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...
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... 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...
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... 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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