"hackney" I really like this word.
While Mello was the one to teach me all the swear words I know, Near was always the one who had to educate me on the actual meaning of them.
I was eleven when I first heard Linda tell Mello to "stop PMSing!" Mello and Linda were twelve and Near was ten. Linda was avoiding us while Mello was being pissy and refused to talk to either of us, so ignorant, innocent me had to ask Near if he knew what it meant.
"She means, 'Mello, stop emulating a woman.'" That one was pretty amusing to learn, I have to admit.
A month later, Mello got mad at me and called me a "faggot."
Near's definition was, "'You should be burned at the stake.'" I was rather offended.
A week later, I first heard Mello say the phrase "fuck you." You'd think I'd have learned by then, but I turned to Near.
"'I'm sexually attracted to and thus must insult you.'" I was traumatized at the time.
Even now, Near and I seem to have a pattern. Whenever Mello calls me by some new insult, like "hackney" for example, I turn to Near and say something along the lines of "Did he just call me a horse?"
AND NO, THESE ARE NOT MY VIEWS ON GAYS. FAGGOT IS A DISGUSTING WORD.