After years of loving neglect, I decided yesterday to re-energise my powers of detection and set about trying to determine the meaning of ram when it is used – as it often is in this vicinity, especially by the committed teenage swearers who feel compelled to hurl abuse at Audrey and I whenever we wander into their territory – as a term of abuse.
It was Reg who enlightened me. Apparently, in this particular instance, ram is meant to signify someone who is utterly useless and universally despised.
According to Reg, it refers either to the local football team or to bestiality. Or both.
These are subjects that are discussed (and in the case of the latter, ostensibly practiced with alarming regularity) very often in the living-rooms, snooker halls and gin-joints of Derbyshire and its outlying areas.
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