Slang and uncoventional english part 88 pps
Slang and uncoventional english part 88 pps
... UK, 2002
slobber noun food; a meal UK: SCOTL AND, 1 988
slog noun an act or period of hard work UK, 1888
slog verb 1 to work hard at something UK, 1888 . 2 to punch someone
UK, 1824. 3 to walk heavily. ... TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1986
smallie noun 1 in Jamaica, a person from any other Caribbean island
JAMAICA, 1994. 2 on Trinidad and Tobago, a person from any of the
smaller English Cari...
Slang and uncoventional english part 3 ppsx
... i n formal and dignified writing and
in professional speaking, a vivid and extensive slang is
perhaps preferable to a jejune and meagre vocabulary
of standard English; on the other hand, it will ... cliché’s and long-windedness.
7 To enrich the language.
8 To give solidity and concreteness to the
abstract and the idealistic, and nearness to the
Observations on slang and...
Slang and uncoventional english part 13 pps
... between one person and multiple partners,
consensual or not, heterosexual or homosexual
NEW ZEALAND, 1998
block-rockin’ adjective expressive of greatness with regard to hip-hop
and club culture. ... arespiratorUS, 1994.
4 in a jazz band, a soloist US, 1960. 5 a handkerchief US, 1960. 6 a
marijuana smoker
US, 1949. 7 a party US, 2001. 8 a pistol US, 1976. 9 in
hot rodding and drag racing...
Slang and uncoventional english part 15 pps
... to study US, 1968. 2 to realise; to see and understand UK,
1970. 3 to assume something UK, 1999. 4 to depart, usually hurriedly
US, 1974. < book a party of two to arrange for oral sex to be
performed ... meant, and we said it was Hawaiian and
meant a joy cry. We stuck to this for several years until someone
came along and pointed out to us that there was no B in the
Hawaiian langua...
Slang and uncoventional english part 21 ppsx
... little fellow’; in the
current sense and as a form of address by 1880 s. Current usage
however is often ironic, probably affected by Chappie™, a branded
dog food
UK, 1882
chaps noun < the chaps (of ... Rhyming slang, formed on the
name of the British actor born in 1946
UK, 1998
Charley noun 1 the penis US, 1969. 2 heroin, 2002 8see: CHARLIE and
variants
charley horse noun a muscle cr...
Slang and uncoventional english part 37 pps
... of a band TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO,
1990. 3 the mid-boat rowers in an eight-person racing shell US, 1949
England noun < go to England to have a baby in secret TRINIDAD
AND TOBAGO
, 1960
English ... adjective stupid. Rhyming slang UK, 1998
erp verb to vomit US, 1968
errie noun an aeroplane UK: SCOTLAND, 1 988
Errol Flynn noun the chin, in senses anatomic and figurative.
Rhyming slang...
Slang and uncoventional english part 41 ppsx
... (a
horse)
US, 1882
fork and knife noun 1 life. Rhyming slang, generally used in the
phrases ‘not on your fork and knife’ and ‘never in your fork and
knife’
UK, 1934. 2 a wife. Rhyming slang UK, 1937
forked ... on NEW ZEALAND, 1905. 2 to slaughter a horse
for fox food
CANADA, 1980
fox and badger noun the penis. Rhyming slang for TAD GER UK, 2003
fo x and hound noun a round of...
Slang and uncoventional english part 48 pps
... ham noun an unsubtle actor US, 1881
ham and beef noun a chief prison warder. Rhyming slang UK, 1962
ham and egg; ham noun the leg. Rhyming slang UK, 1932
ham -and- egger noun 1 in professional ... NEW ZEALAND, 1998. 2 expert AUSTRALIA, 1916
gun and bomb noun a condom. Rhyming slang; the plural is ‘guns
and bombs’
UK, 2003
gun and rifle club noun an inner-city hospital’s casual...
Slang and uncoventional english part 62 pps
... heroin and cocaine UK, 2002
love and kisses noun a wife. Rhyming slang for MISSUS UK, 1992
love and marriage noun a carriage. Rhyming slang, possibly
acquired from the 1955 song ‘Love and Marriage’, ... by Sammy
Cahn: ‘Love and marriage, love and marriage / Go together like a
horse and carriage’
UK, 1992
love an romancin noun dancing. Glasgow rhyming slang UK:
SCOTLAND
, 1...
Slang and uncoventional english part 65 pps
... Hargreaves (1935 88) for
his Mr Men children’s books US, 1984. 2 a nappy. Glasgow rhyming
slang
UK: SCO TLAND, 1 988
Mister Hawkins; Mr Hawkins noun a cold winter wind. An
embellishment and personification ... person. Rhyming
slang for SNIDE, informed by rhyming slang JEKYLL AND HYDE (two-
faced) and the character of Mr Hyde in Robert Louis Stevenson’s
The Strange Case of Dr Jeky...