Exclamations, Crudity & Insults (Rough Slang)

arse, -hole

ass, -hole

bloody

adj., generally pejorative or intensifying

bog

toilet

bog standard

boring, normal - "vanilla"

bollocks

testicles. Also used analogously to "bullshit"

bonk

to have intercourse with (slightly less crude than "screw")

brilliant

great, terrific

bugger

an individual (rude), to foul up

bugger up

to foul up

bugger off

go away

cheers

thank you, your health, goodbye

chuffed

very pleased, almost smug ("well chuffed")

cock up

to foul up, screw up

dead

very (dead slow, dead good)

fanny

vagina

flash

ostentatious

(bit of) fluff

girlfriend, "woman" (almost always jokingly)

fuck-all (bugger-all, sod-all)

none

fuck me!

expression of astonishment ("well, bugger me backwards!)

get your finger out

(of your ass??) get a move on, get going

getting your oats

getting laid (sexual)

git

jerk, bastard (v. strong)

gob

mouth (as in "shut your gob") or to spit

gob-smacked

astonished

goolies

testicles

gorgeous

great, terrific

gormless

stupid, brainless

grotty

dirty, grubby

guv

short for "guv'nor" (governor) - term of address, jokingly, for an upperclass person/boss

hacked off

pissed off

jammy

smug, lucky

knacker

to tire (knackered = exhausted)

knackers

testicles (see bollocks)

"knock up"

*can* be used to mean "knocking on someone's door to wake them up (but also used in common Am. sense, to get someone pregnant)

lager lout/woofter

a rude, coarse, stupid person who drinks lager (instead of ale)

loo

toilet

love bite

hickey

`lurve'

a sarcastic term for smushy romantic love

luv

("love") - generic term of address ("sorry, luv")

off your head

crazy

oik

boor, oaf

over the top

too much, ridiculously overstated, outrageous

oy!

"hey you!" (rude)

naff

tacky, tasteless

pillock

jerk, stupid (fairly mild)

piss-up

drinking session (as, "couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery")

pissed

drunk

piss off

to go away (or as imperative, "piss off!"), (-ed off, -ing off) or to annoy/anger

take the piss

to make fun of

piss-take

a parody or joke

pissing down

raining hard

piss-head

drunk (n.), alcoholic

piss artist

ditto

pissing oneself (laughing)

laughing very hard

pissing in the wind

useless

piss easy

very easy

piece of piss

ditto

piss around

crap around, mess around, waste time

plonker

idiot, bozo

ponce

(camp) homosexual

poofter/poof

homosexual

posh

fancy

prat

jerk: has implications of pompousness, snobbery, stupidity (moderately strong)

shattered

exhausted

shite

shit (Scouse)

shock! horror!

what a surprise! (often sarcastic), a la tabloid headlines ...

slag

loose woman, tart

slag off

to insult, abuse verbally

smarmy

unctuous, ingratiating

snog

kiss, neck

sod

generic crude term: "sod" = bum, "sod it!", "sod off", "sodding" ("bugger" is also used in all these senses except the last)

sod off

go away

stone me!

expression of surprise (see "fuck me!")

Sunshine

rude generic term of address - like "Mac"

ta

thank you

toss

"don't give a toss" - don't care

tosser

masturbator, gen. pejorative (less common than "wanker")

tart

prostitute

twee

nauseatingly cute

twit

jerk (fairly mild)

wanker/wank

masturbator, generally a hopeless/useless person/ to masturbate

waster

useless person

whinge (winge)

whine, complain

willie

penis

witter

ramble, chatter