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 ...
Translation: To chat. This one has a nice connotation to it. Without any clarification, it implies friendly talk. “I met him at the pub and we chinwagged about the Brexit.” We’re told this is a fairly old bit of slang, mostly used by pensioners. Bog Translation: Toilet. It sounds...
Butchers- To have a butchers at something is to have a look. This is a cockney rhyming slang word that has become common. The reason "butchers" means a look even though it doesn't rhyme is because it is short for "butchers hook" and "hook" of course, does rhyme. C of E- The Ch...
Sir Laurence Olivieris said to have drawled, "Try acting, dear boy; it's easier." That's easy for him to say; after all, he was lauded almost from his school days as the greatest of British thesps, and a bronze-cast memorial to his Hamlet stands outside the National Theatre ...
George Ade was an America playwright, newspaper columnist and humorist whose greatest recognition was "Fables in Slang" (1899), a satire that explored the colloquial vernacular of America. Ade eventually succeeded in doing what he set out to do: Make America laugh. ...
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...
"In like Flynn" is a slang phrase meaning "having quickly or easily achieved a goal or gained access as desired". Why did Chase leave Zoey 101 in real life? Flynn—a grandson of golden-era screen legend Errol Flynn—left the showafter three seasons(Chase, in turn, was said to be stud...
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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...
Across the record, Dizzee made a pointof using British vernacular and slang to distinguish himself from Stateside rappers, flinging in phrases like “You haven’t the foggiest” and “Flushing MCs down the loo” to amusing effect. The references helped to make the album a snapshot of a momen...