The Meaning of Briff

0: Alum Rock

DazWright
"A sedimentary stone notable for the dull empty sound it makes when you drop it."

1: Balsall Heath

Bounder
"An area of skin that is hot for no apparent reason"

2: Chuckery

Lee_Jordan
"Medieval for Poultry farming area"

3: Erdington

Bounder
"The hope that the nutter on the bus doesn't sit by you as he sways up the aisle."

theaardvark
Gossip emanating from city centre residents.

4: Handsworth

Hanuman
"a unit of measure.See also Handsworth Wood - a measured quantity of wood"

5: Harborne

Bounder
How something you're carrying for someone else always seems heavier.

6: Moseley

Steve_Nicholls
"a knitted hat. longer at the sides to cover the ears, with bobbles."

Alternative
Lee_Jordan
"when fancy dress goes wrong"

Alternative
Shuckle
"The opinion that you are slightly more alternative than the next person."

Alternative
KeriDavies
"The feeling you get when, having dogmatically argued a point, you start to think you might wrong."

7: Shard End

NickTheOwl
"(colloq.) - delicate shrapnel wound."

Alternative
DazWright
"The final piece of glass you find some weeks after a drunken breakage."

podnosh
The texture found on the underside of a nun's part worn shoe.

8: Edgbaston

NickTheOwl
"(n.) - the injury caused when an overstretched elastic band snaps back at you."

Alternative
crispeater
"(noun): the melted stuck-on cheese in an oven grill tray after making cheese on toast."

9: Hodge Hill

10: Hollywood

Podnosh
"a predictably obliging lady."

11: Witton

Bounder
"A person who is much more assured of their comedy ability than the audience are."

12: Smethwick

Steve_Nicholls
"a fresh oil stain by the kerb which reflects all the colours of the rainbow."

Alternative
DazWright
"The feeling of frustration you get when you realise a candle is too short to light without burning yourself."

13: Stirchley

NickTheOwl
(adv.) - smiling but with an underlying hint of menace: "he looked at me a bit stirchley".

14: Sutton Coldfield

Bounder
"The draft that catches you unawares when putting the cat out dressed only in a bath robe"

15: Billesley

DazWright
"The uncertain feeling attached to whether or not it is appropriate to tip when dealing with a tradesperson."

16: Halesowen

rachel_simmo
"a screechy old woman with a Welsh husband"

17: Kingstanding

Lee_Jordan
"King Charles the first, reviewed his troop levels in the area prolly on the hill at Dyas Road!"

Alternative
Bounder
"(colloq. noun) a prodigious erection."

18: Quinton

Steve_Nicholls
"an effeminate but heterosexual male"

19: Winson Green

NickTheOwl
"like Lincoln Green but ever so slightly *less* green."

20: Acocks Green

rachel_simmo
"grass land for rearing poultry"

Alternative
SiWhitehouse"A condition usually treated with penecillin"

NicTomTom
Recycling chicken

21: Lozells

DazWright
"A lingering dry mouth that has resulted from the excessive ingestion of over the counter medication."

22: Jewellery Quarter

IanDice
"The portion of the body that may be adorned with precious stones or metals without 'showing off'"

23: Brandwood

SiWhitehouse
"A long thin branch with lots of randomly sprouting foliage."

theaardvark
A trading name that increases sales significantly.

NeilM
"A general description of Russell's life"

24: Kings Heath

Bounder
"(colloq. noun) a prodigious lady bush"

25: Yardley

Hanuman
"about 1 metreSee also Yardley Wood - about a metre of timber."

Alternative
SiWhitehouse
"a pensive way of saying "not quite""

26: Cofton

SiWhitehouse
" Having a very productive cold"

27: Cofton Hackett

Bounder
"Having a very productive cold and a vile cough"

28: Kings Norton

SiWhitehouse
"A royal with a prodigious cocaine habit"

Alternative
KeriDavies
"(noun): A joke so funny you can't help laughing at it days later."

29: Dale End

Bounder
"The last biscuit in the pack, always covered with so many crumbs as to be un-dunkable."

30: Streetly

IanDice
"(adj.): To talk in a manner and tone understandable by youths and criminals."

31: Cotteridge

keridavies
"The groove that runs down the length of a Yale key."

32: Nechells

NickTheOwl
"(n. pl.) - the sensation caused by going out in shorts in December."

33: Stechford

SiWhitehouse
"The noise made by a football hooligan the instant before he headbutts his victim"

34: Tyburn

SiWhitehouse
"The mark left by an item of neckwear used in auto-erotic self strangulation"

35: New Oscott

Lee_Jordan
"a middle class training centre called Tesco either graduating downhill to Erdington or upmarket to Sutton!"

Alternative for Oscott
DazWright
"The middle class detritus that can only result from a Farmers Market."

36: Northfield

Hanuman
"a grope round the back of the Argos"

37: Weoley

DazWright
"An expression of such surprise that words don't come out right."

Alternative Weoloey Castle
Bounder
"A well upholstered caravan, with lots of things that are both "a can opener and a singball set"

Alternative Weoley Castle
ObviusPseudonym
"Howl's prototype."

38: Minworth

NickTheOwl
"expression of shock at the low value of the pound whilst on holiday ."

39: Castle Vale

Lee_Jordan
"The fog that results from youth experimenting with non-tobacco rollups on a hill, before building luxury cars!"

40: Rubery

Bounder
"The nagging sensation that you have forgotten something"

Alternative:
podnosh
v. To embrocate a sore earlobe. "After teaching, Joan would indulge in 5 minutes rubery"

41: Great Barr

Lee_Jordan
"meaning to compliement landlord on a good drinking establishment or a thanks to G. Cadbury for the Fudge!"

42: Bournville

KeriDavies
"period of low productivity, espec mid-afternoon."

43: Perry Barr

IanDice
"Famed watering-hole known best for inventing and popularising pear cider."

44: Bearwood

rachel_simmo
"Forest for nudists"

45: Small Heath

Hanuman
" nauseous sensation of almost being sick but then it goes back down again"

46: Wylde Green

Bounder
"A hairstyle favoured by the more trendy residents of the creative suburbs."

47: Kingsbury

NickTheOwl
"the one abnormally large strawberry which can always be found in a supermarket-bought punnet."

48: Sheldon

Hanuman
"a pocket sized takeaway snack in it's own protective packaging available from Mr Egg"

49: Sparkbrook

Bounder
"(verb): The bum cleavage of a building site electrician."

50: Sparkhill

Bounder
"(verb): The mound of cables in the back of a van of a building site electrician."

51: Lickey End

NickTheOwl
"(clean) - the last remaining bit of an ice lolly which threatens to fall on the floor before you can consume it"

52: Camp Hill

Hanuman
"a tablet that makes you a bit gay"

53: Longbridge

ObviusPseudonym
"Tracheostomy equipment"

54: Sandwell

55: Oldbury

56: Amblecote

57: Pensnett

58: Highgate

59: Deritend

60: Digbeth

61: Queslett

62: Walsall Arboretum

Lee_Jordan"Walsall Arboretum" - What parent says to child when child won't eat, "are but eat em up nice for us?!" See also, heat em

63: Hockley

64: Frankley

Bounder

65: Tyseley

NickTheOwl

66: Aston

Bounder

67: Gravelly Hill

IanDice

68: Bartley Green

Podnosh

69: Hall Green

Bounder

70: Aldridge

IanDice

71: Bloxwich

JayneHowarth

72: City Centre

hmobius

73: Quarry Bank

JayneHowarth

74: Shirley

Alexhughes

75: Saltley

eight8all
"The name given to a button on a lab technician's coat"

bounder
(adj.): The unclean feeling you get when you've been outside in the cold, even though you're not soiled at all.

76: Little Aston

IanDice

77: Romsley

eight8all
1. a misheard drunken swearword. 2. a pre-Euro foreign coin now rendered worthless.

78: Dudley

Bounder

79: West Bromwich

Bromwich Singular

80: Ladywood

citizensheep
Euphemism. 'Nuff said.

81: Chelmsley Wood

SiWhitehouse

82: Brindleyplace

editorialgirl
A part of the body too ticklish or uncomfortable to be touched. Eg, "Oh, not there! That's my Brindleyplace."

83: Fox Hollies

editorialgirl
Confusing or jargon-filled conversation. "I went to the meeting, but a lot of it was Fox Hollies to me."

84: Wolverhampton

johnpopham
Hung like a lupine.

85: Duddeston

IanDice

86: Bassetts Pole

podnosh
A Liquorice penis (usually dipped in sherbert)

87: Roughley

stuartparker
The period of time it takes you to realise that you are now actually lost.

88: Rowley Village

Bounder

89: Maxstoke

nicktheowl
(n.) - the feeling that coffee has taken you as far as it can and you really, *really* need to go to bed.

90: Willenhall

hanuman

91: Pensnett

Chris Allen

92: Dorridge

ObviusPseudonym

93: Whitehouse Common

SiWhitehouse

94: Cradley Heath

bounder
(n.): The beginnings of a bald spot.

95: Hawksley

SiWhitehouse

96: Alvechurch

bounder
Shifting from cheek to cheek of those unused to sitting on pews. "Dan's alvechurch began to distract the vicar"

97: Black Lake

nicktheowl
c.f. Edgbaston Reservoir, but really plumbing the depths of existential despair.

98: Cocks Moors

Supercoolkp

99: Edgbaston Reservoir

bounder
A reserve of bad memories one can draw on to simulate rage about things you're not really angry about.

100: Aston Hall

JezHiggins

101: Shifnal

nicktheowl
(n.) the noise made by the doors on the Starship Enterprise.

102: Druids Heath

SiWhitehouse

103: French Walls

BenjaminBrum

104: Tile Cross

bounder
(verb) (male) to "cross swords" ie to urinate simultaneously into one toilet

105: Maypole

Hanuman

106: Yardley Wood

WatfordGap

107: West Heath

Arandu

108: Walsall

eight8all

109: Olton

Boofie

110: Fen End

Boofie

111: Redditch

watfordgap
"The doctor warned you that you should put some cream on it"

112: Chinnbrook

Podnosh

113: Wednesbury

Bounder

114: Codsall

siwhitehouse
Something willingly written off "Don't worry about it, it cost me Codsall"

115: Coseley

nicktheowl
(adv.) - attempting to sound alluring whilst drunk. "'I think you're gorgeous,' he slurred coseley.

116: Lower Gornall

eight8all

117: Coleshill

nicktheowl
(n.) - an insignificant matter. As in "don't make a mountain out of a Coleshill."

118: Upper Gornall

eight8all

119: Tardebigge

siwhitehouse
1. A static steam engine used to pull trolleys in mines. 2. Sound made by same

120: Bescot

WatfordGap

121: Lydiate Ash

siwhitehouse
A quite disturbing amount of lip hair on a young woman

122: Elmdon

Bounder

123: Tividale

eight8all

124: Highgate

Lee_Jordan

125: Penn

Lee_Jordan

126: Chapel Ash

Lee_Jordan

127: Hay Mills

bounder
(colloq.): The lumps in a heat rash that aren't quite worth applying Cream E45 to.

128: Netherton

Podnosh

129: Bickenhill

Podnosh

130: Gornal

SiWhitehouse

131: Chad Valley

Podnosh

132: Selly Oak

Bounder

133: Rowley Regis

Bounder

134: Paradise Forum

Pigsonthewing

135: Victoria Square

Pigsonthewing

136: Wishaw

siwhitehouse
The sound of the wind in the trees just before you fall asleep

137: Greet

bounder
A thorough but ultimately disappointing lover.

138: Soho

theaardvark

139: Pype Hayes

nicktheowl
(n.) - the result of tripping over some exposed (possibly 16th century) pipework.

140: Springfield

Bounder

141: Warstock

Nicktheowl

142: Holloway Head

Bounder

143: Ward End

bounder
(n.): A bit of wood that's too small to saw, too big to plane, from a plank that needs to fit somewhere tight.

144: Hamstead

pigsonthewing
Stuffed toy belonging to an actor.

145: Kidderminster

watfordgap
holy children

146: Cockshut Hill

siwhitehouse
Sarcastic description of somebody pulling a sickie. "Dave, yeah he's proper Cockshut Hill he is"

147: Barr Beacon

Bounder

148: Bordesley

Nicktheowl

149: Gib Heath

pigsonthewing
Maurice's beard

150: Bodymoor Heath

Pigsonthewing

151: Snow Hill

Pigsonthewing

152: Rotton Park

nicktheowl
(n.) - a park with no swings.

153: St Pauls Square

siwhitehouse
St Paul's Square: Children's game and rhyme "St Paul's Square, he wears flares, shows you his knickers for a 2p dare"

154: Hagley

155: Kitts Green

156: Washwood Heath

NeilM
"A hot fluid that is used to clean objects, particularly furniture"

157: Marston Green

NeilM
"How someone will look and feel after a bad pint of beer"

158: Catherine-de-Barnes

NeilM
"A type of women who has expensive taste, but doesn't earn enough to pay for it all"

159: Castle Bromwich

NeilM
"It is the feeling that you should be somewhere else, but your not quite sure where"

160: Water Orton

NeilM
"Feeling like an outsider, but you know someone in the group has a soft spot for you"

Alternative
NeilM
"A place where you can buy expensive bottled water, especially if the water is actually tap water"

161: Fillongley

162: shustoke

163: nether whittacre

164: Willenhall

hanuman

165: cheap driving school with eco friendly