The addition of 'o' and 'ie' to words and names. - It is very common for names to be changed by adding either the letter 'o' or the letters 'ie', as in Johnno for John or Hughie for Hugh. There is no hard and fast rule for how this gets done but it is something you learn...
Hampton/Wick (Hampton Wick) - prick or dick (penis - see main Hampton Wick entry above - Hampton and Wick each became strongly established slang from the one slang phrase, giving rise - no pun intended - to the jocular names for the male member, Hugh Jampton [ huge hampton], and Lion...
Beginning a run of old-timey slang that would have been popular among 1920s bootlegging gangsters, the wordclamwas probably used as a term for a dollar based on the practices of using shells as currency seen in ancient societies and some Native American tribes. ducats or duckets The slangduca...
I am also informed (thanks K Inglott, March 2007) that bob is now slang for a pound in his part of the world (Bath, South-West England), and has also been used as money slang, presumably for Australian dollars, on the Home and Away TV soap series. A popular slang word like bob ...
What on earth is the British currency doing on a phone anyway? Well, it isn't. To a Brit, the pound sign is the wiggly thing we use to denote the UK pound (or quid), in the same way you have a dollar sign. Prat- Yet another mildly insulting name for someone. In fact, this ...
A mere vulgarism is not slang, except when it is purposely adopted, and acquires an artificial currency, among some class of persons to whom it is not native. The other distinctive feature of slang is that it is neither part of the ordinary language, nor an attempt to supply its ...
"No problem"; Neopoints, currency on the free web game Neopets NPA "Not paying attention" NR "No reserve", used on auction sites such as eBay. NR4U "Not right for you" NS "Nice shot"; used sincerely in competitive and cooperative online games such as GunBound, or Medal of...
Aussie:Australian Soldier and America’s ally. Infantry soldier also called“Digger” Baby San– GI reference to village children (male and female) Ba muoi lam(“baa-mooee-lahm): Vietnamese for the number 35. Means the same as “butterfly;” a playboy. ...