clayhead

noun

clayhead

noun

Etymology From clay + -head.

1

UK, Rare, Slang A person from the Potteries region of England.

  • 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 […]2008, Stuart Maconie, Pies and Prejudice: In search of the North, page 33:
  • 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.2020, C. L. Williams, Smailholm:

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