USA/UK
Does it mean something different in USA? Umm. I know what it means here!
It usually refers to the posterior in the US , a bum bag here is called a fanny pack there.
And. in danger of sounding rude or obscene. Fanny in the UK also refers to the vagina.
So, when someone says "put it in your fanny", it is hilarious for people from the UK....
Questions for the Brits:
How old does a guy have to be to qualify as a "bloke"?
I would say adult, although in some areas of the UK, younger woman may refer to their boy friends as "their bloke".
How old does a bloke have to be to no longer qualify as a "lad"?
I would say this is relative and regional. In Liverpool, the word lad or la (shortened) can be used to refer to your friends / mates. In other areas it refers to teenagers/kids. The term can also be used by older people referring to younger men.
In some cases, the term can be derogatory, for example. if someone the same age as me or younger, called me a lad, it would be condescending, talking down to me as an attempt to belittle me (treating me as their inferior or as a child even though it is clear that i am not).
How old does a lad have to be to no longer call it his "willy"?
I would say that it isn't an age thing, but more of a manner. I would also say that using the term willy is perhaps more polite that other words commonly used.
So in some circumstances the word willy may be used, in other circumstances more graphic words may be used, by the same person. Again, this can be determined by circumstance or by general level of manners.
In some rough areas, using graphic swear words is extremely common.
I grew up and live in a small island that is generally conservative with regards to manners. I also spent 3 years living n the North of England, in a city called Liverpool. Where people use swear words more often.
It was a bit of a culture shock when i first got to Liverpool, when i asked directions from a nice old lady who replied using several swear words in conversation. After living in Liverpool, i found that using swear words were common among some of the residents and much more common than in my home island.
Morning meal - Breakfast
Midday ish meal - Lunch ( although is was dinner time in school )
Evening Meal - Tea
Among posher Brits, that would be called "elevenses" (because you have it at 11 o'clock.)
The rest of us call it a "tea break", if the boss is kind enough to let us have one!
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Never heard that expression.
I have heard of "slipping someone a mickey" ( ie putting a knockout pill in their drink). Short for "slipping you a Mickey Finn". The obvious origin of that being the fact that there was a famous turn of the 20th Century Irish American boxer named "Mickey Finn" who was famous for throwing knockout punches.
Morning meal: either Breakfast or Brunch
Noon meal: lunch
Evening meal: dinner or supper (more often supper when I was younger; then dinner when I got older).
Soda shops were sometimes called "Luncheonettes."
...When visiting my mother's East Texas family, away from my NYC suburbs home...the afternoon meal in East Texas was dinner, the evening meal supper.
People would say " fixing " - or " fixin' " - meaning " preparing '...I'm fixin' to come over " - but I don't know that, 50 years later, anyone says it anymore.
Another Texas-ism is " directly " - which, in fact, means ' not exactly now ' - " I'll be over directly " ! Like " Soon come " in Jamaca ?
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" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
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...I've noticed that " estate " means I guess any single-family/personnhouse in British, " middle-class estates ", even " council estates " in the UK for (houses, not apartments)bfor " the projects/county housing " here.
" Knocked up " means " I'll come around/see you " in the Commonwealth...in the USA, well! It means " get pregnant ' abd rather unplannedly/surprisingly so ! It's rather dated now, sort of of the Elvis Presley/Connie Francis era.
" F"g " (censored) has a meaning of " cigarette " in Brit - and from that, " f*gg*d out " for " exhausted, like a used-up cigarette " - But, funny enough, I could swear I've seen that " f*gg*d out " usage in, um, " older " (pre-60s) American writing!
I guess an " off-liscence " in Brit is what gets sorta blandly called a " convenience store " here, especially for big chains (like 7-11 or AM)PM? I read of " the high street " in British stuff - The shipping/business district ?
" Scheme " is always at least lightly/humorously.pejorative in American " - in Brit it seems just ewivalent to " plan/concept " as a noun. My father, who subscribed to the Manchester Guardian's international weekly edition in the post-World War II era, said that the area that a House of Commons member represented was a " posting " there - a House of Representatives member represents a " district " here. This was 70 years ago, so ...
A " suburb " in American is a place outside ofa big city that I'd not in the city itself- I grew up in Chappaqua, a suburb of New York City (Yonkers and Farmingdale are I suppose better-known) - but in British, a suburb is an outer part of a big city but inside the limits of the city - Kraftiekortie, were you a Limey you might be a suburbanite ! So there.
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" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
..." Estate " would pretty much exclusively, I think, be the home of someone HIGHLY upper-income/status in American -!a last name like Rockefeller or Gates. Oh, some developer might call some place he's selling houses in " Les Titzie-Ritzie Estates " , but that's just advertising talk.
People say " hella " a lot in California - from " hell of a. Lot " but more affectionate ? " I love you hella much ". Speaking of California-associated phrases...what about the surfer/etc.-type " dude " ? In the movie " Easy Rider " 50 years ago there"s a bit of a gag around Jack Nicolson's character being taught that by Fonda & Hopper - so I suppose it was pretty newbthen .
Soda is " tonic " in Bahs-Tan I guess. " Telerecording " is Brit for " kinescope " here - this archaic 50s/60s technology that live (and nearly thus) TV broadcasts were preserved on; not considered real high-quality to-day - Old Edward R. Murrow and Elvis Presley TV appearances and those 60s Doctor Who episodes were preserved on them. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that almost any comics story is a " comic strip " in Brit, while a much bigger distinction tended to be - drawn!l - in American between a comic strip, meaning the format that appeared in daily newspapers and " comic book " was a nagazine's comics stories - and a modern copy of Action Comics or Archie is hardly a " book " now anyway !
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One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
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I though lad in the UK referred to alcoholic, misogynistic young men, someone like Noel Gallagher of the band Oasis.
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..." "'Eee's a bit'a a lad, innit' he? "
Those soft softcore nudie pictures and rude jokes (Ooh-er Missus! ) magazines from the late Nineties (FHIM, Maxim) were called " lad's magazines/ ladmags '..." laddies ".
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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
It can do in certain circumstances, eg in phrases like 'laddish culture', 'laddish behaviour' or just 'laddishness', but the word 'lad' itself is mostly used in a fairly neutral or sympathetic way, eg 'He's a nice lad' etc.
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