Horsey Slang?

[snopuma]

popping up to do the boys = just going to get the horses in

poop scooping = retreiving the muck from one's paddock

do you want you PJ's on then = would you like your stable rugs on now?

quick spin round the block = short hack (half an hour)

Baaaaaaagh! = stand still while I hose off your legs

OOOOIIIWWW = please stop pulling on the headcollar, we'll get up the field soon enough!

Click Click = please pick up this foot or please hurry along or please back up

set fair = tidy up beds, check buckets, rugs and nets

[5.7FB+16.2FC]

Throwing the bed up
chuck him a net
nanging
He is a bit sharp

[5.7FB+16.2FC]

He a plod

[FeatheryFeet]

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[Ruskii]

All the gear and no idea ?

[Tarka]

'Stick a rug on' Not literally getting a tube of pritt stick and glueing a rug to them!

[Kis Vihar]

Just a couple more 'coloquial' horsey things.... If you wen't horsey, you wouldn't get them....!

'My horse is fussy in the gob'

'Scarey crisp packet monsters' (or carrier bag monsters!)

'Just going up the yard to do the horse' (Non-horsey friends always say ' what yard to do WHAT to the horse?!)

[ali cat]

neddies. nags. dobbins. = horses
jammies (as in PJ's) = rugs
clean his trainers = picking out feet
makin the bed = mucking out
get your clothes on=to get tacked up
skipping out=removing worst of muck
strapping=finishing off grooming with stable rubber or straw wisp
goin for a blast=good fast hack
popping a jump=jusmpin
having a hoolie=letting off steam
bucking and farting=again -letting off steam
full pelt=headlong gallop
mad half hour=again-letting off steam
get on board=mount up






full up cob=a heavyweight cob

[STEFF79]

My b/f would be able to tell you more that me!! Because I don't even relise i'm doing it and he's like this most of the time!! It makes me laugh when he calls our muck heap.. poo mountain!!

[ginny!]

lol. i said "i want to go on a hack" to one of my friends, and they looked at me like and said "hack??!! your going to hack something down"

it made me chuckle it did

[Tink!]

Threw a wobbly!!

Originally Posted by palmerlover52

Cobby Job?

Alot of my friends use it around by me ... refers to any MW to HW cob

[Edwy]

And I'm learning a lot - please make sure you include definitions, I have been wondering about a lot of these. Some of your "vernacular" is very - ah - different than ours!

Glad you started this!

[Asima]

Lame - My OH gave me a stinking look when I said Lilly was lame. I had to explain that it was because she was limping slighty not that I thought she was c**p

Bombproofing- Get funny looks for this

Otherwise
Dead to the leg
Spook
Shy
hollow
Working in an outline
Cast
Tied up
Pacing

[BIrish]

Stacked it - Fell off

Tanked with - horse going at speed where it likes

Tanking - see above..

Gobby - Horse is unhappy in his mouth i.e "He's a bit gobby with that bit"

Hollow - horse with head in the air creating a hollow in his mid-section (rather than horse is hollow in manner of easter egg!)

PonyClubKick - to flap in a slightly undignified way with legs a la small child on fat lazy pony

[xfarnorthx]

Eons ago I worked briefly in a racing yard where the term "to let a horse down" meant to untie, take off headcollar and let loose in the box. I use it all the time in front of my daughter ("you can let him down now") and she has no idea what I mean!

[xfarnorthx]

Oooh just remembered another from my racing days: "to run up light" - lose a lot of weight/condition quickly, usually from excess of work. Similar but not quite the same as "tucked up".

[BIrish]

Originally Posted by xfarnorthx

Oooh just remembered another from my racing days: "to run up light" - lose a lot of weight/condition quickly, usually from excess of work. Similar but not quite the same as "tucked up".

I use that expression too

[Sarah_Sayers]

Hit the deck. But that's used in lots of areas, not specifically horses.

Also saw someone else on here use the term 'hack and yak', for a ride and a chat, which I thought was fab.

[Trewsers]

Hoolying - running around the field like plonkers!
Chop - used to be slang on our old yard for a bucket of hard feed!
Pootling - just meandering aimlessly around the field or around the block for a hack
Wind up their arse - basically being idiots cos the wind is blowing and their senses are affected.
Sharp - just generally being more aware of their surroundings etc