clayhead

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

clay +‎ -head

Noun[edit]

clayhead (plural clayheads)

  1. (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.
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