My most beloved British slang is Knackered. Fucking knackered! It means very tired, exhausted. But those terms are sterlized of feeling, of life. You know that feeling after you finish moving? That total fucking exhaustion, you’re knackered my friend. I can’t think of a word that feels more accurate to the state of reality it describes. Knackered is a fucking gift.
Chuffed. If youre chuffed i believe that means your excited. I hate it but not for real good reasons. It sounds like a bad thing. Like i don’t want to be chuffed from the sound of it. It sounds like i chafed my lungs from sighing too much cuz I’m miserable.
Ok now for the linguistic crime known as snog or snogging. It means to make out or tongue kiss someone. But it sounds like a fucking sex act involving noses. And not a normal sex act. A fucking depraved dirty sex act, you’d feel shame even googling, but again it involves noses. And honestly it sounds like snot is likely involved with this sex act. Do better Britain stop saying fucking snogged you dirty bastards.
What is your most beloved and hated British slang?
Cock Womble
Innit
Innit is amazing!
Init.
“Loads a money!”
More of a meme than slang, but I also like “dosh”.
I think you mean lods of emone?
British people are fucked. They say shit like hi Marvin and then think you’re an idiot for not recommending somewhere to eat.
Hank Marvin. Starvin.
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Bloody, but just because when I had a period I would say things like “I’m on my bloody period!”
Damn I use bloody sometimes. It’s bloody good
i’m convinced that rhyming slang is just 19th century coal mine brainrot. you cannot change my mind
Couldn’t’ve said it better
It annoys me because you are forcing me to decipher what you’re telling me because you feel like being an annoying cunt.
Also adding “Innit” to the end of every sentence is the british version of “nowhatahmsain” for americans and “Aye” for Australians and just makes me think you are stupid.
british people also say “nahimsayin” fwiw.
Americans have plenty of words to add emphasis without adding meaning, yo, my dude, boy howdy.
I believe rhyming slang was only in a small part of London, not many coal mines in London
“Shaking hands with the unemployed”
Just kidding, that one’s a cracker
snogging
In French the slang term for that is “rouler des pelles” , which means literally “to roll shovels” and… I mean what the fuck is up with that?
Petit chou fleur is a term of endearment. It means cauliflower.
Never heard it used. Maybe it’s regional or a family tradition? A common idiom is “mon chou” but I’d guess it comes from the pastry and not the vegetable.
Wow. Is that sexy for them?
No it’s not even sexy, and it’s the only idiom I can think of that uses shovel in this context. It makes absolutely no sense
War-Chest-Hair Sauce … Werk-hamster-shire Sauce … Wash-your-sister Sauce … What’s-this-here Sauce … Wister-Sheer Sauce … … …
Yeah. Fucking nailed it!
Wu. Stir. Shear. Sauce.
England has a surfeit of terms for obnoxious people.
- Jobsworth (obstructive clerk or bureaucrat)
- God-botherer (religious fanatic)
- Cockwomble
- Minging cockwomble
- Tremulous bollock-for-lobsters cockwomble
- Sir Æthelbert Plonker Cockwomble of the Drubbing-over-Head Cockwombles
I may have made those last two up.
God-botherer is fantastic, clearly god has better things to do than to keep hearing their complaints.
Not a native speaker. To me it sounds the other way around, like it’s God who’s constantly bothering them? Can it be read both ways?
Think of it like ‘motherfucker’. No one is calling people mothers and accusing them of fucking. I do like your interpretation though. If that hasn’t been the premise for a movie or TV show then it probably should be.
Por que no los dos?
It depends on if the subject of the sentence (the person) is doing the thing (being active) or having the thing done to them (being passive). Think like this:
A helper (help-ER) is someone who is helping/doing the help. A caller (call-ER) is calling someone else. A botherer (bother-ER) is someone who is doing the bothering.
Someone who is recieving bother is being bothered (bother-ED), one who is getting help is being helped (help-ED), or getting calls is being called (call-ED).
God-botherer is someone who is god-bothering (bothering god). God-bothered is someone being bothered by god.
That’s the correct way of reading the structure of the word, but as always with english, there’s how it’s written, and how it’s meant.
Almost universally, this is meant as someone who is bothering people about god, like jehova’s whiteness knocking on your door, or wandering mormons inviting you to their church.
Of course. I was focusing on the doing or recieving part and completely missed the second part: Are you a botherer and bothered OF/BY or ABOUT god?
It can be either one, so I’d say it depends on how religious and/or deranged the speaker is. Like you said - most would say it’s about god, while I was deranged enough to interpret it as being a direct communication with a god.
Also, your literal interpretation is much funnier - bothering god reminds me the Bruce Almighty scene with all the emails and post-its coming from the same person
I like rhyming slang. Mostly for torturing my fellow Americans. I also enjoy clunge, jobbie, and being “sick to bastard death” about things.
The Australians have my heartstrings though, when it comes to inventive slang. They’re not here to fuck spiders, tell you that much for free.
My most hated is definitely how some (all?) Brits say “Leftenant” instead of “Lieutenant”.
Most beloved is a bit harder… “Blimey” is a nice one though.
Blimey is great!
But we do say Lieutenant!
We just don’t call em Lou-Tennants.
What do you say in lef of that?
Pronunciation with lef- is common in Britain, and spellings to reflect it date back to 14c., but the origin of this is a mystery (OED rejects suggestion that it comes from old confusion of -u- and -v-).
Listen here, you little…
That’s minging!
“Gutted” gets every single time, but for the most unfunny and fucked up reason.
I was at a bar and a guy was describing how his pet got hit by a car and he found it kind of split down the belly, then he said “I was gutted”, describing his reaction. But his pet was also quite literally gutted. I didn’t laugh or anything but it was just such a dark thing to say it was almost funny.
