Glasgow Patter: fighting it out...
malky A cutting or stabbing weapon, especially (and originally) a cut-throat razor. To get the malky is to be physically attacked: 'You're gauny get the malky if ye don't get aff yer mark.' To malky a person is to attack him, especially using a bladed weapon: 'Tell the crapbag Big Ronnie's on his way roon tae malky him.' To get malkied in is to do something with great vigour and enthusiasm. The term seems to have originated as the first half of a piece of Glasgow rhyming slang: Malky (short for Malcolm) Fraser meaning razor. My researchers have failed to unearth the Malcolm Fraser thus commemorated. © Michael Munro	'Getting right inty them' (ie. tearing opponents apart) is part of the local macho culture, even though street-fighting or gang-fighting might be less common today than in the 60's and 70's. In most industrial environments toughness is high on the hit-parade of respected qualities and fighting is part of the mythology. For those who know Billy Connolly's sketches, 'Ivan the Terrible' comes to mind as a ready reference.

Glasgow Patter: fighting it out...

malky: A cutting or stabbing weapon, especially (and originally) a cut-throat razor. To get the malky is to be physically attacked: 'You're gauny get the malky if ye don't get aff yer mark.'
To malky a person is to attack him, especially using a bladed weapon: 'Tell the crapbag Big Ronnie's on his way roon tae malky him.'
To get malkied in is to do something with great vigour and enthusiasm.
The term seems to have originated as the first half of a piece of Glasgow rhyming slang: Malky (short for Malcolm) Fraser meaning razor. My researchers have failed to unearth the Malcolm Fraser thus commemorated.

'Getting right inty them' (ie. tearing opponents apart) is part of the local macho culture, even though street-fighting or gang-fighting might be less common today than in the 60's and 70's. In most industrial environments toughness is high on the hit-parade of respected qualities and fighting is part of the mythology. For those who know Billy Connolly's sketches, 'Ivan the Terrible' comes to mind as a ready reference.

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