shell-like: ear (Can I have a word in your shell-like?) skirt: a young woman snog: afrenchkiss squire: a term for a working man sussedout: figured out tanked: drunk toerag: a tramp tom: a prostitute tooled: drunk top!: wonderful trainspotter: a nerd, geek trots: an upset stomach...
British slang for the toilet. Don’t forget your bog roll. Kip A short power nap, the English word for a snooze. Knees up A proper British party, full of warm beer and loud music. Just don’t end up honking. Leg it To run away, usually from trouble. Lurgy If you have the dreade...
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...
Plastered- Another word for loaded. clear off remove from sight Clear off! knickers underpants worn by women Don’t Get YourKnickersin a Twist – Don’t Get worked up 73. gad wander aimlessly in search of pleasure Gallivanting - The dictionary says "togadabout", which probably doesn't help...
If so, you probably wondered why you couldn’t understand anything if you usually have no trouble understanding movies and TV shows in English.Here’s the answer to that question that might have been bothering you for a while: although the characters were speaking English, they were likely spe...
[1] During the time in question, in the British context, this word was used to describe a person born in the Caribbean regardless of ethnicity. However, it had other mean
The German word for Bush is Busch. In their region of Osnabruck it was governed by Catholic Prince-Bishops which were given their authority by the Pope of Rome. The movement of protesting against Roman-Papal authority rose up in Osnabruck so they brought in the Jesuits to combat the prote...
the root of this word being French,pain demesne, from the Latinpanum dominicum, the lord’s bread.[1]The word appears in medieval manuscripts such asForme of Cury. Manchet is believed to be a contraction of the word payndemayn –main– andcheat, the name for another, similar bread made...
shit… it was all a bit too close to what Britain has always done a bit too well. Is anybody really surprised that the wrong people sensed this, picked it up and ran with it – or that a kind of aggressive complacency turned out to be an unwise tack, when everything was up for ...
. I couldn’t even understand what it was about. I didn’t even know what the word was. My grandparents and parents would stay up late at night talking about history and events, and every now and then they would whisper, Mosaddegh. I’d think, why are they whispering this one wor...