Jump to content

Search results

Did you mean: school of slang
View (previous 20 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
  • Compleet Molesworth. Comic misspellings, erratic capitalisation and schoolboy slang are threads running through all the books. According to Ronald Searle...
    6 KB (662 words) - 21:43, 21 October 2024
  • School, appeared. The tales make liberal use of Buckeridge's inventive schoolboy slang ("fossilised fish hooks!", "crystallised cheesecakes!", and others)...
    11 KB (1,355 words) - 13:56, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The world wonders
    codebreakers referred to these predictable elements as cribs, British schoolboy slang for a hidden cheat-sheet smuggled into a test or exam. Cribs, based...
    14 KB (1,588 words) - 21:03, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Troll (slang)
    In slang, a troll is a person who posts deliberately offensive or provocative messages online (such as in social media, a newsgroup, a forum, a chat room...
    84 KB (8,833 words) - 19:07, 7 November 2024
  • but actually rather enjoys his company. ("Stinks" is old fashioned schoolboy slang for chemistry.) Mr. French – The most frequently mentioned of William's...
    46 KB (5,175 words) - 22:38, 10 October 2024
  • Newbie (category Internet slang)
    the British public school slang "new boy" or "new blood", which is attributed to the same era and was applied to a schoolboy in his first term. In the...
    7 KB (740 words) - 23:17, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gobstopper
    derives from "gob", which is slang in the United Kingdom and Ireland for mouth. The sweet was a favourite among British schoolboys in the first half of the...
    9 KB (806 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alex (A Clockwork Orange)
    also borrows from other sources such as Cockney rhyming slang, Romani speech, and schoolboy colloquialisms. His beverage of choice is milk spiked with...
    12 KB (1,350 words) - 10:43, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Public school (United Kingdom)
    Buckingham Press. ISBN 978-1908684066. Monro, Edward (1854). Basil the Schoolboy (reprint 2019 ed.). London: Joseph Masters. ISBN 978-0526697793. Nicolson...
    115 KB (10,986 words) - 18:35, 18 November 2024
  • Sack tapping is a slang term for a game where a participant attacks, by slapping, tapping, punching, kicking, elbowing, twisting, or backhanding a victim's...
    6 KB (539 words) - 03:41, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nelson (cricket)
    Nelson is a piece of cricket slang terminology and superstition. The name, applied to team or individual scores of 111 or multiples thereof (known as...
    6 KB (809 words) - 10:44, 14 November 2024
  • parodying pre-World War II literature aimed at schoolboys. In the title, "ripping" is a chiefly British slang colloquialism for "exciting" or "thrilling"...
    9 KB (1,024 words) - 02:35, 19 March 2024
  • Numb Numb Juice (category Schoolboy Q songs)
    "Numb Numb Juice" is a song by American rapper Schoolboy Q, released on March 13, 2019 as the lead single from his fifth studio album Crash Talk, by Top...
    6 KB (490 words) - 17:32, 7 August 2024
  • ISBN 978-0-19-515704-8. The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary – an online dictionary of British slang, viewable alphabetically or by category...
    124 KB (1,415 words) - 09:59, 29 October 2024
  • children's literature about the humorous escapades of J. C. T. Jennings, a schoolboy at Linbury Court preparatory school, located near the fictional town of...
    27 KB (1,822 words) - 13:58, 11 May 2024
  • Matter of Time Britpop Cooking Vinyl Sprints Letter to Self Garage rock City Slang January 8 Itzy Born to Be EDM, dance-pop, rock JYP, Republic January 12...
    381 KB (19,534 words) - 14:32, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal Hospital School
    Hall "Civvies" slang for civilian clothing "Chiefs" slang for school prefects "Congo" short for congregational practice "Mess" naval slang for a meal The...
    39 KB (3,484 words) - 10:53, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for E-40
    Danny Brown & ScHoolboy Q". 2DOPEBOYZ. July 19, 2013. Retrieved April 8, 2014. "iTunes – Music – All My Ni**az (feat. Danny Brown & Schoolboy Q) – Single...
    35 KB (3,456 words) - 05:26, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cottaging
    Cottaging (category Gay slang)
    Cottaging is a gay slang term, originating from the United Kingdom, referring to anonymous sex between men in a public lavatory (a "cottage" or "tea-room")...
    41 KB (4,013 words) - 04:56, 27 September 2024
  • 28 December 1978. The programme's title comes from the Cockney rhyming slang term "Sweeney Todd", used to refer to the Flying Squad by London's criminal...
    63 KB (5,564 words) - 20:48, 10 October 2024
View (previous 20 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)