Kench

Kench (noun)

Wiganism (Telegram for Tonker) for beer belly. 'Believed' to have mining origins.


Or is it?

Kench To laugh loudly

Courtesy of Jo Anne.

I think I'll go for a quick Quagswaggling!!

James Bloody Burke

Avoid complaints

the kench down the pit was the section of the tunnel(the Rock)which was left after the coal had been extracted at both ends of the coal face on an advancing coal face before it was cut out for the steel arches(explosives or machine cut).The arched roadway could be about 15-25ft behind the coal seam being extracted so the rock face was the kench

Spelled "Caunch"

Interesting stuff, chaps.

'Caunch' even looks like 'paunch'

Correct phred,

Also known as top and bottom 'rips' which looks like 'pips'
Cue Dostaf (looks like dustaf)

Little rips are naughty.

The origin is more sinister.