Slang wait's over
Daily Record|January 19, 2024
'Deafie' makes the dictionary.. 40 years after it was first put in print by killer Boyle
RECORD REPORTER
Slang wait's over

KILLER turned artist Jimmy Boyle has helped get the slang word "deafie" into the Oxford English Dictionary.

The dictionary's researchers found one of the earliest printed mentions of "deafie" or "deafy" was in his 1984 diaries Pain Of Confinement, chronicling his time in Glasgow's Barlinnie jail.

A passage in the book reads: "Larry is really down at the moment. I spoke to him about it but he slung me a deafy.

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