Ahhh, English. No other language in the world has been as bastardised as this one! And today’post is about where it all started – British Slang!
What I mean is that this once mighty British Empire that more or less covered a quarter of the world’s land surface could not ever have imagined that English would evolve to almost a million words – and almost every single one of them would be an English slang word!
I’ve heard all sorts of funny Slang, from New Zealand, to South Africa and everywhere else!
But for starters…
What are some funny British Slang Words?
- Battery operated boyfriend – a vibrator
- Tactical chunder – a bout of vomiting, self-administered to enable one to drink more alcohol.
- Brewers droop – An inability to achieve or maintain a penile erection due to excessive consumption of alcohol
- Drain the main vein – to urinate
- Follically challenged – balding
- Not know one’s arse from one’s elbow – to be stupid
- Piss it up against the wall – to waste money
- Have a bat in the cave – to have visible nasal mucus visible up a nostril
- Drop the kids off at the pool – to defecate, do a poo
- Talk out of one’s arse – to talk nonsense
- Nose candy – drugs
- Passion killers – very unattractive underwear
Also, English just steals words from other languages if they can’t find one that fits a certain description. I mean, there are tonnes of French, German and Spanish words which have been adopted into the English language.
That’s right, English took on a beastly form of it’s own wherever it was transported to. Some obvious examples include the Australian Slang (which I use all the time) and New Zealand expressions.
Of course, there is North American slang, South African slang and any other language that merges with English.
Sometimes we forget that the English Slang words are quite funny, humourous and downright hilarious.
As much as I like making fun of the Poms (that’s Australian slang for the English), I really love the dry witted, black and ironic English humour that graces our screens and eardrums.
And today, to celebrate this, I’m going to provide a really crazy list of English Slang words to further broaden your English knowledge and education!
Here it is!
British Slang Words => English Translation
This is a massive list of over 3700 words – hope you’ve got some time to waste! If you’ve got any more that are different, leave some in the comments!
Some of these phrases can be offensive, so you’ve been warned!
| British Slang Word | “Proper” English Translation |
| A | |
| Abdabs | Nerves |
| Absobloodylootely | YES! |
| Abysinnia! | Rhyming slang for “I’ll be seeing you!” |
| AC/DC | Bisexual |
| Accidentally-on-purpose | Seemingly accidental but with disguised with malice or harm |
| Ace | Cool! |
| Acid | LSD the drug – lysergic acid diethylamide |
| Acid house | 1990s music scene |
| Ackers | Money |
| Action man | A man who participates in macho activities |
| Adam and Eve | Rhyming slang of Believe |
| Aerated | Over-excited |
| Afty | Afternoon |
| Air one’s dirty linen/laundry | To discuss private matters in public |
| Airhead | A stupid person |
| Airlocked | Drunk or intoxicated |
| Airy-fairy | Something unsubstantial |
| Alan Whickers | Rhyming slang for knickers |
| Alcopop | Sweet, ready-mixed alcoholic fruit drinks |
| Aled (up) | Drunk from beer |
| Alkie | An alcoholic |
| All mod cons | Everything that’s expected is there |
| All mouth and (no) trousers | All talk and no action |
| All over the shop | Disorganised |
| All piss and wind | All talk and no action |
| All time loser | Rhyming slang for a boozer, or bar |
| All to cock Messed up, useless, wrong | Messed up |
| All to pot | Messed up |
| All-nighter | An event that goes on all night |
| Alright! | Hello |
| Altar | To vomit, in the toilet bowl (the porcelain altar) |
| Amber Nectar | Beer |
| Anchors | Brakes |
| Anorak | A person with weird interests |
| Anti-Clockwise | Counter Clockwise |
| Antwacky | Old fashioned |
| Any cop | Of value, of any worth |
| Any road | Anyway |
| Apeth | A silly person |
| Apples and pears | Rhyming slang for Stairs |
| Archer | £2000 |
| Argy-bargy | An argument or confrontation |
| Arris | Buttocks Rhyming slang for ‘arse’ |
| Arrows | The game of Darts |
| Arse | Ass |
| Arse about face | Back to front |
| Arse around | Mess around or waste time |
| Arse load | A large quantity |
| Arse over kettle | Fall over |
| Arse over tit | Fall over |
| Arseface | An ugly person |
| Arsehole | 1. The anus 2. General atory term for a person |
| Arseholed | Very drunk |
| Arse-lick | To grovel |
| Arse-licker | A sycophant |
| Arse-on | A bad mood e.g. “Keep out of his way, he’s got a the arse-on” |
| Arse-up | A shambles, a ‘cock-up’ |
| Arsey | Moody |
| As rare as hen’s teeth | Very rare ie hens don’t have teeth |
| As rare as rocking horse s$%t | Very rare, or non existent |
| As right as rain | Satisfactory, comfortable, well |
| Auntie | Affectionate but old fashioned name for the BBC |
| Ave it | Go for it See ‘have it’ |
| Aviation blonde | A female with hair dyed blonde |
| Avvy | Afternoon |
| Away with the mixer | Not quite in touch with reality |
| Awesome! | Great! Excellent! |
| Awlarse | A contemptible person |
| Axe | A guitar |
| Ayrton | 10 pounds Rhyming slang for tenner, on Ayrton Senna |
| B | |
| Bab | To defecate |
| Babby | A baby, child |
| Babe | Usually applied to a young attractive female |
| Babe magnet | An attractive or sexually desirable male |
| Baboon | An oaf, a fool |
| Baby gravy | Semen |
| Back passage | The rectum |
| Back scuttle | Anal intercourse |
| Backdoor | Anus |
| Backhander | A bribe |
| Backie | A pillion ride on a bycycle |
| Backy | Tobacco |
| Bad | Good, excellent |
| Bad egg | An untrustworthy person |
| Bad hair day | A day when one is unable to arrange one’s hair well |
| Bad mouth | To insult or denigrate |
| Bad news | A troublesome person |
| Badger | To bother someone incessantly |
| Badly packed kebab | The female genitals |
| Baffies | Slippers (Scottish use) |
| Bag | An ugly woman |
| Bag (of sand) | £1000, rhyming slang for a ‘grand’ |
| Bag lady | A homeless woman who carries her worldly possessions in bags |
| Bag of bones | A very thin or emaciated person or animal |
| Baggin(g) | A snack or food taken between meals |
| Bags | To claim as one’s own |
| Bahookie | The backside, ‘arse’ (Glasgow) |
| Ball and chain | A wife or girlfriend |
| Ball bag | Scrotum |
| Ball-ache | A troublesome and inconvenient task. Also ballache |
| Balls to the wall | Quickly |
| Balls up | A bungled or messed up situation |
| Balm | A bread bun or roll ‘balmcake’ |
| Baloney | Nonsense Also spelt boloney |
| Baltic | Very cold weather |
| Bamboozle | To confuse, to mystify |
| Bampot | A foolish and objectionable person |
| Banana | A penis |
| Bananas | Insane, mad, hysterical |
| Bang | To copulate |
| Bang one out | To masturbate |
| Bang out of order | Totally unacceptable |
| Bang to rights | Caught in the act |
| Bang up | 1. To lock up in prison 2. To inject an illegal drug |
| Bangers | Sausage |
| Banging | Exciting, energetic, wonderful, excellent |
| Banjaxed | Ruined or defeated |
| Banjo | To hit or punch |
| Banjo string | The frenulum of the penis |
| Banjo’d | Drunk |
| Banko | Bank Holiday |
| Bants | Short for ‘banter’ |
| Baps | Breasts |
| Bar steward | A pun on ‘bastard’ |
| Barbie | Abbreviation of barbecue |
| Barbs | Abbreviation of barbituates |
| Barclay’s (Bank) | Rhyming slang for ‘wank’ |
| Barf | To vomit |
| Barking mad | Insane |
| Barmcake | A lighthearted term for a fool or idiot |
| Barmpot | A silly person |
| Barmy | Crazy or foolish |
| Barney | An argument |
| Barney (rubble) | Rhyming slang for trouble |
| Barry | Good, nice |
| Barry White | Rubbish, nonsense |
| Bash | An event or party |
| Bash the bishop | To masturbate |
| Basket | Bastard |
| Bat for both sides | To be bisexual |
| Bat in the cave | Nasal mucus that is visible up a nostril |
| Bat on a sticky wicket | To put oneself in a difficult and unfavourable position |
| Bathers | Swimming/bathing costume |
| Battered | Very intoxicated by drink or drugs |
| Battery operated boyfriend | A vibrator, sex toy |
| Battle cruiser | A pub, bar. Rhyming slang for ‘boozer’ |
| Batty rider | Skimpy shorts that ‘ride’ up to expose the wearers bottom |
| Beach-bum | A person devoted to spending as much time as available on the beach |
| Beakie | Bodily secretions that accumulate at the corner of the eyes or between the toes |
| Bean | An ecstasy pill |
| Beanfeast | A party, celebratory event |
| Bean-flicker | A lesbian. The bean refers to the clitoris |
| Bear | A gay term for a large hairy male |
| Bearded clam | The female genitals, inclusive of pubic hair |
| Beast with two backs | Sexual intercourse |
| Beat seven shades of s$%t out of someone | To thoroughly beat up someone |
| Beaver | The female genitals, implying the inclusion of pubic hair |
| Beaver cleaver | Penis See ‘beaver’ |
| Beaver leaver | A homosexual male. Due to not being interested in ‘beaver’ |
| Beaver lever | Penis, see ‘beaver’ |
| Beddable | Sexually desirable, from being good enough to take to bed |
| Bee stings | Small breasts |
| Bee’s Knees | Awesome |
| Beeb | Nickname for the BBC |
| Beef | Muscly, strong looking males |
| Beef (something) up | To increase in size or volume |
| Beef bayonet | Penis |
| Beef curtains | The female genitals |
| Beemer | A BMW automobile |
| Beer goggles | When someone looks more attractive after alcohol |
| Beer tokens | Money |
| Beetle | To hurry about |
| Belly timber | Food |
| Belly-ache | A complaint |
| Belly-up | Dead |
| Belt up! | Be quiet! Shut up! |
| Belter | An excellent thing or event |
| Belting | Outstanding, wonderful |
| Bender | A drinking binge |
| Bent as a nine bob note | Extremely dishonest or corrupt |
| Bent | Dishonest or corrupt |
| Berk | Idiot, stupid person |
| Berries | The best |
| Bespoke | Custom Made |
| Best of British! | Good luck! |
| Best thing since sliced bread | The best thing ever |
| Better half | One’s wife, husband or partner |
| Better than a kick in the balls/teeth | Could be much worse |
| Betty Swollox | Perspiring, uncomfortable or itchy testicles |
| Bevvied up | Drunk, sometimes shortened to bevvied |
| Bevvy | A general term for an alcoholic drink. Taken from the word beverage |
| Bezzy mates | Best friends |
| Bi | Abbreviation of bisexual |
| Biatch | A contemptible person, usually woman. Alternative form of bitch |
| Bible basher | A fanatical preacher of religion |
| Bible thumper | Meaning the same as ‘bible basher’ |
| Bicky | A biscuit |
| Biddy | Usually referring to an elderly woman |
| Bif | To hit |
| Biffa | An ugly person, often assumed to be overweight |
| Biftah | A cigarette |
| Big cheese | A very important person |
| Big deal! | A sarcastic exclamation for not being very impressed |
| Big girl’s blouse | A feeble and ineffectual person |
| Big style | Greatly e.g. “Yeah she’s into him big-style” |
| Big time | The upper levels of power, success e.g. “She’s hit the big time” |
| Big white telephone | The toilet (not the room) |
| Bike | A promiscuous woman |
| Bilge (water) | Nonsense, rubbish e.g. “You are talking absolute bilge!” |
| Billy goat | Rhyming slang for a coat |
| Billy no mates | A person who appears to have no friends |
| Billy | Amphetamines (from Billy Whizz, a British comic strip character) |
| Bimble | An ambling walk |
| Bimbo | A young attractive empty headed woman |
| Bimmer | A BMW car ‘beemer’ |
| Bin | To throw away, to discard |
| Bin lid | An adolescent. Rhyming slang for kid |
| Bin off | To discard, throw away |
| Bin-bag | To terminate a relationship |
| Bingo wings | Fatty, folds of flesh on the underarms of overweight women |
| Binnie | A refuse collector A variation on ‘binman’ |
| Bins | Spectacles |
| Bird | 1. Girl, woman 2. Prison sentence |
| Birdbrained | Stupid, lacking commonsense |
| Birmingham screwdriver | A hammer |
| Bit of all right | Something excellent |
| Bit of fluff | A sexual partner |
| Bit of rough | A sexual partner below one’s normal standards or believed class |
| Bit of spare | A sexually available person |
| Bit on the side | A sexual relationship extra to one’s usual partner, an affair |
| Bitch | A contemptible woman. Also used on the gay scene to describe an equally despised male |
| Bitch piss | Sweet, ready-mixed fruit and alcohol drink |
| Bitch tits | Overly developed fatty deposits on the male breasts |
| Bitchin! | Excellent! Wonderful! Cool! |
| Bits and bats | Miscellaneous items |
| Bizzie | Policeman |
| BJ | Oral sex. An abbreviation of ‘blow job’ |
| Blabbermouth | A person who reveals too much in conversation, a gossip |
| Bladdered | Drunk |
| Blag | To lie, or use clever talk with profit as an objective |
| Blag artist | A person with a reputation for using clever talk for self gain |
| Blagger | See ‘blag artist’ |
| Blah | Worthless, boring or silly talk |
| Blank | To rudely ignore |
| Blaps | Diarrhoea, the illness |
| Blart | To cry |
| Blast | An inhalation of a cigarette or ‘joint’ |
| Blatts | Diarrhoea. E.g. “I daren’t leave the house, I’ve got the blatts” |
| Blaze | To set alight, usually with respect to the lighting of cigarettes |
| Bleed like a stuck pig | To bleed profusely |
| Bleeder | An objectionable person |
| Blighter | An insignificant or objectionable person |
| Blighty | (or Old Blighty) – slang for Britain |
| Blim | A very small piece of hashish |
| Blimey | An expression of amazement |
| Blimps | The red hot fragments of cannabis that occasionally fall from alight ‘joints’, causing burns to skin, clothing and furnishings |
| Blinding | Excellent, wonderful |
| Bling bling | Jewellery |
| Blinkin’ heck! | An old fashioned inoffensive exclamation of surprise |
| Blither on | To talk incessently and boringly |
| Blitzed | Very intoxicated, drunk |
| Bloater | A fat and unnattractive person |
| Bloke | Any man or sometimes a man in authority such as the boss |
| Bloody | Damn |
| Bloody hell! | An exclamation of surprise or frustration |
| Bloody-Nora! | An exclamation of surprise or anger |
| Bloomer | A mistake |
| Blooming, blummin’ | Euphemism for bloody |
| Blooter | To kick a ball forcefully, often implying without good control |
| Blootered | Drunk |
| Blotto | Very drunk |
| Blow | Cannabis or marijuana |
| Blow a fuse | To be very angry |
| Blow away | To kill |
| Blow chunks | To vomit |
| Blow it! | A dismissive exclamation of frustration and anger |
| Blow off | To fart |
| Blow one’s top | To explode with fury |
| Blow one’s wad | To ejaculate semen |
| Blow out | An excessive spree of drinking, eating, spending or sex |
| Blow the gaff | To reveal a plot or secret |
| Blow the whistle on | To inform on |
| Blowback | A method of sharing a ‘joint’ between two people |
| Blower | The telephone |
| Blub | To sob |
| Blue rinser | An elderly lady, from the habit of some dying their hair |
| Blue | Policeman |
| Blunted | Intoxicated by marijuana |
| Boaby | Penis |
| Boak | To vomit |
| Boat | Face. From the rhyming slang boat race |
| Bob | To visit briefly e.g. “I’m just gonna bob down to the corner” |
| Bob (Hope) | Marijuana or cannabis Rhyming slang for ‘dope’ |
| Bob’s Your Uncle | There you go! |
| Bobbins | Rubbish, nonsense, useless |
| Bobbinsed | Drunk, intoxicated |
| Bobby | Policeman |
| Bobby-dazzler | A amazing thing or person |
| Bobfoc | Acronym for a facially unattractive female, who possesses a sexually attractive body |
| Bo-boes | Sleep. Generally a children’s expression |
| Bod | Short for body |
| Bodge | To make a mess of or to fix poorly |
| Bog off | Go away |
| Bog roll | Toilet paper |
| Bog | Toilet |
| Bogey | A tiny ball of nasal mucus |
| Bog-standard | Normal, average, usual. E.g. “It was just a bog-standard” |
| Bogtrotter | Derogatory term for an Irishman, particularly an Irish peasant |
| Boiler | An unattractive woman |
| Bollockbag | The scrotum and testicles |
| Bollock-brain | Idiot, imbecile |
| Bollocking | A severe telling off |
| Bollocks | Testicles. Also used to describe something as useless or nonsense |
| Bolshie | Angrily provocative. Originating from the socialist revolutionaries the Bolsheviks |
| Bomb | A large sum of money as in ‘to make a bomb’ |
| Bong | A water pipe used for smoking cannabis or marijuana |
| Bonk | To fornicate |
| Bonkers | Crazy |
| Bonnie | A bonfire |
| Boob | A mistake or ‘booboo’ |
| Boob job | Breast enhancement by plastic surgery |
| Boob tube | The television |
| Boobies | Breasts |
| Boobs | Breasts |
| Boogie | A dance, usually to pop music |
| Boonies | Rural areas, the countryside. Abbreviation of boondocks |
| Boot | An unattractive person |
| Booty | The buttocks |
| Booty call | A call to arrange a sexual rendezvous |
| Bootylicious | Sexually attractive woman |
| Booze | Alcoholic drink |
| Booze cruise | A boat trip (usually just one day) to mainland Europe, involving lots of beer |
| Booze | An alcoholic drink |
| Boozer | 1. a pub or bar 2. Someone who drinks alcohol to excess |
| Booze-up | A drinking spree |
| Bo-Peep | Sleep (rhyming slang) |
| boracic | without money From rhyming slang boracic lint = skint (skinned)[59] |
| Bore rigid | To utterly bore |
| Bore s$%tless | Bore completely |
| Bore stiff | Really bored |
| Bore the pants off (someone) | To bore someone greatly |
| Bore the tits off (someone) | Meaning the same as ‘bore the pants off (someone)’ |
| Bored out of one’s skull | As above |
| Bosh | Nonsense, rubbish |
| Boss | Excellent, good |
| Boss-eyed | Cross-eyed or having a squint |
| Bossyboots | A person who bosses others around, a domineering person |
| Bostin | Great, good, enjoyable |
| Botch job | A makeshift construction or repair |
| Bottle | Very stupid |
| Bottle it | To lose courage |
| Bottle of chips | An unlikely thing |
| Bottle | 1. Nerve, courage 2. Money collected by buskers or street vendors |
| Bottler | A person who easily gives up |
| Bottom burp | Wind from the anus, a ‘fart’. Also abbreviated to botty burp |
| Bottomless pit | A person with an insatiable appetite for food |
| Botty | The buttocks. Also abbreviated to bot |
| Boulder houlder | Bra |
| Bounce | 1. To con someone into believing or doing something 2. To forcibly eject someone 3. Swagger, impudence or cockiness 4. Of a cheque, to be refused by the bank due to lack of funds |
| Bouncer | A person employed to eject troublemakers from clubs |
| Bovoots | Sturdy heavy boots |
| Bovver | Trouble |
| Bovver boots | Heavy boots, sometimes with a steel toecap, worn by bovver boys and used for kicking in fights |
| Bovver boy | A youth who deliberately causes or seeks out trouble |
| Bowfin | Disgusting, unpleasant |
| Box clever | To act shrewdly or in a manner so as to outwit someone |
| Boxed | Intoxicated by drugs ‘off one’s box’ |
| Boy racer | A young man who has a penchant for fast cars and reckless driving |
| Boyf | Abbreviation of boyfriend |
| Bozo | An objectionable person, an idiot |
| Brad Pitt | An act of defecation. Rhyming slang on ‘s$%t’ |
| Brain | To hit on the head |
| Brained | Extreme drug intoxication, affecting the mental faculties |
| Bran new | Excellent, respectable |
| Brass monkey weather | Very cold weather |
| Brass | 1. Money 2. Cheek, nerve 3. a prostitute |
| Brassed off | Fed-up, annoyed |
| Brass-neck | Impudence, cheek, nerve |
| Brassy | Very cold |
| Brast | To burst |
| Bray | To beat up, thrash |
| Bread | Money |
| Breeder | A heterosexual. From the fact that heterosexuals actively |
| Brekky | Abbreviation of breakfast. Also ‘brekkers’ |
| Brew | A cup of tea, or more generally a warm drink |
| Brewers droop | An inability to achieve or maintain a penile erection due to excessive consumption of alcohol |
| Brick | A helpful and reliable person |
| Brick s$%thouse | Large, sturdy, strong |
| Brickie | Abbreviation of bricklayer |
| Brick-it | To be very scared, terrified ‘s$%t bricks’ |
| Brief | A solicitor or barrister |
| Brill | Excellent. An abbreviation of ‘brilliant’ |
| Bring off | To help achieve orgasm |
| Bristols | Breasts. Rhyming slang Bristol City – titty |
| Britneys | Beers. Rhyming slang on Britney Spears |
| Britpop | Abbreviation of British Popular music |
| Bro | Abbreviation of brother |
| Broke | Without money. Also ‘stoney broke’ |
| Brolly | An umbrella |
| Brown bread | Rhyming slang for dead |
| Brown trout | A lump of excrement |
| Browned off | Upset, fed up |
| Browneye | The anus |
| Brownie point | A hypothetical award for achievement |
| Brown-nose | To overly praise or behave sycophantically, ie to ‘arse-lick’ |
| Brown-tongue | As above |
| Brum | The City of Birmingham |
| Brummie | A native of Birmingham |
| Bubble | To inform. From the rhyming slang bubble and squeak |
| Bubbled | Found out or discovered |
| Bubblehead | An empty headed and stupid person |
| Buck naked | Totally naked – see ‘butt naked’ |
| Buck up | To make happy or more cheerful |
| Bucket down | To rain heavily |
| Buckshee | Free, without charge |
| Budge up | To move, in order to make room for someone |
| Buff | Good looking, attractive |
| Bug | To annoy, to bother |
| Bugger about (or around) | To fool around or waste time |
| Bugger all | Nothing |
| Bugger it! | Exclamation of frustration |
| Bugger me! | An exclamation of surprise |
| Bugger off | Go away |
| Bugger you | An exclamation of annoyance |
| Bugger | Anal sex |
| Bugger-all | Absolutely nothing at all, e.g. There’s bugger-all we can do |
| Buggeration! | An exclamation of annoyance or surprise |
| Buggerlugs | A term of address, usually affectionate use |
| Bugle | Cocaine |
| Builder’s bum | Top of the buttocks being in sight above the pants |
| Bulge | A euphemism for the male genitals |
| Bull | Nonsense. Shortened version of ‘bulls$%t’ |
| Bulls$%t | Nonsense, rubbish |
| Bulls$%tter | An egocentric boaster, a teller of untruths |
| Bum | Bottom |
| Bum around | To mess about, to laze about |
| Bum cleavage | The area between the buttocks |
| Bum steer | An imparting of false information |
| Bumbaclot | An idiot, an objectionable person |
| Bum-bag | A small pouch worn around the waist or hips, or Fanny Pack in North America |
| Bumf | Toilet roll |
| Bumfluff | Adolescent facial hair growth |
| Bumfreezer | Any short jacket, but in particular an Eton Jacket |
| Bummer | A bad time, a bad experience, a disappointment |
| Bump into (someone) | To fortuitously meet with someone |
| Bump off | To murder |
| Bump start | To help motivate, assist in promoting action |
| Bump tummies | To have sexual intercourse |
| Bumsucker | A creep |
| Bumtag | A faecal deposit that has adhered to the anal hairs of a person |
| Bumwad | Toilet paper |
| Bun in the oven | Pregnant |
| Bunce | Money |
| Bundle | A large quantity of money |
| Bung | Throw or pass energetically; as in, “bung it over here” |
| Bungalow | An idiot. From not having much up upstairs |
| Bunk up | Sexual intercourse |
| Bunk | To leave inappropriately as in to ‘bunk off’ school or work |
| Bunny boiler | An obsessive and psychotic woman. Taken from a scene in the film Fatal Attraction |
| Bunny hugger | An animal lover |
| Buppie | Bread and butter |
| Burn rubber | To depart quickly |
| Burp the worm | To masturbate (for men) |
| Bush | The female genitals, but alluding to the pubic hair |
| Bust | A police raid on a person and/or property |
| Bust one’s guts | To work with great effort |
| Butch | Tough looking, masculine |
| Butcher’s | Short rhyming slang for look, from butcher’s hoo |
| Butt naked | Naked ‘buck naked’ |
| Butt out | An impolite request to keep one’s nose out of something |
| Butt ugly | Very ugly |
| Butters | As above |
| Butty | A sandwich |
| Buzz | A telephone call |
| Buzz along | A cheery request to hurry off |
| Buzz-cut | A short haircut using electric clippers |
| Buzzin’ | Thrilled and full of energy |
| C | |
| C of E | Church of England |
| Cabbage | A stupied person |
| Caboodle | The complete amount |
| Cack | Rubbish, nonsense |
| Cack it / oneself | To be terrified |
| Cack-handed | Clumsy, without manual dexterity |
| Cackhander | A left handed person |
| Caff | A cafe |
| Cake-hole | Mouth |
| Camel’s hoof | An impression of the female genitals as seen through tightly worn clothes |
| Camp | An effeminate man |
| Cancer stick | A cigarette, othewise known as a ‘coffin nail’ |
| Cane (it) | To travel at great speed |
| Caned | Intoxicated |
| Caner | A person who indulges in excessive bouts of drug or alcohol use |
| Cank | To talk, chat or gossip |
| Cans | Headphones |
| Cant | To talk, to speak |
| Can’t be arsed | Can’t be bothered |
| Cardie | A cardigan |
| Carpet muncher | A lesbian |
| Carrot top | Nickname for a person with red/ginger hair |
| Carry out | Alcohol brought from a bar with the intention of taking it home |
| Casey | A leather football |
| Catch flies | To look blankly with one’s mouth open |
| Catch some z’s | Get some sleep |
| Cat’s pyjamas | The best |
| Cat’s whiskers | As above |
| Cavalier | An uncircumcised penis and consequently a male with such ‘Roundhead’ |
| Champion | Excellent! |
| Channel surfing | Switching from one television channel to another in search of seomthing interesting |
| Chap | Male or friend |
| Char | Tea, from the Chinese ‘cha’ |
| Charged | High on drugs |
| Charity-case | A person deemed rightly or wrongly to be in need of charity, whether poor or rich |
| Charlie | Cocaine |
| Charlies | Women’s breasts |
| Charver | A boy, or adolescent male |
| Charver or charva | Sexual intercourse |
| Chat Up | Flirt |
| Chav | Someone who is, or pretends to be, of a low social standing |
| Cheap as chips | Extremely cheap |
| Chebs | Breasts |
| Cheeky | Someone who is a little rude or disrespectful, but in a cute way |
| Cheeky chappy | Affectionate name for an attractively impudent person |
| Cheerio! | Goodbye! |
| Cheers! | A sign of appreciation or acknowledgement, or a drinking toast |
| Cheese | Smegma |
| Cheesed off | Fed up, disgusted or angry |
| Cheeselog | A woodlouse |
| Cheesy | Corny |
| Cherry | Virginity as in to lose one’s cherry |
| Chevy (chase) | Rhyming slang for face |
| Chew the fat | To talk or chat |
| Chick flick | A film (flick), often romantic and with a happy ending |
| Chicken | A young person |
| Chicks with discks | Transsexuals |
| Chief | A general term of address |
| Chieftain (tank) | Masturbation, rhyming slang for ‘wank’ |
| Chill | Relax |
| Chillax | To relax. A combination of the words chill and relax |
| Chilled | Relaxed |
| Chill-out | To relax |
| Chin wag | To talk or chat |
| Ching | Cocaine |
| Chinglish | A mixture of Chinese and English |
| chinky or chinky chonky | Chinese takeaway, usually considered offensive[82] |
| Chinless wonder | A person of the wealthy upper classes |
| Chippy | 1. A carpenter 2. chip shop 3. A prostitute or promiscuous young woman |
| Chips | French Fries |
| Chocker | Chocolate. Also chocko or chockies |
| Chocolate fireguard | Something useless |
| Chocolate starfish | Anus |
| Chocolate teapot | Something useless |
| Choice | The best, excellent |
| Choke the chicken | To masturbate |
| Chong it | To smoke marijuana/cannabis constantly |
| Choochie face | Affectionate term of address, often used with respect to children and babies |
| Chopper | The penis |
| Choppers | Teeth |
| Chops | The mouth |
| Chopsing | Chatting |
| Chord | A bad mood |
| Chore | To steal |
| Chow | Food |
| Chrimble | Christmas. Also ‘Crimbo’ |
| Chrome dome | A bald head |
| Chubby chaser | A person who finds fat people attractive |
| Chubby chops | Affectionate term of address for a podgy person |
| Chuck | To vomit |
| Chuck it down | To rain, often heavily |
| Chuck one’s muck | To ejaculate semen |
| Chuddy | Chewing-gum |
| Chuff | The buttocks or anus |
| Chuffed | When someone is chuffed, they are very pleased or happy about something |
| Chugger | A person paid to collect for charity by signing up people. The term is a cross between charity and mugger |
| Chuggy | Chewing gum |
| Chump | A fool, a disliked person |
| Chunner | To mutter, grumble, talk incessantly |
| Ciggy | A cigarette. Also shortened to cig |
| Clagnuts | Faecal remnants adhering to the anal hairs |
| Clanger | A mistake or blunder |
| Clap | Gonorrhoea |
| Clap eyes on | To notice |
| Clapped out | Worn out, usually applied to machinery |
| Claret | Blood |
| Clarty | Sticky, gooey, messy |
| Class | Of distinction, high quality, excellent |
| Clever-clogs | A person who is or claims to be clever or have greater knowledge |
| Climb the walls | To reach a state of severe agitation through stress or worry |
| Clingin | Unpleasant, disgusting |
| Cling-ons | Excrement that adheres to anal hairs, or fur on animals |
| Clink | Prison |
| Clinkers | Excrement that adheres to anal hairs, or fur, on an animal |
| Clippie | Bus conductor |
| Clobber | Clothes and personal belongings |
| Clock | To notice. E.g. Once I clocked him looking suspicious, he left the shop |
| Clodhopper | A large heavy shoe |
| Clot | An idiot, fool |
| Cloth-ears | Someone who has poor hearing |
| Clown’s pocket | A large or spacious vagina |
| Cludgie | A toilet. Also shortened to cludge |
| Clue up | To inform |
| Cob on | A temper |
| Cobblers! | An exclamation of disagreement |
| Cock a snook/snoot | To openly show contempt or disrespect |
| Cock | 1. Penis 2. Nonsense 3. A friend or fellow |
| Cockteaser | A person who sexually teases males |
| Cock-up | To blunder, mess up or botch |
| Cod | To hoax, to joke |
| Codger | An elderly male. Usually prefixed with ‘old’ |
| Cods | Testicles |
| Codswallop | Nonsense |
| Coffin dodger | An elderly person |
| Coin it (in) | To make large amounts of money, to profit |
| Coked up | To be intoxicated with cocaine |
| Cold turkey | Withdrawal from addictive drugs and the consequential pains and discomfort |
| Colder than a witch’s tit | Very cold, when applied to the weather, or air temperature |
| Coldfish | A person who is unemotional or insensitive |
| Collywobbles | An upset stomach or acute feeling of nervousness |
| Come | To orgasm |
| Come onto | To ‘chat up’ |
| Come out | To openly reveal one’s homosexuality |
| Comedown | The depression and tiredness after the cessation of a bout of drug taking |
| Commando | Without underwear |
| Commie | Abbreviation of Communist |
| Common | Abbreviation of common sense |
| Common as muck | Very common, usually applied to an unsophisticated and uncultured person |
| Complete and utter | Total. Usually prefixing atory terms such as ‘bastard’ or ‘twat’ |
| Con artist | A confidence trickster |
| Conflab | A chat, conversation |
| Conk | The head or the nose |
| Cooking with gas | To succeed, to proceed well |
| Cop off | To commune with someone sexually desirable |
| Cop | A policeman (short for copper) |
| Cop-it | To get into trouble |
| Cop-out | An excuse, an avoidance of guilt |
| Copper | A policeman |
| Cop-shop | A Police Station |
| Cor blimey | An exclamation of surprise |
| Corker | Someone or something outstanding |
| Corking | Excellent, splendid |
| Corn beef legs | Legs with mottled, blotchy skin, reminiscent of the meat, corn beef |
| Corned beef | Rhyming slang for deef, a Scottish pronunciation of deaf |
| Corry | Abbreviation of Coronation Street, the British ‘soap’ |
| Cosh | A heavy stick or bar used as a weapon |
| Cost a bomb | To be very expensive |
| Cotch | To relax |
| Cottage | A public lavatory |
| Cottaging | Homosexual activity in a public lavatory |
| Couch commando | The person at home who has control of the TV remote control |
| Couch potato | A lazy person who idles away time, usually watching the television |
| Couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery | Totally incompetent |
| Council gritter | Rhyming slang for ‘s$%tter’, but means anus |
| Coupon | The face |
| Cow | A contemptible woman |
| Cow juice | Milk |
| Cowboy | A person who is unscrupulous and unqualified in business |
| Cowing | Euphenism for ‘f$%king’ |
| Cozzie | A swimming costume |
| Crabby | Moody or short tempered |
| Crabs | Pubic lice |
| Crack | Freebased cocaine |
| Crack of sparrow’s fart | Dawn, or specifically the crack of dawn |
| Crack on to | To come onto somebody, to make sexual advances |
| Crack one off | To masturbate, with reference men |
| Cracker | Something excellent |
| Crackers | Crazy or insane |
| Crackhead | An addict of ‘crack’ (freebased cocaine) |
| Cracking | Something excellent or brilliant |
| Crackpot | An insane or eccentric person |
| Cradle snatcher | A person who dates or marries someone considerably younger than themselves |
| Crank up | To increase, often with reference to the volume of music |
| Crapper | A toilet |
| Crappy | Rubbishy, useless, of poor quality |
| Crash | To temporarily sleep over at someone’s place |
| Crate | A delapidated vehicle |
| Crater face | A face with pock marked skin or the person with such a face |
| Craven | Greedy |
| Crawl | To be obsequious |
| Cream | 1. To ejaculate 2. To succeed |
| Cream crackered | Tired out, exhausted. Rhyming slang for ‘knackered’ |
| Cream one’s jeans / pants / knickers | To be very excited, so much so that one figuratively ejaculates |
| Crease | The anus |
| Crease up | To laugh heartily |
| Cred | Abbreviation of credible |
| Creep | A contemptible person |
| Creepy-crawly | An insect, or spider, usually viewed distastefully |
| Crib | To copy, usually in an underhand or unfair manner |
| Crikey! | Used to express surprise or astonishment |
| Crimp off a length | To defecate |
| Crimp one off | To defecate |
| Cringeworthy | Likely to promote embarrassment or apprehension |
| Crinkly | A geriatric person From the appearence of their aging skin |
| Croak | To die |
| Crock of s$%t | Rubbish, a worthless item, of poor quality |
| Croggy | A pillion ride on a single seat bicycle |
| Crucial | Great, excellent, essential e.g. “That tune is crucial man” |
| Cruckle | To twist one’s ankle, to fall over on one’s ankle |
| Crud | Rubbish, something useless |
| Cruddy | Useless, unpleasant, cheap and nasty |
| Cruise | To search for a sexual encounter |
| Crumpet | A sexually desirable person e.g. “The club was bursting its walls with crumpet” |
| Crustie | A person whose looks share that of the ‘hippie’ travellers of the 1990s |
| Cry on (about something) | To complain (about something) |
| Culture vulture | A person keen to acquire culture |
| C#$% | Vagina – extremely offensive |
| Cuppa | Cup of tea |
| Currant bun | Cockney rhyming slang for the sun |
| Curry-mile | The name given to an area in Manchester called Rusholme |
| Cushty | Excellent, fine, OK Also spelt cushdy, and kushty |
| Cushy | A situation that is easy and without stress |
| Custard chucker | The penis. Often prefixed with blue veined, or purple headed |
| Cut the crap! | Stop talking nonsense! |
| D | |
| Dab hand | A person highly skilled at a given task |
| Dab on | A sweat on |
| Dabs | Fingerprints |
| Daft | Silly, foolish |
| Daft as a brush | Very silly |
| Daft Cow | Idiot |
| Daftie | A fool, an idiot |
| Dago | A foreigner, usually applied to Italians, Spanish and Portugese |
| Daisy chain | A sexual act involving 3 or more people, forming a chain |
| Damage | The cost or expense e.g. “What’s the damage for the meal?” |
| Dancers | Stairs |
| Dangleberries | Faecal remnants adherring to anal hairs |
| Dangly-bits | The male genitals |
| Dannies | Hands |
| Danny (La Rue) | Rhyming slang for ‘clue’ |
| Daps | Plimsolls, trainers (footwear) |
| Darbies | Handcuffs |
| Dark | Excellent |
| David Gower | Rhyming slang for a shower. David Gower was a 1980s English cricketer |
| Deacon | An imbecile, idiot |
| Dead | Subsitute for very, or extremely e.g. “Our holiday was dead good” |
| Dead cert | A sure thing e.g. “It’s a dead cert that the favourite will win” |
| Dead from the neck up | Unintelligent, stupid |
| Dear John | A letter, usually from a woman, terminating a relationship |
| Debag | To remove someone’s trousers by force |
| Dee Dah | A person from Sheffield |
| Deek | A look, or a glance |
| Deep s$%t | Serious trouble |
| Deep sea diver | A five pound (£5). Rhyming slang for fiver |
| Def (someone) out | To ignore (someone) |
| Deffo | An abbreviation of definitely |
| Dekko | A look or glance |
| Delhi belly | A severe stomach upset. A common occurrence for Western travellers visiting India |
| Demic | A thing that is worn out or broken |
| Desmond | A jacket. Rhyming slang for Desmond Hackett |
| Diamond | Wonderful, excellent |
| Diamond geezer | A really wonderful man, helpful and reliable |
| Dibble | A policeman/woman |
| Dibs | A claim e.g. “I put dibs on tasting it first” |
| Dick | 1. Fellow 2. Penis |
| D#$%head | A stupid person, a contemptible person |
| Dicks | Headlice or nits |
| D#$%splash | A contemptible person, like ‘d#$%splat’ |
| D#$%splat | A despicable person, like ‘d#$%splash’ |
| D#$%wad | A contemptible person, idiot |
| Dicky | Unsound, likely to fail, unhealthy |
| Dicky-bird | Rhyming slang for word |
| Diddicoy | A gypsy |
| Diddies | Breasts |
| Diddle | To have sex with |
| Diddly | Nothing e.g. “There’s diddly wrong with it” |
| Diddly diddly music | Irish folk music |
| Diddly-squat | Nothing, zero e.g. “I’ve earnt diddly squat this month” |
| Diddy |
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