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I'm not *fronting*

Posted by Gary on September 18, 2004

In Reply to: I'm not *fronting* posted by Joanie on September 18, 2004

: Hello to you all,

: Does anyone know what the "fronting" means?
: I'm not *fronting*, but this cost me 200 dollars.

: ThANK you

I'm not sure what it means in that context. My New Zealand relatives use 'fronting up' to mean arriving, which they have just done for a family celebration here in the UK. I'm gathering lots of new phrases from the nether regions while they are here. 'Flag that away' seems to mean decline an invitation. Our accents are proving a bit of a barrier to communication. My NZ niece is recently qualified as a 'vit' and says her motivation for this was 'to make animals bitter'. They can't speak South Yorkshire and my mother (whose 90th birthday we are celebrating) only speaks broad Black Country dialect. Last evening the non-veggies amongst us ate, depending on country of origin, chicken/fowl/chuck. Flags might come in useful here.

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