[Sanremogirl]

Originally posted by *End Is Forever*
I am still amused by how we used "taxed" to be "stolen", ie, "Miss, miss, he's taxed my ruler!". Gordon Brown take note... Ooh, those words were fun. "Thefted" was perhaps the most polite form, and "Gypsied" and "Jobbo'd" were less politically correct forms. A "jobber" was somebody who stole routinely, and a "gypsy" was somebody who did that in addition to being unkempt.

You're probably all familiar by now with the terms "wanker" and "tosser" to mean somebody of low esteem (usually male, given the anatomical etymology - a ruder way of saying "jerk", perhaps). But did you know "bell" and "bell-end", deriving from a very similar source?

A few words I never really understood were "prat" and "pillock". Both describe people who are generally idiots, but I never figured out why.

They also say "sugar" a fair bit when things don't go as planned.