builddate=Fri Mar 2 18:19:56 2007n char-precedence={ -,!/.()?*+^&:;_'=[]`}{0123456789}{aA}{bB}{cC}{dD}{eE}{fF}{gG}{hH}{iI}{jJ}{kK}{lL}{mM}{nN}{oO}{pP}{qQ}{rR}{sS}{tT}{uU}{vV}{wW}{xX}{yY}{zZ} description=Guide to Lyndon's language. dict-size=7806 id=Lyndon Hill's Lexicon index=0Alright, me lover ?n0 items=44 maintainer=Lyndon Hill max-entry-length=481 max-word-length=21 search-ignore-chars= Alright, me lover ? {s} {br/} Origin: West country parlance
{br/} Example: "Alright, me lover ?"
{br/} {/s}anticrastination {s} {br/} Origin: Me
{br/} Example: That thing is still stressing me, I need to anticrastinate.
{br/} {/s}apples {s} {br/} Origin: West country parlance
{br/} Example: "Mines an apples"
{br/} {/s}bedme {s} {br/} Secret Origin: Top quality people from Bristol
{br/} Example: "This is the kind of place bedmes come to play football"
{br/} {/s}beer space {s} {br/} beverages once you have consumed a meal
{br/} Secret Meaning: "I'm a lightweight"
{br/} Secret Reference: A Dan Slater excuse.
{br/} Example: "Sorry lads, I had a big dinner, I've got no beer space left"
{br/} {/s}birthday cheese {s} {br/} wrong answer to an easy question
{br/} Origin: Catchphrase.
{br/} Example: "Where's Lisbon ?" "Spain." "Birthday Cheese!"
{br/} {/s}bitching {s} {br/} Origin: A Kris Potter-Burnell phrase.
{br/} Example: "I just split up with my girlfriend." "Uh. Bitching."
{br/} {/s}Britney Spears {s} {br/} Origin: Mockney rhyming slang.
{br/} Example: "Let's go for some Britneys"
{br/} {/s}cheers, cheers then {s} {br/} Origin: West country parlance
{br/} Note: Sounds like Tchuss in German which also means "cheers then".
{br/} Example: "I'm off, cheers then."
{br/} {/s}chuck a U-ee {s} {br/} Origin: Beth, Melbourne
{br/} Example: "Streuth, you've missed the turning, chuck a you-ee here, mate."
{br/} {/s}delish {s} {br/} Origin: Beth commenting on my cooking (some mistake, surely ?)
{br/} Example: "That was delish."
{br/} {/s}dog man {s} {br/} Origin: John Hooper
{br/} Original Reference: Alex Walsh
{br/} Example: Those people who ask you to "spare us any change for a cup of tea".
{br/} {/s}dummer {s} {br/} Origin: West country parlance
{br/} Example: "He's a dummer".
{br/} {/s}Grockle {s} {br/} Origin: West country parlance
{br/} Example: "Don't go into town, it's packed with grockles."
{br/} {/s}Gronk {s} {br/} Origin: Jasmine (she's Australian)
{br/} Example: "I felt a bit of a gronk".
{br/} {/s}gumpf! {s} {br/} Origin: Graeme Puxley
{br/} Secret Origin: A reference to Viz magazine.
{br/} Example: "Gumpf!"
{br/} {/s}gurt {s} {br/} Origin: West country parlance
{br/} Note: See any records by The Wurzels
{br/} Example: "...with a gurt big stick I'll knock 'im down.."
{br/} {/s}H {s} {br/} Note: The correct Japanese pronunciation is "etchi".
{br/} Example: "Yoshimi is so H ... shinjinaranai!"
{br/} {/s}Hai! Moshi moshi {s} {br/} Note: Particularly useful for confusing callers.
{br/} Example: "Hai, moshi moshi ?" "What the .... ?"
{br/} {/s}he's a bit of a Billy {s} {br/} Origin: Deano Marriot describing Adrian Hughes' reputation for tall tales
{br/} Example: "Well, you know he's Billy..."
{br/} {/s}hinky {s} {br/} Origin: NCIS
{br/} Example: "Vernon and Melissa's relationship is a bit hinky."
{br/} {/s}jam dandy {s} {br/} Origin: See Nicholas Cage in the movie Wings of the Apache.
{br/} Example: "Do you want to meet us there at 7:30 ?" "That'll be jam dandy."
{br/} {/s}jitter {s} {br/} like thrash music
{br/} Origin: West country parlance
{br/} Example: "Let's not go to that pub, it's full of jitters".
{br/} {/s}lush {s} {br/} Origin: West country parlance
{br/} Example: "She's gurt lush."
{br/} {/s}make it so {s} {br/} Origin: Star Trek
{br/} Note: Best not used in presence of strangers
{br/} Example: "Chris, I've a great idea, lets go to the pub" "Make it so."
{br/} {/s}most {s} {br/} Origin: Mark Baseley
{br/} Example: "I was most upset to find Bill urinating on the window".
{br/} {/s}ne ? {s} {br/} Origin: Japanese but also Korean for yes
{br/} Note: Be careful not to say repeatedly "ne, ne!, NE ?" for fear of sounding{br/} like a sheep.
{br/} Example: "It's a bit hot in here, ne ?"
{br/} {/s}no way {s} {br/} Origin: Kris Potter-Burnell; KPB found it very difficult to say anything not{br/} sarcastic.
{br/} Example: "You've won the lottery" "No Way!"
{br/} {/s}nuclear sub {s} {br/} Origin: Mockney rhyming slang.
{br/} Note: See the movie "Lock, stock and two smoking barrels".
{br/} Example: "See you down the nuclear"
{br/} {/s}oi {s} {br/} Origin: Tony Burton; especially when trying to stumble home from a pub.
{br/} Example: "Lyndon, oi!"
{br/} {/s}oiiiiiiiiiii {s} {br/} Origin: Terry Palmer
{br/} Note: Only to be heard or used in the West country.
{br/} Example: "Oiiiiiiiiiiii, I was down by that tra'tor when..."
{br/} {/s}oishikunai {s} {br/} Origin: Japanese people alway say something is delicious, even beer! If something{br/} is not delicious they don't say anything, it's more polite. However, I believe{br/} that if you are in a restaurant and paying for food then it is not impolite to{br/} be honest.
{br/} Note: I'm not sure the majority of Japanese people will agree with me. Use carefully.
{br/} Example: (In the restaurant) "Ryouri wa dou desu ka ?" "Oishikunai!"
{br/} {/s}Party {s} {br/} turning up at a pre-determined location at a pre-arranged time with {br/} more alcoholic beverages than you can possibly hope to imagine to {br/} drink in a single night and retain liver function. (Acknowledgements to {br/} Dave Horne)
{br/} {/s}PC {s} {br/} Note: Microsoft and Intel would have you believe that{br/} only an Intel PC running Windows (i.e. a Windows Box){br/} is a PC. This is patently false: any home computer is a PC.
{br/} {/s}Picard manoeuvre {s} {br/} Usual Meaning: when your (drunken) friend goes to talk to some girl {br/} you think he has no chance with and when you{br/} look away for 2 seconds, you look back to find him snogging her.
{br/} Origin: Star Trek
{br/} Example: "I can't believe it, that must have been the Picard manoeuvre."
{br/} {/s}Po'tishead {s} {br/} (and not just a band, that's just where they come from).
{br/} {/s}PPC {s} {br/} Note: Microsoft, realising that Windows CE, the version of their famous desktop{br/} environment for PDAs has a very unmemorable name so they decided that PDAs{br/} running WinCE should be called "Pocket PCs" and hence causing much confusion{br/} by using an acronym already widely in use.
{br/} Example: "My PC is not Intel, it is PPC"
{br/} {/s}right on {s} {br/} Origin: Elite
{br/} Note: You never say something "is" right on. It's only used as a response.
{br/} Example: "That guy who parks in your space had his car stolen" "Right on"
{br/} {/s}ripper {s} {br/} Origin: Grace
{br/} Example: "that party last night was a ripper"
{br/} {/s}rock and roll {s} {br/} Origin: Queen concerts - "Are you ready to rock ? Are you ready to roll ?"
{br/} Example: "I'm ready to rock and roll".
{br/} {/s}sharkenfischen {s} {br/} Origin: Post finals trip to Germany
{br/} Note: Comes from the realisation that English words can be made to sound{br/} German yet become incomprehensible to our German friends.
{br/} Example: "Hey, John, sharkenfischen, ja ?"
{br/} {/s}Uck {s} {br/} Origin: When people give their email address they always say "... dot com" {br/} and never "... dot see oh em".
{br/} Note 1: Apply to every time you use UK
{br/} Note 2: John Savage claims he knew an Austrian girl {br/} called Dorothy whose email address was dot@dot.at
{br/} Example: "I come from Uck"
{br/} {/s}Where be that then ? {s} {br/} Origin: West country parlance
{br/} Example: "Chipping Sodbury ? Where be that then ?"
{br/} {/s}Windows Box {s} {br/} Origin: A PC that runs Linux is often referred to as a Linux Box.
{br/} Example: "Do you have a Windows Box? I have to use IE"
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