OUGD505 - Research - British Sayings / Slang

I looked into British Slang and the best of British sayings. Going along with the concept which was chosen in the first crit. I want to use 'we are' in front of everything throughout the branding to make the British Public proud to be British.


100 Best British Slang Words 



1. Tosser – Idiot
2. Cock-up – Screw up
3. Bloody – Damn
4. Give You A Bell – Call you
5. Blimey! – My Goodness
6. Wanker – Idiot
7. Gutted – Devastated
8. Bespoke – Custom Made
9. Chuffed – Proud
10. Fancy – Like
11. Sod Off – Piss off
12. Lost the Plot – Gone Crazy
13. Fortnight – Two Weeks
14. Sorted – Arranged
15. Hoover – Vaccum
16. Kip – Sleep or nap
17. Bee’s Knees – Awesome
18. Know Your Onions – Knowledgeable
19. Dodgy – Suspicious
20. Wonky – Not right
21. Wicked – Cool!
22. Whinge – Whine
23. Tad – Little bit
24. Tenner – £10
25. Fiver – £5
26. Skive – Lazy or avoid doing something
27. Toff – Upper Class Person
28. Punter – Customer/Prostitute’s Client
29. Scouser – Someone from Liverpool
30. Quid – £
31. Taking the Piss – Screwing around32. Pissed – Drunk
33. Loo – Toilet
34. Nicked – Stolen
35. Nutter – Crazy Person
36. Knackered – Tired
37. Gobsmacked – Amazed
38. Dog’s Bollocks – Awesome
39. Chap – Male or friend
40. Bugger – Jerk
41. Bog Roll – Toilet Paper
42. Bob’s Your Uncle – There you go!
43. Anti-Clockwise – We Say Counter Clockwise
44. C of E – Church of England
45. Pants – Panties
46. Throw a Spanner in the Works – Screw up
47. Zed – We say ZZZZZZZ
48. Absobloodylootely – YES!
49. Nosh – Food
50. One Off – One time only
51. Shambles – Mess
52. Arse-over-tit – Fall over
53. Brilliant! – Great!
54. Dog’s Dinner – Dressed Nicely
55. Up for it – Willing to have sex
56. On the Pull – Looking for sex
57. Made Redundant – Fired from a job
58. Easy Peasy – Easy
59. See a Man About a Dog – Do a deal or take a dump
60. Up the Duff – Pregnant
61. DIY – Do It Yourself home improvements
62. Chat Up – Flirt
63. Fit – Hot
64. Arse – Ass
65. Strawberry Creams – Breasts
66. Shag – Screw
67. Gentleman Sausage – Penis
68. Twigs & Berries – Genitalia
69. Fanny – Vagina
70. Bollocks – Balls
71. Ponce – Poser
72. Don’t Get Your Knickers in a Twist – Don’t Get worked up
73. The Telly – Television
74. Bangers – Sausage
75. Chips – French Fries
76. Daft Cow – Idiot
77. Do – Party
78. Uni – College/University
79. Starkers – Naked
80. Smeg – From Red Dwarf
81. Bits ‘n Bobs – Various things
82. Anorak – A person weirdly interested in something
83. Shambles – bad shape/plan gone wrong
84. I’m Off to Bedfordshire – Going to bed
85. Her Majesty’s Pleasure – To be in prison
86. Horses for Courses – Won’t work for someone else
87. John Thomas – Penis
88. Plastered – Drunk
89. Meat and Two Veg – Genitalia
90. Knob Head – Idiot/Dickhead
91. Knob – Penis
92. Chav – White trash
93. It`s monkeys outside – it is very cold
94. Stag Night – Bachelor Party
95. Ace – Cool!
96. Plonker – Idiot
97. Dobber – Penis
98. BellEnd – Penis
99. Blighty – Britain
100. Rubbish – Garbage or ‘That’s crap!’



Favourites

chin wag - Another word for chat
bob’s your uncle - it’s like saying ‘that’s it’.
bees knees - amazing
Arse over tit - Head over heels
chuffed - pleased/proud
knackered - really tired
off your trolley - mad or crazy
rat arsed - drunk
rumpy pumpy - like ‘hanky panky’, I think you can guess what this means
snog - making out
spend a penny - go to the toilet
toodle pip - goodbye
wonky - not aligned/unstable

This website has hundreds of British Slang terms and meanings which would be used in context. Heres some of my favourites of this list that I feel I could fit into my festival somehow:-

http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml

All right? - This is used a lot around London and the south to mean, "Hello, how are you"? You would say it to a complete stranger or someone you knew. The normal response would be for them to say "All right"? back to you. It is said as a question. Sometimes it might get expanded to "all right mate"? Mostly used by blue collar workers but also common among younger people.


Any road - Up north (where they talk funny!!) instead of saying anyway, they say "any road"! Weird huh?


Bollocks - This is a great English word with many excellent uses. Technically speaking it meanstesticles but is typically used to describe something that is no good (that's bollocks) or that someone is talking rubbish (he's talking bollocks). Surprisingly it is also used in a positive manner to describe something that is the best, in which case you would describe it as being "the dog's bollocks". Englishmen who live in America take great delight in ordering specialised registration plates for their cars using the letters B.O.L.L.O.X. Good eh?


Chin Wag or Gassing - This is another word for a Chat. You can probably tell why!


Chuffed - You would be chuffed to bits if you were really pleased about something.


Clear off! - This expression brings back memories of being a kid and stealing apples from people's gardens. Sometimes we would get caught and some old bloke would come out and shout "oi clear off you lot". It basically means get lost.


Easy Peasy - A childish term for something very easy. You might say it's a snap.


Full of beans - This means to have loads of energy. It is a polite way of saying that a child is a maniac. I was often described as being full of beans as a kid and now it is my wife's way of telling me to keep still when she is trying to get to sleep. Strangely the same expression in some parts of the US means that you are exaggerating or talking bollocks!


Grub - Food. Similar to nosh. I remember my Dad calling "grub's up", when dinner was ready as a kid. A grub is also an insect larva. Not usually eaten in England. Actually is available in some Australian restaurants!


Gutted - If someone is really upset by something they might say that they were gutted. Like when you are told that you have just failed your driving test!


Hard lines - This is another way of saying hard luck or bad luck.


Khazi - Another word for the toilet. Our version of your bathroom.


Kip - A short sleep, forty winks, or a snooze. You have a kip in front of the telly on a Sunday afternoon.


Knees up - If you're having a knees up, you're going to a dance or party.


Luvvly-jubbly - Clearly another way of saying lovely. Made famous by the TV show Only Fools and Horses.


Mate - Most chaps like to go to the pub with their mates. Mate means friend or chum.


Not my cup of tea - This is a common saying that means something is not to your liking. For example if someone asked you if you would like to go to an all night rave, they would know exactly what you meant if you told them it was not exactly your cup of tea!


Owt - This is Yorkshire for anything. Similarly nowt is Yorkshire for nothing. Hence the expression "you don't get owt for nowt". Roughly translated as "you never get anything for nothing" or "there's no such thing as a free lunch".


Pear shaped - If something has gone pear shaped it means it has become a disaster. It might be preparing a dinner party or arranging a meeting, any of these things can go completely pear shaped.


Smashing - If something is smashing, it means it is terrific


Sorted - When you have fixed a problem and someone asks how it is going you might say "sorted". It's also popular these days to say "get it sorted" when you are telling someone to get on with the job.


Taking the biscuit - If something really takes the biscuit, it means it out-does everything else and cannot be bettered. Some places in America they said takes the cake.


Taking the mickey - See taking the piss. Variations include "taking the mick" and "taking the Michael".


Toodle pip - This is an old expression meaning goodbye. However, I only hear it when Americans are doing impressions of Brits as it has fallen into disuse, along with steam trains and gas lights.


Wacky backy - This is the stuff in a joint, otherwise known as pot or marijuana!


Whinge - Whingers are not popular in any circumstance. To whinge is to whine. We all know someone who likes to whinge about everything.


Yonks - "Blimey, I haven't heard from you for yonks". If you heard someone say that it would mean that they had not seen you for ages!

Northern Terms

Northern Terms are a bit less known worldwide, but it might be clever to disguise signage in a northern or southern slang and terms, so that you might have to ask somebody what it means. This is an idea thats slightly in homage to Train spotting, the book and how it is written in scottish dialogue. Here are some of my favourite Northern Terms. 

Now Then - A phrase commonly used in northern England, it derives from Old Yorkshire dialect.
It is a phrase used for greeting, although it is laregely unknown as to why the terms "now" (meaning this instant) and "then" (meaning in the past) were put together to form another way of simply saying "hello". Usually pronounced "Nah-then".

Thee - in modern times in northern england, mainly in the yorkshire counties, the word thee means the. it is mainly a regional dialect and can mostly be found in the Sheffield, Barnsley, Rotherham, and DONCASTER, areas of south yorkshire.

Gerron - proceed, make progress, make friends. Dialect version of "Get on" Used in Northernmidlands of england. He doesno' gerron wi' his boss. He'll never gerron with t'job unless pushed.

T'internet - t is oftern placed in front of words in more northern areas of the UK such as "He's bin on t'internet again"


A cuppa - (widespread all over England) = a cup of tea

What's gooin off? = What's going off? = What's happening?

Ah'm gooin om = I'm going home.

Ay-up = hello
Tarrah Love = goodbye and love is added to the end for someone you care about. (usually men to women and vice versa) 

hinny, pet, love, chuck, marra, flower, bonny lad/lass.




Cockney Ryming Slang

Apples & Pears - Stairs

Would you Adam & Eve it? - Would you believe it?

Give us a butchers - Give us a look 

Barnet - Hair

Dog and Bone - Phone

Jack Jones - Alone

Jimmy Riddle - Piddle (wee)

Pat Cash - Slash (wee)

Richard the Third (turd)

Ann Boleyn - Gin (drinks menu)

band of hope - soap

bacardi breezer's - geezers

bubble bath - or bubble for short - laugh 

cream crackered - kanckered