What is a weef?

It is an action or noun referring to the act of scratching or otherwise stimulating another person in the chin/neck region.

The weef came to being in the Myersville (Maryland) Elementary School of the United States in the mid to late 1970s. A group of rambunctious boys who sat in the back seats on a long bus route contemplated the ramifications of the vibrating bus, their desire for intimacy with their fellow male riders, and the homophobia that was endemic in their culture.

One of the boys felt inspired to infer that his seatmate was having scrotum to mouth contact. (This was a form of insult in the culture of the time.) He did this by scratching his friend's chin and pronouncing "Ahhhh...bus relief". This was the first known weef.

Of course, the seatmate (or weefee) was confused. He expressed his confusion to the weefer.

The weefer explained, "Ah...bus relief. I'm scratching my balls. Ahhhh..." Several boys were amused. Very amused.

In the following days, the boys in the know did this to each other on the bus. Other children observed the behavior along with the accompanying amusement of the participants and wished to join in.

There was a boy who was not particularly popular and was not able to sit in the back seats of the bus. He had a speech impediment which made him a subject of derision. He wanted badly to enjoy the intimacy and amusement of the others and attempted the "bus relief" chin scratch and said "Ahhhh....Bus Welief."

The boys in the back of the bus (the original weefers) found that this added to their amusement. The adopted the mispronounced name for the act and shortened it to "weef".

As the weef craze moved from the bus to the playground and was handed down to underclassmen, it lost much of it's original homophobic bullying intent. It became a form of play. Boys would have "weef battles", attacking each other by surprise or forming companies of "weef warriors".

I left Myersville long ago, but I believe the practice has died in the current generation. It never quite had the impact of the similar wedgie.