Favorite UK Slang/Cuss words

[Khephra]

Wanker has to be one of the best words invented.

[pansypoo53219]

1. i do like twit

but twat is dirtier.

[Cha]

2. Agreed! I love British slang!

"Sod off!" is Good! Oh, Bollocks!.. I like!
Doesn't dubya stand for Wanker? :-)

[RaulGroom]

44. Their usage is better, too

American: "I suck at this."

British: "I'm crap at this."

American: "This sucks."

British: "This is so crap."

Their way is better. Our way is so crap.

[AnnabelLee]

3. Wanker's a good one

I like "git" & sometimes it just feels so right to say "bloody hell!":-)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. Bollocks and Piss Off!

they have dirtier ones but my mind is fading tonight.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

5. The ultimate source

http://www.viz.co.uk/profanisaurus/profanis.htm

Best cussers around. Mabye except Italians.

[Khephra]

6. I guess you can all tell I'm taken the piss tonight

Yah Arsefaces yah!

:crazy:

[leftofthedial]

7. wanker is a beaut

I once had the 10-year-old son of a friend in London explain in very clinical terms why I couldn't call the small pack I was carrying a "fanny pack."

I thought he and his friends would die when I asked if "pooch pouch" was more acceptable.

Then there was the time after dinner with colleagues from Manchester when I pushed myself back from the table and announced, "Man, I'm stuffed." One chap literally blew a mouthful of wine all over the table.

We ignorant Americans!

[dolo amber]

8. I love the fact

that the word "cunt" can be tossed around freely. Here if you use that word you might as well have shot the pope or something. We're way to uptight about this word. To them it's no more than us saying "asshole" to one of our pals. Other faves are:

tosser
jobby (poo)
cannae be arsed (can't be bothered, this is my all time favourite :D)
daft cow
bint
going to the bog
and yes, definitely WANKER :D

ah, just go here and read them for yourselves...

http://english2american.com/dictionary/wholelot.html

not only curses, but it's a fun read :)
(was gonna post the profanosaurus link but someone beat me to it)

[Tom Kitten]

9. Strewth! Bloody Rotter!

lot's of good British slang in old Hellblazer comics...

[Khephra]

10. damn! You're right!

I'm a Hellblazer fan from Swamp Thing!!!

Alan Moore original run...I read them as they were coming out!

I'm so pissed off they're making K Reaves as an American occult detective for the Hellblazer film.

[CanuckAmok]

19. "Strewth" is Australian...

...you wanker.

[Pert_UK]

24. I believe it's both, but Aussies use it more than Brits these days

Originally British though....it's a shortening of "God's Truth" IIRC and has been around for hundreds of years...i.e. longer than Australia.

P.

[CanuckAmok]

27. On yer bike! n/t

[Pert_UK]

11. Arsehole.....and Pissed......and Tosser........and Bugger Off!

If you're pissed in the UK, it means you're drunk. Also, if you're arseholed, that means the same.

You have to be pissed off in order to be angry.

"Arsehole" is so much more satisfying than "asshole", IMHO.

Tosser is the same as wanker.

Now bugger off!

P.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

12. Pass one around the u-bend

That one always killed me.

[shanti]

13. bloody

good topic, mate! lol i like piss off too and use it:-)

[Khephra]

15. Bloody 'aight

:-)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

14. Nancy Boy for homosexual

I have always liked that.

[NightTrain]

16. Shite!

n/t

[leftofthedial]

20. Shite is a great freeby

we feel like we're saying shit, but you can say shite pretty much at will.

[incontrovertible]

17. From what I can tell

Britons use the word "cunt" the way we use the word... um... "you."

[HEyHEY]

18. Git and oily

Git - It means a silly person
An oily - An oily rag fag - It means a smoke

Allan fotheringham had a great story at last year's Jack Webster Journalism awards. He got fired from a paper once, and on the drive home with his carpool, he suddenly turned and said, "Whatever you do, don't call your boss a cockney git"

[SmileyBoy]

21. "Bustin' for a slash" (Meaning the act of urination)

I saw it on an "Angry Kid" cartoon on Atom Films. I nearly died laughing.

[dutchdemocrat]

22. I know someone

Who went to a bakery in London to get

bog rolls

off a shopping list once...

Appearantly the baker still talks about it!

LOL!

Bog rolls are toilet paper rolls...

[Pert_UK]

25. ROFL! You go to the baker's for floury baps and bloomers!

Not bog rolls!

P.

[toad]

23. bugger

As in, bugger off. Or bugger me.

Great thread, by the way.

[Pert_UK]

26. Cack.........also, Shat

Which seems to be used to mean either "shit" as in "I cacked myself when you jumped out at me" or just generally unclean, as in "These books are covered in cack".

Also, cacky - to be covered in cack.

It also gives pleasing emphasis to the past tense of "to shit" if you say "shat" instead, such as "The bleedin' dog shat on the carpet while we were down the pub!"

[Roon]

28. If you like this thread

You'll love this movie

http://www.shockwave.com/af/content/atom_708

[corarose]

29. Bloody Hell

Everyone knows me at College by my Bloody El's when I do something wrong or I either cut or burn myself at College.

[rppper]

30. MINGE

whatever the hell it means...i suspect part or the whole of a vagina...no pun intended

[dolo amber]

39. This is the definition

of "minge" as spoken by my very loquacious and pedantic friend from Scotland, heretofore known as "Mr. Jobby". Hope this helps!!

Mr. Jobby says:
minge is a lady lower hair

Mr. Jobby says:
minging in stinking.

Mr. Jobby says:
ming is the present tense of minging

Mr. Jobby says:
I hope mung is the past-tense, but I'm not sure something can have mung or if it was merely previously minging

Mr. Jobby says:
Also: minging can mean that someone is rather unattractive, but that's only used by rubbish people form sink estates

And there you have it! :D

[Skittles]

31. TWIT

my mum refers to Bush as a "bloody twit".

[mrbill]

32. john thomas

[bif]

33. To Roger

Meaning to screw. Also berk=a wanker I believe. Tons of 'em.

[TheRedMan]

34. Shag, furry-toothed, anorak, pear-shaped

Was watching Graham Norton last night and he was about to die talking about the Shag (referring to the dance popular in the South.) Andie MacDowell was on, so he was having her teach him how to "shag." The whole audience was about to bust a gut. Would be like if there was a British dance called the screw.

[Aristus]

35. Cawn't yew tewl 'iss wanka ta piss orff? 'ee keeps effin' a' me!

"Bloody Hell" is a good one, too.

Although not everyone is aware of it,
It isn't polite to say simply, 'shit'
The English, in order to be thought polite
Change the pronunciation to 'shite'

[thom1102]

36. I also like british obscene gestures...

i.e. the V sign turned around. It's great because not a lot of americans know what it means.

[Kolesar]

47. I remember Maggie Thatcher doing that from the podium

A bunch of hooligans were heckling her and she was caught on film returning the "up yours" gesture. Rick from the "Young Ones" did that in an episode.

I remember a photo of VP candidate Nelson Rockefeller giving the finger to a crowd of hecklers in 1976.

Does anybody else remember "good" republicans?

[Pert_UK]

49. Do you know where that V sign comes from?

You probably do, but here goes anyway....

It stems from ye days of olde....

Apparently, in the days of Henry V, the French were so afraid of the English archers that when they caught any in battle they used to chop off their first two fingers, thus preventing them drawing back the bowstring when they were released and returned to the English army.

At the battle of Agincourt the English archers all taunted the French army by waving their two fingers at them as if to say "We've still got 'em, come and take them off us if you think you're hard enough!".

[SOteric]

37. "Sod off you barmy git."

[TXlib]

42. 'Ey, 'oo you callin' a barmy git?

[SOteric]

45. But...

I mean it in the best possible way.

[ronnykmarshall]

38. "Having it off"

which is "having sex".

Have a "slash" (pee).

[TXlib]

40. Funny license plate

[Aristus]

41. I remember when some guy broke into Buckingham Palace

hoping to have a private audience with the Queen. Her maid was quoted in Time Magazine as saying: "Bloody 'ell, Ma'am! Wot's 'ee doin' eeyah?"

[MurrayDelph]

43. According to HitchHiker's Guide

the worst one you can use is:



Belgium!


MurrayDelph

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[catzies]

48. Bloody buggery bollocks.

Thank you Edina Monsoon.

And I learned "slash" from Patsy.

[Vitruvius]

50. "I'll believe you -- thousands wouldn't."

Somehow, thinking of Tony the Poodle and Bu$h* brought that one to mind.

[Pert_UK]

51. Todger / Tadger....rather archaic terms for cock.....

Ringpiece.....a cruder term for arsehole.

P.

[theemu]

52. 'Geezer'

from Urban Dictionary:

slang for any "salt of the earth" type bloke you might meet in the street.

As heard in the lyrics of The Streets, a British rapper:

"But I get well leery when geezers look at me funny / Bounce ‘em round like bunnies"

"Geezers need excitement / If their lives don't provide them this they incite violence / Common sense / Simple common sense"

[pippin]

53. knackered etc

knackered <exhausted>

yobs <louts>

nicked <caught>

[CBHagman]

54. It's rude, but...

...it's "bugger," as in "you daft bugger."

Needless to say, I have "British English A to Zed," most of Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole novels, AND signed copies of both Bridget Jones books on my shelf as I type this...

[leftofthedial]

55. getting a leg over