The sexual slang is hilarious. Vadge, bugger, shag.
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In French the slang term for that is "rouler des pelles" , which means literally "to roll shovels" and... I mean what the fuck is up with that?
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Is calling someone Petal a slang or a regionalism? I, 30-something male, love doing that, petal.
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most loved: literally any insult from Gordon Ramsay ever
my most hated: literally any name of food. It's like they picked one of those huge spinning wheels and chose names at random
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The dog's bollocks and the dog's breakfast.
Probably not technically slang, and maybe not even technically British, but I hate the all variations of "whinge". I know it's a real word, but it always feels like someone misspelling "whine". I was well into adulthood when I finally learned that though, so those feelings are just so ingrained in me at this point.
Thanks for listening to me whine.
How do you know that the plane that just landed is from England? Even when the engines have been shut down, you can still hear the whining.
Followed by "but I don't like to complain".
your whining made me whinge
I sure asked for that, huh? Lol.
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Pear shaped (things have gone pear shaped, i.e. things have gone wrong a bit)
Bellend (basically calling someone a dick, stupid or annoying)
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast (I'll get this thing done before you know it)
Never liked : Govna/Guv/Guvner
A fucking depraved dirty sex act, you'd feel shame even googling
Only if you're doing it right!
Lol ya freak
Most hated is “boffin” for scientist—“boff” is American slang for sex, so it sounds like calling them “fuckers” (which generally doesn’t seem to be the intended connotation).
“boff” is American slang for sex
I have never heard this term in my entire life so I looked it up and rest easy, it was a slang term for sex....in the 1920s.
Ok... but if someone told you they found their wife and neighbor boffing, would you assume that meant they were doing scientific research?
I’d think you mispronounced boofing which involves taking drugs with your butt.
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Which in turn can be slang for vomit. Wonderful :)
My most hated is definitely how some (all?) Brits say "Leftenant" instead of "Lieutenant".
Most beloved is a bit harder... "Blimey" is a nice one though.
But we do say Lieutenant!
We just don't call em Lou-Tennants.
What do you say in lef of that?
Pronunciation with lef- is common in Britain, and spellings to reflect it date back to 14c., but the origin of this is a mystery (OED rejects suggestion that it comes from old confusion of -u- and -v-).
Listen here, you little...
Blimey is great!
"Wanker" is what I remember most of the time, ya f'in wanker lol
Wanker is great!
When it's raining, and someone inevitably tells me it's raining, I like to say 'perfect weather for ducks, innit'
I also like 'Kuch' which is Welsh slang for 'cuddle'
Cwtch - I do like your English spelling though.
Ah, the timeless war of the Welsh against vowels.
We've got more vowels than you 😋
Do you use them or are they collectors items?
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Love it gonna steal it the next time it rains!
England has a surfeit of terms for obnoxious people.
- Jobsworth (obstructive clerk or bureaucrat)
- God-botherer (religious fanatic)
- Cockwomble
- Minging cockwomble
- Tremulous bollock-for-lobsters cockwomble
- Sir Æthelbert Plonker Cockwomble of the Drubbing-over-Head Cockwombles
I may have made those last two up.
God-botherer is fantastic, clearly god has better things to do than to keep hearing their complaints.
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Chuffed for me is more to do with being pleased with something you have accomplished.
I like how “chuffed” sounds/feels like someone being all pleased with themselves but without the smugness of “smug”.
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"Shaking hands with the unemployed"
Just kidding, that one's a cracker