Glossary


Brush up on your Skins lingo with our handy glossary... A - G

Ace - excellent, brilliant

Ay up - a greeting; hello

Babba - a term of endearment, father or daddy

Ballsed-up - ruined, obliterated, screwed up

Bangers - sausages, often served with mashed potatoes

Bevvied - having consumed alcohol; bevvy (alcohol) is short for beverage

Bifta - A joint (marijuana)

Bint - a derogatory term for a lower class woman or girl

Bollocks - literally, testicles; nonsense - a general term used for something viewed in a negative light. ("That is bollocks!")

Bowser - an unattractive woman

Bredrin -
a very good friend

Bruv - a friend

Bugger - loosely used to replace the f-word

Bum chum - a male boyfriend to another male

Bunk off - to play hooky from school

Chav - aggressive, big-city "trash"

Cheeky - being saucy, impudent, audacious ("You giving us cheek?")

Chuffed - to be very pleased or proud with oneself

Cobber - (Australian) friend

Cocker - a buddy or mate

Corker - a remarkable, excellent or astounding person or thing

Corr - odd

Couldn't be arsed - couldn't be bothered, apathetic

Cretin -
A stupid, child-like person

Dosh - money

Fag - a cigarette

Fit - attractive, good-looking

Form - term for primary class of study; usually used in regards to high school classes

Gadge - (Scottish) A term for "Guy" Rory says, "He's a lucky lucky gadge"

Gert - very or really; often used as "gert lush"

Get (one's) leg over - to have sex


Glossary

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