pills

testicles. They usually work in pairs. Romany word 'pele' meaning testicles. see goolies

mince my pills (expression of mild astonishment)

by klidenengro January 30, 2004

gazump

Also gesumph or gesumpf, said to have come into the British property business from the second-hand car trade in the 1970s. originally means to swindle, cheat or steal, now means to outbid (peculiar to the English and Welsh housing market). Ultimately derived from a German word meaning to put into a swamp or, in the modern idiom, to dump in the shit. first recorded in English in 1928

the bastards gazumped me

by klidenengro January 30, 2004

kushti

happiness, in good order. Romany word used by super-chav Jamie Oliver. Kushtipen was once the English Romany word for 'happiness' from a Persian word meaning 'happiness'

everything's kushti

by klidenengro January 30, 2004

mush

Romany word for a lad. The modern standard European Romany word is 'mursh'

oi, mush!

by klidenengro January 30, 2004

Yar

Friend. Urdu from Persian. wide range of meaning and usage from 'someone whom you have just met' to 'beloved'. Commonly heard 'arre yar' which is a term either of contradiction like 'come off it' or of surprise like 'fuck me'.

arre yaar!

by klidenengro February 03, 2004

chore

to steal or a thief. Romany word 'te chorel' to steal. see also chor. Used in pockets all over the UK where chavs are descended from Romany Gypsies. (e.g., recently heard in Chatham, Kent)

he's a bleeding chore, he's always choring from shops

by klidenengro February 01, 2004

dreck

filth, dirt, German word first used by James Joyce in Ulysses

dreck stinks

by klidenengro January 30, 2004