Glossary


Brush up on your Skins lingo with our handy glossary... Q - Z

Quid - one pound sterling

Safe! - signifies agreement; equivalent to "OK!," "Cool!," or "Agreed!"

Shag - to have sex

Shonky - dubious, underhanded (Australian)

Skins - rolling paper used for a joint

Skint - broke, lacking money

Slag - a vulgar term for a promiscuous woman

Slapper - an ugly girl whose priority is to have sex

Snog - to make out or french kiss

Sodding - an intensive, equivalent to "damn" or "f**king"

Sorting out the wheat from the chavs - a play on the idiom "separate the wheat from the chaff" meaning to separate items of high value from items of low value (also see chav)

Spliff - a cigarette rolled with half tobacco and half marijuana

Spliffed - to become high off of marijuana

Stiffy - an erection

Straight away - immediately, right away ("I'm leaving straight away")

Strewth - short for "God's truth"; used to express surprise, similar to "Holy Cow!"

Stroppy - ill-tempered

Tart - an attractive female who seems promiscuous even if she isn't

That's wank - nonsense, rubbish

Tick 'em - to check something off a list as completed

Tip - an untidy mess ("Your room is a tip")

Tit - an extremely stupid person ("Stop being such a tit")

Todger - a penis

Top - fun, good, pleasurable, or pleasing

Tosser - an idiot or a moron; a slang reference to a masturbator

Trump - any sort of action taken which automatically prevails over another (trump card)

Twatty - obnoxious or idiotic

Twisted - confused ("Don't ever get it twisted")

Wanker - a disparaging term for a jerk, idiot, a jerk-off; Literally, one who masturbates

Well turned out - well dressed

Whizzer - great, as in "a great time"

Wonky - Broken, wrong, or awry

Glossary

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