S Flashcards
Sandbox
Sandpit
Hedge trimmer; garden sheers
Secateurs
Sofa
Settee
Baseboard
Skirting board
Sedan
Saloon
Economy/coach class
Second class
Muffler (of a car).
Silencer
Entry/exit ramp
Slip road
Wrench
Spanner
Underpass (for pedestrians)
Subway
Scatterbrained
Scatty
One from Liverpool (and their accent+dialect)
Scouser; Liverpuddlian (scouse).
Whore
Slag
Slang term for ‘American’.
Sceptic
Near sighted
Short sighted
To sneak off from school or work.
Skive
One who borrows money and such
Sponger
Employee
Staff
A goody two-shoe
Swot
Fired
Sacked
Equivalent to yummy
Scrummy
A mess or chaotic
Shambles
Crooked (I.E.: furniture).
Skew-whiff
To bad mouth
(To) slag off
To get fixed or figure out.
Sorted
Equivalent to ‘Specialty’
Speciality
Equivalent to ‘splurge’
Splash out
Squishy
Squidgy
Streaker
Starkers
Adhesive tape; scotch tape
Sellotape
Duplex
Semi-detached house (a house with a mirrored house to one side of it).
Napkin
Serviette
Drop off area
Set down area
Sled
Sledge
Bachelor party
Stag do
Payment made out of your current account, which is a fixed amount
Standing order
(1) 14 lbs; (2) a pit of a fruit
Stone
Weedeater
Strimmer
Doctors office
Surgery
Porterhouse
Sirloin steak
Equivalent to ‘hot dogs’
Saveloy
Hard boiled eggs, battered, and stuffed with sausage meat
Scotch eggs
Rough cider
Scrumpy
2% milk; low-fat milk.
Semi-skimmed milk (green top)
Cream of wheat
Semolina
Lager + lemonade.
Shandy.
Traditional Blighty Easter cake. Heavy fruit cake loaded with marzipan.
Simnel cake.
Equivalent to ‘heavy whipped cream’
Single cream
No-fat milk
Skimmed milk (red top)
Finger sized toasts.
Soldiers.
+40% proof liquor.
Spirits.
Suet pudding with dried fruits and occasionally custard.
Spotted dick.
Green onion; scallions.
Spring onion.
Equivalent to limeade type drinks.
Squash
Buillion cubes.
Stock cubes.
Heavy food.
Stodge.
Fairly dry white beef fat.
Suet “sue•it”
Hard candy.
Sweets.
Jelly roll.
Swiss role.
Sulky.
Stroppy (strop)
One-way ticket.
Single ticket.
Private soldier (of the lowest rank).
Squaddie.
Immediately or right after.
Straight away.
Sticky situation.
Sticky wicket.
Right on.
Spot on.
Training wheels.
Stabiliser.
Box cutter
Stanley knife
Soy [bean]
Soya [bean]
Public school
State school
Rutubaga; (yellow) turnip
Swede
Dumpster
Skip
Sharp; well-dressed
Smart
Sales clerk
Shop assistant
Swimsuit
Swimming costume (cozzy)
Another term for appetizer.
Starter
Making out
Snogging
Mildly vulgar way of saying ‘fuck off’.
Sod off
- a small or insignificant person.
2. diarrhoea.
Squit
Badly or hastily built with materials of poor quality.
Shoddy
