| bab | Verb. To defecate. [Yorks/Hull/Notts use] Noun. 1. Faeces. [Yorks/Hull/Notts use] 2. Term of affectionate address, such as dear or friend. [W. Midlands use] 3. Abb. of kebab. |
| baba * | Verb. To defecate. [Yorks/Hull/Notts use] Noun. Faeces. [Yorks/Hull/Notts use] * Also spelt babber. |
| babby | Noun. A baby, child. [Northern & Midlands use. Dialect] |
| babe | Noun. 1. Usually applied to a young attractive female but also said with reference to males. [Orig. U.S.] 2. An affectionate form of address. |
| babe magnet | Noun. A person, usually a man, who is particularly attractive to women, or an item that is viewed to make a man a more desirable person. E.g."That new sports car is definitely a babe magnet." Cf. 'fanny magnet'. [Orig. U.S.] |
| baboon | Noun. An oaf, a fool. |
| baby batter | Noun. Semen. Cf. 'baby gravy' |
| baby gravy | Noun. Semen. Cf. 'baby batter' |
| baby's head | Noun. A steak and kidney pudding. [North-west use] |
| backdoor | Noun. A euphemism for the anus. [Orig. U.S.] |
| backhander | Noun. A bribe. |
| backie | Noun. A pillion ride on a bycycle. |
| back passage | Noun. The rectum. {Informal} |
| back scuttle | Noun. Anal intercourse. Verb. To have anal intercourse. |
| backs to the wall | Phrs. A homophobic comment and warning to fellow heterosexuals that contact with a gay male is likely or happening. From the misconception that all gay males will endevour, or want to have anal intercourse with any male. Derog. |
| backy | Noun. Abb. of tobacco. Another variation is backo. |
| bacon sarnie | Noun. Pakistani. Rhyming slang. See 'sarnie'. |
| bad | Adj. Good, excellent. [Orig. U.S.] |
| badass | Noun. A tough or aggressive person. Also as bad-ass. [Orig. U.S.] Adj. Aggressive, uncompromising or tough. E.g."That guy's got a badass attitude." |
| baddie | Noun. An wicked person, a criminal, someone unpleasant. Often denoting a villain in a film or play etc. [Orig. U.S.] {Informal} |
| bad egg | Noun. A miscreant, a corrupt person, an untrustworthy person. Cf. 'good egg'. |
| Baden Powell * | Noun. 1. A towel. 2. Trowel. * Both uses are rhyming slang. |
| bad hair day | Noun. 1. A day when one is unable to arrange one's hair into
a satisfactory and pleasing style. 2. Used figuratively for a problematic and difficult day. |
| badly packed kebab | Noun. The female genitals. [1990s] |
| bad mouth | Verb. To insult or denigrate. [Orig. U.S.] |
| bad news | Noun. A troublesome, unpleasant or undesirable thing or person. E.g."I wouldn't invite him to your party, he's bad news." |
| bad trip | Noun. A bad or distressing experience when taking an hallucinogenic drug such as LSD. [Orig. U.S.] {Informal} |
| baffies | Noun. Slippers. [Scottish use] |
| bag | Noun. 1. An ugly woman. Derog. Cf. 'old bag'. 2. An objectionable and unpleasant person. 3. Meaning that which interests. E.g."What's your bag? Mine is dance music." [Orig. U.S. 1960s] 4. The scrotum. Suffix. A suffix that emphasises the essential undesirable nature of a person in perjorative nouns such as 'tossbag', 'shitbag', 'ratbag' etc. |
| baggin(g) | Noun. A snack or food taken between meals. Heard pronounced as baggin. [Lancs/Yorks use] |
| baghead | Noun. A heroin addict. Also as bag-head. |
| bag lady | Noun. A homeless woman who carries her worldly possessions in bags. |
| bag of bones | Noun. A very thin or emaciated person or animal. |
| bag off | Verb. To commune with someone sexually, occasionally in so much as having sex. E.g."She bagged off with my boss at the work's Christmas party." |
| bag (of sand) | Noun. £1000, a thousand pounds sterling. Rhyming slang on a 'grand'. Often shortened to bag. |
| bag of shit | Noun. A general disparaging term, used for either a person or thing. E.g."He hadn't slept or washed for 4 days and looked like a bag of shit." |
| bag of shite | Noun. See 'bag of shit'. |
| bag of wank | Noun. A thing or situation that is not very good, that is poor, without value. E.g."I was expecting a big bag of wank, but I actually enjoyed the film, apart from the scene where the dog died." |
| bag of washing | Noun. A failed parachute or other material based airfoil, such as a hang glider. [Orig. Military use] |
| bag on | Noun. A bad mood. E.g."Mike's got a bag on after being woken up early by the neighbours." [E. Midlands use] |
| bags | Verb. To make a claim on something due to being the first to make such a claim. E.g."I bagsed to go first last time so maybe you can go this time." {Informal} Noun. Trousers. {Informal} |
| bags of (something) | Noun. Lots of (something), a large amount of (something). Originally from game shooting and the amount of kills collected in the game bag. E.g."We've got bags of time before the flight so why don't we head to the bar and start the holiday with a drink." |
| bagsy | Verb. A variation on 'bags' (verb). Basically meaning bags I. See 'bags'. |
| bahookie | Noun. The backside, the bottom, the buttocks. [Glasgow use] |
| bail (out) | Verb. To leave in a hurry, to escape an awkward situation. E.g."I bailed once I realised that the profits weren't worth it." |
| bait | Adj. Obvious. |
| bake | Noun. The mouth. [Irish/ Scottish use] |
| baked bean | Noun. The queen. Rhyming slang. |
| baksheesh | Noun. A tip, gratuity or bribe. Also as bachshish, backshish, bakshish, backshee, backsheesh, bukshish, buckshish, buckshee, bucksheech. [Orig. Persian] {Informal} |
| baldy notion | Noun. An idea, a clue. Usually in the negative sense such as "to not have a baldy notion". Often abbreviated to baldy. [N. Irish use] |
| ball-ache | Noun. A troublesome and inconvenient task. Also ballache. E.g."I wish I hadn't sold the car, walking 5 miles to and from work, everyday, is a real ball-ache." |
| ball and chain | Noun. A wife or girlfriend. Derog. |
| ball-bag | Noun. The scrotum. |
| ball-bagged * | Adj. 1. Ruined, exhausted, broken. 2. Drunk, very intoxicated. * [Orig. military use?] |
| ballocks (!) | Noun. 1. The testicles. A variation on 'bollocks'. S.E. from 1200s, slang from mid 1800s. Cf. 'bollocks'. 2. Rubbish, nonsense. Exclam. An exclamation of annoyance, disbelief or disagreement. |
| balloon knot | Noun. The anus. From its appearance. |
| balls (!) | Noun. 1. The testicles. Usually in the plural. 2. Courage, bravery. E.g."She hasn't got the balls to tell him the truth." 3. Nonsense, twaddle, balderdash. E.g."Whatever he's been saying is all balls, I didn't steal anything." Exclam. Expressing annoyance or a rebuke, nonsense!. E.g."Balls to him!" |
| balls deep | Adj./Adv. Thoroughly committed to or involved in (something). From a male perspective, being deeply engaged in sexual intercourse. E.g."He's gone balls deep too early and is jeopardizing the whole plan." |
| ballsed-up | Adj. Ruined, in a mess. |
| balls (something) up | Verb. To make a mess of a situation. E.g."I couldn't believe I ballsed up my driving test by making exactly the same mistake as the previous six times." |
| balls to the wall | Phrs. Quickly. |
| balls-up | Noun. A mess up, a 'cock-up'. E.g."I've made a right balls-up
of my exams." Verb. To make a mess of a situation. |
| ballsy | Adj. Determined, courageous, plucky. E.g."For the smallest boy in the class, he was certainly very ballsy." |
| bally | Noun. Abb. of balaclava. |
| balm | Noun. A bread bun or roll. Common mispelling of barm. Cf. 'barmcake'. |
| balmy | Adj. Insane, crazy, idiotic. An altered form of 'barmy.' |
| baloney | Noun. Nonsense. Also spelt boloney. [Orig. U.S.] |
| baltic | Adj. Very cold, with respect to the weather or air temperature. [Orig. U.S.] |
| bam | Noun. A foolish and objectionable person. Abbreviated form of 'bampot'. [Scottish use] |
| bampot | Noun. A foolish and objectionable person. Derog. Cf. 'bam' and 'bamstick'. [Scottish use] |
| bamstick | Noun. A fool, an objectionable person. Cf. 'bam' and 'bampot'. [Scottish use] |
| banana | Noun. A penis. |
| bananas | Adj. Insane, mad, hysterical. [Orig. U.S.] |
| bang | Verb. 1. To copulate. A particularly aggressive term. 2. To put or place, the implication being with nonchalence. E.g."I'll bang those in an envelope and send them off first post in the morning." Noun. An act of copulation. |
| banger | Noun. 1. A sausage. The English meal of sausages and mashed potato is traditionally called bangers and mash. 2. A delapidated car. Often as old banger. 3. A small firework that is explosively loud but visually unstimulating. |
| banging | Noun. Sexual intercourse. Adj. Exciting, energetic, wonderful, excellent. Often heard pronounced bangin'. |
| bang on | Adj./Adv. Exactly, correct. {Informal} |
| bang on about (something) | Vrb phrs. To talk incessantly and uninterestingly, to nag. E.g."You're not going to change my mind by banging on about it!" |
| bang one out | Vrb phrs. To masturbate. E.g."Steve watched Bay Watch on TV and then banged one out before his mum came home." |
| bang out of order | Phrs. Totally unacceptable. |
| bang-tidy | Adj. Sexually attractive. |
| bang to rights | Phrs. Caught red-handed. Police/criminal vernacular often heard used jocularly. |
| bang (someone) up | Verb. 1. To put (someone) in prison. {Informal}. 2. To make (someone) pregnant. |
| banjax | Verb. To ruin. [Mainly Irish use.] |
| banjaxed | Adj. 1. Ruined, defeated. Originally Anglo-Irish use, popularized
by the UK radio/TV presenter Terry Wogan with his book of the same name.
2. Drunk, by extension of meaning 1. |
| banjo | Verb. To hit or punch. [Scottish use] Noun. 1. A sandwich, particularly one that contains sauce type condiment or other runny ingredient that may spill onto one's clothes, for example egg banjo (fried egg sandwich). 2. A shovel. [Orig. Aust.] |
| banjo'd | Adj. Drunk, intoxicated. Also banjoed. |
| banjo string | Noun. The frenulum of the penis. |
| banko | Noun. Abb. of bank holiday (a national holiday). |
| bants | Noun. Playful, witty conversation, often involving teasing and mocking. Abb. of banter. E.g."I want a date with someone who I can have bants with." |
| baps | Noun. Breasts. E.g."Look at the baps on her!" |
| bar | Noun. One pound sterling. |
| barbie | Noun. Abb. of barbecue. [Orig. Aust.] |
| barbs | Noun. Abb. of barbiturates, a drug that acts as a sedative. |
| Barclay's (Bank) | Noun. An act of masturbation. From the rhyming slang for 'wank'. |
| barcode | Noun. A supporter of the Newcastle United football club. From their team kit being designed around black and white vertical stripes, like a barcode. |
| bare | Adj. A lot of, significant amount. E.g."It's just bare hype, the film's just famous faces and no plot." [Mainly London use] Adv. Extremely, very, significantly. [Mainly London use] |
| barf | Verb. To vomit, probably onomatapoeic in origin. E.g."He's feeling woozy, I think he's gonna barf his dinner up." [Orig. U.S. 1940/50s] |
| barking | Adj. Insane, crazy. Short for barking mad. |
| barking spider | Noun. The anus. |
| barmcake | Noun. 1. A lighthearted term for a fool or idiot. 2. A bread bun or roll. Also barm cake and occasionally shortened to barm. [Northern use] |
| barmpot | Noun. A silly, eccentric, or crazy person. Frequently lighted-hearted use. |
| barmy | Adj. Mad, crazy, insane. Cf. 'balmy'. [1600s] |
| barnet | Noun. Hair. From the Cockney rhyming slang barnet fair. [Mid 1800s] |
| barney | Noun. An argument. [Late 1800s] {Informal} |
| Barney (Rubble) | Adj. Trouble. Rhyming slang. [1960s] |
| barrel of laughs | Noun. A source of great fun and entertainment. E.g."We should invite your brother, he's a barrel of laughs." [Orig. U.S.] {Informal} |
| barry | Adj. Good, nice. [Edinburgh use] |
| Barry White * | Noun. 1. Rubbish, nonsense. 2. An act of defecation. * Both uses are rhyming slang on 'shite' (shit). See 'shite'. Barry White, U.S. soul singer who came to the fore in the 1970s. |
| barse | Noun. The perineum. From the area between the balls and the arse. |
| bar steward | Noun. A pun and euphemism for 'bastard' (noun). |
| base over apex | Phrs. Head over heels, upside down. E.g."His front wheel hit a rock on the road and he went base over apex." |
| bash | Noun. 1. An event, a party. E.g."I'm having a bash at a club for my birthday." 2. An attempt. E.g."Try having a bash at the next question if you can't answer the first." |
| bash the bishop | Verb. To masturbate. Derived from the similarity of the head of the penis with a bishop's mitre. E.g."It's a myth that constantly bashing the bishop makes you blind." |
| basket | Noun. A euphemism for 'bastard'. |
| basket case | Noun. An emotionally unstable person, a dysfunctional person, a completely useless person. Originally an amputee, especially a soldier, who had lost all four limbs, coined during the First World War. |
| bastard (!) | Noun. 1. A contemptible person. Derived from the original meaning, an illegitimate person, when to be born out of wedlock was viewed as objectionable. 2. A pitiable person. E.g."That poor bastard never stood a chance once the avalanche started." Adj. Used as an negative intensifier. E.g."My bastard car wont start again!" Exclam. Exclamation of anger. |
| bastarding | Adj. An intensifier. E.g."I'm sorry for being late, I missed the bastarding bus again!" |
| bat for both sides | Vrb phrs. To be bisexual. |
| bat for the other team | Vrb phrs. 1. To be homosexual. E.g."He wont be interested in your sister, he bats for the other team." 2. To be of a different sexual persuasion. |
| bat for the opposition | Vrb phrs. To be homosexual. 2. To be of a different sexual persuasion. |
| bathers | Noun. Swimming/bathing costume. [Orig. Aust./N.Z.] {Informal} |
| bat in the cave | Noun. A globule or lump of nasal mucus when visible up a nostril. |
| bat on a sticky wicket | Vrb phrs. To put oneself in a difficult and unfavourable position. |
| batshit | Adj./Adv. Insane, crazy. Also as batshit crazy. |
| battered | Adj. Very intoxicated by drink or drugs. |
| battery operated boyfriend | Noun. A vibrator, sex toy. Cf. 'bob'. |
| battle cruiser | Noun. A pub, bar. From rhyming slang for 'boozer' (noun 1). (noun 1). |
| batty | Adj. Crazy, eccentric. Noun. Buttocks, bottom. [Orig. W.I.] |
| batty boy | Noun. A homosexual male. From batty meaning buttocks. Also as battyboy. Derog. [Orig. W.I.] |
| batty bwoy | Noun. See 'batty boy'. Also batty-bway. |
| batty crease | Noun. The area between the buttocks. See 'batty' (noun). |
| batty man | Noun. See 'batty boy'. Also as battyman. Derog. |
| batty rider | Noun. Skimpy shorts that ride up to expose the lower cheeks of the wearer's bottom ('batty'), usually female. [West Indies/Black UK?] |
| baw-bag | Noun. 1. The scrotum. From 'ball-bag'. [Scottish use] 2. A contemptible person. [Scottish use] |
| bawheid | Noun. 1. A bald head. [Scottish uses] 2. An idiot, buffoon. [Scottish uses] |
| bazookas | Noun. Female breasts. |
| bazoomas | Noun. Female breasts. From bosoms. |
| bazongas | Noun. Female breasts. Also as bazonkas, basoongas, bazungas, bazoonkas. |
| bazzin' | Adj. Excellent. From bazzing. E.g."That was a bazzin cricket match." [Midlands/North use?] |
| beach-bum | Noun. A person devoted to spending as much time as available on the beach. Cf. 'surf bum'. |
| beady | Noun. Eye. From S.E. beady little eye. E.g."I'm keeping a beady on my share prices in case I need to sell." |
| beak | Noun. 1. The mouth. [Irish/Scottish use] 2. A judge or magistrate. 3. A head teacher. Schoolboy use. 4. Cocaine. |
| beakie | Noun. The dirt or bodily secretions that accumulate at the corner of the eyes or between the toes. [Scottish use] |
| beaked up | Adj. High on cocaine. E.g."We had a great night, everyone was well beaked up." See 'beak' (noun 4). |
| beal | Verb. To cry. E.g."Her baby is constantly bealing, even when it's not hungry." [North Lincolnshire use] |
| bean | Noun. 1. An ecstasy pill. 2. Clitoris. Used in phrases such a 'flicking the bean'. |
| beanfeast | Noun. A party, a celebratory event. {Informal} |
| bean-flicker | Noun. A lesbian. The bean refers to the clitoris. |
| beano | Noun. A party. Abbreviated form of 'beanfeast'. {Informal} |
| bear | Noun. A large hairy man. [Mainly Gay use] |
| beard | Noun. 1. A woman who is seen to be romantically linked with a gay man, so protecting his true sexuality from public scrutiny - often associated with celebrities. [Orig U.S.] 2. Of a woman, pubic hair. |
| bearded clam | Noun. The female genitals, inclusive of pubic hair. |
| beast with two backs | Noun. A man and woman engaged in the act of sexual intercourse. An expression whose usage dates from at least as early as 1604, being mentioned in Shakespeare's Othello. E.g."Your daughter and the Moore are making the beast with two backs" [1600s] |
| beaten with the ugly stick | Phrs. Of a person, unnattractive. Cf. 'hit with the ugly stick'. |
| beat seven shades of shit out of (someone) | Vrb phrs. To thoroughly beat up. Also, less commonly, beat seven kinds of shit out of (someone). Cf. 'kick seven shades of shit out of (someone)' |
| beat the bishop | Verb. To masturbate. Cf. 'bash the bishop'. |
| beat the meat | Verb. To masturbate. E.g."My son seems to be preoccupied with beating his meat at every possible hour of the day." |
| beauty sleep | Noun. Sleep, but also humourously sleep considered necessary in order to maintain one's looks. {Informal} |
| beaver | Noun. The female genitals, implying the inclusion of pubic hair. [Orig. U.S.] Verb To work hard. {Informal} |
| beaver cleaver | Noun. Penis. See 'beaver' (noun). Cf. 'beaver lever'. |
| beaver leaver | Noun. A homosexual male. Due to not being interested in 'beaver' and leaving it alone. See 'beaver' (noun). |
| beaver lever | Noun. Penis. See 'beaver' (noun). Cf. 'beaver cleaver'. |
| beddable | Adj. Sexually desirable, from being good enough to take to bed. |
| Bedfordshire | Noun. Bed or bedtime. [1700s] |
| bed hair | Noun. Dishevelled hair, as may result from a good night's sleep. |
| bedsit | Noun. Abb. of bed-sitter or bed-sitting room. A small apartment whereby the bedroom also serves as a sitting room (living room). {Informal} |
| Beeb | Noun. 1. The commonly used nickname for the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), the nationally owned television production and broadcasting company. {Informal} 2. Nickname for the BBC Micro computer, an early form of home computer from the 1980s. |
| beef | Noun. 1. Muscly, strong looking males. {Informal} 2. A complaint, a grievance, problems (with something). E.g."If you've got a beef about the decision, then fill in the appropriate appeal forms." [Orig. U.S.] |
| beef bayonet | Noun. The penis. |
| beef curtains | Noun. The female genitals. [Orig. U.S.] |
| beef (something) up | Vrb phrs. To increase in size or volume; basically to make stronger. E.g."Once he'd beefed up his engine, his car was unbeatable on the track." |
| beer baby | Noun. A protruding belly, from drinking excessive amounts of beer, that makes its owner look pregnant. |
| beer belly | Noun. A bulging stomach caused by drinking large quantities of beer. |
| beemer | Noun. A BMW automobile. Cf. 'bimmer'. |
| beer goggles | Noun. The impaired judgement from the excessive consumption of alcohol (beer) that makes an otherwise unappealing person or thing seem attractive. E.g."I was obviously wearing beer goggles last night; when I awoke and saw who I'd brought home the previous night I nearly threw up, she had 3 eyes, a green beard and tentacles coming out of the top of her head." [1990s] |
| beer o'clock | Noun. The time one feels is most appropriate for some alcoholic refreshment , such as beer. Often used specifically to mean the end of the working day. |
| beer scooter | Noun. The supposed transport one must have taken to get home when very drunk and as there is no recollection of how one did get home. [1990s] |
| beer tits | Noun. Fatty deposits on the breasts of a male, arising through excessive beer drinking. Cf. 'bitch tits'. |
| beer tokens | Noun. Money. |
| bees and honey | Noun. Money. Rhyming slang. |
| bee's knees | Noun. The best. This term originates from the prolific slang of the Flappers along with the similar 'cats whiskers'. Cf. 'dogs bollocks'. [Orig. U.S. 1920s] |
| bee stings | Noun. Small breasts. Derog. |
| beeswax | Noun. Business. Used in the phrases none of your beeswax and mind your beeswax. [Orig. U.S.] |
| beetle | Verb. To hurry. E.g."I've just spent 2 hours beetling around the shopping precinct looking for a gift for Mick." {Informal} |
| beetle bonnet | Noun. The female mons pubis, from its vague resemblence to the bonnet of a Volkswagen Beetle car. |
| beezer | Adj. Excellent, great. E.g."The holiday was beezer." {Informal} Noun. 1. Something impressive, or large. [Mainly Scottish use] {Informal} 2. Nose. |
| beggar * | Noun. 1. An objectionable person. E.g."He's a beggar, asking for a lift home when he lives 10 miles in the other direction." 2. A person. Frequently heard modified in expressions such as poor beggar, silly beggar, dozy beggar, stupid beggar, jammy beggar, daft beggar, and cheeky beggar. E.g."This silly beggar came up to me and asked if I was the British actor, Sean Connery." 3. A situation that is difficult or distressing. E.g."It's a beggar of a job but the pay is excellent." Exclam. Usually as beggar it!, expressing annoyance or frustration. * Generally a euphemism for 'bugger'. |
| begging for it | Vrb phrs. A general comment on a person's supposed, if not actual, yearning for sexual intimacies. E.g."Cor, look at her! She's begging for it." |
| behave! | Exclam. Are you telling the truth? For real? I can't believe what you're saying! |
| bejesus! | Exclam. An Anglo-Irish corruption of the exclamation by Jesus! Expressing surprise or annoyance. |
| bell | Verb. To telephone (someone). E.g."I'll bell you tonight with the news." |
| bell-end | Noun. 1. The head of the penis, being vaguely bell shaped. Also bellend. 2. A contemptible person, an idiot. |
| bell on every tooth | Phrs. When applied to a person, noisy, loud. Also a bell in every tooth. [Welsh use] |
| belly-ache | Noun. A complaint. {Informal} Verb. To complain persistently. |
| belly-flop | Noun. A dive in which a person lands horizontally on their stomach, often winding themselves. {Informal} Verb. To perform a belly-flop. E.g."I felt like an idiot, belly-flopping infront of all my mates when I was trying to impress the girls." {Informal} |
| belly timber | Noun. Food. [Early 1600s] |
| belly-up | Adj. 1. Dead. 2. Failed, bankrupt. |
| belt | Verb. To hit. E.g."I belted the idiot so hard he didn't get up again." Noun. 1. A hit. E.g."If you don't shut up moaning I'll give you a belt around the head." 2. A drink, by extension of meaning 1. E.g."Have a belt of that brandy, it'll warm you up." |
| belter | Noun. An excellent thing or event. [Orig. Northern dialect] |
| belting | Adj. Outstanding, wonderful. {Informal} |
| belt up (!) | Verb./Exclam. Be quiet! Shut up! E.g."If you don't belt up I'll turn the car round and go home." |
| bender | Noun. 1. An excessive bout of drinking, but more recently also inclusive of a drug taking spree. [Orig. U.S.] 2. A homosexual. Possibly derived from gender bender, or from being the passive partner, bending over to receive sex, as opposed to being the thruster. Derog. |
| bend one's elbow | Vrb phrs. To have an alcoholic drink. |
| bend someone's ear | Vrb phrs. To talk incessantly and tediously at someone. E.g."The manager's been bending my ear all afternoon about regulations and company protocol." |
| benny | Noun. 1. A tantrum, a fit of anger. See 'throw a benny'. 2. A person from the Falkland Islands. A nickname given to islanders by the British army during the Falklands War, and supposedly as they looked like a character called Benny from a British TV soap called Crossroads. [1982] |
| bent | Adj. 1. Homosexual, as opposed to 'straight'. Derog. [Mid 1900s] 2. Criminal, corrupt. E.g."You can usually buy your freedom; the cops are bent and paid poorly." [Early 1900s] 3. Illegal, stolen. E.g."I'm not touching that video, it's bent." [Early 1900s] |
| bent as a bottle of chips | Phrs. 1. Homosexual. 2. Crooked, dishonest. See 'bottle of chips'. |
| bent as a nine bob note | Phrs. 1. Homosexual. See 'bent'. 2. Crooked, dishonest. A catch-phrase whose original meaning was version 2, but with the onset of 'bent' referring to homosexually has come to be heard more with regard to version 1. In British currency, a bob was a slang expression for a shilling (five pence) but with decimalization in 1971 became obsolete. There was never any such thing as a nine bob note, hence the simile. Cf. 'queer as a nine bob note' and 'camp as a row of tents'. |
| bent as a nine pound note | Phrs. A modern variation on 'bent as a nine bob note', see above. |
| berk | Noun. An idiot, objectionable person. Derived from the rhyming slang Berkshire Hunt or Berkeley Hunt, meaning 'cunt'. Normally Berkshire and Berkeley would be pronounced Barkshire and Barkeley. This expression is generally accepted as inoffensive despite its origins and meaning. Also as 'burk'. |
| (the) berries | Noun. The best. Also the berrys. [Scottish use] |
| Bertie big bollocks | Noun. A person with an over inflated opinion and value of themselves. The expression, if not invented, was popularized by John Sitton, manager of Leyton Orient football club, who, on a 1995 TV documentary on his team ('Orient: Club for a Fiver'), angrily berates his team during the half-time team talk, after going 3-0 down. [1990s] |
| be seeing you! | Exclam. Goodbye! {Informal} |
| besom | Noun. A term of contempt, usually applied to a woman, and originally one lacking morals or of disrepute. Sometimes light-hearted use for a woman or young girl. Also as bysim, bizzim, bizzom, bizzum, bissom, beezim, bizom. [Scottish use] |
| bestie | Noun. A best friend. E.g."I'd do anything for her, she's one of my besties." |
| best of British | Phrs. Good luck! |
| (the) best thing since sliced bread | Phrs. Absolutely the best thing ever. |
| better half | Noun. One's wife, husband or partner. Cf. 'other half'. |
| better than a kick in the teeth/balls | Phrs. Catch-phrase expressing that one should be happy with the situation, as it could be much worse. E.g."I only won £10 on the national lottery yesterday, but I shouldn't complain, it's better than a kick in the balls." |
| better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick | Phrs. A catch-phrase that expresses that a situation could be much worse, hence one should be grateful. Also 'better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick'. |
| better than a slap in the face with a wet kipper/fish | Phrs. Expresses that a situation could be considerably worse, hence one should be grateful. |
| Betty Swollox | Noun. Perspiring, uncomfortable or itchy testicles. A spoonerism and literally sweaty bollocks. Also spelt Betty Swallocks and Betty Swollocks. |
| bevvied (up) | Adj. Drunk. |
| bevvy | Noun. A general term for an alcoholic drink. Taken from the word beverage. Cf. 'bevvied up'. |
| bezzy mates | Noun. Best friends. Occasionally abbreviated to bezzy. Also as bezzie. E.g."They've been bezzy mates since they were at nursery together." |
| bi | Noun. Abb. of bisexual. Adj. Bisexual. |
| biatch | Noun. A contemptible person, usually woman. Alternative form of 'bitch'. [Orig. U.S. 1990s] |
| bible basher | Noun. A fanatical preacher of a religion. Derog. |
| bible thumper | Noun. Meaning the same as 'bible basher'. Derog. |
| bicky | Noun. A biscuit, a cookie. Also bickie, biccy and bikkie. |
| biddy | Noun. 1. A woman, usually referring to an elderly woman and often reinforced with the word old. E.g."I suggest you don't go to the post office on a Thursday, that's when all the old biddies collect their pension money and the queues are terrible." 2. A head louse, and occ. any skin/hair parasite such as a flea. Usually in the plural, as biddies. E.g."First day at school and my youngest came home with a head full of biddies." Adj. Small. Also as iddy biddy. Adv. Very, extremely, usually before the word little. E.g."It was just a biddy little spot on her cheek but she was too embarrassed to come out." |
| biff | Verb. To hit. E.g."He biffed his head on the low ceiling." Noun. The vagina. |
| biffa | Noun. An ugly person, often assumed to be overweight, but also heard as fat biffa. Derog. |
| biffin's bridge | Noun. The perineum; the area between the anus and the vulva, or scrotum. Cf. 'biffon' |
| biffon | Noun. The perineum. The place where the man's testicles would hit, see 'biff', during vigorous sexual intercourse. Cf. 'biffin's bridge'. |
| biftah * | Noun. 1. A cigarette. 2. A marijuana or cannabis cigarette. * Also bifta and bifter. |
| (the) big I am | Noun. Someone of great self-importance. Often used in be the big I am, and give it the big I am. E.g."If he starts giving it the big I am again and talking about how much he earns I'm just going to leave." |
| (the) big C | Noun. Cancer. |
| big cheese | Noun. A very important person. |
| big deal! | Exclam. A sarcastic exclamation for not being very impressed. |
| (the) big E | Noun. Dismissal, rejection. From the metaphorical use of elbow (E), in rejecting someone. See 'give someone the elbow'. |
| big girl's blouse | Noun. A feeble and ineffectual person. Derog. |
| big head | Noun. A conceited or arrogant person. |
| big headed | Adj. Conceited, arrogant. E.g."I've told him before that he doesn't know everything, the big headed idiot." |
| big it up | Verb. See 'big up'. |
| big shot | Noun. An important, influential or superior person, or someone who thinks they are. {Informal} |
| big style | Adj. Greatly. E.g."Yeah she's into him big-style." |
| big swinging dick | Noun. A person, usually male, with an over-inflated opinion of themselves and their importance. |
| big time | Noun. The upper levels of power, success. E.g."She's hit the big time getting that quarter million pound contract." [Orig. U.S.] Adv. Greatly, very much. |
| big up | Verb. To praise, to acclaim. Also to big oneself up or to big it up. [Orig W.I.] |
| big white telephone | Noun. The toilet; not the room itself, but the toilet bowl. Usually combined with various terms to express the action of vomiting, i.e. talking down the big white telephone, or talking to God on the big white telephone etc. |
| bike | Noun. A promiscuous woman, often with respect to the immediate district or locality. Derog. Cf. 'town bike'. |
| bilge (water) | Noun. Nonsense, gibberish. E.g."You are talking absolute bilge!" |
| (the) Bill | Noun. The police. Cf. '(the) old bill'. |
| bills | Noun. Underwear. Rhyming slang on Bill Grundy's, meaning undies. Bill Grundy, a British TV presenter, infamous for his provoking punk band, the Sex Pistols, into swearing on live TV, on the Today programme in 1976. [North-west/Merseyside use] |
| billy | Noun. Amphetamine Sulphate. Abb. of 'Billy Whizz', a cartoon character from the children's magazine Beano; Billy Whizz does everything with exceptional speed and energy. Cf. 'whizz'. |
| billy goat | Noun. A coat. Rhyming slang. |
| Billy no mates | Noun. A person who appears to have no friends. Derog. Cf. 'Norman (no mates)' |
| billy-o | Adv. A lot, greatly, quickly etc. E.g"She's been moaning like billy-o all morning, wanting me to hang out the washing, clean the car, do the hoovering, mow the lawn, I've had enough." |
| billy willy | Noun. A temporarily shrivelled penis, from imbibing amphetamine sulphate or other drugs that cause such a physiological reaction. See 'willy' and 'billy'. |
| bimble | Noun. An ambling walk. E.g."I'm just going for a bimble to the shops, back in 20 minutes." Verb. To wander aimlessly, to amble. E.g."We bimbled to the shops, brought absolutely nothing, then bimbled home again." |
| bimbo | Noun. A young attractive, empty headed woman. Derog. Cf. 'himbo'. |
| bimmer | Noun. A BMW car. Cf. 'beemer'. [Orig. W.I. / Black] |
| bin | Verb. To throw away, to discard. |
| bin-bag | Verb. To terminate a relationship. From the returning of possessions in a big bag, a disposable bag made of black polythene. E.g."I didn't come home until the next morning, and with lipstick on my shirt collar, I was promptly bin-bagged." [Merseyside use] |
| binge | Noun. A spree, often involving food or alcohol. Verb. To go on a spree. |
| bingo wings | Noun. Fatty, folds of flesh on the underarms of overweight women, who might commonly be seen at Bingo nights. [1990s] |
| bin lid | Noun. A child. Rhyming slang for kid. |
| binnie | Noun. A refuse collector. A variation on 'binman'. Also binno. |
| binman | Noun. A refuse collector, a dustbin man. |
| bin off * | Verb. 1. To discard, throw away. 2. To terminate a relationship. * Both are North-west England usage. |
| bins | Noun. Spectacles. |
| bint | Noun. A woman or girl. From the Arabic, bint, meaning daughter or girl. Offens. |
| bird | Noun. 1. A female. Use can be taken as offensive. E.g."Did you see that bird at the back of the bus!" 2. A girlfiend, when used in conjunction with a possessive pronoun, such as my bird. 3. Time spent in prison. E.g."I did 20 years bird before I learnt how to control my temper and keep out of trouble." |
| birdbrained | Adj. Stupid, lacking commonsense. {Informal} |
| Birmingham screwdriver | Noun. A hammer. |
| biscuit arsed | Adj. Dirty, filthy. Also biscuit ersed, from Scottish pronunciation. [Mainly Scottish use] |
| bit | Noun. 1. A woman. Abb. of 'bit of fluff' or 'bit of skirt', generally a person viewed sexually. Derog. 2. A short time. E.g."I'll see you in a bit." {Informal} |
| bitch | Noun. 1. A contemptible woman. Used on the gay scene to describe an equally despised male. 2. A woman. Derog/Offens. 3. A girlfriend. Derog/Offens. [Mainly black use] 4. Something difficult or unpleasant. E.g."It's such a bitch, having nowhere warm and dry to sleep." 5. A complaint or disparaging tirade. E.g."Have you been having a bitch about me behind my back?" Verb. To speak disparagingly, complain. |
| bitchin (!) * | Exclam. Excellent! Wonderful! Cool! Adj. Excellent, cool. E.g."She was wearing a bitchin pair of shoes, but that hat was just awful." * Also bitching. |
| bitch piss | Noun. Sweet, ready-mixed fruit and alcohol drink. Cf. 'alcopop' and 'tart fuel'.' |
| bitch tits | Noun. 1. Overly developed fatty deposits on the male breasts, the medical condition of gynecomastia. Term can be heard on the bodybuilding scene, the condition being one of the consequences of steroid abuse. 2. As the above, having fatty breast tissue, but due to excessive drinking of beer. Cf. 'beer tits' |
| bite someone's hand/arm off | Vrb phrs. To eagerly accept someone's offer. E.g."I bit his hand off when he offered me twice the going rate for my car." |
| bite the dust | Vrb phrs. To die. E.g."She bit the dust when she crashed head on with an oncoming truck." |
| (a) bit much | Phrs. A little excessive, a little more than can be endured. E.g."It's a bit much, having to listen to the neighbours arguing all night." {Informal} |
| bit of alright | Noun. Something excellent. Often heard used with reference to a sexually attractive person. E.g."She's a bit of alright! I'm going to ask her for a date." |
| bit of fluff | Noun. An attractive young woman viewed as a companion, sexually or otherwise, but to whom one is not seriously committed. Also occasionally for such a man. [1900s] |
| bit of posh | Noun. An attractive person who is considered above one's normal standards and class. E.g."She thinks she's a bit of posh, but after a night with her, I can tell you, she's not." Cf. 'bit of rough'. |
| bit of rough | Noun. A sexual partner below one's normal standards or believed class. Cf. 'bit of rough'. |
| bit of skirt | Noun. A woman or women. A male expression for females viewed sexually. Also abbreviated to 'skirt'. Derog. |
| bit of spare | Noun. A sexually available person. |
| bit of stuff | Noun. A sexually desirable person or persons. |
| bit on the side | Noun. 1. A sexual relationship extra to one's usual partner, an affair. 2. The other person in a sexual affair. 3. Money earned extra than in one's usual job. E.g."I've been making a bit on the side, selling my photographs at the Saturday market." {Informal} |
| bits | Noun. A euphemism for the genitals. |
| bits and bats | Noun. Miscellaneous items. Cf. 'bits and bobs'. |
| bits and bobs | Noun. Miscellaneous items. {Informal} |
| bivvy | Noun. An improvised outdoor shelter or small tent. E.g."In the woods behind my mums, there's at least 12 bivvies put up by the homeless." |
| biz | Adj. Rubbish, worthless, balderdash, nonsense. E.g."Don't go and see that new amateur play at the theatre, it was biz." Noun. 1. Abb. of business. E.g."How's the the plumbing biz going now we're in lockdown." See '(the) business' 2. The best, most excellent, greatest. E.g."I can't imagine why so many people think the president is the biz." |
| bizzies | Noun. The police. Possibly derived from the expression busy body. Also busies. |
| BJ | Noun. Oral sex. An abb. of 'blow job'. |
| blabbermouth | Noun. A person who reveals too much in conversation, a gossip. |
| (it's) black over Bill's mothers | Phrs. Of the sky, dark and looking as though it might rain. Also as black over Will's mothers. |
| black as Newgate's knocker | Phrs. Very black. |
| bladdered | Adj. Drunk. |
| blag | Verb. To lie, or use clever talk with profit as an objective, to wheedle or persuade for gain. E.g."I blagged a lift to work with my sister but had to get the bus home." Noun. 1. A con, a 'scam'. 2. A violent robbery or raid. |
| blag artist | Noun. A person with a reputation for using clever talk for self gain. |
| blagger | Noun. 1. A robber, especially of banks, and often with the use of a weapon or violence. 2. See 'blag artist'. |
| blank | Verb. To rudely ignore. E.g."Despite being introduced 5 minutes earlier, he just blanked me and continued talking.." |
| blanket stacker | Noun. A storeman in the armed services. [Military use] |
| blaps | Noun. Diarrhoea, the illness. |
| blart | Verb. To cry. [Midlands use] |
| blast (!) | Noun. 1. An inhalation of a cigarette or 'joint'. E.g."Give us a blast on your cigarette, I've just run out." 2. An enjoyable experience. E.g."Wasn't the party last night a blast?" [Orig. U.S.] 3. A fast run in a vehicle. E.g."We're going for a blast up to the coast to get some fresh air." Exclam. An exclamation of annoyance. |
| blates | Adj./Adv. Blatantly, blatant. |
| blathered | Adj. Drunk. E.g."Phil was blathered and we had to carry him home." [Mainly Yorkshire use] |
| blatts | Noun. Diarrhoea, the illness. E.g."I daren't leave the house, I've got the blatts." |
| blaze | Verb. To set alight. Usually with respect to the lighting of cigarettes and marijuana cigarettes, 'joints'. |
| blazed | Adj. Very intoxicated, or high, on marijuana or cannabis. |
| blazin' | Adj. Smoking marijuana or cannabis. From blazing. |
| bleeder | Noun. A person, more often than not one who is objectionable. |
| bleeding | Adv. Used as an intensive. E.g."That bleeding idiot from next door is drunk again." |
| bleed like a stuck pig | Vrb phrs. To bleed profusely. |
| bleeping | Adj. A euphemism for an obscene word, such as fucking, shitting. From the use of audible bleeps on TV and radio shows when a word needs to be censored. |
| blert | Noun. A general insult, an idiot, an objectionable person. [Liverpool use] |
| bletch | Noun. Mechanical lubricating oil. [Mainly Crewe use] |
| blether | Verb. To talk excessive nonsense. Also 'blather'. [Northern /Scottish use. Dialect] |
| blighter | Noun. An insignificant or objectionable person. E.g."This blighter approaches me and asks for a cigarette; sure I say, and then he has the gall to put it in his pocket and says he'll smoke that later and then asks for another to have now." {Informal} |
| Blighty | Noun. Affectionate name for England as one's home, often used jocularly. Orig. used by colonial Indian Army, from the Hindustani bilyati, meaning foreign. [Early 1900s] |
| blim | Noun. A red hot fragment of cannabis that occasionally fall from lit cannabis cigarettes. Cf. 'blimp'. |
| blim burn | Noun. A scorch mark or hole in fabrics and clothing, created by a burning crumb of cannabis. See 'blim' |
| blimey! | Exclam. An exclamation of surprise. An abbreviated form of blind me. Cf. 'cor blimey'. |
| blimey o'reilly! | Exclam. An exclamation of surprise. |
| blimp | Noun. A red hot fragment of cannabis that will occasionally fall from alight 'joints', causing small burns to skin, clothing and furnishings. E.g."You could tell he was a heavy smoker, cos he had little holes all over his t-shirt from blimps." |
| blind cobbler's thumb | Noun. Unnattractive, when in phrases such as having a face like a blind cobbler's thumb. |
| blinder | Noun. An excellent achievement. E.g."Tim's played another blinder." {Informal} |
| blinding | Adj. Excellent, wonderful. E.g."We had a blinding time last night." |
| blindo | Adj. Extremely drunk. From blind drunk. |
| bling | Noun. Abb. form of 'bling bling'. |
| bling bling | Noun. 1. Jewellery. There's been much speculation as to its origins, including amongst those suggestions put forward are the following: · From either the sound of jewellery knocking against jewellery. · The sound of cash registers when a sale is made. · The written sound in cartoons when light catches and reflects off jewellery. What does appear to be acknowledged is that the expression was popularized by U.S. rapper B.G. (aka Baby Gangsta) in 1999. [Orig. Black U.S.] 2. Obvious and appealing wealth, by extension of meaning 1. |
| bling up | Verb. To make showy and visually ostentatious. E.g."I blinged up my car so that I'd get some female attention." |
| blinking | Adj./Adv. Used as an mild intensifier. E.g."Your blinkin' washing machine has broken down again." or "It's blinkin' heavy, this washing machine". |
| blinking heck! | Exclam. An old fashioned inoffensive exclamation of surprise, often expressed without the 'g' and 'h', so blinkin' 'eck. Also 'heck' can be replaced with 'hell', so blinking hell. |
| blithering | Adj. 1. An intensifier such as 'bloody'. E.g."How can I have toast when that blithering idiot has just eaten all the bread!" 2. Senseless and excessive talking. {Informal}. |
| blither on | Verb. To talk incessently and boringly. E.g."Please stop blithering on, your voice is driving my crazy." {Informal} |
| blitzed | Adj. Very intoxicated, drunk. |
| bloater | Noun. A fat and unnattractive person. Derog. |
| blob | Verb. To bleed through menstruation. E.g."She was blobbing and still wanted sex, but I'm not keen on blood." Cf. 'on the blob'. |
| blob strop | Noun. Of females, a fit of anger brought on through premenstrual tension. |
| blog on | Noun. A bad mood. |
| bloke | Noun. A man. {Informal} |
| blokey | Adj. 1. Characteristic of a man. {Informal} 2. Laddish, but generally derogatory usage. {Informal} * Also blokeish. |
| blonde moment | Noun. A moment of stupidity. Based on the misguided belief that blondes are considerably less intelligent than those with other hair colours. Derog. |
| blood | Noun. A friendly term of address. Orig. Black use for addressing a fellow Black. |
| blood and sand! | Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or anger. A mild and antiquated curse. |
| bloodclaat | Noun. A contemptible, objectionable person, and frequently used as a term of abuse. From blood cloth, a woman's sanitary towel. Also as bloodclart, bloodclaht, bloodclot, bludclat, bludclart, bloodklaat, bloodklatt amongst other spelling variations. [Orig. W.I., Mainly Black use] |
| bloodsports | Noun. Sexual acts with a woman during the period of her menstruation. |
| bloody | Adj. Expressing annoyance as an intensifier. E.g."That bloody idiot needs a good thumping." Adv. As an intensifier. E.g."I'll bloody thump that idiot." |
| bloody hell! | Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or frustration. |
| bloody-Nora! | Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or anger. Cf. 'flaming Nora!' and 'ruddy-Nora!' |
| bloomer | Noun. A mistake. {Informal} |
| blooming | Adj./Adv. An intensifier. E.g."It's blooming cold outside!" |
| blooter | Verb. To kick a ball forcefully, often implying without good control. [Scottish use] |
| blootered | Adj. Drunk. [Scottish use] |
| blotto | Adj. Very drunk. [Early 1900s] |
| blow | Noun. Cannabis or marijuana. It's interesting to note that in the U.S. it refers to cocaine. [1960s] |
| blow a fuse /gasket | Vrb phrs. To be very angry. E.g."If you don't calm down you'll blow a gasket and embarrass yourself." |
| blow away | Verb. 1. To kill. 2. To amaze. Cf. 'blow one's mind.' |
| blowback | Noun. A method of sharing a 'joint' between two people, with one person blowing and the other inhaling. |
| blow chunks | Verb. To vomit. E.g."" Suzanne's been blowing chunks all night so I don't expect her to want any breakfast." [Orig. U.S.] |
| blower | Noun. The telephone. From the 'speaking tube', down which one blew to attract a person's attention prior to having a conversation through it. {Informal} |
| blow it! | Exclam. A dismissive exclamation of frustration and anger. |
| blow job | Noun. Fellatio or cunnilingus. [Orig. U.S.] |
| blow its tits off | Vrb phrs. To be very windy or blustery. E.g."It's still blowing its tits off this morning so we wont be able to go sailing into the bay." [Mainly/Orig. sailing use] |
| blow-off | Verb. To break wind, but not belching. E.g."As boys seem to spend all night blowing off, I recommend you avoid cleaning their dorm until later in the morning." |
| blow one's mind | Vrb phrs. To be utterly confused, amazed or astounded, originally when on hallucinogens. E.g."That trip was too much, it just blew my mind." [1960s] |
| blow one's top | Vrb phrs. To explode with fury. E.g."My mum blew her top when she saw how dirty I'd got my best suit." |
| blow one's wad | Vrb phrs. To ejaculate semen. E.g."It was disgusting, he blew his wad all over my breasts." |
| blow-out | Noun. An excessive spree of drinking, eating, spending or sex. Also as blowout. {Informal} Verb. To cancel an arranged meeting with someone, or an planned event, unreasonably or without due notification. E.g."I'm going to blow out my brother's birthday party and go to that new club night instead." |
| blow the gaff | Vrb phrs. To reveal a plot or secret. {Informal} |
| blow the whistle on | Vrb phrs. To inform on. |
| blub | Verb. To sob, to weep, to cry. Possibly onomatopoeic, and abbreviation of blubber. E.g."He spent the whole night blubbing about his team losing in the final." [Mid 1800s] |
| blud | Noun. A form of address. Alternative spelling of 'blood'. See 'blood'. |
| blue arsed fly | Noun. See 'like a blue arsed fly'. |
| blue rinser | Noun. An elderly lady, a lady pensioner. From the habit of some of this particular age group having their hair died with a hint of blue. |
| blues and twos | Noun. The siren and flashing blue lights of an emergency vehicle, such as the police, when responding to an incident. |
| bluey | Noun. A £5 note (sterling). Because of its colour. |
| blunt | Noun. A marijuana/cannabis cigarette. More specifically, especially in the U.S., a blunt is marijuana rolled in the outer leaves of a cigar. |
| blunted | Adj. Intoxicated by marijuana. From the term 'blunt'. |
| blurt | Noun. The vagina. |
| boaby | Noun. Penis. [Glasgow use] |
| boak | Verb. To vomit. [Mainly N. England/Scottish use] |
| boat | Noun. Face. From the rhyming slang boat race. |
| bob | Verb. To visit briefly. E.g."I'm just gonna bob down to the
corner shop for some fags, do you want anything?" Noun. 1. A shilling in pre-decimal currency which now amounts to 5 pence. 2. General term for money. E.g."I made a few bob selling off my old toys on Ebay." 3. A sex toy, a vibrator. An abbreviation of battery operated boyfriend. |
| Bob (and hit)* | Noun. Excrement. Verb. An act of defecation. * Rhyming slang on shit. |
| bobbins | Noun. Rubbish, nonsense, useless. Suggested to be Lancashian or Manchester rhyming slang for rotten from bobbins of cotton, however it's probably likely to be from the fact that old bobbins used in the weaving industry were seen as useless and thrown away. E.g."That restaurant was bobbins, next time we'll get a takeout and eat at home." [Mainly Manchester use] |
| bobbinsed | Adj. Drunk, intoxicated. [Manchester use] |
| Bobby | Noun. 1. A policeman/woman. The name possibly derives from the pet form of the Christian name of Robert Peel, who established the present British police organisation. E.g."London bobbies don't mind tourists asking for photos with them."{Informal} 2. Penis. [Scottish use] |
| bobby-dazzler | Noun. A amazing thing or person. {Informal} |
| bobfoc | Acronym. A facially unattractive person who possesses a sexually desirable body. From body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch; both TV programmes. |
| Bob (Hope) | Noun. Marijuana or cannabis. Rhyming slang for 'dope' (noun 2). Bob Hope, British-American comedian, actor, singer and dancer. |
| bo-boes | Noun. Sleep. Generally a children's expression. |
| bob on | Adj. Spot on, correct. E.g."There's no doubt, she's bob on with her facts." [North-west/Manchester use] |
| Bob's your uncle | Phrs. There you have it; a catch phrase expressing satisfactory completion. E.g."Make sure you have primed and undercoated the wood. Then apply the gloss paint and Bob's your uncle! The wood will stay protected and look good for another couple of years." |
| bobtail | Verb. To drive an articulated lorry (HGV) without a trailer and cargo. [HGV drivers vernacular] |
| bod | Noun. A person. From body. E.g."So this bod comes up to me and accuses me of staring at his girlfriend." {Informal} |
| bodge | Verb. 1. To do a poor job or repair. 2. To cobble (something together). E.g."I bodged together that furniture out of driftwood and old egg boxes." * Compare with 'botch'. |
| bodge job | Noun. A job done poorly, something cobbled together, a makeshift repair. * Compare with 'botch job'. |
| bof | Noun. An objectionable, old person. Acronym of boring old fart. |
| boff | Verb. 1. To break wind, 'fart'. 2. To have sex (with). |
| boffin | Noun. 1. A person involved in scientific/technical research, usually associated with the wearing of white laboratory coats, glasses, and carrying a clipboard. Derog. {Informal} 2. An intellectual. |
| bog | Noun. A toilet. [1800s] |
| bog all | Noun. Nothing, or a total lack of. E.g."We've bog all chance of winning without our captain and best player." |
| bogart | Verb. To selfishly hold on to (something). Jocular usage, heard amongst smokers of cannabis/marijuana. E.g."Come on Tim, don't bogart that joint, we all want to get stoned sometime tonight." |
| bogey | Noun. A tiny ball of nasal mucus. |
| bog-eyed | Adj. Bleary or tired looking eyed, either from too little sleep or intoxication by drink or drugs. |
| bogging | Adj. Unpleasant, vile, disgusting, smelly, ugly. [Orig. Scottish/N Irish] |
| bog off (!) | Verb. To go away. Exclam. Go away! Leave me alone! |
| bog-roll | Noun. Toilet paper. See 'bog'. |
| bog-standard | Adj. Normal, average, usual. E.g."It was just a bog-standard Christmas, too much food, too much booze and not enough sleep." |
| bogtrotter | Noun. An Irish person. Derog/offens. |
| bog wash | Verb. To push a person's head down a toilet bowl and then flush it. E.g."We bog washed Peter at lunch time and he's now a member of our gang." See 'bog washing'. |
| bog washing | Noun. The act of pushing someone's head down a toilet bowl and then flushing it. Juvenile practice as part of an initiation ceremony or bullying. See 'bog wash'. Cf. 'swirly'. |
| boiler | Noun. An unattractive woman. Often phrased as old boiler for added derogatory emphasis. Derog. |
| boke | Verb. To vomit. E.g."He boked all over her then expected a kiss." [Scottish/Northern Irish use] |
| Bolivian marching powder | Noun. Cocaine. Humourous use. |
| bollix | Noun. Alternative spelling of 'bollocks'. |
| bollock | Verb. To reprimand. E.g."My dad bollocked me for stealing money from his wallet! I was only borrowing it." Noun. A testicle. |
| bollockbag | Noun. The scrotum and testicles. |
| bollock-brain | Noun. Idiot, imbecile. Derog. |
| bollocking | Noun. A severe reprimand, a telling off. E.g."I got a proper bollocking for shouting at a customer." |
| bollockry | Noun. An act of talking nonsense, or 'bullshitting'. An expression used to make talking nonsense seem like a clever, manipulatory art. |
| (the) bollocks | Noun. The best, a thing or situation of excellence. Abb of 'dog's bollocks'. |
| bollocks (!) * | Noun. 1. Testicles. S.e. until mid 1800s. 2. Rubbish, nonsense, drivel. E.g."That film was bollocks." Exclam. An expression of anger, frustration, or defiance. * Also written as bollox or bollix. |
| bollocksed | Adj. 1. Worn out, ruined, tired. 2. Very intoxicated. |
| ...bollocks off | Phrs. Suffixal use expressing the extreme or excessive nature of an action. For example, "I ran my bollocks off but still came last." |
| bollock (something) up | Vrb phrs. To make a mistake, to mess something up. |
| bollocks to that! | Exclam. A defiant exclamation. |
| bollocky | Adj. Worthless, rubbishy. |
| bollox | Noun. Alternative spelling of 'bollocks'. |
| Bolly | Noun. Bollinger champagne. E.g."Let's celebrate and have a bottle of Bolly." |
| bolshie | Adj. Angrily provocative. Originating from the socialist revolutionaries the Bolsheviks. |
| bomb | Noun. 1. Another name for burning cannabis fragments. See 'blimps' for a fuller explanation. Variations include bombies and bombers. 2. A small quantity of illicit drugs wrapped in a handrolling cigarette paper, forming a pill like ball. Made either for easier consumption at a later date or to avoid the bitter taste of the drugs when loose. 3. As, the bomb, meaning excellent, the best. [Orig. U.S.] Verb. To travel or move quickly. E.g."Will you bomb round to the corner shop and get a pint of milk?" {Informal} |
| bombed out | Adj. Incapacitated by drink or drugs. Also shortened to 'bombed'. |
| bommie night | Noun. Bonfire night, see 'bonnie night'. Possibly also spelt bombie night from the use of fireworks. [East Lancashire /Merseyside use] |
| bonce | Noun. The head. E.g."Ooh that hurt! It hit me right on the bonce." |
| bone | Verb. To have sexual intercourse. Noun. The act of having sexual intercourse. |
| bonedome | Noun. A protective helmet, such as a motorcycle helmet. |
| bonehead | Noun. 1. A stupid person. 2. Of a person, having a shaved head. |
| boner | Noun. An erect penis. |
| bone up | Verb. To study hard. E.g."I've been boning up on my highway code - my driving exam is next week." [Orig. US] |
| bong | Noun. A water pipe used for smoking cannabis or marijuana. |
| bongo mag | Noun. A pornographic magazine. Abbreviated form of the less commonly heard bongo magazine. |
| bonk | Verb. To fornicate. An inoffensive expression, generally used more by adolescents. Noun. A sexual act. |
| bonkers | Adj. 1. Crazy, insane. E.g."He must be bonkers! Imagine going out and getting drunk before meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time." [Early 1900s] 2. Eager for, crazy for. E.g."God! I'm bonkers for cup of tea." |
| bonnie | Noun. A bonfire. |
| bonnie night | Noun. Bonfire Night. An annual celebration of the foiling of an attempt to blow up The Houses of Parliament in 1605, held on 5th November and an excuse to let off fireworks. |
| boob | Noun. 1. A mistake. Cf. 'booboo'. 2. A breast. See 'boobs'. |
| boobicles | Noun. Women's breasts. Affectionate usage, often implying small breasts. |
| boobies | Noun. Breasts. Humorous usage. |
| boob job | Noun. Breast enhancement by plastic surgery. |
| booboo | Noun. A mistake. E.g."Oh no! I've just made a classic booboo which will likely cost me my job." Cf. 'boob'. |
| boob tube | Noun. 1. The television. [Orig. U.S. 1950s] 2. A tight, strapless top worn by females that is a basic tube of material. {Informal} |
| boobs | Noun. Breasts. Can be used singularly, as boob. [Mid 1900s] |
| boogie | Noun. A dance, usually to pop music. Verb. To dance. |
| book | Adj. Cool, excellent. Teen and adolescence vernacular, derived from the first choice of words offered on a mobile phone (cellphone) when texting the word cool with predictive text . [2000s] |
| bookie | Noun. A person who's job it is to take bets, calculate odds, and pay out winnings, typically in a betting shop, a bookmaker. And as bookies, the premises, or betting shop. {Informal} |
| boom! | Exclam. A form of verbal appreciation, sounding more like boo!. Also spelt booom! Originally from the Black UK garage scene? [1990s] |
| boomting | Adj. Attractive, pleasant, wonderful, impressive. Also as boom-ting. Cf. 'bum-ting'. [Orig. black use. 1990s] |
| boonies | Noun. Rural areas, the countryside. Abb. of boondocks. [Orig. U.S.] |
| boot | Noun. 1. An unattractive person. 2. As the boot, meaning the 'sack', termination of employment. See 'give one the boot.' |
| bootneck | Noun. A Royal Marine. [Military use] |
| booty | Noun. The buttocks. Mainly black use. [Orig. U.S./Black] |
| booty call | Noun. A call to arrange a sexual rendezvous. Mainly black use. [Orig. U.S./Black] |
| bootylicious * | Adj. 1. Of a woman, sexually attractive. [Orig. U.S./Black] 2. Having a sexually desirable bottom, usually full and well rounded. [Orig. U.S./Black] * The expression, in this form, was popularize by Beyonce Knowles in the song of the same title she wrote for, and performed with, Destiny's Child. Its first appearence in the media was in the U.S. sitcom A Different World in 1993. |
| boozard | Noun. A heavy drinker, an alcoholic. |
| booze | Noun. Alcoholic drink. {Informal} |
| booze cruise | Noun. A boat trip to mainland Europe, usually done over just one day, in order to purchase considerably cheaper alcohol, and occ. cigarettes, than is available in Britain. {Informal} |
| boozer | Noun. 1. A public house, a bar. {Informal} 2. A person who enjoys regularly drinking alcohol. {Informal} 3. An alcoholic. {Informal} |
| booze-up | Noun. A drinking spree. |
| boracic | Adj. Poor, having no money. Rhyming slang for 'skint', from boracic lint, an ointment, pronounced borrassic. Also heard as brassick. E.g."I can't come out for a drink, I'm boracic until I get paid next Friday." |
| bored out of one's skull | Phrs. Extremely bored. |
| bore off (!) | Verb./Exclam. Go away, a general dismissive exclamation. |
| bore rigid | Verb. To utterly bore. E.g."He bores me rigid with his tales of wealth, fame, and his sexual conquests." |
| bore shitless | Verb. Bore completely. E.g."I was bored shitless by her talking non stop about her family." |
| bore stiff | Verb. Bore completely. |
| bore the arse off (someone) | Vrb phrs. To bore someone completely. E.g."That 8 hour seminar on nuclear physics bored the arse off me." Similar idiomatic intensifiers are '..the tits off' and '..the pants off'. |
| bore the pants off (someone) | Vrb phrs. To bore someone greatly. The suffixal ..the pants off is often used as an negative intensifier, e.g."He just mithered the pants off me all morning until I agreed to go on a date." |
| bore the tits off (someone) | Vrb phrs. To completely bore (someone). E.g."I don't think he realises that when he talks about cars all evening that he's boring the tits off everyone." |
| bosh | Noun. Nonsense, balderdash, gibberish. Verb. To take orally, to imbibe. E.g."She boshed 7 pills, a handful of mushrooms and 8 vodka and tonics in the first hour, and then not surprisingly she threw up." [London use] |
| boss | Adj. Excellent, good. [Orig. U.S.] |
| boss-eyed | Adj. Cross-eyed or having a squint. {Informal} |
| bossyboots | Noun. A person who bosses others around, a domineering person. Also as bossy-boots. {Informal} |
| bost | Adj. Broken. Probably from bust. [W. Midlands use] |
| bostin | Adj. Great, good, enjoyable. E.g."She had a bostin figure." [W. Midlands use] |
| botch job | Noun. 1. A makeshift construction or repair. Cf. 'bodge'. 2. A thing done badly. Cf. 'bodge'. |
| botch (up) * | Verb. 1. To build or repair in a makeshift manner. E.g."I botched up a shelf above the cooker for the pans, which will do until I can get a carpenter down here." 2. To do something badly. E.g."He botched his English exam so will have to take a re-sit in July." Noun. 1. A makeshift construction or repair. 2. A thing done badly. * All the meanings and uses of 'botch' are informal. Cf. 'bodge'. |
| bother (it)! | Exclam. Expressing annoyance or frustration. A mild expletive. {Informal} |
| botheration! | Exclam. Mild expletive expressing annoyance or frustration. {Informal} |
| bottle | Noun. 1. Courage, confidence. E.g."Johnny's scared, he's lost his bottle." 2. A policeman. From the rhyming slang 'bottle and stopper' meaning 'copper'. Verb. To smash a bottle into a person's face, very often a beer bottle after a drinking spree. |
| bottle it | Verb. 1. To lose courage. Also bottle out. See 'bottle'. 2. Shut up! Usually imper. |
| bottle of chips | Phrs. An unlikely thing. Used in expressions to add emphasis, such as in bent as a bottle of chips, queer as a bottle of chips, mad as a bottle of chips etc. |
| bottler | Noun. A person who easily gives up, or loses the courage to complete a task. Derog. |
| bottom burp | Noun. Wind from the anus, a 'fart'. Also abbreviated to botty burp. [1980s] |
| bottom feeder | Noun. A despicable person. |
| bottomless pit | Noun. A person with an insatiable appetite for food. |
| botty | Noun. The buttocks. Also abbreviated to bot. Juvenile usage. |
| boulder holder | Noun. A brassiere. Jocular male usage. Cf. 'over the shoulder boulder holder'. [1950s] |
| bounce | Verb. To leave. [Orig. U.S. Late 1800's] |
| bouncebackability | Noun. The ability to recover quickly from a period of failure, having the ability to bounce back. Mainly used within sport and popularized by Iain Dowie in 2004, manager of the Crystal Palace football team. |
| bouncer | Noun. A person employed to eject troublemakers from clubs or events. These days they prefer the title of security. [Orig. U.S.] {Informal} |
| bounder | Noun. An ill-mannered or anti-social person. {Informal} |
| bournville boulevard | Noun. The anus. A British equivalent of the US slang hershey highway. Often heard in phrases such as "take a stroll/trip down bournville boulevard", meaning to engage in anal intercourse. Commonly mispelt as bourneville boulevard. [1990s] |
| bovver | Noun. Trouble. A corruption of bother, derived from cockney pronounciation. |
| bovver-boots | Noun. Sturdy, high-laced, heavy boots, traditionally worn by skinheads and other violence orientated youths. See 'bovver'. |
| bovver boy | Noun. A hooligan, an aggressive troublemaker. Originally a skinhead. See 'bovver'. Also as bovva boy. [1970s] |
| bovvered! | Exclam. Expressing indifference. From bothered. |
| bowfin | Adj. Disgusting, unpleasant. [Scottish use] |
| box | Noun. 1. The anus. 2. The vagina. 3. Television. E.g."What's on the box tonight? I fancy staying in and watching some TV dramas with a bottle wine." {Informal} |
| box clever | Verb. To act shrewdly or in a manner so as to outwit someone. {Informal} |
| boxed | Adj. Intoxicated by drink or drugs. Cf. 'off one's box'. |
| boy boobs | Noun. Male breasts. Cf. 'moobs'. |
| boyd | Adj. Made a fool of, embarrassed, insulted. E.g."You got boyd by those kids on the back of the bus when they laughed at your trainers." |
| boy dem * | Noun. 1. A young man. [Mainly Black use] 2. A police officer. [Mainly Black use] * also boydem. |
| boyf | Noun. Abb. of boyfriend. |
| boy racer | Noun. A young man who has a penchant for fast cars and reckless driving. |
| boysie | Noun. Affectionate term of address, usually for a younger male. |
| bozo | Noun. An objectionable person, an idiot. |
| brace and bit | Noun. An act of defecation. Rhyming slang on 'shit'. |
| Brad Pitt * | Noun. 1. An act of defecation. 2. When plural, as Brad Pitts, meaning a bout of diarrhoea. 3. Excrement. * all versions are rhyming slang on 'shit' [1990s]. Brad Pitt, U.S. actor and film star. |
| Brahms (and Liszt) | Adj. Drunk, intoxicated with alcohol. Rhyming slang on 'pissed'. See 'pissed'. Brahms and Liszt, classical composers during the 1800s. |
| brain | Verb. To hit on the head. E.g."I brained myself on the edge of the table when I was playing with the cats." |
| brained | Adj. Extreme drug intoxication, which typically affects the mental faculties. |
| brain fart | Noun. An inability to think clearly, or a moment of forgetfulness. [Orig. U.S.] |
| brainiac | Noun. A very intelligent person. Occ. derog. [Orig. U.S. 1970s] |
| brammer | Noun. A person or thing that is outstanding. Also brahma, brama, bramah and bramma. [Mainly West Scottish use] |
| bran new | Adj. Excellent, respectable. Abb. of brand new. [Scottish /Glasgow use] |
| brap! | Exclam. Used to express satisfaction, approval or excitement. |
| brass | Noun. 1. Money. 2. Prostitute. Short for brass nail, rhyming slang for tail, which is itself slang for, amongst other things, a woman and prostitute. |
| brassed off | Adj. Fed-up, annoyed. E.g."I'm brassed off with all this bad weather in the middle of summer." |
| brassick | Adj. See 'boracic' |
| brass monkeys | Adj. Of the weather or air temperature, very cold, freezing. From 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'. E.g."Wear a hat and scarf, it's brass monkeys out there." See 'brass monkey weather'. |
| brass monkey weather | Noun. Extremely cold weather. From the phrase 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'. Cf. 'brassy' and 'brass monkeys'. |
| brass-neck | Noun. Impudence, cheek, nerve. Also brass-necked (adj). [Orig. Northern dialect] |
| brass tacks | Noun. The basic facts, the essential details. Often heard as get down to brass tacks. {Informal} |
| brassy | Adj. Very cold. From the phrase, 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'. Cf. 'brass monkey weather' |
| brast | Verb. To burst. E.g."Can you tell me where the toilets are, I'm brasting for a piss." [Lancs/Yorks use] |
| bray | Verb. To beat up, thrash. [North-east use] |
| bread | Noun. Money. |
| breadbasket | Noun. The stomach. E.g."I punched him right in the breadbasket." |
| break one's balls | Vrb phrs. To work very hard. [Orig. U.S.] |
| bredrin | Noun. Friend, brother. From the archaic s.e. brethren. [Mainly Black use] |
| breeder | Noun. A heterosexual. From the fact that heterosexuals actively procreate, or breed. Derog. [Gay use/ Orig. U.S.] |
| brekky | Noun. Abb. of breakfast. Also the variant, brekkers. |
| brer | Noun. A term of address, for a friend. From brother. [Mainly Black use] |
| brew | Noun. 1. A cup of tea, or more generally a warm drink. 2. An alcoholic drink, usually beer or lager. |
| brewer's droop | Noun. An inability to achieve or maintain a penile erection due to excessive consumption of alcohol. |
| brew-up | Verb. To make a cup or pot of tea. E.g."I'm so thirsty, are you brewing up?" {Informal} |
| brick | Noun. A helpful and reliable person. {Informal} |
| brickie | Noun. Abb. of bricklayer. |
| brick-it | Verb. To be very scared, terrified. Cf. 'shit bricks'. |
| brick shithouse | Noun. Something or someone strong and very sturdy, with impressive physique. Usually heard in the phrase 'built like a brick shithouse'. |
| brief | Noun. A solicitor or barrister. {Informal} |
| brill | Adj. Excellent, superb. An abbreviation of brilliant. E.g."We had a brill night, dancing non-stop for 8 hours." {Informal} |
| brilliant (!) | Adj./Exclam. Excellent, marvellous. {Informal} |
| bring off | Verb. To bring to orgasm. E.g."We went behind the bushes and brought each other off by hand." |
| bristols | Noun. Breasts. From the rhyming slang Bristol City - titty. See 'tit'. |
| Britney | Noun. Beer. Rhyming slang on Britney Spears, U.S. popular singer. [Late 1990s] |
| bro | Noun. 1. Abb. of brother. 2. A term of address, especially between blacks. |
| broddle | Verb. To poke, or make holes by poking. E.g."I was broddling the drains, trying to clear a blockage when I found my mum's wedding ring she'd dropped down the toilet years ago." [Yorks use/dialect] |
| brolly | Noun. An umbrella. {Informal} |
| bromance | Noun. A very close, intimate friendship between two or more males. A combination of brother and romance. [Orig. U.S. 1990s] |
| broo | Noun. Unemployment bureau or benefits office. An abbreviated form of bureau. E.g."I was laid off work yesterday, so I'm going down the broo to sign on for social security." Cf. 'on the broo'. |
| brothel creepers | Noun. Thick rubber soled shoes, fashionable with Teddy Boys and rockers of the 1950s, and revived in the late 1970s and early 1980s. |
| brown bread | Adj. Dead. Cockney rhyming slang. |
| browned off | Adj. Upset, fed up, miserable, irritated. E.g."I'm a bit browned off after having to cancel my holiday due to illness." |
| browneye | Noun. The anus. |
| brown hatter | Noun. A homosexual male. Derog. |
| brownie point | Noun. A hypothetical award for achievement, usually given as a backhanded compliment for sycophantic behaviour. |
| brown-nose | Verb. To curry favour, to behave sycophantically, i.e. to 'arse-lick'. E.g."Tom's in the manager's office brown-nosing - hoping to get that promotion." |
| brown-noser | Noun. A sycophant. |
| browns | Noun. Cigarette(s). E.g."Will you pass me a browns, I'm gasping for a smoke." [London use] |
| brown trout | Noun. A lump of excrement. |
| brown trouser moment | Noun. An extremely frightening moment. |
| brown wings | Noun. Of males, getting one's brown wings denotes having had anal sex with someone. A play on the RAF expression earn one's wings. Brown is a commonly used term for things anal or of that part of the anatomy. Usually heard in phrases such as earn/get one's brown wings. |
| Bruce Lees | Noun. Erect and prominent nipples. A play on words, from Bruce Lee (the actor famous for his Martial Arts skills/films) being a hard Nip (a tough and unyielding person from Japan, or rather oriental, being as Bruce Lee was American born and whose parents were from Hong Kong). See 'hard' and 'Nip'. |
| Brum | Noun. The City of Birmingham. From the word brummagem. |
| Brummie | Noun. A native of Birmingham. Also Brummy. {Informal} |
| bruv | Noun. A term of address, usually for a friend. A corruption of brother. [Mainly South-east use] |
| bs | Noun. Nonsense, rubbish. Abb. of bullshit. [Orig. U.S.] |
| bubbies | Noun. Female breasts. |
| bubble | Verb. To inform. From the rhyming slang bubble and squeak meaning speak. E.g."If you bubble me to the boss, I'll lose my job." Noun. A person from Greece. From bubble and squeak, cockney rhyming slang on Greek. |
| bubble (bath) | Noun. A laugh. Rhyming slang. E.g."You're having a bubble James, if you think I'm going to give you twenty pounds." |
| bubble and squeak * | Noun.1. Greek. 2. To inform on, rhyming slang on speak. * Both uses rhyming slang. |
| bubble butt | Noun. A well rounded, sexually attractive bottom. Also bubblebutt. |
| bubbled | Adj. Found out, discovered. E.g."I can't get any more of those cheap Reebok trainers from work, I was bubbled hiding ten pairs in my car so lost my job." |
| bubblehead | Noun. An empty headed and stupid person. [Orig. U.S.] |
| bucket down | Verb. To rain heavily. The past tense is bucketing down. |
| bucket fanny | Noun. A large, expansive vagina. Often used in a context that implies promiscuity. |
| buck naked | Adj. Totally naked. Cf. 'butt naked' |
| buckshee | Adj. Free, without charge. {Informal} |
| buck up | Verb. To make happy or more cheerful. E.g. "He bucked up after a few drinks and started telling his usual jokes." |
| bucky | Noun. Abb. form of Buckfast wine. [Scottish use] |
| bud | Noun. 1. A general term of address. Abb. of buddy. 2. Marijuana, or occasionally cannabis. Specifically the part of the marijuana plant that is smoked. |
| budge up | Verb. Make room for someone. E.g." If you all budged up a little then there'd be room for Mary to sit down." |
| buff | Adj. Good looking, attractive. [Orig. U.S.] |
| buftie | Noun. A homosexual male. Also bufty. Offens. [Scottish use] |
| bug | Verb. 1. To annoy, to bother, to irritate. E.g."It's been bugging me how I'm expected to do all the cleaning whilst they just sit on the sofa watching box sets." 2. To spy on someone via a concealed electronic surveillance device. E.g."We bugged his office phone and have over 2 hours of incriminating evidence." |
| bug-eyed | Adj. Having large bulbous eyes. |
| bugger (!) | Noun. 1. An objectionable person. 2. A person. Frequently heard in expressions such as daft bugger, silly bugger, stupid bugger, dozy bugger, poor bugger, jammy bugger and cheeky bugger. 3. A situation or event that is difficult, unpleasant or distressing. E.g."It's a real bugger Pete catching Covid on his summer holidays." Exclam. Expressing annoyance or frustration. Verb. To ruin, damage, break. E.g."If I find out it was you that buggered my DVD player, then you can forget borrowing money from us to go on holiday." |
| bugger about /around | Verb. To mess around, waste time. E.g."We just buggered around for the weekend and relaxed." |
| bugger-all | Noun. Absolutely nothing at all. E.g."There's bugger-all we can do about it now, the police are here and we're trapped." |
| buggeration! | Exclam. An exclamation of annoyance or frustation. |
| buggered | Adj. Worn out, broken, ruined. |
| buggergrips | Noun. Sideburns, facial hair on the side of a man's face. |
| bugger(ed) if... | Phrs. Beginning a phrase will mean there's no way, such as "bugger if I'm going to volunteer when it'll mean missing the party". It is an abbreviated form of 'I'll be buggered if...'. |
| buggering hell! | Exclam. Expressing surprise or anger. Also occasionally shortened to bugger hell!. |
| bugger it! | Exclam. Exclamation of frustration. |
| buggerlugs | Noun. A term of address, usually affectionate use. [Late 1800s] |
| bugger me! | Exclam. An exclamation of surprise. |
| bugger-off | Verb. Get lost, clear off. Usually said in annoyance and in the imper. |
| bugger that for a game of soldiers | Vrb phrs. A expression of resignation - i.e. there's no way that I'm doing that! Similar sentiments to the expression screw it. E.g."Bugger that for a game of soldiers, I don't care how safe you say it is, I'm not jumping out of a plane at 3,000 feet with or without a parachute." Cf. 'sod this for a game of soldiers'. |
| bugger-up | Verb. To mess up, to get wrong. E.g."It's no good, we may aswell go home, he's buggered up the evening by getting drunk." |
| buggery | Adj. Used as an intensifier in denials such as did I buggery! or like buggery she did. |
| bugger you | Verb. An exclamation of annoyance aimed at someone. |
| bugle | Noun. Cocaine. |
| bugs bunny | Noun. Money. Rhyming slang. [Orig. Aust.] |
| builder's bum | Noun. The top of the buttocks when seen above the waistline of trousers when a person is kneeling or bending. Alluding to builders and their propensity for revealing such. See 'plumber's crack' |
| builder's cleavage | Noun. The top of the buttocks revealed when a person is kneeling or bending. Cf. 'builder's bum' |
| built like a brick shithouse | Phrs. Large, sturdy and strong. Often said of a person. |
| bulge | Noun. A euphemism for the male genitals usually from being apparent through clothing. |
| bull | Noun. Nonsense. An abbr. of 'bullshit'. [1600s] Verb. To polish, clean. E.g."You'd better spend some time bulling your boots, we have a parade in the morning." [Military use] |
| bull dyke | Noun. A masculine lesbian. Typifies the heterosexual necessity to impart male traits in a derogatory fashion, however the term is used and accepted within the scene. |
| bullshit | Noun. Nonsense, balderdash, exaggerated boasting. Cf. 'bull'. Verb. To lie, fib, exagerrate. E.g."If you continue bullshitting you'll likely lose all your friends and have no-one left to bullshit to." |
| bullshitter | Noun. An egocentric boaster, a teller of exaggerated untruths. |
| bum | Noun. 1. The buttocks or anus. 2. An objectionable person. 3. A beggar, homeless person. Derog. [Orig. U.S.] Verb. 1. To beg. E.g."He bummed cigarettes off everyone and then when we ran out he went home!" 2. To bugger, sodomize. E.g."They spent all night bumming each other in his bedroom." Adj. 1. Unsatisfactory, poor quality, bad, inferior. E.g."We went to a bum party last night and ended up going back home by 11pm." 2. Great, excellent. Much less commonly used than adj. 1. |
| bum around/about | Verb. To mess about, to laze about. E.g."Since the Covid pandemic we've just been bumming about and staying safe." |
| bumbaclot | Noun. An idiot, an objectionable person. Also occasionally as bumbaclat or bumbaclut. [Orig. W.I.] |
| bum-bag | Noun. A small pouch worn around the waist or hips, held in place by a strap or belt, and used to hold valuables and money. The U.S. equivalent is a fanny pack. |
| bum bandit | Noun. A homosexual male. Derog. Cf 'arse-bandit'. |
| bum-boy | Noun. A homosexual male. Derog. |
| bum-chum | Noun. A person with an apparently overly close friendship with another person. Although the underlying implication is of homosexuality, the expression is mainly used by children, with little true awareness of the sexual slur they may be imbuing. See 'chum'. Derog. |
| bum cleavage | Noun. The area between the buttocks. |
| bumder | Noun. A homosexual male. A combination of 'bummer' and 'bender'. Popularized by the British TV sitcom The Inbetweeners. [2009] |
| bumf | Noun. Printed documents and papers that are of little interest or importance. Abb. of 'bum fodder'. Cf. 'bumph'. |
| bumfluff | Noun. The soft, downy hair that adolescent boys typically grow on their faces prior to starting to shave. Also as bum fluff. |
| bum fodder | Noun. 1. Printed papers and documents that are of no interest, and are viewed as only being suitable for using as toilet paper. Cf. 'bumf' and 'bumph'. 2. Toilet paper. |
| bum-freezer | Noun. A short jacket, that doesn't cover one's bottom (bum), and thus leaves it vulnerable to the cold. |
| bum fuck Egypt | Noun. Somewhere very remote, the middle of nowhere. Less commonly, bum fucked Egypt. Often abbreviated to BFE in the written form, especially as on the Internet. [Poss. orig military] |
| bumhole * | Noun. 1. The anus. 2. A stupid or irritating person, a contemptible person. * also as bum-hole. Cf. arsehole. |
| bummer | Noun. 1. A bad time, a bad experience, a disappointment. [Orig. U.S.] 2. A homosexual male. Derog. |
| bum nugget | Noun. 1. Small faecal remnants that have stuck to one's anal hairs. 2. An idiot, contemptible person. |
| bum-numbing | Adj. Of work, a task, or event, exceedingly tiring or tedious. Also bum-numbingly. |
| bumph | Noun. Papers or documents, usually of little interest or importance. Short for 'bum fodder'. Cf. 'bumf'. {Informal} |
| bump into (someone) | Verb. To fortuitously meet with someone. E.g."Guess who I bumped into at the weekend?" |
| bump off | Verb. To murder. |
| bump start | Verb. To help motivate, assist in promoting action. E.g."I think we need to bump start the project with an ideas session." |
| bump tummies | Verb. To have sexual intercourse. |
| bump-uglies | Verb. To have sexual intercourse. E.g."My mum knows we're bumping uglies but she doesn't mind as long as we are careful." |
| bum rap | Noun. A false charge or allegation, an undeserved punishment. [Orig U.S. 1920s] |
| (the) bum's rush | Noun. Forced ejection or dismissal. [Orig. U.S.] |
| bum steer | Noun. An imparting of false information. |
| bumtag | Noun. A faecal deposit that has adhered to the anal hairs of a person or animal. |
| bum-ting | Adj. Attractive, good looking. Also as bumting. E.g."She's bum-ting, her clothes are bum-ting, everything about her is bum-ting." Cf. 'boomting'. [Orig. black use. 1990s] |
| bumwad | Noun. Toilet paper. |
| bun | Noun. A smoke, particularly marijuana. From burn. [Orig W.I.] |
| bunce | Noun. Money. |
| bunch of fives | Noun. A clenched fist, often in the phrase give someone a bunch of fives, meaning to punch someone. E.g."I gave him a bunch of fives and that shut him up." |
| bundle | Noun. A large quantity of money. |
| bung | Verb. To give or throw. E.g."Go on, bung her an extra tenner for trying." Noun. A bribe. |
| bungalow | Noun. An idiot. From not having much up upstairs. Derog. |
| bun in the oven | See 'have a bun in the oven'. |
| bunk off | Verb. To shirk one's duties. A common adolescent's term for avoiding school lessons. |
| bunk up | Noun. Sexual intercourse. E.g."I thought if I brought her drinks all night I'd at least get a bunk up." |
| bunning | Noun. Smoking marijuana or cannabis. [Orig. W.I.] |
| bunny boiler | Noun. An obsessive and psychotic woman who is likely to be dangerously vengeful if spurned. Also occasionally a man. Taken from a scene in the film Fatal Attraction. Derog. [Orig. U.S.] |
| bunny hugger | Noun. An animal lover or environmentalist. Derog. |
| buppie | Noun. 1. Bread and butter. Also buppy and bupper. Usually a children's expression. 2. A young educated and affluent black professional who works in the city, a black 'yuppie'. Possibly from the initial letters of black urban professional + the suffix ie, or from black yuppie. [Orig. U.S. 1980s] {Informal} |
| burk | Noun. See 'berk'. |
| B.U.R.M.A | Phrs. An acronym used by lovers. Usually written on envelopes and love letters and standing for be undressed, ready, my angel. Occasionally undressed is replaced by upstairs. [1940s?] |
| burner | Noun. A temporary pay-as-you-go mobile phone, purchased anonymously and typically used by drug dealers. |
| burn rubber | Verb. To depart quickly. Derived from burning tyre rubber from excessive acceleration with a motor vehicle. |
| burp the worm | Verb. To masturbate, of males. |
| bursting | Adj. Desperately needing to urinate. {Informal} |
| Burton | Noun. See 'go for a burton'. |
| bush | Noun. 1. The female genitals, but alluding to the pubic hair. 2. Marijuana. |
| (the) business | Noun. 1. The best. E.g."That new Mini Cooper from BMW is the business." 2. Sexual intercourse. E.g."I was doing the business with her all night." |
| bust | Noun. A police raid on a person and/or property. Verb. To raid as in a bust. |
| bustin | Adj. Eager. Probably a corruption of bursting. E.g."I'm bustin for a pint and a smoke." |
| bust one's guts | Vrb phrs. To work with great effort. E.g."It's not worth busting your guts over this, relax and take your time." |
| busy | Noun. A policeman/woman. Usually in the plural as busies, or bizzies. [Early 1900s] |
| butch | Adj. 1. Tough looking, masculine. 2. A masculine lesbian. |
| butchers | Noun. A look, a glance at. From the Cockney rhyming slang butcher's hook, meaning look, and sometimes just as butcher. E.g."Let's have a butchers at it before you put it back in its box." |
| butt | Noun. The buttocks. S.e from 1400s until 1600s. |
| butterface | Noun. A woman with an attractive body but an ugly face. Derog. |
| butterfingers | Noun. A person who lets things slip or drop from their grasp, a general clumsiness with handling things. {Informal} |
| butters | Adj. 1. Ugly. [Orig. W.I.] 2. Rubbish, useless, of no value. [Orig. W.I.] |
| butt floss | Noun. Of underwear, a thong or g-string. |
| butt fucker | Noun. A homosexual male. Derog. |
| butt munch | Noun. A contemptible or objectionable person. |
| butt muncher | Noun. A homosexual male. Derog. |
| butt naked | Adj. Naked. Cf. 'buck naked'. |
| button it! | Exclam. Shut up! See button one's lip. |
| button one's lip | Vrb phrs. To be quiet, to stop talking, to silence. Including various alternatives to the lip, including mouth, kisser, trap, gob etc. E.g."If you don't button your lip I'll button it for you." |
| butt out | Verb. An impolite request to keep one's nose out of something. E.g."Butt out John, it's none of your business." [Orig. U.S.] |
| butt pirate | Noun. A homosexual male. Derog. [Orig. U.S.] |
| butt plug | Noun. A plug, usually made of rubber, for insertion in the anus for sexual pleasure. |
| butt ugly | Adj. Very ugly. |
| butty | Noun. 1. A sandwich. The term originates in the North of England but has gained national use. Also spelt buttie. E.g."Bacon butties were the one thing I missed when I turned vegetarian." {Informal} 2. Term of address for a friend. [Welsh use] |
| buzz | Noun. 1. A telephone call. E.g. "I'll give you a buzz with the details in the morning." 2. A thrill. E.g. "She gets a buzz from being provocative and causing arguments." |
| buzz along | Verb. A friendly and cheery request to hurry off. |
| buzz-cut | Noun. A short haircut using electric clippers. |
| buzzing | Adj. Thrilled and full of energy, often as a result of partaking in illicit drugs. Typically heard with a dropped g, as buzzin'. |
| buzz off (!) | Verb. To go away, to leave. Exclam. Go away! |
| By gum! | Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or amazement. [Northern dialect] |
| By heck! | Exclam. An exclamation of surprise. Dialectically the h is frequently dropped so it's heard as by 'eck. [Northern English use] |
| By jove! | Exclam. An exclamation of surprise. |