Bob's your uncle - This is a well used phrase. It is added to the end of sentences a bit like and that's it! For example if you are telling someone how to make that fabulous banoffee pie you just served them, you would tell them to boil the condensed milk for three hours, spread it onto a basic cheesecake base, slice bananas on top, add some whipped double cream, another layer of banana and Bob's your uncle!
Bodge - We bodge things all the time here. I'm sure you do too! To do a bodge job means to do a quick and dirty. Make it look good for the next day or two and if it falls down after that - hey well we only bodged it!
Bogey - Booger. Any variety, crusty dragons included!
Bollocks - This is a great English word with many excellent uses. Technically speaking it means testicles but is typically used to describe something that is no good (that's bollocks) or that someone is talking rubbish (he's talking bollocks). Surprisingly it is also used in a positive manner to describe something that is the best, in which case you would describe it as being "the dog's bollocks". Englishmen who live in America take great delight in ordering specialised registration plates for their cars using the letters B.O.L.L.O.X. Good eh?
Bomb - If something costs a bomb it means that it is really expensive. We say it when we see the price of insurance in the US, you could try saying it when you see how much jeans or petrol cost over here!
Bonk - Same meaning as shag. Means to have sex. E.g. "Did you bonk him/her?".
Botch - There are two expressions here - to botch something up or to do a botch job. They both mean that the work done was not of a high standard or was a clumsy patch. My Dad used to always tell me that workmen had botched it up and that he should have done the work properly himself.
Bottle - Something you have after twenty pints of lager and the curry. A lotta bottle! This means courage. If you have a lotta bottle you have no fear.
Box your ears - Many young chaps heard their dads threaten to box their ears when I was a littlun. Generally meant a slap around the head for misbehaving. Probably illegal these days!!
Brassed off - If you are brassed off with something or someone, you are fed up. Pissed off perhaps.
Brill - Short for "brilliant". Used by kids to mean cool.
Budge up - If you want to sit down and someone is taking up too much space, you'd ask them to budge up - move and make some space.
Bugger - This is another fairly unique word . Like bloody it has many uses apart from the obvious dictionary one pertaining to rather unusual sexual habits. My father was always shouting "bugger" when he was working in the garage or garden. Usually when he hit his thumb or dropped a nail or lost something. Today we might use the sh** or the f*** words but bugger is still as common. The fuller version of this would be "bugger it". It can also be used to tell someone to get lost (bugger off), or to admit defeat (we're buggered) or if you were tired or exhausted you would be buggered. You can also call someone a bugger. When I won £10 on the lottery my mate called me a "lucky bugger".
Bugger all - If something costs bugger all, it means that it costs nothing. Meaning it is cheap. If you have bugger all, it means you have nothing.
Bum - This is the part of your body you sit on. Your ***! It might also be someone who is down and out, like a tramp. You might also bum around, if you are doing nothing in particular, just hanging out. Finally to bum something means to scrounge it from someone.
Bung - To bung something means to throw it. For example a street trader might bung something in for free if you pay cash right now! Or you could say "bung my car keys over, mate".
Bung - A bung is also a bribe.
Butchers - To have a butchers at something is to have a look. This is a cockney rhyming slang word that has become common. The reason "butchers" means a look even though it doesn't rhyme is because it is short for "butchers hook" and "hook" of course, does rhyme.
2006-08-06 08:52:12
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British slang?
What are some british slang words and what do they mean?best gets the points:)
2015-08-06 16:58:46
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For an explanation of loads of British Swear Words, see Roger's Profanisaurus, an online swearing dictionary, at http://www.milkinfirst.com/dictionary/profanisaurus.htm
Very crude, but quite funny.
It was first published in Viz Magazine, a comic full of schoolboy humour for adults.
2006-08-04 03:59:35
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Define Bodge
2016-12-28 05:58:18
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bloody h3ll: Omg
Half a moment: Just a sec.
Knickers: Underwear
You can watch british movies and they'll have some stuff on it.
2006-08-05 08:32:26
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I'll come round and knock you up in the morning. Love that one. LOL
2016-04-09 06:38:41
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Google is your friend
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/links.htm#british
2006-08-04 03:56:28
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Digs - apartment - home
bloody hell - self explanatory
Bubble and squeek - potatoes & cabbige fried together
Bangers - sausages
Binnie - garbage man
ganja - marijuana
gobshite- an egotist who has a big mout. talks sh*t.
Many of the terms I've heard are used here, too.
2006-08-04 04:17:55
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Syrup - rhyming slang often used to refer to a wig (syrup of figs -wig). There are thousands of others but this is my favourite
2006-08-04 03:54:32
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Manky means horrible/disgusting/rotten. It is my favourite slang word.
2006-08-04 03:57:15
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