OXFORD UNIVERSITY STUDENT SLANG
Merv
Well, thanks for all your emails - we've now got a whole load more words to
add to our glossary! The disappointment is that there are still no words for
ugly blokes, though. Come on girls, you can do better than this as (big
surprise) there are a lot more terms for ugly girls which the blokes have
been emailing to us. Also, we've had a lot of emails from Oxford students
telling me that, yes, 'bop' is a well-used phrase round their way....
BEING DRUNK
Britney Spiers ........... beers - 'are you coming out for a few Britneys?'
Nelson Mandela ........... Stella - 'how about a pint of Nelson?'
Bosfotik
(pronounced 'boss-fot-ik') ........... drunk
Larupped ........... as above
Banjo'd ........... as above
Stoshied ........... drunk
In a whole world of trouble ........... very drunk
Gatted ........... as above
Slaughtered ........... getting totally drunk
UGLY GIRLS
Double munter ........... a munter who munts x2
She's a hound ........... ugly girl
Mud fish ........... as above
Dog ........... as above
Donkey ........... as above
Scrut ........... 'dirty fat girl'
Munter hunter ........... one who deliberately seeks ugly girls
........... - i.e. looking for an easy lay
SEX
Fancy a jump? ........... do you want to have sex?
Not shy ........... sexually forward
Schlonged ........... to sleep with someone
Have a knee trembler ........... have sex
Have a table-ender ........... as above
Have a shag ........... as above
Get laid ........... as above
FOOD AND DRINK
Smenergie ........... Smirnoff Ice and Vodka Energy
Frigalig ........... food/drink found in the fridge
Snap ........... food
Hank ........... hungry - as in Hank Marvin, starvin'
Clemped ........... hungry
Clemped dief ........... absolutely starving (dief death)
Where are we troughing? ........... where are we eating?
Let's go for a nosh ........... let's eat
Let's get blathered ........... let's get really drunk
Let's go for a piss up ........... as above
Let's have a bevy or two ........... let's have a few drinks
GENERAL
Rah ........... posh
Village ........... poor - as in not good (Village cricket)
Givin it beans ........... maximum effort whilst dancing
Ease down ........... calm down
Skint as a fart ........... no money
Delicious ........... good looking
Bob Hope ........... dope
Tramp ........... someone who really disgusts you
Gallous ........... really good
Pure dead brilliant ........... as above
Chip ........... to leave
Safe ........... cool, good, ok
Moses ........... to sleep - as in Moses Kiptonouie (athlete)
Spank your very crotch ........... thank you very much
Beltin / blindin ........... very good
Jimmy ........... to urinate - Jimmy Riddle, piddle
Skank ........... (alternative meaning) to abandon
........... - eg. skank your mates to go out with your girl
Ring sting ........... the result of bad food and cheap toilet paper!
So, did you have a large one last weekend? Did you go on a complete bender,
and get mullered downing all those kamikazi tequilas and blastaways - before
stumbling home, chundering everywhere? And I bet you had a minging hangover
in the morning....
The search for a student language....
It's all a bit OTT crammed into one sentence, but you always hear in the
press about students having their own language and the older generations not
being able to get it etc etc. ... Well, we decided to see if there was a
student language out there, so we got Tony Mcenery, a linguistic expert, to
come round with us on our Fresher's Campus tour to find out if this is true.
And what he did find out is actually really interesting! Firstly, because
some of the words and phrases are just really funny: can you imagine if you
overheard someone describing you as a swamp donkey, it'd be mortifying!
Secondly, because some of the words are so not student language - come on,
which of you told the poor man that 'bop' and 'mega bop' were well-used
student phrases? And thirdly, because it shows that there's not really an
exclusive student language. For a start, a lot of the words here have been
around for ages and they're not only used by students.
THE STUDENT SLANG GLOSSARY
UGLY GIRLS
What I want to know is why are there so many words for ugly girls and none
for the blokes....
...........
SEX
Spice Girl lyrics as a part of student slang??
Zig a zig ah ........... Lancing/Jousting Park & Ride Having a boff
Get some poot ........... Poke Poonanie Boning ...........
Park your bus ........... To go Russell Getting jiggy with it
Seeing some action ........... Get your beans
DRINKING / BEING DRUNK
Trollied Muntered Klangered Steaming
Lashed Wankered Gazumped Willied
Bladdered Bazeracked Kettled Mashed
Hammered Wombled Got messy Get dribbly ...........
Mullered Blatted
General
Some of these are cringeworthy - I really can't believe people actually say
them (such as the famous bop!) but others are definitely from student life.
Furry muff ........... fair enough
Good plan Batman ........... instead of that man
Diss ........... disrespect
On a mission ........... for food, sex, drink etc
Blatantly ........... very much so / obviously
Lush ........... good looking / expression of strong approval
Random ........... an unexpected person/scenario
Radio rental/Mental ........... crazy in a good/wild way
Hardcore ........... living it up/high tolerance to partying and going out
Walk of shame ........... walking home the morning after the night before
Rank ........... horrible/bad
........... (Good word - means 'smells bad' - Merv)
Billy-no-mates ........... person with no obvious friends or social life
Billy & Dave ........... Billy no mates, Dave all gone!
Top ........... excellent
Faff ........... to waste time / procrastinate
Rude ........... unbelievable/bad
Banter ........... chat / witty repartee
Minging ........... particularly nasty e.g: I have a minging hangover
Brassic ........... poor / no expendable cash
Cadge ........... to borrow - not necesasarily with the intention
of paying back
(I know that one from my teenage years -- Merv)
Skank ........... as above
Gopping ........... filthy
Geezer ........... a good bloke
Ain't got a Scoobie Do ........... haven't got a clue
having it large ........... big night out
Big f*ck off ........... really massive e.g. she had a big f*ck off
boyfriend
likes the pies ........... eats a lot or is quite fat
Kosher ........... cool
Excrement ........... excellent
Allnighter ........... staying up all night to get that essay done
Sesh ........... session, going out drinking all night
Midweek blow outs ........... drinking on a Wednesday night to break up the
week
On the lash ........... going out to get drunk
A complete bender ........... as above but with greater intent!
Coming in with the milk bottles ........... staying out all night drinking
Carnage ........... the result of a particularly heavy drinking session
Bop ........... disco
Megabop ........... superlative of 'bop'
(some of these - like kosher and coming in with the milk bottles are
ancient - Merv)
FOOD AND DRINK
turbo shandy ........... Smirnoff ice and lager
Snake bite ........... half a pint of white lightening cider and half
a pint of special brew! ...........
Snakey B ........... snakebite and black
Pint of Nasty ........... same as above
Diesel ........... same as above
Weedkiller ........... Reef and Blue Curraco
Kamakazi Tequila ........... snort the salt, neck the shot and stick the
lemon
in your eye. ...........
Bevvy ........... pint
Bender ........... as above
Bolt it ........... command to drink your drink as fast as you can
Chunder ........... vomiting, usual follows the command to 'bolt it!'
(A pint of) Yuri Geller / Paul Weller /
David Mellor ........... Stella Artois
scoops ........... pints
swifties ........... as above
cheekies ........... as above
scran ........... food
tucker ........... as above
munchies ........... as above
snags ........... sausages
Blastaway ........... castaway and strong white cider
A pint o' nasty ........... 1/4 pint of lager, pernod, 1/4 pint of
guinness, cointreau, baileys, diced mars bar and red wine
Mucky Pint ........... loads of booze and baileys
Babs ........... kebabs
Slops ........... dregs in beer trays