"Mug" likely originated in London with Cockney slang. It means a stupid, often gullible, person who is easily taken advantage ...

Here are 60 British phrases that will confuse anybody ... "Mug" likely originated in London with Cockney slang. It means a stupid, often gullible, person who is easily taken advantage of.

Some terms, like "dim," "a mug," or "a few sandwiches short of a picnic," can be used as colorful insults, while some British slang words like "cheeky" can be either negative or positive ...

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LONDON—Stone the crows, our lingo’s all gone Pete Tong. British slang isn’t what it used to be. American stars might enjoy grappling with the alternate universe of what people say on the ...

Sabrina Carpenter says she loves British profanity and wants Brits to Please, Please, Please use it.She acknowledges that she ...

So I just wanted to communicate with British teenagers and teenage audience. They asked me to cover something about London teenage or London multicultural so-called 'roadman' dialect. For me ...

Francesca, a student at South Thames College, a further education college in Wandsworth, south-west London, says she is allowed to use slang in her lessons. But the idea of a slang ban on students ...