Anglish Slang Wordbook/C

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Anglish	sp.	English
Calf love	n	Transitory youthful affection
Call it a day	phr	To stop working, cease
Can	n.	A prison, jail, peniteniary.
Canned cow	n	Condensed milk
Can the highbrow stuff	phr	To quit using big words; to cease talking about academic subjects
Can't take it	phr	Easily irritated or angered. 2. Unable to stand criticism.
Carve	n	A knife.
Carver & Glider	n	A matchmaker.
Carve up	phr	Any situation in which one feels oneself unfairly deprived of a desire, aim, or object.
Cat	n	A malicious or catty woman who, often subtly, attacks and denigrates other women. 2. to move stealthily. 3. a homosexual male. 4. a jazz musician. 5. a man who dresses flashily and ostentatiously pursues worldly pleasures: "a cool cat."
Cat & dog life	phr	Unhappy life or existence
Catty	adj.	Disagreeable
Chalk	n	"The Chalk" --- the absolute truth (use of chalk bt teacher). 2. the fashion.
Chalk	vb	To cut or slash someone face.
Chalk	adj	Spurious, unknown, incompetent: in earlier times, a new jockey had his name written on the board in chalk, not in paint like his more seasoned counterparts.
Chalk against	phr	To bear a grudge against.
Chalk-n-tallk	n	A teacher
Chalkhead	n	One good at calculating figures.
Chalkies	n	"The Chalkies" -- the teeth.
Chalk off	vb	To tell off, scold. 2. to leave. 3. to closely look at.
Chalk out	vb	To murder, kill (drawing of a line with chalk, around a corpse; a sidewalk outline) 2. To clearly describe, to give direction.
Chap	n	A man, fellow, a guy, chappie, chappy.
Cheap shot	n	A wounding snearing remark made in vulgar or poor taste.
Cheek	n	Insolence, audacity, impudence, impertiness.
Cheek	vb	To address in a rude, impudent: "have the cheek to say so." 2. to be impertinent.
Cheekiness	n	Audacity, effrontery, impudence, rudeness, impertiness
Cheeks	n	The buttocks, posterior, derriere.
Cheeky	adj	With audacity, impudently, rudely, insolently. 2. impudent or impertinence, esp. in the cotext of a young person failing to respect their elders.
Cheese	n	Lies, nonsense, exaggerations.
Cheesed off	phr	To be miserable, annoyed, angry, fed up, irritated.
Chesty	adj	Arrogant, conceited. 2. prone to suffer from chest infections. 3. a woman with large breasts.
Chew	vb	To talk, converse. 2. to attack verbally. 3. to embarass by criticism; chew up. 3. to harangue.
Chewings	n	Food, victuals, comestibles. 2. a scolding; a telling-off.
Chew it over	phr	To ponder, consider, ruminate, cogitate.
Chew one's bit	phr	To be anxious or upset. 2. to argue or talk loudly.
Chew one's ear	phr	To talk excessively, without allowing others to have their say. 2. to talk to someone in a tedious manner.
Chew out	vb	Harangue, tell off, scold.
Chew the fat	phr	To converse, esp earnestly, often grumbling and complaining manner
Chew up (& spit out)	phr	To scold, reprimand, harshly speak to or address.
Chew-water	n	Weak tasteless soup.
Chicken	n	A young woman. 2. a timid person or creature; a coward. 3. a male prostitute.
Chicken-brained	adj	A fool, simpleton, half-wit
Chicken feed	n.	Small change; derisively insignificant; small amounts of money or anything else.
Chicken-hearted	adj	Cowardly, timid, chicken-livered.
Chicken-livered	adj	Cowardly, weak, insipid, chicken-hearted.
Chicken-run	n	The flight from South Africa of (white) people, fearing for their future in a non-apartheid world.
Chill	n	"The Chill" -- the cold shoulder, rejection. 2. murder, death, assasination, homicide.
Chill	vb	To murder, kill, assassinate.
Chilled-off	adj	Murdered, killed, assasinated, "childed".
Chiller	n	A film, play, etc. intended to avoke shudders of fear; a horror show.
Chilling	adj	Frightful, horrible, harrowing, horrifying, ghastly.
Chill out	vb	To calm down, to control one's emotions, to relax, to act "cool". 2. to pass the time of day casually. 3. to calm someone down.
Chilly	adj	Emotionless, detached. 2. cold-blooded. 3. acceptable.
Chin-chin	n	Chatter, conversation, cheek, impudence.
Chinless-wonder	n	A male scion of the British upper-class. Probably wealthy, certainly well-connected, but devoid of intelligence or character.
Chinwag	n	Gossip, conversation
Chinwork	n	A chat, conversation, talk.
Choke	n	Prison bread, hard to chew, swallow and digest
Choke	vb	To stop talking. 2. to do badly in work that one should have done easily. 2. to loose one's nerve under pressure( to choke up). 4. to become tense and thus ineffective under pressure.
Choked	adj	Upset, annoyed, depressed.
Choked up	phr	To become uncomfortably, dressed with stiff collar and tie. 2. overcome with emotions and unable to speak.
Christ-bitten	adj	Fanatically religious.
Cinder burner	n.	A runner
Cinder sifter	n.	A tramp or person who walks along or follows railway tracks
Clam	n	A silent person
Claw-back	n	A sycophant, a yes-man, a back-scratcher. Metaphorically one who claws or scratches another's back. "Claw" to flatter, wheedle, cajole.
Claw off	phr	To thrash, to beat vigorously.
Clay-brained	adj	Stupid, foolish, dull-witted.
Clay-eater	n	A poor White, esp. a native from a southern USA; a clover-eater, grit-sucker. It is said that the people there ate clay to supplement a meagre diet.
Clean	adj	Beyond any possible suspicion, guiltless. 2. first-class,excellent. 3. entirely, completely, as in "clean broke."
Cleaned-out	adj	Bereft of money, busted, either through gambling or financial hardship. 2. to take all an opponent's money.
Clean gone	adj	Utterly, completely, totally broke.
Clean house	phr	To sort things out once and for all. 2. to punish, beat.
Clean out	phr	To thrash, to defeat, win financially. 2. in gambling to take all your opponent's money. 3. to eat eat everything put in front of you: "to clean the board." 4. to finish completely; to empty.
Clean-skin	n	A person without a criminal record. 2. an honest person, esp. in politics.
Clean shot	n	A piece of good luck; a favourable situation.
Clean up	phr	To make financial gain or profit, as in "He cleaned up on that deal."
Cleave	n	A women who pretends to be a virgin, while not being one.
Cleaver	n	A butcher.
Cleaver	n	A promiscous women
Cleft	n	A women who poses as a prostitute while not being one.
Cliff-dweller	n	One who lives in a skyscraper, apartment block.
Cliff-hanger	Any suspenseful, threatening situation, although usually from which one is delivered, ( from the silent movie days, where the heroine usually hung precariously from a cliff, awaiting rescue. 2. a sporting event which is only decided in the fianl few moments of the game.
Climb	n	A cat burgular, a thief who sneaks into houses while the the occupants are there and steals their valuables.
Climb all over	phr	To attack verbally, to reprimand. 2. to maul sexually, usu. spoken by a woman of a man.
Climb-down	n	A humilating surrender in an argument; esp. after one has held tenaciously to one position for some time.
Clod	n	A stupid person, an oaf, a rustic, boor, clodhopper. 2. an awkward footed person: "a clodhopper."
Clodhopper	n	The foot. 2. An awkward person, a farmer. Also a Clodknocker
Clot	n	A fool, simpleton, often used affectionedly.
Cloth-ears	n	A general term for wild abuse, esp. referring to someone who at first seems not to have heard one word or comment. 2. a fool, a simpleton.
Clothes-horse	n	A fashion model. 2. an overdressed woman. 3.	Cobwebbed	adj	Dazed, stunned, bewildered
Cobweb throat	phr	Dryness, a thirst for alcohol
Cock strut	n	A walk that reveals arrogance an conceit
Cocky	adj	Conceited, arrogant
Cold	adj	Dead
Cold feet	phr	Reluntance, fear as in " To have cold feet."
Comb the cobwebs	phr	To renew activity
Comeback	n	Retort, esp a cutting or sarcastic one
Come to	phr	to regain consciousness, to wake up, to become alert
Come clean	phr	Confess, admit error or guilt
Come-on-stream	phr	Start, beginning
Come through	phr	To succeed, win, accomplish
Cook	n	A person who prepares or "cooks" at preparing illicit drugs
Cook one's goose	phr	To defeat, undo, or ruin a person
Cook up	phr	To devise a plan or arrange
Cool one's heel	phr	To wait
Coolth	n	Coolness, in contrast to warmth
Copper-hearted	adj.	Untrustworthy, deceitful
Crab	n	A cross person, a complainer
Creepers	n.	Soft heeled shoes