9/1/2023 0 Comments British slang funny![]() ![]() While American slang has become nearly universal with the influx of TV shows, films, and other media filling the screens of a significant majority of the media-viewing global population, there is so much more available once you dig beneath the surface of British slang terms and can discover some real gems beneath the surface. See also: tosser.British slang is a niche of its own, evolving and transforming and adapting from city to city and from year to year, just as the English language itself has done. As a verb, can also mean very inebriated ("I was absolutely wankered"). Wanker – n., masturbator despicable person. Can also be used as a verb to mean hit ("Watch me while I twat him") or inebriated ("I was twatted"). Synonym for either penis or "someone from St Just", depending who you ask.Ĥ7. Taking the piss/Mick/Michael – taking liberties, making fun of. Swine – noun, person to be regarded with contempt/envy. Used in a bewildering variety of constructions, including gobshite, shitehawk, and Steve Coogan's Paul Calf catchphrase, "bag o' shite".Ĥ3. Mild, unless of course preceded by a strong intensifier, as in Steve Jones' line: "What a fucking rotter."Ĥ1. Rotter – n., person to be regarded with contempt/envy. Poxy – adj., riddled with pox crappy, third-rate. Immortalised in the '80s BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses. Pissed off – angry, synonym for the US "pissed". Minging – adj., foul, disgusting, worthless. Minger – n., a very unattractive person or thing. Knob, knobend, knobhead, knobber – n., a stupid, irritating person, usually a man. Gordon Bennett – n., variant on "Gorblimey!" and the profane outburst "Jesus Christ!" Derives from the Victorian publisher and playboy James Gordon Bennett Jr. Git – n., someone who has just beaten you at pool, stolen your spouse, bought the last pasty in the shop, got the job you wanted, or in some other way won one over on you. ![]() Feck – milder Irish variant of fuck that caught on in the UK thanks to the '90s sitcom Father Ted.Ģ3. Dickhead – n., a stupid, irritating person, usually a man. Use with care, unless writing a piece based on East End gangsterisms.Ģ0. Can be used as an adjective in the related word cuntish. Strong, but much less offensive than in the US. Cunt – n., vagina an unpleasant or stupid person. As a verb, means to screw up drastically. Chav – n., working-class person with an urban sporty style. A cack-handed execution will often lead to a cock-up. Cad – n., untrustworthy person to be regarded with contempt/envy. Also used as an exclamation of annoyance ("bugger!") as a milder variant of "fuck" in the phrases "bugger off" and "bugger all" and, in the phrase, "playing silly buggers", to act the fool. ![]() As a verb, can mean to sodomise to ruin ("You've buggered that up!") or to tire. someone who practises buggery) jerk silly fool. Used to mean rubbish or nonsense, as in the exclamation of disbelief "Bollocks!" and the album title Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols in phrases such as "the dog's bollocks" to mean something definitive and perfect and, in the related word bollocking, a dressing-down ("I gave the useless fool a bollocking"). Blooming – adj., basically a very mild, somewhat archaic form of "bloody". Bloody – adv., intensifier, popularly used in the phrase "Bloody hell!" Very common, medium strength.ĩ. Blighter – n., person or thing to be regarded with contempt/envy. Thought to derive from the phrase "God blind me!" Terribly mild. Blimey, blimey O'Reilly, cor blimey, gorblimey – n., expression of astonishment. Bint – n., derogatory synonym for woman appropriated from the Arabic word for daughter or girl. Very mild, yet apparently originated as rhyming slang for "Berkeley hunt".ĥ. (Only write as "bell end" if referring to the end of an actual bell.) Medium strength. Bell, bellend – n., head of a penis fool. ![]() Bastard – n., illegitimate child or mongrel objectionable fellow, probably one who has won one over on you unpleasant situation ("I'm having a bastard of a morning!"). Can also be used to mean bothered ("Can't be arsed") or acting the fool ("Stop arsing about!"). Arse, arsehole – n., variants of ass and asshole. ![]()
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