Anglish Slang Wordbook/B

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Anglish	sp.	English
Back	vb	To give one's support to some effort or person. 2. to bet on; wager. 3. to contribute money; bankroll
Back and fill	phr	To be irresolute, vacillate. 2. to charm a potential victim, often with a lengthy, convoluted patter, before you subject them to a confidence trick.
Backbeat	n	An underlying theme or quality. 2. one's heartbeat. 3. a secondary beat, in jazz music, that underlies the main theme.
Backbone	n	Courage.
Backbreaker	n	A very difficult, exhausting, demanding job or physical task.
Back-burner	n	The location of an idea, project, suggestion, etc., when it is kept on ready reserve for the time being, as "Put on the Back-burner."
Back-door	adj	Dishonest, dubious: " a sleazy little back-door business."
Back-dooring	n	Adultery, infidelity, betrayal.
Back-door man	n	An adulterer, betrayer, cheat, a bird-dog. 2. an 'illicit' lover, one who sneaks in the back door when the husband is away.
Back-down	vb	To retreat or recoil from one's position, problem; surrender, retract. 2. concede a loss in an argument.
Backed	adv	Dead: lying on one's back. 2. dead: on the back of those who carry one's coffin.
Backed-up	adj	Constipated.
Back-ended	adj	Eccentric, perverse, strange. 2. not according to the ordinary way.
Back-end-to	adj	In confusion, in disorder, in chaos.
Backfire	vb	To react in an expected and untoward manner.
Back forty	n	An out-of-the-way barren piece of land, often 40 acres in size.
Back-hander	n	Slap in the face with the back of the hand.
Back-house	n	A privy, a toilet, a dunny.
Back in the days	phr	n former times; long ago, in times yore.
Back off	phr	To stop annoying, bothering or harassing someone. 2 to soften or moderate; relent. 3. to slow down or go easier. 4. to recoil; concede a loss in an argument.
Back out	vb	To cancel or renege on an arrangement.
Backroom	adj	Having to do with political, organizational or personal expediency: 'As in a backroom deal."
Back seat	adv	An inferior position.
Back seat driver	n	A passenger in a motor vehicle who gives unwanted advice to the driver, hence anyone who offers advice in a field he/she is not qualified.
Back someone up	phr	To concur with someone; support someone's opinion or view; 2. to be ready to replace or stand in for someone
Back talk	n.	Retort in anger, heated argument, impudent or disrespectful reply.
Backup	n	A substitute or stand-in or something or someone ready to step in or replace.
Backwoodsy	adj.	Uncultivated, unrefined, rustic
Backyard (In One's Own Backyard)	phr	Used figuratively to denote familiar territory, a field or domain in which one feels comfortable.
Banestar	n	Bane-star; an anti-hero.
Barebones	n.	A skinny persons.
Bare-bones	adj	Unadorned, spare; austere
Bark	n.	A cough
Barking irons	n.	Pistols, guns
Barn-burner	n	Anything sensational or exciting;
Barnstorm	vb	To travel about as a politician, preacher or entertainer making short, but dramatic appearances in as many cities as possible.
Beak	n.	Judge, magistrate. 2. the nose
Bean	n.	The head
Beat	n	Rythm
Beat	vb	To avoid prosecution, fine for a crime. 2. area allocated to a policeman to patrol. 3. Having a tired, exhausted, disheveled look.
Beat	adj	Tired out, exhausted.
Beat feet	phr	Get away fast, usually because you have done something wrong.
Beat it	phr	A command: telling someone to leave immediately. 2. to depart, decamp, flee, escape.
Beat one's brains out	phr	To labor strenuously with the mind, often with the sense of having failed. 2. to threaten with bodily harm.
Beat-sheet	n	In tv. and film making, a short summary of a story. 2. in US., a porn magazine.
Beat somebody from their bread	phr	Swindle, rob, cheat others financially.
Beat the boards	phr	Dance, especially tap-dance.
Beat-up	adj	Damaged and battered by age and use: " a beat-up jalopy."
Beat up on	phr	To attack and damage; criticize harshly, denounce an opponent
Beat	n.	A reporter's regular run of news sources and places, known as "The Beat"
Beats me	intj	An exclamation or acknowledgement of not knowing or understanding something.
Beat your gums	phr	Eat.
Beaver	n	The female genitals.
Beaver-shooter	n	A man obsessed with peering at female genitals
Bed-ready	adj	Sexually aroused; ready to copulate.
Bed-to-breakfast folks	phr	City dwellers
Bedworthy	adj	Pertaining to a desirable woman or man, one who is sexually aroused and ready to copulate.
Bedewed	pp	To be sweating, applies usually to a woman.
Bee-line	n.	A direct course; the shortest route
Bend out of shape	phr	Upset, disturb, excite. 2. be high on drugs.
Bee-sting lips	n	Lips swollen and puffed owing to the over-use of botox.
Bee-sting looks	n	Face swollen by the too much and too frequent injecting of botox.
Be good	phr	An interjection wishing salutations on parting
Behind	n	The ass, rump, buttocks
Be-in	n	A gathering of people, usually young, where they do nothing in particular
Bell-ringer	n	A door-to-door salesman. 2. a person seeking political election
Bells and smells	phr	A style of religious worship emphasizing high ritual, including use of vestments, bells and incense, especially that of High Church Anglicanism or Anglo-Catholicism. Also 'Smells and Bells'
Bells and whistles	phr	Frills, adornments and other unessential things.
Bell up	vb	To telephone; ring someone.
Belly-ache	phr	To complain; also belly-acher
Bellyful	n	The limit that one can put up with; too much; surfeit
Belly laugh	phr	A very loud and boisterous laugh, often appreciative
Belly-timber	n	Food.
Belly up	phr	As in the phrase: " To go belly up," to die or pass away.
Belt	vb	To strike, hit, beat. 2 to defeat in battle, to defeat in a sporting event
Belt out	vb	To sing a song vigorously
Bend someone's mind	phr	To have a very strong and often upsetting mental sway over someone
Bend over backwards	phr	To strive earnestly; make a great effort
Bend one's elbow	phr	To drink often and heavily
Bender	n.	A drunken spree
Bent	adj	Of a criminal nature, illegal, unlawful. 2. aberrant; dishonest
Be there	phr	To measure up to expectations
Be thereabouts	phr	To do something moderately well
Berth	n	A position in a sporting team
Bestsellerdom	n.	The most popular books
Better half	n	A wife
Bewifed	vb	Married
Beyond the Stones	phr	The world outside the so-called famous thoroughfares of a metropolis like London, New York, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Seoul. ('The Stones' referring originally to beyond the paved streets of London in the Victorian era)
Bin chicken	n	The Australian White ibis, a wading bird.
Bird-dog	n.	One who steals another person's girl-friend. 2. young man who bereft of a partner of his own, tries to steal a woman from someone else. 3. unscrupulous stock broker's agent who scouts for gullible prospects.
Bitch shield	n	A hostile or frosty attitude adopted by a woman to deter unwanted suitors.
Bite the dust	phr	To be killed, to die. 2. To go bankrupt, fail
Biters	n	Teeth.
Bitter-ender	n.	A person who will not compromise or yield.
Black-cloud	n	A doctor who attracts difficult or prolonged cases or an unusually high numbers of code blue calls.
Black gold	n.	Crude oil, oil, petroleum
Black-out	n.	Temporary loss of memory; failure of electricity supply
Blackwash	n.	To magnify defects and give prominence to them
Black work	n	The mortuary and funeral business and profession.
Blade	n	A surgeon: dashing, bold, arrogant and often wrong.
Bleed	vb.	To get money out of someone, esp. in the form of a forced contribution
Blood on the moon	phr	A foreboding: menacing or suspicious situation or event.
Blood-suckers	n	Lab technicians who take blood samples.
Blossom nose	n.	A heavy drinker
Blowhard	n.	A braggart
Blow off steam	phr	To express one's anger forcibly
Blown mind	n	A gunshot wound to the head.
Blown the works	phr	Spill the beans, talk.
Blue-blower	n	A patient with severe and chronic lung disease,
Blue-eyed soul	n	A music genre where Caucasian singers sing soul music.
Blue-pipe	n	A vein.
Bone bender	n.	A wrestler
Bone box	n	The mouth
Bone eater	n.	A dog
Bonehead	n.	A stupid person, a dullard. 2. orthopaedic doctor.
Bone idle	adj	Wilfully and incurably idle, lazy
Bone-stiff	adj	Dead, deceased.
Boneyard	n	A cemetery, graveyard; bone-orchard. 2. an emaciated person or animal, esp. a horse
Book-hangover	n	The feeling experienced when you finish a book and you suddenly return to the real world, but the real world feels incomplete or surreal because you are still living in the 'land' of the book.
Born days	n.	A lifetime. an intensive form of days, as "In all my born days I have never seen such a sight."
Bow out	vb.	To withdraw, resign from a contest or life
Brain pan	n.	The head
Brain stealer	n.	A plagiarist
Brains	n.	The brains, the manager, the head, the leaders, innovators
Breadery	n.	A bakery
Breakbone	n	A wishbone of a chicken, a furcula.
Break even	phr	To end without winning or losing; to make no profit, to suffer no loss
Breakfast-to-bed folks	phr	Lazy people
Break the ice	phr	To take the first step, to be introduced, to begin
Breakup	n.	Analysis, known as "The Breakup"
Breather	n.	A short break from physical or emotional strife or turmoil
Bright	n	Daytime.
Bright in one's books	phr	Showing mental alertness. 2. good at learning.
Brimstone	n	A prostitute, (hot stuff).
Brimstome buster	n	A fire-brand, ranting religious preacher.
Brine hose	n	The penis
Bringdown	n	Anything depressing, either a person, thing or circumstances.
Bring down	vb	To depress.
Broad	n.	Any girl, a mistress, a prostitute
Broke	n.	Without money
Broomtown	n	A city with a predilection for cleanliness. A recent survey named the five cleanest cities in the world: Alberta, Zurich, Luxenbourg, Adelaide and Singapore.
Brother-in-law	n	An intimation that one has been indecorously familiar with another sister.
Brown-bean dust	n	Coffee.
Brown chalk	n	Amber.
Brown stoners	n.	Aristocrats
Brow stones	n	THe eyes.
Buck	vb.	To oppose, stand up against
Buck-up	phr	To brace oneself against illness, to take courage, to become embolden
Buck passer	n.	A person who avoids work and responsibility by passing it on to someone else
Build-up	n.	The thread of a story, play, movie which links the various parts. 2. a reputation gained through deliberate use of publicity; artificial publicity
Burn	vb	To defraud, hurt financially, hurt emotionally, betray.
Burn	n	A scathing remark or retort; a particularly cutting insult.
Burn	vb	To criticize, reprimand, or berate (someone). 2. insult (a person) in a particularly cutting or scathing manner.
Burned	adj	Damaged or hurt by the action of others.
Butter-fingers	n	One who is clumsy and awkward, often dropping things
By one's lonesome	phr	Alone, independently, also on one's lonesome