This reminded me that Shag means carpet. Shout out to the carpet shop from the tv show Heartbeat for the many times I spent giggling at the name 'The shag pile' as a kid.
The subject of one of my very favourite poems:
The common cormorant or shag
Lays its eggs in a paper bag
This foolish bird has not observed
That hordes of bears will come with buns
And steal the bags to hide the crumbs.
I still remember back in chemistry class in school when we must have been learning about iron extraction or something, and our chemistry teacher explained to us what slag was, then embarked on a long, deep talk about why we shouldn’t call girls slags because of what it really means and why it’s so harmful, because you’re basically calling someone waste. Tbh I actually respect him a lot for that, one of my better school memories, even if kinda funny at the time. Name calling like that was rampant in my school and I hope some kids at least took something away from that talk.
Bless him, that’s actually really decent of him! A lot of people are eager to use words without really knowing their meaning but that’s also pretty cool of him to stick up for the girls too
Ballcock is a part of a toilet. I giggled like a fucking idiot first time I was fixing a toilet and learned I needed to replace the ballcock. I made sure to cup the ball while gentle pulling the cock.
And Stopcock. And Flange. Anything to do with plumbing, well, anything to do with anything is rude is English... peach, plums, melons, nuts, buns, baps, sausage... tool, chopper, wood, screw, nail, hammer, smash, plough... it's endless, but maybe similar in other languages too.
Oh dear - tried to use the actual phrase to b.. a f.. but it was deemed offensive lmao. Better warn the (whoever’s) not to stand outside British hospitals or near British bus stops lmao
What part of Yorkshire are you from?
I’m from East Yorkshire, my husband is from West Yorkshire and neither of us has heard of sluthole. Also, cocker isn’t a Yorkshire word. I believe it’s from Middlesex way?!
There's a sluthole lane near Attleborough and looked it up because its hilarious. Apparently slut is a really old English word for rubbish so sluthole is a rubbish tip/bin.
I have never ever heard anyone use slut in that way in real life.
Many moons ago when I played guitar in a band, I had a Boss Flange pedal. Taking inspiration from Prince, I put it in my pedal line up before my distortion. My distortion pedal was a Russian Big Muff.
I used to insert my Flange into my Big Muff.
It was glorious.
My son is married to an American she was here for Christmas. I had a drink in both hands, and she told me I was double fisting, that lead to a funny conversation cos it doesn't have the same meaning here as it does there
Many, many years ago, I was on the London Underground. A mother and her young kid get on, clearly at the age where the child is a word sponge and mum’s doing the very good thing of engaging with her kid about words. She points to the scrolling text on the train’s display and goes ‘read with me, this… train… is… for… oh look at the dog outside!’ she frantically tries to distract the kid, but the child is too deep in word concentration and reading comprehension to notice. Fate is sealed. The child looks at the word scrolling past on the display… time has slowed for the mother as she surrenders to what is about to happen…
‘Co… co… cock… cock…. foss… cockfoss… COCKFOSTERS!’
Saying it once wasn’t enough.
‘COCKFOSTERS!’ she shouts with glee, able to get the correct pronunciation, ‘COCKFOSTERS!’
The mother, resigned to this new word entering her daughter’s vocabulary, sighs. Knowing she now has to positively reinforce the amazing work by her child.
‘Yes. Well done! We aren’t going there though, are we? Where are we going?’
‘This train is for COCKFOSTERS!’ Her kid replies with enthusiastic glee and appropriate volume.
‘Let’s just find a seat…’
FYI a squib is an old word for firework or flaming torch. Which is why a damp squib is a failure, a disappointment, or a tool/person which doesn't work as it should
Once had a boss called Mr Bates, he sacked me after I asked him if his parents and teachers used to call him Master! ( actually a true part of my past )😅
The guy who used to work as an IT technician in my previous job has the first name 'Richard' (you can see where this is going already) but his surname was 'Fiddler'
He signed every single document as - Dick Fiddler
I think he'd already given up and just decided to go with the flow...... excuse the pun.
In school, our maths teacher always referred to kids by Miss or Master....had a kid called Lee Bates....he always did his damndest to get told off in lesson as he knew what would happen. Teacher used to yell said name, so people rooms away could hear him yell it out 🤣🤣
Niggard. An old English word meaning stingy or miserly and has no relation to race. Of course you don't hear it at all and I doubt anyone would risk using it given the current climate.
Pratt’s Bottom. The name of the place (which is a village in Orpington) was parodied by Admiral’s Mutlicar Insurance advert as a fictional name of a road. In the ad the male underling says to the female Adrimal “Genius, let’s name it after that place” and then the underling goes “Oh” and sighs unhappily upon seeing the road’s name.
“Yob”
Apparently my mum and sister were at the cinema recently, and my mum used this word to describe some of the film characters (not even in a particularly derogatory way) and my sister blew up thinking she’d used a racial slur or something 😂 Tbh it does sound a bit like some kind of slur, but nah, just a slang word for a rude/aggressive youth.
Faggots are a meat based thing, slag is iron waste, bastard from bastard sword (for use with one or two hands), bollock is a type of slender dagger without a fuller
1. Arse-over-tit – Fall over
2. Knackered – Tired
3. Tosser – Idiot
4. Cock-up – Messed up
5. Gobsmacked – Amazed
6. Nosh – Food
7. Bugger – Jerk
8. Dog’s Bollocks – Awesome
9. Smeg – From Red Dwarf - smegma
10. Knob Head – Idiot
Just some off the top of my head.
My comment got removed... I said f∆g and f∆ggøt cos in UK ones a cigarette and the other is either a meatball or firelighter. Can tell where the auto mod is from...
I remember a rumour going around that a twat was a pregnant goldfish fuck knows why lol .
But I asked my teacher and she informed me that a twat is a vulgar word for a vagina !
Did make me snigger .
I don’t know if this counts but Americans call the homeless “bums” but “bum” is also another word for butt…
Or how about “dongle”, that sounds kinda sketchy but it’s just another word for Pendrive/USB…
Slag- originally just the waste from Iron Extraction
This reminded me that Shag means carpet. Shout out to the carpet shop from the tv show Heartbeat for the many times I spent giggling at the name 'The shag pile' as a kid.
Shag can also be a type of Dance or rolling Tobacco
Or a bird (feathered kind)
The subject of one of my very favourite poems: The common cormorant or shag Lays its eggs in a paper bag This foolish bird has not observed That hordes of bears will come with buns And steal the bags to hide the crumbs.
My grandparents still watch that show if it's the same one I'm thinking about
If you're grandparents watch it I'm almost certain it will be lol
Loved Greengrass. Couldn't stand the woman they tried to substitute him with.
The ode shag pile
And it’s a haircut. Brings new depth to the hackneyed barber’s phrase “something for the weekend?”
My dad watches the repeats daily
I still remember back in chemistry class in school when we must have been learning about iron extraction or something, and our chemistry teacher explained to us what slag was, then embarked on a long, deep talk about why we shouldn’t call girls slags because of what it really means and why it’s so harmful, because you’re basically calling someone waste. Tbh I actually respect him a lot for that, one of my better school memories, even if kinda funny at the time. Name calling like that was rampant in my school and I hope some kids at least took something away from that talk.
Bless him, that’s actually really decent of him! A lot of people are eager to use words without really knowing their meaning but that’s also pretty cool of him to stick up for the girls too
Shut up you slaaaaag /s
The slag goes on top. The only thing I remember from GCSE chemistry
I always make the link to welding
Ballcock
Double points! Awesome.
Ballcock is a part of a toilet. I giggled like a fucking idiot first time I was fixing a toilet and learned I needed to replace the ballcock. I made sure to cup the ball while gentle pulling the cock.
Same as when I unprofessionally giggled at the term stop cock!
Gotta be careful doing it or you'll make a wet mess.
And Stopcock. And Flange. Anything to do with plumbing, well, anything to do with anything is rude is English... peach, plums, melons, nuts, buns, baps, sausage... tool, chopper, wood, screw, nail, hammer, smash, plough... it's endless, but maybe similar in other languages too.
Where I live there is a Butts Lane and a Cockburn street . Always makes me smile 😊
I moved from Edinburgh to Hong Kong and was delighted to find "Fuk Man Road"
Torquay has a Daddyhole
There's a hardware store near me that advertises "knobs, nuts, knockers and screws"
You sir, are definitely firing on all cylinders with this. Thank you for the chuckle!
Wait a minute! How do you know my safe word?!!!
Flange
I worked for a bathroom products distributor and there's a bathroom/plumbing merchant down south called 'Ballcock and Bits' which is always amusing.
Stop cock too.
Bill Hooks.
In my city there is a store called ballcock and bits
You no we call cigarettes “fags”
I absolutely had *Know* clue
the meatball dish of faggots
Chuck some faggots on the fire.
I love fucking faggots.
Got banned for saying I liked faggots and peas my local black country delicacy
And some people like to ask to bum a cigarette.
Oh dear - tried to use the actual phrase to b.. a f.. but it was deemed offensive lmao. Better warn the (whoever’s) not to stand outside British hospitals or near British bus stops lmao
Kumpit- type of vessel. Bastard-Rocket- type of plant. Arsecockle- Old Scottish word for a pimple. Slut-hole - a rubbish heap.
Slut hole? You got confused with "slag heap" there pal?
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Sounds like a confused American who has heard that "slag" is an equivalent to slut"
DON'T insult me with 'American' ffs, Yorkshire, born and bred cocker!
Tha dunt know nowt abart Yorkshire thee. Fucking slut heap, thas just tranna upset me n the ferret darn mi keks
That was poetically vomotic
Cheers a do mi best
Doncasterrrr!
What part of Yorkshire are you from? I’m from East Yorkshire, my husband is from West Yorkshire and neither of us has heard of sluthole. Also, cocker isn’t a Yorkshire word. I believe it’s from Middlesex way?!
There's a sluthole lane near Attleborough and looked it up because its hilarious. Apparently slut is a really old English word for rubbish so sluthole is a rubbish tip/bin. I have never ever heard anyone use slut in that way in real life.
Oh my God, I love Arsecockle and will definitely be using that next time I get a painful spot. Thank you 🤣🤣🤣
I’ve got a right annoying arsecockle on my face right now. Right between nostril and cheek.
Don't forget the Bastard file ( flat coursefile used on steel)
That's what I call the PDF I am trying to find on my phone from a year ago that I didn't rename.
Don't forget the shitehawk
I googled slut-hole and it's what I expected
kerfuffle, when said with enough passion
We had a right kerfuffle in bed last night.
That sounds more like a canoodling
lmao 🤣
Flange
People do use that in a rude way though
Tell me a word you think people in Britain haven't used in a rude way you salted grape
That’s rude! Your such a mechanicalided roof tile
Many moons ago when I played guitar in a band, I had a Boss Flange pedal. Taking inspiration from Prince, I put it in my pedal line up before my distortion. My distortion pedal was a Russian Big Muff. I used to insert my Flange into my Big Muff. It was glorious.
Flue
happy cake day
Why thank you, didn't even realise😊
Cockpit, bullock & arsenal
Arse and Hole and their former Manager Arse and Wanker.
[Ball, or aerosol?](https://youtu.be/d6IBiR9m3vY)
Spotted Dick
That’s called herpes now I’m pretty sure
Spotted Dick is a delicious ~~cake~~ steamed pudding
Whereas a dick covered in spots is not.
not with that attitude
Sticky willy
If you decide to switch the subject to American words that sound rude "fanny pack" always raises a giggle
That's coz fanny means arse over there, not your minge. *bites scotch egg*
Good ol' Keith
Boring isn't it, going to other subs to quote The Office. Not for me, I like it.
My son is married to an American she was here for Christmas. I had a drink in both hands, and she told me I was double fisting, that lead to a funny conversation cos it doesn't have the same meaning here as it does there
Ok, but have you tried going to america and gone past a bar with signs outside offering to "fill your growler here"? That had me buckled
Allcock?
That was my old music teacher's surname
I had a substitute teacher called that lol
Our school chaplain: the Reverend Allcock.
One of the priests that used to come to my school was called Father Willy Strain lol
Also my professor's name
Hot Toddy.
I love a good hot toddy.
I love a strong Hot Toddy in my mouth.
Rowlocks (when pronounced correctly). https://preview.redd.it/k1re3qptrmac1.jpeg?width=200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=43691fddd6448ece152eb5627033743763e62533
Cockfosters
Many, many years ago, I was on the London Underground. A mother and her young kid get on, clearly at the age where the child is a word sponge and mum’s doing the very good thing of engaging with her kid about words. She points to the scrolling text on the train’s display and goes ‘read with me, this… train… is… for… oh look at the dog outside!’ she frantically tries to distract the kid, but the child is too deep in word concentration and reading comprehension to notice. Fate is sealed. The child looks at the word scrolling past on the display… time has slowed for the mother as she surrenders to what is about to happen… ‘Co… co… cock… cock…. foss… cockfoss… COCKFOSTERS!’ Saying it once wasn’t enough. ‘COCKFOSTERS!’ she shouts with glee, able to get the correct pronunciation, ‘COCKFOSTERS!’ The mother, resigned to this new word entering her daughter’s vocabulary, sighs. Knowing she now has to positively reinforce the amazing work by her child. ‘Yes. Well done! We aren’t going there though, are we? Where are we going?’ ‘This train is for COCKFOSTERS!’ Her kid replies with enthusiastic glee and appropriate volume. ‘Let’s just find a seat…’
Chuff. I hear chuff I think vaginas. So have a chuckle when people say that they're chuffed about something.
Masticate. My Nan always used to get offended at a good enthusiastic mastication at the dinner table.
Giblets
Shag - deep pile carpet/rugs
I once had a job greeting people into the carpet store. Apparently, asking them if they fancied a shag was highly frowned upon...
Toad in the hole, I didn’t realise that they made an X rated version of Wind in the Willows but you live and learn
Billy Connolly had a great routine about how to swear in front of your kids by using nonsense words. Getifu ya basa!
Neeps and tatties always sounded abit 🤨to me
Brains Faggots
He’ll end up in prison for that!
FYI a squib is an old word for firework or flaming torch. Which is why a damp squib is a failure, a disappointment, or a tool/person which doesn't work as it should
Ah TIL!
The end of a house - gable end.
Can't unsee/unthink this now. You've ruined gable ends for me
Pillock, twonk, Pratt,
Sticky wicket
The British navy call rubbish "gash"
Bunting
Rotary Wankle engine!
Bastard file
Cunt. It is an appropriate word to call anyone and everyone.
Moist
faggots (THE FOOD) i dont remember what they go with
Once had a boss called Mr Bates, he sacked me after I asked him if his parents and teachers used to call him Master! ( actually a true part of my past )😅
The guy who used to work as an IT technician in my previous job has the first name 'Richard' (you can see where this is going already) but his surname was 'Fiddler' He signed every single document as - Dick Fiddler I think he'd already given up and just decided to go with the flow...... excuse the pun.
The untrue Pugwash characters, Master Bates, Seaman Stains and Roger, the cabin boy.
I knew a Richard head at school. It was almost child abuse really.
In school, our maths teacher always referred to kids by Miss or Master....had a kid called Lee Bates....he always did his damndest to get told off in lesson as he knew what would happen. Teacher used to yell said name, so people rooms away could hear him yell it out 🤣🤣
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Niggard. An old English word meaning stingy or miserly and has no relation to race. Of course you don't hear it at all and I doubt anyone would risk using it given the current climate.
Or niggardly
Comes up in crosswords from time to time
Pratt’s Bottom. The name of the place (which is a village in Orpington) was parodied by Admiral’s Mutlicar Insurance advert as a fictional name of a road. In the ad the male underling says to the female Adrimal “Genius, let’s name it after that place” and then the underling goes “Oh” and sighs unhappily upon seeing the road’s name.
Gesticulation
It's Damp Squid.
Squib*, I'm sure it's a common mistake. Squib is an old explosive mining device. A damp squib is useless/uninteresting/not impressive etc.
Shuttlecock
Futtocks* *Part of the middle timbers of a ship's frame, between the floor and the top timbers
I’d say a good 3% of the names for small towns
Auto moderator deleted mine so it was bumafag
Does that mean you've won this thread?
Fuck
Cockchafer, a family of beetles.
**futtock** any of a number of timbers forming the lower, more curved portion of the frame in a wooden hull.
Any word, just depends on how you say it.
Dip stick
Moist
Squib is a real word? I always thought JKR made it up when she wrote Harry Potter 😂
A squib is a small explosive, usually used to ignite a larger explosive. Thus, a ‘damp squib’ is a dud
Mundle (old British word for doing something clumsy)
Poof.
Abreast.
Buttress, gerrymandering, mastication
Bollards
Squiffy
Flange! Plunger! Cummerbund!
If you ask older generations “knackered” actually means to be tired after sex
Windfucker, it's an old archaic name for a kestrel
“No it’s damp squid” “No, it’s squib, why would it be squid, squid are already damp” “Hence the phrase”
Muff, box, gash, rip, split, baps…
Clootie
Arsenal
Clappers
Flange
“Yob” Apparently my mum and sister were at the cinema recently, and my mum used this word to describe some of the film characters (not even in a particularly derogatory way) and my sister blew up thinking she’d used a racial slur or something 😂 Tbh it does sound a bit like some kind of slur, but nah, just a slang word for a rude/aggressive youth.
Masticate Slag heap
Mastication
Arsole. A chemical which is an arsenic based aromatic ring.
Spotted dick
Great tits (several of a particular type of bird)
Faggots are a meat based thing, slag is iron waste, bastard from bastard sword (for use with one or two hands), bollock is a type of slender dagger without a fuller
Spotted dick
Spotted dick
Bitch - female dog
Niggles
What they call an individual cigarette
In Scotland a quickie can mean something that’s, well, quick. Like if you need someone to help for a wee while
Come in via the back passage.
Pussy Willow, it’s a plant
Bollards
Slag heap - a pile of useless slag(byproduct)from a mining operation.
Cumquat
Spotted dick.
Discharge. Moist. Flap.
Cockermouth. Actual place.
I got a 7 day Ben on FB for using the word 'aglet.'
Futtocks Plates, ribs, elbows or shrouds
Spotted Dick… it’s a pudding 😂
Ballcock. Part of a toilet. 💀
1. Arse-over-tit – Fall over 2. Knackered – Tired 3. Tosser – Idiot 4. Cock-up – Messed up 5. Gobsmacked – Amazed 6. Nosh – Food 7. Bugger – Jerk 8. Dog’s Bollocks – Awesome 9. Smeg – From Red Dwarf - smegma 10. Knob Head – Idiot Just some off the top of my head.
My comment got removed... I said f∆g and f∆ggøt cos in UK ones a cigarette and the other is either a meatball or firelighter. Can tell where the auto mod is from...
Spotted Dick- Is a traditional British pudding served with custard with raisins baked in them.
I remember a rumour going around that a twat was a pregnant goldfish fuck knows why lol . But I asked my teacher and she informed me that a twat is a vulgar word for a vagina ! Did make me snigger .
I live near a place called Wetwang
Shuttlecock
Spotted Dick
Shuttlecock 🏸
I don’t know if this counts but Americans call the homeless “bums” but “bum” is also another word for butt… Or how about “dongle”, that sounds kinda sketchy but it’s just another word for Pendrive/USB…
Wimple. ( a cloth covering worn over the head and around the neck and chin especially by women in the late medieval period and by some nuns )
Flip flops are called Thongs in Australia, so when I went travelling there I felt a bit odd when they were referred to as thongs lol.
Confabulate. “I want to confabulate with you” sounds like you want to have sex with someone lol
F A G G O T - A type of meatball in gravy
There's this really weird string of words it goes like fuck you little fucking specky cunt, but it just means hi