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Words with specific British English meanings that have different meanings in American and/or additional meanings common to both languages (e.g. pants, cot) are to be found at List of words having different meanings in American and British English. When such words are herein used or referenced, they are marked with the flag [DM] (different meaning).
2. A way of saying "people are strange" usually preceded by the words "nowt as". Primarily used in the North of England. queer as a clockwork orange 1. Very odd indeed. [267] 2. Ostentatiously homosexual. [267] Queer Street A difficult or odd situation (up Queer Street). [268] queer someone's pitch 1. Take the pitch of another street vendor ...
The word buggery today also serves as a general expletive (mild, moderate or severe depending on the context and company), and can be used to replace the word bugger as a simple expletive or as a simile in phrases which do not actually refer literally in any sense to buggery itself, but just use the word for its informal strength of impact, e.g ...
The rhyming words are not omitted, to make the slang easier to understand. Rhyming slang is a form of slang word construction in the English language . It is especially prevalent among Cockneys in England, and was first used in the early 19th century in the East End of London ; hence its alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang .
A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words is a dictionary of slang originally compiled by publisher and lexicographer John Camden Hotten in 1859.. The first edition was published in 1859, with the full title and subtitle: A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words: used at the present day in the streets of London, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the houses of ...
2. Stupid, clumsy person [45] boiled as an owl Alternate names for intoxicated; see § drunk [46] [b] boiler Automobile [20] boob Dumb guy [44] boob-tickler Girl who has to entertain her father's customers from out of town [8] bookkeeping The art of making a date [8] booklegger. Main article: Rum-running. Dealer in suppressed novels [8] bootleg ...
The word's true origin is unknown, but it existed in the Middle Scots period. [32] [33] News: The word news has been claimed to be an acronym of the four cardinal directions (north, east, west, and south). However, old spellings of the word varied widely (e.g., newesse, newis, nevis, neus, newys, niewes, newis, nues, etc.).
John Lennon calls Walter Raleigh "such a stupid get" in The Beatles song, "I'm So Tired". [11]In the BBC TV comedy show Till Death Us Do Part (1965-1975) the bigoted patriarch of the family, Alf Garnett (played by Warren Mitchell) repeatedly referred to his son-in-law, Mike Rawlins (Anthony Booth) as a "randy scouse git".