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British slang

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Whinger - someone who moans and complains constantly

Whinging Pom - a moaning English person

Sticky bun - a generic term for almost anything from a bakery that's not bread

Tiffin - morning break with coffee and sticky bun :D

Buttie - sandwich in the north, but used countrywide for bacon buttie

Dip buttie - a northern term for a piece of dry bread used to soak up the remainder of gravy or sauce that's left on your plate :D

Cake-hole - mouth, as in 'Shut yer cake-hole!!' - meaning 'Be quiet!'

Stuffed shirt - a pompous businessman

Gnashers - 1. teeth. 2. (with apostrophe) something belonging to Dennis the Menace's dog :lol:

Jobsworth - a derogatory term for someone who works to rule - "It's more than my job's worth, mate."

 

Can't think of any more right now. :D

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spoggy = chewing gum

yup

 

taking the piss

taking the mick

taking the mickey

ripping the piss

having a laugh

 

all mean joking...

 

god after reading this thread, no wonder english is apparantly hard to learn fluently..there's so much diversity that makes no sense lol....

knobhead/git or ghit?? ................lol l love hearing those :lol:

knobhead - idiot

git - mean person or unliked person....

 

you tight git - stingy

you miserable git - god youre depressing stop bringing me down :)

wow thanks doogie and i thought this was too cute

 

Sorted - sorted :)
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Does "pissed" mean anything other than angry?

i just went to the bathroom maybe :? :shrug:

drunk

raining

 

he's pissed = he's drunk

it pissed down - it rained hard/a lot

very helpful slang.... :lol:

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Funny

 

 

We brits are very good at making up crap to mean other crap lol

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Whoops!

 

 

god after reading this thread, no wonder english is apparantly hard to learn fluently..there's so much diversity that makes no sense lol....

 

:D

 

I can't quote right. I can't quote selected text! :sad:

 

I think I may have pressed the wrong button. :shock:

I pressed the blue button! :!:

 

Sorry!!!

what does that mean me ol' china? :D

:shrug: lol Ian..who would report this thread :shock: :lol:

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I love that boogie oogie oogie smiley!! :lol: :smileyb:

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