Slang and Colloquialisms

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  • Being American, I've always kind of been partial to "Wanker". I don't know why, it's just a funny word and you rarely hear it in the U.S. It's not quite the same using it if you don't have a Brit accent. I like "Puff" also when describing someone gay or a feminine guy. I think the Brits and pseudo Brits(Aussies/Kiwis) have the best slang.

    Do you mean 'poof'? :D:)
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Do you mean 'poof'? :D:)


    nah we use puff Kells.. maybe you havent heard it but puff is kinda common on these shores :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • dunkman wrote:
    wheesht - be quiet

    haud yer wheest - shut up

    awwww. that actually makes me feel bad.

    I thought it was a nice way of saying "hush hush"

    :( all this time daddy was saying to shut up. :(
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    awwww. that actually makes me feel bad.

    I thought it was a nice way of saying "hush hush"

    :( all this time daddy was saying to shut up. :(


    no your ok.. it does mean that also.. depends on how you say it!!! :D ... a gentle wheesht does just mean shhhh!


    btw FP.. you have nice baps... :) its all in how you say it ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
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  • dunkman wrote:
    no your ok.. it does mean that also.. depends on how you say it!!! :D ... a gentle wheesht does just mean shhhh!


    btw FP.. you have nice baps... :) its all in how you say it ;)
    I am afraid to ask what THAT means...

    teefs?

    :o
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    I am afraid to ask what THAT means...

    teefs?

    :o



    oh shit.. i'd thought you would have known that... :o

    ok it doesnt matter then *gulp*
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Being American, I've always kind of been partial to "Wanker". I don't know why, it's just a funny word and you rarely hear it in the U.S. It's not quite the same using it if you don't have a Brit accent. I like "Puff" also when describing someone gay or a feminine guy. I think the Brits and pseudo Brits(Aussies/Kiwis) have the best slang.


    pseudo brits? we're australian or new zealander. im sure the maori nzers would take offense as being described as pseudobrit.
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  • He's talking about your boobies, fp! :eek:
  • He's talking about your boobies, fp! :eek:
    what? that doesn't even make sense! :eek:

    DUNK!
    *fwap* NO.

    NO DUNKIE...

    *fwap*

    it's manners teachin' time. ;)
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    what? that doesn't even make sense! :eek:

    DUNK!
    *fwap* NO.

    NO DUNKIE...

    *fwap*

    it's manners teachin' time. ;)


    yeah i deserved that :o


    :D
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • dunkman wrote:
    yeah i deserved that :o


    :D
    oh how cute...you're learning!

    :p

    just teasing you Dunkie. ;)

    tu tienes mas huevos, carnal! (spelling/tenses may be way off!) ;)
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  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    pseudo brits? we're australian or new zealander. im sure the maori nzers would take offense as being described as pseudobrit.



    :D hee hee, pseudo Brits...hee hee hee heee, haaaw haaaaw haaaaaaw, oh, please,.. ha ha ha ha, eeeeh, eeeeh eeeh...ha ha ha... :D
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    Being American, I've always kind of been partial to "Wanker". I don't know why, it's just a funny word and you rarely hear it in the U.S. It's not quite the same using it if you don't have a Brit accent. I like "Puff" also when describing someone gay or a feminine guy. I think the Brits and pseudo Brits(Aussies/Kiwis) have the best slang.

    "pseudo brit" here. :rolleyes:

    When you say "being American" don't you mean yank? Or my personal favorite "a sepo" :p:D
    NOPE!!!

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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    jamie uk wrote:
    :D hee hee, pseudo Brits...hee hee hee heee, haaaw haaaaw haaaaaaw, oh, please,.. ha ha ha ha, eeeeh, eeeeh eeeh...ha ha ha... :D

    Go to work Postman Pat and don't be starting no wars you can't finish! :p
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  • JennytreeJennytree Posts: 5,340
    Ooo slang...

    the usual Irish ones -

    manky - horrible
    mongo, gombeen - stupid person
    Tommy Tank - wank
    Culchie - anyone Irish not from Dublin
    Jackeen - someone from Dublin (not to be used lightly!)
    arseways - wrong
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  • pjfan31pjfan31 Posts: 7,334
    Fair dinkum- Are you serious/for real
    Bevie- Beer
    Bludger- someone who doesn't work
    come good- Turn out okay
    knock- "are you knocking me?" critical
    Perve- taking a peek at a good sort
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  • HinnyHinny Posts: 1,610
    Bloody oath/Streuth/Crikey - nothing really, just an exclamation
    Snag - sausage
    Dunny - toilet


    Most of the time I don't even think of these and other words as slang. Like thongs. It's clearly something you wear on your foot. And a root is clearly a shag.
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  • pjfan31pjfan31 Posts: 7,334
    Hinny wrote:
    Bloody oath/Streuth/Crikey - nothing really, just an exclamation
    Snag - sausage
    Dunny - toilet


    Most of the time I don't even think of these and other words as slang. Like thongs. It's clearly something you wear on your foot. And a root is clearly a shag.

    Exactly. Have these other people beeen living under a rock?????
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  • elmerelmer Posts: 1,683
    langers
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646

    tu tienes mas huevos, carnal! (spelling/tenses may be way off!) ;)


    :eek: i just got round to babelfishing this... ok the translation was a bit weird but i got the idea... unsure if its a nice thing or bad thing... but i like it :D;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Oh I'm well aware, we have the best accent though ;)
    Bollocks!
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    who here has been known to call people "dags"?
    hear my name
    take a good look
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    hold my hand
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    i just need to say
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    who here has been known to call people "dags"?


    dunno.. a dyslexic vet?
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    who here has been known to call people "dags"?
    Over here a dag is the shitty woolly lump that hangs from a sheeps arse.
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    nuffingman wrote:
    Over here a dag is the shitty woolly lump that hangs from a sheeps arse.


    please do not refer to the Welsh in such a vulgar manner ;):D
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    nuffingman wrote:
    Over here a dag is the shitty woolly lump that hangs from a sheeps arse.

    exactly. it makes me giggle when i hear people use the term when they dont know its origin.

    and while im at it, isnt son of a bitch more an insult to your mother than you if someone says it to you? afterall shes the bitch not you. :)
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  • JordyWordyJordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    nuffingman wrote:
    Over here a dag is the shitty woolly lump that hangs from a sheeps arse.

    thats crazy. the expression for those should be the same as the lumps of shite on humans hairy arse - DINGLEBERRIES!


    "ahhh, g'way ann shite" = (Go Away And Shite) = "Fuck off/Shut Up"
    Scuttered / Shitfaced / Rat-arsed / in the horrors = drunk
    Cacks = trousers
    Sucking Diesel = doing well
    Jammers = crowded
    Rabbitin on - talkin a lot
    Kip = Sleep
    You couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo = bad aim
    Bogtrotter = Muck Savage = culchie = person from the countryside
    Fierce/ Desperate / Some = Very
    Piece of piss - Easy (ehh...describing a thing, not a person)
  • JennytreeJennytree Posts: 5,340
    JordyWordy wrote:
    "ahhh, g'way ann shite" = (Go Away And Shite) = "Fuck off/Shut Up"
    Scuttered / Shitfaced / Rat-arsed / in the horrors = drunk
    Cacks = trousers
    Sucking Diesel = doing well
    Jammers = crowded
    Rabbitin on - talkin a lot
    Kip = Sleep
    You couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo = bad aim
    Bogtrotter = Muck Savage = culchie = person from the countryside
    Fierce/ Desperate / Some = Very
    Piece of piss - Easy (ehh...describing a thing, not a person)

    Ooo I forgot about a lot of them, and I use them every day!

    Another one is-
    Creamed herself - she fell over. Some people argue that its 'creaLed'.

    and dags, where I come from, are the lumps of shite on sheep, or what travellers call dogs.
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  • who here has been known to call people "dags"?

    I use that word every day!
    I remember being a whippersnapper and mum and dad always called me a dag and id say "im not a piece of poo on a sheeps tail!"

    More commonly used in place of "silly Bugger"
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