Dogsbody –a junior or unimportant person who does all the running around and menial tasks for others (a) Domestic– short for “domestic dispute”; an argument, usually between a husband and wife Dosh– slang term for “money” Drink driving– drunk driving ...
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...
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...
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 ...
In the Victorian era, the muffin wastheessential teacake for teatime and they often bought from the muffin man who would ring his bell a little before tea, summoning the occupants of the houses who would rush out to purchase some of his muffins (or where they crumpets!?) “well swathed...
"The Americans had a well-deserved reputation for being trigger happy. In the three months that I was in Iraq, the soldiers I served with never shot anybody. When you asked the Americans why they killed people, they would say 'we were up against the tough foreign fighters'. I didn't ...
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 ...