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Old 12-28-2005, 12:08 PM
diebitter diebitter is offline
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Default Re: Brits - Slang question: how do you say arrogant??

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diebitter,

FWIW, some of these I have never heard of, most I would never utter.

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Really? Many of them are (or at least used to be) pretty common in London. some are a bit obscure, I'll grant, but I've heard them all used one time or another.

You'd be able to use 'bent as a nine-bob note'/Ginger/iron in any south London drinker and no-one would bat an eyelid, for example.

EDIT: some of them are quite archaic now, for example 'left-footer' - haven't heard that one since I was a kid, but 'bent as a nine-bob note' is still going strong, even though there haven't been 10-bob notes in about 40 years!

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