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  • Bollocks – (literally meaning testicles) nonsense

  • Bugger – a very useful term, which means to sodomize or someone who engages in sodomy (somehow I don’t see it gaining wide acceptance in the US). Can be used as an expletive like the F word, or combined, as the F word is, to form other useful expressions such as buggered (tired), bugger-all (nothing) and bugger-off.

  • Dodgy – not sound, good, or reliable

  • Fiddle – verb and adjective meaning to steal, usually from an employer. “Working a fiddle” means getting back at your boss (by stealing paperclips, fudging your timesheet or “throwing a sickie” – see below) for underpaying you.

  • Flash – an adjective describing a rich person who exhibits poor taste.

  • Flog – to aggressively sell something useless

  • Gaffer – boss

  • Git – a contemptible, mean-spirited, incompetent, stupid, annoying, or childish person

  • Kip – a short sleep

  • Legless – extremely drunk

  • Moggy – a mongrel cat

  • Nick – a versatile word that can be used as a verb meaning to steal or be arrested. Or as a noun referring to jail or prison.

  • Panel beater – someone who repairs auto bodies

  • Piss-up – an organized session of binge drinking (where you set out to get “pissed” or drunk)

  • Ponceliteral meaning is a pimp or effeminate person. “To ponce about” is to put on airs.

  • Posh – a pejorative describing rich people who show off

  • Scive – throw a sickie” (to take a day off when you’re not really sick)

  • Twit – a foolishly annoying person (an expression popularized by Monty Python’s “Upper Class Twit of the Year” sketch)

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