British Slang Dictionary
As we haven't had a QOTW for a few weeks, thought we'd try something a little different. We'd like you to suggest phrases, bits of slang you know and you find amusing and give their definitions.
( , Fri 22 Jan 2016, 14:34)
As we haven't had a QOTW for a few weeks, thought we'd try something a little different. We'd like you to suggest phrases, bits of slang you know and you find amusing and give their definitions.
( , Fri 22 Jan 2016, 14:34)
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skagra (n): The art of being irritatingly unfunny at great length.
( , Sun 31 Jan 2016, 13:58, 2 replies)
( , Sun 31 Jan 2016, 13:58, 2 replies)
'Eleanor Rigby's funeral'
A mutually unsatisfying sexual encounter.
( , Tue 26 Jan 2016, 20:01, Reply)
A mutually unsatisfying sexual encounter.
( , Tue 26 Jan 2016, 20:01, Reply)
Leave Rob alone, he's doing his best
well, obviously not his best. But he is stopping short of total neglect. I mean, if total neglect was Edgware, he'd be getting off at Colindale. Maybe even Hendon on a good week.
( , Mon 1 Feb 2016, 10:57, 1 reply)
well, obviously not his best. But he is stopping short of total neglect. I mean, if total neglect was Edgware, he'd be getting off at Colindale. Maybe even Hendon on a good week.
( , Mon 1 Feb 2016, 10:57, 1 reply)
qotw
(of a person) at the point of death.
"on examination she was qotw and dehydrated"
(of a thing) in terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigour.
"the qotw commercial property market"
( , Mon 1 Feb 2016, 7:49, Reply)
(of a person) at the point of death.
"on examination she was qotw and dehydrated"
(of a thing) in terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigour.
"the qotw commercial property market"
( , Mon 1 Feb 2016, 7:49, Reply)
Skagran Slang
Ablogthigg
Manner of speech of person with mightily blocked nasal passages
Arsery
Behaviour during which arses are likely to be bared
Belliop
Undulating motion of stomach of someone vomiting
Besquintos
Expression on someone’s face as they stare into the sun
Bimmtle
Humungous subcutaneous zit
Blathertron
1. Radio tuned permanently to Radio 1 and left in factory or shop all day at maximum volume
2. Irritating telephonic voice
Borad
That which is dull and boring
Chinny
Of a personal stereo or cassette player, etc: cheap and tinny
Dagbloid
State of tongue after very hot curry or passionate french kiss
Destraboly
That which is destined, sooner or later, to be destroyed, usually by enormous homicidal robots of limited intelligence
Drumhum
Type of eternally long, infernally tedious drum solo favoured by Phil Collins et al
Engingering
The act of rendering something ginger
Explapology
An explanation which is also an apology, and vice-versa
Flobbous
Having the texture and/or appearance of freshly hawked phlegm
Fragglemeister
Student, rich of parent, who dresses up as a traveller and goes to festivals, and then suffers from diarrhoea. Will eventually evolve into a y’ban’o!wawa (qv)
Freheal
To reveal gums amorously
Futudrid
Descriptive of the early morning breath of the being you wake up next to
Gazooxed
Skint, from buying too many National Lottery tickets or scratchcards
Ghuviug
Unidentified thing dwelling in pipe or drain
Gogzongle
In a science fiction or horror film, a gogzongle is a special effect or monster which just does not work on screen. See the film “Species”, and its sequels, for a perfect example of a major gogzongle
Goitlebloom
Large, angry zit, which probably started life as a bimmtle (qv) and will end its life as a bloody mess on a tissue
Granby
Doddery old person in shopping centre likely to change direction, turn around or stop in front of you without warning, thus causing collision
Habbaflarkiss
Slightly uncomfortable walk of one forced, by some circumstance or other, to forgo underpants
Haspik
Medical implement for the removal of pubic hairs
Hea
Abortive cup of tea
Higfuffy
Expression on the face of a granby (qv) who has just been involved in a collision with a wegfaroon (qv)
Hoarse Throaterton
Sore throat caused by giving someone a loud and protracted bollocking
Hoghiufwanf
Frantic flapping movement made by person with hands or newspaper in a vain attemtpt to disperse noxious fart. Also appiles to dog’s fart dispelled into general area by frantic flapping of the beast’s tail
Howjohout
Unseen irritant foul; its shrill song
Husfadfogfossid
1.Decaying vegetable matter
2.Any political party manifesto
Iagor
Name used in every sword and sorcery novel ever written
Jisp
Lisp which renders the speaker desperately camp
Kernick
Ancient walking stick/frame wielded by granby (qv)
Lasticair
Elastic band with a personality; it may be nonchalant, sexy, debonair or lachrymose
Latolkein
Totally flat lager, fit only for throwing at someone
Lieterature
Government brochures
Lunchacy
Psychotic disorder which causes people to eat at McDonalds
Megavoox
Computer game designed to produce brain tumours in children
Meowelings
Pitiful sounds made by small fluffy kittens about to be devoured by huge ravenous serpent
Nastobeer
The real ale equivalent of latolkein (qv)
Nixidom
Zone of total and complete nothingness
Noggotho
Very very very dark, utterly without even the faintest smidgeon of light, sort of thing
Noom
Something worse than doom
Noshblediant
Of a sausage, to be glisteningly greasy, tight of skin, stone cold, and slightly turned up at the ends
Okabaahdaj
Pseudo-ethnic object, really made in the Wirral, sold to gullible y’ban’o!wawas (qv)
Ottorow
Expression of one confronted suddenly with a dead fish (or fishes)
Oquo
The colour of water in a toilet bowl
Pennather
Sound made by very wide flares in high wind
Quabsoash
To hurtle, with fish and/or sundry crustaceans, down chute into water
Quoplisplade
Arranged in a manner designed to rile the elderly
Quornography
Vegetarian pornography
Rollolert
Noise made by the very young when their favourite TV programme is about to commence
Slard
A cloying, claggy mixture of sugar and lard, favoured by old people
Shujkalap
One who sells okabaahdajes (qv) to y’ban’o!wawas (qv)
Sry
Sour and dry
Testop
Harmless testicular lump fondled in dread by hypochondriac
Threllboxes
Immense loudspeakers seen at festivals etc, out of which dead bodies are cleared at the end of the gig
Throdog
When on a cycle path, a dog that looks like it is going to run out in front of you
Ugnorbal
At once abormal and revolting, like the practice of avisodomy or meatotomy
Ujujumme
Unidentified jelly-like sweet
Ung
Correct name for the shape of a turd
Vertwaque
Decorated in an overtly tossy manner, like a Marillion album sleeve
Vnanamar
Expression of TV screen or computer monitor when switched off
Vugnix
Horrible things such as prunes Graham Norton which seem to know that you hate them and thus take every opportunity to present themselves to you
Wegfaroon
Total prat on a bicycle, whose irresponsible behaviour would seem to augur a very early death
Xanxoque
Style of spaceship interior decor
Xaxdool
Large, full of gas and descending upon you from a great height
Xot
Totally undoable knot, such as that formed in electrical flex or wet shoelace
Yanarra
Beautiful alien female, green (or other) of skin and (sometimes) triple of breast
Y’ban’o!wawa
Misguided person who buys crateloads of “ethnic objects” with which to decorate their home in the hope that such action will imbue their lives with credibility
Ziplavidong
Crass quixotic manner assumed by inebriated camper/holidaymaker which will inevitably lead to a fight
Zybla
The noise made by marauding crane flies
( , Sat 30 Jan 2016, 21:54, 12 replies)
Ablogthigg
Manner of speech of person with mightily blocked nasal passages
Arsery
Behaviour during which arses are likely to be bared
Belliop
Undulating motion of stomach of someone vomiting
Besquintos
Expression on someone’s face as they stare into the sun
Bimmtle
Humungous subcutaneous zit
Blathertron
1. Radio tuned permanently to Radio 1 and left in factory or shop all day at maximum volume
2. Irritating telephonic voice
Borad
That which is dull and boring
Chinny
Of a personal stereo or cassette player, etc: cheap and tinny
Dagbloid
State of tongue after very hot curry or passionate french kiss
Destraboly
That which is destined, sooner or later, to be destroyed, usually by enormous homicidal robots of limited intelligence
Drumhum
Type of eternally long, infernally tedious drum solo favoured by Phil Collins et al
Engingering
The act of rendering something ginger
Explapology
An explanation which is also an apology, and vice-versa
Flobbous
Having the texture and/or appearance of freshly hawked phlegm
Fragglemeister
Student, rich of parent, who dresses up as a traveller and goes to festivals, and then suffers from diarrhoea. Will eventually evolve into a y’ban’o!wawa (qv)
Freheal
To reveal gums amorously
Futudrid
Descriptive of the early morning breath of the being you wake up next to
Gazooxed
Skint, from buying too many National Lottery tickets or scratchcards
Ghuviug
Unidentified thing dwelling in pipe or drain
Gogzongle
In a science fiction or horror film, a gogzongle is a special effect or monster which just does not work on screen. See the film “Species”, and its sequels, for a perfect example of a major gogzongle
Goitlebloom
Large, angry zit, which probably started life as a bimmtle (qv) and will end its life as a bloody mess on a tissue
Granby
Doddery old person in shopping centre likely to change direction, turn around or stop in front of you without warning, thus causing collision
Habbaflarkiss
Slightly uncomfortable walk of one forced, by some circumstance or other, to forgo underpants
Haspik
Medical implement for the removal of pubic hairs
Hea
Abortive cup of tea
Higfuffy
Expression on the face of a granby (qv) who has just been involved in a collision with a wegfaroon (qv)
Hoarse Throaterton
Sore throat caused by giving someone a loud and protracted bollocking
Hoghiufwanf
Frantic flapping movement made by person with hands or newspaper in a vain attemtpt to disperse noxious fart. Also appiles to dog’s fart dispelled into general area by frantic flapping of the beast’s tail
Howjohout
Unseen irritant foul; its shrill song
Husfadfogfossid
1.Decaying vegetable matter
2.Any political party manifesto
Iagor
Name used in every sword and sorcery novel ever written
Jisp
Lisp which renders the speaker desperately camp
Kernick
Ancient walking stick/frame wielded by granby (qv)
Lasticair
Elastic band with a personality; it may be nonchalant, sexy, debonair or lachrymose
Latolkein
Totally flat lager, fit only for throwing at someone
Lieterature
Government brochures
Lunchacy
Psychotic disorder which causes people to eat at McDonalds
Megavoox
Computer game designed to produce brain tumours in children
Meowelings
Pitiful sounds made by small fluffy kittens about to be devoured by huge ravenous serpent
Nastobeer
The real ale equivalent of latolkein (qv)
Nixidom
Zone of total and complete nothingness
Noggotho
Very very very dark, utterly without even the faintest smidgeon of light, sort of thing
Noom
Something worse than doom
Noshblediant
Of a sausage, to be glisteningly greasy, tight of skin, stone cold, and slightly turned up at the ends
Okabaahdaj
Pseudo-ethnic object, really made in the Wirral, sold to gullible y’ban’o!wawas (qv)
Ottorow
Expression of one confronted suddenly with a dead fish (or fishes)
Oquo
The colour of water in a toilet bowl
Pennather
Sound made by very wide flares in high wind
Quabsoash
To hurtle, with fish and/or sundry crustaceans, down chute into water
Quoplisplade
Arranged in a manner designed to rile the elderly
Quornography
Vegetarian pornography
Rollolert
Noise made by the very young when their favourite TV programme is about to commence
Slard
A cloying, claggy mixture of sugar and lard, favoured by old people
Shujkalap
One who sells okabaahdajes (qv) to y’ban’o!wawas (qv)
Sry
Sour and dry
Testop
Harmless testicular lump fondled in dread by hypochondriac
Threllboxes
Immense loudspeakers seen at festivals etc, out of which dead bodies are cleared at the end of the gig
Throdog
When on a cycle path, a dog that looks like it is going to run out in front of you
Ugnorbal
At once abormal and revolting, like the practice of avisodomy or meatotomy
Ujujumme
Unidentified jelly-like sweet
Ung
Correct name for the shape of a turd
Vertwaque
Decorated in an overtly tossy manner, like a Marillion album sleeve
Vnanamar
Expression of TV screen or computer monitor when switched off
Vugnix
Horrible things such as prunes Graham Norton which seem to know that you hate them and thus take every opportunity to present themselves to you
Wegfaroon
Total prat on a bicycle, whose irresponsible behaviour would seem to augur a very early death
Xanxoque
Style of spaceship interior decor
Xaxdool
Large, full of gas and descending upon you from a great height
Xot
Totally undoable knot, such as that formed in electrical flex or wet shoelace
Yanarra
Beautiful alien female, green (or other) of skin and (sometimes) triple of breast
Y’ban’o!wawa
Misguided person who buys crateloads of “ethnic objects” with which to decorate their home in the hope that such action will imbue their lives with credibility
Ziplavidong
Crass quixotic manner assumed by inebriated camper/holidaymaker which will inevitably lead to a fight
Zybla
The noise made by marauding crane flies
( , Sat 30 Jan 2016, 21:54, 12 replies)
how rude!
baba is Sheffield for shit (not very good)
my Mrs uses the expression wide-on, a female version of a hard-on.
( , Wed 27 Jan 2016, 11:31, 1 reply)
baba is Sheffield for shit (not very good)
my Mrs uses the expression wide-on, a female version of a hard-on.
( , Wed 27 Jan 2016, 11:31, 1 reply)
Kidderminstered - to be in a state that is difficult to describe
Sally pulled down her pants revealing a pubic mound of neatly cropped black hair, shaven into the shape of a swastika
"Well?", she said. "What are you waiting for?"
"It's not like a don't want to, Sally", I said hesitating. "It's just I'm feeling a bit kidderminstered. Give me a minute and I'll be ready to go"
( , Sat 23 Jan 2016, 6:57, 4 replies)
Sally pulled down her pants revealing a pubic mound of neatly cropped black hair, shaven into the shape of a swastika
"Well?", she said. "What are you waiting for?"
"It's not like a don't want to, Sally", I said hesitating. "It's just I'm feeling a bit kidderminstered. Give me a minute and I'll be ready to go"
( , Sat 23 Jan 2016, 6:57, 4 replies)
Having a Hitler
A mate once told me about some army guy he knew, there was something called 'having a Hitler'. Wanking in the shower while leaning up against the wall with an outstretched arm.
( , Fri 22 Jan 2016, 16:53, Reply)
A mate once told me about some army guy he knew, there was something called 'having a Hitler'. Wanking in the shower while leaning up against the wall with an outstretched arm.
( , Fri 22 Jan 2016, 16:53, Reply)
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