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Verb. To defecate. [Yorks/Hull/Notts use]
|baba *
|Verb. To defecate. [Yorks/Hull/Notts use]
Noun. Faeces. [Yorks/Hull/Notts use]
* Also spelt babber.
|Noun. A baby, child. [Northern & Midlands use. Dialect]
| Noun. 1. Usually applied to a young attractive female but also
said with reference to males. [Orig. U.S.]
2. An affectionate form of address.
|babe magnet
|Noun. An attractive or sexually desirable person or thing. [Orig. U.S.]
|Noun. An oaf, a fool.
|baby batter
|Noun. Semen. Cf. 'baby gravy'
|baby gravy
|Noun. Semen. Cf. 'baby batter'
|baby's head
|Noun. A steak and kidney pudding. [North-west use]
|Noun. A euphemism for the anus. [Orig. U.S.]
|Noun. A bribe.
|Noun. A pillion ride on a bycycle.
|back passage
|Noun. The rectum. {Informal}
|back scuttle
|Noun. Anal intercourse.
Verb. To have anal intercourse.
|backs to the wall
Phrs. A homophobic comment and warning to fellow heterosexuals that contact with a gay male is likely or happening. From the misconception that all gay males will endevour, or want to have anal intercourse with any male. Derog.
|Noun. Abb. of tobacco. Another variation is Backo.
|bacon sarnie
|Noun. Pakistani. Rhyming slang. See 'sarnie'.
|Adj. Good, excellent. [Orig. U.S.]
|bad egg
|Noun. A miscreant, a corrupt person, an untrustworthy person. Cf. 'good egg'.
|Verb. To bother incessantly. E.g."Stop badgering her, she's not interested in buying another pair of your cheap trainers."
|bad hair day
| Noun. 1. A day when one is unable to arrange one's hair into
a satisfactory and pleasing style.
2. Used figuratively for a problematic and difficult day.
|badly packed kebab
|Noun. The female genitals. [1990s]
|bad mouth
|Verb. To insult or denigrate. [Orig. U.S.]
|bad news
|Noun. A troublesome person.
|Noun. Slippers. [Scottish use]
| Noun. 1. An ugly woman. Derog. Cf. 'old bag'.
2. An objectionable and unpleasant person.
3. Meaning that which interests. E.g."What's your bag ? Mine is dance music." [Orig. U.S. 1960s]
4. The scrotum.
Suffix. A suffix that emphasises the essential undesirable nature of a person in perjorative nouns such as 'tossbag', 'shitbag', 'ratbag' etc.
|bag (of sand)
|Noun. £1000, a thousand pounds sterling. Rhyming slang on a 'grand'. Often shortened to bag.
|Noun. A snack or food taken between meals. Heard pronounced as baggin. [Lancs/Yorks use]
|Noun. A heroin addict.
|bag lady
|Noun. A homeless woman who carries her worldly possessions in bags.
|bag of bones
|Noun. A very thin or emaciated person or animal.
|bag off
|Verb. To commune with someone sexually desirable, occasionally in so much as having sex. E.g."She bagged off with that"
|bag of shit
|Noun. A general disparaging term, used for either a person or thing. E.g."He hadn't slept or washed for 4 days and looked like a bag of shite."
|bag of shite
|Noun. See 'bag of shit'.
|bag of wank
|Noun. A thing or situation that is not very good, that is poor, without value. E.g."I was expecting a big bag of wank, but I actually enjoyed the film, apart from the scene where the dog died."
|bag of washing
|Noun. A failed parachute or other material based airfoil, such as a hang glider. [Orig. Military use]
|bag on
|Noun. A bad mood. [E. Midlands use]
| Verb. To claim as one's own due to being the first to make such
a claim. E.g."Bags I go first." {Informal}
Noun. Trousers. {Informal}
|Verb. A variation on 'bags' (verb). Basically meaning bags I. See 'bags'.
|Noun. The backside, the bottom, the buttocks. [Glasgow use]
|bail (out)
|Verb. To leave in a hurry, to escape an awkward situation. E.g."I bailed out once I realised that the profits weren't worth it."
|Adj. Obvious.
|Noun. The mouth. [Irish/Scottish use]
|baked bean
|Noun. The queen. Rhyming slang.
|baldy notion
|Noun. An idea, a clue. Usually in the negative sense such as "to not have a baldy notion". Often abbreviated to baldy. [N. Irish use]
|Noun. A troublesome and inconvenient task. Also ballache. E.g."I wish I hadn't sold the car, walking 5 miles to and from work, everyday, is a real ball-ache."
|ball and chain
|Noun. A wife or girlfriend. Derog.
|Noun. The scrotum.
|ballocks (!)
| Noun. 1. The testicles. A variation on 'bollocks'. S.E. from
1200s, slang from mid 1800s. Cf. 'bollocks'.
2. Rubbish, nonsense.
Exclam. An exclamation of annoyance, disbelief or disagreement.
|balloon knot
|Noun. The anus. From its appearance.
|balls (!)
| Noun. 1. Testicles. Usually in plural.
2. Courage, in for example, "She hasn't got the balls to tell him the truth."
3. Rubbish, nonsense.
Exclam. Expressing annoyance.
|Adj. Ruined, in a mess.
|balls (something) up
|Verb. To make a mess of a situation. E.g."I couldn't believe I ballsed up my driving test by making exactly the same mistake as the previous six times."
|balls to the wall
|Phrs. Quickly.
| Noun. A mess up, a 'cock-up'. E.g."I've made a right balls-up
of my exams."
Verb. To make a mess of a situation.
|Noun. A bread bun or roll. Common mispelling of barm. Cf. 'barmcake'.
|Adj. Insane, crazy. A derivative of the earlier 'barmy.'
|Noun. Nonsense. Also spelt boloney. [Orig. U.S.]
|Adj. Very cold, with respect to the weather or air temperature. [Orig. U.S.]
|Noun. A foolish and objectionable person. Abbreviated form of 'bampot'. Derog. [Scottish use]
|Noun. A foolish and objectionable person. Derog. Cf. 'bam' and 'bamstick'. [Scottish use]
|Noun. A foolish and objectionable person. Derog. Cf. 'bam' and 'bampot'. [Scottish use]
|Noun. A penis.
|Adj. Insane, mad, hysterical. [Orig. U.S.]
| Verb. 1. To copulate. A particularly aggressive term.
2. To put or place, the implication being with nonchalence. E.g."I'll bang those in an envelope and send them off first post in the morning."
Noun. An act of copulation.
| Noun. 1. A sausage. The English meal of sausages and mashed
potato is traditionally called bangers and mash.
2. A delapidated car.
3. A small firework that is explosively loud but visually unstimulating.
| Noun. Sexual intercourse.
Adj. Exciting, energetic, wonderful, excellent. Often heard pronounced bangin'.
|bang on
|Adj./Adv. Exactly, correct. {Informal}
|bang on about (something)
|Vrb phrs. To talk incessantly and uninterestingly, to nag. E.g."You're not going to change my mind by banging on about it!"
|bang one out
|Vrb phrs. To masturbate. E.g."Steve watched Bay Watch on TV and then banged one out before his mum came home."
|bang out of order
|Phrs. Totally unacceptable.
|Adj. Sexually attractive.
|bang to rights
|Phrs. Caught red-handed. Police/criminal vernacular often heard used jocularly.
|bang (someone) up
| Verb. 1. To put (someone) in prison. {Informal}.
2. To make (someone) pregnant.
|Verb. To ruin. [Mainly Irish use.]
| Adj. 1. Ruined, defeated. Originally Anglo-Irish use, popularized
by the UK radio/TV presenter Terry Wogan with his book of the same name.
2. Drunk, by extension of meaning 1.
Verb. To hit or punch. [Scottish use]
|Adj. Drunk, intoxicated.
|banjo string
|Noun. The frenulum of the penis.
|Noun. Abb. of bank holiday (a national holiday).
|Noun. Breasts. E.g."Look at the baps on her!"
|Noun. One pound sterling.
|Noun. Abb. of barbecue. [Orig. Aust.]
|Noun. Abb. of barbituates.
|Barclay's (Bank)
|Noun. An act of masturbation. From the rhyming slang for 'wank'.
|Noun. A supporter of the Newcastle United football club. From their team kit being designed around black and white vertical stripes, like a barcode.
|Adj. A lot of, significant amount. E.g."It's just bare hype,
the film's just famous faces and no plot." [London use]
Adv. Significantly. [London use]
|Verb. To vomit, probably onomatapoeic in origin. E.g."He's feeling woozy, I think he's gonna barf his dinner up." [Orig. U.S. 1940/50s]
|Adj. Insane, crazy. Short for barking mad.
|barking spider
|Noun. The anus.
| Noun. 1. A lighthearted term for a fool or idiot.
2. A bread bun. Also barm cake. [North-west use]
|Noun. A silly person. A lighted-hearted expression.
|Adj. Mad, crazy, insane. Cf. 'balmy'. [1600s]
|Noun. Hair. From the Cockney rhyming slang barnet fair. [Mid 1800s]
|Noun. An argument. [Late 1800s] {Informal}
|barney (rubble)
|Adj. Trouble. Rhyming slang. [1960s]
|Adj. Good, nice. [Edinburgh use]
|Barry White *
|Noun. 1. Rubbish, nonsense.
2. An act of defecation.
* Both uses are rhyming slang on 'shite' (shit). See 'shite'. Barry White, U.S. soul singer who came to the fore in the 1970s.
|Noun. The perineum. From the area between the balls and the arse.
|bar steward
|Noun. A pun on 'bastard'.
|base over apex
|Phrs. Head over heels, upside down. E.g."His front wheel hit a rock on the road and he went base over apex."
| Noun. 1. An event, a party. E.g."I'm having a bash at a club
for my birthday."
2. An attempt. E.g."Try having a bash at the next question if you can't answer the first."
|bash the bishop
|Verb. To masturbate. Derived from the similarity of the head of the penis with a bishop's mitre. E.g."It's a myth that constantly bashing the bishop makes you blind."
|Noun. A euphemism for 'bastard'.
|basket case
|Noun. An emotionally unstable person, a dysfunctional person, a completely useless person. Originally an amputee, especially a soldier, who had lost all four limbs, coined during the First World War.
|bastard (!)
| Noun. 1. A contemptible person. Derived from the original meaning,
an illegitimate person, when to be born out of wedlock was viewed as objectionable.
2. A pitiable person. E.g."That poor bastard never stood a chance once the avalanche started."
Adj. Used as an negative intensifier. E.g."My bastard car wont start again!"
Exclam. Exclamation of anger.
|Adj. An intensifier. E.g."I'm sorry for being late, I missed the bastarding bus again!"
|bat for both sides
|Vrb phrs. To be bisexual.
|bat for the other team
|Vrb phrs. 1. To be homosexual. E.g."He wont be interested in your sister, he bats for the other team."
2. To be of a different sexual persuasion.
|bat for the opposition
|Vrb phrs. To be homosexual.
2. To be of a different sexual persuasion.
|Noun. Swimming/bathing costume. [Orig. Aust./N.Z.] {Informal}
|bat in the cave
|Noun. A globule or lump of nasal mucus when visible up a nostril.
|bat on a sticky wicket
|Vrb phrs. To put oneself in a difficult and unfavourable position.
|Adj. Very intoxicated by drink or drugs.
|battery operated boyfriend
|Noun. A vibrator, sex toy. Cf. 'bob'.
|battle cruiser
|Noun. A pub, bar. From rhyming slang for 'boozer'. See 'boozer' (noun 1).
| Adj. Crazy, eccentric.
Noun. Buttocks, bottom. [Orig. W.I.]
|batty boy
|Noun. A homosexual male. From batty meaning buttocks. Also battyboy, battyman. Derog. [Orig. West Indies]
|batty bwoy
|Noun. See 'batty boy'. Also batty-bway.
|batty crease
|Noun. The area between the buttocks. See 'batty' (noun).
|batty man
|Noun. See 'batty boy'. Also battyman.
|batty rider
|Noun. Skimpy shorts that 'ride' up to expose the wearers bottom ('batty') cheeks, usually female attire. [West Indies/Black UK?]
|Noun. 1. The scrotum. From 'ball-bag'. [Scottish use]
2. A contemptible person. [Scottish use]
|Noun. 1. A bald head. [Scottish uses]
2. An idiot, buffoon. [Scottish uses]
|Noun. Breasts. From bosoms.
|Adj. Excellent. E.g."That was a bazzin cricket match." [Midlands/North use?]
|Noun. A person devoted to spending as much time as available on the beach. Cf. 'surf bum'.
|Noun. 1. The mouth. [Irish/Scottish use]
2. A judge or magistrate.
3. Cocaine.
|Noun. The dirt or bodily secretions that accumulate at the corner of the eyes or between the toes. [Scottish use]
|beaked up
|Adj. High on cocaine. E.g."We had a great night, everyone was well beaked up."
|Verb. To cry. E.g."Her baby is constantly bealing, even when it's not hungry." [North Lincolnshire use]
|Noun. 1. An ecstasy pill.
2. Clitoris. Used in phrases such a 'flicking the bean'.
|Noun. A party, a celebratory event. {Informal}
|Noun. A lesbian. The bean refers to the clitoris.
|Noun. A party. Abbreviated form of 'beanfeast'. {Informal}
|Noun. A large hairy man. [Gay use]
|Noun. 1. A woman who is seen to be romantically linked with a
gay man, so protecting his true sexuality from public scrutiny - often
associated with celebrities. [Orig U.S.]
2. Of a woman, pubic hair.
|bearded clam
|Noun. The female genitals, inclusive of pubic hair.
|beast with two backs
|Noun. A man and woman engaged in the act of sexual intercourse. An expression whose usage dates from at least as early as 1604, being mentioned in Shakespeare's Othello. E.g."Your daughter and the Moore are making the beast with two backs" [1600s]
|beaten with the ugly stick
|Phrs. Of a person, unnattractive. Cf. 'hit with the ugly stick'.
|beat seven shades of shit out of (someone)
|Vrb phrs. To thoroughly beat up. Also, less commonly, beat seven kinds of shit out of (someone). Cf. 'kick seven shades of shit out of (someone)'
|beat the bishop
|Verb. To masturbate. Cf. 'bash the bishop'.
|beat the meat
|Verb. To masturbate. E.g."My son seems to be preoccupied with beating his meat at every possible hour of the day."
| Noun. The female genitals, implying the inclusion of pubic hair.
[Orig. U.S.]
Verb To work hard. {Informal}
|beaver cleaver
|Noun. Penis. See 'beaver' (noun).
|beaver leaver
|Noun. A homosexual male. Due to not being interested in 'beaver' and leaving it alone. See 'beaver' (noun).
|beaver lever
|Noun. Penis. See 'beaver' (noun).
|Adj. Sexually desirable, from being good enough to take to bed.
|Noun. Bed or bedtime. [1700s]
|bed hair
|Noun. Dishevelled hair, as may result from a good night's sleep.
|Noun. Abb. of bed-sitter or bed-sitting room. A small apartment whereby the bedroom also serves as a sitting room (living room). {Informal}
| Noun. 1. The commonly used nickname for the BBC (British Broadcasting
Corporation), the nationally owned television production and broadcasting
company. {Informal}
2. Nickname for the BBC Micro computer, an early form of home computer from the 1980s.
| Noun. 1. Muscly, strong looking males. {Informal}
2. A complaint, a grievance, problems (with something). E.g."If you've got a beef about the decision, then fill in the appropriate appeal forms." [Orig. U.S.]
|beef bayonet
|Noun. The penis.
|beef curtains
|Noun. The female genitals. [Orig. U.S.]
|beef (something) up
|Vrb phrs. To increase in size or volume; basically to make stronger. E.g."Once he'd beefed up his engine, his car was unbeatable on the track."
|beer baby
|Noun. A protruding belly, from drinking excessive amounts of beer, that makes its owner look pregnant.
|beer belly
|Noun. A bulging stomach caused by drinking large quantities of beer.
|Noun. A BMW automobile. Cf. 'bimmer'.
|beer goggles
Noun. The impaired judgement from the excessive consumption of alcohol (beer) that makes an otherwise unappealing person or thing seem attractive. E.g."I was obviously wearing beer goggles last night; when I awoke and saw who I'd brought home the previous night I nearly threw up, she had 3 eyes, a green beard and tentacles coming out of the top of her head." [1990s]
|beer o'clock
|Noun. The time one feels is most appropriate for some alcoholic refreshment , such as beer. Often used specifically to mean the end of the working day.
|beer scooter
|Noun. The supposed transport one must have taken to get home when very drunk and as there is no recollection of how one did get home. [1990s]
|beer tits
|Noun. Fatty deposits on the breasts of a male, arising through excessive beer drinking. Cf. 'bitch tits'.
|beer tokens
|Noun. Money.
|bees and honey
|Noun. Money. Rhyming slang.
|bee's knees
|Noun. The best. This term originates from the prolific slang of the Flappers along with the similar 'cats whiskers'. Cf. 'dogs bollocks'. [Orig. U.S. 1920s]
|bee stings
|Noun. Small breasts. Derog.
|Verb. To hurry. E.g."I've just spent 2 hours beetling around the shopping precinct looking for a gift for Mick." {Informal}
|beetle bonnet
|Noun. The female mons pubis, from its vague resemblence to the bonnet of a Volkswagen Beetle car.
|Adj. Excellent, great. E.g."The holiday was beezer." {Informal}
Noun. 1. Something impressive, or large. [Mainly Scottish use] {Informal}
2. Nose.
|Noun. Euphemism for 'bugger'.
|begging for it
|Vrb phrs. A general comment on a person's supposed, if not actual, yearning for sexual intimacies. E.g."Cor, look at her! She's begging for it."
|Exclam. An Anglo-Irish corruption of the exclamation by Jesus! Expressing surprise or annoyance.
|Verb. To telephone (someone). E.g."I'll bell you tonight with the news."
| Noun. 1. The head of the penis, being vaguely bell shaped. Also
2. A contemptible person, an idiot.
|bell on every tooth
|Phrs. When applied to a person, noisy, loud. Also a bell in every tooth. [Welsh use]
| Noun. A complaint. {Informal}
Verb. To complain persistently.
|belly timber
|Noun. Food. [Early 1700s]
|Adj. 1. Dead.
2. Failed, bankrupt.
| Verb. To hit.
Noun. 1. A hit. E.g."If you don't shut up moaning I'll give you a belt 'round the head."
2. A drink, by extension of meaning 1. E.g."Have a belt of that brandy, it'll warm you up."
|Noun. An excellent thing or event. [Orig. Northern dialect]
|Adj. Outstanding, wonderful. {Informal}
|belt up!
|Verb. Be quiet! Shut up!
| Noun. 1. An excessive bout of drinking, but more recently also
inclusive of a drug taking spree. [Orig. U.S.]
2. A homosexual. Possibly derived from gender bender, or from being the passive partner, bending over to receive sex, as opposed to being the thruster. Derog.
|bend one's elbow
|Vrb phrs. To have an alcoholic drink.
|bend someone's ear
|Vrb phrs. To talk incessantly and tediously at someone. E.g."The manager's been bending my ear all afternoon about regulations and company protocol."
|Noun. 1. A tantrum, a fit of anger. See 'throw a benny'.
2. A person from the Falkland Islands. A nickname given to islanders by the British army during the Falklands War, and supposedly as they looked like a character called Benny from a British TV soap called Crossroads. [1982]
| Adj. 1. Homosexual, as opposed to 'straight'. Derog. [Mid 1900s]
2. Criminal, corrupt. E.g."You can usually buy your freedom; the cops are bent and paid poorly." [Early 1900s]
3. Illegal, stolen. E.g."I'm not touching that video, it's bent." [Early 1900s]
|bent as a bottle of chips
|Phrs. 1. Homosexual.
2. Crooked, dishonest. See 'bottle of chips'.
|bent as a nine bob note
| Phrs. 1. Homosexual. See 'bent'.
2. Crooked, dishonest.
A catch-phrase whose original meaning was version 2, but with the onset of 'bent' referring to homosexually has come to be heard more with regard to version 1. In British currency, a bob was a slang expression for a shilling (five pence) but with decimalization in 1971 became obsolete.There was never any such thing as a nine bob note, hence the simile. Cf. 'queer as a nine bob note' and 'camp as a row of tents'.
|bent as a nine pound note
|Phrs. A modern variation on 'bent as a nine bob note', see above.
|Noun. An idiot, objectionable person. Derived from the rhyming slang Berkshire Hunt or Berkeley Hunt, meaning 'cunt'. Normally Berkshire and Berkeley would be pronounced Barkshire and Barkeley. This expression is generally accepted as inoffensive despite its source. Also 'burk'.
|(the) berries
|Noun. The best. Also 'the berrys'. [Scottish use]
|Bertie big bollocks
|Noun. A person with an over inflated opinion and value of themselves. The expression, if not invented, was popularized by John Sitton, manager of Leyton Orient football club, who, on a 1995 TV documentary on his team ('Orient: Club for a Fiver'), angrily berates his team during the half-time team talk, after going 3-0 down. [1990s]
|best of British!
|Phrs. Good luck!
|(the) best thing since sliced bread
|Phrs. Absolutely the best thing ever.
|better half
|Noun. One's wife, husband or partner.
|better than a kick in the teeth / balls
|Phrs. Catch-phrase expressing that one should be happy with the situation, as it could be much worse. E.g."I only won £10 on the national lottery yesterday, but I shouldn't complain, it's better than a kick in the balls."
|better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick
|Phrs. A catch-phrase that expresses that a situation could be much worse, hence one should be grateful. Also 'better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick'.
|better than a slap in the face with a wet kipper / fish
|Phrs. Expresses that a situation could be considerably worse, hence one should be grateful.
|Betty Swollox
|Noun. Perspiring, uncomfortable or itchy testicles. A spoonerism and literally sweaty bollocks. Also spelt Betty Swallocks and Betty Swollocks.
|bevvied up
|Adj. Drunk. Occasionally shortened to bevvied.
|Noun. A general term for an alcoholic drink. Taken from the word beverage. Cf. 'bevvied up'.
|bezzy mates
|Noun. Best friends. E.g."They've been bezzy mates since they were at nursery together."
| Noun. Abb. of bisexual.
Adj. Bisexual.
|Noun. A contemptible person, usually woman. Alternative form of 'bitch'. [Orig. U.S. 1990s]
|bible basher
|Noun. A fanatical preacher of religion. Derog.
|bible thumper
|Noun. Meaning the same as 'bible basher'.
|Noun. A biscuit.
| Noun. 1. A woman, usually referring to an elderly woman and often
reinforced with the word old. E.g."I suggest you don't go
to the post office on a Thursday, that's when all the old biddies collect
their pension money and the queues are terrible."
2. A head louse, and occ. any skin/hair parasite such as a flea. Usually in the plural, as biddies. E.g."First day at school and my youngest came home with a head full of biddies."
Adj. Small.
| Verb. To hit. E.g."He biffed his head on the low ceiling."
Noun. The vagina.
|Noun. An ugly person, often assumed to be overweight, but also heard as fat biffa. Derog.
|biffin's bridge
|Noun. The perineum; the area between the anus and the vulva, or scrotum. Cf. 'biffon'
|Noun. The perineum. The place where the man's testicles would hit (see biff) during vigorous sexual intercourse. Cf. 'biffin's bridge'.
|biftah *
Noun. 1. A cigarette.
|big cheese
|Noun. A very important person.
|big deal!
|Exclam. A sarcastic exclamation for not being very impressed.
|(the) big E
|Noun. Dismissal, rejection. From the metaphorical use of elbow (E), in rejecting someone. See 'give someone the elbow'.
|big girl's blouse
|Noun. A feeble and ineffectual person. Derog.
|big it up
|Verb. See 'big up'.
|big style
|Adj. Greatly. E.g."Yeah she's into him big-style."
|big time
| Noun. The upper levels of power, success. E.g."She's hit the
big time with getting that fifty thousand pound contract." [Orig. U.S.]
Adv. Greatly, very much.
|big up
|Verb. To praise, to acclaim. Also to big oneself up or to big it up. [Orig W.I.]
|big white telephone
|Noun. The toilet; not the room itself, but the toilet bowl. Usually combined with various terms to express the action of vomiting, i.e. talking down the big white telephone, or talking to God on the big white telephone etc.
|Noun. A promiscuous woman, often with respect to the immediate district or locality. Derog. Cf. 'town bike'.
|bilge (water)
|Noun. Nonsense, rubbish. E.g."You are talking absolute bilge!"
|(the) Bill
|Noun. The police. Cf. 'old bill'.
|Noun. Underwear. Rhyming slang on Bill Grundy's, meaning undies. Bill Grundy, a British TV presenter, infamous for his provoking punk band, the Sex Pistols, into swearing on live TV, on the Today programme in 1976. [North-west/Merseyside use]
|Noun. Amphetamine Sulphate. Abb. of 'Billy Whizz', a cartoon character from the children's magazine Beano; Billy Whizz does everything with exceptional speed and energy. Cf. 'whizz'.
|billy goat
|Noun. A coat. Rhyming slang.
|Billy no mates
|Noun. A person who appears to have no friends. Derog.
|Adv. A lot, greatly, quickly etc. E.g"She's been moaning like billy-o all morning, wanting me to hang out the washing, clean the car, do the hoovering, mow the lawn, I've had enough."
|billy willy
|Noun. A shrivelled penis, from imbibing amphetamine sulphate or other drugs that cause such a physiological reaction. See 'willy' and 'billy'.
|Noun. An ambling walk. E.g."I'm just going for a bimble
to the shops, back in 20 minutes."
Verb. To wander aimlessly, to amble.
|Noun. A young attractive, empty headed woman. Derog.
|Noun. A BMW car. Cf. 'beemer'. [Orig. W.I. / Black]
|Verb. To throw away, to discard.
|Verb. To terminate a relationship. From the returning of possessions in a big bag, a disposable bag made of black polythene. E.g."I didnt come home until the next morning, and with lipstick on my shirt collar, I was promptly bin-bagged." [Merseyside use]
| Noun. A spree, often involving food or alcohol.
Verb. To go on a spree.
|bingo wings
|Noun. Fatty, folds of flesh on the underarms of overweight women, who might commonly be seen at Bingo nights. [1990s]
|bin lid
|Noun. An adolescent. Rhyming slang for kid.
|Noun. A refuse collector. A variation on 'binman'. Also binno.
|Noun. A refuse collector, a dustbin man.
|bin off *
| Verb. 1. To discard, throw away.
2. To terminate a relationship.
* Both are North-west England usage.
|Noun. Spectacles.
|Noun. A woman. From the Arabic 'bint' meaning girl or daughter.
| Noun. 1. A female. Use can be taken as offensive. E.g."Did you
see that bird at the back of the bus!"
2. A girlfiend, when used in conjunction with a possessive pronoun, such as my bird.
3. Time spent in prison. E.g."I did 20 years bird before I learnt how to control my temper and keep out of trouble."
|Adj. Stupid, lacking commonsense. {Informal}
|birmingham screwdriver
|Noun. A hammer.
|biscuit arsed
|Adj. Dirty, filthy. Also biscuit ersed, from Scottish pronunciation. [Mainly Scottish use]
|Noun. A woman. Abb. of 'bit of fluff' or 'bit of skirt', generally a person viewed sexually. Derog.
Noun. 1. A contemptible woman. Used on the gay scene to describe
an equally despised male.
|bitchin (!) *
|Exclam. Excellent! Wonderful! Cool!
Adj. Excellent, cool. E.g."She was wearing a bitchin pair of shoes, but that hat was just awful."
* Also bitching.
|bitch piss
|Noun. Sweet, ready-mixed fruit and alcohol drink. Cf. 'alcopop' and 'tart fuel'.'
|bitch tits
|Noun. 1. Overly developed fatty deposits on the male breasts,
the medical condition of gynecomastia. Term can be heard on the bodybuilding
scene, the condition being one of the consequences of steroid abuse.
2. As the above, having fatty breast tissue, but due to excessive drinking of beer. Cf. 'beer tits'
|bit of all right
|Noun. Something excellent. Often heard used with reference to a sexually attractive person. E.g."She's a bit of alright! I'm going to ask her for a date."
|bit of fluff
|Noun. A sexual partner.
|bit of rough
|Noun. A sexual partner below one's normal standards or believed class.
|bit of skirt
|Noun. A woman or women. A male expression for females viewed sexually. Also abbreviated to 'skirt'. Derog.
|bit of spare
|Noun. A sexually available person.
|bit of stuff
|Noun. A sexually desirable person or persons.
|bit on the side
| Noun. 1. A sexual relationship extra to one's usual partner,
an affair.
2. The other person in a sexual affair.
|Noun. A euphemism for the genitals.
|bits and bats
|Noun. Miscellaneous items. Cf. 'bits and bobs'.
|bits and bobs
|Noun. Miscellaneous items. {Informal}
| Adj. Rubbish, nonsense. E.g."Don't go and see that new amateur
play at the theatre, it was biz."
Noun. Abb. of business. See '(the) business'
|Noun. The police. Possibly derived from the expression busy body. Also busies. [North-west use]
|Noun. Oral sex. An abb. of 'blow job'.
|Noun. A person who reveals too much in conversation, a gossip.
|black over Bill's mothers
|Phrs. It looks as though it's going to rain. [E. Midlands use]
|black as Newgate's knocker
|Phrs. Very black.
|Adj. Drunk.
| Verb. To lie, or use clever talk with profit as an objective,
to wheedle or persuade for gain. E.g."I blagged a lift to work with
my sister but had to get the bus home."
Noun. 1. A con, a 'scam'.
2. A violent robbery or raid.
|blag artist
|Noun. A person with a reputation for using clever talk for self gain.
|Noun. 1. A robber, especially of banks, and often with the use of a weapon or violence.
2. See 'blag artist'.
|Verb. To rudely ignore. E.g."Despite being introduced 5 minutes earlier, he just blanked me and continued talking.."
|Noun. Diarrhoea, the illness.
|Verb. To cry. [Midlands use]
|blast (!)
| Noun. 1. An inhalation of a cigarette or 'joint'. E.g."Give
us a blast on your cigarette, I've just run out."
2. An enjoyable experience. [U.S.] E.g."Wasn't the party last night a blast?"
3. A fast run in a vehicle. E.g."We're going for a blast up to the coast to get some fresh air."
Exclam. An exclamation of annoyance.
|Adj./Adv. Blatantly, blatant.
|Adj. Drunk. E.g."Phil was blathered and we had to carry him home." [Mainly Yorkshire use]
|Noun. Diarrhoea, the illness. E.g."I daren't leave the house, I've got the blatts."
|Verb. To set alight. Usually with respect to the lighting of cigarettes and marijuana cigarettes, 'joints'.
|Adj. Very intoxicated, or high, on marijuana or cannabis.
|Adj. Smoking marijuana or cannabis.
|Noun. A person, more often than not one who is objectionable.
|Adv. Used as an intensive. E.g."That bleeding idiot from next door is drunk again."
|bleed like a stuck pig
|Vrb phrs. To bleed profusely.
|Noun. Mechanical lubricating oil. [Mainly Crewe use]
|Noun. An insignificant or objectionable person. E.g."This blighter approaches me and asks for a cigarette; sure I say, and then he has the gall to put it in his pocket and says he'll smoke that later and then asks for another to have now." {Informal}
|Noun. Affectionate name for England as one's home, often used jocularly. Orig. used by colonial Indian Army, from the Hindustani bilyati, meaning foreign. [Early 1900s]
|Noun. A red hot fragment of cannabis that occasionally fall from lit cannabis cigarettes. Cf 'blimp'.
|blim burn
|Noun. A scorch mark or hole in fabrics and clothing, created by a burning crumb of cannabis. See 'blim'
|Exclam. An exclamation of surprise. An abbreviated form of blind me. Cf. 'cor blimey'.
|blimey o'reilly!
|Exclam. An exclamation of surprise.
|Noun. A red hot fragment of cannabis that will occasionally fall from alight 'joints', causing small burns to skin, clothing and furnishings. E.g."You could tell he was a heavy smoker, cos he had little holes all over his t-shirt from blimps."
|Noun. An excellent achievement. E.g."Tim's played another blinder." {Informal}
|Adj. Excellent, wonderful. E.g."We had a blinding time last night."
|Adj. Extremely drunk. From blind drunk.
|Noun. Abb. form of 'bling bling'.
|bling bling
Noun. 1. Jewellery. There's been much speculation as to its
origins, including amongst those suggestions put forward are the following:
|bling up
|Verb. To make showy and visually ostentatious. E.g."I blinged up my car so that I'd get some female attention."
|Adj./Adv. Used as an intensifier, but a particularly mild expression. E.g."Your blinkin' washing machine has broken down again." or "It's blinkin' heavy, this washing machine".
|blinkin' heck!
|Exclam. An old fashioned inoffensive exclamation of surprise, often expressed without the 'h'. Also 'heck' can be replaced with 'hell'.
| Adj. 1. An intensifier such as 'bloody'. E.g."How can I have
toast when that blithering idiot has just eaten all the bread!"
2. Senseless and excessive talking. {Informal}.
|blither on
|Verb. To talk incessently and boringly. Blither is a varient spelling of the s.e.blather. E.g."Please stop blithering on, your voice is driving my crazy." {Informal}
|Adj. Very intoxicated, drunk.
|Noun. A fat and unnattractive person. Derog.
|Verb. To bleed through menstruation. E.g."She was blobbing and still wanted sex, but I'm not keen on blood." Cf. 'on the blob'.
|blob strop
|Noun. Of females, a fit of anger brought on through premenstrual tension.
|blog on
|Noun. A bad mood.
|Noun. A man.
|blonde moment
|Noun. A moment of stupidity. Based on the misguided belief that blondes are considerably less intelligent than those with other hair colours. Derog.
|Noun. A friendly term of address. Orig. Black use for addressing a fellow Black.
|blood and sand!
|Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or anger. A mild and antiquated curse.
|Noun. Sexual acts with a woman during the period of her menstruation.
| Adj. Expressing annoyance as an intensifier. E.g."That bloody
idiot needs a good thumping."
Adv. As an intensifier. E.g."I'll bloody thump that idiot."
|bloody hell!
|Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or frustration.
|Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or anger. Cf. 'flaming-Nora!' and 'ruddy-Nora!'
|Noun. A mistake. {Informal}
|Adj./Adv. An intensifier. E.g."It's blooming cold outside!"
|Verb. To kick a ball forcefully, often implying without good control. [Scottish use]
|Adj. Drunk. [Scottish use]
|Adj. Very drunk. [Early 1900s]
|Noun. Cannabis or marijuana. It's interesting to note that in the U.S. it refers to cocaine. [1960s]
|blow a fuse / gasket
|Vrb phrs. To be very angry.
|blow away
| Verb. 1. To kill.
2. To amaze. Cf. 'blow one's mind.'
|Noun. A method of sharing a 'joint' between two people, with one person blowing and the other inhaling.
|blow chunks
|Verb. To vomit. E.g."" Suzanne's been blowing chunks all night so I don't expect her to want any breakfast." [Orig. U.S.]
|Noun. The telephone. From the 'speaking tube', down which one blew to attract a person's attention prior to having a conversation through it. {Informal}
|blow it!
|Exclam. A dismissive exclamation of frustration and anger.
|blow job
|Noun. Fellatio or cunnilingus. [Orig. U.S.]
|blow it!
|Exclam. An exclamation of anger or frustration.
|blow its tits off
|Vrb phrs. To be very windy or blustery. E.g."It's still blowing its tits off this morning so we wont be able to go sailing into the bay." [Mainly/Orig. sailing use]
|Verb. To break wind, but not belching. E.g."As boys seem to spend all night blowing off, I recommend you avoid cleaning their dorm until later in the morning."
|blow one's mind
|Vrb phrs. To cause to be utterly confused or amazed, originally when on hallucinogens. E.g."That trip was too much, it just blew my mind." [1960s]
|blow one's top
|Vrb phrs. To explode with fury.
|blow one's wad
|Vrb phrs. To ejaculate semen. E.g."It was disgusting, he blew his wad all over my breasts."
|blow out
| Noun. An excessive spree of drinking, eating, spending or sex.
Verb. To cancel an arranged meeting with someone, or an planned event, unreasonably or without due notification. E.g."I'm going to blow out my brother's birthday party and go to that new club night instead."
|blow the gaff
|Vrb phrs. To reveal a plot or secret. {Informal}
|blow the whistle on
|Vrb phrs. To inform on.
|Verb. To sob. Possibly onomatopoeic. [Mid 1800s]
|Noun. A form of address. Alternative spelling of 'blood'. See 'blood'.
|blue arsed fly
|Noun. See 'like a blue arsed fly'.
|blue rinser
|Noun. An elderly lady, a lady pensioner. From the habit of some of this particular age group having their hair died with a hint of blue.
|Noun. A £5 note (sterling). Because of its colour.
|Noun. A marijuana/cannabis cigarette. More specifically, especially in the U.S., a blunt is marijuana rolled in the outer leaves of a cigar.
|Adj. Intoxicated by marijuana. From the term 'blunt', .
|Noun. The vagina.
|Noun. Penis. [Glasgow use]
|Verb. To vomit. [Mainly N. England/Scottish use]
|Noun. Face. From the rhyming slang boat race.
| Verb. To visit briefly. E.g."I'm just gonna bob down to the
corner shop for some fags, do you want anything?"
Noun. 1. A shilling in pre-decimal currency which now amounts to 5 pence.
2. A sex toy, a vibrator. An abbreviation of battery operated boyfriend.
|Bob (and hit) *
|Noun. Excrement.
Verb. An act of defecation.
* Rhyming slang on shit.
|Noun. Rubbish, nonsense, useless. Manchester rhyming slang for rotten, from bobbins of cotton. E.g."That meal was bobbins, next time we'll eat at home."
|Adj. Drunk, intoxicated. [Manchester use]
|Noun. A policeman/woman. The name derives from the pet form of the Christian name of Sir Robert Peel, who established the present British police organisation. {Informal}
|Noun. A amazing thing or person. {Informal}
|Acronym. A facially unattractive female, who possesses a sexually desirable body. From body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch; both TV programmes.
|Bob (Hope)
|Noun. Marijuana or cannabis. Rhyming slang for 'dope' (noun 2).
|Noun. Sleep. Generally a children's expression.
|bob on
|Adj. Spot on, correct. E.g."There's no doubt, she's bob on with her facts." [North-west/Manchester use]
|Bob's your uncle
|Phrs. There you have it; a catch phrase expressing satisfactory completion. E.g."Make sure you have primed and undercoated the wood. Then apply the gloss paint and Bob's your uncle! The wood will stay protected and look good for another couple of years."
|Verb. To drive an articulated lorry (HGV) without a trailer and cargo. [HGV drivers vernacular]
|Noun. A person. {Informal}
| Verb. 1. To do a poor job or repair.
2. To cobble (something together). E.g."I bodged together that furniture out of driftwood and old egg boxes."
* Compare with 'botch'.
|bodge job
| Noun. A job done poorly, something cobbled together, a makeshift
* Compare with 'botch job'.
|Noun. A contemptible, old person. Acronym of boring old fart.
| Verb. 1. To break wind, 'fart'.
2. To have sex (with).
| Noun. 1. A person involved in scientific/technical research,
usually associated with the wearing of white laboratory coats, glasses,
and carrying a clipboard. Derog. {Informal}
2. An intellectual.
|Noun. A toilet. [1800s]
|bog all
|Noun. Nothing, or a total lack of. E.g."We've bog all chance of winning without our captain and best player."
|Verb. To selfishly hold on to (something). Jocular usage, heard amongst smokers of cannabis/marijuana. E.g."Come on Tim, don't bogart that joint, we all want to get stoned sometime tonight."
|Noun. A tiny ball of nasal mucus.
|Adj. Bleary or tired looking eyed, either from too little sleep or intoxication by drink or drugs.
|Adj. Unpleasant, vile, ugly. [Orig. Scottish]
|bog off (!)
| Verb. To go away.
Exclam. Go away! Leave me alone!
|Noun. Toilet paper. See 'bog'.
|Adj. Normal, average, usual. E.g."It was just a bog-standard Christmas, too much food, too much booze and not enough sleep."
|Noun. An Irish person. Derog/offens.
|Noun. An unattractive woman. Often phrased as old boiler for added derogatory emphasis. Derog.
|Verb. To vomit. [Scottish/Northern Irish use]
|Bolivian marching powder
|Noun. Cocaine. Humourous use.
|Noun. Alternative spelling of 'bollocks'.
| Verb. To reprimand. E.g."My dad bollocked me for stealing
money from his wallet! I was only borrowing it."
Noun. A testicle.
|Noun. The scrotum and testicles.
|Noun. Idiot, imbecile. Derog.
|Noun. A severe reprimand.
|(the) bollocks
|Noun. The best, a thing or situation of excellence. Abb of 'dog's bollocks'.
|bollocks (!) *
| Noun. 1. Testicles. S.e. until mid 1800s.
2. Rubbish, nonsense, drivel. E.g."That film was bollocks."
Exclam. An expression of anger, frustration, or defiance.
* Also written as bollox or bollix.
| Adj. 1. Worn out, ruined, tired.
2. Very intoxicated.
|...bollocks off
|Phrs. Suffixal use expressing the extreme or excessive nature of an action. For example, "I ran my bollocks off but still came last."
|bollock (something) up
|Vrb phrs. To make a mistake, to mess something up.
|bollocks to that!
|Exclam. A defiant exclamation.
|Adj. Worthless, rubbishy.
|Noun. Alternative spelling of 'bollocks'.
|Adj. Angrily provocative. Originating from the socialist revolutionaries the Bolsheviks.
| Noun. 1. Another name for burning cannabis fragments. See 'blimps'
for a fuller explanation. Variations include bombies and bombers.
2. A small quantity of illicit drugs wrapped in a handrolling cigarette paper, forming a pill like ball. Made either for easier consumption at a later date or to avoid the bitter taste of the drugs when loose.
3. As, the bomb, meaning excellent, the best. [Orig. U.S.]
Verb. To travel or move quickly. E.g."Will you bomb round to the corner shop and get a pint of milk?" {Informal}
|bombed out
|Adj. Incapacitated by drink or drugs. Also shortened to 'bombed'.
|bommie night
|Noun. Bonfire night, see 'bonnie night'. Possibly spelt bombie night from the use of fireworks. [East Lancashire/Merseyside use]
|Noun. The head.
|Verb. To have sexual intercourse.
Noun. The act of having sexual intercourse.
|Noun. A protective helmet, such as a motorcycle helmet.
| Noun. 1. A stupid person.
2. Of a person, having a shaved head.
|Noun. An erect penis.
|bone up
|Verb. To study hard. E.g."I've been boning up on my highway code - my driving exam is next week." [Orig. US]
|Noun. A water pipe used for smoking cannabis or marijuana.
|bongo mag
|Noun. A pornographic magazine. Abbreviated form of the less commonly heard bongo magazine.
| Verb. To fornicate. An inoffensive expression, generally used
more by adolescents.
Noun. A sexual act.
| Adj. 1. Crazy, insane. E.g."He must be bonkers! Imagine
going out and getting drunk before meeting his girlfriend's parents for
the first time." [Early 1900s]
2. Eager for, crazy for.
|Noun. A bonfire.
|bonnie night
|Noun. Bonfire Night. An annual celebration of the foiling of an attempt to blow up The Houses of Parliament in 1605.
| Noun. 1. A mistake. Cf. 'booboo'.
2. A breast. See 'boobs'.
|Noun. Women's breasts. Affectionate usage, often implying small breasts.
|Noun. Breasts. Humorous usage.
|boob job
|Noun. Breast enhancement by plastic surgery.
|Noun. A mistake. E.g."Oh no! I've just made a classic booboo". Cf. 'boob'.
|boob tube
|Noun. 1. The television. [Orig. U.S. 1950s]
2. A tight, strapless top worn by females that is a basic tube of material. {Informal}
|Noun. Breasts. Can be used singularly, as boob. [Mid 1900s]
| Noun. A dance, usually to pop music.
Verb. To dance.
|Adj. Cool, excellent. Teen and adolescence vernacular, derived from the first choice of words offered on a mobile phone (cellphone) when texting the word cool with predictive text . [2000s]
|Exclam. A form of verbal appreciation, sounding more like boo!. Also spelt booom! Originally from the Black UK garage scene? [1990s]
|Noun. Rural areas, the countryside. Abb. of boondocks. [Orig. U.S.]
| Noun. 1. An unattractive person.
2. As the boot, meaning the 'sack', termination of employment. See 'give one the boot.'
|Noun. A Royal Marine. [Military use]
|Noun. The buttocks. Mainly black use. [Orig. U.S./Black]
|booty call
|Noun. A call to arrange a sexual rendezvous. Mainly black use. [Orig. U.S./Black]
|bootylicious *
|Adj. 1. Of a woman, sexually attractive. [Orig. U.S./Black]
2. Having a sexually desirable bottom, usually full and well rounded. [Orig. U.S./Black]
* The expression, in this form, was popularize by Beyonce Knowles in the song of the same title she wrote for, and performed with, Destiny's Child. Its first appearence in the media was in the U.S. sitcom A Different World in 1993.
|Noun. Alcoholic drink. {Informal}
|booze cruise
|Noun. A boat trip (usually just one day) to mainland Europe, in order to purchase the considerably cheaper alcohol (and cigarettes) than is available in Britain.
| Noun. 1. A public house, a bar. {Informal}
2. A person who enjoys regularly drinking alcohol. {Informal}
3. An alcoholic. {Informal}
|Noun. A drinking spree.
|Adj. Poor, having no money. Rhyming slang for 'skint', from boracic lint, an ointment, pronounced borrassic. Also heard as brassick. E.g."I can't come out for a drink, I'm boracic until I get paid next Friday."
|bored out of one's skull
|Phrs. Extremely bored.
|bore off (!)
|Verb./Exclam. Go away, a general dismissive exclamation.
|bore rigid
|Verb. To utterly bore. E.g."He bores me rigid with his tales of wealth, fame, and his sexual conquests."
|bore shitless
|Verb. Bore completely. E.g."I was bored shitless by her talking non-stop about her family."
|bore stiff
|Verb. Bore completely.
|bore the pants off (someone)
|Vrb phrs. To bore someone greatly. E.g."That 8 hour seminar on nuclear physics bored the pants off me." The suffixal ..the pants off is often used as an negative intensifier, e.g."He just mithered the pants off me all morning." Similar idiomatic intensifiers are '..the tits off'and '..the arse off'.
|bore the tits off (someone)
|Vrb phrs. Meaning the same as 'bore the pants off (someone)'.
| Noun. Nonsense, rubbish.
Verb. To take orally, to imbibe. E.g."She boshed 7 pills, a handful of mushrooms and 8 vodka and tonics in the first hour, and then not surprisingly she threw up." [London use]
|Adj. Excellent, good. [Orig. U.S.]
|Adj. Cross-eyed or having a squint. {Informal}
|Noun. A person who bosses others around, a domineering person. {Informal}
|Adj. Broken. Probably from bust. [W. Midlands use]
|Adj. Great, good, enjoyable. E.g."She had a bostin figure." [W. Midlands use]
|botch job
|Noun. 1. A makeshift construction or repair. Cf. 'bodge'.
2. A thing done badly. Cf. 'bodge'.
|botch (up)
| Verb. 1. To build or repair in a makeshift manner.
2. To do something badly.
Noun. 1. A makeshift construction or repair.
2. A thing done badly.
* All the meanings and uses of 'botch' are informal. Cf. 'bodge'.
| Noun. Courage, confidence. E.g."Johnny's scared, he's lost his
Verb. To smash a bottle into a person's face, very often a beer bottle after a drinking spree.
|bottle it
| Verb. 1. To lose courage. Also bottle out. See 'bottle'.
2. Shut up! Usually imper.
|bottle of chips
|Phrs. An unlikely thing. Used in expressions to add emphasis, such as in 'bent as a bottle of chips', 'queer as a bottle of chips', 'mad as a bottle of chips' etc
|Noun. A person who easily gives up, or loses the courage to complete a task. Derog.
|bottom burp
|Noun. Wind from the anus, a 'fart'. Also abbreviated to botty burp. [1980s]
|bottom feeder
|Noun. A despicable person.
|bottomless pit
|Noun. A person with an insatiable appetite for food.
|Noun. The buttocks. Also abbreviated to bot. Children's expression.
|boulder houlder
|Noun. A brassiere. Jocular male usage. Cf. 'over the shoulder boulder holder'. [1950s]
|Noun. The ability to recover quickly from a period of failure, having the ability to bounce back. First coined by Iain Dowie, manager of the Crystal Palace football team. [2004]
|Noun. A person employed to eject troublemakers from clubs or events. These days they prefer the title of security.
|bournville boulevard
|Noun. The anus. A British equivalent of the US slang hershey highway. Often heard in phrases such as "take a stroll/trip down bournville boulevard", meaning to engage in anal intercourse. Commonly mispelt as bourneville boulevard. [1990s]
|Noun. Trouble. A corruption of bother, derived from cockney pronounciation.
|Noun. Sturdy heavy boots.
|Adj. Disgusting, unpleasant. [Scottish use]
|Noun. 1. Anus.
2. Vagina.
|box clever
|Verb. To act shrewdly or in a manner so as to outwit someone. {Informal}
|Adj. Intoxicated by drink or drugs. Cf. 'off one's box'.
|boy boobs
|Noun. Male breasts. Cf. 'moobs'.
|boy dem
|Noun. A police officer. Also boydem. [Mainly Black use]
|Noun. Abb. of boyfriend.
|boy racer
|Noun. A young man who has a penchant for fast cars and reckless driving.
|Noun. Affectionate term of address, usually for a younger male.
|Noun. An objectionable person, an idiot.
|brace and bit
|Noun. An act of defecation. Rhyming slang on 'shit'.
|brad pitt
|Noun. 1. An act of defecation. Rhyming slang on 'shit'. [1990s]
2. When plural, as Brad Pitts, meaning a bout of diarrhoea. Rhyming slang on 'shits'. [1990s]
|brahms (and liszt)
|Adj. Drunk, intoxicated with alcohol. Rhyming slang on 'pissed'. See 'pissed'.
|Verb. To hit on the head. E.g."If you don't tidy your room now, I'll brain you."
|Adj. Extreme drug intoxication, affecting the mental faculties.
|brain fart
|Noun. An inability to think clearly, or a moment of forgetfulness. [Orig. U.S.]
|Noun. A person or thing that is outstanding. Also brahma, brama, bramah and bramma. [Mainly West Scottish use]
|bran new
|Adj. Excellent, respectable. [Scottish/Glasgow use]
|Exclam. Used to express satisfaction, approval or excitement.
| Noun. 1. Money.
2. Prostitute. Short for brass nail, rhyming slang for tail, which is itself slang for, amongst other things, a woman and prostitute.
|brassed off
|Adj. Fed-up, annoyed. E.g."I'm brassed off all this bad weather."
|Adj. See 'boracic'
|brass monkeys
|Adj. Of the weather or air temperature, very cold. E.g."Wear a hat and scarf, it's brass monkeys out there." See 'brass monkey weather'.
|brass monkey weather
|Noun. Very cold weather. From the phrase, 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'. Cf. 'brassy' and 'brass monkeys'.
|Noun. Impudence, cheek, nerve. Also brass-necked (adj). [Orig. Northern dialect]
|Adj. Very cold. From the phrase, 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'. Cf. 'brass monkey weather'
|Verb. To burst. [Lancs/Yorks use]
|Verb. To beat up, thrash. [North-east use]
|Noun. Money.
| Noun. 1. A style of drum patterns originating from jazz.
2. A dance music genre epitomised by speedy 'samples' of breakbeats. Originally 'rave' specific but developed into 'jungle' and 'drum and bass.'
|break one's balls
|Vrb phrs. To work very hard. [Orig. U.S.]
|Noun. Friend, brother. From the archaic s.e. brethren. [Mainly Black use]
|Noun. A heterosexual. From the fact that heterosexuals actively procreate, or breed. Derog. [Gay use/ Orig. U.S.]
|Noun. Abb. of breakfast. Also the variant, brekkers.
|Noun. A term of address, for a friend. From brother. [Mainly Black use]
| Noun. 1. A cup of tea, or more generally a warm drink.
2. Alcoholic drink, usually beer or lager.
|brewers droop
|Noun. An inability to achieve or maintain a penile erection due to excessive consumption of alcohol.
|Verb. To make a cup or pot of tea. {Informal}
|Noun. A helpful and reliable person. {Informal}
|Noun. Abb. of bricklayer.
|Verb. To be very scared, terrified. Cf. 'shit bricks'.
|brick shithouse
|Noun. Something or someone strong and very sturdy, with impressive physique. Usually heard in the phrase 'built like a brick shithouse'.
|Noun. A solicitor or barrister. {Informal}
|Adj. Excellent, superb. An abbreviation of brilliant. E.g."We had a brill night, dancing for 8 hours." {Informal}
|brilliant (!)
Adj./Exclam. Excellent, marvellous. {Informal}
|bring off
|Verb. To help achieve orgasm.
|Noun. Breasts. From the rhyming slang Bristol City - titty. See 'tit'.
|Noun. Beers. Rhyming slang on Britney Spears. Very popular and recent expression. [Late 1990s]
|Noun. Abb. of brother.
|Noun. An umbrella. {Informal}
|Noun. A very close, intimate friendship between two or more males. A combination of brother and romance. [Orig. U.S. 1990s]
|Noun. Unemployment bureau or benefits office. An abbreviated form of bureau. E.g."I was laid off work yesterday, so I'm going down the broo to sign on for social security." Cf. 'on the broo'.
|Noun. An abbreviated name frequently used for the British TV soap Brookside, which ceased transmission in 2003. Cf. 'Corry' and 'Stenders'.
|brothel creepers
|Noun. Thick rubber soled shoes, fashionable with the Teddy Boys and rockers of the 1950s, and revived in the 1980s.
|brown bread
|Adj. Dead. Cockney rhyming slang.
|browned off
|Adj. Upset, fed up, miserable.
|Noun. The anus.
|brown hatter
|Noun. A homosexual male. Derog.
|brownie point
|Noun. A hypothetical award for achievement, usually given as a backhanded compliment for sycophantic behaviour.
|Verb. To overly praise or behave sycophantically, i.e. to 'arse-lick'. E.g."Tom's in the manager's office brown-nosing - hoping to get that promotion."
|Noun. A sycophant.
|Noun. Cigarette(s). E.g."Will you pass me a browns, I'm gasping for a smoke." [London use]
|brown trout
|Noun. A lump of excrement.
|brown trouser moment
|Noun. An extremely frightening moment.
|brown wings
|Noun. Of males, getting one's brown wings denotes having had anal sex with someone. A play on the RAF expression earn one's wings. Brown is a commonly used term for things anal or of that part of the anatomy. Usually heard in phrases such as earn/get one's brown wings.
|Bruce Lees
|Noun. Erect and prominent nipples. A play on words, from Bruce Lee (the actor famous for his Martial Arts skills/films) being a hard Nip (a tough and unyielding person from Japan, or rather oriental, being as Bruce Lee was American born and whose parents were from Hong Kong). See 'hard' and 'Nip'.
|Noun. The City of Birmingham. From the word brummagem.
|Noun. A native of Birmingham. {Informal}
|Noun. A term of address, usually for a friend. A corruption of brother. [Mainly South-east use]
|Noun. Female breasts.
| Verb. To inform. From the rhyming slang bubble and squeak
meaning speak. E.g."If you bubble me to the boss, I'll lose
my job."
Noun. A person from Greece. From bubble and squeak, cockney rhyming slang on Greek.
|bubble (bath)
|Noun. A laugh. Rhyming slang. E.g."You're having a bubble James, if you think I'm going to give you twenty notes."
|bubble butt
|Noun. A well rounded, sexually attractive bottom. Also bubblebutt.
|Adj. Found out, discovered. E.g."I can't get any more of those cheap Reebok trainers, I was bubbled hiding ten pairs in my car so lost my job."
|Noun. An empty headed and stupid person. [Orig. U.S.]
|bucket down
|Verb. To rain heavily. The past tense is bucketing down.
|bucket fanny
|Noun. A large, expansive vagina. Often used in a context that implies promiscuity.
|buck naked
|Adj. Totally naked. Cf. 'butt naked'
|Adj. Free, without charge. {Informal}
|buck up
|Verb. To make happy or more cheerful.
|Noun. Abb. form of Buckfast wine. [Scottish use]
|Noun. Marijuana, or occasionally cannabis. Specifically the part of the marijuana plant that is smoked.
|budge up
|Verb. To move, in order to make room for someone. E.g."Budge up and let Bob sit down."
|Adj. Good looking, attractive.
|Noun. A homosexual male. Also bufty. [Scottish use]
| Verb. 1. To annoy, to bother.
2. To spy on via a concealed microphone.
|Adj. Having large bulbous eyes.
|bugger (!)
| Noun. 1. An objectionable person.
2. A person. Also used in a sense of pity, see 'sod'.
3. A situation or event that is difficult or distressing. E.g."It's a real bugger Pete catching the flu on his summer holidays."
Exclam. Expressing annoyance or frustration.
Verb. To ruin, damage, break. E.g."If I find out it was you that buggered my DVD player, then you can forget borrowing money from us to go on holiday."
|bugger about / around
|Verb. To mess around, waste time.
|Noun. Absolutely nothing at all. E.g."There's bugger-all we can do about it now, the police are here and we're trapped."
|Exclam. An exclamation of annoyance or surprise.
|Adj. Worn out, broken, ruined.
|Noun. Sideburns, facial hair on the side of a man's face.
|bugger(ed) if...
|Phrs. Beginning a phrase will mean 'there's no way', such as "bugger if I'm going to volunteer when it'll mean missing the party". It is an abbreviated form of 'I'll be buggered if...'.
|buggering hell!
|Exclam. Expressing surprise or anger. Also occasionally shortened to bugger hell!.
|bugger it!
|Exclam. Exclamation of frustration.
|Noun. A term of address, usually affectionate use. [Late 1800s]
|bugger me!
|Exclam. An exclamation of surprise.
|Verb. Get lost, clear off. Usually said in annoyance and in the imper.
|bugger that for a game of soldiers
|Vrb phrs. A expression of resignation - i.e. there's no way that I'm doing that! Similar sentiments to the expression screw it. E.g."Bugger that for a game of soldiers, I dont care how safe you say it is, I'm not jumping out of a plane at 3,000 feet with or without a parachute." Cf. 'sod that for a game of soldiers'.
|Verb. To mess up, to get wrong. E.g."It's no good, we may aswell go home, he's buggered up the evening by getting drunk."
|Adj. Used as an intensifier in denials such as 'did I buggery!' or 'like buggery she did'.
|bugger you
|Verb. An exclamation of annoyance.
|Noun. Cocaine.
|bugs bunny
|Noun. Money. Rhyming slang. [Orig. Aust.]
|builder's bum
|Noun. The top of the buttocks when seen above the waistline of trousers when a person is kneeling or bending. Alluding to builders and their propensity for revealing such.
|built like a brick shithouse
|Phrs. Large, sturdy, strong. Often said of a person.
|Noun. A euphemism for the male genitals usually from being apparent through clothing.
| Noun. Nonsense. A modification of 'bullshit'. [1600s]
Verb. To polish, clean. [Military use]
|bull dyke
|Noun. A masculine lesbian. Typifies the heterosexual necessity to impart male traits in a derogatory fashion, however the term is used and accepted within the scene.
| Noun. Nonsense, rubbish, egocentric boasting. Cf. 'bull'.
Verb. To lie, fib.
|Noun. An egocentric boaster, a teller of untruths.
| Noun. 1. The buttocks or anus.
2. A objectionable person.
3. A beggar, homeless person. Derog. [Orig. U.S.]
Verb. 1. To beg. E.g."Can I bum a cigarette off you until I buy some later?"
2. To bugger, sodomize.
Adj. Great, excellent.
|bum around
|Verb. To mess about, to laze about.
|Noun. An idiot, an objectionable person. Also occasionally spelt bumbaclat or bumbaclut. [Orig. W.I.]
|Noun. A small pouch worn around the waist or hips, held in place by a strap or belt, and used to hold valuables and money. The U.S. equivalent is a fanny pack.
|bum bandit
|Noun. A homosexual male. Derog. Cf 'arse bandit'.
|Noun. A homosexual male. Derog.
|Noun. A person with an apparently overly close friendship with another person. Although the underlying implication is of homosexuality, the expression is mainly used by children, with little true awareness of the sexual slur they may be imbuing. Derog.
|bum cleavage
|Noun. The area between the buttocks.
|Noun. A homosexual male. A combination of 'bummer' and 'bender'. Popularized by the TV sitcom The Inbetweeners. [2009]
|Noun. Printed documents and papers that are of little interest or importance. Abb. of 'bum fodder'. Cf. 'bumph'.
|Noun. Adolescent facial hair growth.
|bum fodder
|Noun. 1. Printed papers and documents that are of no interest,
and are viewed as only being suitable for using as toilet paper. Cf. 'bumf'
and 'bumph'.
2. Toilet paper.
|Noun. A short jacket, that doesn't cover one's bottom (bum), and thus leaves it vulnerable to the cold.
|bum fuck Egypt
|Noun. Somewhere very remote, the middle of nowhere. Less commonly, bum fucked Egypt. Often abbreviated to BFE in the written form, especially as on the Internet. [Poss. orig military]
| Noun. 1. A bad time, a bad experience, a disappointment. [Orig.
2. A homosexual male. Derog.
|bum nugget
|Noun. 1. Small faecal remnants that have stuck to one's anal hairs.
2. An idiot, contemptible person.
|Adj. Of work, a task, or event, exceedingly tiring or tedious. Also bum-numbingly.
|Noun. Papers or documents, usually of little interest or importance. Short for 'bum fodder'. Cf. 'bumf'. {Informal}
|Verb. To fortuitously meet with someone.
|bump off
|Verb. To murder.
|bump start
|Verb. To help motivate, assist in promoting action. E.g."I think we need to bump start the project with an ideas session."
|Adj. Attractive, good looking. E.g."She's bum-ting, her clothes are bum-ting, everything about her is bum-ting."
|bump tummies
|Verb. To have sexual intercourse.
|bump uglies
|Verb. To have sexual intercourse. E.g."My mum knows we're bumping uglies but she doesn't mind as long as we are careful."
|bum rap
|Noun. A false charge or allegation, an undeserved punishment. [Orig U.S. 1920s]
|(the) bum's rush
|Noun. Forced ejection or dismissal. [Orig. U.S.]
|bum steer
|Noun. An imparting of false information.
|Noun. A faecal deposit that has adhered to the anal hairs of a person or animal.
|Noun. Toilet paper.
|Noun. A smoke, particularly marijuana. From burn. [Orig W.I.]
|Noun. Money.
|Noun. A large quantity of money.
| Verb. To give or throw. E.g."Go on, bung her an extra tenner
for trying."
Noun. A bribe.
|Noun. An idiot. From not having much up upstairs. Derog.
|bun in the oven
|See 'have a bun in the oven'.
|bunk off
|Verb. To shirk one's duties. A common adolescent's term for avoiding school lessons.
|bunk up
|Noun. Sexual intercourse. E.g."I thought if I brought her drinks all night I'd at least get a bunk up."
|Noun. Smoking marijuana or cannabis. [Orig. W.I.]
|bunny boiler
|Noun. An obsessive and psychotic woman. Taken from a scene in the film Fatal Attraction. Derog. [Orig. U.S.]
|bunny hugger
|Noun. An animal lover. Derog.
|Noun. Bread and butter. Usually a children's expression.
|Noun. See 'berk'.
|burn rubber
|Verb. To depart quickly. Derived from burning tyre rubber from excessive acceleration with a motor vehicle.
|burp the worm
|Verb. To masturbate, of males.
|Adj. Desperately needing to urinate. {Informal}
|Noun. See 'go for a burton'.
| Noun. 1. The female genitals, but alluding to the pubic hair.
2. Marijuana.
|(the) business
| Noun. 1. The best. E.g."That new Mini Cooper from BMW is the
2. Sexual intercourse. E.g."I was doing the business with her all night."
| Noun. A police raid on a person and/or property.
Verb. To raid as in a bust.
|Adj. Eager. Probably a corruption of bursting. E.g."I'm bustin for a pint and a smoke."
|bust one's guts
|Vrb phrs. To work with great effort.
| Adj. 1. Tough looking, masculine.
2. A masculine lesbian.
|Noun. A look. From the Cockney rhyming slang butcher's hook. E.g."Let's have a butchers at it before you put it back."
|Noun. The buttocks. S.e from 1400s until 1600s.
|Adj. 1. Ugly. [Orig. W.I.]
2. Rubbish, useless, of no value. [Orig. W.I.]
|butt fucker
|Noun. A homosexual male. Derog.
|butt munch
|Noun. A contemptible or objectionable person.
|butt muncher
|Noun. A homosexual male. Derog.
|butt naked
|Adj. Naked. Cf. 'buck naked'.
|butt out
|Verb. An impolite request to keep one's nose out of something. E.g."Butt out John, it's none of your business." [Orig. U.S.]
|butt pirate
|Noun. A homosexual male. Derog. [Orig. U.S.]
|butt plug
|Noun. A plug, usually made of rubber, for insertion in the anus during sex.
|butt ugly
|Adj. Very ugly.
| Noun. 1. A sandwich. The term originates in the North of England
but has gained national use. Also spelt buttie. {Informal}
2. Term of address for a friend. [Welsh use]
| Noun. 1. A telephone call. E.g. "I'll give you a buzz with the
details in the morning."
2. A thrill. E.g. "She gets a buzz from being provocative and causing arguments."
|buzz along
|Verb. A cheery request to hurry off.
|Noun. A short haircut using electric clippers.
|Adj. Thrilled and full of energy, often as a result of partaking in illicit drugs.
|buzz off (!)
| Verb. To go away, to leave.
Exclam. Go away!
|By gum!
|Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or amazement. [Northern dialect]
|By (h)eck !
|Exclam. An exclamation of surprise. Dialectically the h is dropped. [Northern English use]
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Chip Kelly says if Patriots can decode Eagles, 'then God bless 'em'
PHILADELPHIA — Despite misgivings expressed by one of his players, Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly is not concerned about giving away the recipe of his offense's secret sauce later this month when his team conducts joint practices with the New England Patriots in Foxborough, Mass.
Eagles cornerback Cary Williams said Friday, "I just do not like the Patriots," while referring to the team infamously implicated by the Spygate scandal seven years ago as "cheaters."
Kelly brushed aside those comments Sunday.
"I appreciate Cary's input, but I think the value that you get for every single player and every single coach in terms of what we're doing — to get a chance to go against another scheme and another team — I think it's really beneficial," said Kelly, who hosted the Patriots for intersquad training camp practices in Philadelphia in 2013.
"I thought it worked out really well for us last year."
New England coach Bill Belichick would occasionally host Kelly at Patriots practices in the past and pick his brain when he was still at the University of Oregon and developing his creative, up-tempo offense, facets of which have since been widely emulated in the NFL.
Though Kelly concedes the Eagles will use fewer of their myriad signals and will huddle more frequently when they practice in New England Aug. 12-14 leading up to a Week 2 preseason game Aug. 15, he's not stressing over the Patriots deciphering his system and suggested such worries were "overblown."
"I don't think they're getting anything," Kelly said. "Obviously people have all of our preseason games, and games and playoff games from last year (on film). They're gonna see what we do.
"But we're always evolving."
The Eagles and Patriots will not meet in the regular season this year. However both clubs are coming off division championships and are widely viewed as contenders likely to return to the playoffs.
So what if, by chance, they collided in Super Bowl XLIX next February?
"That would be the 20th game of the year plus four preseason games, and then you're going back and looking at practice tape. Sometimes then there's analysis by paralysis," said Kelly when asked about the ultimate scenario.
"It would be a great situation that we get a chance to play them in the Super Bowl. (If) they're going through practice tape and get a chance to see one play that we ran once on a Tuesday in August that we bring out in the third quarter with 1:32 on the clock — and they're prepared for it — then God bless 'em."
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KILIS, Turkey (AP) — Syrian forces fired across the border Monday into a refugee camp in Turkey, wounding at least five people as a U.N.-brokered plan to end more than a year of violence this week all but collapsed, authorities said.
Syrian activists said two people were killed, but the reports could not be immediately confirmed.
The Syrian soldiers were believed to be firing at rebels who tried to escape to the refugee camp after ambushing a military checkpoint, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, citing a network of sources on the ground.
Turkey shelters thousands of refugees who have fled Syria as the government tries to crush a revolt against President Bashar Assad. The U.N. estimates some 9,000 people have been killed in Syria since March 2011, when the uprising began.
Monday's shooting bolstered fears that the uprising could spark a broad conflagration by sucking in neighboring countries. There have been similar cross-border attacks into Lebanon, although Monday's shooting was believed to be the first inside Turkey.
The incident began at about before dawn on Monday when rebel fighters attacked Syrian soldiers manning a checkpoint near the Turkish border, killing six soldiers, said Rami Abdul-Rahman, a spokesman for the Observatory.
The troops then kept firing as eight wounded rebels escaped to the camp that is just across the border in Turkey, sending bullets whizzing across the frontier into the camp, he said.
According to the Observatory, the shooting wounded five people in the camp, which is next to the Oncupinar border post near the town of Kilis in Gaziantep province. The Observatory reported that two people later died of their injuries, but that could not be immediately confirmed.
The province's governor, Yusuf Odabas, said five people were wounded: three Syrians, one Turkish translator and one Turkish policeman. The translator had entered the camp to try to help calm an anti-Assad protest, he said. The governor said Turkish military forces did not return fire.
The shooting prompted Ankara, which has been among Assad's harshest critics, to summon the Syrian charge d'affaires and call for an immediate halt to the gunfire.
Turkey hosts some 24,000 Syrian refugees, including hundreds of army defectors, and has floated the idea of setting up a buffer zone inside Syria if the flow of displaced people across its border becomes overwhelming.
The two countries share a 911-kilometer (566-mile) border, and parts of southern Turkey near Syria are informal logistics bases for rebels, who collect food and other supplies in Turkey and deliver them to comrades inside Syria via smuggling routes.
The Syrian uprising began last year with mostly peaceful protests against the Assad regime, a family dynasty that has ruled the country for four decades. But in the face of a relentless military assault on protests, the opposition has become increasingly militarized.
Now, the uprising resembles an armed insurgency, and there are fears the country is spiraling toward civil war. International envoy Kofi Annan brokered a cease-fire that was supposed to begin Tuesday, but the plan is in tatters.
Syrian troops were meant to pull out of population centers by Tuesday morning, but the government on Sunday introduced a new demand — saying it cannot withdraw without written guarantees from opposition fighters that they will lay down their arms. Syria's main rebel group rejected the government's demands.
Naci Koru, Turkey's deputy foreign minister, said the deadline for the withdrawal has become "void at this stage," state-run TRT television reported.
Annan is scheduled to visit to one of the refugee camps in Hatay province, bordering Syria, on Tuesday afternoon, Turkey's Foreign Ministry said. Annan's office confirmed the trip to Turkey.
"Annan's one-hour visit to Hatay tomorrow is critical, he will see the situation himself," the TRT quoted Koru as saying on Monday.
Annan has been on a serious diplomatic push to rally support for his cease-fire deal. The international community, which so far is unwilling to contemplate military intervention, has had little leverage over Syria.
But Iran, Russia and China have been Assad's strongest supporters. Annan already has traveled to Russia and China, and he was expected in Tehran on Tuesday.
On Monday, Russia was hosting Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem.
It is not clear whether Moscow will try to pressure Syria to comply with the cease-fire plan, though Russia said Monday it may send its observers to Syria as part of a potential U.N. monitoring mission.
Also Monday, Human Rights Watch said it has documented the killings by Syrian forces of 85 civilians, including women and children, and the summary executions of at least 16 wounded or captured opposition fighters.
"In a desperate attempt to crush the uprising, Syrian forces have executed people in cold blood, civilians and opposition fighters alike," said Ole Solvang, a researcher for the group. "They are doing it in broad daylight and in front of witnesses, evidently not concerned about any accountability for their crimes."
The New York-based group said it only included cases corroborated by witnesses, but has received many more reports of similar incidents.
The group said it documented several cases of mass executions in March in the cities of Homs and Idlib, two centers of the uprising. This includes the killing of 13 people in an Idlib mosque, the executions of 25 men in a raid of the Sultaniya neighborhood of Homs, and the killing of 47 people, mainly women and children, in three other areas of Homs, the group said.
Two witnesses describing the March 11 killings in Idlib said the city's Bilal mosque had been used as an initial collection point for those killed and wounded in an army raid. When relatives came to identify the dead, several were led by soldiers out of the mosque, blindfolded and lined up against a wall. More than a dozen soldiers opened fire, killing at least 13 people, the witnesses said.
The Syrian government typically does not comment on such reports.
The allegations came as opposition activists reported that Syrian forces pressed ahead with raids and shelling attacks on the towns of Tel Rifaat in the northwest and Muhassan in the east of the country Monday.
Hacaoglu reported from Ankara. Associated Press writer Karin Laub in Beirut and Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, contributed to this report.
Gunfire from Syria hits camp in Turkey, wounding 5
KILIS, Turkey (AP) — Syrian forces fired across the border Monday into a refugee camp in Turkey, wounding at least five people as a U.N.-brokered plan to end more than a year of violence this week all but collapsed, authorities said.


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Following the announcement last week that Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has withdrawn from Faust, the role of Marguerite will now be shared between sopranos Sonya Yoncheva and Alexia Voulgaridou.
Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva will sing the role of Marguerite on 4, 7, 17 and 22 April, making her role debut with The Royal Opera. She will also perform the role for Vienna State Opera in May, again replacing Anna Netrebko. Yoncheva made her debut with The Royal Opera in Plácido Domingo's Operalia Winners' concert in July 2012 and also sang the role of Musetta in La bohème for The Royal Opera in the 2012/13 Season. She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York as Gilda in Rigoletto in December 2013, and recently sang Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Paris Opéra.
Greek soprano Alexia Voulgaridou will sing the role of Marguerite on 11, 14 and 25 April. She has previously sung the role in Rome, Catania, Hamburg and Valencia. She made her debut with The Royal Opera as Mimì in La bohème in 2008. Her recent performances include Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly in Tokyo, Mimì in La bohème in São Paulo, and the title role in Tosca in Trieste, Lausanne and for Opera Australia.
The rest of the cast remains unchanged.


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How? I can listen to the radio, that's it.
The two ways round it are:
- convinving step-father to remove my internet time out
- finding £20 a month to fund a Sky Sports subscription and getting mother to agree to setting up a direct debit to her account.
From past experience I usually manage the first session pretty comfortably. Lunch is the killer tho.
Plan for work days this year is to watch morning, catch three or so hours kip and tune back in for apres tea.
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"Ben Stokes, that most unlikely saint, worked the second of the two miracles he needs for his canonisation." - The Guardian's Andy Bell on the England all-rounder's Headingley ton
I've just realised I watched the Super Bowl all through the night last year.
Now its just a case of doing it on 5 consecutive nights and on 5 seperate occasions...
If I do not get a new job anytime soon this should be fairly easy for me, often watched the first couple of sessions of Australian tests last year without any of the motivation which comes with the ashes, late shifts might mean missing a few opening sessions though.
Really hope to have at least an internship by the start of January, so that should coincide just nicely.
I just have Sky Player on my laptop, is pretty expensive but will be well worth the price this winter. (and there may well be sign up deals, I got mine for cheap during ashes last year)
Does have an occasional tendency to **** up but that is normally only on big football matches.
Yeah.. don't have a PC internet connection between 11pm and 7am :/
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Stuart Kozola, MathWorks
Do you have data that is too large to fit into available memory? Or perhaps you would like to speed up data analysis tasks using additional hardware such as additional CPUs or GPUs? In this webinar, you will learn techniques for working with large data in MATLAB® and approaches to speeding up your analyses using parallel computing and GPUs. Through an example seismic analysis case study we will show you how to:
• Work with data that is too large to fit in available memory on a single machine
• Perform large data analysis computations on a computer cluster (we will use a cluster running 64 MATLAB Distributed Computing Server workers)
• Introduce GPU computing for speeding up solutions of the wave equation for seismic analysis
About the Presenter: Stuart Kozola is a product manager at MathWorks and focuses on MATLAB® and add-on products for data analysis, mathematical modeling, and computational finance. Prior to joining MathWorks in 2006, Stuart worked at Pratt & Whitney (United Technologies) as a design engineer working on combustion systems for gas turbine engines. Stuart earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wyoming, M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Arizona State University, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.
Prior to R2019a, MATLAB Parallel Server was called MATLAB Distributed Computing Server.
Recorded: 23 Feb 2011


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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:32 pm
Post subject: This recipe is absolutely gorgeous!!
I first made this recipe a couple of years ago for my fiance, and I am making it again for his birthday this weekend, as he is a tiramisu fanatic!! I personally am not a fan, but I would happily eat this one, if my partner saves me any
Next time I try this, I am going to try a few variations, using this as a base, and trying a few things that others have posted. Thank you for the ideas. Remember as mentioned above, it really is about personal taste, and recipes vary from region to region. I am Maltese/German, and I notice that my family recipes are different to others from other areas. Recipes are guidelines, and change things to suit your tastes. I love this recipe, so I am always going to use this as my base. Thank you so much for posting this. I can't wait to make it again. And the line about arguing with engineers, is like wrestling with a pig...so true!! My father-in-law was an engineer and as soon as I read that I thought of him...especially when arguing over recipes
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 7:47 pm
Post subject: tiramisu
Every time I mix the custard yolk mixture with the Marscapone cheese it looks like ricotta cheese. Nothing I do can make it smooth. What did I do wrong.
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:00 am
Post subject: Coffee in Tiramisu - Quality is important
Espresso should not be overly bitter, even if made from a dark roast. Bitter coffee (even if bought from a "proper coffee shop") has either been overextracted or overheated.
Overextraction: Coffee has many aromatic compounds and the length of time you pour a coffee shot for dictates how many of these end up in your shot of espresso. Generally the more bitter compounds are those that dissolve last. The best flavours come during the first part of the extraction and the longer you leave the coffee extracting for, the more bitter it will taste. Sure, you will get more coffee if you run the water through it for longer but it wont taste as good and will need more sugar to mask the bitter flavours. If you buy a large amount of espresso and tell your coffee shop what it is for I guess they could feel the temptation to overextract in order to bulk it out.
Overheating: If the water you pump through your coffee is too hot then it can dissolve the aromatic compounds faster. Some machines are not very good at maintaining a constant temperature in their water tanks and shot consistency will vary.
Like cooking with wine. If your coffee is not fit for consumption as a beverage then you shouldn't really be using it in your recipe.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 6:49 am
Post subject: A trick for the cocoa dusting, and data on eggs/salmonella
Lovely conversation, we enjoyed the blog and tried your delicious "simple tiramisu" recipe. Here's our trick for sprinkling cocoa: we use a tea strainer as a mini sieve to evenly dust the tiramisu BEFORE chilling it. While it chills, the bitter cocoa flavor subtly harmonizes with the sweetness of the top layer of marscapone filling. You also avoid the potential choking/coughing hazard that occurs when one of your guests accidentally inhales dry cocoa dust in that first eager bite. (Very unpleasant if you've never done that). The cocoa is also full of antioxidants which could be why some of you are observing that it seems to protect the eggs/cheese from getting that yellow tinge of mayo left out too long.
For those that are concerned about lady fingers versus other cake and authenticity: Italy went through a horrible economic recession in the 1970s after a prosperous post-WWII period. What happens during a recession? Well, it's kind of like American Great Depression era recipes, things like eggs, cheese, fine alcohol, high quality oils, and cream become expensive commodities and people come up with creative and tasty ways to still make their favorite desserts without them. So, the very wide variation not only in tiramisu recipes but also in lasagna recipes and pizza recipes, is partially a product of the time and place, which effected the ingredients available. So, some of these recipes might not be "original" but that doesn't mean they aren't "authentic" to the context that produced them.
Since there are a bunch of engineers on here, I am going geek out about the salmonella myth. The reason why you never really hear about salmonella outbreaks amongst the tens of thousands of people that sneak a bite of cake batter or sip homemade egg nog is that sugar is a natural anti-bacterial agent. Salmonella is a bacteria. Sugar deprives bacteria of water (sugar can even be used on open wounds in extreme emergency situations where help won't be available for a couple days). That's what cooks mean when they say the sugar "cooks" the item and why they make you wait four hours to eat it. For those of you who love salt cured items, or acid cured items like ceviche, similar biochemical processes occur. The proof is in your own refrigerator: you probably have a jar of jelly, jam, pickles, ketchup or mustard that was opened months ago and is perfectly fine, whereas the chicken you cooked only last week is already growing strange fuzzy friends. Sugar and salt are mankind's oldest, natural preservatives. (So, no artificial sweeteners if you decide to use raw eggs, and don't cheat on the chilling time)!
Some of the recipes for tiramisu with a cooked egg custard could be variations post-1980s when salmonella breakouts became big news. What might give you peace of mind is that the American Egg Board says there is only a 1 in 20,000 chance that your particular egg has salmonella. To put that number in perspective, you are several times more likely to get killed in a car accident (12.3 fatalities per 100,000 americans) than contract salmonella from a raw egg. Finally, the CDC and FDA have put new anti-salmonella measures into place in 2010 and again in 2013.
That's not to say you shouldn't be careful and picky about raw egg recipes. Pasteurizing eggs at home can let you relax and enjoy recipes that call for raw eggs if you have any doubts.
How to pasteurize raw eggs:
How sugar and salt kill bacteria according to Scientific American:
Bon appétit!
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Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 11:15 pm
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according to
the original version had no alcohol in it
also your spameaversion thing with incrementation is idiotic. it took me much too long to find this.
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:56 am
Post subject: The Original Tiramisu
I came across your site and was wowed by "The Original Tiramisu" blog. So impressed by your table and cute Layer Diagram that I am definitely going to try this recipe out. I lovvvvee tiramisu and have yet to discover the perfect ensemble. Thank you so much for sharing.
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Rookie Zunino impresses in big league debut
Seattle's No. 3 prospect displayed talent both at and behind the plate
Mariners catcher of the future Mike Zunino looks to be their catcher of the present as well. Seattle's 2012 first-round Draft pick (third overall) made his Major League debut on Wednesday for the Mariners at home in Seattle. He had been promoted from Triple-A Tacoma a day earlier.
The No. 22 prospect on MLB.com's Top 100 list, Zunino batted sixth in the order and caught Jeremy Bonderman, a former Tigers starter making a comeback with Seattle.
Zunino had experience catching Bonderman at Tacoma, and the familiarity paid off. Bonderman was outstanding on the mound, and some credit must go to Zunino. He was an excellent shepherd to his pitcher, calling a very fine game and helping Bonderman attack the strike zone.
The Mariners' third-ranked prospect -- behind future battery mates Taijuan Walker and Danny Hultzen -- was part of three very high-quality University of Florida baseball teams prior to being drafted last year.
Zunino's numbers at Tacoma this year were very deceiving. Like most players, he scuffled a bit hitting in the northwest air. Zunino's overall average was only .238. His splits were very telling, though. Zunino hit .135 at home and .333 away. He hit 11 home runs, including 10 of them on the road. He also drove in 43 runs in just 47 games.
In his big league debut, Zunino saw a fairly steady diet of breaking balls. In his second at-bat, he lined a solid single up the middle for his first Major League hit. It was off a low slider.
Zunino has the ability to let the pitch travel well before committing with his swing. He has a measured swing that serves him well. It's not likely Zunino will be tempted to become overly aggressive and swing for the fences. His home runs will come naturally.
Defensively, in addition to receiving a great game, Zunino showed his strong and accurate throwing arm, easily catching Astros shortstop Marwin Gonzalez attempting to steal second base. It wasn't even close. However, later in the game, Jose Altuve was successful stealing second.
Zunino's blocking skills on balls in the dirt have improved markedly since I first scouted him during this past Arizona Fall League season. His footwork was excellent in his debut game.
Zunino and all the Mariners were challenged in the ninth inning when the Astros blew the game open. But it was command issues from usually reliable bullpen pitchers that primarily caused the issues.
Zunino finished the game with one hit in four at-bats. Most importantly, he showed an ability to play well on both sides of the ball. The brighter lights didn't intimidate Zunino. The increased numbers of levels to the stadium didn't seem to faze him. It looks like Zunino is in Seattle to stay.


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Before the late nineteenth century, women were excluded from official art schools in America. Most women who became professional artists — and there were a surprisingly large number of them — were trained by a father, husband, or other male relative who was an established artist. Some, though, were self-taught. During the first half of the nineteenth century, there were a significant number of women miniaturists and portrait painters. Portrait miniatures were one artistic field in which women could easily succeed professionally since many of them could do the work at home. It also meant that they did not have to study anatomy, considered inappropriate at the time.
Sarah Goodridge began to study art by reading a book on drawing and painting. In 1805, she moved to Boston and took drawing lessons. She only attempted the miniature medium after she had worked with a now unknown portrait miniaturist from Hartford. In 1820, she opened a studio in Boston and honed her craft, studying portrait painting with Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828), one of the great American portraitists at the time. She painted a portrait miniature of Stuart in 1827 which he gave to his mother on a woven bracelet made of his and his wife's hair! She also painted at least 12 miniatures of the fiery orator and US Senator Daniel Webster.
This self-portrait displays Goodridge's characteristic realism in every detail down to the wrinkles around her eyes. The portrait exudes self-confidence. Compared to some other miniaturists, the figure is solidly modeled and the form assuredly delineated, betraying Goodridge's solid mastery of the human figure. At the time this was painted, she was producing as many as two paintings a week and was able to support her family on her art, an amazing achievement in a period when women were given few opportunities to succeed professionally.
Davis Art Images has many lovely miniatures from early America, including a couple by Sarah's sister, the equally talented Eliza Goodridge.
The MFA in Boston has a handsome collection of portrait miniatures, many dating to the 20th century when the medium revived in popularity as a nostalgic look at the "good old days."


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Leaning on CEOs for Personal Causes?
Fund: Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Posted by Krassen on 2009-01-14
On December 28th I posted the 'Avoid Fonstad' review of DFJ on this site. Within a few days seven people agreed with the review and none disagreed, and then the review rolled out of the front pages with no further feedback.
Lately however, there have been five disagreements with my review, as well as several comments supporting of DFJ/Fonstad , plus one additional review in support of DFJ. Similarly, Jennifer Fonstad's personal profile featured only negative ticks at the time of my review, but recently there were three positive ticks, along with a couple of positive comments. This was all happening while my review was off the front pages, so I doubt the activity was some form of spontaneous reaction of disagreement upon stumbling on my review.
I suspect that the pattern is indicative of a campaign to raise the profile of DFJ and Fonstad on The Funded. There are a couple of problems with that:
(1) CEOs who are currently in the DFJ portfolio are in position of dependency and subordination relative to DFJ and can be leaned upon to comment against their true opinions. (Interestingly, all of the new supportive comments are authored by identifiable monikers, and not by Anonymous, so they can potentially point out and receive credit for their effort)
(2) There is a built-in asymmetry if there is a concerted campaign underway to raise the profile of a firm. Contributors with negative sentiment are not organized by a unifying force and comment at a leisurely, random and intermittent pace; likely only when prompted by another review on the front pages, or after a meeting or other interaction with DFJ. This is reminiscent of voting on a proposition where only one side actively campaigns and not the other.
The political/electoral analogies I used are not casual. People should know that Mrs. Fonstad is an experienced political operative, who ran Mitt Romney's Senate campaign in 1994 and was the Co-Chair of Women for Mitt in this past election cycle. Obviously she has good skills as a political organizer.
This recent activity helps me better understand why my CEO, H.Perry Fell, donated maximum contribution to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in 2007, when Fonstad was fundraising. In 2004 Fell was very adamant about voting for Kerry; I can potentially see him voting for Romney, but I have a very hard time seeing him give cash, since the guy is extra careful with money (this was actually a good thing for NanoString). Now I suspect that he was leaned upon by Fonstad.
So, if you sign with DFJ, you may have to be prepared to fork cash for their political candidates and to write positive comments here.PRIVATE: Members Only (328 Characters)


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I've just started learning C++ today (my friend suggested it) and I've made my first program. Unfortunately, it won't even compile... This may be due to the fact that I have a Mac, and that the header file conio.h was missing from my system so I had to download one from the Internet. The compiler I use (Xcode) lists 16 errors; 15 in the file conio.h and 1 in my main file. The code is as follows:
The error in this code is the first declaration of "key = getch();". The error displayed is "error: 'getch' was not declared in this scope". This may be due, again, to my possibly faulty conio.h.Code:#include <iostream> #include <conio.h> #include <string.h> using namespace std; int main () { char key; cout << "I'm a simple C++ program.\n\n"; key = getch(); cout << "To quit the program, press " << key; key = getch(); return 0; }
Can anyone aid me in my predicament?