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  • cherub0

    last of the word list.

    mingin=stinking, ugly
    cow=fat girl
    burd=chick, girl
    nought=zero
    nil=nothing
    bang on = right on
    prime minister's questions = weekly press conference where Boris has to defend himself in the house of commons
    fucked off=pissed off
    chips=french fries
    crisps=potato chips
    ring someone = call someone(on cell phone)
    snog=to make out / kiss
    shopping trolley = shopping cart / buggy
    pram=baby carriage
    dual carriageway=highway / interstate
    wank(er)= jerk(off)
    thick=stupid
    chav=white trash
    knobhead, bellend=dickhead
    shattered=exhausted
    gutted=brokenhearted
    lush=awesome
    cwtch/cutch=snuggle type hug
    butt= bud / friend

    and last but certainly not least, the welsh greeting. It's hard to write but it's something like:
    hiya!
    but pronounced like high yuuuu

    and it seems to me like a contraction of the words "hey you". It just means hello, good morning , hi.

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    • chips = french fries
      crisps = potato chips
      :)      Nairn
    • Not sure I've heard of 'butt= bud / friend'
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      In Scotland they used (do?) end a lot of sentences with "...but".      Nairn
    • Like "I dunno what am doin, but"
      As a pseudo-sassanach kid spending my summers there, it confused the shit out of me.      Nairn
    • Butt is a welsh thing, I heard "alright butt?" on the streets plenty. Coming from America where we hear "bud" alot, and have a beer called "bud light", "butt"cherub
    • doesn't sound foreign. They just pronounce the "d" as a "t". There is even a thing in linguistics called drift, it's common to do that even in yr own culture.cherub
    • I've spent a fair bit of time in Wales, my Mother in Law is Welsh, my partner is half Welsh, never heard Butt, perhaps it was a local to where you were thing.fadein11
    • Ah, apparently it's a Swansea thing. Interesting as my mother in law is from that neck of the woods. I will try it out on her next time :)fadein11
    • Wait, you'll try out butt on your mother in law?

      /twat      Nairn
    • Come to think of it maybe Butt is like micro-slang.. only a handful of ppl are using it but still gets reputation as being used widely. Shouldn't be on the listcherub
    • lol nairn, and yes cherub, that's what I said, but it does seem legit.fadein11
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