| B | ||
| BANGING MATCH: | A ferocious argument. It was a real banging match |
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| BANG SMACK IN THE MIDDLE: | Dead centre |
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| BARKING ON THE WRONG HORSE: | Misplacing your allegiance, trust | |
| BEMUFFLED: | Confused, mixed up in the head. I can’t think, I’m all bemuffled. |
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| BESPECKLED: | Wearing glasses | |
| BIBS AND BOBS: | Odds and sods. | |
| BOB DIDDLY: | Famous R & B artist | |
| BOOFED OUT: | To be mentally exhausted I’m so boofed out I can hardly think. |
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| BOTCHED EGG: | A badly cooked poached egg where the yoke is too hard or the white is too runny. | |
| BUSY WATER: | Fizzy, carbonated mineral water. | |
| BUZZLING: | Busy with people. The bookshop was buzzling. |
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| C | ||
| CHOPADOPODIST: | Doctor who looks after your feet | |
| CHUFFED UP: | Feeling ‘thick in the head’ from a cold I can’t think, I’m all chuffed up. |
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| CLAMPERED: | Feeling confined, hemmed in. Stop clampering me, give me space. |
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| CLEAVERAGE: | Female chest area | |
| CRIMPLED: | Un – ironed, crimped and crumpled material Your t- shirt is all crimpled. |
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| CROOKS AND NANNIES: | Nooks and crannies ( a spoonerism) | |
| CREDIT OF THE DOUBT: | Benefit of the doubt | |
| CYGLET: | A baby swan | |
| D | ||
| DAMP SQUID: | A project or idea which fails to get off the ground. | |
| DITHERLY: | Indecisive I can’t get anything done, I’m all ditherly. |
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| DUMB SMACKED: | Surprised, gob smacked, struck dumb. I was totally dumb-smacked by his reaction. |
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| DRIVES MY HEAD UP THE WALL: | Particularly infuriating. I can’t be around that man, he drives my head up the wall. |
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| MY NERVES ARE DANGLING: | When your nerves are on edge (jangling) | |
| E | ||
| EAR DROP: | To overhear, listen in on someone else’s conversation. | |
| F | ||
| FLIMMING: | To skim through the newspaper Fast/skim 'Did you read the paper?' ‘Not really, I just flimmed through.’ |
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| FLIPULATING: | A state ot shock, shaking, palpitating My whole body was flipulating |
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| FLUSH FLOOD: | A flash flood which flushes things out | |
| G | ||
| GEORGIE: | A person from the north east of England | |
| GLUBICLE: | A Kagoule | |
| GOOBY: | A passion fruit | |
| GUFFLING: | To scoff food The women were guffling down their cakes |
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| H | ||
| HARPOONIST: | Someone who plays the harp/blues harp | |
| HOOF AND HUFF: | A fuss, commotion, kerfuffle, palaver. As in ‘I’m not going to give a big hoof and huff about it. |
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| HUGLI (hoo- glee): | Cosy, homely, snug. | |
| K | ||
| KNOLLUCK: | Small grassy hill (Knoll/hillock) | |
| KNOCKER HEADS: | To be at Knockerheads, (logger heads) To be in conflict, disagreement with someone, |
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| L | ||
| Lotopomy: | Lobotomy | |
| M | ||
| MILTON & BOON: | Mills and Boon | |
| MOOLIBAR: | Woodlice | |
| MUSCLE & BUSTLE: | As in to be out in the muscle and bustle of life | |
| MUEFF (M-u-r-f): | A stale smell from an unaired room. It mueffs a bit in here, open the window. |
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| N | ||
| NUGGETS: | Men’s bits. | |
| NOTCH: | Latch, as in the door has been left on the notch. | |
| P | ||
| PERITWINKLE: | Periwinkle | |
| PLEISURELY: | Something that is relaxing and We went on a pleisurely walk |
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| PIGLING: | A baby pig | |
| Q | ||
| QUIVERS: | A state of excitation, mild unrest. It gave me the quivers |
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| R | ||
| RECLAIMED: | To have a comeback. He’s a critically reclaimed actor |
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| REHEARSALING: | Rehearsing, The band were rehearsaling |
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| RENUBIATE: | To refresh, recharge the batteries. The holiday was renubiating |
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| S | ||
| SALVITATING: | Salivating | |
| SCISSATEURS: | Sectors | |
| SCRUBBLING: | To be scratched, rubbed up the wrong way. Stop scrubbling me with your stubble |
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| SCRAPNEL: | Rubbish , scrap. There’s a pile of scrapnel on the beach. |
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| SCOTCH HATCHING: | Cross hatching, | |
| SHORT SHAFTED: | To be cheated, tricked | |
| SHOCKED OUT OF MY GUTS: | To be severely surprised by something. | |
| SLIPPERING: | To slip and slide Help! I’m slippering in the mud! |
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| SLOUNDER: | To fritter away or waste He’s been sloundering away all his cash or he’s been just sloundering about all day. |
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| SNATCH: | A Snag, problem, a catch. There’s always a snatch |
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| SQUAMPED: | Squashed, swamped, overwhelmed I’m feeling a bit squamped by the whole thing |
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| SQUANCHED UP: | Squeezed and scrunched up. My clothes were all squanched up in my suitcase. |
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| SQUIBBLE: | Squabble. Stop squibbling you two. |
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| SQUINCHED: | To squeeze, pinch something or someone. I squinched myseld with a peg |
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| SQUILCH: | The sound made when stepping in mud | |
| STINCH: | A strong, repugnant smell. There’s an awful stinch in here. |
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| STRIDLE: | To straddle something. | |
| STICKY LONG JOHN: | Daddy Long legs | |
| T | ||
| TATOONIST: | A person who tattoos. | |
| TOE CRINGING: | Something that is excruciatingly embarrassing or plain awful. That film was just toe cringing. |
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| TREBULATIONS: | Misgivings, concerns, worries. I understand your trebulations. |
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| TRUMBLING ON MY HEAD: | Noise made from someone moving about on the floor above. You’re trumbling on my head |
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| TWIT: | A species of small bird. Look at that little twit on the branch. |
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| TWINLETS: | Twins | |
| TWIRPING: | A sound that birds make. | |
| U | ||
| UPPER DOG: | The opposite of an underdog, to get the upper hand. | |
| UNTHINKABLE: | To be in a mindless, relaxed state. I’m deliciously unthinkable. |
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| UNBLIVIOUS: | Unaware of ones surroundings She’s totally unblivious of what’s going on. |
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| W | ||
| WIDTH OF MY TITHER: | To be at the limits of endurance I’m at the width of my tither |
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| WIND BAGGED: | To be winded. I fell onto my back and got totally windbagged. |
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| WELLINGS: | Wellington boots. | |
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