London Slang

[robbalvey]

http://www.londonslang.com/db/a/

 

I love this site! If anyone is going on the UK trip next year, study this site!!!!

 

I think of all the british slag I picked up when I lived in the UK, this was always my favorite:

 

(the) dogs bollocks - a term used to denote something that is 'the best' or exceptional. eg "Daves new stereo is the dogs bollocks". Sometimes shortened to 'the dogs' or 'the bollocks' and often changed to similar sayings ie. 'the mutts nuts', 'the dogs danglies'.

 

--Robb

[coasterboi]

Ok

Aunt Anne

[Shockwave]

But if you say "that's the dog's bollocks" in Holland, it's a pretty big insult.

[CoasterCrazy]

Since I didn't know any of the slag I will be studying the site!

[Luxo]

Absofudgeinglutely!

 

^^^^Isn't there a Sex Pistols album called, "Never Mind the Bollocks"? I've always wondered what/who the Bollocks are.

[cfc]

http://www.londonslang.com/db/a/

 

I love this site! If anyone is going on the UK trip next year, study this site!!!!

 

I think of all the british slag I picked up when I lived in the UK, this was always my favorite:

 

(the) dogs bollocks - a term used to denote something that is 'the best' or exceptional. eg "Daves new stereo is the dogs bollocks". Sometimes shortened to 'the dogs' or 'the bollocks' and often changed to similar sayings ie. 'the mutts nuts', 'the dogs danglies'.

 

--Robb

 

So, it's the "cat's ass" (or "meow") in the States, but the "dogs bullocks" in the UK. Interesting.

[coasters 4 me]

And also, Fanny doesnt mean "butt" in The UK. It means the reproductive area of a female!

[Hattuchili]

Absof#$kinglutely - LOL That is a funny site. Maybe I can use something of it, next year! Thanks for posting, Robb!

 

--Sören

[Louise]

Cool site! Why isn't "take the piss out of" on there though? That's my favourite phrase, and one that Americans are forever asking me to explain.... Can I just please, for the love of God, point out that next to nobody uses rhyming slang anymore, and nobody at all uses it outside of the London area. So anyone who talks to me about apples & pears, Aunt Annie, etc, don't be surprised if I make these faces: :shock: :?

[ParkTrips]

Stop bitching you Mank!!!

[Louise]

^ It's Manc.

[cfc]

Cool site! Why isn't "take the piss out of" on there though? That's my favourite phrase, and one that Americans are forever asking me to explain.... Can I just please, for the love of God, point out that next to nobody uses rhyming slang anymore, and nobody at all uses it outside of the London area. So anyone who talks to me about apples & pears, Aunt Annie, etc, don't be surprised if I make these faces: :shock: :?

 

I think you can blame a Jerry Seinfeld-Visa commercial for this, Lou. Jerry tells a joke to an English audience with this punchline: "What is this, the seventh-inning stretch?" (This is a brief break in a professional baseball game in the U.S.) No one laughs, so he uses his Visa card to tool about the country and learn more of the lingo ("apples and pears" figures prominently, and "seventh-inning stretch" becomes "tea interval").

 

Don't worry about me trying any of this rhyming slang during the UK trip. I don't understand how most of it works, anyway. :?

[Louise]

^ Neither do I, that's my point! Confuses the heck out of me! I'll stick with my Mancunianisms thank you very much.

[ParkTrips]

^ It's Manc.

 

I know, but its funnier to see you get all piss and chips about it

 

ace - excellent, great. A rather out of vogue term, probably still used by kids.

 

That's not what i means here.. :-/