Friday, February 27, 2009

British Slangs

arse: butt

arse-over-tit: drunk

ballistic: wild

bangers: sausages

barmy: crazy

behave: more! (Think Austin Powers.)

bob: shilling

blimey!: Oh geez!

bloke: a male

bobby: policeman

brilliant!: great! awesome!

cabbage: a slow person

cack: crap (What a load of cack, mate!)

cakehole: mouth (Shut your cakehole!)

Charlie: crack, cocaine

chips: french fries

chunder: to throw up

ciggy: cigarette

claret: blood (They were copping it up, claret all over the place!)

cop a feel: to feel someone up

to cop it: to get in trouble

copper: policeman

Crikey!: My God!

damage: cost

Dicky: feeling unwell

doddle: something easy (It was a doddle to get the Charlie.)

dodgy: shady

done over: beat up (He was done over by that bloke.)

Doris: a plain woman

dosh: money

duck and dive: to run from the police

earner: a dishonest laborer

eppy: a fit

faced: drunk

five finger discount: shoplifting

flim-flam: crap (Cut out this flim-flam, you wanker!)

flippin: freakin'

folding: paper pound-notes

For crying out loud!: For God's sake!

Frenchy: a french kiss

full monty: the entire take, all that is desired

funny farm: a mental institution

gab: to talk a lot

gander: to look at

geezer: an old man

get the nod: to get permission

git: an unlikeable person

gob: mouth

goppin': gross

greaser: a 50's style person, usually a man

grub: food

gutted: choked up (He was gutted at the funeral, mate.)

hacked off: annoyed (He was really hacked off at that copper.)

having it off: a term for intercourse

headcase: a nutcase

hold it down: keep the noise down, control yourself

hooter: nose

ickle: small, tiny (I like that an ickle bit, mate.)

iffy: doubting, doubtful

in stook: in financial trouble (Your uncle's in stook, mate.)

inside: imprisoned (Barry's inside again.)

jammy: lucky

jar: a pint of beer

jock: a Scottish man

jugs: breasts

juiced up: very drunk

kick it off: start something, a fight with another Brit perhaps

kip: sleep (I need some kip, mate.)

knackered: tired

knock-up: to wake someone up

lairy: loud, brash

larging it: to live large

lip: smart talk

loaded: very rich

lock-in: a term for late-hours in a pub

lolly: money

lost the plot: gone mad (That nutter's completely lost the plot!)

malarkey: stuff and nonsense (What a load of malarkey!)

mate: address for a friend

mental: crazy

miffed: fed up

minger: an unattractive girl

mint: great condition (That's mint, mate.)

mitts: hands

monkey: 500 pounds

moose: an ugly girl

mullered: drunk

munch: food (Time for munch, mate!)

naff: nasty, in poor taste (That's naff!)

nipper: a small child

nosh: food

nugget: a pound coin

nutter: a crazy person

offie: a place where off-license alcohol is sold

off your face: very drunk

out of the tree: nuts

parky: chilly (Parky weather today.)

plank, a fool

ponce: a slacker

ramped: drunk

rat-arsed: drunk

readies: cash on hand (Have any readies? I'm all out.)

ruck: a fight

rug: wig

salt: a loose woman

scrounge: to begg food, materials

shafted: screwed, betrayed

shag: sexual intercourse

shell-like: ear (Can I have a word in your shell-like?)

skirt: a young woman

snog: a french kiss

squire: a term for a working man

sussed out: figured out

tanked: drunk

toerag: a tramp

tom: a prostitute

tooled: drunk

top!: wonderful

trainspotter: a nerd, geek

trots: an upset stomach

up for it: enthusiastically available

up the duff: pregnant

wank: to masturbate

wedge: money

wind up: to tease