Well attestedNamed from the place
Glasgow kiss
noun · first attested 1980s
A city's reputation for violence turned into a euphemism for the act itself.
A headbutt to the face, usually breaking the nose.
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- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1980s
- Part of speech
- noun
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Glasgow
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Glasgow kiss
The joke is sarcasm about Glaswegian belligerence, and Green's Dictionary of Slang records the phrase only from the mid 1980s, much later than the stereotype. The Gorbals district supplies a variant, the Gorbals kiss. Glasgow also gives English the Glasgow smile and the Glasgow salad.
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