British Slang

[Guest]

Ok, so we have these two Royal Navy pilots on exchange in my squadron, and I'd like to show them a thing or two by throwing down some good ol' fashioned slang from the Queen's English.

Please feel free to throw down your best slang greetings, jokes, or namecalling here. (BUT PLEASE KEEP IT CLEAN!)

:gathering

[Guest]

Howdy Mike,

Well as you know I am not from the UK, but from L.A. (lower arkansas), however, I was an administrator at UKChat for awhile...I was the one who booted ppl for various reasons including foul language.

Well being from arkansas, I learned quite abit from my experiences there. Some are listed below:

1. "Pissed"- here in the states, it means "madder than a wet hen" but in the UK, it means Drunk.......(dont ask me, I dont know how they came up with that lol ).

2. A "manc" is a person from mancaster (sp?).

3. A Lanc is a person from lancastershire.

4. "Cockney" is a language unto itself, dont try to understand it and you will be able to avoid long weeks of psycho-therapy.

And lastly, this took me a few weeks to learn, alot of ppl blame it on me being a redneck from the deep south.......

5. A "Brolly" is not a piece of female clothing, its an umbrella :grinball2:

A few other things I learned were they dont have "hoods" on their vehicles, they have "bonnets", a "banger" is a sausage and not a wild sex starved female.

Anyway, i hope this helps, I really enjoyed my dealings with ppl from the UK while I hosted the chatroom, it was educational for me and i think they may have learned a thing or two about us "yanks" (Like us ppl down here in the south dont like being called anything that sounds like "yankee" or what we call "perpitraitors of unprovoked northern aggression".

have a good day,

Greg

[Guest]

apparently you guys over there dont know what "chuffed" means?

a scoucer is someone from liverpool

generally we just call everyone above cambride "northerners"

people from right at the top are called jordies

a blower is a telephone

and yes a banger is a sausage....bangers and mash!!!

another word for "pissed" (dunk) is "bladdered" or "smashed"

so an drunk is called a "piss-ed" (piss-head)

i wont bother going into cockney slang, there are whole websites devoted to it!!

Richard

[Guest]

Dog & Bone = Telephone

Straight as a dog hine leg = straight line freehand

Couldn't ly straight in bed = Anyone promising the world

Skyrocket + Pocket

Wallet full of Moths = no money

Flat out like lizard drinking = not working hard

Thes are some of wot I use here in Australia

[Guest]

ok then...cockney slang it is.

giraffe - laugh

'alf inch - pinch

jimmy riddle - piddle (take a leek/piss/toilet..etc)

town crier - liar

tutti-fruity - beauty

thomas edison - medicine

i could go on for a long, long time!!!

[Guest]

Outstanding!

You guys are the dog's ballocks for sure!

[Guest]

You guys are the dog's ballocks for sure!

Please gents, 'Dogs Dangly Bits', this is after all a family site.

That would be the 'posh' way of saying it.

It just might sound better to the upper crust type pilot. It just depends how they 'came through the ranks' - promotions.

BTW, it is spelt with an 'o', as in 'bol*****', it gives a deeper and more gutteral sound intonation.

A few more RAF sayings.

Rum, bum and baccy boys - A reference to the naval side of the armed forces ( as your pilots are). It refers to their drinking, sleeping and smoking habits.

Brylcreem boys - As above but refering to the Air Force. With reference to the old style, slicked down, sleazy hairstyles.

Cannon fodder - As above but in relation to the Army. Nuff said on that one. What they are doing in the air, I have no idea.

Wot ho! - Usually spoken with an upper crust accent - Hello.

Prang - any sort of crash.

Jolly - an unexpected flight or outing.

Oh! whizzo - spoken in the same accent as wot ho - fantastic, great.

Bodged - bad, as in a bodged repair or bodged landing or WHY.

I lived with these people for 14 years, and believe me they have a language that is worse than Cockney.

But I am sure that the Rum Bum boys will have sayings of their own relating to their side of the armed forces.

John

[Guest]

hrrrrrrrm, lets see what we can add to the party:

Shufti kush....to take a look (in a round-about manner)

Char... Tea

Cinderella/Cindy/crab air... RAF / RAF pilot

Foo foo... talcum powder

greenie... a salt water wave

nutty... a choc. bar with nuts

Bimble... to walk around with brain set in the off possition

Banyan... a beach party/picnic

pussers... queens regulations (RN/RM)

Those ought to fill in a few gaps....

ps, never use "shufti" around a lady of indi extraction unless you want your jaw re-arranged by her entire male family.

[Guest]

a nother common saying for "dogs boll***" is "the mutts nuts"

love that one lol

Richard

[Guest]

How about "Blue veined custard chucker" ye dangly bit!

[Guest]

a few yorskshire sayings or at least from round here anyway .

aye up = hello

areet = hello

si thi = goodbye

lol my brain has just packed in but this saying sums up yorkshire.

If tha cant get owt for nowt do it for tha sen .

Key .

tha = you

owt = anything

nowt = nothing

tha sen = yourself

[Guest]

...yea. thats just wierd.

Richard lol

[Guest]

...yea. thats just wierd.Richard lol

Yep - thats Yorkshire for ya!

[Guest]

Broad Yorkshire?...

Up all neet finishin't model?

Well, if tha's clobberd tha's nobbut ta blame but theesen tha knows!...

Are yer coomin' down't pub for't pot?

As my dear Grandmother used to say...

On the subject of slang...

Last 'soap an bacca day' (Saturday)I was havin' a ball n' chalk (walk)down the 'frog n' toad' (road) and I follerd me iser (I suppose= nose) ter the old 'battle' (that's battle cruiser, or 'boozer' to you,) as I felt the need for a few 'pigs' down the 'gregory' (that's pig's tails or Ales...beers to our American readers..Gregory Peck for the 'neck'...getting a few beers down one's throat,one would say...in the vernacular) so I checked me 'sky-rocket' (pocket) and Gawd... stone the crows!!! I shouted...someone's 'ad me 'bees and honey' (money)...must 'ave bin a 'tea-leaf' (a thief), now I'll have to go home to the 'trouble' (trouble and strife=wife) and spend all me 'Harry Lime' (time) with me 'saucepans'. (not doing the washing up one would suppose, but 'saucepan lids' are kids)

Fascinating isn't it?

[Guest]

quick one to Task Force 57...remember babies-heads?

and to Lips Magee...remember the old AV-8B? My brother spent many years working on F4's and Sea Harriers, Buccaneers and Sea Vixens and Venoms, and that was just 'fixed-wing'... before the 'Crabs' (naval jargon for RAF personnel collectively)got their hands on the Phantoms and Buccaneers... and when Lossiemouth was HMS Fulmar, and before HMS Goldcrest became RAF Brawdy.

And there was our dear old Air Ministry saying that they didn't have a use for aircraft carriers...Lips...check out a book called 'Over the Falklands' By Lieut/Commander 'Sharkey' Ward RN, it's quite enlightening on the subject of Sea Harriers.

That's why I'm looking to build a model of one, in 899 Squadron RN Fleet Air Arm. Any makers out there?