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OT....British slang

10 years ago

Although this is slightly OT unless you're reading a British novel, I think you will find these really interesting.

The US has an entirely different meaning for the word "fanny" ! !

Enjoy !


British slang

Comments (10)

  • 10 years ago

    I guess the 'author' of this list is a US male from the many sexual connotations he gives to the expressions he uses, or maybe I'm just SO old meanings have changed without me noticing.

    Expressions such as 'pip pip' or 'tickerty boo' haven't been in use for at least 70 years and maybe the use of the 'f' word is more acceptable in the US but better not to use it in polite company over here.

  • 10 years ago

    Maybe acceptable in some circles, Vee, but not in mine. I thought "fagged" meant very tired. No?

  • 10 years ago

    Yes Carolyn, fagged does mean to be tired/exhausted and the word 'fag' (besides being everyday slang for a cigarette) used to be a word for a younger pupil at a Public School who had to act as a servant for a more senior boy . . . cleaning boots, making tea etc.

    I think the writer has too many sexual/bathroom thoughts on his tiny mind.

  • 10 years ago

    I'd say that taking the piss means to have a joke at someone else's expense.

  • 10 years ago
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    Kath, I would second that! And At Her Majesty's Pleasure is not slang but a legal term, denoting the length of a term of imprisonment . . "To be detained at Her Majesty's Pleasure" all criminal trials are between Regina/Rex and . . . .

  • 10 years ago

    I was gratified to note that the author did not indicate that "dressed like a dog's dinner" is derogatory.

    A few of these I've heard used in America by Americans, such as "tosh" and "donkey's years."

  • 10 years ago

    Mary, usually the 'dog's dinner' expression, refers to someone 'overdressed' possibly in a mishmash of clothes/colours, or, at its worst just a mess. I wouldn't be pleased if someone said it to me ;-(

  • 10 years ago

    We use 'dog's dinner' to mean a mess.

  • 10 years ago

    I would have said "Get stuffed" was a more printable version of "Get f---ed" as opposed to "Beat it". And a "ponce", while it often is a "poser", used to be a man living off the immoral earnings of a woman (not necessarily a pimp so much as the kept boyfriend of a prostitute).

  • 10 years ago

    Colleen over here a ponce used to refer to a effeminate man. "Stop poncing around" used to be a reprimand to boys skipping/mincing/fooling about.

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