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abraxus wrote:I actually love slang, especially Scottish slang...

I have heard you come up with that "Old Slang Line" before.

(chuckles to himself)

Hmmm... give us some examples of British slang

Mikey.666 wrote:Hmmm... give us some examples of British slang

Good grief. Where to start? We'd be here all day.

"Snog" is my favourite. It means to kiss.

blimey..you've never heard any british slang? ever?

so bona to varda your dolly old eek....means "its great to see your lovely old face", and is called palare, it's where the word naff came from, but meant something else back then...

clatty - scots slang for dirty

fizhog - old cockney slang for face

im staggered you've never heard any in all your life...

Mikey.666 wrote:Hmmm... give us some examples of British slang

I was made up - NW for happy
Where's he to? - Devon for "Where is it?"
Grockle - Devon for tourist

If anyone has Schott's Original Miscellany, it's got a great section on foreign words used in English. Here's an example:

Balderdash you oaf! I am so angry. If I get and inkling you are flaunting the dregs of your talent, I will cover your vole in glitter.

... which was Norse.

Another favourite is "b*ll*cks" meaning a men's testicles, but also something that is not very good or rubbish. However when the term has the word "the" before it, it becomes slang for something that is very good. So "It's b*ll*cks" means it's not very good but "It's the b*ll*cks" means it's very good. "The dog's b*ll*cks" means very good also.

Spike used to get away with using the word "b*ll*cks" a lot on Buffy, mainly because the American censors didn't know what it meant and thought it was just a quaint old British word.

I've heard all these before...I am English just incase you where wondering.

I use "it's the dogs b*ll*cks" all the time, sometimes "it's the DBs"

I just wouldn't know how to differentiate between British slang and US slang, never really thought about it.

I also use "the badger's nadgers", which I guess is a cross between "the dog's b*ll*cks" and "the bee's knees".

Marvell wrote:I also use "the badger's nadgers", which I guess is a cross between "the dog's b*ll*cks" and "the bee's knees".

the bee's b*ll*cks? i wonder if that would create some kind of air-drag?

How about some potteries slang...

Cos yer kick a bow agen a wow an it wiv yer ed til yer bust it.
=
Can you kick a ball against a wall and hit it with your head until you burst it?

Alright duck = Hello

may und mar lady = Myself and the wife

All these sayings seem to be very old

What about modern English slang?

Nah - No
Jib - Can't be bothered
Now then - Hello
Ite lad - Hello

Maybe these are just scouse, oh well.

Mikey.666 wrote:All these sayings seem to be very old

What about modern English slang?

Nah - No
Jib - Can't be bothered
Now then - Hello
Ite lad - Hello

Maybe these are just scouse, oh well.

Innit - full stop


There's a great book about English expressions and their origins called 'A Word In Your Shell-Like' by Nigel Rees.

Lord Freddie wrote:Innit - full stop

like - comma

Just nipping back to an earlier point in the conversation; one of the things I loath on the forum is the use of (sp?). If you think you've got it wrong why don't you go and check? It'd take all of 30 seconds to punch it into an online dictionary or a word processor.

And the Firefox spell checker? The choice of dictionaries is:
English (Australian)
English (Canadian)
English (British)
English

Surely the differentiation there should be English and English (US) shouldn't it?

The atrocious spelling just shows the intellect of these 'people'.
A chavvy woman asked me today how to spell 'Majorca', the place where they were going on holiday.
They're going there for christ's sake and they can't even spell it.