Your Favorite Slang

Look out window made no sense to me until i realised where you were coming from.. haha

I dont think there is a puncuation mark to expess that, but i'll try with

Look out 'window

' being the

Just a friendly suggestion for when you do move over here-don't use slang or phrases that you don't understand or might be using wrong until you've been here awhile and understand all the connotations or you could make yourself look really stupid or really offend someone.

Hehe, one of my American friends was over here for my wedding and she said something to me about a guy "giving the piss."  It took awhile for me to stop laughing hard enough to tell her that I thought she meant to say "taking the piss."

That American usage of "duck" must be very recent indeed -- Urban Dictionary doesn't even know about it yet.  It has never failed me in the past when I encountered slang I did not understand.

I wonder if "bird" is a bit generational. I hang out with mostly early- to mid- 20 somethings, and they all seem to think that it's horribly cheesy and outdated.  Of course, they could be lying to me and talking about how they don't like "big birds" when I am not around.   

I told my husband he gave me cooties yesterday.  Note to self, they don't use the word cooties here. 

That American usage of "duck" must be very recent indeed -- Urban Dictionary doesn't even know about it yet.  It has never failed me in the past when I encountered slang I did not understand.

If it's not in Urban Dictionary, I don't believe it! That's my go-to site when I want to sound "down with the kids"! 

To me, a lot of slang just really depends on the context in which it's used...i.e., things like daft, bird, 'what are you like', barmy, etc...  I disagree that it 'always' means or connotates one thing in Yorkshire, one thing another place, blah blah blah...

It depends on who you're with, what's being said, how it's being said - completely on the context.  I've heard all of the above used in non-offensive ways - yes, right here in Yorkshire and also elsewhere throughout the UK too.

I would agree with whoever said 'bird' is used when talking about someone, not to them.  So someone might say "I pulled this fit bird in the pub last night" to their mates, and that would be okay (other than Vicky saying "she's a woman, not a bird, you ignorant sexist pig")...but if a bloke said "you are an attractive bird" then he'd most likely get laughed at by said bird and therefore, fail to pull!



Vicky

But we laugh at my house about my being DH's 'big bird'...and it's extra funny to me because in the back of my mind, I'm thinking of...

Heh. When I first moved here I thought 'pulled' meant had sex. Oops.

Heh. When I first moved here I thought 'pulled' meant had sex. Oops.

When I was younger it did!!!!!   


Vicky

Heh. When I first moved here I thought 'pulled' meant had sex. Oops.

It doesn't? 

Not necessarily.  It could just be a good old snog and / or getting a phone number.


Vicky

if you pulled you 'got off'  with someone irrespective of whether you 'dipped your wick' or not, may have just been a kiss or even just got a phone number...

terrible chat up line would be to go up to a girl in a bar and say 'get your coat darling, you've pulled'

Mentally challenged = Thick.

That American usage of "duck" must be very recent indeed -- Urban Dictionary doesn't even know about it yet.  It has never failed me in the past when I encountered slang I did not understand.

That didn't actually start in the US.  It started here probably 20 years ago.  You know Duckface in the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral.  That's why she is called that.  I know that because the actress was on Richard and Judy at the time and they asked her why the character was called Duckface and she used the BJ word and it caused a HUGE uproar and Richard and Judy had to apologize profusely.   So, there you go. 

Mentally challenged = Thick.

not really.  It means stupid in a dense way.