Chuffedmeans “delighted, pleased, satisfied.” You might say you’rechuffedthat your favorite team won the soccer game. This word dates back to the 1800s, when it was originally used to mean “puffed up with fat.” It later became a slang term to express satisfaction. Victorian fiction en...
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"The OED says that “couch potato” began as American slang, meaning“ a person who spends his or her leisure time sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes. "The Potato Council says its campaign is backed by dieti cians(饮食学家) who say the vegetable is low in fat...
The word syllabub comes from the nameSille, an area in the Champagne region of France that made the eponymously named wine, and the wordbub, an Elizabethan slang word meaning a bubbling drink, henceSille bub– wine mixed with a frothy cream. In fact it was a case of the frothier the ...
British slang for a look Dekko - To have a look at something. chuffed very pleased Chuffed - You would be chuffed to bits if you were really pleased about something. gobsmacked completely shocked or astonished Gobsmacked - Amazed. wobbler something that wobbles Wobbler - To "throw a ...
Jimmy- Actually short for Jimmy Riddle. i.e. I'm off for a Jimmy Riddle. This is Cockney rhyming slang for piddle! John Thomas- Yet another word for a blokes willy! I always felt a bit sorry for people who were actually called John Thomas. What were their parents thinking?
A month ago I had the pleasing experience of packing for Perth. In South African slang, ‘packing for Perth’ means immigrating to Australia. In the decade that followed thetransition to democracy, around800,000 mainly white South Africans left– some for New Zealand, Britain, and the United...
The OED says that “couch potato” began as American slang, meaning “a person who spends his or her leisure time sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes.” The Potato Council says its campaign is backed by dieticians (饮食学家) who say the vegetable is low in fat ...
"The OED says that “couch potato" began as American slang, meaning “ a person who spends his or her leisure time sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes".The Potato Council says its campaign is backed by dieticians(饮食学家)who say the vegetable is low in fat and ...
“The British are coming,” trumpetedChariots Of Firescreenwriter Colin Welland infamously at the 1982 Oscars. In truth “the British” were already there. They’d been making movies for over a century, with plenty of stick-on masterpieces in that number. Comedies, dramas, war films, horror....