My most beloved British slang is Knackered. Fucking knackered! It means very tired, exhausted. But those terms are sterlized of feeling, of life. You know that feeling after you finish moving? That total fucking exhaustion, you’re knackered my friend. I can’t think of a word that feels more accurate to the state of reality it describes. Knackered is a fucking gift.

Chuffed. If youre chuffed i believe that means your excited. I hate it but not for real good reasons. It sounds like a bad thing. Like i don’t want to be chuffed from the sound of it. It sounds like i chafed my lungs from sighing too much cuz I’m miserable.

Ok now for the linguistic crime known as snog or snogging. It means to make out or tongue kiss someone. But it sounds like a fucking sex act involving noses. And not a normal sex act. A fucking depraved dirty sex act, you’d feel shame even googling, but again it involves noses. And honestly it sounds like snot is likely involved with this sex act. Do better Britain stop saying fucking snogged you dirty bastards.

What is your most beloved and hated British slang?

  • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I use “proper” a lot, so that one is inevitably favourite, unless it’s not an exclusive UK slang

    • Delphia@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It annoys me because you are forcing me to decipher what you’re telling me because you feel like being an annoying cunt.

      Also adding “Innit” to the end of every sentence is the british version of “nowhatahmsain” for americans and “Aye” for Australians and just makes me think you are stupid.

  • crawancon@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    hated, well there are lots, but I think the word “bellend” is stupid for its purpose.

    mixed, also like hearing some brittish dialects say the word “water bottle” as wuh-er boh-ol. like wow. lol

    loved, “bullocks!” has always been a chuckle-able reaction to things. like wtf is that.

    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Bellend it’s just the tip of the shaft - the bell shaped bit at the end… also used to signify a stupid person.

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I had a beautiful moment related to the word “bellend,” and now I love it.

      I was one of two native English speakers in a German class in Germany, and we’d been together 20 hours/week for a few months, so the teacher and students knew each other pretty well. The other native English speaker was blatantly on his phone one day, which was his choice in an adult education class, but it’s disrespectful. The teacher going through gerunds with us (-ing in English, but in German, it’s -end), and after trying to get his attention for a few moments, just shouted, “Mickey, weißt du was “bellend” bedeutet?” (“Mickey, do you know what “barking” means?”) Mickey froze for a second, then told the teacher he was sorry and she was right.

      The teacher (who did not speak good enough English to have done it intentionally) was completely caught off guard and I suddenly put it together and nearly lost my shit, but Mickey didn’t know we were doing gerunds and I wasn’t about to explain the meaning of bellend to everyone in the class, so I experienced this perfect crossover of language alone.

    • Pumafred9@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      ‘Bollocks’ as in another way of saying ‘bullshit’… When you hear someone say something that’s totally not true… What a load of bollocks.

    • SuperApples@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Chuffed

      Yes, very pleased or satisfied. Like, you’d be chuffed if you made a great pavlova, or parents got you a Megadrive for Chrissy.

    • Nekobambam@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      I like how “chuffed” sounds/feels like someone being all pleased with themselves but without the smugness of “smug”.

  • Pumafred9@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    When it’s raining, and someone inevitably tells me it’s raining, I like to say ‘perfect weather for ducks, innit’

    I also like ‘Kuch’ which is Welsh slang for ‘cuddle’

  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    England has a surfeit of terms for obnoxious people.

    • Jobsworth (obstructive clerk or bureaucrat)
    • God-botherer (religious fanatic)
    • Cockwomble
    • Minging cockwomble
    • Tremulous bollock-for-lobsters cockwomble
    • Sir Æthelbert Plonker Cockwomble of the Drubbing-over-Head Cockwombles

    I may have made those last two up.

      • Luc@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Not a native speaker. To me it sounds the other way around, like it’s God who’s constantly bothering them? Can it be read both ways?

        • spiderhamster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Think of it like ‘motherfucker’. No one is calling people mothers and accusing them of fucking. I do like your interpretation though. If that hasn’t been the premise for a movie or TV show then it probably should be.

        • underreacting@literature.cafe
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          2 months ago

          It depends on if the subject of the sentence (the person) is doing the thing (being active) or having the thing done to them (being passive). Think like this:

          A helper (help-ER) is someone who is helping/doing the help. A caller (call-ER) is calling someone else. A botherer (bother-ER) is someone who is doing the bothering.

          Someone who is recieving bother is being bothered (bother-ED), one who is getting help is being helped (help-ED), or getting calls is being called (call-ED).

          God-botherer is someone who is god-bothering (bothering god). God-bothered is someone being bothered by god.

          • med@sh.itjust.works
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            2 months ago

            That’s the correct way of reading the structure of the word, but as always with english, there’s how it’s written, and how it’s meant.

            Almost universally, this is meant as someone who is bothering people about god, like jehova’s whiteness knocking on your door, or wandering mormons inviting you to their church.

            • underreacting@literature.cafe
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              2 months ago

              Of course. I was focusing on the doing or recieving part and completely missed the second part: Are you a botherer and bothered OF/BY or ABOUT god?

              It can be either one, so I’d say it depends on how religious and/or deranged the speaker is. Like you said - most would say it’s about god, while I was deranged enough to interpret it as being a direct communication with a god.

  • Menschlicher_Fehler@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    My most hated is definitely how some (all?) Brits say “Leftenant” instead of “Lieutenant”.

    Most beloved is a bit harder… “Blimey” is a nice one though.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Most hated is “boffin” for scientist—it sounds like it should be derived from “boff”, which is American slang for sex.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      “boff” is American slang for sex

      I have never heard this term in my entire life so I looked it up and rest easy, it was a slang term for sex…in the 1920s.

  • QualifiedKitten@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Probably not technically slang, and maybe not even technically British, but I hate the all variations of “whinge”. I know it’s a real word, but it always feels like someone misspelling “whine”. I was well into adulthood when I finally learned that though, so those feelings are just so ingrained in me at this point.

    Thanks for listening to me whine.