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 | n | 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. |
Cloud Nine | phr | "On Cloud Nine" -- a state of bliss, sometimes drug induced. |
Cloud Seven | phr | A state of bliss, presumably less blissful than "Cloud Nine." |
Cloudy | adj | Under a cloud, suspected. 2. in trouble, in disrepute. |
Clove-hunter | n | A theatre patron who drinks or others (from a flask) during a play and then chews cloves in an attempt to hide smell of liquor on his breath. |
Cloven | adj | Divided lengthwise, split, cleaved. |
Cloven | n | A woman, usually a sex worker, who pretends that she is a virgin, but in reality she is not. |
Clover | n | " To live in clover" -- to live luxuriously, like a cow in a field of clover. |
Cluck | n | A tedious situation. |
Cluckhead | n | A fool, simpleton. |
Clutter | n | A clotted mass. 2. a confused collection. 3. a crowded confusion. |
Coal | n | Money: coal as the source of heat, of everyday life, is money. 2. a dark-skinned person. |
Coal-burner | n | A White man or white woman who enjoys sexual relations with a Black man or woman. |
Cobwebbed | adj | Dazed, stunned, bewildered |
Cobweb throat | phr | Dryness, a thirst for alcohol. |
Cock-ale | n | A variety of beer that is supposed to have aphrodisiac qualities. |
Cock-a-loft | adj | Affected, pompous person. |
Cockbite | n | A repellent, unpopular person, whose mean enough to bite anyone, anywhere. |
Cock book | n | Pornagrapia, erotic and salacious literature. |
Cock brain | n | A foolish young man. 2. a young man's traditional obsession to sex. |
Cockchafer | n | A prison treadmill. 2. a woman who encourages a good deal odf sexual intimacy, but not intercourse. |
Cock eye | adj | Squinty of eyes. 2. messy, ludicrous, absurd. |
Cockeyed | adj | Crazy, eccentric, irrational, odd. 2. very drunk. |
Cock fighter | n | A womaniser, philanderer. |
Cock hound | n | A man devoted to sex above all things. |
Cockish | adj | Wanton, sexually forward of a woman. |
Cock one eye | phr | To glance sdeways. |
Cock opener | n | The penis |
Cockpit | n | The vagina |
Cockqueen | n | An effeminate man, who is seen as dealing to keenly with domestic duties that are properly those of his wife. 2. a cotquean. |
Cock rot | n | Venereal disease. |
Cocksmith | n | A womaniser, philanderer, cockfighter. |
Cock-smitten | adj | Prurient, very keen on sex |
Cock sparrow | n | A short, small man with a very confident manner and swagger. |
Cockstand | n | an erection. |
Cock strut | n | A walk that reveals arrogance an conceit |
Cock teaser | n | A woman who allows a fair amount of intimacy, but not sexual intercourse. |
Cocky | adj | Conceited, arrogant |
Cod | n | The scrotum, testicles. |
Cold | adj | Dead, deceased, departed. |
Cold bite | n | " A Cold Bite" -- one who will lend money; a soft touch. |
Cold blooded | adj | Harshly critical, extremely judgemental, used of actions that are done or people that act without heart. |
Cold feet | phr | Reluctance, fear as in " To have cold feet." |
Cold footer | n | A fearful, nervy person, cold-footed: timidly, cowering, cowardly. |
Cold iron | n | A knife, dagger, bayonet. |
Cold meat | n | A corpse, cadaver, dead body. |
Cold meat box | n | Coffin. |
Cold meat wagon | n | A hearse, funeral car, cold meat cart. |
Cold shake | n | Rejection, dismissal, betrayal. |
Cold shot | n | Unnecessary and aggressive behaviour. 2. cruel, emotionless behaviour. |
Cold shoulder | n | Rejection, dismissal, betrayal, marble heart. |
Comb the cobwebs | phr | To renew activity, brush off the cobwebs. |
Come again | phr | Please repeat ourself; say that again |
Come all over | phr | To thrash, defeat completely. 2. to experience certain condition, as in "come all over sick." 3. to suddenly feel physically unwell. |
Come and get it | phr | A general cry indicating that a meal is forthcoming. |
Come at | phr | To undertake, to get up and try. 2. to take on; to try on. 3. to have a go. |
Comeback | n | Retort, esp a cutting or sarcastic one; a verbal rejoinder. 2. repercussions, blow-back, down-side. |
Come back to the field | phr | To face the realism of the situation. 2. to abandon one's dreams and fantasies. 3. to come down to earth. |
Come clean | phr | Confess, admit error or guilt. 2. to make an admission. 3. to pay one's debts. 4. to get something off your chest that's beemn bothering you. |
Come down | n | To fall from grace. 2. a humilating decline in one's material circumstances. 3. a bad situation, esp. an embarrasing one. 3. the after effects or aftermath of drug use. |
Come down hard | phr | To attack someone either verbally or physically. |
Come down on | vb | To belittle, insult, to talk to severely, criticise harshly. 2. to assault. 3. to withdraw from a drug dependency and it's after effects. |
Come from | n | Birthplace, origin |
Come good | vb | Of things, to turn out well. 2. of people, to prove themselves, esp after an unpromising start. 3. to come up trumps. |
Come home | vb | To reach an end of an experience. |
Come in for it | phr | To face trouble. 2. to expect future difficulties. |
Come off the grass | phr | To stop telling lies. 2. stop exaggerating. |
Come-on | n | A share, inducement. 2. seductive talk, "The Come-on." 3. sexual invitation, either through a look or words. 4. a dare. 5. a general exclamation of disbelief. |
Come-on-stream | phr | Start, beginning, involvement, participation. |
Come on strong to | phr | To make one's presence and opinions felt --- used both positively and negatively (to come on too strong). |
Come on to | phr | To appear somewhat aggressively; to solicit. 2. to make sexual advances towards. |
Come out | vb | To declare oneself openly homosexual. |
Come out | vb | To abandon the respectable nine-to-five world for a more sophiscated and exciting lifestyle. |
Come out of the woodwork | phr | To emerge or appear, always of someone or something unpleasant. (the normal woodwork dweller being something unpleasant, such as bug or cockrooach. 2. to appear almost from now-where unexpectedly. |
Come over | vb | To experience a sudden disorientating feeling or experience; as in " come over queer." |
Come over to | phr | To win over, to persuade, get the better of. |
Comer | n | An ambitious, go-head person, the coming man, the up'n comer, the next-big-thing. |
Come right out with | phr | To speak openly, candidly, taactlessly. |
Come the heavy | phr | To pose as a member of a superior class to that which one actually belongs. 2. to take strong, asserted steps, physically or verbally, in a conflict or argument, |
Come to | phr | to regain consciousness, to wake up, to become alert |
Come through | phr | To succeed, win, accomplish. 2. to pay one's debt. 3. to act as desired, do what on must do. 4. to take over in an emergency; to carry out requirements. |
Come to a sticky end | phr | To meet great misfortune or a bad lot in life, esp. a violent death or a prison term, usu said of a person condemned. |
Come to bed eyes | n | Eyes that convey infinite, if not always delivered, sexual promise. |
Come to grief | phr | To fall into difficulties. |
Come-to-soon | n | Illegitimate child: born before his parents had time to marry. |
Come to stay | phr | To become permanent or established. |
Come-to-that | phr | Now that you have remember it. |
Come undone | vb | To find oneself in difficulties. |
Come up | vb | To turn out (well), etc; to happen (often). |
Come up lovely | phr | To turn out well or successful, esp. when it was thought that a successful outcome was unlikely. |
Come up smiling | phr | To face a difficult circumstance without showing fear or complaining. |
Come up weak | phr | To disppoint, to fail to reach expectations (whether one's own or others). |
Come up with | vb | To provide, produce, procure, furnish. |
Cook | n | A person who prepares, manufactures or "cooks" at preparing illicit or illegal drugs. |
Cook | vb | To tamper with, to falsify, as in "cook the books." 2. to suffer from th heat. 3. to die in the electric chair. 4. to do something successfully, " to cook with gas or I'm cooking." |
Cooked | adj | Exhausted, finished, destroyed, in serious trouble. |
Cooker | n | That which settles a situation; a clincher, a finisher. |
Cooking | adv | Working or acting with absolute commitment. |
Cook one's goose | phr | To defeat, undo, or ruin a person |
Cook up | phr | To devise a plan or arrange. 2. to tamper with; falsify. 3. to enjoy oneself; to hsve s good time. |
Cool | n | Temper, poise, composure, attitude to life and the ability to deal with. |
Cool | adj | Insolent, arrogant, impudent, cockly, self-possessed, sophisticated, fashionable, chic, with it. |
Cool | vb | To kill, murder, asassinate, "cool off". 2. to calm down; to calm someone or some situation down. 3. to deal with a problem. 4. to postpone, to put off. 5. to knock out. 6. to lounge around; hang out. |
Cool cat | n | A smooth operator, a confident person. 2. a sophisticated, competent, unruffled, able person. |
Cool deal | exc | Approval, admiration. |
Cool hand | n | A cool, calm, controlled and competent individual. |
Cool-head | n | A calm, unflappable person. |
Cooling | adj | Relaxing, calm, quiet. |
Cool it | vb | To calm down, often used as an imperative -- "cool it." 2. to stop, cease from action. 3. to die. |
Cool off | vb | To kill, murder. 2. too subdue by physical force. |
Cool one's heel | phr | To wait or to be kept waiting. |
Cool out | vb | To subdue physically. 2. to kill, murder. 3. to calm down, often as an imperative, to pacify another. 3.to take a rest from work often by lying in the shade. 4. to make something manageable. |
Cool runnings | n | Everything is fine; all is going smoothly, everything is copasetic. |
Coolth | n | Coolness, in contrast to warmth |
Copperhead | n | An unpleasant person, a mean piece of works. |
Copper-hearted | adj. | Untrustworthy, deceitful. 2. a prison informer. |
Corn | n | Money, currency. |
Corndog | n | Someone who is socially inept or acts bizarrely. 2. Fig, one enjoys or suffers being socially inept. |
Cornhusker | n | A farmer, peasant, one who strips husk from the ear of corn. |
Corn-off-the-cob | n | Banality, simplicity, hackishness. |
Corny | adj | Very and annoyingly out-dated, old fashioned or sentimental. 2. hackneyed, trite, inferior. 3. unsophisticated, rustic, simple. 4. naive, gullible, simple, gormless, such characteristics attributed to country folk living in corn-growing locations. |
Cow | n | A woman, esp. an unattractive one. 2. a prostitute. 3. a woman in the company of a tramp. |
Cow-handed | adj | Awkward, clumsy, unco-ordinated. |
Crab | n | A cross person, a complainer. 2. an ill-soured person; hence, thus an unpopular person ( a crab-apple or crab arse.) |
Crab | vb | To spoil, upset, annoy, ruin, sour. 2. to find fault; criticise heavily. 3. to steal or "pinch." 4. to back down, run away, as in "crab off." 5. "to crab some's hopes." |
Crabby | adj | Nagging, cantankerous, ill-soured. |
Crabwalk | n | The perineum: the region of the body between the anus and the scrotum. |
Crack | n | "The crack." -- the vagina. 2. a prostitute. 3. very dry wood. 4. a narrow passage. |
Crack | adj | Perfect; anything or anyone that approaches perfection. 2. a foppish or dandy. 3. of the social an sporting elite: excellent or "A" listing, classy. |
Crack a smile | phr | TolLaugh slighty. 2. laugh or smile with restraint |
Crack-down | n | A harsh measure against someone or something by authority. |
Cracked | adj | Crazy, stupid, foolish, unwise. |
Cracked Ice | n | Diamonds. |
Cracker | n | Smallest feasible amount of money. 2. poor, needy, penniless. 3. " He hasn't got cracker." 4. valuelss, worthless. 5. A beautiful looking woman; a crackling: " she a cracker" |
Cracker-box | n | An eccentric, oddball, queer-loon, madman, crazy person. 2. a crack-pot, cracky-cat. |
Cracker-hand | n | a competent, skilled, deft individual. |
Crack hardy | adj | To put up with discomfort. 2. to grin and bear it. |
Crack-hunter | n | Penis. |
Cracking | adj | Vigourous, excellent, first-class. |
Crackish | adj | Wanton, promiscous, used a generic. |
Crack it | vb | To lose one's temper. 2. to suceed; acieve something successfully. 3. to pursue sexually or seek to seduce a womwn; crack on. |
Crackle | n | Money, in the form of banknotes. |
Crack on | vb | Of a man, to strike up a friendship with a woman in the hope of moving into a deeper relationship. |
Crack one's ribs | phr | Laugh uproariously, crack up. |
Crackpot | n | One who is madman, a crazy, a lunatic, eccentric, odd-ball, quirkster, a mentally unstable. |
Crack someone up | phr | To make someone laugh. |
Crack up | n | A Crack-up: anything consider hilariously funny. 2. an emotional or nervous breakdown. |
Crack up | vb | To suffer a mental or emotional breakdown. |
Crackwise | n | One who pretend a greater sophisication and knowledge that he or she actually possesses; a poseur. |
Crackwise | vb | To make a clever comment that impresses nobody. 2. to appear as a mere sophist; a poseur. |
Craft | n | Any sort of transport, including a bicycle. |
Cram | n | A crush of people, a throng, a crowd, a press, a mob, a teeming. |
Crammer | n | The stomach, craw, maw, gut. |
Cramming | n | An intensive learning aimed purely at passing necessary examinations. |
Crane | vb | To hestitate, baulk. 2. to crane one;s neck: took around; to rubber-neck. |
Crank | n | An eccentric, oddball, a loon. 2. a bad-tempered or wayward person, one hard to please, grouch. 3. monomaniac, an obsessive, weirdo. 4. a craze, fad, monomania, obsession, eccentric notion, capriciac. |
Crank | n | The crank: a penis. |
Crank up | vb | To get started up a mechanical device, such as an engine or a car engine. 2. To prepare oneself. 3. to intensify, to do something more energetically or deliberately. 4. to turn up the volume of a radio. 5. an all-purpose word of moement --- crank up oneself; to co-operate or crank together. 6. to become "high" and over energetic on drugs. |
Cranked | adj | Mentally unbalanced, hyped-up, cocky, zooped by amphetamines. |
Cranker | n | A doctor, a physician, leech, swabones; quack. |
Cranking | adj | Enjoyable, exciting, exulting, eccentric. |
Cranking it out | phr | To be a hack writer; a pot-boiler, to penny dreadful, a sausage maker. 2. to write more for duty, keep, than enjoyment or pleasure. |
Crank the shank | vb | To masturbate |
Crank out | vb | To produce large volumes of work, energy, sound, vitality. |
Crankpot | n | A mean, grouuchy, irritable, ill-tempered individual. 2. the skull, head. |
Cranky | adj | Eccentric, odd, queer, strange, capricious. 2. irritable, tetchy, ill-tempered. |
Crank(y)-hatch | n | A lunatic asylum, a psychiatric institution. |
Craw | n | The stomach, maw, gut. |
Creepers | n. | Soft heeled shoes |
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