Top 100 Favorite British Slang Words and Phrases
1. Tosser – Idiot
2. Cock-up – Screw up
3. Bloody – Damn
4. Give You A Bell – Call you
5. Blimey! – My Goodness
6. Wanker – Idiot
7. Gutted – Devastated
8. Bespoke – Custom Made
9. Chuffed – Proud
10. Fancy – Like
11. Sod Off – Piss off
12. Lost the Plot – Gone Crazy
13. Fortnight – Two Weeks
14. Sorted – Arranged
15. Hoover – Vaccum
16. Kip – Sleep or nap
17. Bee’s Knees – Awesome
18. Know Your Onions – Knowledgeable
19. Dodgy – Suspicious
20. Wonky – Not right
21. Wicked – Cool!
22. Whinge – Whine
23. Tad – Little bit
24. Tenner – £10
25. Fiver – £5
26. Skive – Lazy or avoid doing something
27. Toff – Upper Class Person
28. Punter – Customer/Prostitute’s Client
29. Scouser – Someone from Liverpool
30. Quid – £
31. Taking the Piss – Screwing around
32. Pissed – Drunk
33. Loo – Toilet
34. Nicked – Stolen
35. Nutter – Crazy Person
36. Knackered – Tired
37. Gobsmacked – Amazed
38. Dog’s Bollocks – Awesome
39. Chap – Male or friend
40. Bugger – Jerk
41. Bog Roll – Toilet Paper
42. Bob’s Your Uncle – There you go!
43. Anti-Clockwise – We Say Counter Clockwise
44. C of E – Church of England
45. Pants – Panties
46. Throw a Spanner in the Works – Screw up
47. Zed – We say ZZZZZZZ
48. Absobloodylootely – YES!
49. Nosh – Food
50. One Off – One time only
51. Shambles – Mess
52. Arse-over-tit – Fall over
53. Brilliant! – Great!
54. Dog’s Dinner – Dressed Nicely
55. Up for it – Willing to have sex
56. On the Pull – Looking for sex
57. Made Redundant – Fired from a job
58. Easy Peasy – Easy
59. See a Man About a Dog – Do a deal or take a dump
60. Up the Duff – Pregnant
61. DIY – Do It Yourself /home improvements
62. Chat Up – Flirt
63. Fit – Hot
64. Arse – Ass
65. Strawberry Creams – Breasts
66. Shag – Screw
67. Gentleman Sausage – Penis
68. Twigs & Berries – Genitalia
69. Fanny – Vagina
70. Bollocks – Balls
71. Ponce – Poser
72. Don’t Get Your Knickers in a Twist – Don’t Get worked up
73. The Telly – Television
74. Bangers – Sausage
75. Chips – French Fries
76. Daft Cow – Idiot
77. Do – Party
78. Uni – College/University
79. Starkers – Naked
80. Smeg – From Red Dwarf
81. Bits ‘n Bobs – Various things
82. Anorak – A person weirdly interested in something
83. Shambles – bad shape/plan gone wrong
84. I’m Off to Bedfordshire – Going to bed
85. Her Majesty’s Pleasure – To be in prison
86. Horses for Courses – Won’t work for someone else
87. John Thomas – Penis
88. Plastered – Drunk
89. Meat and Two Veg – Genitalia
90. Knob Head – Idiot/Dickhead
91. Knob – Penis
92. Chav – White trash
93. It`s monkeys outside – it is very cold
94. Stag Night – Bachelor Party
95. Ace – Cool!
96. Plonker – Idiot
97. Dobber – Penis
98. BellEnd – Penis
99. Blighty – Britain
100. Rubbish – Garbage or ‘That’s crap!’
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Just English 
OK, a few corrections and clarifications.
Wanker: more often applied to someone who is inept or ineffectual. (Wank: to masturbate)
Wonky: also something that is crooked, dilapidated or broken.
Gobsmacked: probably more accurately defined as being left speechless by something good or bad.
Bugger: in terms of noun rather than verb this is tricky to define. You might tell a friend that he’s a lucky bugger and no offence would be taken but a mean old bugger would be taken a little more seriously. In effect bugger is just another term for a man.
Bob’s your uncle: job done.
Pants: also, and predominantly used for male underwear. Also used as a derogatory term for something that’s substandard.
Dogs dinner: generally this is used as a term for something badly put together.
Made redundant: applies only when there are cut backs at a company. Doesn’t apply to being fired for wrongdoing, etc.
Strawberry creams: never heard of that one. I’m 55 years old and have lived in Britain all my life.
Gentleman sausage and (especially) twigs and berries: I refer you to strawberry creams.
Ponce: also used to refer to a gay man but that’s less common now.
Daft cow: gender specific – only applied to women.
Smeg: abbreviation. Maybe this will help – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smegma
Bell end: similar to wanker. A slang word for the glans penis.
I hope that this was of use and that in posting this I didn’t piss on your fireworks!
Great and valuable comment. Thank you, Des for sharing your inside info 🙂 Much appreciated.
Another addition. ‘Ponce’ as well as being a slightly archaic word for a gay man was also used as a term for a pimp – although I don’t know where the connection is there. However, we do find a connection in the verb ‘ponce’, which is to scrounge and thereby gives us the noun ‘ponce’. Therefore, a ponce might be described as someone living off of someone else’s earnings.
47 Zed is not slang. It’s how you actually say the letter, you guys say it wrong. We invented the bloody language you tossers. 🙂
Still trying to seduce me?:-)
Notice the word “wanker” listed in
Top 100 Favorite British Slang Words and Phrases
You need to remember that in England we have vast regional variations in slang and the meaning of a slang word.
You will also find that many of the words you listed here are not used anymore, or at least I haven’t heard in a very long time and some of them never.