# Rude English words the yanks don't get! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 25, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523 "2003-10-25T18:11:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![JonTheHasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@JonTheHasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonTheHasher)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/81 "2003-10-27T12:05:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BigDaiv \* > \*\*ive never used bloody as in menstruation i jsut use it to show emphasis > > “i mean there are only two bloody people online at the moment” \*\* Hmm…well, I rarely use “shit” to refer to excrement, either. I guess the question would be one of origin rather than usage, then. For that matter, I guess there’s a whole lot of swear words that I don’t know the origin to. “Bloody” was one of the few that I thought made perfect sense 😃 I still end up throwing the “BS Flag” when people explain to me about the acronym for “Fornication Under the Command of the King”, or “For Unlawful Carnal Knowlege” (which cropped up a lot more after that Van Halen album came out…hmmmm…) ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/82 "2003-10-27T12:35:11Z")
Have a look at this SD Staff Report: [What’s the origin of the British slang word “bloody”?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mbloody.html) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/83 "2003-10-27T12:46:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Brad Pittiful \* > **anyone notice Veruca Salt in the moobie Willie Wonka…she said “twat”…to the USA people it means Vagina…funny how a word like that slips into a childrens moobie 🙂** Ummm… Cite? My kids have watched this on DVD at least twice a week for the last six weeks and I’ve not noticed this - which scene does it occur in? ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/84 "2003-10-27T13:08:10Z")
**Everton** I’m a very sad man?? what made you throw this at me for heavens sake…have I upset you? I want to know, I’m upset here! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/85 "2003-10-27T13:24:40Z")
> [@](#): > > “Rogering” is unfamiliar enough that my 12th grade English teacher had to explain the double meaning in Lord of the Flies. (If I recall correctly, Roger is the boy leading the charge in shoving the spear up the pig’s nether orifice.) But not unfamiliar enough to keep me from creating a character named **Roger Roundley**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/86 "2003-10-27T13:28:39Z")
Citeh fan hurt by being called sad? Surely not. I just reckon you can’t use the word “rogering” without sounding like Brian Rix in one of those old plays he was in. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/87 "2003-10-27T14:14:36Z")
Buggeration is a good one. And Reese’s Peanut Buttercups are the dog’s bollocks, btw. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/88 "2003-10-27T14:27:27Z")
just as a hijack, someone applied in writing to be a tillmonkey at the last place i worked at. his name? **Roger Mycock** everytime we felt a bit low or depressed, out would come old Rogers application letter. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/89 "2003-10-27T14:32:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JonTheHasher \* > \*\*Hmm…well, I rarely use “shit” to refer to excrement, either. I guess the question would be one of origin rather than usage, then. For that matter, I guess there’s a whole lot of swear words that I don’t know the origin to. “Bloody” was one of the few that I thought made perfect sense 😃 > > I still end up throwing the “BS Flag” when people explain to me about the acronym for “Fornication Under the Command of the King”, or “For Unlawful Carnal Knowlege” (which cropped up a lot more after that Van Halen album came out…hmmmm…) \*\* Well bugger almost never means what bugger means either…its just a bloody, buggery good word. ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/90 "2003-10-27T16:25:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by everton \* > \*\*Citeh fan hurt by being called sad? Surely not. I just reckon you can’t use the word “rogering” without sounding like Brian Rix in one of those old plays he was in. \*\* Brian Bloody Rix!!! do me a favour scouse. I think ‘rogering’ is used a number of times in Lady Chatterleys Lover and I still think it is very expressive. Can I have my hubcaps back? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/91 "2003-10-27T18:25:34Z")
I met a British woman over here who missed her favorite food from back home: **Peanut Butter and Baked Beans on Toast !** _Does_ Roger Moore? ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/92 "2003-10-27T18:31:30Z")
I met a British woman over here who missed her favorite food from back home: **Peanut Butter and Baked Beans on Toast !** _Does_ Roger Moore? ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/93 "2003-10-27T18:36:18Z")
Bloody hamsters! ---
**Author:** ![ILovCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e99b99/32.png) [@ILovCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ILovCoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/94 "2003-10-28T01:57:16Z")
Limited edition reverse Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups $0.75 at 7-11. Yum! I just say derriere to denote the “sit upon”. ---
**Author:** ![Sqwerticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@Sqwerticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqwerticus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/95 "2003-10-28T02:57:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stimpy \* > \*\*and smeg… watching Red Dwarf in my youth, i adopted this made-up swear word \*\* Umm… smeg is not really a made up swear word. It’s short for smegma. I’ll leave it to you to look it up if you aren’t aware of its meaning.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/96 "2003-10-28T03:56:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\*Really? Weird. For me, growing up in America, the word “knickers” meant knee-length pants. \*\* When I was in high school, I heard from a girl whose family hosted a foreign exchange student (I forget from what country; but from the accent I remember being used when she told me the story, let’s say France) who asked about buying knickers–meaning underpants–and was horrified to be advised that they were out of fashion in America. “You don’t wear _kneeckairs???_” ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/97 "2003-10-28T11:52:32Z")
Muff? ---
**Author:** ![RobertP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@RobertP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobertP)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/98 "2003-10-28T12:21:29Z")
I remember the time I was telling a Brit friend about a girl who failed to show up for our date the night before: “… and I couldn’t believe she just **blew me off** …” my Brit friend wouldn’t speak to me for days after that. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/99 "2003-10-28T19:31:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by owlstretchingtime \* > \*\*Muff? \*\* Yes, dear? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523/100 "2003-10-28T20:25:02Z")
A Britsh friend of mine once told an American that he was “going outside to roll a fag”. Two _very_ different meanings there :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-english-words-the-yanks-dont-get/209523.md?page=6)