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  2. Dutch profanity - Wikipedia

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    It is more often used as slang for getting very drunk, comparable to "shitfaced". lijer: Lijer (literally: "sufferer") is a noun and suffix. It is correctly spelled "lijder", but the "d" becomes silent in slang.

  3. British slang - Wikipedia

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    British slang. British slang is English-language slang originating from and used in the United Kingdom and also used to a limited extent in Anglophone countries such as India, Malaysia, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, especially by British expatriates. It is also used in the United States to a limited extent.

  4. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    v. t. e. This is a list of British words not widely used in the United States. In Commonwealth of Nations, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and Australia, some of the British terms listed are used, although another usage is often preferred. Words with specific British English meanings that have ...

  5. Tosspot - Wikipedia

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    Tosspot. Tosspot is a British English and Irish English insult, used to refer to a stupid or contemptible person, or a drunkard. [1][2] The word is of Middle English origin, and meant a person who drank heavily. Beer or ale was customarily served in ceramic pots, so a tosspot was a person who copiously "tossed back" such pots of beer.

  6. From ‘Basic’ to ‘Boujee,’ Here Are 29 Gen Z Slang Terms To ...

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    How boujee!!”. 5. Dead or dying or ded. No, Gen Z is not *actually* dead. They just say this when something’s funny to the extent that it could kill you. Think, ‘dying of laughter,’ tummy ...

  7. List of South African slang words - Wikipedia

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    The following slang words used in South African originated in other parts of the Commonwealth of Nations and subsequently came to South Africa. bint – a girl, from Arabic بِنْت. Usually seen as derogatory. buck – the main unit of currency: in South Africa the rand, and from the American use of the word for the dollar.

  8. Dry drunk - Wikipedia

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    Dry drunk is an expression coined by the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous [1] that describes an alcoholic who no longer drinks but otherwise maintains the same behavior patterns of an alcoholic. [ 2 ] A dry drunk can be described as a person who refrains from alcohol or drugs, but still has all the unresolved emotional and psychological issues ...

  9. Slang - Wikipedia

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    Slang. A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing. [1] It also often refers to the language exclusively used by the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.