Post was not sent - check your email addresses! See more words with the same meaning: fellatio, 'blowjob' . ; and it can also be used as a pejorative – ‘He just seems dodgy to me.’One of the more delightful British slang terms in this list, ‘scrummy’ is used as a wonderfully effusive term for when something is truly delicious and mouth-wateringly good.For example, ‘Mrs Walker’s pie was absolutely scrummy. Many other terms were constructed with the same schema – a phenomenon linguists call a “snowclone”. There is no female equivalent, since women were assumed never to masturbate.Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Is, of course, derived from scrumptious, so is not really slang at all.#28 Wanker. ‘Oh bollocks’; it can also be used to express derision and mocking disbelief, e.g. It was coined by US cartoonist Tad Dorgan in the 1920s. I can claim and prove being a "regular person." “Oh, brilliant”A brass monkey is a frame that is (was) used to hold those pyramids of cannonballs on a sailing warship. In "How Not to Sexually Harass Someone" (The Mash Report, BBC) the phrase This is one of many, many terms that men might use to refer to a woman's breasts. Never heard of chav or whaps in AE. Used when you are talking to a close friend, and is often easily substituted for the American ‘buddy’, ‘pal’, or ‘dude’.‘Bugger all’ – a British slang term used to be a more vulgar synonym for ‘nothing at all’.‘Knackered’ – a great word and phrase used by Britons to describe their tiredness and exhaustion, in any given situation. This is one of many, many terms that men might use to refer to a woman's breasts. In Oz, “mateship”, or male cameraderie & bonding is a big deal. Possibly the best British insult on the list, it fits a certain niche for a single-worded insult to lobbied out in a moment of frustration, anger, provocation, or, of course, as a jest amongst friends. Thanks for your time and knowledgeBrilliant is also often used sarcastically to respond to unwelcome news or a when something goes wrong. i learned so much . Don’t talk rubbish.’Oh, ‘wanker’. See more. Can also be used sarcastically in this same sense.Not a wonderfully melodic word, ‘chunder’ is part and parcel of British slang terms. This is an extension of the satirical, on-line, British "magazine" "Daily Mash" - The magazine is usually accurate in its use of language but, for comedic effect, it and the TV program will occasionally use invented words that sound as if they have a meaning that the reader can make a good guess at. Means an onanist, ie, a boy / man so useless that he can’t get laid and thus has to please himself. Your definition is rather more Australian. ‘I was gobsmacked when she told me she was pregnant with triplets.’‘Cock up’ – a British slang term that is far from the lewdness its name suggests. The original expression was “freeze the TAIL off a brass monkey” which became coarsened to “balls” in the mid-20th century. by Chris Haigh British slang is a niche of its own, evolving and transforming and adapting from city to city and from year to year, just as the English language itself has done. One also notices similar phrases in other languages.It’s a great post. Great post!Great blog post. ‘Kerfuffle’ describes a skirmish or a fight or an argument caused by differing views.For example, ‘I had a right kerfuffle with my girlfriend this morning over politics.’A nifty little British term that means ‘rubbish’ or ‘crap’.For example, ‘That’s a load of tosh about what happened last night’, or ‘Don’t talk tosh.’One of the more boring and technical terms on this list, a ‘car park’ is in effect, the place outside or attached to a building where people park their cars. Pshaw!These are not slang terms at all they are simply vernacular renderings to call them slang is “well out of order” and that is slangA phrase that never crept out of a clique, that also means to vomit, is ‘striping the tiger’ and comes from an occasion when Eric Clapton, the famous blues guitarist, threw up in an airport on a fellow musicians faux tigerskin boots.Nice page! While American slang has become nearly universal with the influx of TV shows, films, and other media filling the screens of a… It is fascinating how phrases are coined in languages and even the changes in meaning that words can go through. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.