My most beloved British slang is Knackered. Fucking knackered! It means very tired, exhausted. But those terms are sterlized of feeling, of life. You know that feeling after you finish moving? That total fucking exhaustion, you’re knackered my friend. I can’t think of a word that feels more accurate to the state of reality it describes. Knackered is a fucking gift.
Chuffed. If youre chuffed i believe that means your excited. I hate it but not for real good reasons. It sounds like a bad thing. Like i don’t want to be chuffed from the sound of it. It sounds like i chafed my lungs from sighing too much cuz I’m miserable.
Ok now for the linguistic crime known as snog or snogging. It means to make out or tongue kiss someone. But it sounds like a fucking sex act involving noses. And not a normal sex act. A fucking depraved dirty sex act, you’d feel shame even googling, but again it involves noses. And honestly it sounds like snot is likely involved with this sex act. Do better Britain stop saying fucking snogged you dirty bastards.
What is your most beloved and hated British slang?
i’m convinced that rhyming slang is just 19th century coal mine brainrot. you cannot change my mind
Couldn’t’ve said it better
I believe rhyming slang was only in a small part of London, not many coal mines in London
It annoys me because you are forcing me to decipher what you’re telling me because you feel like being an annoying cunt.
Also adding “Innit” to the end of every sentence is the british version of “nowhatahmsain” for americans and “Aye” for Australians and just makes me think you are stupid.
british people also say “nahimsayin” fwiw.
Americans have plenty of words to add emphasis without adding meaning, yo, my dude, boy howdy.
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.
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”.
This meme pretty much defined “chuffed” for me and I think about it every time I hear the word
Chuffed
Yes, very pleased or satisfied. Like, you’d be chuffed if you made a great pavlova, or parents got you a Megadrive for Chrissy.
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.
My version of this is “tyre”
I could definitely see that! Was there a significant gap of time between when you first encountered that spelling vs. when you learned that it was a regional variation? I’m pretty sure the first time I came across “tyre”, it was on an internet forum, and by the time I was reading the thread, there were arguments & explanations about it, so I learned immediately.
War-Chest-Hair Sauce … Werk-hamster-shire Sauce … Wash-your-sister Sauce … What’s-this-here Sauce … Wister-Sheer Sauce … … …
Yeah. Fucking nailed it!
Wu. Stir. Shear. Sauce.
Innit
Innit is amazing!
Init.
I like the phrase “tell a lie” used right after you misspeak or remember something to the contrary of what you just said.
I hate clunge and minge. I’m not generally opposed to vulgarity but these are just taking the piss. On a similar note, the cockney rhyme for Eartha Kitt is just distasteful.
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.
Love it gonna steal it the next time it rains!
snogging
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?
Petit chou fleur is a term of endearment. It means cauliflower.
Never heard it used. Maybe it’s regional or a family tradition? A common idiom is “mon chou” but I’d guess it comes from the pastry and not the vegetable.
Wow. Is that sexy for them?
No it’s not even sexy, and it’s the only idiom I can think of that uses shovel in this context. It makes absolutely no sense
“Gutted” gets every single time, but for the most unfunny and fucked up reason.
I was at a bar and a guy was describing how his pet got hit by a car and he found it kind of split down the belly, then he said “I was gutted”, describing his reaction. But his pet was also quite literally gutted. I didn’t laugh or anything but it was just such a dark thing to say it was almost funny.
U wot m8?
Straight to jail, right away
I like rhyming slang. Mostly for torturing my fellow Americans. I also enjoy clunge, jobbie, and being “sick to bastard death” about things.
The Australians have my heartstrings though, when it comes to inventive slang. They’re not here to fuck spiders, tell you that much for free.
Innit
Bloody, but just because when I had a period I would say things like “I’m on my bloody period!”
Damn I use bloody sometimes. It’s bloody good
There’s too many people mixing England and Great Britain up in here.
