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muppet: Most Useless Police Person Ever Trained. Generally used affectionately.
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
who were that peculiarly British combination of upper class and totally broke, “posh but not flush” as their mother put it.
Coco Mellors • Blue Sisters: The instant top ten bestseller from the author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein
bonk : British slang for having sex. (vb) bonking is not the best idea. (n) they had a bonk. The phrase likely comes from “bonkers” (a thrust to the head that causes madness or insanity, but you can guess how the thrust was repurposed).
A British social service project, run by earnest and rather formidable ladies, called the Charity Organization Society—C.O.S. for short—used to be known among the poor as “Cringe or Starve.”
Alan Watts • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The two-way twit-twoo of tawny owls.
Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
Don’t drop a bollock, Charlie, she’s fond of saying,
Harold Pinter • The Short Plays of Harold Pinter
pissheads,