AtDDtA1: "Liverpool Kiss"

[Nick Halliwell]

I must admit that I've only ever heard "Glasgow Kiss" in use today. But of
course Glasgow, Liverpool and Newcastle are cities with a great deal in
common. On the other hand in the eighties, in Alan Bleasdale's TV series
"Boys From The Blackstuff", Yosser Hughes (played by Bernard Hill) famously
delivered headbutts of precisely this kind and I don't remember these being
referred to as "Liverpool Kisses". But then there are a lot of things about
the eighties I don't remember and I'm hoping to keep it that way.

Nick

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Subject: AtDDtA1: "Liverpool Kiss"

   "'Insubordinate drivel, Suckling,' sternly declared Lindsay, 'will
earn you someday what is known among the lower seafaring elements as a
'Liverpool Kiss' ..." (AtD, Pt. I, Ch. 2, pp. 11-2)


Liverpool Kiss  	

English term for a Head butt, a form of physical attack where the
victim is hit on the forehead by the attacker's head.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Liverpool+Kiss

Generally known as a Liverpool Kiss, it is just a headbutt, usually
aimed at the top of the nose. There is no "pretend kiss" involved.

It is sometimes referred to as a Glaswegian Kiss (from Glasgow), or a
Geordie Kiss (from Newcastle), but usually only by natives of those
towns wanting to make their town sound tough by claiming credit for
inventing the headbutt.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/40/messages/434.html

Glasgow kiss, n. [ Glasgow, the name of a city in west central
Scotland + KISS n., in humorous allusion to the reputation for
violence accorded to some parts of the city. Cf. earlier Liverpool
kiss s.v. LIVERPOOL n.]  A head-butt.

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