Another word for stealing, or purchasing something at a heavily discounted rate. Pissed This doesn't mean annoyed or angry as in American English. It means blind drunk. Plastered Another British slang term for being drunk. Anyone would think the Brits like a drink. Porkies Spreading lies. Anyo...
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...
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. The Difference Between Learning...
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 ...
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?