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semantics across the pond
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think it gotta little confused along the line somewhere,i only wanted to know if there were any other slang words for the word snow not different definitions like avalanche etc that i got the piss taking for,thanks for the link but i already posted it #96
don't wanna sound rude but i don't think you read the thread how it was meant
On the tame side, when my family moved to the UK 'knackered' was easily adopted into the family lingo.
If this is in reference to the Inuit/English thing I should point out that they probably don't use all those different words regularly either
If this is in reference to the Inuit/English thing I should point out that they probably don't use all those different words regularly either
yer kinda of,if you read back through the thread things went a little tits up as i made the stupid mistake of saying are there any other words for the word snow then got the piss taken out of me for it with different meanings ie,slush,flurry,ice etc etc etc when all i wanted to know was are there any other british slang names for the word snow
I'm listening to Super Furry Animals at the moment and Gruff has just sung a verse filled with a great British slang word:
"I'm a minger / You're a minger too / So come on minger / I want to ming with you."
Minging: smelly or unpleasant.
Minger: an ugly person.
Reminds me of when I described something as being "minging" and used the word "lorry" when talking to a Canadian. She liked the word lorry, which I put down to my lovely Welsh brogue!
"I'm a minger / You're a minger too / So come on minger / I want to ming with you."
Minging: smelly or unpleasant.
Minger: an ugly person.
Reminds me of when I described something as being "minging" and used the word "lorry" when talking to a Canadian. She liked the word lorry, which I put down to my lovely Welsh brogue!
Or his sister Ophelia.
Is that the same as "the dog's bollocks"?
I'm still wondering what "telly" means if it needs to be put in the back of a white van.
It's a television.
Yeah pretty much the same. Although the the rhyming and the fact that nuts can mean crazy or rubbish at the same time just adds to the linguistic power of the word and therefore really takes "the dog´s bollocks" to a whole new level of well, the mutt´s nuts.
I'm still wondering what "telly" means if it needs to be put in the back of a white van.
That is a Telly (tubby). I dare not speak of the horrors that go on with it in the back of a white van.
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Ouch... of course. For some reason I thought telephone but now, of course, I'm remembering a dozen references to "telly" as TV.
Bird is also doing a jail term. Calling a women a bird is likely to result in a swift kick to the goolies round my way.
don't wanna sound rude but people read/see things in different ways so you see things your way i'll see them mine
Okay... one I saw today: Ace - I'm guessing it means "sweet" or "cool" or "wicked"?
And another that I've heard (and used) and am not entirely sure what it literally means: "bugger" or "buggered." Does it mean f*** or f***ed? Less vulgar but similar? Just as vulgar? Am I way off?
Skunk, am I spelling it correctly?
And another that I've heard (and used) and am not entirely sure what it literally means: "bugger" or "buggered." Does it mean f*** or f***ed? Less vulgar but similar? Just as vulgar? Am I way off?
Skunk, am I spelling it correctly?
Yep Ace in that context means cool,there's another not so common one which is "groovy"
Nope your not way off
Bugger me = f*ck it
I'm buggered = I'm f#cked