while to hand someone a lemon was British slang (1906) for "to pass off a sub-standard article as a good one." Or it simply may be a metaphor for something which "leaves a bad taste in one's mouth." What do you call a bunch of lemons? A: Lemon Herds" Is a fluff a fart?
You might hear this synonym forchunder(which, by the way, is Australian slang) especially in Pennsylvania and the Great Lakes region. A colorful (and insulting) extension is holler New York, yet another way to say "throw up." What is a fart called in Australia?
From Wikipedia:Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) originally meaning alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination.[1] Beginning in the 2010s, it came to be used as slang for a broader awareness of social
The term comes from British slang originally and has been picked up here. It means sarcastic or cutting. There is no noun form as far as I know, unless perhaps “snarkiness?”. janbb (63281)“Great Answer” (4) Flag as…A Snark was a creature invented by Lewis Caroll for a poem ...
What once provided the calories for a day’s labour now only adds to excess. What! You want me to give up chocolate and icecream! Is there no joy in ageing? This getting older is not my favourite. What happened to those years between having kids and now? I remember their births, but...
Merry Critmas is a collaborative, international campaign encouraging those working in the creatives industries to make a pledge in December togive a book crit. (A book crit is slang for portfolio critique, it means to review someone’s creative work and offer feedback). ...
Cockney is both an accent and a regional dialect in the United Kingdom, and it’s best known for its Cockney rhyming slang. Cockney rhyming slang is a type of British slang that dates back to the 19th century, but many of these expressions started appearing during and after WWII. There ...