"dialects and indigenous names for money, in addition to the official National languages of Swahili and English. In English, Kenyan currency is a Shilling while in Swahili it is ""Shilingi."" (Indeed, all East African countries refer to their money as Shillings.) Other notable names include: In addition, youth have a sub-culture street language for the different denominations. Using the street slang (""sheng""), urbanites often amalgamate Swahili, English, and their mother-tongue to concoct meanings and names for the different denominations. Among the commonly used terms are: In writing, money is denoted by ""Kshs"" before or the slang notation ""/="" after. For"
"spine to piled coins; thus ""Spondulics - coin piled for counting..."". The earliest recorded occurrence of the word as slang for money appears to have been in the late 19th century in the United States. The New Oxford Dictionary of English marks the origin as US slang. However, according to the Cassell Dictionary of Slang, the term can be traced back to the mid-19th century in England. Other sources also suggest a mid-19th-century origin. The July 1852 edition of the ""Water-Cure Journal"" includes ""Gossip from Indiana"" by ""a Hoosier"" which complains about ""spending our spondulix."" In Meister Karl's Sketch-Book (1855),"
"Spudulike Spudulike is a restaurant chain and franchise specialising in baked potatoes (potatoes being known as ""spuds"" in colloquial British English) that first opened in Edinburgh in 1974. Spudulike purveys baked potatoes with various fillings, other potato based meals, and side dishes. Spudulike was founded by Kim Culley and Barbara Leggate. In 1979, the company was acquired by the British School of Motoring (BSM), who helped Spudulike to rapidly expand its business as a franchise operation. It later demerged from BSM, and in May 2001, it bought ""Courts Quality Foods"", owner of rival potato brand Fat Jackets. Spudulike had fifty"
"Charles Godfrey Leland includes it in a long list of synonyms for money: "" . . . the magic spell of the ""ready""—otherwise known as money, cash, tin, stuff, rhino, root-of-all-evil, blunt, wherewhital, rowdy, funds, stumpy, pecuniary, dibs, hard, browns, heavy, mopusses, slugs, shiners, lucre, or 'the filthy,' dust, gelt, chips, lumps, chinkers, mint-drops, pewter, brass, horsenails, rocks, brads, spondulix, needful, dough, spoons, buttons, dimes, or the infallible . . ."" The spelling ""spondulicks"" appeared in an 1858 edition of ""Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine"": ""Steve, if the Court recollects herself, then you come up with the spondulicks, and Bill Bresse"
"occasionally used to approximate rhyming slang; it does not quite rhyme, but preserves meter and rhythm. The Beautiful South bowdlerised their original line """"sweaty bollocks"""" as """"Sandra Bullocks"""", as one of several changes to make their song ""Don't Marry Her"" acceptable for mainstream radio play. The term """"Horlicks"""" was brought to prominence in July 2003, when then-British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw used it to describe irregularities in the preparation and provenance of the ""dodgy dossier"" regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Straw used the expression ""a complete ""Horlicks"""", instead of the more impolite ""make a complete ""bollocks"" of something""."
"outlets across the United Kingdom in 2001, including twenty ""Courts"" franchises. Spudulike Spudulike is a restaurant chain and franchise specialising in baked potatoes (potatoes being known as ""spuds"" in colloquial British English) that first opened in Edinburgh in 1974. Spudulike purveys baked potatoes with various fillings, other potato based meals, and side dishes. Spudulike was founded by Kim Culley and Barbara Leggate. In 1979, the company was acquired by the British School of Motoring (BSM), who helped Spudulike to rapidly expand its business as a franchise operation. It later demerged from BSM, and in May 2001, it bought ""Courts Quality"
"Spondylus Spondylus is a genus of bivalve molluscs, the only genus in the family Spondylidae. They are known in English as spiny oysters (though they are not, in fact, oysters). The many species of ""Spondylus"" vary considerably in appearance and range. They are grouped in the same superfamily as the scallops. They are not closely related to true oysters (family Ostreidae); however, they do share some habits such as cementing themselves to rocks rather than attach themselves by a byssus. The two halves of their shells are joined with a ball-and-socket type of hinge rather than with a toothed hinge,"
"Snorkers Snorkers is a British English colloquialism for sausages. It may have a Royal Navy slang origin. The term is probably derived from an earlier dialect term for a young pig: Wright's 19th-century ""English Dialect Dictionary"" notes ""snorker"" as a widespread word for a piglet, related to the word ""snork"", to grunt or snore. Snorkers is the nickname for Palethorpe's pre-cooked tinned sausages. The nickname originated aboard World War II Royal Navy submarines, along with other culinary delights such as HITS (tinned Herrings In Tomato Sauce) and Baby's Heads (tinned steak and kidney pudding). Fresh food lasted only a few"
"This euphemism stems from an advertising campaign for the Horlicks malt drink, where people were seen to be shouting """"Horlicks!"""" in a loud voice, to give vent to stress or frustration. Eric Morecambe was also known to cough """"Horlicks!"""" behind his hand on The Morecambe and Wise Show. ""Rollocking"" is sometimes used as a euphemism for """"bollocking"""". A ""rollocking bollocking"" may be delivered by an electorate. The 2007 ""Concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English"" quotes ""bollards"" as meaning ""testicles"" and that it is a play on the word bollocks. The play ""Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery"","
"Spondylurus Spondylurus is a genus of lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus ""Spondylurus"", vernacularly known as the Antillean four-lined skinks, is a neotropical skink taxon including many species. Species in the genus ""Spondylurus"" are characterized by four (occasionally three to six) dark dorsolateral stripes. This characteristic is known to fade in older individuals, and colors when preserved shift from tans and browns to greens and blues, often causing confusion as to the true color in life. Many of the species of ""Spondylurus"" are extinct or endangered, resulting from invasive predators such as the mongoose. The genus ""Spondylurus"" is distributed"
"""bar"", ""coin"", ""folding stuff"", ""honk"", ""lolly"", ""lucre""/""filthy ""Lucre"", ""moola/moolah"", ""paper"", ""scratch"", ""readies"", ""spondulicks/spondoolic(k)s/spondulix/spondoolies"", and ""wonga"". ""Quid"" (singular and plural) is used for pound sterling or £, in British slang. It is thought to derive from the Latin phrase ""quid pro quo"". A pound (£1) may also be referred to as a ""nicker"" or ""nugget"" (rarer). Some other pre-decimalisation United Kingdom coins or denominations became commonly known by colloquial and slang terms, perhaps the most well known being ""bob"" for a shilling. A farthing was a ""mag"", a silver threepence was a ""joey"", and the later nickel-brass threepence was called a"
"brand and have been used in thousands of commercial recordings and scores since their inception. Twiddly bits Twiddly Bits is an English slang term. From the word twiddly (sometimes spelled Twiddley); curly or decorative, esp. in an unnecessary way and bit; a small piece or amount of something, a twiddly bit is anything that is relatively small and trifling or elaborately decorative. Twiddly is a commonly used word in British English, as in Roald Dahl’s ""The BFG"", where the giant’s large ears allow him to ""hear absolutely every single twiddly little thing"". The term twiddly bit is applicable in almost"
"Bollocks ""Bollocks"" is a word of Middle English origin, meaning ""testicles"". The word is often used figuratively in colloquial British English and Hiberno-English as a noun to mean ""nonsense"", an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, or an adjective to mean ""poor quality"" or ""useless"". Similarly, common phrases like """"Bollocks"" to this!"" and ""That's a load of old ""bollocks"""" generally indicate contempt for a certain task, subject or opinion. Conversely, the word also figures in idiomatic phrases such as ""the dog's ""bollocks"""" or more simply ""the ""bollocks"""" (as opposed to just """"bollocks""""), which will refer to something which is"
"for selling T-shirts bearing the slogan ""Bollocks to Blair"". This took place on 29 June 2006 at the Royal Norfolk Show; the police issued the penalty notice, quoting Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 which refers to language ""deemed to cause harassment, alarm or distress"". Bollocks ""Bollocks"" is a word of Middle English origin, meaning ""testicles"". The word is often used figuratively in colloquial British English and Hiberno-English as a noun to mean ""nonsense"", an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, or an adjective to mean ""poor quality"" or ""useless"". Similarly, common phrases like """"Bollocks"" to this!"""
"Dodman A dodman (plural ""dodmen"") or a hoddyman dod is a local English vernacular word for a land snail. The word is used in some of the counties of England. This word is found in the Norfolk dialect, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Fairfax, in his ""Bulk and Selvedge"" (1674), speaks of “a snayl or dodman.” Hodimadod is a similar word for snail that is more commonly used in the Buckinghamshire dialect. Alternatively (and apparently now more commonly used in the Norfolk dialect) are the closely related words Dodderman or Doddiman. In everyday folklore, these words are popularly said"
"relate to nursery words or children's slang that tends to recur across many different cultures. It would appear to be cognate with the Greek noun , ""kopros"", meaning ""poop"" (hence, coprophilia). It also exists in Germanic; in German, Swedish (""kack""), Scots (as both noun and verb, ""cack"" or ""cackie"", the diminutive), whilst English ""poppiecock"" derives from Dutch ""pappe kak"", ""diarrhea"". It exists in Turkish (kaka), Irish and Scottish Gaelic (""cac""), Hebrew, Hungarian, Ukrainian (""какати""), Russian, Lithuanian and Persian/Isfahani accent (""keke""). In British English, ""caca"" is occasionally used as childish slang for excrement (similar to American English ""poop""), a word whose"
"a variety of slang words and euphemisms are used to talk about it. In English, these include 'member', 'dick', 'cock', 'prick', 'johnson', 'dork', 'peter', 'pecker', 'putz', 'stick', 'rod', 'thing', 'banana', 'dong', 'schmuck' and 'schlong' and 'todger'. Many of these (especially 'dick', 'cock', 'prick', 'dork', 'putz', and 'schmuck') are used as insults—though sometimes playfully—meaning an unpleasant or unworthy person. Among these, historically, most commonly used euphemism for penis in English literature and society was 'member'. The penis is sometimes pierced or decorated by other body art. Other than circumcision, genital alterations are almost universally elective and usually for the purpose of"
"to refer to a person behaving contemptibly. Specifically, the FCC stated in its ruling: The name of the traditional British dessert spotted dick has occasionally been perceived as potentially embarrassing, prompting hospital managers at Gloucestershire NHS Trust (in 2001) and the catering staff at Flintshire County Council (in 2009) to rename the pudding ""Spotted Richard"" on menus, as many customers made ""immature comments"" about the pudding. Gloucestershire NHS Trust restored the original name in 2002 and Flintshire County Council reversed their renaming after a few weeks. The word ""dick"" has (or has had) other slang meanings, for instance: Dick (slang)"
"Twiddly bits Twiddly Bits is an English slang term. From the word twiddly (sometimes spelled Twiddley); curly or decorative, esp. in an unnecessary way and bit; a small piece or amount of something, a twiddly bit is anything that is relatively small and trifling or elaborately decorative. Twiddly is a commonly used word in British English, as in Roald Dahl’s ""The BFG"", where the giant’s large ears allow him to ""hear absolutely every single twiddly little thing"". The term twiddly bit is applicable in almost any context and is commonly used to describe aspects of architecture, art, music, literature, fashion,"
"and ""Fugunosuke"", a name they derived from Shimonoseki, and ""fugu"" or pufferfish, a dish famous in the region. Atsushi eventually teamed up with Ryo Tamura after relocating to Tokyo. They chose to go by the name of “London Boots” initially because it was the name of a fictional comedy team. While “London Boots” does not have any particular meaning in English, in Japanese it refers to the knee length platform shoes worn by some Japanese girls. The London Boots act is typical of Japanese comedy duos in the sense that one person in the duo criticizes and abuses his partner"
"gerrymander has itself contributed to portmanteau terms bjelkemander and playmander. Oxbridge is a common portmanteau for the UK's two oldest universities, those of Oxford and Cambridge. In 2016, ""Britain""s planned ""exit"" from the European Union became known as """"Brexit""."" Many portmanteau words receive some use but do not appear in all dictionaries. For example, a ""spork"" is an eating utensil that is a combination of a spoon and a fork, and a ""skort"" is an item of clothing that is part skirt, part shorts. On the other hand, ""turducken"", a dish made by inserting a chicken into a duck, and"
"which has developed the secondary meaning of a soup, especially one made from these. The word ""skink"" is ultimately derived from the Middle Dutch ""schenke"" ""shin, hough"" (cognate with the English word ""shank"" and German ""Schenkel"", 'thigh', and ""Schinken"", 'ham'). It has no etymological connection with its homonym ""skink"", meaning a lizard belonging to the infraorder Scincomorpha. Cullen skink Cullen skink is a thick Scottish soup made of smoked haddock, potatoes and onions. An authentic Cullen skink will use finnan haddie, but it may be prepared with any other undyed smoked haddock. This soup is a local speciality, from the"
"Spangles were mentioned in The Kinks' song ""Art Lover"", from their 1981 LP ""Give the People What They Want"". In 1977, British novelty pop band Lieutenant Pigeon released an instrumental single titled ""Spangles"". The Fall song ""It's A Curse"" on the album ""The Infotainment Scan"" also includes a reference to Spangles. Spangles (sweets) Spangles was a brand of boiled sweets manufactured by Mars Ltd in the United Kingdom from 1950 to the early 1980s. They were sold in a paper packet with individual sweets originally unwrapped but later cellophane wrapped. They were distinguished by their shape which was a rounded"
"for the profanity ""bollocks"" . This use was exploited by the company in a 1990s advertising campaign, in which a harassed housewife exclaims ""Horlicks"" in a context where a stronger term could have been expected, thus widening the term's exposure and usage for a while. This substitution in the form of a singular noun is also used to refer to a minor disaster or shambles, as in ""to make a complete horlicks of something"". For example in July 2003 British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw described irregularities in the preparation and provenance of a dossier regarding weapons of mass destruction in"
"Puftaloon A puftaloon is a fried scone, a kind of quick bread, known to be cooked in Australia. They are popular with children in winter. It is made from flour, salt, butter, milk and it is traditionally fried in dripping (rendered animal fat, such as pork fat or lard, or rendered beef fat). It is also known as a ""Johnnycake"", referred to in the Australian folk song ""Four Little Johnny Cakes"", in which an itinerant sheep shearer says (in the song's chorus), as he relaxes at his riverside camp: ""With my little round flour-bag sitting on a stump, / My"
"by British expats, but some of these terms are incorporated into other countries' everyday slang, such as in Australia, Canada and Ireland. British slang has been the subject of many books, including a seven volume dictionary published in 1889. Lexicographer Eric Partridge published several works about British slang, most notably ""Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English"", revised and edited by Paul Beale. Many of the words and phrases listed in this article are no longer in current use. Slang is the use of informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language. Slang is"
"presently defined as male testicles from the Cockney rhyming slang ""cobbler's awls"", meaning ""balls"" and ""blow"" was the blossoming of a fruit tree and is widely used as the Polari definition for oral sex on a man causing him to ""blow""(ejaculate). ""Fruitcakes"", which are cakes containing both fruit and nuts, have been in existence since the Middle Ages, but it is unclear when the term started being used disparagingly, especially in the United Kingdom and the United States, as a slur for a 'crazy person' (e.g. ""he's a complete fruitcake"") although ""Cassell's Dictionary of Slang"" traces uses of ""fruitcake"" meaning"
"Schanulleke Schanulleke is a Flemish comic book character who originated in the Belgian comics series ""Suske en Wiske"". In the series she is Wiske's beloved rag doll. Between 1986 and 1993 Schanulleke received her own spin-off series. The character's name in English is Molly, Sawdust or Muffin. Schanulleke was introduced in the very first panel of ""Suske en Wiske"", along with her owner Wiske, namely in the album ""Rikki en Wiske in Chocowakije"" (1945). Her original name was ""Schabolleke"", later changed into ""Schalulleke"", both Flemish dialect expressions for a scallion. When ""Suske en Wiske"" were translated for the Netherlands her"
"Boffin Boffin is a British slang term for a scientist, engineer, or other person engaged in technical or scientific research and development. A ""boffin"" was generally viewed by the regular services as odd, quirky or peculiar, though quite bright and essential to helping in the war effort. The World War II conception of boffins as war-winning researchers lends the term a more positive connotation than related terms such as nerd, egghead, geek or spod. Originally, the word was armed-forces slang for a technician or research scientist. In the 12 January 1953 issue of ""Life"" magazine, a short article on Malcolm"
"for instance, a glossary of local terms described """"Dick"", plain pudding. If with treacle sauce, treacle dick."" It could alternatively be a corruption of the word ""pudding"", evolving through ""puddink"", then ""puddick"", then finally ""dick"". Another possibility is that it is a corruption or variant of ""dough"". For example, ""deeg"" is the Dutch word for ""dough."" Spotted dick Spotted dick is a British pudding, made with suet and dried fruit (usually currants and/or raisins) and often served with custard. It is made from a mixture of flour, milk, caster sugar, suet, dried fruit, flavorings and baking powder, which is combined"
"Collins Scrabble Words Collins Scrabble Words (formerly SOWPODS) is the word list used in English-language tournament Scrabble in most countries except the USA, Thailand and Canada. The term SOWPODS is an anagram of the two acronyms ""OSPD"" (Official Scrabble Players Dictionary) and ""OSW"" (Official Scrabble Words), these being the original two official dictionaries used in various parts of the world at the time. Although the two source dictionaries have now changed their respective titles, the term SOWPODS is still used by tournament players to refer to the combination of the two sources. There has not been any actual hard-copy list"
"as a standard name for a stock character who was a physician, especially when played as a comic figure. Edgar Allan Poe used ""Oppodeldoc"" as a pseudonym for a character in the short story """" The Pharmacopoeia of the United States (U.S.P.) gives a recipe for opodeldoc that contains: As late as the early 1990s 'Epideldoc' (sic) was compounded on request by several pharmacists in the Northwest of England. Opodeldoc Opodeldoc is a medical plaster or liniment invented, or at least named, by the German Renaissance physician Paracelsus in the 1500s. In modern form opodeldoc is a mixture of soap"
"slang for one, sun and son. 'Penny bun' is also the common English name for the cep (French), or ""Boletus edulis"", an edible basidiomycete mushroom. Native to Europe and North America, it is Europe's second most sought-after fungus after truffles. 'Cockle to a penny bun' is British slang for racing odds of 10 to 1. Penny bun A penny bun or a penny loaf was a small bread bun or loaf which cost one old penny at the time when there were 240 pence to the pound. A penny loaf was a common size loaf of bread in England regulated"