clayhead
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]clayhead (plural clayheads)
- (UK, slang, rare) A person from the Potteries region of England.
- 2008, Stuart Maconie, Pies and Prejudice: In search of the North, page 33:
- It has its own local delicacy, the oatcake, a sort of heavy-duty tortilla with the texture of flannel, which exiled 'clayheads' get all tearful about […]
- 2020, C. L. Williams, Smailholm:
- She is proud to be called a 'Clayhead'—a person born in the Potteries (Stoke on Trent) and will always turn over a china cup to see where it is made.