Post by Christopher A. LeePost by SmilerPost by b***@m.nuOn Fri, 14 Apr 2017 05:13:34 -0500, "Jeanne Douglas"
Post by Jeanne DouglasI'm seeing a lot of posts talking about moulies.
What the fuck is a moulie?
JD
I think it's Polari (British theatre and gay slang), but I don't know
what it means. The late Kenneth Williams used the word in his Julian and
Sandy sketches as well as his Rambling Syd Rumpo persona.
I don't recall his use of that word, but that doesn't mean he didn't.
Do you recall the context in which he used it?
I don't.
Most of the time Rambling Syd's stuff was complete nonsense, with a
few words I recognised, eg "I'll tether my nadgers to a grouting pole,
for the old grey mare is grunging in the meadow". Nadgers were
bollocks, of course.
But you could actually get a picture of what Julian and Sandy were
saying, and ploari (palare) came from a wide variety of sources, eg
"how bona (bon) to vid (as in video) your eke".
Some of it is back-slang, some is obscure.
Eke or eek = "ecaf" = "face", in the greeting
you've given. "Riah", hair. "Lallies" means
legs but I don't know why.
I think "Rambling Sid" once declared something
like "I'm just being rustic", but he could drop
in a word of Polari for an extra laugh -
Kenneth Williams played both Sandy and Sid.
I think that "mooly" belonged to the latter.
As for the redirected racist abuse, I apologise
for not hunting down and slaughtering the
oxygen-wasting so-called primates responsible
for it; I've been quite busy at work.