Okay, I'm an Anglophile--honeymooned in London in the sixties, English major, yadda yadda.

Couple of English words and phrases still elude me--"git" for instance. Equal, pretty much to "dumbass"--or is there more?

And what is "Bob's your uncle" all about?

There's more, but that's all I can think of at the moment.

Nobody cares

Nobody cares

Indeed.

Git means get in American. That's all that's important.

Incorrect. In Brit slang, "git" is a noun. I'm just not totally clear on the definition.

Jeez, where is SotB when you need him?

'Ere you go, mate.

Bobs your uncle Phrs. There you have it; a catch phrase expressing satisfactory completion. E.g."Make sure you have primed and undercoated the wood. Then apply the gloss paint and Bob's your uncle! The wood will stay protected and look good for another couple of years."

What I always use.

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/

Thanks--up the Brits!

Git= A word used affectionately to insult, Ie, "ahh, jackketch, that old git!".

I assume the more weirder sayings and words are some bastard creation of Cockney.

You can "translate" 'Bobs yer Uncle (and Sally is your Aunt)' as 'and all is ok/right with the world'.

Incorrect. In Brit slang, "git" is a noun. I'm just not totally clear on the definition.

Jeez, where is SotB when you need him?

Note that I stated it's American meaning to be the only thing of importance. Curiously enough, however, the British slang git also seems to derive from get. Very interesting. Now I also know what a gannet is. Thanks for that website, moon man.

A git is kind of like a prick. It's not so much being a dumbass as being malicious in a underhanded way but not on a humongous scale. Like if someone stole your newspaper from your doorstep, they'd be a git.

Bob's your uncle pretty much just means "and there you go" in a voila kind of way. If I was telling someone how to fry a steak I would say, put the steak in the pan, heat that shit up and bob's your mother's brother.

I always thought "your Aunt" was called Fanny?

Amnesia.

it is indeed Fanny's your aunt. I think the funniest britishisms are the words they use to indicate your place of birth. My physics teacher is Liverpudlian and on the english drinking team he was just called Scouse, which means a person from liverpool. He was explaining some of the other ones but the best is Londoners are called Cockeys.

Cockney doesn't mean someone from London it means someone specifically from East London.

Cockney doesn't mean someone from London it means someone specifically from East London.

more specifically its someone born within the sound of Bow Bells.

I've got one:

"I should cocoa"

Actually 'Git' would better be translated as an idiot or a prick instead of a dumbass.


The Agency.

I'd say 'git' is more friendly than prick. Like if my brother nabbed (stole) a tattie (potato) from my tea (dinner) I might call him a git or a 'littler bugger', but I wouldn't call him a prick.

If we are having such a problem with git, is there any hope of defining really obscure words like 'wideboy' or even the differing meanings of common words like 'daft'.

us brits are pretty fucked up...

lmao although we do have some pretty good insults...wanker, git, gimp and do americans use gay as an insult?

wankers a weird hypocritical one tho, as all men are wankers...atleast id hope so