Slangs





Slangs are the expressions which are used in their most informal usages.Slang is language at its most informal, using expressions that many would consider to be grammatically imperfect and sometimes rude. Slang often used within small social groups where it can help draw and keep the group together. It changes very quickly in English.

Cockney Rhyming Slangs are the specialised forms of slangs used in the East of London. This kind of Slang is a kind of antilanguage where words are replaced by phrases that rhyme (sound the same): North and south = mouth Adam and Eve = believe Sometimes, the last word is dropped.

Slangs beginning with F :



F-word : The F-word is a euphemism for fuck.

Face card : (USA) A face card is a hundred dollar bill.

Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp : (UK) Someone who has a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp is very ugly.

Face like a smacked arse : (UK) Someone who has a face like a smacked arse has a miserable expression.

Face-ache : (UK) A 'face-ache' is an ugly person.

Fadge : Fadge is the vagina.

Fag : (USA) A 'fag' or 'faggot' is a gay person, a homosexual.

Fag : (UK) A 'fag' is a cigarette.

Fag stag : A fag stag is a heterosexual male who enjoys the company of gay men.

Fag-hag : A woman who prefers the company of gay men to that of straight men is a fag-hag.

Fair dinkum : (AU) If something is fair dinkum, it is just or deserves approval.

Fanboy : A fanboy is a great fan or enthusiast of something.

Fanny : In American English the fanny is the bottom, but in British English, it is the vagina.

Fart : If you fart, you expel gas through your anus.

Fest : An abbreviation of 'festival', 'fest' can be added to the end of a word to mean 'a huge amount or number'.

Fetch : (UK) If something's fetch, it's good or cool.

Filth : (UK) 'Filth' is a slang term for the police, used as a collective noun, but without a plural marker, with a plural verb: The filth are always patrolling this area.

Fin : (USA) A fin = Five dollars

Firm : (UK) A firm is a criminal gang.

Fit : (UK) A fit person is an attractive person.

Five-finger discount : If someone gets something with a five-finger discount, they steal it.

Flat as arse'oles : (UK) To describe something that is conceptually, not necessarily literally, very flat, in particular a car battery having no remaining electrical charge.

Flid : A flid is a stupid or abnormal person. (It is derived from the drug Thalidomide, which caused many deformities to children whose mothers took the drug when pregnant.)

Flim : (UK) A flim is a five-pound note.

Flog : (UK) If you flog something, you sell it, especially if the sale is unofficial.

Flub : Flub = Fat, Lazy, Useless Bastard.

Fly : (USA) If something is fly, it is cool, good, attractive, etc.

Flyover country : (USA) The central parts of the United States are known as flyover country because many people only see them out of the windows of airplanes.

Folding : (UK) Folding is cash.

For yonks : (UK) If you haven't done something for yonks, you haven't done it for a very long time.

Frag : (USA) To frag is to kill or try to kill a military superior, especially with a grenade or explosion, as a way of tying not to obey their orders.

Freddy : (USA) A freddy is a pint of beer, particularly Heineken.

Freebie : If you get something for free, it is a freebie.

Froggy : (USA) Someone who is froggy is aggressive.

Front : A front is a person with no criminal record who pretends to be in charge of a business that is actually owned by criminals.

Fronting : (USA) If someone pretends to be more important, richer, etc, than they really are, they are fronting.

Frost-top : (USA) A frost-top is an elderly person.

Fry : (USA) To fry someone is to execute them, especially by the electric chair.

Fuck you : This is a way of expressing contempt for someone. 'Fuck you all' can be used for a group of people.

Fugly : If someone is fugly, there are extremely ugly indeed. (It is a portmanteau word from fucking + ugly)

Full-on : (UK) If something is full-on, it is complete or the maximum possible.

Funny farm : (UK) A funny farm is a hospital for people with mental health problems.

Funny money : (UK) Funny money is fake money.

Furry crocodile : (UK) A furry crocodile is a police dog.

Furry exocet : (UK) A furry exocet is a police dog.(An excocet is a type of missile.)

Fuzz : 'Fuzz' is a collective noun for the police.



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