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10-18-2005, 10:38 AM
i can't get over, MINGER:noun def-an ugly girl. also MINGING:verb,def- Fing an ugly girl. i also like the use of, "legend" and "legendary" good old brits.
samjjones
10-18-2005, 10:39 AM
Is it a hard "g", like "Ming the Merciless"? Or a "j" sound? I'm guessing the latter.
daveymck
10-18-2005, 10:45 AM
No the former.
Bascule
10-18-2005, 10:51 AM
For the record, legend is originally from Australia. Us brits adopted it because it's so good.
diebitter
10-18-2005, 10:52 AM
That's about 5 years old!

You guys heard the term 'swamp donkey'? or 'slapper'?
Yeti
10-18-2005, 10:54 AM
Minging is an adjective, not a verb.

'Ledge' instead of legend is a good one.
spamuell
10-18-2005, 10:55 AM
To clarify Yeti's remark, a girl who is a minger is minging. You can't ming someone (and if you could you wouldn't want to).
diebitter
10-18-2005, 10:57 AM
It is a verb too, but without an object (I think that's the way to say it). You can ming (ie be ugly), but you can't ming something.
10-18-2005, 10:57 AM
You won't have heard of "Munter". Same thing but a west coast of scotland equivalent of Minger.
diebitter
10-18-2005, 10:59 AM
Yeah, I use Munter - it was in London a good while back, so must have spread from Scotland, I'd guess.

Also 'bloater' for fat chicks (as in 'she's a right bloater!')- anyone heard that?
daveymck
10-18-2005, 11:00 AM
OED (http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00310125?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=minger &first=1&max_to_show=10) says its a noun
daveymck
10-18-2005, 11:02 AM
North East version was probably a boiler, although used fat munter as well.
diebitter
10-18-2005, 11:02 AM
Minger - noun
minging - adjective
ming - verb
mingingly - adverb

and [censored] the OED, it mings.
stigmata
10-18-2005, 11:04 AM
Minging can also be applied to something or someone that smells bad, and I think this may have been the original usage.
daveymck
10-18-2005, 11:08 AM
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Minging can also be applied to something or someone that smells bad, and I think this may have been the original usage.

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I think that was my first use of it or tastes disgusting.

As a pleasant aside a non minging attractive blonde girl has walked into the office, I am hopeing the new communication officer although I susepct they are form Office Angels.
Saddlepoint
10-18-2005, 11:09 AM
We don't need as many words for unattractive women in the United States because we don't have as many.
FouTight
10-18-2005, 11:43 AM
I remember this site from a few years ago...

mingers (http://www.mingers.com/)
diebitter
10-18-2005, 11:49 AM
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We don't need as many words for unattractive women in the United States because we don't have as many.

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Oh, I reckon you've got your fair share of swamp donkeys - they just got better teeth is all.
10-18-2005, 01:36 PM
munter and bloater are immidiately going into my repetoire.
diebitter
10-19-2005, 02:37 PM
Another one I've just remembered is 'Treacle Bollocks'

This is a term of endearment/mild put down. I think it means that, if someone calls you TB, they think you think you're fantastic (you're so good, you have treacle in your bollocks). It's very much used between friends and those on very good terms. It's often in greeting ("Alright, Treacle Bollocks?")

I think it's a London thing (maybe a south London thing), but could UK OOTers that have travelled or from outside London confirm?

As a sidenote, when I was a small kid, my grandparents would often greet me with 'hello, Treacle Bollocks. Where you bin?'. Such is life.
poincaraux
10-19-2005, 03:02 PM
"All fur coat and no knickers" is my current favorite. The British girl in my lab used that one last week.
diebitter
10-24-2005, 09:50 AM
I remembered 'Bruce Lee's' for erect nipples (Bruce Lee=Hard Nip).

But this I just came across:

A bobfoc = Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch (a UK program about crimes, not surprisingly)