***the official british words/phrases that make you giggle thread***

so i've gotten into this british show called the inbetweeners (very very good show btw), and half the fun is listening to britishisms. i love how much they call each other twats, and when they actually called each other wankers i was like "wow, british people really DO use that word." also the constant use of the word muff makes me giggle. i couldn't stop laughing when one of the characters said he was "knee deep in muff"

recently i learned of the phrase "taking the piss" in the irc.

i guess america-isms are welcome for all you whacky brits

oh bollocks

YouTube - Eurotrip Manchester United football team

Pretty much this entire clip is great...but you get the great Brit-isms after 3:43

barmy = crazy

blowsy = similar to bloody as an adjective

double bagger = she's so ugly that not only does she need a bag over her head, but you need a bag over your own head in case hers falls off

Watch this film. It's very awesome and Michael Caine drops some awesome archaic British slang

The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

mingin

This thread chuffs me to bits.

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Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla

This thread chuffs me to bits.

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wrong usage i'm afraid Mr Illa.

you can be "chuffed" about something (meaning happy), but something doesn't "chuff" you.

Chuff also means bum or vagina - so you can say "Up your chuff"

for surviva.

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Not sure how 'avin a baff with baff meaning bath came to mean "having a laugh".

Crazy English.

baff rhymes with laff= laugh

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Originally Posted by BennyLaRue

Not sure how 'avin a baff with baff meaning bath came to mean "having a laugh".

Crazy English.

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Cockney rhyming slang for 'having a laugh'= 'bubble bath', so that's where it comes from. 'Having a bubble' is a more appropriate saying, not sure where or when you've heard 'having a bath', but I've never heard of it.

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Originally Posted by BennyLaRue

Not sure how 'avin a baff with baff meaning bath came to mean "having a laugh".

Crazy English.

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Google "Cockney rhyming slang"

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Originally Posted by Keith_MM

baff rhymes with laff= laugh

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Cool. Imma call you Queef.

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Originally Posted by BennyLaRue

Cool. Imma call you Queef.

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that just means you have a terrible lisp.

how they say "idea" is pretty funny

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Originally Posted by givememyleg

how they say "idea" is pretty funny

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yeah and aluminum and garage

oh and how could i forget that they used "pissed" to mean drunk instead of angry. that can be really confusing when i'm watching the show

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Originally Posted by givememyleg

how they say "idea" is pretty funny

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Or bananer. :banana:

I do appreciate their use of the word knackered though.

dude inbetweeners is such an awesome show

'check out that fit bird'

fit = hot

other fun words: bent, beland, spazz

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Originally Posted by fjuanl

dude inbetweeners is such an awesome show

'check out that fit bird'

fit = hot

other fun words: bent, beland, spazz

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WTF is beland???? DO you mean bell-end? lol

I'm glad that show travels well. That is so accurate in depicting what life is like as a teenager in southern england. It cracks me up.

ya it must be bellend

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Originally Posted by WillburForce

wrong usage i'm afraid Mr Illa.

you can be "chuffed" about something (meaning happy), but something doesn't "chuff" you.

Chuff also means bum or vagina - so you can say "Up your chuff"

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You sure gave me a right chuffing, old chap!

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Originally Posted by surviva316

yeah and aluminum and garage

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I was going to say it was called aluminium first and you butchered it, but actually it's not quite that simple.

World Wide Words: Aluminium versus aluminum

Whatever.

I can't believe you don't use spazz in America? It's one of my favourite words!

Yeah, I also like "spazzing out" as an expression.

I'm American and I use spazz all the time. :( I also use wanker occasionally just cuz it's funny.

Wonky.

in the inbetweeners, spazz is only used as slang for an actual mentally handicapped person. in the US, saying 'I'm such a spazz' doesn't necessarily mean that

pants is my favourite.

The fuck? Do you say trousers or something gay?

i just love the free use of the word cunt round London. Either calling someone a reeking cunthole (in a friendly way) or going on the piss and getting cunted.

Haha I'm gonna start calling my friend cunts.

Oh yeah, that's something I found on my exchange, that people from northern america don't use the phrase "good cunt".

When british people say pants as a general rule they mean underpants, rather than trousers.

yeah american women hate the word cunt. it's 99% of all women's most hated word in the world. my current theory is because they're gay

Lol stupid brits

my birds a northener and always uses mardybum.

mardybum = soppy bollocks

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Originally Posted by kiwiMark

Oh yeah, that's something I found on my exchange, that people from northern america don't use the phrase "good cunt".

When british people say pants as a general rule they mean underpants, rather than trousers.

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Pants never means trowsers over here, only underpants, but even then it's very rarely used. In general, we use the term pants to mean rubbish, ie that movie was complete pants = that movie was shit.

And British women tend to hate the word cunt too. My misses gets seriously pissed when I use it around her, whilst I'll call my friends cunts without a second thought. And getting "totally cunted" on a night out is the best use of the word ever.

Someone make an English slang video!

Growler = pussy

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Originally Posted by WillburForce

my birds a northener and always uses mardybum.

mardybum = soppy bollocks

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And soppy bollocks is....?

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Originally Posted by BennyLaRue

And soppy bollocks is....?

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just means your being a bit wet and need to man up.

So if your mates a bit down about a woman you could say "Come on soppy bollocks, get your pint down you, theres plenty more growler out there"

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Originally Posted by daven

mingin

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thanks for the input, dozer

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Originally Posted by WillburForce

Growler = pussy

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lolz

one term in Welsh for pussy is Pwdin Blew

pronounced "poowdeen bleauw", it transliterates as "hair pudding"

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Haha I'm gonna start calling my friend cunts.

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you oughta get out more, on the pull, get em in the sack, a bit of muff diving and bobs yer uncle.

right good rogering

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Originally Posted by WillburForce

just means your being a bit wet

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And being a bit wet means...?

wet behind the ears ....green...

y'aight mate?
bonkers
geezer
guv
bitch piss
plonk
keep yer pecker up

God save the Queen for all the brilliant phrases from the lads across the pond. to those sheep shagging welsh....fucking tossers

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y'aight mate?

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That must be the most common greeting in englandshire