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 What's some British slang wewe know??
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OMGZoey said:
I'm not British and nor do I know any slang... BUT! I do like answering peoples maswali so here's some "British Slang" I found on the internet (:

Ace - If something is ace it is awesome. I used to hear it a lot in Liverpool. Kids thought all cool stuff was ace, au brill.

Aggro - Short for aggravation, it's the sort of thing wewe might expect at a football match. In other words - trouble! There is sometimes aggro in the cities after the pubs shut!

All right? - This is used a lot around London and the south to mean, "Hello, how are you"? wewe would say it to a complete stranger au someone wewe knew. The normal response would be for them to say "All right"? back to you. It is alisema as a question. Sometimes it might get expanded to "all right mate"? Mostly used kwa blue collar, alama workers but also common among younger people.

Anti-clockwise - The first time I alisema that something had gone anti-clockwise to someone in Texas I got this very funny look. It simply means counter-clockwise but must sound really strange to wewe chaps! I think he thought I had something against clocks!

Any road - Up north (where they talk funny!!) instead of saying anyway, they say "any road"! Weird huh?

Arse - This is a word that doesn't seem to exist in America. It basically means the same as ass, but is much ruder. It is used in phrases like "pain in the arse" (a nuisance) au I "can't be arsed" (I can't be bothered) au wewe might hear something was "a half arsed attempt" meaning that it was not done properly.

Arse about face - This means wewe are doing something back to front.

Arse over elbow - This is another way of saying head over heels but is a little zaidi descriptive. Usually happens after 11pm on a Saturday night and too many lagers! Some Americans say punda over teakettle apparently!

Arse over tit - Another version of arse over elbow, but a bit zaidi graphic!

Arsehole - Asshole to you. Not a nice word in either language.

Arseholed - Drunk! Usually in the advanced stages of drunken stupor, someone would be considered "completely arseholed". Never me, of course!

As well - wewe chaps say also when we would say "too" au "as well". For instance if my friend ordered a Miller Lite, I would say "I'll have one as well". I often heard people saying something like "I'll have one also". You'd be zaidi likely to hear someone in England ordering a pint of lager!

punda - Your backside, but mostly a donkey!

Au fait - Another one of those French expressions that have slipped into the English language. This one means to be familiar with something. I'd say at the end of kusoma all this you'd be au fait with the differences between American and English!

That's only the a's :D
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Oh thanks!!
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darange said:
trousers- pants
pants-underwear
chips- fries
mate-friend
arse- rear end
Alright!-hello
i guess thats really all i can remember, now im not from uk, so ya, i might be wrong on the last one
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I don't think trousers au chips at slang. That's just a difference in terminology between British English and American English.
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FLUFFYMUFFIN said:
claret: blood (They were copping it up, claret all over the place!)
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dosh: money
bata and dive: to run from the police
earner: a dishonest laborer
eppy: a fit
faced: drunk

to cop it: to get in trouble
copper: policeman
Crikey!: My God!
damage: cost
Dicky: feeling unwell

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Lovehinagurl44 said:
Spliff-marijuana cigarette
Taking the piss- joking around
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sarabeara said:
brolly - umbrella
ta - thank you
fap - masturbate
wank/wanker - masturbate/one who masturbates
toss/tosser - masturbate/one who masturbates
pram - baby carriage
chap - man ("he's a right good chap!")
bog/loo/washroom/toilet - bathroom
crisps - potato chips
chips - fries
rubbish bin - trash can
rubbish - trash and/or something terrible
football/footie - soccer
prat - idiot
row - fight
flat/flatmate - apartment/roommate
mate - friend
trainers - sneakers
fancy - to like someone romatically
poof - rude term for a gay person
fit - hot
snog - to kiss/make out
shag - to fuck
slash - to pee
clunge - vagina
bollocks - balls
"that's bollocks!" - "that's rubbish!"
"piss off!" - "fuck off"
"sod off" - "fuck off"
"oh bugger!" - "oh fuck!"
"we get on well" - "we get along"
trousers - pants
bangers - sausages
jumper - sweater
knickers - underwear
spliff - weed
skins - paper for weed au cigarettes
bum - butt
arse - ass
slag/slapper/tart - slut
bint - bitch, kahaba au slut
mobile - cellphone
cuppa - a cup of tea
chat up line - pick up line
bird - woman
carpark - parking lot
queue - line ("did wewe see the queue for the loo?")
cheque - check
wellies - rain boots
college - 2 mwaka schooling that prepares one for uni
uni - 4 mwaka university
lift - elevator
chav - certain type of person (hard to explain)
posh - rich
sloane - rude term for rich person
fag - most Americans believe it means 'cigarette' in the UK, and it does some of the time; however it is still zaidi commonly used in the UK as a derogatory term for a gay person
And let us not forget their varied spelling in words like 'favourite' au 'colour' au 'focussing' au their odd pronuciation of words such as 'laboratory' au 'aluminum' au 'progress'.

Source: spending a week in England, growing up with my British father, and watching Skins, Merlin, Misfits, Sherlock, and 9438520985703294 One Direction interviews.
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Didn't they say wanker on iCarly?!
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Probably. The creator of iCarly, Dan Schneider, is a notorious pervert who slips dirty things into his shows. Like when Sam giggles at the word "crotchety".
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Book-Freak said:
On your aris/park your bum - Sit down
All right? - Are wewe alright/how are you?
Where to? - Where is it?/ Where are you?
Hold your farasi - Be patient!
In the slammer - In prison
Innit - Isn't it

It's quite difficult to do this actually! I'm trying to analyse the way I/my family/my Marafiki speak and because I'm so used to saying it I don't think of it as slang au uniquely British.
What you'll find though is that there is a whole lot of slang that variates across the whole country and and the remains of old dialects everywhere. Really, there is no such thing as British slang, because there is different slang used in very county, plus Scotland and Wales have their own slang too.
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simpleplan said:
trousers-pants
bloody- swear word
bleeding- swear word
aces- awsome
Bobs your Uncle.- there wewe go
Bugger off- go away
Cheeky- have too much lip au are a bit of a smart arse!
Telly- TV
Arse- Ass
Blimey- Another exclamation of surprise
Fancy- liking someone/something
Ring- call
Mate- Friend
Nick-steal
Prat - Yet another mildly insulting name for someone
and lodes zaidi as wewe can see I watch to much Doctor Who and read to much Harry Potter
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zikkiforever said:
It is so funny to see what people from the USA think we say. We don't not say call,friend au awesome we still use those words. I never heard of half the words some people are uandishi down.

I don't exactly know any English slang ,because what wewe call slang is how I speak and can't pick it up easy.

Anyway,we don't find what we speak slang.
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Seastar4374 said:
XD I have so many british Marafiki its unreal. I know Hanky Panky
Taking the biskuti
Snogging
Bees Knees
Smashing
Blimey
Wank
Gan
Shan
Shag
Wiwu

That's only a few I know. I have a lot of Marafiki over in the UK because of a program where people from other countries come over and are counselors at girl scout camps in the US.
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