# "Do one!" Slang thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 14, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-one-slang-thread/274718 "2004-11-14T16:36:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-one-slang-thread/274718/21 "2004-11-15T07:02:07Z")
“Get fucked” is used up here quite often, at least in this neighbourhood. (Bad! 😉 ) It can also mean “Go away”, especially as in “Why don’t you go get fucked?!” “Piss off” had it’s adherents, as does “Bugger off”. “Buggered up” means the same as “Screwed up”. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-one-slang-thread/274718/22 "2004-11-15T07:34:30Z")
> [@buns3000](#): > > Exactly. > > When I travelled to the US, a guy I met in NYC was bemused by “get fucked” which is common in Australia. Can anyone confirm that “get fucked” is not an expression you’d normally hear in the US? It has 2 possible meanings - either similar to “fuck off” or to signify surprise, as in “get out!” or “no way!” I’ve never really heard “get fucked” used where I’ve been, here in yank country. I’d probably assume it just meant “fuck off” if I heard it. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-one-slang-thread/274718/23 "2004-11-15T09:31:31Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > I’ve never really heard “get fucked” used where I’ve been, here in yank country. I’d probably assume it just meant “fuck off” if I heard it. I recall Bill Bryson pointing out that it’s a bit of a strange thing to say as an insult… kind of like “Make lots of money!” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-one-slang-thread/274718/24 "2004-11-15T09:46:25Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I recall Bill Bryson pointing out that it’s a bit of a strange thing to say as an insult… kind of like “Make lots of money!” Well, not really… it depends very much on who you get fucked by, and how. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-one-slang-thread/274718/25 "2004-11-15T10:21:38Z")
Bugger as a noun and a verb, for all its literal meaning, is very seldom used in the sense of “a sodomite” or “to commit sodomy”, and unless specifically used in that context {“He was arrested for buggering little boys”, which is rather archaic} doesn’t generally connote homosexuality. As a noun, it’s usually just a colloquialism for “man”, or sometimes “thing”, and is often used as a term of friendly abuse: “You lazy bugger.” As a verb, it’s usually a synonym for tired, broken, or generally not at its best. “I’ve had a bugger of a day. The photocopier was buggered, and I had to bugger around all afternoon trying fix the bugger. I’m completely buggered.” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-one-slang-thread/274718/26 "2004-11-15T17:37:23Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I recall Bill Bryson pointing out that it’s a bit of a strange thing to say as an insult… kind of like “Make lots of money!” Long ago, Lenny Bruce mused onstage that “fuck you” seemed like a really friendly thing to say. He said it would be more appropiate to say “unfuck you” or “may you never get fucked again.” ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-one-slang-thread/274718/27 "2004-11-15T18:38:34Z")
My 1st time in the UK, I was surprised to learn that **pissed** meant ‘drunk’ - All of us on this side of the pond _know_ it means ‘infuriated’. Speaking of pissed, do older ladies still use the term ‘spend a penny’ like Mrs Slocum did on AYBS? Minor Hijack - Had it not been for the thick Cockney accents in Guy Richie’s ‘Lock Stock & 2 Smkong Barrels’ or that hard-to-understand Gypsy-speak in ‘Snatch’ - I think stateside word of mouth would have made both films far more profitable. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-one-slang-thread/274718/28 "2004-11-15T18:41:57Z")
> [@JohnBckWLD](#): > > My 1st time in the UK, I was surprised to learn that **pissed** meant ‘drunk’ - All of us on this side of the pond _know_ it means ‘infuriated’. > > Speaking of pissed, do older ladies still use the term ‘spend a penny’ like Mrs Slocum did on AYBS? > > Minor Hijack - Had it not been for the thick Cockney accents in Guy Richie’s ‘Lock Stock & 2 Smkong Barrels’ or that hard-to-understand Gypsy-speak in ‘Snatch’ - I think stateside word of mouth would have made both films far more profitable. Pissed does indeed mean drunk, but add ‘off’ to it and it means the same as ‘pissed’ in America. Pissed off = infuriated. The first time I heard ‘spend a penny’ was when I was a kid, My grandmother had said it and I wondered why she was only spending a penny. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-one-slang-thread/274718/29 "2004-11-15T22:03:19Z")
Getting Brahms & Liszted would be more likely done by an All Time Loser who got his hands on Ghandi or Mandela. ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-one-slang-thread/274718/30 "2004-11-15T22:52:13Z")
I have received quiet the crash course in British slang of late, and have enthusiastically adopted ‘bloody’, ‘pissed’, ‘bugger’, ‘arse’, ‘taking the piss/mickey out of’ among other colourful expressions. British slang seems so much more expressive, for whatever reason. It’s especially amusing when the Britslang gets mixed in with the Yiddishisms, e.g. ‘Oy gevalt!’ or ‘putz’. These are quite exotic over here. As, apparently, are good old fashioned American biscuits. 🙂 Cheers, Daphne [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-one-slang-thread/274718.md?page=1)