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Just a little leg up for the foreign devils who infest this board (anyone not from the UK).

I'd like to start a collection of our local slang terms, and of course, what they mean.

This could well provide an invaluable resource for all those seeking to understand exactly what the hell I myself am on about. But be careful, I am a Black Belt, 27th Dann in Swearies, for I have not 1, not 2, but all three edition of Roger's Profanisaurus, and thus am able to lay my hands on the finest examples of rude terms known to man! This warning comes because no matter how clever you might think you are being, there is always a chance that someone else in the room knows their Wizards Sleeves from there Mary Poppins Bag! For the true master of course, there are always Swearing Pennants, so you can quite literally make a sailor blush! Though I can't find mine right now, they are easy enough to make once you know the translations.

So, begin!

P.S. To the mods, how clean do we have to be on this Forum? One assumes this little fellow is there for good reason, yes?

And owing to a confusion between 'quote' and 'edit' button location, we come to our first, fairly basic entry.....


Bugger. Literally, to Sodomise, though now in more widespread use as a term of mild disappointment or frustration. Can also be used to describe the state of an item..Examples....

'Bugger' (used on it's own, a statement of disappointment'

'Bugger it, I can't be bothered' (frustration)

'Well, thats Buggered it' or 'It's completely Buggered'

Saw this in a book I was reading at Border's:

"Your country is like a toilet. It doesn't need a President, just someone to flush all the away."

Not slang, but definitely nation-oriented.

Honestly, you Americans!

I should explain the examples I gave in my first post, though I will have to be delicate about it.....

A Wizards Sleeve - A lady with somewhat cavernous charm.....

A Mary Poppins Bag - A lady with surprisingly cavernous charm....

Absolutely not to be confused with a Butler Cuff, which is the polar opposite of A Wizards Sleeve, being as it is neatly folded and pursed at all times.

Bogans: Dicks who have an exaggerated accent, are generally dirty and get stoned on a daily basis for fun.

Hoons: Dicks who are a general nuisance on the roads. Making rude gestures out the window, throwing stuff at pedestrians, etc.

eh, ask some other aussies here. I'm too lazy.

[see forum posting rules]: A tasty meatball, served in gravy, with mash and peas.

Modquisition activate
Since you asked MDG lets keep it moderate. Also no derogatories for the usual: race/gender and no profanity please.

Mdquisition off.

Am I to assume that your are refering to Twig and Berries young Blackspike?

And rightydokey Frazzled (what happened to the J?).

And I see what young Blackspike was on about now, and sadly, the term has been somewhat hijacked by our American chums so that rather than a particularly tasty meat dish, it now refers to a fellow who is 'light on his feet', 'good with colours', 'hasn't met the right girl yet' or even 'isn't the marrying kind'

Here's some Yorkshire ones for you:

Summat - Something
Nowt - Nothing
Owt - Anything
Sen - Self (as in yoursen, mesen)
Mardy - Grumpy (popularised by the Arctic Monkeys)
Bellend - Male genetalia, person of questionable character
Jebend - " "

Do you guys have pawned, owned, and pwoned? The 13 year old tried to explain the difference to me, realizing his mistake only after I adopted "uberpwonage" as my new period at the end of every verbal sentence when he was around

Here's a tip-yes parents do occasionally inentionally try to embarrass you kids. Its called payback. Tee hee.

There is a difference between the three? Is this like Masculine, Feminine and Plural in French?

No. Different degrees and meaning actually. I've already forgotten, other than saying "Hah Hah! Maximum Uberpwonage!" realy embarasses him in front of his friends. YES!

But surely Pawned means you have been exchanged for cash with the option of paying it back plus a little interest in the short term?

no thats the normal term not how those cool hep cat then pre-teens said it.

Pagga

A punch up in the street, involving several people.

Dibble - Police

Greebynog wrote:Dibble - Police

Police, cops, pigs, I smell bacon, The Man, the Fuzz

Rozzers, Bobbies, Runners (After Bow Street Runners, the worlds first modern Police force).....

Oh, and don't forget The Sweeney, and my personal favourites 'The Filth' and 'Children Born Out of Wedlock Squad!' (mainly because I'm not allowed to use the appropriate term in that sense)

http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/a2-shakespeare-insult-generator.htm

A little something that I was directed to a while back. It's great fun for about ten minutes.

Oh, and by the way, I prefer my diatribes to be of the rude, ripe variety that make children run screaming into traffic and cause old ladies' bowels/bladders to loosen. I once considered myself to be a master of verbal abuse, having worked with all manner of snotty adolescents, but now I really don't give a %#%&%*%(&^$@^#^!

Owing to the Jafaikan/patois influence of late "Babylon" is also used my way/parts of London/so coming to the rest of the country soon.

Snout, tab or f*g = cigarette. If you hand roll "rollie" is also used. Do you have hand rolling 'baccy, skins etc stateside ? i assume as people over toke that you must sell rizla/equivalent anyway.

Oh, hash/weed/marijuana in the UK is normally ( it's almost a tradition) sold in eights of an ounce ( or multiples thereof). These are refereed to as "Henrys". As in the much married king you see.

So you might hear :

" Mate can I tax a snout off of you ? Got my henry and skins but I'm out out of baccy"

If we know an American is listeming to said conversation it is a legal requirement to alter the start of the sentence so it goes

" Mate any chance I can bum a f*g off you .." or " ..can I ponce a f*g off of you.."

Quite why there seems to be this homosexual slang/smoking crossover is, AFAIK a mystery.

Well, going back to the original holder of the term, the pork product, I can see why ciggies got that, they look similar, what with a differently coloured centre with a paler outer...and well, you know...I suppose, one could after all say the same about coitus between two persons of the male gender....

Other slang terms:
Craic: Fun, merryment
Knackered: Tired, worn out.
Story?: Whassup?

There's more but I'm drawing a blank.
For the sort of thing MDG was talking about in his first post, we say "It's like lobbing a sausage down O'Connell's Street!"

We do have excellent ryhming slang for landmarks in Dublin though.
The Spire: The Stiffey By the Liffy, The Biggest Needle on O'Connell's Street
The Statue of James Joyce: The Prick with the Stick
The sculpture of two ladies on Liffey Street: The Hags with the Bags
The sculpture of yer wan from Joyce's book: The Floozie in the Jaccuzi
There's more but again drawing a blank.

Da Boss I have deleted some of your post. The use of a * instead of a letter in a swear word does not make it appropriate for the forums.
Waaagh_Gonads

Please guys, keep it clean.

Cheese Elemental worte:

Bogans: Dicks who have an exaggerated accent, are generally dirty and get stoned on a daily basis for fun.

Here in Australia a bogan is white trash, usually unemployed or in a really, really lame job, usually with several kids and a hotted up 7-10 year old V8 car.

Fair one.
Sorry about that.

Da Boss wrote:Other slang terms:
Craic: Fun, merryment
Knackered: Tired, worn out.
Story?: Whassup?

There's more but I'm drawing a blank.
For the sort of thing MDG was talking about in his first post, we say "It's like lobbing a sausage down O'Connell's Street!"

We do have excellent ryhming slang for landmarks in Dublin though.
The Spire: The Stiffey By the Liffy, The Biggest Needle on O'Connell's Street
The Statue of James Joyce: The Prick with the Stick
The sculpture of two ladies on Liffey Street: The Hags with the Bags
The sculpture of yer wan from Joyce's book: The Floozie in the Jaccuzi
There's more but again drawing a blank.

Da Boss I have deleted some of your post. The use of a * instead of a letter in a swear word does not make it appropriate for the forums.
Waaagh_Gonads

Knackered means f d in two meanings of the word. shagged out tired. jelly legged etc.
or broken.

and i still cant belive the modquisition censored a post because it used a word in its original sense and not it its ywisted "american"one.
Theres another meaning for f****t too. it was a type of solid fuel for open fires. so if i say chuck another f****t on the fire i'm not being homophobic i'm quoting dickens.

Gay used to mean happy. and Queer meant not right ( i can see how that got twisted)
as in dont feel right dont feel well.

Polis, hornies,busies,peelers and all the other that have been poste already.

Eskimos have 100 words for snow dont think we have that many for the police but we do have the many for being drunk lol

Da Boss wrote:Other slang terms:
Craic: Fun, merryment

Do you happen to know why by any chance ?

reds8n wrote:

Da Boss wrote:Other slang terms:
Craic: Fun, merryment

Do you happen to know why by any chance ?

Craic is irish gaelic isn't it?

As an American, after reading this thread one thing came to mind;

Yeah craic is Irish.