Poll: Which is your favorite UK slang term?

Snog cause it sounds like a Jim Henson character

wasn't that the name of that huge brown wooly mammoth that had a serious thing for Big Bird?

hee- that's Snuffy! :D

snuffleupagus for long. (:

 -= george =-

Mr. Snuffleupagus to you!

I'm not entirely sure what "nheh" means, but I like it! In other news, I've always liked "wanker" as a diss.

Also, I don't know whether or not it counts as official "slang," but I've always adored the British use of the word "innit," which is a conjuction of "isn't it?" but they say it with EVERYTHING.

when you come back, bring pie!



wanker.




hahaha, weebl rules

Still, I think anything's funnier when said with an Australian accent. Particularly an old camp counselor I had named Katrina...

(ask me for impressions of the following... It's so fun)

"Hairy mole!!!"
"D'ya reckon ____'s GAY?!?!!?!"
"PORN! I'm the expert!" (she'd fit right in here, I bet...)

Pilfer is a UK slang term? I thought it was... a word. See? No mention of slang.

You beat me to it, pilfer is standard english. Pilferage is often mentioned as a problem in retail.

Personally I'll take cockney rhyming slang.

Oog. I hate cockney rhyming slang. I don't even see why it's called slang since it's more like a pig-Latin-type secret language.

*joins you*

Cockney *is* ugly...

I, too, was beaten to it. Pointing out that "pilfer" isn't slang, I mean. That word was even in those little vocabulary workbooks they gave us in English class in junior high and high school.

I never heard that word used as the retail problem. I thought stores just called it "shrinkage". Like when a guy swims in a cold pool. {g}

Smashing! all the way. But you have to say it in a Kate Rusby like broader Yorkshire accent ;-D

i voted for brass knobs, although "the dog's bollocks" is quite a collorful term too :D

I always liked "for f*cks sake!" (say in Scottish Ewan MacGregor "Trainspotting" accent)

or in brad-pitt-pikey :D

"I focking 'ate pikeys...."

dammit, now I have to watch Snatch again. :-P

-- Pauley

that movie has the best lines :D

"why do they call him the bullet-dodger?"

"..because he..dodges bullets, avi."

That, and i love when they call one guy a "Pee-nass." (for penis).

"Did that man have four fingers?"

"I'm sorry, I couldn't get the bi-noc-u-lars out in time!"

-- Pauley

"it was at a funny ang-oo."

"it's be'ind you, tyrone! when you're in reverse, things come from be'ind you!"

Or, the same phrase, in an exasperated Eddie Izzard manner.  I say that far too often.

Anything said in an Eddie Izzard manner is FAN-tastic!

...not the word, so much as the meaning. ;) mmmm....

-- Pauley

Meaning "totally worn out."

Whew. I'm knackered.

ooh!

that's GOOD one. i like that one.

who hasn't read "tommy's tale" yet?

See I always thought snog was a bit of an ugly term for kissing and prefer the austarlian slang term "pash" but then I am british and all these words are normal to ME

absolutely. the word 'snog' just creeps me out.

dude. this poll is cracking me up.

as the ruling authority on the subject, 'pilfer' is, liek, never a slang term. and, i don't think i've EVER heard anyone british say, 'same to you with brass knobs on', and if i did, i think i would have to slap them. :D

personally, my favourites are 'bollocks', 'manky', 'bloke', and 'don' (as in, 'i am don'). :D

Ireland wins hands down. "Gobshite" is my favorite insult ever.

hey baby, wanna snog with me? I like snogging. I'm snogerific. This day is snogvolous. That couple last night was snoggering. Have a happy snogiday!

the correct usage is

"eww.  did he snog you yet?  you're not cool til you've snogged a boy.  we go out  and do the ten man challenge and you've not ever snogged a boy!"

as it was used to me when I was eleven.  I'm sure you know the ten man challenge it cannot be restricted to British slappers ahem girls.

(slappers by the way is like sluts the word comes from slapping on the make up)

i snog my boyfriend, beats drunken men with beer breath though he probably has beer breath now.

Hrm.
THe only results I get for "ten man challenge" in google are fishing... but... I'm guessing you're not talking about fishing competitions.

:D

hehe :D

nate, i have no idea what it is, either. *pokes siobhan*

ten man challenge - a girl goes out with her girl friends and attempts to *ahem* snog ten men in the one night.
ussually at its best when the said "men" have upset girlfriends and the night ends up in a fight.
I love the school I went to/area I grew up in/England.

"Hey are you two girls british? I hear british girls party really hard!"
Why don't they just coem out and say "I hear Brititsh girls are sluts!"

hahahahahah

That's funny stuff. :)

"Bugger" is actually part of my regular speach.

It's quite useful in an (American) office to be able to say "bugger all" or some thing like it, without only a "what's wrong with you" look from your coworkers. And I get plenty of the "what's wrong with you" looks anyways :-)

I use that one it goes back to my days at a (relatively) posh school and my decision not to swear in front of my mother. bugger was banned too. When I was 5 I looked up from the dictionary and said

"mum what does bugger mean?"

"right whoever uses a word explains it to siobhan she is NOT reading the dictionary again!"

I love saying bloody. It's great.

oh I love saying wicked but that's rather New England-ish. ;-)

i say 'wicked' entirely way too much. particularly at work. 'is there a rail of lingerie for me in the stockroom?' 'yeah.' 'wicked.'

So anyone want to roll me from the wall?

Do you want anyone to knock you up?

rather than "smashing," which i use occasionally, my british exclamation of choice is "brilliant!", which i use an awful lot, really. makes me feel oh so very harry potter. :D

I like "git" and "bint." We don't have decent monosyllabic equivalents.

bint is a fabulous word but siobhan won't let me use it. ;)

Oh I haven't got the faintest idea what a bint is....

*searches the net* *finds*  ooooh   :-D

the bint!

SMEGHEAD!!! STUPID GIT!!!!

thank god for red dwarf and monty python...

On my DVD of The Office (the greatest show ever) they say "bender" a lot, which apparently is a derogatory remark referring to homosexuals. And while I don't approve of such things, it's funny in the right context (i.e. Let's laugh at the stupid bigots.)

I bet you won't laugh when you find out what a "rimbo" is...

ok...i personally *heart* referring to people as wankers so....yeah....... and my worst profane abuse is saying 'fuckity', which i only started saying after watching 'four weddings and a funeral' when hugh grant was late at the one point and said 'fuck fuck fuckity fuck!!!'. though -i- seem to couple it with other words and say 'fuckity duckity doo!!' ala 'bibbity bobbity boo'. but then again, i am a strange one.....:)

For coined slang, I prefer molesturbater.  I have no real idea what I intended it to mean; it just popped out of my mouth when I saw someone abusing two fruit gushers.  Still, it's a funny word to call someone.  And it functions as a verb as well!  "You molesturbated those gushers!  Sicko!"  Ok, really long story there.  Nevermind then...

-Magical Bob

I love how that one's used. Especially when talking about an eggplant or a greeting card or something.