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RedRalph

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A thread in whioch we discuss slang from your city, country, etc that others may neve rhave heard. It would be interesting to compare it. Please follow the format I use and no profanity, etc

Fiddle Diddlers - car mechanics
Two towns over from the mammy-go-Jaysus - athiest
Cracksie - bread
Willidy willidy wobbler - to be enraged
Pigsick - Kobe beef
Shoes on inside out, seven fields on your shirt - drunk
Slide me soapy - a pint of Guinness, please
Scratch me soapy - going to jail
Like Wayne Rooney playing all season on a unicycle - mentally unstable
Captain uncle - great
"How very nice it is madam, to be sitting here with you" - this is what you would say to your boss to ask for a raise
Claphammered - violent
 
I'm from New Jersey, USA. It's just the F-word as every possible part of speech, in every possible context.

Cleo
 
Oh yeah, I forgot an important one - to be 'Mammycrackered' is to have the feeling one has put on odd socks as a result of being distracted by a soap opera hich depicts a crying builder eats a bowl full of wasps
 
Haven't been in Falkirk long enough to learn any from here. I know some Oxford lingo though:

Filthy tab - someone that attends Cambridge
Bop - Fancy dress disco full of stressed people
Journohack - A wannabe journalist
Rah - Something a hack is.
Car-doored - To be totalled while cycling by someone getting out of there car without looking.
 
Oh my days-expression of surpsie and disappointment/confusion
Fassy-boy-homosexual
Bare-many/very, as in "that was bare chicks last night"
Shiv-to stab
 
Truronian might have heard some of these. Cornish, like Irish has hundreds of slang words derived from the language. Here's a few phrases common here.

"gasser" -an unwelcome talker, esp in pubs. a braggart

"up country" - anywhere outside of Cornwall

"dr'ectly" - soon or later but usually meaning tomorrow

"emmets" -ants, applied to tourist or owners of holiday homes

"me ansum" - good. beautiful. mate. (as in "my mate")

"lick and a promise" - carelessly done, finish off hastily, a quick wash

"marning!" - Good Morning

"piskey or piskies" - a drunk or the fairies

"piskey-led" - drunk, bewildered (as in led away by the fairies)

"shine" - uproar, fuss, row, brawl (as in "Never seed such a shine in me life!")

There are lot's more but just imagine all these spoken in an accent just like Long John Silver
in Treasure Island. ( "Arr. She be an ansum ship me lad, that be sure.")
 
I don't recognise anything that RRW said - they must be Fairview isms.
 
The only thing I can think of is Gyppo, which obviously comes from gypsy, and means anything that crap could mean. Also might mean stolen. For example, there was a gyppo bag at school that contained lost or leftover PE kits, football/rugby boots, etc, that you had to borrow from if you forgot your own kit. Obviously it smelt like piss.
 
mingin' - moving quickly
"I was trying to cross the street and then I saw this bus mingin' round the corner and I had to jump out of the way"

meggin' - joking, expression of disbelief
"You owe me a fiver" " Eh? you're meggin' though?
 
shew: past tense of show
 
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