than identify with her sisters use words and expressions such as peddle your ass, have a bit of ring (pedicate).

the vagina.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

to vomit violently.

1988

R. Doyle Commitments 154: Nearly puked me ring.

to perform anal intercourse.

1980

E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 158: A sizable vocabulary is associated with [anal intercourse] (to ask for/buy the ring, to take on some backs).

see in one’s ballocks under ballocks n.

of a woman, to lose one’s virginity.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 977/1: C.19–early 20.

(N.Z.) to be sure of, to be certain of, esp. in phr, you can put a ring around that one.

1959		G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 60: Gotta get a good possie on the bank and see the boys win. You can put a ring around that one.
1960		F. Keinzly Tangahano 130: There’s still a couple of hundred that haven’t told me yet—but they will tonight. You can put a ring around it!
1970		B. Crump ‘A Good Keen Girl’ Best of Barry Crump (1974) 244: You’d never catch me volunteering [...] you can put a ring around that lot. I’d turn conchy first.
1978		V.G. O’Sullivan Boy, The Bridge, The River 130: ‘It had better be good weather then,’ Latty agreed. ‘You can put a ring round that,’ Len said.
1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 127/2: you can put a ring around that you can be sure of that; from ringing some item with a pencil so it stands out on the page.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988].

1. (also ringadangdoo, ring-a-rang-roo) the vagina.

1935		in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 150: Her ring-dang-doo, pray what is that? / Furred all araounnn’ – lak’ a poosy-cat, / All kivvered with haiiir! – HAN’ split inn two; / That’s what you caaal – her ring-dand-doo.
c.1949		in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 184: Oh, the ring-dang-doo, now what is that? / It’s big and round like a pussy cat, / Covered with fur and split in two. / That’s what they call the ring-dang-doo.
1951		in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 148: I’ve got some pussy that’s mighty fine, / So young and old, come take a whack, / Take a whack at my ring-dang-doo.
1956		in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 183: Oh, the ring-a-rang-roo, now what is that? / It’s soft and round like a pussy cat. / It’s got a hole in the middle and split in two, / And that’s what they call the ring-a-rang-roo.
1964		A. Hine Unsinkable Molly Brown 9: Who’s going to take care of you when you’re wanting a little ring-dang-do.
1973		(con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘The Ringadangdoo’ in Snatches and Lays 17: The Ringadangdoo, pray what is that? / It’s furry and soft, like a pussy-cat.

2. (Aus.) a spree, a party.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 977/2: since late 1940s.

3. (US) a complicated affair, a rigmarole.

1986

Chapman NDAS.

(adulterous) sexual intercourse.

1594		Gesta Grayorum (1688) 18: One Amazon, with a Ring to be run at by the Knights of the Prince’s Band.
1607		Dekker & Webster Northward Hoe I i: There has bin old running at the ring since I went.
c.1611		Fletcher Woman’s Prize I i: Oh my old Sir, When shall we see your worship run at Ring? That hour, a standing were worth money.
c.1625		Rowley Woman never Vext 59: [We shall] run at the ring of your setting-up, and you must tell us who deserves most favour.
1652		O. Feltham Character of the Low Countries 53: Where the Woman lyes in, the Ringle of the door does penance, and is lapped about with linnen, either to shew you that loud knocking may wake the child; Or else that for a moneth the Ring is not to be run at.
c.1660		‘News From Hide-Park’ Pepys Ballads (1987) III 257: That I all night long might have my repast to run at the ring Tan-tivee.
1684		C. Cotton Erotopolis 108: The Shepherds will never Just unless the Shepherdesses will provide Rings, nor the Shepherdesses can ever be brought to run a-Tilt, unless the Shepherds provide Launces.

1. to be violently sick.

1962		F. Norman Guntz 187: Especially after I have [...] thrown up my ring.
1971		(con. WWII) B. Aldiss Soldier Erect 105: Sodding shitting Wog beer! [...] Makes me spew my ring every time!
1995		M. Simpson ‘Prufrock Scoused’ Catching Up with Hist. 21: The doss houses [...] where thee spew der rings up.
2000		M. Manning Get Your Cock Out 103: Matching him drink for drink, then spewing her ring in the backs of cabs.
2004		P. Howard Teenage Dirtbag Years 13: That porty in her gaff when I puked my ring up.
2004		(con. 1990s) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 406: I witnessed a mate of mine spewing his ring up in a cell in Wandsworth.
2007		N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 35: The man [...] threw up his ring into the [toilet] bowl.
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 65: He sent Karine a text, telling her he had caught the flu or something, got up and puked his ring out, went back to bed.
2021		P Howard Braywatch 323: [H]e storts spewing his ring up. He’s like, ‘BLEEEUUUGGGHHH!!! BLEEEUUUGGGHHH!!!’.

2. in fig. use, to talk openly, candidly.

1962

F. Norman Guntz 234: One starts of by spewing one’s ring about things that one feels strongly about.

3. to back down, to be a coward.

1971

(con. WWII) B. Aldiss Soldier Erect 91: You spewed your fucking ring, didn’t you? [...] the great right-winger Stubbs chickened out of screwing a bibi at the last minute.

(Aus.) to work very hard.

1992

R.G. Barrett White Shoes 6: Porking some bloke’s girl behind his back while the poor mug’s out working his ring off wasn’t actually cricket.

(UK Und.) a swindler who sells counterfeit gold rings.

c.1561

Awdeley Fraternitye of Vacabondes in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 11: There is another kinds of these Ring choppers, which commonly cary about them a faire gold ring in deede, and these haue counterfait rings made so lyke this gold ring, as ye shal nor perceiue the contrary.

see ring faller n.

see separate entry.

see separate entry.

(Aus.) a bookmaker.

1936

Sydney Sportsman(Surry Hills, NSW) 6 June 6/1: ‘Two to one’ hollered the ringmen when the Cup betting opened.

a drunkard.

1570

P. Levins Manipulus Vocabulorum 80: A Ringpigger, potator, bibax.

1. (US gambling) to bet heavily when losing badly, hoping to get even.

1961

J. Scarne Complete Guide to Gambling.

2. (US black/campus) to be obsessed, to the point of foolishness, with one other person, usu. a lover, by whom one can be led.

1967–8		Baker et al. CUSS 184: Ring in his nose Be excessively submissive to your girl friend.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 126: Expressions like [...] to have a ring through your nose, or to be a turkey on a string mean to be deeply infatuated or in love with another.
1993		R. Shell Iced 132: This fifteen-year-old chick had me by my nose ring.

(US) to beat up, to assault.

2013

T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘So, we put the rings to the nephew of this town’s top organized criminal’.