Hey Lemmy! What is your most beloved and hated British slang?
Hey Lemmy! What is your most beloved and hated British slang?
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?
U wot m8?
Straight to jail, right away
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.
"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.
Innit
i'm convinced that rhyming slang is just 19th century coal mine brainrot. you cannot change my mind
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
Couldn't've said it better
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.
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.
I love 'dreich' (rhymes with 'greek') because it perfectly sums up British weather most of the time.
Also a fan of 'banging', as in top, class, right good.
Probably not technically slang, and maybe not even technically British, but I hate the all variations of "whinge". I know it's a real word, but it always feels like someone misspelling "whine". I was well into adulthood when I finally learned that though, so those feelings are just so ingrained in me at this point.
Thanks for listening to me whine.
How do you know that the plane that just landed is from England? Even when the engines have been shut down, you can still hear the whining.
Followed by "but I don't like to complain".
your whining made me whinge
I sure asked for that, huh? Lol.
My version of this is "tyre"
I could definitely see that! Was there a significant gap of time between when you first encountered that spelling vs. when you learned that it was a regional variation? I'm pretty sure the first time I came across "tyre", it was on an internet forum, and by the time I was reading the thread, there were arguments & explanations about it, so I learned immediately.
There’s too many people mixing England and Great Britain up in here.
Chuffed for me is more to do with being pleased with something you have accomplished.
Chuffed
Yes, very pleased or satisfied. Like, you'd be chuffed if you made a great pavlova, or parents got you a Megadrive for Chrissy.
I like how “chuffed” sounds/feels like someone being all pleased with themselves but without the smugness of “smug”.
This meme pretty much defined "chuffed" for me and I think about it every time I hear the word
cockwomble, wankstain, pillock, cretin, prick, jobsworth, nutjob, absolute.. (insert anything, e.g. biscuit, sausage). oh slang not insults? i think cheers is good it's not too indulgent like thank you very much but it's also a way to give some appreciation
Fucking knackered! It means very tired, exhausted. But those terms are sterlized of feeling, of life.
Are you sure that anima you ascribe to "knackered" isn't coming from the adjective? "Fucking exhausted!" sounds, to my ear, just a full of feeling. Whereas, "I'm knackered" sounds just as lifeless as "I'm exhausted." I wonder if you're mis-attributing the vigor from "fucking," which is, indeed, a potent word.
The knacker was the person who took your old tired horse and butchered it into meat, leather and glue, so it often carries that connotation too
Your opinion is your own my friend. Knackered resonates with me, but if it don't with you that cool
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
These:
Some of those are British versions of American terms and some are slang.
Half of them are total jokes, I’ve just always thought it was hilarious. Cold on a cob!!!
Innit
Innit is amazing!
Init.
Cock Womble
That's minging!
I like the phrase "tell a lie" used right after you misspeak or remember something to the contrary of what you just said.
I hate clunge and minge. I'm not generally opposed to vulgarity but these are just taking the piss. On a similar note, the cockney rhyme for Eartha Kitt is just distasteful.
British slang really depends on your region just because there are so many accents. Overall though, I'm quite a fan of plonker, pillock, (all)reet, mooch, and bog (as in shitter).
When it's raining, and someone inevitably tells me it's raining, I like to say 'perfect weather for ducks, innit'
I also like 'Kuch' which is Welsh slang for 'cuddle'
Is calling someone Petal a slang or a regionalism? I, 30-something male, love doing that, petal.
It's very twee, but it has ironic capabilities.
twee
I have very, very deep voice :)
"Loads a money!"
More of a meme than slang, but I also like "dosh".
I think you mean lods of emone?
Most hated is “boffin” for scientist—“boff” is American slang for sex, so it sounds like calling them “fuckers” (which generally doesn’t seem to be the intended connotation).
Which in turn can be slang for vomit. Wonderful :)
A fucking depraved dirty sex act, you'd feel shame even googling
Only if you're doing it right!
Lol ya freak
American’s Guide to speaking British
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.
But we do say Lieutenant!
We just don't call em Lou-Tennants.
What do you say in lef of that?
Listen here, you little...
Blimey is great!
"Wanker" is what I remember most of the time, ya f'in wanker lol
Wanker is great!
I use "proper" a lot, so that one is inevitably favourite, unless it's not an exclusive UK slang
The sexual slang is hilarious. Vadge, bugger, shag.
Knob. Do. Plough. Basically anything can mean you’d want to shag someone. All genders and orientations do it.
The dog's bollocks and the dog's breakfast.
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.
most loved: literally any insult from Gordon Ramsay ever
my most hated: literally any name of food. It's like they picked one of those huge spinning wheels and chose names at random
I was in Britain for only a handful of days and think I saw at least two meanings for the word bubble and none of them were "air pocket inside a liquid" (or even "fizzy drink" or something related to bubbles). One was mashed potatoes, I can't remember the other one. You'll simply need to ask to find out what it is they're selling!
Pear shaped (things have gone pear shaped, i.e. things have gone wrong a bit)
Bellend (basically calling someone a dick, stupid or annoying)
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast (I'll get this thing done before you know it)
Never liked : Govna/Guv/Guvner
"Shaking hands with the unemployed"
Just kidding, that one's a cracker
