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Hey Pandas, What’s Your Favorite UK Slang Word And What Does It Mean? (Closed)
I got this idea about reading a thread on Bored Panda discussing what gaff means (house).
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#2
Pie Hole - Mouth. Cake Hole - Mouth. Arsehole - Piers Morgan.
Final score:
39points
#3
Not so much a phrase, so much as what you can add to a phrase. Take anything around you, then add you absolute Infront of it, and then you ave an English insult
Final score:
23points
#4
'Ow do? is my favourite expression from my home county of North Yorkshire. It means "How's it going?" but sounds so warm and welcoming. Best response? "Can't complain, pet"
Final score:
22points
#6
Reight chuffed. When something makes you happy.
Final score:
20points
#7
Bell end. The end of a p****r or when one is acting like a d!ckhead.
Final score:
19points
Hugh Cookson 1 year ago
C******d is a decent alternative. Not to be confused with ' Alright my old c**k (or cocker)' in several northern counties.
#8
A reminder to visitors to our shores, most swear words can be used as a sign of affection, so getting called a "f****r" or a "c**t" is not necessarily an insult, but it could be! Depends on tone and context. No wonder English can be considered a hard language, especially as us natives do our best to make it incomprehensible to most others.
Final score:
18points
K- THULU 1 year ago
As an Australian, I agee totally..... Swearing is a complex artform.... Once had to explain to young Vietnamese Australian co worker the meaning and various uses of the word C** t , and the appropriate responses!! I was so proud when he told an Aussie racist to " F**K OFF, C*NT!"...
#9
Mardy.
East Midlands, meaning someone in a mood.
Mardy Bastard.
Someone who is usually in a mood.
Final score:
17points
#10
K******d.
Pillock.
Wazzock.
Numpty.
S**t for brains.
Plonker.
Dingleberry.
Cockwomble.
Numpty.
Final score:
15points
#11
Lived in Yorkshire for a few years and now "Anything" is "Owt" and "Nothing" is "Nowt". Try it!
Final score:
14points
cerinamroth 1 year ago
My mum would stand in front of us about to serve tea (that's the evening meal, not the drink) and would wave the serving spoon over everything and say "Owt or nowt?" with a challenging look on her face. Her cooking was terrible and it was a quandary every time.
#12
Cob. The ONLY name for a bread roll, East Midlands again.
Final score:
12points
#13
It was hard to think of one that we don't also use in Australia! Then I remembered the word naff, meaning to lack taste or style. One I just found odd (and that confused my drama class, including the teacher, when we were doing a English play) was 'anorak' which is literally a raincoat, but in the context we found it, meant a nerd. Not understanding it, the teacher changed it to the word cardigan, which of course made even less sense in context!
Final score:
12points
#14
"Twat" it rhymes with "Hat" not "Swat". It can have two meanings.
1. A minor insult - "You're a twat"
2. To hit - "Oh no! A spider! Quick, twat it with this newspaper!"
Final score:
12points
Melody Shanahan-Kluth 1 year ago
this needs more upvotes - twatting something is en point for sure!
#15
Tegs are teeth in some places!!!
Final score:
10points
Draperdorf 1 year ago
Teeth in a glass by the bed, but not when they're in the mouth?? Oh.... not what you meant by some places... ;)
#16
Tipsy, squiffy, blotto, sloshed, smashed, hammered, trolleyed, plastered, mullered, paralytic, s**t faced, pissed, wankered.
All mean drunk.
Hanging/hanging out of my a**e mean hungover.
Final score:
10points
#17
The best and probably original swear in the UK is F**k
So you can say
F**k Me! Im amazed
F**k you! You're an idiot
F**k off! Go away
F*****g hell! No bloody way!
F**k! Literally for anything at anytime for anything!
I dont give a f**k! I dont care
Aww f**k ! Didnt want that to happen
etc etc very f*****g versatile word is F**k
Final score:
9points
#18
Oh, there are *way* too many to choose just one, but as a techie, 'Dodgy' (of poor quality or workmanship) is a top ranking entry. The British to American Dictionary has a good list of slang (https://www.effingpot.com/chapters/slang/), but he seems to be unaware that Americans are already quite familiar with many of these. Compo Simmonite's use of 'Any road' (anyway) on 'Last of the Summer Wine' was quite charming. And Cockney Rhyming Slang can be delightful, as seen in the theme from the original 'Italian Job' - This is the self-preservation society,
This is the self-preservation society
Go wash your German bands, your boat race too
Comb your barnet, fair we've got alot to do
Put on your dickie dirt and your peckham rye
'Cause time's soon hurrying by
Get your skates on mate
Get your skates on mate
No bib around your Gregory Peck today, eh?
Drop your plates of meat right up on the seat
This is the self-preservation society,
This is the self-preservation society
Gotta get a bloomin' move on
Babadab-babadabadab-bab-ba
Jump in the jam jar gonna get straight
(Babadab-babadabadab-bab-ba)
Hurry up mate, gonna be late
How's your father?
Tickety boo, tickety boo
Gotta get a bloomin' move on
Final score:
8points
#19
In far northern England, it sounds like, "divint dee it mon" and means, "don't do it man".
Final score:
8points
#20
Manchester-
Buzzin' - very happy
Mint - something very good
Sket - really bad insult!!
F#£ks sake - I can't believe you did/said that
Our kid - anybody you've known pretty much longer than a year
Aldier (Aldi-er) - somebody who shoplifts from aldi and will try and sell it to you with the security tags still on it
Fagman - the shop that sells duty free or even counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco for about a fiver
K**b end - just a stupid person really
Bangin' - really good music or a bad headache
Shudda as in his mam shudda give his dad a blow job - they really don't like that person. At all!!
Barm - what lithe foolish people call a bread roll.
Butty - sandwich
Unit - used to describe large and/or tall people
Proper - very
Mingin' - disgusting
Minger - ugly person
Final score:
8points
#21
Beeroff. East Midlands, possibly Nottinghamshire specific, the name for a corner shop. Means "Beer For Consumption Off The Premises" from the little plate above the door that such shops had to have.
Final score:
7points
#22
Old Yorkshire dialect, Sen, meaning self
Got missen a right bargain at the market.
Get thissen off for a weekend jolly.
Myself and thyself.
Final score:
7points
#23
Gov'na = Boss. T****r = Mas*urbater. Cuppa = Tea.
Final score:
7points
Leo Domitrix 1 year ago
Exposure to both English and (Lowland) Scot in-laws resulted in me using this, to the complete confusion of 90% of people I meet in North America.
#24
Need to vent frustration?
"awww BULLOCKS!"
Translation:
" awww BALLS!!"
Final score:
7points
#25
claggy - sticky, damp.
faff - doing a lot of nothing
Final score:
7points
#26
‘Chunder’ to throw up .. as in the guy behind me in line chundered all over my shirt. ‘Munted’ had a lot to drink
Final score:
7points
#27
Bussin. It means really good, so when you eat something you can say “Dang that meal was bussin!” and everyone around you will get confused.
Final score:
6points
#28
1) Bawbag (Scotland): Slang for s*****m (We named a hurricane "Hurricane Bawbag back in 2011 and it became an Internet sensation)
2) Gallus (Scots language): Cheeky or mischievous
3) Your Minging or Yer' mingin': Used to describe something or someone that is unclean, dirty, or foul-smelling
4) Blootered (Orcadian English dialect): Very drunk
5) Puggled (Orcadian English dialect): Exhausted
6) Blether (Scotland/Scots language): To chatter away / a chatter box
7) Crabbit (Shetlandic English dialect): A grouchy person
Final score:
6points
#29
"Sherman" for an American person
Sherman = Sherman Tank = Sherman Tank Yank = Yankee
Final score:
6points
Bill Swallow 1 year ago
Well, that's at least more polite than Cockney Rhyming Slang using 'Septic' as a pejorative for 'American'. Septic --> Septic Tank --> Yank.
#30
“They were having a Barney.” As in Barney Rubble from the Flintstones. “They were having an argument.”
Final score:
6points
#31
Gander: look at.
As in Only Fools and Horses " oi, Rodney, get a gander at that"
( Only Fools and Horses was one of the best British comedies )
Final score:
6points
#32
"Slag" - The very word for insulting someone, talking trash about them. Such a simple word.
Final score:
6points
#33
Bob's your uncle! I don't know what it means, I think it's an exclamation of something good, please correct me if I'm wrong. I like it because I have a brother Bob. So if I told my son "Bob's your uncle" it would be a statement of fact. Otherwise, almost any insult sounds better in British slang.
Final score:
6points
#34
arlarse - it's a scouse term, meaning a sh*tty action/person, depending on what it's describing
Final score:
5points
#35
Petrolhead, a car lover, gearhead, someone with petrol in their veins.
Final score:
5points
#37
Wánker. Tøsser. Means masturbatør.
Final score:
5points
#38
I somehow acquired "bugger" at some point from the UK in-laws, so that's my fave. Everyone I know in the UK laughs at my American voice saying it. So it at least amuses people :-) Oh, and I referred to BoJo as "too much of a k**b to be a prick". (This, FYI, did not amuse my Brexiteering English in-laws, but the Scots ones loved it.)
Final score:
5points
#39
Gert - South West for big
Where's thick Gert bugger to then ?
Final score:
5points
#40
"cheese eating surrender monkey", a joke insult for French people
Final score:
5points
#41
Berk rhyming slang for Berkshire Hunt rhyming with C*nt.
Final score:
4points
#43
Bodge-Bodge job. A bespoke solution for fitting something together. He's bodged that with tape.
Final score:
4points
#44
"minging" (ugly);"gutted"(disappointed); "snogging" (kissing); "manky" (a bit gross)
Final score:
4points
#45
Bollocks! For obvious reasons.
Wanker! Yup, obvious reasons too.
Yob. I have seen and personally know a few of them.
Quite a list that I know but these are the major ones.
Final score:
4points
#46
Wanker, Bollocks, Bloody, Penguin ting, Mandem
Final score:
2points
What do you think ?
Wheely 1 year ago
There was a guy I knew got hit by a steam train. He was chuffed to bits 🤣
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Charlie Spring Fan (He/Him) 1 year ago
I call people I don't like knobs, they honestly deserve that nasty nickname.
Wheely 1 year ago
There was a guy I knew got hit by a steam train. He was chuffed to bits 🤣
Load More Replies... Charlie Spring Fan (He/Him) 1 year ago
I call people I don't like knobs, they honestly deserve that nasty nickname.
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