My most beloved British slang is Knackered. Fucking knackered! It means very tired, exhausted. But those terms are sterlized of feeling, of life. You know that feeling after you finish moving? That total fucking exhaustion, you’re knackered my friend. I can’t think of a word that feels more accurate to the state of reality it describes. Knackered is a fucking gift.

Chuffed. If youre chuffed i believe that means your excited. I hate it but not for real good reasons. It sounds like a bad thing. Like i don’t want to be chuffed from the sound of it. It sounds like i chafed my lungs from sighing too much cuz I’m miserable.

Ok now for the linguistic crime known as snog or snogging. It means to make out or tongue kiss someone. But it sounds like a fucking sex act involving noses. And not a normal sex act. A fucking depraved dirty sex act, you’d feel shame even googling, but again it involves noses. And honestly it sounds like snot is likely involved with this sex act. Do better Britain stop saying fucking snogged you dirty bastards.

What is your most beloved and hated British slang?

  • QualifiedKitten@discuss.onlineEnglish
    182·
    22 hours ago

    Probably not technically slang, and maybe not even technically British, but I hate the all variations of “whinge”. I know it’s a real word, but it always feels like someone misspelling “whine”. I was well into adulthood when I finally learned that though, so those feelings are just so ingrained in me at this point.

    Thanks for listening to me whine.

      • QualifiedKitten@discuss.onlineEnglish
        1·
        9 hours ago

        I could definitely see that! Was there a significant gap of time between when you first encountered that spelling vs. when you learned that it was a regional variation? I’m pretty sure the first time I came across “tyre”, it was on an internet forum, and by the time I was reading the thread, there were arguments & explanations about it, so I learned immediately.

    • Balthazar@lemmy.world
      6·
      20 hours ago

      How do you know that the plane that just landed is from England? Even when the engines have been shut down, you can still hear the whining.