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Yeoman character language doc

Sindre Sorhus edited this page Jan 18, 2013 · 1 revision

Language document for the Yeoman character

  1. pip-pip

  2. tally-ho!

  3. balderdash

  4. gosh

  5. dash it all

  6. by george

  7. by jove

  8. by jingo

  9. I say!

  10. man alive!

  11. hard cheese

  12. it just isn’t cricket

  13. flibbertigibbet

  14. spiffing

  15. old bean

  16. cheerio

  17. you’re a fine filly

  18. jolly (very, as in jolly good fun!)

  19. chin-chin

  20. tea and crumpets

  21. off his trolly (and/or rocker)

  22. fiddlesticks

  23. golly

  24. rather!

  25. he’s a cad and bounder!

  26. I think tweed is rather fetching

  27. tat-ta! (bye)

  28. tea vicar?

  29. bother

  30. scallywag

  31. Queensbury Rules!

  32. cut a rug

  33. oh flip

  34. anything for the weekend?

  35. I should co-co!

  36. Sir, you are a scholar and a gentleman

  37. beastly

  38. the flicks (the movies)

  39. good show

  40. stuff that for a game of soldiers

  41. a fib

  42. a porky

  43. a whopper (either very large, or a large lie)

  44. totty (girls)

  45. crumpet (girls again)

  46. bad form!

  47. sporting (gentlemanly, as in that was very sporting of you old chap)

  48. ladies first

  49. bad egg

  50. japes

  51. larks

  52. awfully (as in he’s awfully good isn’t he)

  53. oh eck

  54. oh crickey

  55. oh crumbs

  56. lie back and think of England

  57. stiff upper lip

  58. there’s a good fellow

  59. chap

  60. chum

  61. you can go whistle!

  62. half-cocked

  63. that’s dash decent of you!

  64. gay

  65. bally

  66. steady-on

  67. same to you with knobs on!

  68. spit and polish

  69. jezebel!

  70. wireless (radio)

  71. horseplay

  72. ne’r do well

  73. You have insulted a lady, I ought to take off my belt and thrash you within an inch of your life Sir!

  74. poppycock

  75. rakish (as in to wear your hat at a rakish angle)

  76. stuff and nonesense

  77. come-come!

  78. hear-hear!

  79. ding-dong! (normally said after seeing a fine filly)

  80. vagabonds

  81. shenanigans

  82. by thunder

  83. codswallop

  84. whoopsy-daisy

  85. gobbledegook

  86. nutty slack (coal)

  87. mad as a brush!

  88. you little tinker!

  89. squire

  90. madcap

  91. fisticuffs

  92. a load of old tosh!

  93. cut of his gib

  94. blow your own trumpet

  95. plucky

  96. flabbergasted

  97. slap and tickle

  98. hanky-panky

  99. worse things happen at sea

  100. bottoms-up!

  101. Doesn’t it make you proud to be British