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Friend. Urdu from Persian. wide range of meaning and usage from 'someone whom you have just met' to 'beloved'. Commonly heard 'arre yar' which is a term either of contradiction like 'come off it' or of surprise like 'fuck me'.
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to steal or a thief. Romany word 'te chorel' to steal. see also chor. Used in pockets all over the UK where chavs are descended from Romany Gypsies. (e.g., recently heard in Chatham, Kent)
he's a bleeding chore, he's always choring from shops
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originally a 'dick-head'. From the French word 'noeud'(literally 'knot'), the slang meaning of which is the glans penis, the enlarged section at the head of the penis, hence 'dick-head'.
whadda nerd!
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testicles. Arabic word came back with the Crusaders, used by Chaucer. Arabic word 'naqqaara' mans the huge drums slung either side of a horse. It originally meant v. big testicles. see pills. Not to be confused with knackered meaning 'exhausted' or 'tired'ultimately from a word meaning to re-cycle horses
do chavs shave their nackers? Does the Pope have a balcony?
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prison. romany word 'staripen', an immovable thing or place from which you cannot move, ultimately connecterd to the word 'stasis'
he's doing stir
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âcomplete-art-workâ. London Review of Books, Vol 24, No. 6, 21st March 2002, page 16 col 3 by Hal Foster, âAndy Paperbagâ. âAnd these devices became central to his persona, which is sometimes seen as his ultimate work: Warhol as the spectral centre of a flashy scene, a kind of blank Gesamtkunstwerkâin-personâ.
'Mediaeval cathedrals were the Gesamtkunstwerks of their era', recently heard on BBC Radio 4,
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n. lump of wood, used to hit people. v. to hit with a lump of wood. Standard European Romany word 'kaasht' meaning a piece of wood.
she's got him under the cosh, poor sod
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