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...
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Some internet slang just looks like a stream of numbers but is readable to a Japanese person as a coherent thought. People might turn names or words into numbers as shorthand or match phone numbers to a saying for marketing. Here’s a list of sounds that can turn into numbers: ...
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...
Normal time in football is 90 minutes, but a referee can add on time at the end of the match based on stoppages for injuries and so forth. This is known as injury time. Other names include stoppage time and added time. In the hole ...
Normal time in football is 90 minutes, but a referee can add on time at the end of the match based on stoppages for injuries and so forth. This is known as injury time. Other names include stoppage time and added time. In the hole ...
1608 Dekker Honest Whore Pt 2 (1630) III iii: We haue meates of all sorts of dressing; we haue stew’d meat for your Frenchman, pretty light picking meat for your Italian, and that which is rotten roasted, for Don Spaniardo. 1615 W. Goddard Neaste of Waspes D4: Or’e stoues ...
I won’t name names or titles, or say where I got the book. I will say I’m glad I didn’t pay for it, though. If I’d parted with any money for this I’d be pretty upset. More upset than I already am. At least having paid nothing for it, I can’t bemoan the loss of...
For example: Service station – servo. Avocado – avo. Sandwich – sanga. Afternoon – arvo. And don’t be surprised if you receive a nickname – that’s a sign of friendship! People are often called by their last names, so Sam Robertson would be called ‘Robbo’ and Alex Jones ...
Fanny around- I'm always telling people to stop fannying around and get on with it. It means to procrastinate. Drives me mad! Fiddle sticks- I have an old Aunt who is much too well mannered to swear. So when the need arises for a swear word, she will substitute "fiddle sticks". ...