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Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:02 am
by Rodabod_Archive
noise&light wrote:Sovereign
As, in sovereign rings. "That's ma sovvies, likes."
chav
I prefer "chavvy".
Also, "divvy" is a nice vintage one. Often heard on the UK soap "Brookside" which was set in chavvy Liverpool.
Oh, Sherman tank = wank.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:28 am
by MantaRay_Archive
i like "fuck all"
as in, this post is worth fuck all
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:41 am
by Rodabod_Archive
Look mate, you're getting on my wick.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:35 pm
by Ivan Dobsky_Archive
There is a little confusion here.
Chav is specifically a Burbary wearing youth, tracksuits sovs etc..
Charver is any youth, like a younger version of Gadgie. I think
charver is only used in Carlisle & Newcastle.
Face like a slapped twat. Ugly
Shovel of shit short of a full midden. Thick
see also
A few sarnies short of a picnick, a few bricks short of a hod.
Goodies - Sweets
Gadzooks - Old school exclamation of surprise
Daft cunt - Boro term for idiot
Doyle - Hartlepool term for idiot
Chutney Locker Poker/Tunnel Tester - Poof
Knee-trembler - Sex standing up usually in a back alley after a few scoops (Pints).
Your getting right on my tits - You're annoying me.
Ginnyspinner - Crane Fly
and we would usually say Slip her a length or Slip her one
not slide.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:07 pm
by Arson Smith_Archive
Ivan Dobsky wrote:Ginnyspinner - Crane Fly
I'm going to flat admit I need additional help on this one...
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:27 pm
by night_tools_Archive
Arson Smith wrote:Ivan Dobsky wrote:Ginnyspinner - Crane Fly
I'm going to flat admit I need additional help on this one...
aka
Daddy Long Legs
The place I was living in this summer was full of these pricks. I really don't like them - they just buzz about flying into things.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:42 pm
by scoopneck_Archive
yushbombn wrote:my friend from NY particulaly liked 'minge flaps' when he was here
My favorite too.
According to urbandictionary.com
The minge is not the actual vagina, but the hair surrounding the area. On the labia majora and the pubic mound. Loose, shaggy hair that is not neatly trimmed, and may be a little fragranced with 'girl perfume'.
"My minge is so sweaty, and tufts of hair are coming out the side of my pants. Perhaps I should get a Brazillian"
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:19 am
by Chapter Two_Archive
scoopneck wrote:"My minge is so sweaty, and tufts of hair are coming out the side of my pants. Perhaps I should get a Brazillian"
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:27 am
by johnnyshape_Archive
noise&light wrote:I was mentioning Lady Sovereign, the UK rapper, to an English friend and she was immediately dismissed as "a silly chav."
I met Lady Sovereign briefly once, and she dressed like one, she sounded like one, but she was clearly approximately 300 times too smart to be a real live chav.
She's also about
that high (holds right hand flat improbably small distance off the ground).
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:59 am
by chairman_hall_Archive
Ivan Dobsky wrote:There is a little confusion here.
Chav is specifically a Burbary wearing youth, tracksuits sovs etc..
Charver is any youth, like a younger version of Gadgie. I think
charver is only used in Carlisle & Newcastle.
Face like a slapped twat. Ugly
Shovel of shit short of a full midden. Thick
see also
A few sarnies short of a picnick, a few bricks short of a hod.
Goodies - Sweets
Gadzooks - Old school exclamation of surprise
Daft cunt - Boro term for idiot
Doyle - Hartlepool term for idiot
Chutney Locker Poker/Tunnel Tester - Poof
Knee-trembler - Sex standing up usually in a back alley after a few scoops (Pints).
Your getting right on my tits - You're annoying me.
Ginnyspinner - Crane Fly
and we would usually say Slip her a length or Slip her one
not slide.
Charva in Newcastle means a young ruffian, who would most likely come up to you and go "do us a tab, mista". It is not just any young person.
Although, this could be seen as a political issue of young yob culture.
I believe the word is derived from greek, and chav is just a bastardised version of charva.