Slang and uncoventional english part 90 potx

... seeped into the language and, post-1984, provides a neat formula for book titles and media headlines concerned with jargon and slang. ‘Jackspeak’ 1989, ‘Low Speak’ 1989, ‘Artspeak’ 1 990, ‘Eurospeak’ 1992, ... condition. Glasgow rhyming slang UK: SCOTLAND, 1988 southpaw noun a left-handed person, especially a left-handed athlete US, 1891 South Pole noun the anus. Rhyming slang for...

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... stimulant and a barbitu- rate US, 1971. 4 a soda fountain drink made with chocolate syrup, seltzer and vanilla ice-cream US, 1947. 5 night. Rhyming slang, always spoken in full UK, 1937 black and white ... fib) but may also derive from an English gang of blacking boys and torch-carriers in London known for their scurrilous language. In the form ‘blackguarding’, it is in use in part...

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... 1965 dog and bone; dog noun a telephone. Rhyming slang UK, 1961 dog and boned; doggo adjective drug-intoxicated. Rhyming slang for STONED UK, 1998 dog and cat noun a mat. Rhyming slang UK, 1992 dog and ... noun the ears. Rhyming slang, formed on the name of popular singer and recording artist Donald Peers, 1909 –73 UK, 1984 Donald Trump noun an act of defecation. Rhyming sl...

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... pads that aggrandise the apparent size of a girl or woman’s breasts US, 1943 falsitude noun a lie US, 2001 falsy noun a chipped marble TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 2003 fam noun 1 the hand. English gypsy ... 1989 FAR noun a hard and fast rule US, 1991 far and near noun beer. Rhyming slang; glossed as C19, but remains a familiar term, perhaps because of its neat reversal with NEAR AND FAR (...

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... 1949 green and black noun a capsule of Librium, a central nervous system depressant US, 1992 green and brussel; greens and brussels noun a muscle; muscles. Rhyming slang UK, 1992 green and friendly ... US, 1965 grubs noun old, worn and comfortable clothes US, 1966 grudge-fuck verb to have sex out of spite or anger US, 1 990 gruesome and gory noun the penis. Rhyming slang for...

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... noun information US, 1907 Ingerland noun England, especially the England football team. A phonetic representation of the word England as chanted by a sports crowd UK: ENGLAND, 2005 Ingersol Willie ... 1970 Island noun < the Island the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England; in particular the prisons: HMP Camp Hill, HMP Albany or HMP Parkhurst UK, 1956 Isle of Man noun a pan. Rhymin...

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... wheels and tyres (large enough to drive over and crush a standard passenger car) and an enhanced engine and transmission. Only in America US, 1984 Montana maiden noun a ewe. Sheep will be sheep and ... 1978 Moody and Sankey; moody noun deception, trickery. Rhyming slang for HANKY PANKY, formed on US evangelists Dwight Lyman Moody and Ira D. Sankey, jointly known (and vilified...

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... after and by 1915 the pair were a national phenomenon. Adopted into UK theatrical slang and consequently reduced in pronunciation to ‘mutton’ UK, 1960 mutter and stutter noun butter. Rhyming slang ... shorthand in Internet discussion groups and text message to mean ‘mind your own business’ US, 2002 Myrna Loy noun a saveloy. Rhyming slang, formed from the name of the US film actre...

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... Programme, 1 990, written by Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse for the comedy characters Smashie and Nicey UK, 2003 pop top noun a truck carrying bottled soft drinks. Citizens’ band radio slang, elaborated ... for grazing. Circus and English gypsy use UK, 1933 poov; poove verb < poov the gry; poov the grey to graze a horse, especially without permission from the land’s owner. Eng...

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... ‘loving’ kiss and a ‘nice’ kiss. Widely known, and well used by servicemen, then a nearly mandatory sign-off line in any American teenage love letter of the 1950s and 60s, now a part of the coded ... contraction of ‘sweaty’ and ‘ass’ CANADA, 2003 swatch noun a quick look UK: SCOTLAND, 1911 swatty-blouse noun an effeminate intellectual NEW ZEALAND, 1995 swave and blaze adjective su...

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