Archaic slang

[wildcat45]

Hooli said:

Also used in West Sussex oddly.



Giving it melons - driving flat out

I'm guessing Chore if it's used elsewhere may have some Romany type origins.

[campionissimo]

he might be a mong, but that's belming.

[ShiningWit]

Vipers said:

Queer as a nine bob note.

Bent.

[twing]

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/44500.html


Queer here

[RobinBanks]

campionissimo said:

he might be a mong, but that's belming.

True, but the belm was often combined with calling someone a mong.

[ShiningWit]

twing said:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/44500.html


Queer here

Yes but i'm British

[Muzzer79]

Two immortal words forever associated with a state of disbelief amongst peers:




Chinny Reckon

[55palfers]

Iron hoof - poof

I think it was one of Albert Steptoe's favourites in the sixties

[J4CKO]

55palfers said:

Iron hoof - poof

I think it was one of Albert Steptoe's favourites in the sixties

Which was quite ironic !

The little blue cars were call Spaz Chariots, somewhat offensively round here.

[austinsmirk]

Bonk. Seems to have disappeared from use

Spaz or spacca

My dad grew up in Australia after the war. Embarrassingly he continued to say " I have a wog" in reference to having a cold

I assume it was Aussie slang.

[RobinBanks]

J4CKO said:

Which was quite ironic !

The little blue cars were call Spaz Chariots, somewhat offensively round here.

They were ALWAYS called Spack Wagons around here. It's the same thing overall though.

[Twilkes]

Toltec said:

The title made me think more of Chaucer or even Shakespeare than a couple of decades ago.

Does archaic mean something different in modern slang?

I just used it in the sense of 'words that aren't used any more', e.g. (of a word or a style of language) no longer in everyday use but sometimes used to impart an old-fashioned flavour

[Twilkes]

TheEnd said:

Twilkes said:

• This one sometimes led to the trap-conversation 'Have you got skill?' 'Yes.' 'Urgh, it's an African bum disease!'

I remember that, citation needed!

This is as close as it gets to a scholarly etymology:

http://www.odps.org/glossword/index.php?a=term&amp...

[Kapenta]

Pints said:

Kiff

Lank

Rad

Are you from Cape Town?

[marmitemania]

RobinBanks said:

dingg said:

Iron hoof - poof

But they don't even rhyme!

You pronounce the hoof part oof.

[RobinBanks]

marmitemania said:

RobinBanks said:

dingg said:

Iron hoof - poof

But they don't even rhyme!

You pronounce the hoof part oof.

That makes more sense. Thanks. I'm not a Londoner

[Otispunkmeyer]

Geggs - glasses

Kushdi - great

Belter - amazing

Parents still use bobby dazzler.... Don't know who he is.

[wildcat45]

Swish - rather smart or stylish. A Jaguar would perhaps be described as such

[Moominho]

Buff for good looking, and butters for ugly. No idea why.

[thegreenhell]

Muzzer79 said:

Two immortal words forever associated with a state of disbelief amongst peers:




Chinny Reckon

Down our way it was Itchy Chin, combined with scratching or stroking your chin.

If someone gave you an angry look they were giving you the Lasers, and if someone did something stupid they were a Bellamy.