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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spiv

an ancient chav trying to make you buy something either that you don't want or something that is in short supply. Associated with showy dressing habits, shiny suits and inappropriate hats, etc. Romany word from the word 'spuvel' to push

he dresses like a spiv

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minge

cunt. Romany word meaning the same or waist

she flashed her minge

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diddycoy

Originally a Romani term of respect (dadika) for an older person, this has come to mean (in UK English) a Gypsy or traveller who is not of pure blood. The insult is therefore compounded, not only does this person have the negative qualities that prejudice has associated with travellers, but they are also of suspect descent, doubly damned.

they're not even proper gyppos, they're fucking diddikois

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