pills

testicles. They usually work in pairs. Romany word 'pele' meaning testicles. see goolies

mince my pills (expression of mild astonishment)

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gazump

Also gesumph or gesumpf, said to have come into the British property business from the second-hand car trade in the 1970s. originally means to swindle, cheat or steal, now means to outbid (peculiar to the English and Welsh housing market). Ultimately derived from a German word meaning to put into a swamp or, in the modern idiom, to dump in the shit. first recorded in English in 1928

the bastards gazumped me

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didicoy, didicoi, also didd-

gypsy, pikey, chav etc. Romany word of respect for male of older generation. 'dadika' = father

diddikois welcome!

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totty

hot woman or women. Romany word 'taati' meaning a woman who is warm.

lot of totty about (nice place)

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rinky dink

handsome, cute, cool. from the Romany Gypsy word for good-looking, rinkano. now also has a dismissive perjorative usage arising from its apparent diminutive sense which arises from the internal rhyme

here's the pink panther
the rinky dink panther

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dreck

filth, dirt, German word first used by James Joyce in Ulysses

dreck stinks

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strasse

Area of specific interest. Heard recently on BBC Radio 5, ‘Right up your Strasse’. Clearly calqued from ‘right up your street’ but with a tone of contempt. Does the rhyme and association with ‘up your arse’ have anything to do with it?

Right up your Strasse

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