Bob (“spare a bob or two”) – a pound; (historically, a bob was slang for a shilling but inflation has raised its value!) Bobby – affectionate slang term for a policeman; derived from the nickname for Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the Metropolitan Police. Often used in the phrase...
Corpsing is Thespian slang for murdering a scene with uncontrollable laughter, but there was sympathy at THE KING`S HEAD Theater in Islington today, where the artistic director described corpsing as contagious as yawning, with a remedy that would surely only have exacerbated Charlotte's woes. One...
Slang Excellent WIRELESS. n. Olf fashion name for the radio. WONKY. adj. 1. Not straight, crooked, kilter / out of line. 2. Shaky or weak. Y Back to the top YORKSHIRE PUDDING n. 1. Not a dessert but a kind of baked batter mix mostly eaten with roast beef. (Visit our ...
Americans are a lot of people in the English language to understand that I was complaining about, they are not the United States slang too many acronyms and abbreviations like words, and that is why some do not really understand the English language, and the British people are nostalgic, and...
For example, medical workers might refer to a complaining patient as a “gomer”. A "touh stick" is someone whose veins are difficult to find when he or she needs to have blood taken. No matter how well you speak English, there are always new and interesting slang words to discover. ...
I wouldn’t suggest holding out for any sort of logic there. Slang isn’t answerable to careful reasoning. And now, let’s drop that thread before we give up on the topic altogether. Moving right along How did the word transition from a sausage to a dessert? Well, in Tudor times it ...