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I like a good "ooer" now and then.

U wot m8?

War-Chest-Hair Sauce ... Werk-hamster-shire Sauce ... Wash-your-sister Sauce ... What's-this-here Sauce ... Wister-Sheer Sauce ... ... ...

Yeah. Fucking nailed it!

I can't pick a mere one.

Duk

Blimey

Bloody

Bugger

Cracker-Yank

Chuffed to bits

Hench

Knackered

On the drag

Plooked

Pillock

Tired and emotional

Wanker

Innit

I love 'dreich' (rhymes with 'greek') because it perfectly sums up British weather most of the time.

Also a fan of 'banging', as in top, class, right good.

I like rhyming slang. Mostly for torturing my fellow Americans. I also enjoy clunge, jobbie, and being "sick to bastard death" about things.

The Australians have my heartstrings though, when it comes to inventive slang. They're not here to fuck spiders, tell you that much for free.

There’s too many people mixing England and Great Britain up in here.

"Gutted" gets every single time, but for the most unfunny and fucked up reason.

I was at a bar and a guy was describing how his pet got hit by a car and he found it kind of split down the belly, then he said "I was gutted", describing his reaction. But his pet was also quite literally gutted. I didn't laugh or anything but it was just such a dark thing to say it was almost funny.

cockwomble, wankstain, pillock, cretin, prick, jobsworth, nutjob, absolute.. (insert anything, e.g. biscuit, sausage). oh slang not insults? i think cheers is good it's not too indulgent like thank you very much but it's also a way to give some appreciation

i'm convinced that rhyming slang is just 19th century coal mine brainrot. you cannot change my mind

England has a surfeit of terms for obnoxious people.

• Jobsworth (obstructive clerk or bureaucrat)
• God-botherer (religious fanatic)
• Cockwomble
• Minging cockwomble
• Tremulous bollock-for-lobsters cockwomble
• Sir Æthelbert Plonker Cockwomble of the Drubbing-over-Head Cockwombles

I may have made those last two up.

That's minging!

Bloody, but just because when I had a period I would say things like "I'm on my bloody period!"

Probably not technically slang, and maybe not even technically British, but I hate the all variations of "whinge". I know it's a real word, but it always feels like someone misspelling "whine". I was well into adulthood when I finally learned that though, so those feelings are just so ingrained in me at this point.

Thanks for listening to me whine.

Gash / Axe Wound

Chuffed for me is more to do with being pleased with something you have accomplished.

Fucking knackered! It means very tired, exhausted. But those terms are sterlized of feeling, of life.

Are you sure that anima you ascribe to "knackered" isn't coming from the adjective? "Fucking exhausted!" sounds, to my ear, just a full of feeling. Whereas, "I'm knackered" sounds just as lifeless as "I'm exhausted." I wonder if you're mis-attributing the vigor from "fucking," which is, indeed, a potent word.

Cock Womble

snogging

In French the slang term for that is "rouler des pelles" , which means literally "to roll shovels" and... I mean what the fuck is up with that?

Innit