10. Dodgy9. Shirty
8. Chuffed
7. Peckish
6. Stroppy
5. Dogsbody
4. Shambolic
3. Wonky
2. Bollocks (I have always liked this word ever since the first day I started this blog. For some reason. I just like saying it.)
1. Hard cheese
"Peckish seagulls are causing carnage by ripping open rubbish sacks before binmen can collect them." (And take them to the tip? One assumes.) Oh, to be a binman. I could write an ode to a binman. I once owned a book called Alleyman. Very different than Alley Oop, I'll tell you.
And the carnage of the gulls (another movie title candidate if ever there was one) makes me shirty, though the thought of them getting enough to eat chuffs me to no end.
Americans usually use the word obstreperous rather than saying stroppy. At least the ones wearing the dodgy bow ties do. In fact, I think stroppy is just a bastardization of obstreperous. The British are good bastardizers. With words, I mean.
Dogsbody. Ain't it the truth. Me through and through. Me'n Adullamite. Dogsbody comes from sailors of old who were fed Pease porridge. Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold... etc. Well that's dried peas boiled in a bag. Maybe a gull-carnaged bag, for all I know. You have to understand Cockney rhyming slang to get the connection. I ain't and I don't. Are there still Cockneys in existence? Truly?
Aussies would call a stunned mullet shambolic, I suppose. The dictionary used Amy Winehouse's recent concert attempt as an example of it. Like if you finally see the flashing red lights behind you and the cops try to make you take a test on the side of the road and you just turn into Leon Spinks and go "Friggy Diggy" I guess that would be borderline shambolic.
"Bit of hard cheese, those pesky aneurisms," he said as his friend slumped.
Wonky? This whole post is borderline wonky.
Thank you Merriam-Webster dot com.
You've learnt a lot over the last few years, Max, I'll give you that. :)
ReplyDeleteI don't know about the post but that bloke's head looks definitely looks wonky.
And if that makes you feel shirty, hard cheese!
Bit dodgy this post....
ReplyDeleteYour reconstructions of English usage are occasionally a bit dodgy. Like Dick van Dyke's laughable attempt at a cockney accent. Mockney, really.
ReplyDeleteStill, no point in getting shirty about it, in fact, I'm chuffed to bits that you try.
Well, I'm a bit peckish myself, right now. Wonder what's in the fridge?
Oh bollocks! I'm totally dischuffed. Not a lot beyond mouldy cheese and some sad, limp greenery. It's shambolic, I tell you, my sister's eaten me out of house and home, bored me to tears by going on and on and blody well on about her wonky back, well, bollocks to that.
Stroppy bitch.
Oh well, I'm just the general cook and dogsbody, and if I don't like it? Hard cheese.
Peckish seagull causes carnage?
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@A. - I have. It does. Was the name Willy Wonka closet filth? Have I missed something at the "chocolate factory"? One of those sly bits of that ever-so -special British humor Americans never quite understand? I wonder. Some things becoming ever more and more not as they seem, the longer I keep myself exposed to the Britoskis.
ReplyDelete@Adullamite - I canna argue with the master of dodge.
@Soubriquet - Bravo! You are beginning to learn the language. Stick with me and you'll go far. :)
It is probably in poor taste for me to take the side of the peckish gull, but the one with the new pirate's patch shouldn't have been walking down the beach with the gull's girlfriend. Just saying. The poor bloke will doubtless keep an eye out for such things in the future.
Gannet's girlfriend. Sorry. Gannet, not gull. Peckish gannet. Six-inch razor bill. Gone stroppishly amok. Shamfeckinbolic gannet. And anyone who doesn't think Dick Van Dyke's Cockney accent is spot on dog's bollocks magnificent, would probably also disparage Julie Andrews pre-cut singing voice and visit wonky Willy's chocolate factory undisguised.
ReplyDeleteGannet's girlfriend. Sorry. Gannet, not gull. Peckish gannet. Six-inch razor bill. Gone stroppishly amok. Shamfeckinbolic gannet. And anyone who doesn't think Dick Van Dyke's Cockney accent is spot on dog's bollocks magnificent, would probably also disparage Julie Andrews pre-cut singing voice and visit wonky Willy's chocolate factory undisguised.
ReplyDeleteNew York, New York. So cool you have to say it twice. Not so the above dupe, but easier for you to ignore than for me to delete.
ReplyDeleteWhat's in a name? Not new, not York. What the heck? I say the same thing about my home state. Nobody listens to me there either.
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