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EL INGLES PROHIBIDO

GLENN DARRAGH

E D I T O R I A LS T A N L E Y

EL INGLES PROHIBIDO

WRITTEN BYGLENN DARRAGH

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Examples of usage were drawn from newspapers and magazines as indicated in the text of thebook, as well as from the following printed sources: Albee, Edward: Who's Afraid of VirginiaWoolf?; Amis, Kingsley:The Green Man, The Old Devils', Amis, Martin: Money, London Fields;Barnes, Julian: Talking it Over; Beckett, Samuel: Molloy; Bender, Aimee: The Girl in theFlammable Skirt; Bennet, William: The Falkland Line; Beretta, Alan: What's Your Game?;Bergreen, Laurence: Louis Armstrong, An Extravagant Life; Bruce, Lenny: The Essential LennyBruce; Bukowski, Charles: Post Office, Factotum, Women, Love is a Dog from Hell; Carlin, Tony:One More Hand; Carrol, James: An American Requiem; Century, Douglas: Street Kingdom;Chandler, Raymond: Farewell, My Lovely; Chanteau, Diane: The Longest Sausage In The World;Chapman, Robert L.: American Slang; Cleese, John: Fawlty Towers; Coe, Jonathan: The Houseof Sleep; Coen, Ethan: Gates of Eden; Cole, Lew: 12465 Kimberland Ave.; Cook, Peter: Beyondthe Fringe; Cornfield, Robert: The Tree Still Grows in Brooklyn; Corsitto, Christopher: NextDoor To Erica; Doughty, W.C.: Charabia Deserta; Edin, Kathryn: Making Ends Meet; Ellroy,James: L.A.Confidential; Fielding, Helen: Bridget Jones's Diary; Garrigan, Bert: Where Sympathyis Found; Gordon, Neil: The Gun Runner's Daughter; Greene, Graham: The End of the Affair;Hall, Willis: The Long and the Short and the Tall; Herlihy, James Leo: Midnight Cowboy; Herron,Shaun: The Whore-Mother; Irving, John: The World According to Garp; Jong, Erica: Any Woman'sBlues; Jonson, Gregory: Mountain Male; Keaton, Norman: Falling Off A Ladder; Laffan, James:Up and Down the Lisburn Road; Larkin, Philip: Collected Poems, Selected Letters; Lawrence,D.H.: Lady Chatterley's Lover; Logan, Roy: Working it Out With a Pencil; Lukowiak, Ken: ASoldier's Song; Mairs, David: Top Drawers; Mamet, David: American Buffalo, Sexual Perversityin Chicago, Duck Variations, Glengarry Glen Ross; Marcus, Tom: River Deep; McCabe, Frank:McCabe at the Movies; McCourt, Malachy: A Monk Swimming; McGrath, John: Events WhileGuarding the Bofors Gun; McPhee, Nancy: The Book of Insults; Miller, Henry: Tropic of Cancer;Newman, G.F.: Law & Order; Nichols, Peter: Privates on Parade; Obst, David: Too Good To BeForgotten; Ogilby, John: Twat and Twaddle; Oldfield, Gabriella T.: Tom and Verna; Orton, Joe(ed. Lahr, John): The Orton Diaries; Osworth, Barry: Upside Down; Palahniuk, Chuck: FightClub; Paretsky, Sarah: Ghost Country; Price, Richard: Three Screenplays, dockers; Rabe, Da-vid: Streamers; Rosen, Charley: Barney Polan's Game; Roth, Philip: Portnoy's Complaint;Schrader, Paul: Taxi Driver; Sounes, Howard: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life; Stone, Robert:Dog Soldiers; Styron, William: Sophie's Choice; Takari, Ronald: A Larger Memory; Tarantino,Quentin: Reservoir Dogs; Thomas, Philip: Rathmines Rag; Vonnegut Jr., Kurt: Mother Night,Slaughterhouse 5, Breakfast of Champions; Wain, John: Life at the Top; Wambaugh, Joseph: TheChoirboys, The Glitter Dome, Echoes in the Darkness; Waugh, Evelyn: Officers and Gentlemen;Whitehead, E. A.: Old Flames, Mecca, The Foursome, Alpha Beta, The Sea Anchor; Wilson, August:Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; Wilson, Robert McLiam: Eureka Street. Hank Hyena, Garrison Keillor,Susie Bright and Courtney Weaver are columnists for Salon.

Illustrative sentences were also taken from the following films: American Beauty: Alan Ball;Animal House: Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Harold Ramis; As Good As It Gets: James L.Brooks; Austin Powers: Mike Meyers; Barton Fink: Joel and Ethan Coen; Beautiful Girls: ScottRosenberg; Blazing Saddles: Mel Brooks and Andrew Bergman; Bound: Larry and AndyWachowski Bull Durham: Ron Shelton; Casino: Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese; ChasingAmy: Kevin Smith; Clerks: Kevin Smith; Cruel Intentions: Roger Kumble; Deconstructing Harry:Woody Allen; Desperados: Robert Rodriguez; Donnie Brasco: Screenplay by Paul Attanasiofrom the book by Joseph D. Pistone and Richard Woodley; Fargo: Joel and Ethan Coen; Fear andLoathing in Las Vegas: Screenplay by Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni, Tod Davies and Alex Coxfrom the book by Hunter S. Thompson; Fisher King, The: Richard LaGravenese; Fried GreenTomatoes: Fannie Flagg and Carol Sobieski; Full Metal Jacket: Gustave Hasford, Michael Herrand Stanley Kubrick from the novel 'The Short Timers' by Gustav Hasford; Gattaca: Andrew M.Niccol; Get Shorty: Screenplay by Scott Frank, based on the novel by Elmore Leonard; GlengarryGlen Ross: David Mamet; Go: John August; Godfather, The: Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppolafrom the novel by Mario Puzo; Good Will Hunting: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck; Goodfellas:Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese; Grand Canyon: Lawrence Kasdan and Meg Kasdan; GreenMile, The: Screenplay by Frank Darabont from the novel by Stephen King; Happiness: ToddSolondz; Jackie Brown: Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, based on the novel by Elmore Leonard;L.A. Confidential: Screenplay by Brian Helgeland from the novel by James Ellroy; Leaving LasVegas: Screenplay by Mike Figgis from the novel by John O'Brien; Lost Highway: David Lynch;My Cousin Vinny: Dale Launer; Night on Earth: Jim Jarmusch; One Flew Over the Cuckoo'sNest: Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben from the novel by Ken Kesey; Patton: Francis FordCoppola and Edmund H. North; Primal Fear: Ann Biderman and Steve Shagan from the novel byWilliam Diehl; Pulp Fiction: Quentin Tarantino and Roger Roberts Avery; Pump Up The Volume:Allan Moyle; Ref, The: Richard LaGravenese and Marie Weiss; Reservoir Dogs: Quentin Tarantino;Scent of A Woman: Bo Goldman, from a screenplay by Ruggero Maccari and Dino Risi, from thenovel by Giovanni Arpino; Shawshank Redemption, The: Screenplay by Frank Darabont from thenovella by Stephen King; Smoke: Auster, Paul; Stripes: Len Blum and Daniel Goldberg; Swimmingwith Sharks: George Huang; Swingers: Jon Favreau; Taxi Driver: Paul Schrader; The BigLebrowski: Joel and Ethan Coen; The Commitments: Dick Clement, Roddy Doyle, Ian La Frenaisfrom the novel by Roddy Doyle; Trainspotting: Screenplay by John Hodge based on the novel byIrvine Welsh; Unforgiven: David Webb Peoples; Very Bad Things: Peter Berg; Wag The Dog:David Mamet; Wild At Heart: David Lynch, based on the book by Barry Gifford.

CONTENTS

1: PARTS OF THE BODY1. A ARSE / ASS -CULO 1

1. B ARSEHOLE, ASSHOLE -ANO 2

1. C COCK -POLLA, VERGA 3

1. D BALLS -HUEVOS, PELOTAS, COJONES 5

1. E CUNT -CONO, CHOCHO 5

1. F CLIT -CLITORIS 7

1. G PUBES -VELLO PUBICO 7

1. H PRIVATE PARTS -PARTES PUDENDAS 8

1. I TITS -TETAS 8

EXERCISE 10

2: BODY FUNCTIONS1. A PISS -MEAR, MEADA 12

2. B SHIT, SHITE -CAGAR, MIERDA 13

2. C FART -PEDO 14

2. D THE SHITS -LA CAGALERA 15

2. E SHIT-HOUSE, SHITE-HOUSE -RETRETE,

CAGADERO 15

2. F BUMF -PAPEL HIGIENICO 16

2. G PUKE -VOMITAR, VOMITONA 17

2. H GOB -ESCUPIR, ESCUPITAJO 18

2. I SNOT -MOCOS 18

2. J COME, CUM -LECHE, SEMEN 19

2. K THE RAG -LA REGLA, EL PERIODO,

COMPRESA 20

EXERCISE 21

3: SEXUAL DESIRE3. A THE HOTS -DESEO 24

3. B HORNY -CALIENTE, CACHONDO 24

3. C CHAT UP -LIGAR, ENRROLLARSE CON 25

3. D FOOL AROUND -TENER ENREDOS 26

3. E STUD -SEMENTAL 28

3. F HARD-ON -ERECCI6N 28

3. G BABE -BOMBON, NINFA 29

3. H A PIECE OF ASS -UN POLVO 30

3. I COCKTEASER -CALIENTAPOLLAS 32

3. J WET DREAM -SUENO HUMEDO 32

EXERCISE 34

4: SEXUAL ACTIVITY4. A GROPE -MAGREAR 36

4. B FUCK -JODER, FOLLAR . . . 37

4. C NOOKY, NOOKIE -POLVOS 39

4. D GANGBANG -VIOLACION COLECTIVA,

SEXO TRIBAL 40

4. E GO DOWN ON SOMEONE -CHUPAR, MAMAR 41

4. F RUBBER -CONDON, GOMA, GLOBO 43

4. G JERK OFF -HACERSE UNA PAJA, PELARSELA . 43

4. H CHERRY -VIRGINIDAD 45

4. I BUGGER -SODOMIZAR, SODOMITA 45

EXERCISE 47

5: SEXUAL TASTES5. A HOMO -MARICA, MARICON 50

5. B DYKE, DIKE -MARIMACHO 52

5. C COTTAGE -LAVABO PUBLICO PARA CITAS

HOMOSEXUALES 53

5. D AMBISEXTROUS -BISEXUAL 53

5. E DRAG QUEEN -TRAVESTI 54

5. F KINKY -PERVERTIDO 55

5. G PRO -PUTA 56

5. H TRICK -PUTERO, PUTANERO 57

5. I WHOREHOUSE -BURDEL, CASA DE PUTAS . . 57

5. J PIMP -CHULO 58

6: UNPLEASANT PEOPLE,THINGS, PLACES, ETC.

6. A BASTARD -CABR6N, HIJO PUTA 61

6. B ARSELICKER -LAMECULOS 64

6. C BITCH -ZORRA, LAGARTA 65

6. D BUMMER -CONAZO, LATAZO 66

6. E CLAP -GONORREA 67

6. F CRUD -PORQUERIA 68

6. G CRUDDY -ASQUEROSO 69

6. H ARSEHOLE OF THE EARTH, ETC

-EL CULO DEL MUNDO 70

6. I IT SUCKS -ES UNA MIERDA 71

EXERCISE 6.1 72

7: INCOMPETENCE, INFERIORQUALITY

10: IDIOMATIC USAGES

7. A FUCK UP -CAGAR, CAGADA, CAPULLO . . . . 74

7. B FUCK ABOUT (AROUND) -PERDER EL

T1EMPO, JODER 74

7. C SNAFU -METEDURA DE PATA, CAGADA . . . . 76

7. D HALF-ARSED, HALF-ASSED -MUY POCO

BRILLANTE 77

7. E SHITTY -DE MIERDA 77

7. F BULLSHIT -SANDECES, GILIPOLLECES . . . . 78

EXERCISE 81

8: EMPHASIS

10. A EXPRESSIONS WITH "FUCK" 10510. B EXPRESSIONS WITH "SHIT" 10710. c EXPRESSIONS WITH "ASS", "ARSE" . . . . 10910. D EXPRESSIONS WITH "BALLS" "BALLOCKS" 11010. E EXPRESSIONS WITH "HELL" 1ll10. F EXPRESSIONS WITH "BITCH" 1ll10. G EXPRESSIONS WITH "BUGGER" 11210. H EXPRESSIONS WITH "PISS" 11210. I EXPRESSIONS WITH "TITS" 11310. J EXPRESSIONS WITH "FINGER" 11310. K EXPRESSIONS WITH "FART" 11310. L EXPRESSIONS WITH "PUSSY" 11410. M EXPRESSIONS WITH "UP" 114

8. A FUCK - A LA MIERDA! 83 10. N EXPRESSIONS WITH "GET" 114

8. B FUCKING -DE MIERDA, PVNETERO 84 EXERCISE 115

8. C FUCKING WELL - CONO!CARAJO! 85

8. D A HELL OF A -SENSACIONAL, DE PADRE KEY To ExERCISES 117

Y SENOR MIO 86 INDEXOFTERMS 125

8. E AS HELL -SUMAMENTE 868. F FOR FUCK'S SAKE - PUTA MADRE!

CARAJO! 878. G THE FUCK -CONO, CARAJO 888. H THE SHIT OUT OF... -SEVERAMENTE 88

EXERCISE 90

9: RACIAL INSULTS9. A WHITEY - EL HOMBREBLANCO! 929. B BRIT -BRITANICO 929. C MICK -IRLANDES 939. D YANK, YANKEE -YANQUI, GIRI 949. E FROG -FRANCHUTE, GABACHO 949. F KRAUT -ALEMAN 959. G KIKE -JUDIO 96

9. H POLACK -POLACO 97

9. I RUSSKIE -RUSO 97

9. J RAGHEAD -ARABE 97

9. K WOP -ITAL1ANO 98

9. L DAGO -ESPANOL, SUDACA 99

9. M GOOK -ASlATICO, CHINO, AMARILO 99

9. N NIGGER -NEGRO 100

9. O AUSSIE -AUSTRALIANO 102

EXERCISE 103

INTRODUCTION

The aim of this book is to teach what is still commonly known as 'bad language'.Depending on the degree to which it is tolerated, it is also described as strong, foul,picturesque, earthy, rough, salty, colourful, naughty, profane, adult, taboo, vulgar, dirty,filthy, low, obscene, and much else besides. Whatever the adjective, the language inquestion consists of a relatively small group of words and expressions that are nevertaught in school, not even in language schools to adult students of English. In that sense,it constitutes a kind of forbidden language or counter-language within the main body ofEnglish. Why this language is not taught in the usual way is simple to explain: itembarrasses, upsets, insults or otherwise offends a great many people. Of course, everynative speaker of English who is more than five years old knows the main swearwords ofthe language. But most people, most of the time, still prefer not to use them. For thisreason alone, second-language learners of English are probably well advised not to usethem either, or at least not until they have become sensitive to the effects they are likelyto produce.

If that is so, why study a book like this at all? In a word: to understand. In the past thirtyyears, language and cultural values have changed considerably. It is little short ofastonishing, given the liberality of language in present-day films, that the first recordeduse of the word 'fuck' in a major commercial movie occurred only in 1970, in RobertAltman's M*A*S*H. Since then, especially in the last decade, Hollywood has discoveredthat bad language is good box office. On television, too, in Britain and also in the UnitedStates outside the expletive-free national networks, swearing is now commonplace anduncontroversial. The same is true of the printed word. Not only in books but in nationalnewspapers and magazines, words now frequently appear which only a generation ortwo ago would have earned their authors a mouthful of soap. Everywhere, the electronicbleeps and the blanks and asterisks which formerly protected the innocent have been puton the shelf. Some speculate that within ten or fifteen years, the dreaded f-word itselfwill be wholly acceptable, even for children.

It would not be the first time some illicit term were to gain respectability. The expression'it sucks', used to refer to things of inferior quality, originally had direct connotationsof oral sex. The noun 'snafu', meaning a bungled or confused situation, began asmilitary slang, an acronym for 'situation normal, all fucked up'. The word 'gay', nowthe usual term for a homosexual, was originally American tramps' slang for the homo-sexual companion of an older vagrant. Many such words have migrated, at least partly,towards standard English in recent years. As films, television, books, magazines andthe Internet propagate the once-censored vocabulary, the trend is likely to continue. Inthe meantime, however, students of English as a foreign language now more than everneed some kind of guide to this blossoming branch of the language.

The present book, designed for students who have already attained a good level ofgeneral English, may be used as both a reference guide and an instruction manual.Each chapter deals with a particular aspect of taboo language. Chapter 1, for example,lists basic slang words, all considered vulgar, for intimate parts of the body: arse,arsehole, cock, balls, cunt, clit, tits, etc. A separate section within each chapter isdevoted to each of these basic terms, with numerous examples of usage drawn from awide range of contemporary sources, principally films and novels, but also plays,diaries, letters, newspapers, magazines, and so on. Each section also lists synonymsfor these basic words or other terms related to them, again with numerous examples.Thus, in Chapter 1, section l.c deals with 'cock', giving seventeen common synonyms.When words or expressions are used mainly or exclusively in a particular part of theEnglish-speaking world, then this is indicated in brackets, as follows:

dong (US) • I was wholly incapable of keeping my paws from my dong onceit started to climb up my belly. (Philip Roth)

When there is no such annotation, the word is used or understood by English-speakerseverywhere. Where examples are drawn from printed sources, the name of the authoror journal is shown in brackets after the quotation. If, as is frequently the case, thesource is a film, then the title of the film is shown italicised and in brackets after thequotation, thus:

dick • I would suck your dad's big fat dick, and then I would fuck him tillhis eyes rolled back in his head! (American Beauty)

An answer key to the exercises is provided at the end of the book, along with an indexto all the words and expressions listed and exemplified in the text.

Finally, it is worth repeating the warning given above. Most of the words and phrasespresented in this book are offensive to someone. A small number of inoffensive andeuphemistic terms have crept into the text when their presence seemed justified byconsiderations of completeness, and such terms are signalled when they occur. But thevast majority are offensive (particularly the racist terms dealt with in Chapter 9). If, asthe examples prove, you can scarcely hope to understand much of modern culture withouta basic knowledge of 'bad language', you still ought not to use it in front of children,mothers, maiden aunts, clergymen, policemen, judges, or other sensitive souls. Noteven when they are using it in front of you.

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1. PARTS OF THE BODY1. a arse / ass -culoAn Old English word, arse is mainly British while ass is mainly American. Similarly with derivativewords: arsehole, arselicker, etc. are British, while asshole, ass-kisser, etc. are American. Exceptionsdo occur, however. For example, at the start of the Gulf War in 1991, no less an American than GeorgeBush, then President, declared: 'Saddam is going to get his arse kicked'.

• What she reminds me of is those girls yousee prancing up and down the King's Road infaded jeans with tight little arses and bobbingtits. (E.A. Whitehead)• The slut got up and started to play pinball,wiggling her ass to help the balls move around.(Charles Bukowski)» He suffered —did he suffer!— from constipa-tion... my father reading the evening paper witha suppository up his ass. (Philip Roth)• The truth is that I've had a long-standingproblem with heroin addiction. I've beenknown to sniff it, smoke it, swallow it, stick itup my arse and inject it into my veins.(Trainspotting')• Her ass was still shapely as were her legsand she had a seductive wiggle when shewalked. (Charles Bukowski)

• Me recuerda a una de esas chicas que se venpor King's Road en vaqueros desgastados me-neando sus culitos prietos y tetas balan-ceantes.• La putilla se levanto y se puso a jugar alpinball, meneando el culo para acompanarelmovimiento de las bolas.• Sufria — Vaya si sufria! — de estreftimien-to... mi padre leyendo el periodico vespertinocon un supositorio en el culo.• La verdad es que he tenido un problema des-de hace mucho con la heroina. He tenidoocasion de esnifarla, tragarla, metermela porel culo e inyectaimela por las venas.

• Su culo todavia mantenia una buena Imea,igual que sus piernas, y cuando andaba teniaun contoneo de lo mas seductor.

SYNONYMS:

backside • They sat around ontheir backsides day after day,drinking tea and doing nothing,except complaining, of course.(Norman Keaton) • I 've gotfrost-bite. The ten fingers of myhands, the ten toes of my feet,and the two cheeks of my back-side. If I stay out there oneminute longer, I'll have a frost-bitten cock. (John McGrath)beam Especially used to referto the width of the hips and but-tocks. • She's a nice-lookingwoman. A bit broad across thebeam, it's true, but a nice lookerjust the same. (James Laffan)behind Euphemistic. • What doyou mean 'sexual harassment'?

It was just a friendly little paton the behind. (David Mairs)• These rich cunts... wheneverthey want to lower their softbehinds, there's always a chairs tanding ready for them.(Henry Miller)bottom Euphemistic. • — Youknow, you've got a lovely bottom.— Oh, you've noticed? — Onlyit takes up half the mattress. (E.A.Whitehead)bum (UK) • .—'Where shall Isit'? — 'Sit on your bum, mate.That's what I would do'. (TomMarcus) • Have no fear, I am notdead: I've bumped my bum andI've hurt my head. How's that?(John McGrath) • Give me time.Give me time. You bastardswon't give me time to scratch

me bum. (John McGrath)buns (US) From the hemi-spherical shape of the buttocks.• OK, guys, hustle your buns —we've got a lot of work to do.(Christopher Corsitto) • I wasgiven a cat-o'-nine-tails andasked if I wanted to participate.A man's buttocks were bared be-fore me — a young man, youngand handsome, with firm buns— and I began to flog him.(Erica Jong)butt (US) From buttocks. • Sheslipped on the ice and fell hardon her butt. (Daniel Ogg) • Canany of us honestly say we havenot wondered what our ancestorswiped their butts with in the ab-sence of toilet paper? (Salon)• Can your marriage survive

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when you can't stand the sightof his ever-widening butt layingon the couch? (Salon) • Womenare cursed with big butt phobia.(Salon)can (US) • It was a bad case ofhaemorrhoids. He could hardlysit down, his can was hurtinghim so much. (James Laffan)• Monica Lewinsky seduced themost powerful man in the worldwith a flash of her thong-cladcan. Why is this unmentionablegarment so sexy? (Salon)cheeks Used especially to referto the two halves of the buttocks.• She started cleaning at the sink.As she bent over ... I saw twocheeks. Two cheeks. Mama mia!An ass from out of this world.With tiny white panties, ridingup a little so you could see onewhole cheek. The other waspartly covered. (Night on Earth)

fanny (US) Relatively inoffen-sive in the US, but taboo in theUK, where it has a differentmeaning. See l.e below. • I hateusing an outside john. In sum-mer the flies are swarming allover you, in winter you freezeyour fanny off. (Gregory Jonson)• Was it nature or nurture thatsent me, from an early age,into fits at the sight of theword 'toilet', or had me roll-ing on the floor at the thoughtthat a girl could be named'Fanny'? Half of my relativesdo not think bathroom humoris funny. (Salon)keister (US) • So much confi-dential information was beingleaked to the press that PresidentRonald Reagan finally lost pa-tience. 'I've had it up to mykeister with these leaks,' he de-clared. (Newsweek)

khyber, Khyber Pass (UK)Rhyming slang of pass and assor arse. • He needs a good kickup the khyber is what he needs.(Alan Beretta)rear Euphemistic. • And if thekiddies misbehave, don't beafraid to give them a slap on therear. (Daily Mirror)tail (US) Often used in figura-tive phrases like work one's tailoff, run one's tail off. • Don'tyou understand? If you don't doit, they're going to toss you outon your tail. (Lew Cole) • Thisis the first time you've had yourtail out of that kitchen since wegot here. (William Faulkner) • Iwalked out, the old car startedand soon I was back in bed withBetty. I pushed up against herwarm tail and was asleep in 45seconds. (Charles Bukowski)

1. b arsehole, asshole -ano

• What's wrong with assholes, baby? You'vegot an asshole, I've got an asshole... The worldis full of billions of assholes, the Presidenthas an asshole, the carwash boy has anasshole, the judge and the murderer haveassholes. (Charles Bukowski)• There were thousands upon thousands ofpeople who bought bad chemicals and atethem or sniffed them or injected them into theirveins... Sometimes they even stuffed badchemicals up their assholes. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

* Around the toilet seat was a band of paper...This loop of paper guaranteed Dwayne thathe need have no fear that corkscrew-shapedlittle animals would crawl up his asshole andeat up his wiring. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)* I wouldn't go near that pool if you paid me— it is a breeding ground for polio and spinalmeningitis, not to mention diseases of the skin,the scalp, and the asshole. (Philip Roth)

• Que tienen de malo los anos, nena? Tu tie-nes un ano, yo tengo un ano!... El mundo estarepleto de millones de anos. El presidente tie-ne un ano, el lavacoches tiene un ano, el juezy el asesino tienen anos.

• Habia miles y miles de personas que com-praban sustancias quimicas nocivas y se lascomian o las esnifaban o se las inyectaban enlas venas... A veces, incluso se metian lassustancias quimicas nocivas por el agujerodel culo.• Alrededor del retrete habia una banda de pa-pel... Aquella banda de papel le garantizaba aDwayne que no tenia por que temer que ningiunbichito con forma de sacacorchos fuera ametersele por el culo y a comerle sus cables.• Yo no me acercaria a esa piscina ni aunqueme pagaran; es un caldo de cultivo de la polioy la meningitis espinal, por no hablar de lasenfermedades de la piel, el cuero cabelludo yel ano.

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SYNONYMS: Bend over and show me thatround brown. I gotta see if

round brown • Turn around and you're hiding a machine gun inbend over and spread your cheeks, there. (Joseph Wambaugh) •••

1. c cock -polla, verga

* My husband had this big cock and that's allhe had. He had no personality. Just a big cock,and he thought that was all he needed. (Char-les Bukowski)* She had my cock in her hand, playing withit, rubbing it. (Henry Miller)* She came out with her drink, sat on my lap,kissed me, putting her tongue into my mouth.My cock leaped up against her firm bottom.I grabbed a handful. Squeezed. (CharlesBukowski)

• Mi marido tenia una polla enorme, pero eralo unico que tenia. No tenia personalidad. Solouna enorme polla y pensaba que era lo unicoque habia que tener.• Tenia mi polla en su mano, jugando con ella,frotandola.• Salio con su copa y se sento en mi regazo,me beso, metiendome la lengua en la boca.Mi polla se puso como una roca al contactode su firme trasero. Se lo agarre". Aprete".

SYNONYMS:

All the following terms are taboo. In context, however, some may seem more comical than others.Some — e.g. peter, Johnson and willy — would be more likely to be used by, and with, children.

chopper • Men who drive carslike that subconsciously believethey've found an extension oftheir chopper — sleek, power-ful, irresistible. (Gabriella T.Oldfield)• I know what it's like whenyou're young. The pressure to bea big strong man. I went throughall that. My father thought theultimate in masculinity was tostick your chopper into anythingthat wore a skirt. (Peter Nichols)dick • Hey, listen, I want some-body good — and I mean verygood — to plant that gun. I don'twant my brother coming out ofthat toilet with just his dick inhis hands. (The Godfather)• 'Like a Virgin' is all about agirl who digs a guy with a bigdick. The whole song is a meta-phor for big dicks. (Reservoir

Dogs) • I do not take short menseriously. If they're my height,maybe. But I look at a short manand I think Big Ego, Small Dick.Is that so terrible? (CourtneyWeaver) • I would suck yourdad's big fat dick, and then Iwould fuck him till his eyesrolled back in his head! (Ameri-can Beauty)dipstick From the dipstick of acar. • He accepted her invitationwith high, alas soon-to-be-dis-appointed, hopes of soon gettinghis dipstick wet. (Alan Beretta)dong (US) • I was wholly inca-pable of keeping my paws frommy dong once it started to climbup my belly. (Philip Roth)• — What do you call it in theSouth? — Sometimes we call ita pecker. In parts of the upperSouth they call it a dong or a

tool. Or a peter. — I've heardNathan call it his dork. Also, hisputz. (William Styron)dork (US) Perhaps a variantof dirk, a dagger. • He had thegreat bulging muscles of abody-builder but this strangelycontradictory modest l i t t ledork. (Gabriella T. Oldfield).• What strength she has storedin that slender frame — theglorious acrobatics she canperform while dangling fromthe end of my dork! (PhilipRoth)John Thomas Arbitrary use ofa male name. • 'John Thomas!John Thomas!' she said and shequickly kissed the soft penis,that was beginning to stir again.(D.H. Lawrence) • If you get anytrouble with them, funny busi-ness in the ablutions, admiring


your John Thomas, any of that,have a word with me. (PeterNichols) • Poor old John Thomasis as limp and as moribund as aflayed worm. (William Styron)Johnson Arbitrary use of thesurname Johnson. • Tomorrowvee come back and cut off yourchonson... Ja, your viggly penis,Lebowski. (The Big Lebowski)• Vagina. The word i tselfmakes some men uncomfort-able. They don't like hearingit and find it difficult to say.Whereas without batting aneye a man will refer to his'dick' or his ' rod ' or his'Johnson'. (The Big Lebowski)joint (US) • One of thosemotherfuckers grabbed mewhen I was Bobby's age. At themovies... we're all wonderingwhat this old guy is doing atthe cartoons, and he sits downat the end of the row, and half-way through he reaches overand grabs my joint. Reachesover another guy and grabs meby the joint. (David Mamet)• Hey, Joe. You been kissingAnastasia, you better go swal-low a drugstore and I ain't kid-ding. She's copped every jointin Albuquerque. (James LeoHerlihy)pecker (US) • When he wasasleep, I couldn't restrain my-self any longer. I careful lypeeled back the sheet to peekat his pecker. (Gabriella T.Oldfield)• All she done was... when sheseen he had a teensy l i t t lepecker, she gave a giggle.That's all. She didn't know nobetter. (Unforgiven) • Youstake a guy out on an anthillin the desert, see? He's facing

upward, and you put honey allover his balls and pecker, andyou cut off his eyelids so hehas to stare at the sun till hedies. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)peter From the male forenameand the association with pee,urine. • This guy goes to thedoctor. He says, 'Doc, I've gotthis terrible pain in my peter'.(Tom Marcus) • Do you suckdicks? Are you a peter-puffer?(Full Metal Jacket) • No lip-stick on the glass? Baby, doyou think you have any lipstickleft on your mouth after threeor four of those flossy fatcatsfrom Brentwood with thoselimp little peters make yousuck your eyes crossed?(Joseph Wambaugh)prick • You need somethingto make that beautiful ass ofyours gyrate with joy, a bigstiff prick rammed into thatcunt you've got locked up...(William Styron) • The ad inRolling Stone is certainly eye-catching — the words 'WhyWomen Love a Small Prick',appearing opposite a bedroom-eyed model in lingerie. Butread the fine print — it's apitch for a home HIV test, andthe prick in question is thekind made on a finger to getthe blood sample. (Salon)putz (US) Yiddish, from Mid-dle High German putz, orna-ments. Properly, the foreskinof a penis after it has been re-moved, but generally appliedto the penis as a whole. • Thissex maniac! He simply cannot— will not — control the firesin his putz, the fevers in hisbrain... (Philip Roth)schlong, shlong (US) Yiddish.

• Schlong: the word somehowcatches exactly the brutishness,the meatishness, that I admireso, the sheer mindless, weighty,and unselfconscious dangle ofthat living piece of hose throughwhich he passes streams of wa-ter as thick and strong as rope.(Philip Roth) • 'I see you'rechecking out my shlong, 'Wayne says. 'Yep.' 'And...?''Frankly, I'm underwhelmed.'(Erica Jong)tool • He allowed me to have theprick between the buttocks,which, as I fucked, he agitatedin a most alarming way. At thispoint I put my hand under himand took his medium-to-largetool in my hand. (Joe Orton)wang (US) He was lying onhis back. His ankles werecrossed. His hands were foldedbehind his head. His greatwang lay across his thigh likea salami. It slumbered now.(Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)whang, whanger (US) • Hisright eye was closed, the lefteye nearly so. He was unawareof her fondl ing his f laccidwhanger. (Joseph Wambaugh)• — Absence makes the cockgrow harder. — Stop it withyour fortune cookie philosophy!I got a limber whang. I don't getstraight I might as well becomea priest! (Joseph Wambaugh)• 'Oh, honey!' cried the whore.'You got balls like an elephantand a whang like an ox! '(Joseph Wambaugh)willy (UK) Some drunkard wascaterwauling in the street. 'Willyou still love me when I'm oldand grey and the tip of my willyturns blue?' (James Laffan)


1. d balls -huevos, pelotas, cojones

• Then I felt something jamming its way intoMy -crotch. It moved way up there, I lookedround and there was a German Shepherd, full-grownt, with his nose half-way up my ass. With

one snap of his jaws he could rip off my balls.(Charles Bukowski). 'For an ugly old son of a bitch, you've got alot of balls,' She said. (Charles Bukowski). Tammie had her head in Bobby's lap and shehad her hand on his balls and then she movedit up and grabbed his cock and held his cock,and alt the time her eyes looked directly atme. (Charles Bokowski)

. Entonces senti algo que me hurgaba en laentrepierna, iba subiendo hacia arriba. Mevolvi y vi un pastor aleman, Wen crecido,con su hocico debajo de mi culo. Con unmovimiento de mandibulas me podia arran-car las pelotas.* —Para ser un feo hijo de puta tienes mu-chos cojones —-dijo ella.* Tammie tenia su cabeza en el regazo deBobby y tenia la mano puesta en sus huevos,luego la subi6 y agarro su polla, sosteniendo-la, y en todo momento sus ojos me mirabandirectamente.

SYNONYMS:

ballocks From Old Englishbealluc, testicle. • He's not par-ticularly sophisticated. Seems tospend a lot of time publiclyscratching his ballocks. (JamesLaffan) • It was in the 18th cen-tury that some of our rude wordsfirst became so. 'Ballocks', for in-stance, was, from the llth cen-tury, simply the usual term for'testicles' (the reassuringly Lati-nate term that is now acceptable),but somehow, by 1800, becameimproper. (Guardian)cobblers (UK) Rhyming slang of

cobbler's awls and balls. • Givehim a swift kick in the cobblers,then run like hell. (Alan Beretta)goolies Apparently derived fromHindustani gol, a ball. • They'lldo what we want because theydon't have any choice. We havethem by the goolies and they knowit. (David Bellis)knackers (UK) • The absurdityof it all struck me like a fist in theknackers. (Philip Larkin) • I mayregret him for a while tonight. Hisknackers were superb. (GrahamGreene)marbles • You touch my stuff,you get a boot in your marbles.

(Peter Nichols)nuts • Lyndon Johnson was cyni-cal about schemes to win thehearts and minds of the Vietnam-ese. His philosophy was: Grabthem by the nuts, their hearts andminds will follow. (Newsweek)• Nigel St Claire didn't knowbowling balls from elephant'snuts, for chrissake! (JosephWambaugh)stones Originally in standard use,but now slang. • As my old un-armed combat instructor used tosay: a boot in the stones is worthtwo in the teeth any day of theweek. (William Bennet)

* And what about the Irish girl? She was inand out of her chalet every half hoar with adifferent bloke. She must have a cunt likeHeathrow Airport. (E.A. Whitehead)* O Tania, where now is that warm cunt ofyours, those fat, heavy garters, those soft,bulging thighs? There is a bone in my pricksix inches long, I will ream out every wrinklein your cunt, Tania, big with seed. (Henry

* Y que me dices de la chica iriandesa? Entra-ba y salia de su chalet cada media hora conun tipo diferente, Debia de tener un cono comoel aeropuerto de Heathrow.• Oh, Tania! Donde estara ahora aquel cali-do cono tuyo, aquellas gruesas y pesadas li-gas, aquellos muslos suaves y turgentes?Tengo un hueso en la picha de quince centi-metros, Voy a alisarte todas las arrugas delcono. Tania inundandote de esperma.


• Amazing! Astonishing! Still can't get overthe fantastic idea that when you are lookingat a girl, you are looking at somebody who isguaranteed to have on her — a cunt! They allhave cunts! Right under their dresses! Cunts— for fucking! (Philip Roth)• I placed her hand on my cock and then pulledup her nightie. I began to play with her cunt.The clit came out and I touched it gently againand again. Finally, I mounted. My cock enteredhalfway. It was very tight. (Charles Bukowski)

• Sorprendente! jAsombroso! Todavia no pue-des admitir la fantastica idea de que, cuanddestas mirando a una chica, estas mirando a al-guien que, sin la menor duda, posee... un cono!jTodas tienen cono! jDebajo mismo de susvestidos! Conos... jpara joder!• Puse su mano en mi verga y luego le sub! elcamison. Empece a jugar con su cono. Se eri-gid el clitoris y lo acaricie con ternura, una yotra vez. Finalmente, la monte. Mi verga en-tr6 hasta la mitad. Su cono era muy estrecho.

SYNONYMS:

beaver • The expression wasfirst used by news photogra-phers, who often got to see upwomen's skirts at accidents andsporting events and from under-neath fire escapes and so on.They needed a code word to yellto other newsmen and friendlypolicemen and firemen and soon, to let them know what couldbe seen, in case they wanted tosee it. The word was this: 'Bea-ver!' (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) • Shemight have been fifteen, butwhen you get that little red bea-ver right up there in front ofyou... no man alive could resistthat. (One Flew Over the Cuck-oo's Nest)box • She was wearing toreadorpants so tight you could almostsee the crack of her box. (JosephWambaugh) • The chief lookedat Mrs Billings spread-eagled onthe bed... 'Damn, she's got ahairy box!' Chief Lynch whis-tled. (Joseph Wambaugh)fanny (UK) Not the same mean-ing as in the US. See l.a above.• She had her dress hiked up andshe wasn't wearing any knick-ers. I could see her fanny as

clear as daylight. (Alan Beretta)minge • How d'you fancy atouch of Black Velvet? OldSylvia now? She's a good sort.Clever too. They reckon she cansmoke a cheroot in her minge.(Peter Nichols)pootie Corruption of pussy.• She's quite cute, you know.Young supple breasts, a tightfirm ass, and an unchartedpootie. (Cruel Intentions)pussy (US) Possibly from OldNorse puss, meaning a pocket orpouch. • What are you talkingabout? You walk out with thosefuckin' creeps and low-lifes anddegenerates out on the streetsand you sell your little pussy fornothing. For some low-life pimpwho stands in the hall? And I'msquare? You're the one that'ssquare. (Taxi Driver)slit • Oh, thou evil-smelling Slit/ But half an inch removed fromshit! / How can men wallow inthy piss / And call it everlastingbliss? (Robert Burns) • His cockwas out, large, purple, ugly...Martin heard the boys' voicessaying, 'Look! Look! He's gotthat big thing and he's trying tostick that big thing into her slit!'(Charles Bukowski)

snatch • Sharon Stone crossedher legs and flashed some snatch— about one tenth of a second'sworth — and was instantlyworld-famous. (Frank McCabe)• What word to use? 'Pussy' wason the tip of my tongue. But per-haps he found that offensive.Cunt? No, that was worse.Snatch? Beaver? Hole? No, no,and no. Plain old vagina? No, hewasn't my gynecologist. Isighed. (Courtney Weaver)twat • He would sit in the darkfor hours on end rememberingher pendulous tits, her steamingtwat. Men are more sentimentalthan women. (John Ogilby) • Aman! That was what she craved.A man with something betweenhis legs that could tickle her,that could make her writhe in ec-stasy, make her grab that bushytwat of hers with both hands andrub it joyful ly, boastfully,proudly, with a sense of connec-tion, a sense of life. (HenryMiller)• His blue eyes crossed andbulged from the meticulousmaddening scrutiny of thegolden twat of his beloved.(Joseph Wambaugh)


1. f clit -clitoris• Now, look, I want to show you something— the clit. It's where the feeling is. The clithides, you see, it comes out when it's excitedenough. It's pink and very sensitive. You onlyhave to touch it with the tip of your tongue.(Charles Bukowski)• I rubbed a finger along her cunt. Soon it gotwet and began to open. I put my finger inside.Then I pulled it out and rubbed the clit. (Char-les Bukowski)• I blossomed and Elmore sulked. Less andless was his tongue felt on my clit or his cockon my buttocks. (Erica Jong)

• Atento, quiero ensenarte algo — el clitoris.Es el punto sensible. El clitoris se esconde,ves?, y sale cuando hay suficiente excitacion.

Es rosado y muy sensible. Solo has de rozarlocon la punta de la lengua.

• Pase un dedo por su cono, pronto se hume-deci6 y empezo a abrirse. Meti el dedo den-tro, luego lo saque y frote el clitoris.

• Madure y Elmore se puso de mal humor. Cadavez con menor frecuencia era sentia su lenguaen mi clitoris o su polla sobre mis nalgas.

SYNONYMS:fun pimple When I take the tipof my tongue and wiggle it against

my Mary Louise's little fun pim-ple, she rises two feet off the bed.(Reservoir Dogs)

1. g pubes -vello pubicoNot an obscene or even a slang term, pubes has nevertheless acquired taboo connotations, by associationwith contexts like those which follow:

• Nick went down and spread Linda's legs. Herpubes were long and twisted and tangled.(John Ogilby)• Her pubes were the same colour as the hairon her head: red, like fire. (Charles Bukowski)• I wanted for her to put my cock in her cunt,but she just kept rubbing. Her pubes began toirritate my cock. I pulled away. (James Laffan)

• Nick se inclino y abrio las piernas de Lin-da. Los pelos de su cono eran largos, riza-dos y enredados.• Su vello pubico era del mismo color que elde su cabeza: rojo, como el fuego.• Espere que la metiera dentro, pero ella si-gui6 frotando. Su vello empez6 a irritarme lapolla. Abandon6.

SYNONYMS:

bush • It was a bush shot. Youcould see the pubic hair but notthe sex parts. (John Irving) • Im-plants, calogen, plastics, cappedteeth, the fat sucked out, the hairextended, the nose fixed, the bushshaved — these are not real wo-men, alright? (Beautiful Girls)muff From the alleged resem-

blance between the pubic hair anda fur muff. • Then he tells me heburied his head in her muff.(Henry Miller)snatch-hair • Know what I didwhen I was fifteen? Sent a lockof my snatch-hair off in an en-velope to Marlon Brando.Prick d idn ' t even have thecourtesy to acknowledge re-ceipt. (Philip Roth)

thatch • Arabs don't like womenwith too much thatch, in factthey tend to like them clean-shaven. (W.C. Doughty) • Hefound that Foxy Farrell madehim itch all over — to throw herdown and bury his face in theburnished thatch of pubic hairwhich had been shaved to theshape of a heart. (JosephWambaugh)


1. h private parts -partes pudendas

. 'Look,' I said, once we were out of the store,'a little shopping advice; when you go off todo something so very simple as exchangingmoney for goods, it isn't necessary to flashyour snatch at everyone this side of thehorizon. Okay?' 'Flash what? Who flashedanything?' 'You, Mary Jane! Your supposedlyprivate parts!' (Philip Roth)

• —Mira —dije, una vez que salimos de latienda—, permiteme un consejo: cuando va-yas a hacer algo tan sencillo como cambiardinero por una mercancia, no es necesario quele ensenes el cono a todo el mundo. De acuer-do? — Ensenar que? Quien ha ensenadonada? —jTu, Mary Jane! Tus supuestas par-tes intimas!

SYNONYMS:

privates • The most playfulvariation is Barbara Aselmeier's.Her screen boasts a dozen iden-tical snapshots of a bearded,

burly man. In each instance, heis naked but for a computer icon,a space-age fig leaf, covering hisprivates. (New York Times)• The dancer wiped the blackman's glasses on what the Vice

Squad would have called her'privates'. (Ed McBain)parts Lydia was probably kiss-ing some son of a bitch rightnow, or worse, kissing his parts.(Charles Bukowski)

1. i tits -tetas

• — Do you miss having tits? — To becompletely frank with you, that is the stupidestquestion I ever heard. What man in his rightmind would want tits? (David Mamet)• As we kissed I reached down into her blouse.I found a tit and cupped my hand on it androlled it around. She wasn't wearing a bra.(Charles Bukowski)« He was still sucking Laura's tits, going fromone to the other. Her nipples were erect.(James Laffan)• I mean, think about it. I have big tits. Is thatthe only reason he was interested in me? It makesme rethink this entire relationship — did I evenknow this guy? (Courtney Weaver)• She was a bit fat. Her tits were very largebut they sagged a lot. (John Ogilby)• She was all tits and ass. (Lenny Bruce)• She was on the bed with only her panties on.One hand was covering her eyes. Her titslooked good. (James Laffan)

• — Echas de menos tener tetas? — Para sertecompletamente sincero, esa es la pregunta masestupida que he oido. Que hombre en su sanojuicio querria tetas?• Mientras nos besabamos me adentre en sublusa. Encontre una teta y la abarque con mimano acariciandola. No llevaba sosten.

• Todavia estaba chupando los pechos deLaura, pasando del uno al otro. Los pezonesestaban duros.• Piensatelo. Tengo tetas grandes. i,Es esa launica raz6n por la que se intereso en mi? Mehace replantearme toda esta relacidn — lle-gue a conocer a este tipo?• Estaba un poco gorda. Sus tetas eran muygrandes, pero le caian flaceidas.• Era todo tetas y culo.• Estaba en la cama solo con las bragas pues-tas. Tenia un brazo tapandose los ojos. Sustetas tenian buena pinta.


SYNONYMS:

bazooms (US) From a comicmispronunciation of bosom. • Itwas another case of Bio-EnergeticBreast Cream for South Beachbazooms. (Elmore Leonard)boobs • Pulling one of her boobsout of her bra, she enquired,'Anyone like a l i t t le moremilk.' (Philip Thomas) • I'vebeen baby-sitting since I wasten, I've got almost three thou-sand dollars. I was saving itfor a boob job. But my tits canwait. (American Beauty) • Healso recognizes how the pres-sure to prove his masculinitydrove him to objectify girls. 'Itreated my girlfriends reallybad,' he says. 'I admit it. I was

like, Oh, there ' s a pair ofboobs, I'll go stand next to it.I think I'll go talk to it.' (NewYork Times)bristols (UK) Rhyming slang ofBristol City, a football club, andtitty. • Her full and shapelybristols bobbled up and down asshe ran. (Alan Beretta)jugs Perhaps from the associa-tion with milk jug. • Her bunsand jugs filled her bikini to over-flowing. (John Ogilby)knockers From the notion ofpendulous breasts knocking to-gether. • The good news is thatGloria has a pretty nice set ofknockers, all right. And dyna-mite legs. And she ain't got noballs. The bad news is, she ain'thad her second operation yet.

She still has her dick! (JosephWambaugh) • I have a feeling allmodern men are like this. Theyspout the lines, but then in theface of some luscious knockers,they revert back to little boyswho haven't gotten enough ofthat X-rated feeling. How can Itrust any of 'em? (CourtneyWeaver)melons • If Demi Moore wantsto fill her melons up with sili-con, it's ok. with me, but don'texpect me to admire them.(New York Times) • Why baby,I did it all for you. I thoughtyou'd like it sweetheart... Why,I thought you'd get all excited...sort of heave and pant and comerunning at me, your melonsbobbling. (Edward Albee)


EXERCISE 1.1

In each of the following lists, all the words are synonymous except one. Spot the odd man out andexplain why the word in question is misplaced.

1. (a) twat (b) putz (c) slit (d) pussy (e) box (f) snatch2. (a) joint (b) tool (c) dick (d) prick (e) beaver (f) pecker3. (a) nuts (b) ballocks (c) pubes (d) stones (e) cobblers (f) goolies4. (a) privates (b) jugs (c) melons (d) bristols (e) knockers (f) boobs5. (a) tail (b) bum (c) beam (d) bush (e) butt (f) rear

EXERCISE 1.2

Here are some less common slang terms for the various parts of the body dealt with in this chapter.Try to identify the part of the body to which each group of synonyms refers.

1. assets, bangers, bazongas, ba-zookas, billibongs, bombers,bouncers, bubbas,butterballs, cantaloupes,charlies, gazongas, goombas,hooters, howitzers,kalamazoos, lactoids,nancies, palookas, patooties,peaches, torpedoes, water-melons, wobblers, woofers,zeppelins, zingers

2. cherry picker, yard, knob,poker, doodle, snake, needle,pego, machine, dingus, organ,

micky, middle leg, tube, pen-cil, dingdong, sausage,plonker, winkle, stalk, rig,ding-a-ling, prong, tonk, shaft,candle, joy stick, reamer, tick-ler, wazoo, wire, yang

3. bearded clam, hair pie, ace ofspades, bull's eye, bunny,button hole, cleft, cockpit,cookie, cranny, crease,cunny, front window,furburger, honey-pot, key-hole, Lady Jane, meatgrinder, nest, niche, nook,

oyster catcher, patch, oven,poor man's blessing, quiff,quim, quiver, slot, snapper,steam room, tunnel,twitcher, vertical smile

4. chooms, bangers, cherries,clangers, danglers, eggs,jewels, marbles, onions,plums, pounders, swingers,knackers, pills, rocks

5. prat, moon, rass, rear, duff,jacksy, tochus, bim, slats,quoit, chuff, zatch, bronze,tush, acre, heinie

EXERCISE 1.3

Translate the following sentences into English.

1. Empece a frotar mi polla contra su vientre. Me aparto de un empujon. 2. Empece a jugar con su cono. Se erigioel clitoris y lo acaricie con ternura. 3. Mi marido no tenia personalidad, solo una enorme polla. 4. No te quedesahi tocandote las narices, haz algo. 5. Me picaba el ano pero habia demasiada gente y no podia rascarmelo. 6.Tetas y culo. Lo unico que le importa son las tetas y el culo. 7. Nos metimos debajo de las sabanas y empece ajugar con sus partes. 8. Con un movimiento de mandlbulas el perro podia arrancarme las pelotas. 9. Me picabael escroto. El picor se fue haciendo insoportable. Segui caminando y rascandome los cojones. 10. A veces semetian las sustancias quimicas nocivas por el agujero del culo. 11. Las chicas no tenian tetas y sus traseros eranpequenitos. 12. Los pelos de su cono eran largos, rizados y enredados. 13. Se sento en mi regazo y me beso. Mipolla se puso como una roca en contacto con su firme trasero. 14. Hay que darle una buena patada para que seponga en movimiento. 15. Pase un dedo por su cono, pronto se humedecio y se abrio. Meti el dedo dentro. 16.Se me fue el pie y me cai de culo. 17. Tenia miedo de las enfermedades de la piel, el cuero cabelludo y el ano. 18.Todavia estaba chupando las tetas de Clare. Los pezones estaban alzados. 19. Tenia su mano puesta en loshuevos de Tom, luego la subio hacia arriba y agarro su polla. 20. Era una cuestion de valor. Me pregunte sitendria suficientes cojones.


EXERCISE 1.4

(Gina picks up a Penthouse magazine and tells two of her male friends, Mitch and Tommy, what shethinks of the image of female beauty the magazine presents.)

I'm speaking to both of you, okay, you're both fucking insane. You wanna knowwhat your problem is? MTV, Playboy, and Madison fucking Avenue. Yeah. Let me explainsomething to you. OK, look, girls with big tits have big asses, girls with little tits havelittle asses. That's the way it goes. God doesn't fuck around, he's a fair guy. He gave thefatties big, beautiful tits, and the skinnies little, tiny niddlers. If you don't like it, callhim. Hey Mitch. Thank you. Oh guys, look what we have here... (picking up Penthousemagazine and opening it) Look at this: your favorite. Yeah, that's nice, right? Well, itdoesn't exist, okay? Look at the hair. The hair is long, it's flowing, it's like a river. Well,it's a fucking weave, okay? And the tits. Please, I could hang my overcoat on them. Tits,by design, are intended to be suckled by babies. Yeah, they're purely functional. Theseare silicone city. And look, my favorite, the shaved pubes. Pubic hair being so unruly andall. Very vain. This is a mockery, this is a sham, this is bullshit. Implants, calogen, plastics,capped teeth, the fat sucked out, the hair extended, the nose fixed, the bush shaved —these are not real women, alright? They're beauty freaks. And they make all us normalwomen with our wrinkles, our puckered boobs, our cellulite, feel somewhat inadequate.Well, I don't buy it, alright? While you fuckers think that there's a chance in hell thatyou'll end up with one of these women you don't give us real women any thingapproaching a commitment. It's pathetic. I don't know what you think you're going todo. You're going to end up 80 years old, drooling in some nursing home, and then you'lldecide that it's time to settle down, get married, have kids. What are you going to do:find a cheerleader?

From the screenplay Beautiful Girls by Scott Rosenberg

Using what you have learned in this chapter and in the preceding exercises and what you can guess fromthe context, find words or phrases in the above passage corresponding to these descriptions:

1. A word which, as an adverb, means 'very, extremely'; and which, as an adjective, has no precisemeaning but is used purely for negative emphasis. 2. Three words which mean female breasts. 3. Thestandard American English term for buttocks. 4. A phrasal verb which means to tamper, play, toy ormeddle, to treat in an irresponsible way. 5. Two words for pubic hair. 6. A word which, in this context,means mendacious nonsense. 7. A derogatory term which can be used of any male.


2: BODY FUNCTIONS

l.a piss -mear, meada

Although both a verb and a noun, like its synonyms listed below, piss is frequently used in verbalconstructions like to go for a piss, to take a piss, to have a piss, etc.

« I finished my drink and went into thebathroom to take a piss. (James Laffan)» How in hell could a man enjoy beingawakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leapout of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brushteeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a pla-ce where essentially you made lots of moneyfor somebody else? (Charles Bukowski)

• I looked out and saw a guy standing on theporch, pissing. He was pissing against a bushto the left of the porch. The piss shot upwardsin a solid stream and then fell back downwardsinto the bushes. (Charles Bukowski)

• Acabe mi copa y fui al bano a echar unameada.• Cdmo cono podia un hombre disfrutar si susueno era mterrumpido a las 6:30 de la mana-na por el estrepito de un despertador, tenia quesaltar fuera de la cama, vestirse, desayunar singanas, cagar, mear, cepillarse los dientes y elpelo y pelear con el trafico hasta llegar a unlugar donde uno suele ganar cantidad de di-nero para otro?• Mire y vi a un tipo de pie en el porche,meando. Estaba meando en un arbusto a laizquierda del porche; la meada se arquea baen un solido chorro, hacia arriba, y luego,hacia los matorrales.

SYNONYMS:

leak Used mainly in the expres-sion to take a leak. • Sometimessomebody would say, 'Excuseme, I have to take a leak'. Thiswas a way of saying that thespeaker intended to drain liquidwastes from his body through avalve in his lower abdomen.(Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)pee • I had to take a pee, so I ex-cused myself and I went to thebathroom down the hallway.(Smoke) • 'Hey, hey, what's thematter?' Joe asked. Ratso lookedat him quickly and then he lookedaway again, and softly, almost in-audibly, he said, 'I peed.' 'Youwhat?' 'Peed! Peed! Peed my

pants!' (James Leo Herlihy)piddle • Every ten minutes orso he excused himself with thewords, 'I'm going for a piddle.Be right back.' I concluded hehad a bad bladder. (DanielOgg) • American researchers,standing with stopwatches out-side motorway service sta-tions, have found that womentake almost twice as long topiddle as men, or rather twiceas long to emerge from the toi-lets; one and a half minutes fora woman, an amazing 44 sec-onds for a man. Something hasto be done. (Guardian)pish (Scots, Irish) The dogstopped suddenly, cocked ahind leg and pished against the

lamppost. (Seamus Easton)slash All those hours I've beensitting out here waiting for you,afraid I'd miss you. Christ, I'mbursting for a slash. (JamesLaffan)tinkle That's another problemwith suede shoes: you're alwaysin danger of tinkling on themand then the stain's there for-ever, isn't it? (Alan Beretta)wee-wee Mainly a children'sword. • Don't forget, dear, thelittle ones do a wee-wee beforethey go to bed. (E.A. Whitehead)widdle • — 'Anybody knowwhere Frankie is?' — 'Yeah,he's just stepped out for awiddle'. (Alan Beretta)


2. b shit, shite -cagar, mierdaShit is the more common of the two forms but shite, used mainly in northern England, Scotland andIreland, is the more expressive. It is both a verb and a noun. As a verb, shit is irregular: either shit-shit-shit, or shit-shat-shat. As the examples demonstrate, the word is frequently used in a figurativesense. Numerous idiomatic uses are examined in more detail in Chapter 10.

• As a schoolboy I could not think of a timewhen I had ever shat in company. I had alwaysshat alone. In a room that was locked. Thethought of having to shit with someone doingthe same thing twelve inches away disgustedme, (Ken Lukowiak)• I went to the crapper and had a shit.Constipation wasn't one of my problems.(John Ogilby)• I felt like having a shit. I took off my pantsand squatted in the brush with the flies andthe mosquitoes. I had to wipe myself withleaves. (Charles Bukowski)» Piles of rubbish everywhere, dirty plates, shitstains in the toilet, crud in the bathtub.(Gabriella T. Oldfield)• She talked about Huxley and Lawrence inItaly. What shit. (Charles Bukowski)• I'm going to tell her the truth. I'm going toend this shit. (James Laffan)

• Cuando era nino jamas se me habia ocurri-do la idea de cagar acompanado. Siempre ha-bia cagado solo. En una habitaci6n cerrada conpestillo. Pensar que tendria que cagar con al-guien haciendo lo mismo a treinta centfme-tros me asqueaba.• Fui al bafto y eche una cagada. El estreni-miento no era uno de mis problemas.

• Tenia ganas de echar una cagada. Me bajelos pantalones y me agache entre los arbus-tos con moscas y mosquitos. Me tuve quelimpiar con hojas.• Montones de basura por todas partes, platossucios, manchas de mierda en el retrete, cos-tras en la banera.• Ella hablaba de Huxley y de Lawrence enItalia. Vaya mierda.• Le voy a decir la verdad. Voy a acabar conesta mierda!

RELATED TERMS:

crap From the name of ThomasCrapper, inventor of the flush-ing toilet. • Oh, Doctor, I wipeand I wipe and I wipe, I spendas much time wiping as I docrapping, maybe even more. Iuse toilet paper like it grew ontrees. (Philip Roth)dingleberry A piece of driedfaecal matter attached to the hairaround the anus. • With a painedexpression he detached the tena-cious dingleberry, then fetchedit up to eye level for inspection.(James Laffan)doodley-squat (US) Mainlyused figuratively, meaning noth-

ing or very little. • Their coun-try was by far the richest andmost powerful country on theplanet ... Most other countriesd i d n ' t have dood ley - squa t .(Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)dump (US) • You ever take adump made you feel like you'djus t slept for twelve hours?(Glengarry Glen Ross) • I wantthat head so sanitary and squaredaway that the Virgin Mary her-self would be proud to go inthere and take a dump! (FullMetal Jacket)pooh, poo, poo-poo A chil-dren's word, from the exclama-tion pooh provoked by an un-pleasant smell. • 'I need to

pooh,' one four-year-old tod-dler whispered d i f f iden t ly .(Gladys Hellman)• Gus and Theo, his best matefrom playgroup, hit the potty-talk stage together. Their an-them, or should I say mantra,became, 'Poo-poo, wee-wee,bum-bum', repeated in the car,at the lunch table and at teatimeuntil the boys were red-facedand gasping from giggling.(Carol Hall)poop, poopy • I never saw such adirty town — litter scattered eve-rywhere, dog poop all over theplace. (Gabriella T. Oldfield) • Arecent cartoon on Japanese TVfeatures a hero who makes a


sidekick out of his own faeces.Meanwhile, at the local temple,visitors buy plastic poop trin-kets to bring them good luck.And at the corner store, a vastarray of poop-shaped candy ison sale — a veritable copropha-gous feast. (Salon)turd A piece of excrement. • I

hadn't been there more than tenminutes before there were threeturds on the carpet. A superfi-cially humorous but vicious dis-pute ensued about who had donethe turds. (Helen Fielding) • Thefive of us are standing therelooking at the bidet. There aretwo enormous turds floating in

the water. The madam bendsdown and puts a towel over it.(Henry Miller)• Life and literature is a ques-tion of what one thrills to, andfurther than that no man shall gowithout putting his foot in a turd.(Philip Larkin)

2. c fart -pedo• God or somebody keeps creating women andtossing them out on the streets, and this one'sass is too big and that one's tits are too smalland this one is mad and that one is crazy ...and this one can't control her farts. (CharlesBukowski)• At least McHugh wasn't there, stinking theplace out with his farts. (James Laffan)• Sometimes when I'm drinking a cup of paletea in which he has dropped a rose leaf he co-mes alongside of me and lets a loud fart, rightin my face. He never says 'Excuse me!' (HenryMiller)• When I fart in the bathtub, she kneels nakedon the tile floor, leans all the way over, andkisses the bubbles. (Philip Roth)• Another animal invented by the Creator ofthe Universe was a Mexican beetle whichcould make a blank cartridge gun out of itsrear end. It could detonate its own farts andknock over other bugs with shock waves. (KurtVonnegut Jr.)

• Dios, o quien sea, no para de crear mujeresy de lanzarlas al mundo, y el culo de esta esdemasiado grande y las tetas de esa son de-masiado pequenas, y esta otra esta chiflada yaquella es una histerica... y esta no puede con-trolar sus pedos.• Al menos alli no estara McHugh apestandolos pozos con sus pedos.• A veces, cuando estoy tomando una taza dete claro en el que ha echado un petalo de rosa,se me acerca y se tira un sonoro pedo en mispropias nances. Nunca dice: 'jPerddn!'

• Cuando me echo un pedo en la banera, ellase arrodilla desnuda, en el embaldosado sue-lo, se inclina y besa las burbujas.• Otro animal inventado por el Creador delUniverso era un escarabajo mejicano que po-dia convertir su parte posterior en una espe-cie de cartucho sin bala por el que lanzar pedosa propulsion y abatir a otros bichos con lasondas de choque.

SYNONYMS:

breezer (Austr) • How couldyou get any sleep in a ward likethat, with half a dozen oldgeriatric bastards snoring andwheezing and hawking and let-ting breezers all around youevery blessed instant of thenight? It was like trying to kipin a war zone. (Barry Osworth)hummer (UK) An evil-smelling

fart. • What one of you fuckersfarted? Christ, what a hummer!(James Laffan)roaster (UK) A hot, noiseless,noisome fart. • You never knewshe had unleashed a roaster untilit was too late. They were silentand deadly. The smell, like a fetidwind blowing over a field of pu-trefying red cabbages, would hityou all at once, bringing a floodof tears to your eyes. Then she

would go hee-hee-hee, as if she'djust accomplished something hi-larious. (John Ogilby)squelcher A fart with liquidcontent. Also known as a GBLfart, an abbreviation of Gam-bled But Lost. • He knew heshouldn't have eaten the figs.Now he'd be laying squelchersfrom arsehole to breakfasttime. (John Ogilby)


2. the shits -la cagalera

* The introduction of fresh rations into ourbodies had a none-too-pleasant effect on ourdigestive systems. We got the shits. (KenLukowiak)* After that dinner, I had the shits for a month.(Gabriella T. Oldfield)* When I awakened I was sweating. I got upand went to the bathroom. I had the runningshits. Then I got up and wiped, looked; whata mess, I thought, what a lovely powerfulstink. Then I vomited and flushed it all away.(Charles Bukowski)

La introduccion de provisiones frescas ennuestros cuerpos tuvo un efecto nada agrada-ble sobre nuestros aparatos digestivos. Nos en-tro la cagalera.• Despues de esa cena, tuve cagalera duranteun mes.• Cuando me desperte estaba sudando. Me le-vante y fui al bano. Tenia diarrea. Cuando meincorpore y me limpie, eche un vistazo; vayaun plato, pense, que adorable y poderosapeste. Entonces vomite y tire de la cadena.

SYNONYMS:

Aztec revenge Strictly, the termapplies only to diarrhoea suf-fered by visitors to Mexico, butit is widely understood. • Withhis luck he'd die of Aztec Re-venge anyway, first time he hada Bibb lettuce salad. (JosephWambaugh)the runs • I never eat canta-

loupe. It gives me the runs.(David Mamet)the squits (UK) It was supposedto be a high-class Parisian res-taurant, so you didn't expect theloo to be one of those awful Arabaffairs: two wretched footholdsto squat on and an obscenelydark little hole in the middle. Tocap it all, at least one previouspatron had clearly had the squits.

(Gabriella T. Oldfield)the squitters • — Had a roughnight last night. Boozing andwhoring. Paid for it this morn-ing though. The agony in thelavatory. — The squitters? (E.A.Whitehead)the trots • I'd go easy on the ol-ive oil if I were you, mate, un-less you're looking for a case ofthe trots. (Alan Beretta)

2. e I shit-house, shite-house -retrete, cagadero

• He felt nauseous. He opened the door of theshitehouse and went in. The place stank. Hetook out his prick and began to piss.(Herbert Loth)• Harry had to go for a piss. The shithousewas at the end of the corridor. (Herbert Loth)• I went in and cleaned the shithouse, scrubbedthe bathtub, and changed the sheets and pillowcases on my bed. (James Laffan)

• Sinti6 nauseas. Abrio la puerta del retrete, yentro. El lugar apestaba. Se sac6 el pijo y em-pez6 a mear.

• Harry tuvo que ir a echar una meada. El re-trete quedaba al final del pasillo.• Me fui a limpiar el retrete, restregar la bane-ra y cambiar las sabanas y fundas de almoha-da de mi cama.

SYNONYMS:

bog, bogs • Hold on a minute,will you, Kev, I have to go to thebogs. I'll be right back. (DianeChanteau) • Go to the bog, he

thought, and put the paper in your casual. (Shaun Herron)sock. That was it, do the wholething in the bog. They couldn'tcome into the bog with him; he'dput everything in his sock, flushthe bog, and come out looking

can (US) • In the vestibule, asI'm buttoning my fly, I noticeone of them waiting for herfriend to come out of the can.(Henry Miller)


d

crapper • She heard a chainbeing pulled, then the sound offlushing. Then Kevin emergedfrom the crapper, still plungedintently in his paperback editionof Being and Nothingness. (DianeChanteau) • The day Jon changedthe kitty litter, I nearly went intoshock... Cyrus the Cat's littlecrapper certainly had begun tosmell. (Clea Simon)• His function? He sees that toi-let paper is plentiful, especiallyin the ladies' crapper. (CharlesBukowski)dunny (Austr) • Dangerousplace Aust ra l ia . What withdeadly poisonous spiders lurk-ing under the rim of the toiletbowl, a man can't feel safe evenin the comfort of his own dunny.(Barry Osworth)head (US) • I want you two

turds to clean the head. I wantthat head so sanitary and squaredaway that the Virgin Mary her-self would be proud to go inthere and take a dump! (FullMetal Jacket)John (US) • — You sure youdidn't see my hat? — Look inthe John. — It isn't in the John.I wouldn't leave it there. (DavidMamet)• Sanitary appliance manufactur-ers are eager to make our toiletsunisex. As if moving the Johninto the powder room isn'tenough, even single-sex conven-iences are being equipped withtraditionally male attire. TheSoho bar Pop has installed theLady P, a urinal for women.(Guardian)karzy (UK) • They've got dopein here somewhere. Don't let any-

one go anywhere until we find it.Especially not to the karzy.(Barry Osworth)lav, lavo • That smell is famil-iar. Years ago I painted a ladies'lavatory. Yeah, a lavo in a clubin Slater Street. That was a job Ididn't forget. (E.A. Whitehead)loo (UK) • Do you mind if I useyour loo? (Helen Fielding)• Have just been sick, and as Islumped over the loo trying to doit quietly so Daniel wouldn't hear,he suddenly yelled out from thebedroom, 'There goes your innerpoise, my plumptious. Best placefor it, I say.' (Helen Fielding)shouse (Austr) Syncopatedform of shit-house. • He spendshalf his bloody life locked up inthe shouse. Christ only knowswhat he's doing in there.(Barry Osworth)

2. f bumf -papel higienico

The word can have several meanings, depending on context. Usually it means toilet paper, but sometimesit refers simply to paper of poor quality. It is often used derogatorily to mean official documents, as inthe third example.

• (UK) If you're going down to the shops, don'tforget to buy some bumf, love. We're nearlyout. (Diane Chanteau)• (UK) Thank you very much for your letterand please excuse the bumf this is written on.(Philip Larkin)• (UK) Don't ever start a company, even asmall one, unless you like dealing with bumf,'cause there's just no end to it. (Alan Beretta)

• Si vas de compras, que no se te olvide co-ger un poco de papel higienico. Casi no nosqueda.• Muchas gracias por tu carta y, por favor,disculpa el papel cutre en el que esto estaescrito.• No se te ocurra crear una empresa, pormuy pequefia que sea, a no ser que te gusteel papeleo, porque eso es algo que no ter-mina nunca.

SYNONYMS:

ass-wipe • Restrooms were al-ways first. Clean the sinks, thetoilets, empty the baskets, getthe mirrors, replace the hand-

towels, fill the soap containers,use lots and lots of deodorant,and be sure there's plenty of ass-wipe and paper toilet seat cov-ers. (Charles Bukowski)bog-roll • I hate that. You sit

down, have a good wholesomecrap, then discover there's nobloody bog-roll. What sort ofshitehouse are you wankersrunning here anyway? (JohnOgilby)


2. g puke -vomitar, vomitona

• — You make me puke! Uh... you make mepuke! — That wasn't a very nice thing to say,Martha. (Edward Albee)• I ran to the bathroom and puked. I tried tobrash my teeth but only puked again — thesweetness of the toothpaste turned mystomach. (Charles Bukowski)• I stretched out next to her. We kissed. Hermouth smelled of puke. (Charles Bukowski)• You never knew. You could never be sure. Iwas scared. I felt like puking. (John Ogilby)• Garbage man. I shuddered at the thought ofall that garbage, the morning hangovers ... mepuking my guts into the orange rinds, coffeegrounds, wet cigarette ashes, banana peels andthe used tampax. (Charles Bukowski)

• — Me haces vomitar! Uf! ... me haces vo-mitar. — Lo que has dicho es muy desagrada-ble, Martha.• Me fui corriendo al bano a vomitar. Trate delavarme los dientes pero lo unico que conse-gui fue vomitar de nuevo. El dulzor de la pas-ta de dientes me revolvia el estomago.• Me arrime a ella. Nos besamos. Su boca oliaa vomito.• Nunca se sabia. Nunca podia uno estar segu-ro. Estaba nervioso. Sentfa ganas de vomitar.• Basurero. Me estremeci al pensar en todaesa basura, las resacas de madrugada ... y yoechando las tripas junto a peladura de naran-ja, posos de cafe, cenizas mojadas de cigarri-llos, cascaras de platano y tampax usados.

SYNONYMS:

All the following are verbs. Single words (barf, boke, chunder and spew) can also be used, like puke,as nouns.

barf (US) • If you're liable toairsickness, make sure you keepthis little bag handy, to barf intoshould the need arise. (LindaStarr) • I ain't in favor of kiddyporn, you understand. Makes mewanna barf. Some of those littlegirls and boys, eight, nine yearsold. (Joseph Wambaugh)blow beets (US) What was inthat pie? Everybody who ate itis blowing beets. (Airplane)boke (Scots, Irish) Noun as wellas verb. • Many's the time, aftera rough night in the boozer,MacAleese and I leaned againstthe same wall, boking our gutsup. That's the kind of shared ex-perience that cements a friend-ship. (John Ogilby)chuck up Every Saturday night,on his way back from the pub,

he would chuck up his week'swages on the pavement. (JamesLaffan)chunder (Austr) Even from adistance I could see he wasn'tin the car. But in the moonlight,on the ground next to the frontpassenger door, I could make outa great livid patch of chunder.(William Williamson)go for the big spit (Austr) Youdon't look too clever, Micky.Just one thing: if you're goingfor the big spit, stick your headout the window. Don't chuck upin here. (Barry Osworth)ralph (US) Imitative of thesound of vomiting. • The docgave him some pills that wouldhelp him ralph it up. (NormanKeaton)spew Noun as well as verb. • Je-

sus Christ Almighty, what anight. Pah! I'm covered in thatrotten bastard's spew. Give us arag, somebody. (John McGrath)• Your letter found me last nightwhen I came in off the piss: inpoint of fact I had spewed outof a train window. (Philip Larkin)throw up • My god, I feel aw-ful. I think I'm going to throwup. (Helen Fielding) • Do youknow what those American sol-diers did to your poor motherwhile your poor father threwup his guts in the next room?Those bastards! (Lenny Bruce)• — Your wife throws up a lot,eh? — Well, i t 's true.. . Shedoes throw up a lot. Once shestarts... there's practically nostopping her. (Edward Albee)


2. h gob -escupir, escupitajo

• She gobbed in his face. (John Le Carre)• Moving her head, Jane used her tongue.Andrew came. Jane gobbed on the carpet.(Dympna Marston)• Never mind his unpleasant habit of hackingup massive gobs of phlegm, which he thenexpectorates into the Persian carpet at hisvisitor's feet. (Salon)

• Le escupio en la cara.• Moviendo su cabeza, Jane uso la lengua.Andrew se corrio. Jane escupio en la alfombra.

• Ignora su desagradable costumbre de tosercantidades masivas de flema, las cualesexpectora hacia la alfombra persa a los piesde sus invitados.

An uncountable noun, unlike its synonyms, snot is used with a singular verb. Derivatives are snotty,snot-nosed, and snotty-nosed (mocoso, lleno de mocos, estirado).

• A thin moustache. Vacant eyes. Out of oneof his nostrils streamed a nearly invisiblethread of snot that had finally gathered into alittle gleaming ball. The ball had settled in themoustache and was gathering to drip off.(Charles Bukowski)• —You can't get snot off suede. The jacket'sruined. You can flake it off, but the black markwill always be there. — What'll I do? — Justsnot over the whole jacket, that's the onlything you can do! (Lenny Bruce)• It is estimated that, during one winter monthalone, if all the snot blown into Kleenextissues in the United States and Canada werespread over the playing surface of the YaleBowl, it would reach a depth of one-and-a-half feet. (William Styron)• You've seen a lot of snot. You've seen it inback of radiators in Milner Hotels. Looks likebas-relief wood-glue. (Lenny Bruce)

• Un fino bigote. Ojos ausentes. De uno delos orificios de su nariz caia un casi invisiblehilillo de moco que finalmente se recogia enuna pelotilla brillante. La pelotilla de mocose le habia quedado pegada al bigote y estabaa punto de caerse.• — No se puede quitar los mocos del ante.La chaqueta esta estropeada. Puedes raspario,pero siempre quedara una marca negra. — Quepuedo haeer? — Echa mocos por toda la cha-queta, eso es lo unico que puedes hacer!« Se calcula que si durante un unico mes deinvierno, todos los mocos soplados en panue-los Kleenex en los Estados Unidos y Canadase extendiesen sobre la superficie de juego delestadio de Yale, se alcanzaria una profundi-dad de 45 centimetros.• Se ve mucho moco. Se ve en la parte deatras de los radiadores en los HotelesMilner. Parece pegamento para madera.

SYNONYMS:

bogey His words were dignifiedand moving, or rather, wouldhave been, had not Sheila foundherself strangely fascinated bythe large green bogey, still moistand glistening, which adhered to

his moustache. (Brian Adgers)booger • Joker's so tough, he'deat the boogers out of a deadman's nose ... then ask for sec-onds. (Full Metal Jacket) • Noteverything we see or read has tobe improving. There's no reasona kid can't enjoy David Lean's

film of 'Great Expectations' andthe fart and booger jokes in'Dumb and Dumber.' (Salon)snotter I told her I was goingand that nothing she could saywould change that. She stoodthere crying her heart out, snottersblinding her. (James Laffan)


2. j come, cum -leche. semen

* She took her handkerchief out of her bag andbegan gobbing into it as if she wereexpectorating come. 'Hey,' I said, 'What areyou trying to sell me? I didn't come'. (Char-les Bukowski)* Dan, I love the taste of come. It tastes likeeverything good ... just... coming out of yourcock ... the Junior Prom ... an autumnafternoon ... (David Mamet)* Oh God, did you shoot in her mouth? Oh myGod! And did she swallow it right down, orspit it out, or get mad — tell me, what did shedo with your hot come! (Philip Roth). She's on her back, her legs are in the air,she's coming like a choo-choo and she'sscreaming 'don't stop.' (David Mamet)

Some girls think it's awful to come with aclient — but isn't there something ratherdeclasse about never coming with a John? It'slike being one of those union employees whowon't move a sheet of paper from one side ofthe desk to the other if it's not in their contract.What a dreary way to work! (Salon)

• Sac6 el panuelo de su bolso y escupio en elcomo si estuviera escupiendo semen. —Eh —le dije— Que estas tratando de venderme?No me he corrido.

• Dan, me encanta el sabor del semen. Sabe atodo lo bueno... saliendo de tu polla... el bailede final de curso... una tarde de otono...

• Oh Dios, £te corriste en su boca? Oh, Diosmio! Y se lo trago, o lo escupio, o se pusofuriosa? Dimelo! Que hizo ella cuando tecorriste?• Esta tumbada, sus piernas en el aire, se estacorriendo como un tren y esta gritando — 'nopares.'• Algunas chicas creen que es terrible correr-se con un cliente — pero no es una falta declase el no correrse nunca con un cliente?Es como ser un empleado sindicado que nomueve un folio de un lado del despacho alotro si no esta por escrito en su contrato. Quemanera mas deprimente de trabajar!

SYNONYMS:

gissum • 'Son of a bitch kike!'Bubbles screams. 'You gotgissum all over the couch! Andthe walls! And the lamp! '(Philip Roth)jism • Massage parlors weresomething new and exciting inNew York ... Men could be rubbedall over by a woman until their pe-nises squirted jism into Turkishtowels. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)• Lus ty sows might regardswine spunk as sexy, and Ne-braska pig-ranchers accept itas a procreating necessity, butordinary humans undoubtedly

view oinker jism as a repulsivefluid they'd rather not thinkabout. (Hank Hyena)jizz • —What's a jizz-mopper?—He's the guy that cleans up thenudie booth after each guy jerksoff. The jizz-mopper's job is toclean off the glass after each guyshoots a load. I don't know ifyou noticed, but cum leavesstreaks if you don't clean it rightaway. (Clerks) • Woman wantedto fuck me last night. I said, 'No,baby, nothing doing.' Then I toldher I'd do it if she gave me fivebucks. It takes five bucks worthof steak to replace that j izz.(Charles Bukowski)

scum (US) You'd be surprisedhow many people like to do it inthe back of the taxi. Last thingevery night, I have to clean thescum off the back seat. (JakeNewington)shoot (US) Also used as a verb,usually followed by off. • A Jew-ish man, who cared about thewelfare of the poor of the Cityof New York, was eating herpussy! Someone who had ap-peared on educational TV wasshooting off into her mouth!(Philip Roth)spunk • We've got a leopard-skin rug in the flat and he wantedme to fuck him on that. Only I'm


afraid of the spunk, you see, itmight adversely affect thespots of the leopard. (JoeOrton) • You know that funny

little internal dripping you getafter sex when you stand up,and you know you have maybetwo seconds to get to the toi-

let before his spunk starts run-ning down the inside of yourleg? Well, this time — noth-ing. (Courtney Weaver)

2. k the rag -la regla, el penodo, compresa

A euphemistic term denoting a sanitary towel, sometimes made more specific and less euphemistic, asin the final example below. It is used in various expressions referring to menstruation: to be on therag, to have the rag, to ride the rag, to wear the rag, to have the rags up, etc.

• — I think she had the rags up. — And howwould you know? — I had a bit of finger pie.(E.A. Whitehead)• She told him she was wearing the rag, butthat didn't cool his ardour in the least. (JamesLaffan)• So why the long face, man? Your old ladyon the rag? (Poor Black Trash)• There was this thing on the floor., a ragsomeone had left there... a jamrag... left it onthe floor of the lavatory! (E.A. Whitehead)• We had Darlene for openers. Probablysomebody had been murdered or was on therag or was having a screaming fit, and this wasDarlene's chance to dance solo again. (Char-les Bukowski)•You ever seen a nun call a small child a 'fuckingcunt-rag'? Wasn't pretty. (Chasing Amy)

• — Creo que estaba con la regla, — Y tucomo lo sabes? — Le meti un poco el dedo.

• Le dijio que estaba con la regla, pero eso noenfrio su pasion en lo mas mmimo.

• Por que esa cara, tio? Tu vieja esta con laregla?• Habia esta cosa en el suelo... una compresaque alguien habia dejado alli... la habian de-jado en el suelo del bano!• Teniamos a Darlene para empezar. Proba-blemente alguna habia sido asesinada o teniala regla o habia tenido un ataque de histeria yesta habia sido la oportunidad para Darlenede volver a bailar sola.• Alguna vez has visto a una monja llamar aun crio 'jodida compresa'? No fue bonito.

RELATED TERMS:

the curse • Is it any wonder thatmenstruation is commonly called'the curse'? (Saturday Review)• I forgot the damn pill and Ihaven't had the curse for six

weeks. (Graham Greene) • Girlsused to say they had the curse. Orthey had a visitor. (New Yorker)monthly flowers • You missedherpes. You missed AIDS. Youlucked out, fucked out. Butyour period — your 'monthly

flowers' as they called them inthe days of Vigee-Lebrun andAdelaide Labille-Guiard, your'perennial visitor' , your fallfrom the roof —is long overdue.Can you be —at forty-four—pregnant? (Erica Jong)


EXERCISE 2.1


1. (a) turd (b) crap (c) bogey (d) doodley-squat (e) poop (f) dump

2. (a) bumf (b) barf (c) ralph (d) throw up (e) chunder (f) boke

3. (a) spunk (b) fart (c) gissum (d) shoot (e) jism (f) jizz

4. (a) slash (b) wee-wee (c) leak (d) tinkle (e) pee (f) spew

5. (a) John (b) loo (c) roaster (d) head (e) can (f) bog

EXERCISE 2.2

Here are some less common idiomatic and slang terms for body functions, nine of which have beendealt with in this chapter. Try to identify the subject to which each group of synonyms and relatedterms refers.

1. Aunt Flo, Aunt Rosie, colly-wobbles, drip, Holy Week,Having the Painters In, jinx,monthlies, Red Sails in theSunset, plague, red flag

2. baby food, fetch, glue, gravy,honey, hot milk, load, oyster,soap, spendings, spratz,spume, starch, tail juice,wad, white blow

3. Baby Ruth, cack, cow pucky,dead soldier, doo-doo, duty,hockey, horse dumpling,meadow dressing, nightsoil, plot, yackum

4. blow chow, blow chunks,call Earl, flip one's cookies,hork, pray to the porcelaingoddess, ride the porcelainhorse, scream at one's feet

5. back-talk, blow off, breeze,bucksnort, burnt cheese,cheezer, cut the cheese,chocolate thunder, crepitate,cut one, drop a rose, gurk,honk, anal applause, let one,Scotch warming-pan, shootrabbits, tail shot, talk Ger-man, tee off, whiffer, winder

6. altar room, biffy, chamberof commerce, indoorplumbing, jake, leakery,marble palace, sandbox,twilight, Used Beer Depart-ment, whiz stand, whizzer

7. chamber lye, Cousin Sis,Golden Shower, MickeyBliss, Number One, tailjuice, yellow stream, zigg

8. bury a Quaker, clart, dis-

patch one's cargo, grunt, laysome cable, post a letter,scumber, squat

9. bagged, broken-kneed, clucky,cocked-up, double-ribbed, fullof heir, gone to seed, have onein the oven, in pod, in the pud-ding club, knocked up, on thebones, pillowed, storked, upthe stick

10. burn the grass, drain the liz-ard, drain the radiator, kill asnake, let fly, pick a daisy,point Percy at the porcelain,pump ship, shake hands withan old friend, shake the dewoff the lily, slack, splash,spring a leak, squeeze thelemon, syphon the python,visit Miss Murphy

EXERCISE 2.3


1. Me quite la ropa, me espatarre en mitad de la cama y me tire un pedo. 2. Era la peor mamada queme habfan hecho nunca. Saco el panuelo de su bolso y escupio en el como si estuviera expectorandoalgo. 3. Me arrime a ella. Nos besamos. Su boca olia a vomito. 4. El bar mas cercano tenia por lomenos cincuenta anos. Apestaba a orina, mierda y vomito acumulada durante medio siglo elevanaosea traves del suelo del bar desde los retretes del sotano. 5. jMe voy a correr, Dios, me voy a correr! 6.Abrio la puerta del cagadero y entro. El lugar apestaba. Saco el pijo y empezo a mear. 7. Le dijo queestaba con la regla, pero eso no enfrio su pasidn lo mas minimo. 8. El perro comenzo a mearse. El


perro estaba repleto de orines. Corrio en largos y amarillos riachuelos por el suelo de la cocina. 9. —Escucha —me dijo—, cuando me hayas metido esa cosa dentro, sacalajusto antes de correrte, deacuerdo? 10. Despues de esa cena, tuvo cagalera durante un mes. 11. Tenias que aguantar los pedosde aquellas enfermeras culigordas. 12. Finalmente me com. Entonces repose sobre ella. Estabamoslos dos empapados en sudor. 13. Se puso malo y se fue al cagadero. Al vomitar, parte del vomito cayoen los zapatos y los calcetines. 14. Le voy a decir la verdad. Voy a acabar con esta mierda! 15. Nose te olvide comprar un poco de papel higienico. Casi no nos queda. 16. Me fui corriendo al bano avomitar. Trate de lavarme los dientes pero lo unico que consegui fue vomitar de nuevo. 17. La puertaestaba cerca de los lavabos. Siempre habia alguien entrando y saliendo para echar una meada. 18. Deuno de los orificios de su nariz caia un casi invisible hilillo de moco que finalmente se recogfa en unapelotilla brillante. 19. Me levante y fui al bano. Tenia diarrea. Entonces me levante y me limpie, echeun vistazo a mi obra: vaya un plato! 20. Tuve que ir a echar una meada. El retrete quedaba al final delpasillo.

EXERCISE 2.4

(A vice squad detective quizzes new recruits to his department on what kind of behaviour in apublic toilet constitutes an offence.)

'Okay, you're in the trap, peeking through the screen and some dude walks in the Johnand he pulls down his jeans and there inside the underwear he carries a toothbrush and afeather. And his dick's all wrapped in rubber bands and rags to make it bulge outta his tightpants. And he sits down on the pot and reaches down in the toilet water and after he unwrapsit he starts splashing cold water up on his dong. And he brushes it off with the toothbrush.Then he pulls out the feather and tickles his balls and when all this is done he's able to takea leak, which he does sitting down, and then he leaves. Any violation there?'

'None,' Baxter Slate said.

'Okay, what if there ain't no door on any a the toilets, which there ain't because themanager a this department store is trying to discourage the fruits who like to meet here andpoke their cocks through glory holes and all that. Now there he is, no door, just side wallsaround the toilet and everybody walks in can see him, including little kids.'

'Well . . .' Baxter hesitated.

'And just to mix you boys up a little, let's say that our vice complaint which broughtus here in the first place is from some lady lives near here and her kids always come use thisrestroom on the way home from school, and she says they got propositioned by some grownup fruits and don't her kids got no rights?'

'Well . . .' Baxter Slate hesitated.

'Sure, if the fruits didn't get a naughty kick outta doing it in public Johns because it'sguilt and sin and fun and anal obsession and everything all mixed up and it ain't the same ina private room, well then we wouldn't have to come here at all. But that ain't the case and it'spretty hard to tell the lady her kids just have to put up with some dude propositioning themor blowing some other dude in front a them in the shithouse, ain't it, Harold?

From The Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh


Using what you have learned in this chapter and in the preceding exercises and what you can guessfrom the context, find words or phrases in the above passage corresponding to these descriptions:

1. Three words meaning toilet. 2. Three words meaning penis. 3. A word meaning testicles. 4. Anexpression meaning to urinate. 5. An offensive term for a male homosexual. 6. A word meaning toperform fellatio.


3: SEXUAL DESIRE

3. a the hots -deseo

This term, like the others listed below, is slang, but it is not obscene or offensive. On the other hand,it is frequently used in a context where stronger language is likely to occur.

* — He's a total asshole and he's got the hotsfor my friend Angela and it's disgusting. —What, you'd rather he had the hots for you?(American Beauty). And who in his right mind would ever havebelieved that Elizabeth Taylor had the hots forUncle Hymie? (Philip Roth)* What fucking circumstances? Some faggotqueer got the hots for my joint at the cartoons.(David Mamet). I sweltered with lust, helpless in the throesof an alcohol-induced concupiscence known,at least in that day, by the name of 'thehangover hots'. (William Styron)

• — Es un gilipollas y esta enconado con miamiga Angela y es asqueroso. — Que?, £pre-ferirfas que estuviera enconado contigo?

• Y quien, en su sano juicio, hubiera creidoque Elizabeth Taylor estaba loca por el tioHymie?• Que jodidas circunstancias? Algun ma-ric6n se encono con mi polla en los dibujosanimados.. Me sofoque de deseo, aperdido en los espas-mos de una concupiscencia provocada por elalcohol, conocido al menos en ese dia, por elnombre de 'resacon calenton'.

SYNONYMS:

hot pants • 'My wife's in StatenIsland,' he told Converse. 'She'sgot hot pants for this guy twiceher age. A guy that owned a res-taurant out there.' (Robert Stone)lech, letch The act of leching.• Many so-called Platonicfriendships are merely one-wayleches. (Sunday Times) • Untilthis instant, hoping against hope,

Sophie had said to herself that thewoman's advances just might beinnocuous, but now, so close, thesigns of her voracious letch —first her rapid breathing and thenthe ripe rosiness spreading like arash over the bestially handsomeface — left no doubt about her in-tentions. (William Styron)perve (Austr) Usually followedby at or on, meaning to ogle.• She's a cheap thrill machine for

the boys to stare at and perve on.(Barry Osworth)the eye, the glad eye • He'd say:'Do you fancy him?' And ofcourse I'd say: 'Who?' And he'dsay: 'The guy you've been givingthe eye to.' And I'd say: 'Oh forChrist's sake, can't I even lookat a man without you throwinga fucking fit?' (E.A. Whitehead)• I do see her giving the glad eyeto Pete. (Aldous Huxley)

3. b horny -cahente, cachondo

• What's the legal definition of 'obscene'. Tobe obscene, I must stimulate you sexually.That's what obscene is — the prurient interest:if I get you horny. (Lenny Brace)• I returned Sophie's squeeze with the clumsypressure of unrequited love, and realized as Idid so that I was so horny my balls had begunto ache. (William Styron)

es la definieion legal de 'obsceno'?Para ser obsceno, tengo que estimulartesexualmente. Eso es lo que es obsceno — elinteres lascivo: si yo te pongo cachondo.. Devolvi el apreton de Sophie con la presiontorpe del amor no correspondido, y me dicuenta al hacerlo que estaba tan cachondo quemis huevos me habian empezado a doler.


• He touched her cheek. 'You are a gorgeous-lookin' piece, Cass. Gets a guy all horny justlookin' at you.' (James Leo Herlihy)• He was feeling so horny he decided to takethe rest of the day off, cruise down the SunsetStrip, and maybe find a cute thirty-dollarhooker who could suck the batteries out of aflashlight. (Joseph Wambaugh)

• Toc6 su mejilla. 'Eres una pieza esplendida,Cass. Uno se pone todo cachondo con solomirarte.'• Se sentia tan cachondo que decidio tomarseel resto del dia libre, pasar por la zona deSunset Strip, y quizas encontrar una prostitu-ta de treinta dolares que pudiese sacar las pi-las de una linterna a chupetazos.

SYNONYMS:

cunt-struck Infatuated withwomen. • I like Van Norden butI do not share his opinion ofhimself. I do not agree, for ex-ample, that he is a philosopher,or a thinker. He is cunt-struck,that's all. (Henry Miller) • Wewere all helplessly and hope-lessly cunt-struck, a vulgar butforcibly accurate expression.(Frank Sargeson)hot • I had a married womanthe other day who told me shehadn't had a lay for six months.Can you imagine that? Jesus,she was hot! I thought she'd tearthe cock off me. (Henry Miller)• He told me intimate detailsabout Abigail's body and specif-ics about their sex life, highlypersonal things... Maybe he was

just an open guy, but sometimesit seemed like he was bragging— he wanted me to believe thatshe was hot. (Hank Hyena)randy • She had the rags up.The best time of all! Women arealways at their randiest during aperiod. (E.A. Whitehead) • Any-way, after he'd given my tits therequired amount of kneading,he'd get really randy and put hishand on my knee, which was thesignal for me to open my legs.(E.A. Whitehead) • Do you re-member Corporal Pratt that weknew in Iceland? I rememberhim, the randy cunt. (PeterNichols) • These charactersseemed bland compared with sucha memorable creation as JackNicholson's randy Daryl VanHome (geddit?) in The Witchesof Eastwick.' (Guardian)

randy-arsed • There he was,festooned by beefy, randy-arsed wives crying out for alength. (H.C. Rae) • Hard thoughit may be for randy-arsed adver-tisers to understand, for manypeople sex just isn't that im-portant. (Guardian)turned-on The verb is to turnsomebody on. • I don't see anychicks that turn me on any more.Here's how I know I'm getting old— I haven't seen any girls that re-ally stimulate me, that look goodto me. (Lenny Bruce) • — Sam,do you wanna come over hereand make love to me? — No, I'drather have a wet dream. — Wellthen go up on Hollywood Boul-evard and pick yourself up aqueer if I can't turn you on, youcocksucker! (Joseph Wambaugh)

3. c chat up -hgar, enrrollarse con

To chat someone up is to engage in flirtatious conversation with that person and usually to makesexual advances. Although neither obscene nor offensive, the term and its synonyms are included herefor the sake of completeness.

* (UK) — Even now most men seem to thinkthey've got to feel you up before they fuckyou. — Yeah, I've often thought how nice itwould be if a bloke would walk into my placeand fuck me and walk out again withoutchatting me up or saying anything. Skip allthe bullshit. (E.A. Whitehead)

. — Incluso ahora la mayoria de los hombresparecen creer que tienen que meterte mano an-tes de follarte. — Si, con frecuencia he pen-sado que agradable seria si un tio entrara encasa, me follara y se largara sin enrollarse nidecir nada. Pasar de toda esa mierda.


* (UK) I got a drink, looked around, and thenI went and sat next to the least repellent malein there, I chatted him up and then I took himback to the house. (E,A. Whitehead). (UK) You know the way some men will chatyou up and then, hand on heart, they say:'There's something I must tell you... I'mmarried.' (E.A. Whitehead)

• Fui a por un trago, eche un vistazo, y me fuia sentar al lado del varen menos repelente dellugar. Nos enrollamos y entonces le lleve acasa.. Ya sabes la forma en que los hombres se en-rollan y entonces, con la mano en el eorazon,dicen: 'Hay algo que te tengo que deck... es-toy casado.'

RELATED TERMS:

be all over To display exces-sive familiarity or affection to-wards someone. • I found thecontinental practice of kissingon both cheeks, often severaltimes, in public, particularly re-pellent. Tom Reagan knew thisonly too well, yet each time wemet he was all over me withslabbers and smiles and secre-tive whispers. (Gabriella T.Oldfield)get off with • I hovered indeci-sively, then started to sidle away,at which point Simon said in anirritated superior voice (one you,funnily enough, never hear himuse when he is trying to get offwith you by the photocopier),'Did you want something,Bridget?' (Helen Fielding) • Thebasis of my own addiction (to

Pride and Prejudice) is mysimple human need for Darcyto get off with Elizabeth.(Helen Fielding)make a pass To make an amo-rous advance. • Men seldommake passes / At girls who wearglasses. (Dorothy Parker) • I'vediscussed the lack of a sex lifewith my husband, who admitsit's psychological, and I tell himthat I cannot be sure what I'lldo if someone were to make apass at me, given my state. I'dlike to be reckless and do some-thing exciting. (Garrison Keillor)• I made a direct pass at Leslie assoon as we were back inside thefront door, insinuating my armaround her waist, but she man-aged to slip away with a tinklylittle laugh. (William Styron)pick up To form a casual friend-ship with a view to sexual inter-

course. • This is someone whomI picked up off the street! Whosucked me off before she evenknew my name! (Philip Roth)• It took me a while to realiseexactly what was happening.There I was thinking he wantedto hear my views on Proust,while all the time the bastardwas only trying to pick me up.(Gabriella T. Oldfield)pull (UK) To pick up a sexualpartner. • A handsome well-builtlad like you, I shouldn't thinkyou'd have any problem pullingthe birds. If you were that wayinclined. (Alan Beretta)put the make on (US) KingFarouk, I read, he'd pull into somesmall town, Dubuque, Peoria...he'd go put the make on somewaitress. So after work, they'd allgo back to her place and startmaking it. (David Mamet)

3. d I fool around -tener enredos

One meaning of the verb to fool around is to engage in aimless or irresponsible behaviour; another isto engage in casual sexual relations, usually extra-marital. This may cause some confusion. On theother hand, the synonyms are unambiguous.

• While I was away, some friends tookDanny to a party. A platonic female frienddrove him home. They ended up foolingaround on the couch, although they didn'tgo Very far. (Salon)

. Mientras estuve fuera, algunos amigos lle-varon a Danny a una fiesta. Una amigaplatonica le llevo a casa. Terminaron enro-llandose en el sofa, aunque no llegaron muylejos.


* There are plenty of people who've strayedin their own marriages and know that it's stillpossible to love your spouse... But even thosepeople still feel a need to maintain theexpected public stance that holds that goodpeople just don't fool around. (Salon). "Sexual relations means sexual intercourse,'said Lewinsky. 'We were just fooling around,Linda, just fooling around.' (Salon). — You said you only had sex with threedifferent guys; you never mentioned him! —Because I never had sex with him. — Yousucked his dick! — We went out a few times.We never had sex but we fooled around.(Clerks). Eric, my ex-lover, told me about this straightguy, Johnny, who was an adorable, outrageousflirt. He invited Johnny over for a few beers.Johnny got drank. They started fooling around.(Greg Nott). You like having balls? Ask yourself thatquestion before you ever start cheating onme, fooling around with some floozie.(Bernadette Share)

• Hay mucha gente que se ha distanciado ensus matrimonios y saben que, aun asi, es po-sible querer a su conyuge... Pero incluso esagente siente aun la necesidad de mantener laaceptada postura publica que insiste en que lagente buena no se Ma con otros.• 'Relaciones sexuales significa, el coito,' dijoLewinsky. 'Solo esta bamos jugueteando, Lin-da, solo jugueteando.'• — Dijistes que solo te habias tirado a tres tiosdistmtos; jnunca le mencionaste a e1! — Por-que nunca me lo tire. — Le chupaste la po-lla! — Salimos unas cuantas veces. Nunca nosacostamos, pero jugueteamos.

• Eric, mi ex-amante, me hablo de este tio he-terosexual, Johnny, que era adorable, le en-cantaba flirtear. Invito a Johnny a tomar unascervezas. Johnny se emborracbo, Empezarona enrollarse.• Te gusta tener huevos? Hazte esa preguntaantes de que se te ocurra empezar a ponermelos cueraos con alguna zorra.

SYNONYMS:

put out (US) Of a woman whois sexually available, often fol-lowed by for. • At Coney Islandthat day I thought she was go-ing to eat you up. And now youtell me it all went flooey. What'sthe matter? I can't believe shewouldn' t put out. (WilliamStyron) • 'Southern girls,' Iadded, thinking grimly of MaryAlice Grimball, 'are tough topenetrate, if you'll excuse thephrase, but once they decide toput out, they're awfully sweet inthe sack.' (William Styron)screw around To be promiscu-ous, have many sexual partners.• A sex activist defends the rightof gay men — and everybodyelse — to screw around. (Salon)

• Gary Kamiya, in his apologyfor Clinton's wild horniness,states, 'Men who cheat at golf,lie to their friends and screwaround can be first-rate worldleaders.' (Salon) • Apparently,screwing around is acceptable formen, but not for women. (Salon)• — What did you do with youryouth? — Stayed out late, smokedpot, screwed around. — Not yourgrade school years; your highschool years. (Chasing Amy)sleep around • 'In the '60s,everyone was hopping in andout of each other's bed. Therule then was, if you didn' tsleep around, you were up-tight... but it's not prudent tosleep around with many mennowadays.' She glanced at mesidewise. 'I hope I don't have

to tell you that. ' (CourtneyWeaver)swing Often applied specifi-cally to engaging in group sex,partner-swapping, etc. • Chris-tians who revere tradit ionalscriptural teaching are ignorantrubes. If you don't swing withthe sodomites these days, you'renowheresville with the A-listcrowd. (Salon) • Stephaniemanaged to break into thelocked basement apar tmentagain and this time found aswinger's magazine with a cer-tain page clipped. The swing-ing couple on that page wereoffering to share themselveswith any other congenial cou-ple who might write to theirpost office box. (JosephWambaugh)


3. e I stud -semental

A man of great sexual prowess, or reputedly of great sexual prowess, by analogy with stallions keptfor breeding. Related terms listed below refer to men considered simply as sexual objects.

• You treat me like your gigolo, not your man.No wonder I feel like a pimp, like a stud, likea fucking consort. (Erica Jong)

• You've got it in your head that Alyssa's notreally into chicks — that she just hasn't metthe right man. And you believe you're it.You're going to treat her right, fuck her like astud, and 'strait-jacket' her back from the landof the lost. (Chasing Amy)• Ron Jeremy is the world's most famous maleporn star. He's 43 years old, 5-foot-7 and aslice of cheesecake away from 200 pounds.He's also as hairy as a Qua Pet. A stereotypicalstud, Ron Jeremy is not. (Salon)

• What a flourishing business for busy creativewomen! AIDS-tested studs for the creativewoman (or the busy executive) who doesn't wantto get involved. But of course it would neverwork. Most women don't want studs, AIDS-tested or not — they want love. (Erica Jong)

• Me tratas como si fuera tu gigolo, y no comohombre. No es de extrafiar que me sienta comoun chulo, como un semental, como un jodidoconsorte.• Se te ha metido en la cabeza que a Alyssarealmente no le van los tios - que es solo por-que no ha conocido al hombre adecuado. Y tute crees que si lo eres. La vas a tratar bien,follarla como un cabron, y traerla de golpe devuelta de la tierra de las perdidas.• Ron Jeremy es la estrella masculina delporno mas famosa del mundo. Tiene 43 anos,mide 170 centimetros, y le falta un pelo parallegar a las 95 kilos. Es tan peludo como unoso. Ron Jeremy no es exactamente el tipicosemental.• Que negocio mas prospero para empresa-rias creativas! Sementales garantizados de es-tar libres de sida para la mujer creativa (o parala ejecutiva ocupada). La mayoria de las mu-jeres no quieren sementales, con garantia anti-sida o sin ella — quieren amor.

RELATED TERMS:

hunk • 'What a hunk!' She ranher claws down the big cop'schest, raking the plunging ny-lon shirt. (Joseph Wambaugh)• It's Gwyneth's private lifethat has women most curious.After all, she's burrowed into

the briefs of our era's mosthungered-after hunks. (HankHyena)toy boy Applied to a woman'smuch younger male lover.• Americans imagine thatMexican drug lords have in-fected their innocent teens.This view, I think, has led re-

cently to a gringo romanticismfor Latin toy boys, apparent inthe sudden popularity of RickiMartin. (Salon)wet dream See also 3.j below.• I was crazy about this guy.Tall, slim, long hair, blazingblue eyes... a wet dream walk-ing. (E.A. Whitehead)

3. f hard-on -erection

• Amidst these flushed and giggling girls...I am so awed that I am in a state of desirebeyond a hard-on. My circumcised littledong is simply shriveled up with veneration.(Philip Roth)

• Entre estas sofocadas y alegres muchachas...estoy tan atemorizado que me hallo en un es-tado de deseo que se situa mas alla de la erec-ci6n. Mi circunciso pene esta simplemente,encogido de veneracion.


« But who wins an argument with a hard-on?... Know that famous proverb? When the prickstands up, the brains get buried in the ground!When the prick stands up, the brains are asgood as dead! (Philip Roth)» God has a hard-on for marines because wekill everything we see! He plays His games,we play ours! (Full Metal Jacket)• But of course I couldn't... I rolled off of herand came to rest, defeated, against the wall— on my back. 'It's no good,' I said, 'I can'tget a hard-on in this place.' (Philip Roth)• Quickly, quickly, quickly! Do you feel dizzy?Do you feel faint? Jesus H. Christ, I think you'vegot a hard-on! (Full Metal Jacket)• 'I gotta try me some of that,' said an old guydown at the end of the bar. 'I haven't had ahard-on since Teddy Roosevelt took his lasthill.' (Charles Bukowski)

• Pero £quien gana una discusi6n con una pi-cha tiesa? Conoces ese famoso proverbio?jCuando la polla se levanta, el cerebro quedasepultado en el suelo! jCuando la polla se yer-gue, el cerebro esta eomo muerto!• Dios lo tiene dificil con los marines porquematamos a todo el que vemos! jEl juega a susjuegos, nosotros a los nuestros!• Pero, naturalmente, no pude... Me separe deella derrotado y apoye la espalda contra la pa-red. —Es imttil —dije—. No se me puede en-derezar en este lugar.• Rapido, rapido, rapido! Te sientes marea-do? Te vas a desmayar? Jestis, creo que sete ha puesto dura!• 'Voy a darme el gusto de probarlo,' dijo unviejo desde el fondo del bar. 'No se me hapuesto dura desde que Teddy Roosevelt tomosu ultima colina.'

SYNONYMS:

blue veiner • He had finallymanaged to get a dance with IdaKeely, a cute communicationsoperator with eyes like a deer.He had a blue veiner even be-fore the song began. (JosephWambaugh) • I think I'm gettingimpotent. I haven't awakenedone morning in the past weekwith a diamond cutter. Or even ablue veiner. (Joseph Wambaugh)bone, boner • In the classroomI sometimes set myself con-sciously to think about death andhospitals and horrible automo-

bile accidents in the hope thatsuch grave thoughts will causemy boner to recede before thebell rings and I have to stand.(Philip Roth)horn • Tills became amorousagain in about fifteen minutes. Igot the horn. But I didn't reallywant to be bothered doing much.(Joe Orton)ramrod • There's just a crackthere between her legs and youget all steamed up about it —you don't even look at it half thetime. You know it's there and allyou think about is getting yourramrod inside: it's as though

your penis did the thinking foryou. (Henry Miller)rise Usually in the expressionto get a rise. • — Have youfucked Sue? What was it like?— It was okay, only I couldn'tget a proper rise. (Martin Amis)stand • Labri was lying on thebed naked, playing with hiscock, which was completelylimp. 'He hasn't been able to geta hard-on! ' Kenneth said interms of the utmost disapproval.'A fifteen-year-old boy and hecan't get a stand on. It's abso-lutely shameful.' (Joe Orton)

3. g babe -bombon, ninfa

The following terms, denoting a sexually attractive woman, are neither obscene nor offensive. Theymay be contrasted in this respect with the terms in 3.h below.

• Ray Bones sits on a boat with his boss,Jimmy Cap, and two bikini-clad babes, bothof whom rub lotion on Jimmy. (Get Shorty)

» Ray Bones se sienta en el barco con su jefe,Jimmy Cap, y con dos tias buenas en bikini,las cuales frotan a Jimmy con crema.


• Paradoxically, while the US was churningout the ditsy, vulnerable Californian pale babeas the American dream, the German Naziswere also extolling the purity of the blonde asthe Aryan ideal. (Guardian)• Meanwhile the fanfare around the blondchick has increased. — 'Who are you? Andwhy is everyone taking your picture?' -'I'mthe new Baywatch babe. Brooke Burns.'(Salon)• Greg's dorm room: a shrine to hot babes,whose posters adorn the walls. (CruelIntentions)• Just look at how hot all the sci-fi babes arein their clingy jumpsuits. (Salon)

• Paradojicamente, mientras que los EstadosUnidos promocionaba la tipica californiana pa-lida tonta como el prototipo del sueno america-no, los nazis alemanes tambien estaban alabandola pureza de la rubia como el ideal ario.• Mientras tanto, la fanfarria alrededor de la tiarubia ha subido de tono. — ' Quien eres? Ypor que todos te estan haciendo fotos?' — 'Soyla nueva tia buena de Vigilantes de la play a.Brooke Burns.'• La habitaci6n del colegio mayor de Greg:un santuario dedicado a las tias buenas, cu-yos posters adornan las paredes.• Mira que buenas estan todas las ninfas quehacen ciencia ficcion con sus monos apre-tados.

SYNONYMS

bit of all right (UK) Haven'tyou seen Colin's missis, then.Came down here the other day.She's a bit of all right, I can tellyou. She got a right few stares.(Alan Beretta)dolly, dollybird (UK) Most ofthe blokes are married... Yououghta hear the crap they come

out with. 'What's a lovely dollylike you doing slaving away inan office?' Translation: 'Wannafuck?' (E.A. Whitehead)fox (US) • It was Cassius Clay,as he then called himself, ac-companied by two gorgeousfoxes. (Sporting News) • Heknows what happens when acute-looking fox gets loose in anurban kitchen and the true value

of a hooker's heart of gold. (NewYork Times)stunner Not to be outdone, CBIdirector general Adair Turnerstrode up to a real stunner intight trousers and was soon en-gaged in a passionate embracebut media interest waned oniden t i f i ca t ion of the luckylady. Mrs Turner. (Guardian)

3. h a piece of ass -unpolvo

This is an American usage, understood in the UK but not imitated. One does not speak of a piece of arse. Asthe following terms refer to women considered strictly as sexual objects, individually or collectively, theymay all be considered more or less objectionable. Some of the terms are more specific than others.

•You're why I'm killing myself to be somethingmore than just somebody's dumb and stupidpiece of ass! And now you want to treat melike I'm nothing but just some hump, to use— use for every kinky weirdo thing you wantto do. (Philip Roth)* She was beautiful! She was young! She wasinnocent! She was the greatest piece of assI've ever had, and I've had 'em all over theworld! (The Godfather)

• jTu eres la razon por la cual me estoy ma-tando para ser algo mas que el culo tonto yestiSpido de alguien! Y ahora quieres tratarmecomo si no fuera mas que un ligue, de usar ytirar — usar para las cosas mas estrafalarias ycachondas que se te ocurran.. Erahermosa! Erajoven! jErainocente! Erael mejor culo que habia tenido, ;y los he teni-do por todo el mundo!


• 'He said I was a wonderful piece of ass,' sheannounced nostalgically, and shortly after this,told me, 'We used to love to fuck in front ofmirrors,' (William Styron)• Hello, poor white trash! How'd you like apiece of ass, poor white trash? (CharlesBukowski)

• 'Dijo que era un polvo estupendo,' anuncidnostalgicamente, y al poco rato, me dijo, 'Nosencantaba foliar delante de espejos.'

• jHola, basurita blanca! Te gustaria catar unbuen culo, basurita blanca?

RELATED TERMS:

ass Used to describe womencollectively as objects of sexualdesire. • Then he comes backfrom the Army and all he caresabout is chasing ass. (JohnUpdike)bimbo Usually, a sexually at-tractive young woman of limitedintelligence; sometimes, a pros-titute. • Sexual infidelity is notthe worst thing in the world. LetDart fuck bimbos, as long as healways comes home to me.(Erica Jong) • Do you know a lit-tle bimbo called June? A nutty-looking little blonde? (RobertStone)bike Short for bicycle. • All Iknew about her was what Ivorhad told me, that she was the of-fice bike, that every man in theplace had ridden the arse off her.(Alice Chapman)chippy • Momma, Poppa, this ismy wife, the chippy. Isn't she awild piece of ass? (Philip Roth)crumpet Oh, young man likeyou, soccer star and all that...shouldn't think you'd go short ofcrumpet? (E.A. Whitehead)floozie, floozy • She never hadwhat it takes to be a call girl likeyou — so getting control of yourmind was her revenge. Janelle'sjust a puffed up bridge-and-tun-nel floozy who thinks she knowssomething about human psy-chology because she has a CSW.(Salon) • I had yet to witness awoman entirely unclothed — and

this includes the old floozy inCharlotte who wore a stainedand malodorous shift throughoutthe whole proceeding. (WilliamStyron)fuck • You're a lousy fuck. Yourfriend, Joan, is a better fuck thanyou are... and she's a lousy fuck.(David Mamet)jailbait Used of a girl who istoo young to have sex with le-gally. • The next year theydrifted to Paris, where Farinafell in love with Mimi Baez, alovely piece of 15-year-oldjailbait. Farina would eventuallydivorce his wife. (Salon)lay • Didn't even say Au revoirWalks off swinging her hat andhumming to herself like. That'sa whore for you! A good laythough. (Henry Miller) • He hadhad many a lay but never had amore exciting sexual experiencethan scrubbing and lathering therice paddy whores. Even now hegot a blue veiner every time heheld a bar of soap. (JosephWambaugh) • She's the girl youused to go around with in col-lege? She's a good lay. (WilliamGaddis)man-eater A sexually voraciouswoman. • This chick, Elois, wasa man-eater-upper. I bet everyguy who's ever met her hasjacked off to her at least once.(Reservoir Dogs)nympho A sexually voraciouswoman. • — It is a male mythabout feminists that we hate sex.Unfortunately there are some

people (it is called satyriasis inmen, nymphomania in women)who engage in it compulsivelyand without joy. — Listen,Maude, I'm sorry if your step-mother is a nympho, but I don'tsee what it has to do with me.(The Big Lebowski) • I supposeyou think I'm some kind ofnympho? I don't want to be toostatistical about it, but I amthirty-eight and I've only fuckedseven men. (E.A. Whitehead)pussy • Mexico, that's a goodplace. They got that good pussydown there. (Robert Stone)• Man, didn't we have a goodtime tonight? You rode in mycar. I showed you a good cathouse, all that sweet blackpussy. Ain't we friends? (DavidRabe) • Let's talk about pussy.Did you get laid last night?(James Ellroy)root (Austr) • Johnny Bickelthought she'd be an easy rootand began to take notice of her.(Donald Ireland)screw • As a matter of fact, sheisn't such a great screw, but atleast she doesn't nag me day andnight, the way you do. (AliceChapman)scrubber (UK) • — I didn't careif he screwed the odd scrubbernow and again. It meant nothingto me. I could stand it if hecould. But he couldn't. He let itgo to his head. — He's a roman-tic. (E.A. Whitehead)slag • He managed to get JudgeJames Pickles to admit that if


you murdered someone and thensaid 'it was because he calledmy mum a slag' you would prob-ably get away with manslaugh-ter. (Guardian)spare • I got the impressionMaurice was on the look-out fora bit of spare. Some of the girlswe get in here don't leave muchto the imagination. (RogerBusby)swinger Often applied specifi-cally to someone who partici-pates in group sex, partner-swapping, etc. • I been associ-ated with a guy. He's English,he used to be a masseur. He's got

a bunch of goofs he works —swingers, whip freaks, far-outshit like that. (Robert Stone)• Some operators have convertednudist colonies into 'swingercamps', the new rural retreatsfor the randy. (Time)tail Often used in the expressionsa bit of tail and a piece of tail.• Where's all the tail today? NoHermione, no Bunty, noChristabel? (Jeremy Potter)• Him and four buddies want alittle dough to get a high classpiece of tail. (George V.Higgins)tart • What interested me was

the Moroccan girl and her girl-friend. They were behaving ex-actly like English tarts in the for-ties. (Joe Orton) • 'Confoundedwhore!' he suddenly bellowed,in a voice which nearly blew mefrom my seat. 'Slut! Malicioustart!' (Akbar del Piombo)tramp • Yeah, I remember her.Song and dance. Nice legs andgenerous with 'em. She went offsomewheres. How would I knowwhat them tramps do?(Raymond Chandler)trim • I know what you need. Alittle trim. (Joseph Wambaugh)

3. i cockteaser -calientapollas

• In front of me was a well-groomed womanreading a paper. Her dress was up around herthighs. She crossed her legs and her dress mo-ved up even higher. The goddamned cockteaser,I'd give her a hundred strokes, I'd give herseven-and-a-half inches of throbbing purple!(Charles Bukowski)

• Delante mio habia una mujer de muy buenacatadura leyendo un peri6dico. Su vestido lequedaba bastante por encima de los musios.Cruzo sus piernas y el vestido subio aun mas.Maldita calientapollas, le daria un centenar deembestidas. jLe darfa veinticinco centfmetrosde purpura palpitante!

SYNONYMS:

prickteaser — Did you get yourhole? — No. — Never mind,

mate. Not worth torturing your-self. You know what they are?They're just a couple of prick-teasers. (E.A. Whitehead)

3. j wet dream -sueno humedo

• Adolescence brought the same feveredfantasies and wet dreams everyoneexperiences, but by that time I suppose myattitude was set — if I thought aboutmasturbation at all, it was only as somethingother, icky little boys did. (Salon)* I know it's a cliche to say that films are likedreams — like a collective unconscious. Thereare horror movies which are like nightmares,and then there are dirty movies like Deep

• La adolescencia trajo las mismas fantasiasfebriles y suenos humedos que todo el mundosiente, pero para entonces supongo que mi ac-titud ya estaba fijada - si es que llegaba a pen-sar en la rnasturbacion, solo era como algoasqueroso que hacian los otros chicos.• Ya Se que es un topico decir que las pelicu-las son como los suenos - como una sub-conciencia colectiva. Hay peliculas de terrorque son como pesadillas, y luego hay pelfcu-


Throat and Emmanuelle which are like wetdreams. (Jonathan Coe)* It was suddenly as if my life were takingplace in the middle of a wet dream. There Iwas, going down at last on the star of all thosepornographic films that I had been producingin my head since I first laid a hand upon myown joint. (Philip Roth)

las guarras como Gargania profunda yEmmanuelle que son como suenos humedos.• Era, de pronto, como si mi vida se desarrollaraen medio de un sueno humedo. Alli estaba yo,convertido al fin en el protagonista de to-das aquellas pellculas pornograficas quehabia estado produciendo en mi cabeza des-de que puse por primera vez la mano sobremi propia polla.


EXERCISE


1. (a) boner (b) stand (c) horn (d) stud (e) ramrod (f) blue veiner

2. (a) turned-on (b) randy (c) randy-arsed (d) hot (e) dolly (f) cunt-struck

3. (a) lay (b) man-eater (c) nympho (d) tart (e) bimbo (f) stunner

4. (a) crumpet (b) wet dream (c) toy boy (d) hunk (e) stud

5. (a) the hots (b) jailbait (c) hot pants (d) lech (e) the glad eye (f) perve

EXERCISE 3.2

Here are some less common idiomatic and slang terms for body functions, nine of which have beendealt with in this chapter. Try to identify the subject to which each group of synonyms and relatedterms refers.1. alley cat, bangster, bed

bunny, calico queen, easymeat, free-for-all, goobergrabber, grassback, grind,high flyer, hobby horse, hotnumber, hot stuff, MissHorner, nestlecock, piece ofstray, push-over, roundheel,scupper, shagstress, slot-job

2. burgeoning truncheon, Cap-tain Standish, chubby, flag-pole, Irish toothache, morn-

ing pride, Proud Mary, rockpython, spike, stalk, stand-up, stiff, stiffer, Steely Dan,throbber, woody

3. brimming, bulging, drip-ping for it, frisky, gamy,humpy, in the mood,juiced up, juicy, lathered,moist, motor running, onfor one's greens, oncom-ing, pruney, rammish,rooty, ruttish, wet

4. animal, basher, bed-presser,belly bumper, Bluebeard,chimney sweep, cockhound, cocksman,cocksmith, eager beaver,fleece hunter, flesh fly, hairmonger, headhunter, make-out artist, Mr Horner, pinch-bottom, rooster, rutter,sexpert, sharpshooter,sportsman, stallion, swords-man, woodman

EXERCISE 3.3


1. Ron Jeremy no es exactamente el tipico semental. 2. A menudo he pensado que agradable seria siun tio entrara en casa, me follara y se largara sin enrollarse ni decir nada. 3. Me quite los pantalonesy empece a besarla. Se me empalmo rapidamente. 4. Esta enconado con mi amiga, es asqueroso. 5.Mira que buenas estan todas las ninfas de sciencia ficcion con sus monos apretados. 6. Salimos unascuantas veces. Nunca nos acostamos, pero jugueteamos. 7. Cruzo sus piernas y el vestido se retrayomas aun. La maldita calientapollas! 8. No hables asi, me estas poniendo cachonda. 9. jEra hermosa!jEra joven! Era inocente! Era la mejor culo que habia tenido en mi vida! 10. No se me ha puestodura desde hace siglos. 11. ;Un hijo de puta intento ligarseme! (Era de lo mas grosero! jRealmenteodio a esos tipos! jSon repugnantes! 12. Hay peliculas guarras como Garganta profunda que soncomo suenos humedos. 13. Era excitante. Me senti como si estuviese siendo violado. Se me empezoa empalmar la polla. 14. Quien en su sano juicio hubiera creido que ella estaba loca por el ? 15.Relaciones sexuales significa el coito. Solo estabamos jugueteando. 16. — Clara me engana. — Quequieres decir? — Que mi mujer se acuesta con otros. 17. Era, de pronto, como si mi vida estuvieradesenvolviendo en medio de una polucion nocturna. 18. Pude ver aquellas largas piernas, las rodillas,los delicados tobillos. Empece a ponerme cachondo. 19. 'Dijo que tenia un culo estupendo,' anuncioLaura nostalgicamente. 20. La escuche respirar fuertemente, luego gemir. Me excitaba. Se me empal-mo.


3.1

EXERCISE 3.4

(Several women are reminiscing about their sexual experiences. One of them tells how she reactedto being abandoned by her husband.)

When Edward walked out on me I was desperate. I mean, I was a fucking housewife,had no job, no friends, no contact with anyone. Completely isolated. And I was so angry andhumiliated that I was determined to get myself fucked by the first man I could. But could I?I couldn't even meet a man. I mean, I wasn't invited out, the other wives I knew treated me asif I was a fucking leper or something. So finally I had to force myself to go and sit in a pub.I got a drink, looked around, and then I went and sat next to the least repellent male in there.I chatted him up and then I took him back to the house. I'd got everything ready in advance...I'd left the kids at my mother's so we had the place to ourselves ... and we sat on the couchand started snogging. Well... I don't know if it was all the snogging or what but I chickenedout. I told him I couldn't make it... because I knew he thought I was on the game. Somehowthat thought turned me right off. I said maybe if we could meet again I might feel different,might feel better then. You know what he said? He said he couldn't make assignations becausethen he'd feel like he was betraying his wife but if he banged me on the spot then he wouldn'tfeel so bad about it! What a fucking hypocrite! I told him to bugger off. Then he asked me...well, if I wouldn't fuck, could he lick me out and wank himself off? That shook me... I'dnever heard of anything like that before! I mean, Edward had never been really hot atsex, and what he had done had always been pretty conventional... he was playing thegood Catholic boy, of course... but anyway I was curious so I told this bastard to goright on with it. You know what he said? He said, 'OK, you go and wash it.' Wash it!Christ, it was all right to stick his dick in me but not his precious tongue! But I wasstupid enough to trot to the bathroom and do it! After he'd gone I could have kickedmyself. There was come all over the couch and I could never get rid of the stains.

From the play Old Flames by E.A. Whitehead


1. A deprecatory adjective used for negative emphasis but with no particular meaning. 2. A verbmeaning to have sexual intercourse, to perform the sex act. 3. A verb meaning to engage in flirtatiousconversation with a person and usually to make sexual advances. 4. A verb meaning to kiss and caress.5. An adverbial phrase which means engaged in prostitution. 6. A verb meaning to have sexualintercourse with a woman. 7. A phrasal verb meaning to leave, depart, go away. 8. A phrasal verbmeaning to perform cunnilingus. 9. A verb meaning to masturbate. 10. A deprecatory term which canbe used of any male. 11. A word which means penis. 12. A word which means semen.


4: SEXUAL ACTIVITY4. a grope -magrear

Used as a verb, the word refers to fondling or attempting to fondle someone's genitals or a woman'sbreasts. As a noun, it refers to foreplay involving manual stimulation of the genitals.

• Diana Ross' reaction to an alleged mid-friskbreast brush by a female security guard atLondon's Heathrow Airport was to grope thegrabby gal right back and sweetly inquire,'How do you like it?' (Salon)

* What? No lustful gallants eager to give youyour first experience? Your first tender, never-to-be-forgotten grope? (E.A. Whitehead)

. Willey had come directly to her home after aNovember 1996 meeting with Clinton, 'upsetand humiliated', allegedly because thepresident had 'groped' her. (Salon)• You're jammed into the crowd with no wayout and all the time the men are staring at youand pressing against you. Their hands are allover you. Oh, not the Italian pinch on thebottom, I mean they're really feeling yourbody and squeezing and groping at you. (E.A.Whitehead)

• La reaccion de Diana Ross hacia la supues-ta rozadura de pecho en pleno cacheo por par-te de una encargada de seguridad en elaeropuerto de Heathrow en Londres fue la demeterle mano y preguntarle con dulzura, Tegusta?'• Que? No hubo ningun galan lujurioso an-sioso de proporcionarte tu primera experien-cia? £Tu primera tierna, e inolvidable, metidade mano?• Willey habia venido directamente a su casa trasuna reunion en noviembre de 1996 con Clinton,'disgustada y humillada', al parecer porque elpresidente le habia 'metido mano'.• Estas atascada en medio de la multitud sinpoder salir y los hombres no paran de mirartey achucharte. Sus manos estan por todo tucuerpo. Oh, no merefiero al tipico pellizco ita-liano en el culo, sino a que estan tocandote deverdad, apretujandose contra ti, y metiendoternano.

RELATED TERMS:

The following words denote different degrees of amorous engagement, or different stages of foreplay,from the relatively innocent (neck, footsie, smooch) to the more intense (dryhump, finger-fuck).

canoodle (US) To kiss and cud-dle. • One year I lived in a com-mune where I loved and sleptwith two men, both Teamsters,one of whom worked the day shiftwhile the other worked nights. Icanoodled with Cary on the sofafor a couple hours in the after-noon, and with Marcus during thenight. (Susie Bright)dryhump, dryfuck (US) To ap-proximate the sex act without pen-etration or divestiture, and (so theterm implies) without orgasm.

• She was raised in this house. Thegirl who has let me undo her bras-siere and dryhump her at the dor-mitory door, grew up in this whitehouse. (Philip Roth)feel up To fondle someone'sgenitals. • He literally bumpedinto Ziggy feeling up the pretti-est girl at the party in a dark dampcorner. (Mordecai Richler)fingerfuck, fingerbang To inserta finger or fingers in the vulva.• I was a guest at Aly Khan's fordinner when you were still back

in Newark, New Jersey, finger-fucking your little Jewish girlfriends! (Philip Roth)• She wants you to fingerfuckher shikse cunt till she faints.(Philip Roth) • Your days of fin-ger-banging old Mary JaneRottencrotch through her prettypink panties are over! (FullMetal Jacket)footsie Amorous and clandes-tine play with the feet. Nearlyalways in the expression to playfootsie. Often used figuratively,


as in the second example. • Iplayed footsie with her duringDon Jose's first seduction byCarmen. (George Fowler) • Whydon't you admit it, Irma? Youplayed footsie with the SS,didn't you? Isn't that how yougot out of Auschwitz, Irma?(William Styron)make out • Through the window,we see a couple making out on thehood of a car. (Chasing Amy)• Holden glances at the disc inhis hands. Pictured on it are twogorgeous chicks, barely clad,making out. The title is 'MenSuck., and so do Girls — AllXXX Action.' (Chasing Amy)• Cecile, we just made out in themiddle of Central Park. You cantrust me. (Cruel Intentions)

neck To kiss and caress. • —You know what I'm doing,George? — No, Martha... whatare you doing? — I'm entertain-ing. I'm entertaining one of theguests. I'm necking with one ofthe guests. (Edward Albee)slap and tickle (UK) Light-hearted kissing and caressing.• He'd woo her the way she ob-viously wanted, flowers and at-tention and not too much slapand tickle. (Colleen McCullough)smooch To kiss and caress, es-pecially while dancing to slow,romantic music. • That wasprobably a relief for the dimlylit duo, who had predicted theend of the world in a specialmillennium X-Files episode.Excitement at being alive as 2000

dawned propelled the famouslyunromantic couple into each oth-er's arms for a New Year smooch.(Guardian) • The smooching be-gins, quite pleasurable at first,and after interminable minutesof this foreplay, there starts therepetitious and inevitable build-up... (William Styron)snog (UK) To kiss and caress.• I liked him. I thought he was areally nice boy. The only thing,he always wanted to snog. Themain event of an evening out, forhim, was the snogging sessionin the back of the car. (E.A.Whitehead)touch up To fondle someone'sgenitals. • Good-looking tart... Iwouldn't have minded her touch-ing me up. (Clive Egleton)

4. b fuck -joder, foliar

The most popular swearword in English entered the language at the beginning of the 16th century,origin unknown but perhaps related to German ficken, to strike, to copulate with. The verb is usedtransitively and intransitively. Numerous idiomatic uses are examined in Chapter 10.

• Most other countries weren't even inhabita-ble anymore. They had too many people andnot enough space... and still the people wenton fucking all the time. Fucking was howbabies were made. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)• Before I went into analysis I was completelyfrigid, can you imagine? Now all I do is thinkabout fucking. Wilhelm Reich has turned meinto a nympho, I mean sex on the brain.(William Styron)* After all a wife is a human being. She needsa fuck as much as we do. What else is there?A feed, a fuck, a good kip... (E.A. Whitehead)

* I would look at myself in the mirror, pinchthe skin under my chin, and decide that I wasgoing through menopause and was drying upfor want of a good fuck. I am not the sort ofwoman who goes without sex without aprotest. (Erica Jong)

• La mayoria de los demas paises ni siquieraeran habitables. Tenian demasiada gente y nohabia suficiente espacio... pero la gente se-guia follando sin parar. Follando era como sehacian los ninos.• Antes de empezar con las sesiones de tera-pia era completamente frigida, £te lo imagi-nas? Ahora lo unico que hago es pensar enfoliar. Wilhem Reich me ha convertido en unaninfomana, con sexo en el seso.• Despues de todo, una esposa es un ser hu-mano. Necesita ser follada tanto como noso-tras. Que otra cosa hay? Comer, foliar, echaruna cabezada...• Me miraba en el espejo, me pellizcaba lapiel bajo la barbilla, y decidia que estaba pa-sando por la menopausia, y me estaba que-dando seca de tantas ganas que tenia de queme follaran. No soy el tipo de mujer que pue-de pasar del sexo sin protestar.


• When was the last time you had a fuck? Isthat an embarrassing question for you?(Naked)

• Cuando fue la ultima vez que follaste? Teda corte la pregunta?

SYNONYMS:

ball Especially of a man.• That's what any eighteen-year-old chick or thirty-year-oldchick will tell you when you takeher out: 'You don't love me, youjust want to ball me.' (LennyBruce) • And you can tell theworld all about those chicks thatyou ball. (Gore Vidal) • WhatTom Cruise doesn't know isshe's really a hooker, and JimBelushi 's been balling her.(Jonathan Coe)bang • He is nine years old.Where does he learn phrases like'banging beaver' and 'fuckGod'? (Deconstructing Harry)• — This Ms. Allen next door,was he banging her? — I don'tthink so, man, she's like sev-enty-five years old. (Sea ofLove) • I've been trying to bangthis broad for a fucking monthnow. The only thing is she won'tgo out with me alone, you know.(GoodFellas)bonk (UK) • — What is a properrelationship? — Living withsomeone who talks to you afterthey've bonked you. (Naked)• Fiona has become so frustratedthat she has been bonking thechairman of the neighbouringconstituency's Conservative as-sociation. (Daily Telegraph)diddle • She suspects that your de-crepit alcoholic father is diddlingthe maid. (Cruel Intentions)dip one's wick Used of a man,from the notion of inserting thepenis. • None of your barmaidsor local peasant wenches forPete. He's very calculatingwhere he dips his wick. (Robert

Barnard) • But if you do get laid... if you do manage to moistenthe old wick, how many peoplewould stop, before, during, orafter, and give thanks to a justcreator? (David Mamet)frig Euphemistic, the originalmeaning being to move briskly.• High-pressure romancing: find'em, fool 'em, frig 'em and for-get 'em. (Mezzrow & Wolfe)get one's hole • I was like ayoung bull in those days, gettingmy hole three times a night andstill not satisfied. (John Ogilby)get one's end away (UK) • Theycalled him Grandad, asking himhow his girlfriends were. 'Areyou getting it?' they kept repeat-ing. 'Getting your end away?'(Guardian)get one's leg over • My God,she wears these tight little skirts.I don't know if she realises theeffect she has on a bloke like me.What do you reckon the chancesof getting a leg over are? (AlanBeretta)get one's oats • — What's gotinto you tonight? Needing youroats or something? — I hadwhat you call my oats last night.I do not need them again tonight.(John McGrath)get one's rocks off Used of aman. • Nothing... nothing makesyou so attractive to the oppositesex as getting your rocks off ona regular basis. (David Mamet)goose Sometimes denoting spe-cifically anal intercourse. • W.H.Auden says that it is more mor-ally confusing to be goosed by abishop than by a traveling sales-man. (Erica Jong)have it off, have it away (UK)

• I unzipped my fly, pulled downmy underpants and came onClive's belly. He later told mehe'd had it off with a photogra-pher the previous night and sowasn't much concerned with hav-ing it away himself. (Joe Orton)hump • — You're disgusting. —Because you're going to humpMartha, I'm disgusting? (EdwardAlbee) • She's moaning andgroaning and about to go thewhole long route. Humping andbumping, and she's screaming ...all of a sudden she screams'Wait.' (David Mamet) • Story ishe humped the faculty wives inalphabetical order. (MalcolmBradbury) • Less a Don Juanthan a beta male, I resembled oneof those bachelor sea elephantswho gets in some humping when-ever the alpha king of the haremfalls asleep. (Hank Hyena)jump • She admitted she alwayswanted him to jump her. (RobertL. Chapman)knock off (UK) How long's hebeen knocking off the vicar'swife then? (Alan Beretta)lay Mostly used passively, to belaid or to get laid. • While you'restruggling with a little bitch likethat there may be a dozen cuntson the terrasse just dying to belaid. It's a fact. They all comeover here to get laid... I had amarried woman the other daywho told me she hadn't had a layfor six months. (Henry Miller)• The Way to Get Laid is to Treat'Em like Shit. (David Mamet)make it • We were legally sepa-rated. I made it with a lottachicks, you're entitled to make itwith a lotta guys. (Lenny Bruce)


• How could you make it withhim? That fat, disgusting piece of— you cunt! (Lenny Bruce)make out (US) Often, as inthese examples, stressing suc-cess in achieving sexual inter-course, but it also means simplykissing and cuddling. See 4.aabove. • 'You want to know howtruck drivers make out withwomen, right?' the driver said.'You have this idea that everydriver is fucking up a storm fromcoast to coast, r ight? ' (KurtVonnegut Jr.)• Those fucking firemen makeout like bandits. (David Mamet)• Here I am pushing thirty yearsold. I fall crazy in love with aPolish shiksa and she keeps hersweet treasure all locked up astightly as little Shirly MirmelsteinI tried to make out with for fivewhole years. (William Styron)nail • Name me one chick in oursenior class that Rick Derrisdidn't nail, for Christ's sake!(Chasing Amy) • I'm also learnedin the ways of the heart, and canoffer you this advice: nail her, getit out of your system, and moveon. (Chasing Amy) • — How didit go with Mrs. Jesus? — If you'reasking if I nailed her, the answeris no. (Cruel Intentions)poke • Working-class morality...It's a stallion-style morality. Theprinciple is very simple: themale pokes everything he can getuntil one day he inadvertentlypokes himself into wedlock; after

that he stops poking and startslusting. (E.A. Whitehead)ride • She mounted him and rodehim until they climaxed to-gether. (S. Allen) • She was thecollege bike, everybody had rid-den her. (James Laffan) • — Doyou mind if I take my newPorsche for a ride? — Kathryn,the only thing you're going to beriding is me. (Cruel Intentions)• Can't get a bird: no chanceof a ride. Got a bird: too muchhassle. (Trainspotting)root • I don't eat pork... I don'teat filthy animals. Pigs sleep androot in shit. That's a filthy ani-mal. (Pulp Fiction)score Stressing success inachieving sexual intercourse.• — This is where you takestraight chicks on dates? —This'11 probably be the first timeI don't score afterwards. — I don'tknow. I'm starting to get a tinglein my bottom. (Chasing Amy)screw • Sergeant Yanov's onlyimmediate passion in life ... wassome night to drag officer RebaHadley away from the nightwatchdesk and into the basement andrip her tight blue uniform blouseand skirt from her tantalizingyoung body and literally screw thebadge right off her. Which wasperhaps symbolically linked withYanov's avowed belief that supe-rior officers had been screwinghim mercilessly for the pasteleven years. (Joseph Wambaugh)• Those redneck maggots like to

read their Bibles over you whilethey screw you in the ass. (JosephWambaugh) • 'Roscoe'd screw thecrack of dawn,' said Father Willie.(Joseph Wambaugh)shag • — Did you have to beather up? —- I never beat her up.— You shagged her, though?(Naked) • 'I've got to meetsomeone,' I whispered desper-ately. 'Shame,' he said softly. 'Seeyou Monday,' and gave me a lookso dirty I felt like throwing my-self after him shouting 'Shag me!Shag me!' (Helen Fielding)• Feeling a bewildering mixtureof smugness and pride over myperfect new boyfriend whom thegirls clearly wished to have a goat shagging. (Helen Fielding)shtup (US) Yiddish, to push, toshove. • With those legs — why,of course he was shtupping her... Wasn't he? (Philip Roth)slip it to somebody • Could hehave been slipping it to her?Could my father have been slip-ping it to this lady on the side?(Philip Roth)stuff Used of a male. • He wassacked from Eton for stuffing theboys' maids. (Sunday Times)• — I love her, but she has a past.— I'll say. Stuffing two guys, eat-ing chicks out. (Chasing Amy)tear it off a bit Used of a manhaving sex with a woman. • Ital-ian wives must sit and suffer ifthe men tear off a bit on the sly.(Custom Car)

4. c nooky, nookie -polvos

. Dustin Hoffman also nailed huge numbersof nookie in his prime, notes a Nov. 15 articlein the Evening Standard of London. 'If anyonethinks Jack Nicholson and I got laid less thanWarren Beatty when we were single, they'rewrong.' (Salon)

• Dustin Hoffman, en su momento cumbre,tambien mojo en grandes cantidades, indicaun articulo del 15 de noviembre en el EveningStandard de Londres. 'Si alguien cree que JackNicholson y yo follamos menos que WarrenBeatty cuando eramos solteros, se equivoca.'


• If one of my friends discovered that my wifehad been having a quick bit of nooky, Iwouldn't want them to tell me. If she decidesto tell me — that's different. (Guardian)• You might even have enough free time to getyou a little nooky. A growin' Southern boy'sgot to have his poontang, don't he. (WilliamStyron)

• Si uno de mis amigos descubriera que miesposa se estaba tirando a otro, no quisieraque me lo contara. Si ella decide contarmelo— eso es distinto.• Puede que incluso tengas suficiente tiempopara ligarte a alguna. Un joven sureno tieneque pillar un poco de cono, seguro que si.

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hanky-panky Surreptitioussexual activity. • Parish council-lors in Kinver, Staffordshire, areconsidering putt ing pricklyplants in a local park to deteryoungsters going behind thebushes at night for a bit ofhanky-panky. (Guardian)how's your father (UK) Euphe-mistic. Sexual intercourse. • ThePrincess and the Pea Brain' as onepaper dubbed them... Naturallyboth parties strenuously deniedany how's-your-father. (Q)knee-trembler Describes an actof sexual intercourse betweenpeople standing up. • Theywould be going to the pub for apint and afterwards Nelsonwould get her against our backwall for a knee-trembler... Heclaimed that knee-tremblerswere the most exhausting way ofhaving sex. (B.W. Aldiss)• We're not taking each other onthe couch, grabbing a noon

quickie, having a little knee-trembler before we do the dishes.Instead, we're having work-re-lated sex. (Salon)one-night stand An extremelybrief sexual liaison. • Katie willalways insist on going back toher intended's home for sex. 'It'sa more empowering thing to dobecause you can leave when youwant... I don't want to taint myown flat with the messiness of aone-night stand.' (Guardian)poontang (US) Sexual inter-course. Probably from Frenchputain, whore. • You think wewaste gooks for freedom? Thisis a slaughter. If I'm gonna getmy balls blown off for a word ...my word is 'poontang'. (FullMetal Jacket)rumpy-pumpy (UK) Surrepti-tious sexual intercourse. • Sowhy don't Mulder and Scully gettogether? Fans of the show havealways insisted that any hint ofrumpy-pumpy would underminea relationship based on profes-

sional trust. (Guardian)the other Euphemistic. Usuallyin phrase a bit of the other. • I'vegot to be noticed by any guywho's on the prowl away fromhome and looking for a bit of theother. (Spectator)tumble • It just so happenedthat as he was concluding hisspeech a whore gave us the eye.Without the slightest transitionhe says to me abruptly: 'Wouldyou like to give her a tumble? Itwon't cost much... she'll takethe two of us on.' (Henry Miller)wham, bam, thank you ma'amDenotes sexual intercourse donequickly and generally withouttenderness. • — What a flop! —If you hadn't touched me... —Ha! If I hadn't touched you...What did you expect after thatbuild up? After all that lickingand biting and kissing and roll-ing around the sandhill. I wasaching. So I touch you... andWHAM BAM THANK YOU M A ' A M !

(E.A. Whitehead)

4. d gangbang -violation colectiva, sexo tribal

These two terms refer to sex involving several people. Gangbang applies to an act of multipleintercourse, especially one in which several men in succession have sex with the same woman. A daisychain is sex involving three or more people, often male homosexuals, simultaneously.

» I ever tell you about that slopehead we usedto gangbang in Nam, partner? This little gookwas about fourteen, but retarded. Had the brainof a chicken and nearsighted to boot. We gota translator to tell her that fucking was good

• Alguna vez te conte lo de la asiatica que nostirabamos ente todos en Vietnam, colega? Estaasiatiquilla tenia unos catorce anos, pero era re-trasada. Tenia el cerebro de una gallina y eramiope para colmo. Conseguimos un traductor


for her eyes. (Joseph Wambaugh)* Carolina Moon and Ora Lee Tingle are justabout the only broads you ever ball lately andI think you only do that to be a respectablemember of an unrespectable group that getsdrunk once a week and gangbangs two fat coc-ktail waitresses. (Joseph Wambaugh)• I'm fucked if I'm going to spend the rest ofmy life in an Arab gaol for the sake of thatlittle cow! Look at her. Sitting there. Allinnocent. She marched out of here half-nakedand got gang-banged... and she tells it straightlike a story out of True Romances! (E.A.Whitehead)

para decirla que foliar era bueno para sus ojos.• Carolina Moon y Ora Lee Tingle son, prac-ticamente, las unicas tias que te tiras ultima-mente y creo que solo lo haces por sermiembro respetable de un grupo nada respe-table que se emborracha una vez a la semanay juntos se tiran a dos gordas camareras.• Estaria jodido si me fuera a quedar el restode mi vida en una carcel arabe por culpa deesa vaquilla! Mirala. Ahi sentada. Todainocente. Salio de aqui medio desnuda y se la tiraron entre varios... y lo cuenta sin rodeos comoun cuento sacado de Romances veridicosl

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daisy chain • Schnitzler 'splay lays out a sexual daisychain of five men and five

with a soldier, who sleeps witha chambermaid, who sleepswith her young employer, whosleeps with a married woman,and so on, ending up with the

women: A prost i tute sleeps prostitute again. (Salon) • You

have to do more than take alittle gas, or slash the wrists.Pot? Zero! Daisy cha ins?Nothing! Debauchery? A mu-seum word. (Saul Bellow)

4. e go down on someone -chupar, mamar

* Here is a honey of a girl, with the softest,pinkest, most touching nipples I have everdrawn between my lips, only she won't godown on me. (Philip Roth)* I do not want her body. Do not want to seeit, caress it, go down on it. (Kate Millett)

If you think 37 dicks is a lot, then you justwait and see, Mister. I'm going to put thehookers in Times Square to shame with all theguys I go down on now. (Clerks)* Chicks never help you out. They never tellyou what to do. And most of them are self-conscious about that smell factor, and somost of the time they just lay there, frozenlike a deer in the headlights, right? Butwhen a chick goes down on me, I let herknow where to go and what the status is.You gotta handle it like CNN and theWeather Channel — constant updates.(Chasing Amy)

• Aquf hay un encanto de chica, con los pezo-nes mas suaves, rosados y deliciosos que hetenido jamas entre los labios, solo que no quie-re chuparmela.• No quiero su cuerpo. No lo quiero ver, niacariciar, ni comermelo.• Si crees que 37 pollas son muchas, sientatey espera, tio. Voy a dejar a la altura del barroa las prostitutas de Times Square con todoslos tios que me como ahora.• Las tias nunca te ayudan. Nunca te dicenque hacer. Y a la mayorfa les da corte elfactor tufo, asi que la mayoria del tiempose quedan ahi, congeladas como un ciervoatrapado por los faros, verdad? Pero cuan-do una tia me la come, yo le digo adonde iry como va la cosa. Tienes que tomartelocomo si fueran las noticias o el tiempo —actualizandote constantemente.


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The following words relate to oral sex, both fellatio and cunnilingus. With the exception of blowjob,sixty-nine and soixante-neuf, all the terms are verbs.

blow • How would I like Bub-bles Giraldi to come to my ownhouse in the afternoon and blowme, as she did Smolka, on hisown bed? (Philip Roth) • Awoman blowing a man's natural.A woman blowing a dog's dis-gusting. (David Mamet)blowjob • You're so fuckingverbal. Who else could havetalked me into giving him ablowjob at my father's funeral?(Deconstructing Harry) • I'mthinking Hugh Grant... Howdoes a man with a girlfriend withlooks like Elizabeth Hurley havea blowjob from a prostitute on apublic highway and get awaywith it? What happened to hellhath no fury? (Helen Fielding)• We work long hours in The Busi-ness, I can tell you. It ain't all bou-quets and blowjobs, like you prob-ably think. (Joseph Wambaugh)eat • What Sally couldn't do waseat me. To shoot a gun at a littlequack-quack is fine, to suck mycock is beyond her. (PhilipRoth) • Yes sir, if I were somebig blond goy in a pink ridingsuit and hundred-dollar hunt-ing boots, don't worry, she'dbe down there eating me, ofthat I am sure! (Philip Roth)eat pussy • For a man to interestme, he has to eat my pussy. Haveyou ever eaten pussy? (CharlesBukowski) • Bearded men oftenhave cuntlike mouths; perhapsthat is why they so love to eatpussy: it is like kissing themselvesin a mirror. (Erica Jong)eat somebody out • That's howI was in high school — I wasnervous and inhibited about be-

ing eaten out. But by the time Igot to college, that all changed.I loosened up. (Chasing Amy)french • Honest, honey, I didn'tdo nothing to that guy. Onlyfooled around with him a little.I wasn ' t frenching him. Iwouldn't go down there and kissthat rich man's cock and suck hisballs like I'm gonna do to youright now. You know I wouldn'tdo that to no other man, don'tyou, honey? (Joseph Wambaugh)give head / give a headjob• You give good dialogue. I won-der if you give good head. (EricaJong) • My mother brought meup to believe that if I can't dosomething right, I shouldn't doit at all. Of course, my fathertold me she gave lousy head, butthat's beside the point. (ChasingAmy) • Some fruit picks up a guyin the restroom couple weeksago and offers him ten bucks tolet him give the guy a headjob,which is okay except he don'thave no money after he does it.(Joseph Wambaugh)muff-dive To perform cunnilin-gus. • I thought you were sup-posed to be a superior person, youmuff-diving, mother-fucking sonof a bitch! (Philip Roth)sixty-nine, soixante-neuf De-notes mutual oral stimulation ofthe genitals. The French term isconsidered more sophisticatedthan the English. • A quite niceboy of about seventeen ap-proached me. I do the soixante-neuf,' he said and added with abeam, I suck you.' This is some-thing I'd never heard a Moroc-can offer before. (Joe Orton)

suck somebody's cock• Mandel the next day tells methat within half an hour after myfrenetic departure, Bubbles wasdown on her fucking dago kneessucking his cock. (Philip Roth)• After an interval I noticed thatthe sixth man was kneelingdown beside the youngish manwith fair hair and sucking hiscock... As I was about to leave Iheard the bearded man hissingquietly, 'I suck people off! Whowants his cock sucked?' (JoeOrton)suck, suck off • Look, do youjust suck, or do you fuck, too?(Philip Roth) • She puts ice cubesin her mouth until her tongue andlips are freezing, then sucks meoff — then switches to hot tea!(Philip Roth) • It's like this per-missive society they talk about:never permitted me anything asfar as I recall. I mean like watch-ing schoolgirls suck each other offwhile you whip them... (PhilipLarkin)teabag Fellatio, performed sothat the woman takes the man'stesticles or both penis and testi-cles into her mouth. • Veteranfashion photographer David Bai-ley is taking a break from snap-ping supermodels to focus on ateabag. A British tea companyhas commissioned Bailey tosnap a whopping photo of itsprize bag. 'Teabag and glamor-ous are not words you'd expectto find in the same sentence,'Bailey told the U.K. Mirror. Ofcourse, anyone who saw JohnWaters' Pecker might take issuewith that. (Salon)


4. f rubber -condon, goma, globo

• — What's a collapsible container? — Arabbet. That's what we called them when weworked vice. In any police report when yourefer to a collapsible container, it's a rubber.(Joseph Wambaugh)• Josh didn't wear a rubber and now has a Te-rrible Disease. (Salon)• I've had it with whiners who complainabout condoms! They're just mad they'renot getting laid more often. Guys who knowwhat they're doing with rubbers are alover's dream come true. When you aren'tworried about getting knocked up or sick,you can thoroughly enjoy being horny. Endof story. (Susie Bright)• — Will you fuck me if I wear a rubber? —No. — If I don't? — Maybe. (Erica Jong)

es un recipiente plegable? — Unconddn. Asi los llamabamos cuando traba-jabamos en anti-vicio. En cualquier infor-me policial, cuando mencionas unrecipiente plegable, se trata de un condon.• Josh no se puso un conddn y ahora tiene unaEnfermedad Terrible.• Estoy harta de llorones que se quejan de loscondones! S61o estan cabreados porque follancon mayor frecuencia. Los tios que saben lo quehacen con los condones son el sueno hecho rea-lidad de cualquier amante. Cuando no te estaspreocupando de quedarte embarazada ni de pi-llar algo, puedes disfrutar a tope de estar cachon-da. Fin de la historia.• — Me follaras si me pongo un cond6n? —No. — i,Y si no me lo pongo? — Quizas.

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Durex (UK) A trademark, theUK's best known condom, nowa generic word. • — Hey, Andy...Have you got any Durex? —Never use them. I prefer it in theraw. (E.A. Whitehead)French letter, frenchy (UK)• For most of the 19th and 20thcenturies, the folk term was'French letter' (because con-doms came in discreet enve-lopes), irreverently abbreviatedto 'frenchie'. In the days when Iwas, as you might say, into con-

doms, I was struck by the chau-vinism with which frenchieswere advertised. 'British Manu-facture Throughout,' Durex usedproudly to proclaim. (Guardian)johnny (UK) • What is themark? Well, the mark, Brian, isthe bar code — the ubiquitousbar code that you'll find onevery bog-roll, on every packetof johnnies, on every poxy porkpie. (Naked)skin (US) • 'You got those rub-bers you use?' he asked sud-denly. 'I want those skins.' (TomSharpe)

Trojan (US) A trademark, thebest known condom in the US.• Now I have absolutely nothingto worry about except the Tro-jan I have been carrying aroundso long in my wallet that insideits tinfoil wrapper it has prob-ably been half eaten away bymold. One spurt and the wholething will go flying in pieces allover the inside of BubblesGiraldi's box. (Philip Roth) • Igazed at her prettiness, thinkingabout the Trojan Extra-Lube Ialways carry in my wallet.(Hank Hyena)

4. g jerk off -hacerse una paja, pelarsela

This is the most common American term meaning to masturbate; the most common British term is to wank.

* His sex life consisted of getting into bed withhis young and beautiful bride and jerking offinto a copy of a magazine called Garter Belt.(Philip Roth)

• Su vida sexual consistia en meterse en lacama con su joven y bella esposa y mastur-barse sobre un ejemplar de una revista llama-da Garter Belt.


• — I remember once, on an exercise inGermany, I caught one of my own men, aprivate soldier, jerking off into half a poundof lamb's liver. — Thank God it wasn't anofficer. (E.A. Whitehead)• Walter didn't teach you to make love, youlying creepy little idiot! I'll bet you'venever had a good fuck in your life! AllWalter taught you was how to jerk off thepoor slobs who want to get into your pants!(William Styron)• — And if I win? — I'll give you somethingyou've been jerking off about ever since ourparents got married. I'll fuck your brains out.(Cruel Intentions)• A woman, preferably black, would beengaged for a very high sum to squat nakedupon a glass coffee table and take a crap whilethe tycoon lay flat on his back, directlybeneath the table, and jerked his dong off.(Philip Roth)

• — Recuerdo una vez, de maniobras porAlemania, que le pile a uno de mis hom-bres masturbandose con media libra de hi-gado de cordero. — Gracias a Dios que noera un oficial.• Walter no te enseno a hacer el amor, idiotametiroso de mierda! jApostaria a que no tehan follado bien en la vida! Lo unico que teenseno Walter fue como masturbar a los po-bres idiotas que se quieren meter en tus pan-talones!• — Y si gano yo? — Te dare algo por lo quete has estado haciendo pajas desde que se ca-saron nuestros padres. Te follare hasta que cai-gas rendido.• Una mujer, preferiblemente negra, eracontratada por una elevada suma de dineropara que se pusiera desnuda en cuclillassobre una mesa de cristal e hiciera de vien-tre mientras el magnate permanecfa tendi-do de espaldas, directamente debajo de lamesa, y se hacia una paja.

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beat one's meat (US) • Why,alone on my bed in New York,why am I still hopelessly beat-ing my meat? Doctor, what doyou call this sickness I have?(Philip Roth)give oneself a hand-job • Thethree-finger hand-job is what Ihave devised for jerking off inpublic places. (Philip Roth)• 'Who the fuck is she that shewon't even give a guy a hand-job?A measly hand-job. Is that theworld to ask of her? I ain't leav-ing till she either sucks it orpulls it — one or the other!(Philip Roth)J. Arthur (UK) Rhyming slangof J. Arthur Rank and wank.• Rowe is lying on his bed, his face

to the wall. Featherstone says qui-etly: 'Here, he's having a craftyJ. Arthur.' (John McGrath)jack off • —You ever make it withan Oriental? — No. I spent eight-een months in Korea jacking off.(David Mamet) • So you're gonnago out there, drink your drink, say'Goodnight, I've had a very lovelyevening,' go home, and jack off.And that's all you're gonna do.(Pulp Fiction) • Oh, sure, wecould do other things to makehim come — jack him off, godown on him, the usual .(Courtney Weaver)pull one's peter (US) • Why areyou chained to a toilet? I'll tellyou why: poetic justice! So youcan pull your peter till the end oftime! (Philip Roth)pull one's putz (US) • Enough

being a nice Jewish boy, publiclypleasing my parents while pri-vately pulling my putz! Enough!(Philip Roth)pull one's wire • Rememberwhat I said about sex. Keep awayfrom the maids and pretty boys.As for pulling your wire, that'sno occupation for a gentleman.(John Osborne)toss off • The reasons for thisgloom are several, laying asideminor matters like lack of exer-cise, tossing off, etc., which arein themselves products of gloomas much as producers. (PhilipLarkin) • I tossed him off. Hecame only a small amount.They're pulling their cockstwenty-four hours a day, I sup-pose. (Joe Orton)wank • Afterwards it took me


ages to toss him off. Finally I gaveup, allowing him to wank himself,and only at the last minute did heforce his prick into my hand. (JoeOrton) • — You got a bint athome? — Girl I write to. — Metoo. Mine's at school. All love andkisses and current affairs but Ihave the odd wank over her photo.(Peter Nichols) • I can tell anyman in 10 seconds how to usecondoms with ease: Buy a bunch

of different kinds and mastur-bate with them until you find akind you like. Great wankersmake great condom artistes.(Susie Bright)whack off (US) • It takes the se-riousness out of everything if youcan imagine the President in backof the bathroom door whacking itto Miss July. I stroke it once in awhile, I assume he does. (LennyBruce) • What had old Stingo been

up to while Josef had been writh-ing in Warsaw's unspeakableGehenna? Listening to GlennMiller, swilling beer, horsingaround in bars, whacking off.(William Styron) • — What areyou doing? — What does it looklike I'm doing? I'm whacking off.Spanking the monkey. Floggingthe bishop. Choking the chicken.Jerking the gherkin. (AmericanBeauty)

4. h cherry -virginidad

A cherry is a virgin of either sex, or virginity in general. The usage derives from the supposedresemblance between the hymen and a cherry. The word is used in verbal expressions like to still haveone's cherry, to lose one's cherry, to pop or bust someone's cherry, etc. It is sometimes used figuratively,as in the final example.

• The day I lost my cherry didn't amount tomuch anyway. (R.H. Rimmer)• You wanted Tyrone to lose his cherry, butthings got out of hand. Isn't that right?(James Ellroy)* Call Cecile and get her to come over. I'llbust that cherry in a heartbeat. (CruelIntentions)* — I have never been called that in my life.— Well, you just lost your cherry. (DavidMamet)

• El dia que perdi mi virginidad no fue paratan to de todas formas.• Tu querias que Tyrone perdiese su virgi-nidad, pero las cosas se te fueron de lamano. No es asi?• Llama a Cecile y dile que se pase. Me harecon su virginidad en un abrir y cerrar de ojos.

• — Nunca me han llamado eso en la vida.— Bueno, pues acabas de perder tu virginidad.

4. i bugger -sodomizar, sodomita

The word is both a verb, meaning to sodomize, and a noun, one who sodomizes. The activity is buggery.

* Did you know Auden got a rectal fissure frombeing buggered by a sailor and had to have anoperation? (Philip Larkin)• For all of its supposedly 'shocking' gay sex,there's a Cliff's Notes feeling to Total Eclip-se, a did-you-know-Rimbaud-buggered-Verlaine quality. (Salon)

que a Auden le sali6 una fisura rec-tal por haber sido sodomizado por un marine-ro y tuvo que ser operado?• A pesar de todo su supuestamente 'escanda-loso' sexo gay, hay una sensaci6n de analiticaen Eclipse total, una calidad informativa, tiposabfas-que-Rimbaud-se-foll6-a-Verlaine.


• All the animals come out at night. Whores,skunkpussies, buggers, queens, fairies,dopers, junkies... Someday a real rain'IIcome and wash all this scum off the streets.(Taxi Driver)• He went to Prairie Military Academy foreight years of uninterrupted sports, buggeryand Fascism. Buggery consisted of stickingone's penis in somebody else's asshole ormouth, or having it done to one by somebodyelse. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

• Todos los animales salen de noche. Putas,busca-chochos, chaperos, putos, maricones,colgados, yonkis... Algtin dia una autenti-ca lluvia vendra y lavard toda esta mierdade la calle.• Fue a la Academia Militar Prairie y en ellapractico todos los deportes durante ocho anosininterrumpidamente, asi como la sodomfa yel fascismo. Lo de la sodomfa consistfa en me-ter el pene en el agujero del culo o en la bocade otro o que otro se lo hiciera a uno.

RELATED TERMS:

butt-fuck • I hear when Caro-lina was living with that Greekbartender he used to butt-fuckher all the time. (JosephWambaugh)• Two excellent books on thesubject of anal sex both inspireand reflect current trends in theacceptance of butt-fucking.(Susie Bright)fist, fist-fuck Anal intercourse,

usually but not necessarily ho-mosexual, in which the hand isinserted into the partner's anus.• As the evening's entertain-ment unreeled in samples from21 big-budget films, the audi-ence munched on popcornwhile feasting their eyes oneverything from public mastur-bation and ur ina t ion , 'epicsofa fucks' and the mile-highclub, to lesbian shower sex, maleanal penetration and a protracted

fisting scene. (Salon)ream, rim To stimulate theanus, either orally or with thepenis, or to have anal sex withsomeone. • But you said we weregoing to get laid! You said wewere going to get blowed!Reamed, steamed, and dry-cleaned, that's what you said!(Philip Roth)• The man reams him so hard thepain brings him to his knees.(Tom Wolfe)


EXERCISE 4.1


1. (a) eat pussy (b) give head (c) muff-dive (d) wank (e) suck off (f) blow2. (a) nail (b) ball (c) hump (d) jump (e) snog (f) bang3. (a) frenchy (b) Durex (c) cherry (d) skin (e) Trojan (f) johnny4. (a) dryfuck (b) shag (c) neck (d) smooch (e) touch up (f) fingerbang5. (a) toss off (b) whack off (c) pull one's wire (d)beat one's meat (e) have a J. Arthur (f) get

one's rocks off

EXERCISE 4.2

Here are some less common idiomatic and slang terms for body functions, nine of which have beendealt with in this chapter. Try to identify the subject to which each group of synonyms and relatedterms refers.

1. balloon, cheater, close combatsock, diving suit, eelskin, fear-not, gasket, joy bag, one-pieceovercoat, raincoat, safe,scumbag, sheath, shower cap

2. a bit of jam, bananas andcream, blanket drill, bush pa-trol, crawl, dicky dunk, flop inthe hay, horizontal refresh-ment, hot roll with cream, Irishwhist, jazz, jink, pile-driving,roll in the hay, short arm prac-tice, tail-work, vitamin F, whatMother did, the other, tumble,zig-zig, oats, jelly roll, yum-yum, zatch, how's your father,rumpy-pumpy, four-leggedfrolic, fun and games

3. bill and coo, lallygag,clinch, slap and tickle, mush,lumber, reef

4. blow the whistle, chew it, cop adoodle, drop on it, get a facial,give pearls, gobble the goop,gum a root, hum a tune, inhalethe oyster, do a knob job, laysome lip, munch, play a tune,polish the chrome, slob theknob, smoke a dick, smoke thewhite owl, swallow a sword,worship at the altar, wring it dry

5. board, blow off the loose, boff,bottle, bump fur, bury one'swick, bury the bone, changeone's luck, come across, do adive in the dark, do a flop, dothe nasty, ease nature, get apiece, get a little, get lucky, getone's greens, get some, go totown, grind one's tool, hide theferret, hide the salami, introduceCharley, lay some pipe, pocketthe red, post a letter, sink thesoldier, thread the needle

6. bake potatoes, bend someham, cornhole, dig a ditch, doa brown, dip in the fudge pot,dot the 'i', fish for browntrout, fluff the duff, go downHershey Highway, makepoundcake, go over the bridgeto Plimpton, pack fudge, paintthe bucket, powder someone'scheeks, push shit uphill, rec-tify, saddle up, stir fudge

7. beat the beaver, get it wet,grease the gash, hide the hotdog, hit the slit, juice one'ssluice, let the beaver swim,make some soup, pet the poo-dle, she-bop, slam the clam,tickle the taco

8. bunch punch, chain jerk,choo-choo, circle jerk, clubsandwich, crew screw,fuckathon, group grope,mazola party, mob job, Mon-golian cluster fuck, pull party,ring jerk, round pound, teamcream

9. barking at the ape, box lunch,canyon yodeling, eating at theY, eating out, going south, go-ing under the house, mumblingin the moss, pearl diving, talk-ing to the boat people, whis-tling in the dark

10. bash the candle, beat thebishop, bleed the weed, bopthe baloney, buff the banana,butter the corn, choke thechicken, crank the shank,crown the king, five againstone, flog the dog, play aflute solo, give it a tug,grease the pipe, make thebald man puke, manipulatethe mango, milk the lizard,paint the ceiling, pump thepython, rope the pony, shakehands with the unemployed,stroke the dog, varnish theflagpole, walk the dog


EXERCISE 4.3


1. Aqui hay un encanto de chica, solo que no quiere chuparmela. 2. Me masturbaba regularmentepero la idea de tener una relacion con una mujer estaba mas alla de mi imaginacion. 3. Si uno de mis

amigos descubriera que mi esposa se estaba tirando a otro, no querria que me lo contara. 4. No fue porcasualidad, sino porque te estabas tirando a su mujer. Por eso te disparo. 5. Tenia una voz dulce ytriste. Me gustaria follarte, pense. 6. Yo tenia mis propias ideas sobre el sexo. Estaba constantementecachondo y me masturbaba continuamente. 7. Habia sido sodomizado por un marinero y tuvo que seroperado 8. Este hijo puta se la esta tirando desde que salio de la carcel! 9. Se sentia disgustada y humilla-da, supuestamente porque el presidente le habia metido mano. 10. Durante esa noche te follaria sin parar,hasta partirte por la mitad... Te haria gozar mas de lo que habias sonado en toda tu vida. 11. Alguna vezte conte lo de la asiatica que nos tirabamos entre todos en Vietnam? 12. Victor entra en una farmacia ycompra una caja de profilacticos. 13. Cuando fue la ultima vez que follaste? 14. Me fui a la cama, me hiceuna paja y me dorm. 15. No quiero ver su cuerpo, ni acariciarlo, ni comermelo. 16. Los hombres estanachuchandote. Sus manos estan por todo tu cuerpo, apretujandose contra ti y metiendote mano. 17. Cuan-do una tia me la come, la digo por donde ir y como va la cosa. 18. Lo que mas me dolio fue cuando medijiste que 'no tenia ni puta idea de foliar'. 19. Antes era completamente frigida. Ahora, lo unico que hagoes pensar en foliar. 20. — Nunca me han llamado eso en la vida. — Bueno, pues acabas de perder tuvirginidad.

EXERCISE 4.4

((The shy and heavily complexed narrator, Assistant Commissioner to the mayor of New York, worksup the courage to engage a conversation with an attractive woman. When his first approach fails,he immediately tries another, with greater success.)

Go ahead, you shackled and fettered son of a bitch, speak to her. She has an ass on her withthe swell and the cleft of the world's most perfect nectarine! Speak!

'Hi' — softly, and with a little surprise, as though I might have met her somewhere before...'What do you want?'To buy you a drink,' I said.'A real swinger,' she said, sneering.Sneering! Two seconds — and two insults! To the Assistant Commissioner of Human

Opportunity for this whole city! 'To eat your pussy, baby, how's that?' My God! She's going tocall a cop! Who'll turn me in to the Mayor!

'That's better,' she replied.And so a cab pulled up, and we went to her apartment, where she took off her clothes and

said, 'Go ahead.'My incredulity! That such a thing was happening to me! Did I eat! It was suddenly as

though my life were taking place in the middle of a wet dream. There I was, going down at laston the star of all those pornographic films that I had been producing in my head since I first laida hand upon my own joint...

'Now me you,' she said, '— one good turn deserves another,' and, Doctor, this stranger thenproceeded to suck me off with a mouth that might have gone to a special college to learn all thewonderful things it knew.

From the novel Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth



1. A deprecatory term which can be used of any male. 2. The usual American term for the buttocks. 3.A word often used to described a person who engages in group sex, partner-swapping, etc. 4. Anexpression meaning to perform cunnilingus. 5. A term describing an erotic dream. 6. An expressionmeaning to perform oral sex, either fellatio or cunnilingus. 7. A synonym for penis. 8. A term meaningto perform fellatio.


5: SEXUAL TASTES

homo -manca, mancon

With the exception of gay, no longer considered slang, all terms describing male homosexuals arederogatory.

• I shan't see much of the ceiling, I expect.Tangier is certainly the place for the homos.(Joe Orton)• In Cardiff I found a newsagent with a goodline in Yank homo porn, in quite a classydistrict too. Didn't dare touch it. (PhilipLarkin)• Very amusing article in the Daily Telegraphtoday saying that the thing about homos is thatthey don't have children and so don't botherabout the future. (Philip Larkin)• Is he a homo then? I'm not sure I've evermet any homos before, not to speak to. (PeterNichols)• Sartre has shown what a superb figure ofcomedy a homo can be. (Percy WyndhamLewis)

• Supongo que no vere mucho techo. Tangeres ciertamente el lugar para los maricones.

• En Cardiff encontre un kiosko que vendiauna buena Iinea de porno gay americano, ypor cierto en un barrio de clase alta. No meatrevi a tocarlo.• Hay un articulo muy gracioso en el DailyTelegraph de hoy que dice que lo curioso acercade los maricones es que no tienen hijos y por lotanto no se preocupan por el futuro.• Es maricon entonces? No Se si he conocidoalguno antes, no como para hablar de ello.

• Sartre ha demostrado que tipo mas genialpara la comedia puede ser un maricon.

RELATED TERMS:

arse-bandit (UK) • His nick-name was Wendy. Wendy was ho-mosexual, he was an arse-bandit,a turd burglar, a shirtlifter, a dirtyfucking queer, a stinking poof, afucking homo. He was also a goodman. (Ken Lukowiak)bent Adjective. • 'Great thingabout gay people...' 'Gay?' Tessasaid. 'Bent, queer, you know. Ho-mosexual.' (Frederick Raphael)bum-bandit (UK) • I 'm not abum-bandit, you know. You'venothing to fear on that account.(Jonathan Coe)bum boy (UK) • Look, youphilosophised Irish bum boy,who asked you to open your

mouth, eh? Who asked your lit-tle opinion, eh? (John McGrath)• He struck me as a bit of apseudo-intellectual. Not to men-tion a bum-boy. (Peter Nichols)• Five fucking hours to do fiveclicks. It might take you and therest of your bum-boy buddy ma-rines five hours. Not us, mate.We're fucking paratroopers,haven't you heard? (KenLukowiak)fag • There ain't no rules outhere, you cocksucker! The Mar-quis of Queensberry's just somefag over on Eighth Street.(Joseph Wambaugh) • You fag!You insolent fucking sissy!(Joseph Wambaugh)faggot (US) • I don't like the

name Lawrence! Only faggotsand sailors are called Lawrence!(Full Metal Jacket) • Becauseonly one thing counts in this life:get them to sign on the linewhich is dotted! You hear me,you fucking faggots? (GlengarryGlen Ross) • You always hearthose stories, you know, of guysbeing fooled by faggots dressedup as ladies. (Lenny Bruce) • Hesaid that instead of turning theother cheek you should sap themotherfuckers to their knees...And if Jesus Christ didn't have theballs to treat his enemies like thathe was just another faggot Jew.(Joseph Wambaugh) • He was arubber wristed, lisping, mincingfaggot. (Joseph Wambaugh)


5.a

fairy • He saw two nearly nudemen by the gardening shack andfigured it was a pair of park fair-ies. He belched and shouted, 'Allyou faggy bastards in this parkbetter keep the noise down.'(Joseph Wambaugh) • That pukinglittle bastard! If there's anythingworse than being a fairy, it's be-ing a miser. (Henry Miller)fruit • They got a fucking fruitat the games counter. I can't be-lieve this. In the midst of the toydepartment. At the games coun-ter, talking to the kids all daylong ... a fairy. (David Mamet)• Hey, kid, go get the key to thisshithouse. You might have a cou-ple fruits locked themselves inthere. (Joseph Wambaugh)fudgepacker (US) • What aboutyour family? Can you imaginethe humiliation your father's go-ing to feel when he finds out hispride and joy is a fudgepacker?(Cruel Intentions) • Or, if it'selection night, and you're ex-cited and you wanna celebratebecause some fudgepacker thatyou date has been elected thefirst queer president of theUnited States... even then, don'tknock. (As Good as it Gets)Jessie • Darling, you really don'thave to convince me that you'renot a Jessie. (Kingsley Amis)• Come on, you big Jessie: offwith your kecks. Two fine, full-grown men, naked beneath themoonlight: wouldn't that besomething for the heavens to lookdown on tonight? (Jonathan Coe)nancy-boy, nance • I can'tstand that Toto fellow. He's anopen nancy-boy. (LawrenceDurrell) • We're looking for afellow who screwed the arse offa Baroness, not a couple of rav-ing nances. (Frederick Forsyth)

one of those • I don't know ifit's true or not, but I heard yourCary Grant was one of those.You know, bent. (John Godfrey)pansy • Did you get a good lookat that janitor's face, Lieutenant?Because that boogie might live inWatts. And you'll need somefriends there. Because that'swhere I'm sending you on the nexttransfer, you incompetent fuckingpansy! (Joseph Wambaugh)pogue A youthful homosexualmale. • The kid was a pogue. Itseemed to Hicks that if he gotany drunker and his place anylonelier and more savage hemight actually have some sort ofa shot at him. (Robert Stone)ponce (UK) A noun, but alsoused as a verb meaning to movein an exaggeratedly effeminatemanner. • Mods thought thatRockers were yobs, Rockersthought that Mods were ponces.(Nick Cohn) • Frankly, as Bradponces about the place with histrousers hitched down to hiships, to show off as much pertmusculature as possible, helooks like he couldn't fight hisway out of a pair of Calvin Kleinboxer briefs. (Guardian)poof, pouf, poove • Do youknow something: I think thatbloke's a pouf. (John McGrath)• In Piccadilly a rather slant-eyed and pissed (or drugged)poove sidled past me and said ina low, hot tone, 'I say, howcamp.' (Joe Orton)poofter • — You pommy poofter.— What's a poofter? — Whatyou'd call a pansy. (Ian Fleming)queen • Old Jewish mothersnever know when their sons arefaggots. They just miss it some-how. Out-and-out screamingqueens — but their mothers are

never hip. (Lenny Bruce) • Oldladies, old queens, theatrical im-presarios, actors and male pros-titutes make their entrances andtheir exits. (Peter Ackroyd)• Went to a press conference attwelve. A fat, queeny man wel-comed me into the room. He hada brown suit and a jolly queenyface. 'I do admire your work,' hesaid. 'How do you think of allthose witty remarks?' (JoeOrton)queer • Holy dogshit! Texas!Only steers and queers comefrom Texas, Private Cowboy!And you don't look much like asteer to me, so that kinda nar-rows it down. Do you suckdicks? Are you a peter-puffer?(Full Metal Jacket) • All thattypically queer talk, I've heardit all before. He's just a go-get-ting queen. (Joe Orton)sod (UK) Abbreviation of sodo-mite, although the word ishardly ever used in that sensenow. • — You aren't half a dopeysod. How d'you stand him, Char-lotte? — I love him, so it's easy.(Peter Nichols)swish (US) • You wanna be agoddamn swish — a goddamnfaggot-queer — GO! Suckin'cocks and takin' it in the ass, thething of which you dream, GO!(David Rabe) • Here I sit, a re-viled gay man, and to top thatoff, I'm a gay black man — no-toriously the most swishy of thebunch. (Chasing Amy)that way (US) • The maskedman's a fag! Dja hear that? Well,goddamn, masked man, I neverknew you were that way. (LennyBruce)trade A person picked up forhomosexual activity, or suchpeople collectively. Rough trade


applies to someone from thelower class engaging in homo-sexual prostitution. • He wasstaying in Bristol in terribledigs. He'd been having thetrade back and finally his land-lady said, 'You've been bring-

ing people back, haven't you?It's got to stop. You're not tobring any more men backhere.' (Joe Orton) • 'Comewhen you like,' I said, 'andwe'll go round the Hammer-smith Bridge afterwards look-

ing for a bit of young trade.(Joe Orton) • You can't alwaysjudge a sausage by its foreskin.Half the rough trade walkingabout you'd never tell werequeens. (Peter Nichols)

5. b dyke, dike -manmacho

* Dike is vernacular for lesbian... Now thereason I do a lot of faggot jokes — as opposedto dike jokes — is cause dikes'11 really punchthe shit out of you. (Lenny Bruce)

» You know the dyke stuff in the Penthouseletters section is written by guys. (Chasing Amy)« We live in a more tolerant age now. You referto yourself as a dyke. Hooper calls himself afaggot all the time. (Chasing Amy)« Everyone needs dick. See, I can buy fags.Bunch of guys that need dick — just plainneed it. That I get. Dykes? Bullshit posturing.But — live and let live, I guess. (Chasing Amy)

• Lesbiana en jerga es marimacho... Ahora, larazon por la cual hago muchos chistes de ma-ricones — en vez de chistes de marimachos— es porque las marimachos realmente te pue-den dar de hostias.• Sabes que lo de las marimachos en la seccionde cartas de Penthouse esta escrito por tios.• Vivimos en una era mas tolerante ahora. Terefieres a ti misma como una marimacho.Hooper siempre se llama maricon a si mismo.• Todo el mundo necesita una polla. Ves, pue-do entender a los maricones. Un monton detios que necesitan pollas - simplemente lo ne-cesitan. Eso lo entiendo. Marimachos? Unapostura de mierda. Pero, supongo que habra"que vivir y dejar vivir.

RELATED TERMS:

All the following terms are derogatory or offensive.

bulldyke A lesbian withstrongly masculine tendencies.• High ranking members of theLos Angeles Police Departmentbelieved that women had somevalue in rape cases, juvenile in-vestigations and public rela-tions. But otherwise ... they wereprobably bull dykes at heart andwere out to steal men's jobs.(Joseph Wambaugh) • Only ...from the mouth of a Southernbulldyke asshole ingrate of avicious nowhere cunt can thistrash come. (David Mamet)butch A lesbian with stronglymasculine tendencies. • When I

was young, Bannon's books letme imagine myself into her NewYork City neighborhoods ofshort-haired, dark-eyed butchwomen and stubborn, tight-lipped secretaries with heartsready to be broken. (Salon)diesel A lesbian with aggres-sively masculine tendencies.Now the name of a well-knownlesbian magazine. • Hinton rat-tled his chains. 'Fuck you, fuckthat Irish guy and fuck thatfucking diesel dyke.' (JamesEllroy) • As a current Diesel adputs it: 'Men. Who needs 'em?'Above the caption, three comely

young women pose at a spermbank. (Salon)fag-hag (US) A woman, notnecessarily homosexual, whohabitually consorts with malehomosexuals. • His examinationof the 'fag hag' as personifiedby Dorothy Dean — a New Yorkwriter, pundit, and all-aroundbad girl in the '60s and '70s —is fascinating. 'The fag hag'smarriage to her constant gaymale companion is a marriagesanctified not by physical lovebut by Humor and Verbal Pun-ishment,' he writes. (Salon)femme A lesbian who adopts


a passive, feminine role. • Iwill venture to say that I amversatile. In bed, to borrowfrom the gay lexicon, I am nei-ther a top nor a bottom, but a'side'. As an aesthetic, I alter-nately confess to being femmewith an inner soft butch, orperhaps a femme top. (Salon)jock (US) A lesbian with mas-cul ine tendencies . • LornaDillon was not butch, but hervoice was deep and her armsand legs were nearly twice thesize of Al Mackey's. She wore

tennis shorts and a T-shirt andwas obviously a jock. (JosephWambaugh)les • I reckon she's a les, youknow. (New Society)lesbo, lesbie • — Relationshipsseem too distracting. I'd ratherconcentrate on my studies. —You a lesbo? (Cruel Intentions)• — One was a man, a good-looking man at that. — Man myass, they were lesbos. (ChesterHimes)muff-diver See l.g and 4.eabove. • 'She is,' said Dr Dudden,

'a sister of Lesbos.' Terry had noidea whether this euphemismwas in common usage, orwhether Dr Dudden had justmade it up. 'You mean she's afriend of Dorothy?' 'Precisely.She's a fucking muff-diver. Or,more accurately, a non-fuckingmuff-diver.' (Jonathan Coe)rug-muncher (US) • I wantedto watch some TV. Hard to dowhen your best friend's wrappedaround a naked rug-muncher onyour couch. (Chasing Amy)

5. c I cottage -lavabo publico para citas homosexuales

The term is British slang. It denotes a public lavatory or urinal used by male homosexuals forassignations. Tearoom is the equivalent American term.

* He talks a lot about a friend who committedsuicide. 'Found in a cottage, she was,' he said."They gave her the choice of gaol or a mentalhome.' (Joe Orton)• One lonely night you'll say a few flatteringwords to some nice chap in a cottage and nextyou know a cow of a magistrate's giving youthree months. (Peter Nichols)

• Habla mucho de una amiga que se suicidio.'Fue encontrada en un lavabo publico* dijo.'Le dieron a escoger entre la carcel o un cen-tro psiquiairico.*• Una noche solitaria diras unas palabrasaduladoras a un tipo majo en un lavabo publi-co y acto seguido tendras a una zorra de juezeondenandote a tres meses.

RELATED TERMS:

tearoom (US) It all reminds meof a pissing/cruising scene I saw

in the Washington Square tea-room in New York City. This toi-let was so filthy and so full ofactivity, it took my breath away.

These guys did not have a shybone in their bodies. Tougherthan shit, too. (Greg Nott)

5. d ambisextrous -bisexual

• Her privacy is invaded by Nikki — anambisextrous hustler, hussy, hedonist, needle-user, fibber and people-surfer ... and having,you know, a fine pair of jugs. When notflogging off poor Rosa's belongings, Nikki isservicing all comers, even the chap who hascome to service the washing machine, (DavidProfumo)

• Su privacidad es invadida por Nikki — unaprostituta bisexual, puta, hedonista, engan-chada a la aguja, mentirosa y surfista de gen-te... que tiene, sabes, un buen par de melones.Cuando no se esti haciendo con las cosas dela pobre Rosa, Nikki esta dando servicio acualquiera, incluso al tipo que vino a arreglarla lavadora.


» Who is copying the grisly murders outlinedin the best selling novel Tenebrael Find outin Dario Argento's audacious psycho thriller,an ambisextrous Freudian nightmarehighlighting designer slaughter, futuristicdementia and icy suspense. (Bradford FilmFestival publicity)

esta copiando los espantosos asesi-natos de la novela de exito Tenebmel Entera-te en el psyco-thriller audaz de Dario Argento,una pesadilla Freudiana bisexual que destacala matanza de diseno, la demencia futuristica,y el suspenso gelido.

RELATED TERMS:

AC-DC Euphemistic. • You canalso tell Time Magazine you'rebisexual, be AC-DC in the inter-national edition. (Kate Millet)bi Abbreviation of bisexual.• Some were gay, many apparentlybi, and a few so hard that theywould have been given a wideberth in a Gorbals pub. (Listener)bi-guy I'm looking for a kinkybi-guy to wank with, and maybemore. I get off on almost any-thing bizarre, extreme, kinkyor depraved (however I am NOTinterested in anything involv-ing children or under-age per-

sons). (Gay Universe)gender-bender Used of a per-son, especially a pop-singer,who deliberately affects an an-drogynous appearance. • Whileit wouldn't be long before theterm 'gender bender' wouldcome to mean cuddly camp orflinty androgyny, Prince woreeyeliner and bikinis with an in-your-face masculine swaggerthat clearly stemmed neitherfrom sexual confusion nor fash-ionable artifice. (Salon)swing both ways • As for themystery that still surroundedRobin Aseltine's death, the policehad picked up and questioned sev-

eral former boy and girl friends,Robin having been found to swingboth ways. (J.G. Vermandel)switch-hitter (US) • AustinPowers began to look like aswitch-hitter in the final sceneof 'The Spy Who Shagged Me',when he got into bed with hislook-alike clone and the lovelyFelicity Shagwell. (Salon)• Switch hitter: How slick 'JerryMaguire' ads sell Tom Cruise toboth sexes. (Salon headline)versatile Euphemistic.• — Dougal was probably pansy.— I don't think so, he's got agirl somewhere. — Might beversatile. (Muriel Spark)

5. e drag queen -travesti

* Like Valerie, I too was once a young dragqueen in love with Audrey Hepburn. I wasdrawn to her more than to any other figure inHollywood. 'Funny Face', where she plays adrab, boyish creature who's transformed intoa supermodel, was the only film for me.(Salon)• It may seem a stretch to imagine a 6-foot-7drag queen as the celebrity spokesperson foran Internet software company, but hey, this is1999, (Janelle Brown)» President Clinton mixes with drag queensand Matthew Shepard's mom at a big NewYork gay pride bash. (New York Times)

• Como Valerie, yo tambien fui una joven dragqueen enamorada de Audrey Hepburn. Mesenti atraido por ella mas que por ningtin otropersonaje de Hollywood. 'Funny face', don-de hace el papel de una criatura del tipo ninaapagada que se transforma en una super mo-delo, era mi pelicula preferida.• Puede parecer increible el imaginar a unadrag queen de 205 centimetros como porta-voz de una empresa de internet de software,pero, oye, estamos en 1999.• El Presidente Clinton se mezcla con dragqueens y con la madre de Matthew Sheparden una gran fiesta en Nueva York para cele-brar el orgullo gay.


SYNONYMS:

trannie • Almodovar gatheredwith his ensemble of actors —three women and one trannie,who, between the four of them,

feminine beauty and allure cov-ered — to answer questions fromthe audience. (Guardian) • Brit-ish judges ruled in July that theNational Health will cover hor-mone treatments for transsexuals

the British army in non-combatpositions. (Salon)TV Abbreviation of transves-tite. • We get a lot of TVs in anda few of the leather boys ofcourse. (The Magazine)

had just about every angle of and also that trannies can stay in

5. f kinky -pervertido

• King Farouk was a bit kinky. Right? They'rethere humping and bumping... the chick's aboutto come... he whacks her on the forehead with aball-peen hammer. (David Mamet)• I kept my socks on, nothing else. 'I've drawnyou looking like a beautiful teenager,' P.Procktor said. 'You'll get a lot of kinky lettersafter this, I'm sure.' (Joe Orton)• *Are you ever going to wash that tee-shirt ofyours?' Willes said. 'You've been wearing itfor ages.' 'I let the sweat collect,' I said, 'andthen when I pick someone up it gives them akinky thrill.' (Joe Orton)• She tells me the show in Mexico isn't gonnabe some ordinary fuck movie between me andsome boy. She said it was gonna be somethingreal kinky where I could get hurt. (JosephWambaugh)

• El Rey Farouk era un poco retorcido, ver-dad? Ahi estan, dale que te pego, la tia esta apunto de correrse... el la da en la frente conun martillo pequeno.• Me quede con los calcetines puestos, nada mas.'Te he descrito como si fueras una adolescentepreciosa,' dijo P. Procktor. 'Recibiras muchascartas cachondas despues de esto, sin duda.'• ' Alguna vez vas a lavar esa camiseta tuya?'dijo Willes. 'La llevas puesta desde hace si-glos.' 'Dejo que se acumule el sudor,' dije, 'asicuando liguo con alguien les pone cachondas.'

• Me dice que el espectaculo de Mexico no vaa ser la tipica pelicula donde folio con algunchico. Ella dice que va a ser algo muy retorci-do donde me podrian hacer dano.

RELATED TERMS:

fladge, flage Flagellation as ameans of sexual gratification.• It's not that de Sade was moreviolent than other libertine aris-tocrats, for fladge and sodomywere common tastes. (Whip) • Ihave some damned odd fantasieswhen it comes to quiet half-hours with sex. Flage, and allthat. (J.I.M. Stewart)flash To expose one's genitalsfor sexual gratification. • Youwonder what kind of perverted,diseased minds these men

have. Once or twice men haveexposed themselves to me...you know, f lashing. . . and Iknow it's nothing but it's mademe feel sick for days after-wards. (E.A. Whitehead)• Come to think of it, he was abit of a flasher... used to sitaround the house with his fliesopen and if he caught youlooking, it gave him a big kick.(E.A. Whitehead)nonce (UK) Prison slang for aperson convicted of a sexual of-fence, especially child-molest-ing. • Just to think what some of

the nonces on their wing haddone sickened him... Jack Lynnhad no notion that this tremen-dous anger related to the feardeep inside him that he might beno different basically from thesex offender, or child molester.(G.F. Newman)perv, perve Corruption of per-vert. • Why don't you go andwatch some other place die?They've got corpses by the river-full in Bangla Desh. Why not gothere? You're a pack of perves.(Robert Stone)scarfing (UK) Auto-asphyxia-


tion for sexual stimulation.• He was found only partiallyclothed, bound, and with a plas-tic bag over his head, circum-

stances which not unnaturallyled to suspicion of foul play. Theautopsy, however, establishedbeyond doubt that he had died

accidentally, while engagingin the pract ice known asscarfing. (Ballymena Times)

Abbreviation of both prostitute and professional.

• — And was she a pro? — At this point,we don't know. Pro, semi-pro, Betty Coedfrom College, regular young broad, it'sanybody's ballgame, (David Mamet)

• 'She was rubbing her thighs up and downin a very bold way. What d'you supposewould've happened if I'd followed her offthe bus?' 'She'd've charged you three quid,I expect,' Kenneth said. 'I've never seen amore obvious pro on a number 19 busbefore.' (Joe Orton)• Hey, Hank! Man, I really caught a headjob today! Jesus Christ, she really ate meup! And young too! But she was really apro! (Charles Bukowski)

• — Era una profesional? — En este mo-mento, no tenemos ni idea. Profesional,medio-profesional, tia cachonda de colegiomayor, una joven eualquiera, quien sabe aestas alturas.• Se estaba frotando los muslos de una for-ma muy descarada. Que crees que hubierapasado si la hubiese seguido al bajarse delautobus?' 'Te hubria cobrado tres libras, meimagino,' dijo Kenneth. 'Jamas he visto auna profesional mas descarada en un auto-bus mumero 19.'• Eh, Hank! Vaya mamada que me han he-cho hoy! Dios, se me ha comido entero!i Y era joven! Pero era realmente una pro-fesional !

RELATED TERMS:

hooker (US) • The Aios-strickenhooker, knowing that she's neverhad a chance in the world, wantsto take her clients down with herby giving them her disease.(New York Times) • Everyhooker I ever speak to tells meit beats the hell out ofwaitressing. Waitressing's got tobe the worst fucking job in theworld. (Deconstructing Harry)hustler • Who didn't want Gin-ger? She was one of the best-known, best-liked and most re-spected hustlers in town. Smarthustlers like her could keep aguy awake for two or three daysbefore sending him home broke

to the little woman and his bankexaminers. (Casino)on the game (UK) • I knew hethought I was on the game. Some-how that thought turned me rightoff. (E.A. Whitehead) • Betty's onthe game, isn't she? Has she gotyou at it too? (Tony Parker)professional girl (US) • It's notcheating. She's a hooker. It's notlike I'm having a love affair. See,you don't feel for a professionalgirl the way you do for your wife.(Deconstructing Harry)prosty • The best relationship Iever had with a woman was witha prosty I met in Hamburg. Icouldn't speak a word of Germanand she couldn't speak a word ofEnglish. (E.A. Whitehead)

tart • — Like anything else? —Aye, I'd like a nice fat tart witha wobbly jelly-roll and a mindlike a Cairo sewer. That'd be fa-vourite. (John McGrath) • I'veslept with every class of tartfrom Siberians to Polynesians,had them all, no bother at all. Idon't need a wife — I hire oneby the hour. (John McGrath)working girl (US) • I went intothis with my eyes open, youknow. I knew the bottom coulddrop out at any time. I'm aworking girl, right? You don'tthink I'm gonna go into a situ-ation like this if I don't thinkI'm gonna get covered on theback end. (Casino)


5. h trick -putero, putanero

Both a noun and a verb, i.e. either a prostitute's client or (of a prostitute) to have sexualintercourse with a client.

* Her skirt was the only piece of clothing onher body. The only reason it was still on herbody was that the trick had said he liked itbetter when they 'hiked them up'. It remindedhim of when he was a kid in the drive-inmovies during the '50s. (Joseph Wambaugh)» The whore was leafing through her trick bookwith quivering lip and shaking hands. Therewere numbers of good tricks to look for, badtricks to avoid. (Joseph Wambaugh)• — And you only saw him twice? — Twice.And I never tricked with him. He never askedfor it. (Joseph Wambaugh)

• Su falda era la unica prenda sobre su cuer-po. La unica arazon por la cual aun la llevabapuesta era porcpe el tipo dijo que le gustabamas caando 'se las subian'. Le recordabacuando era un crio en las cines al aire libre delos anos 50.• La puta estaba hojeando su agenda mientrassu labio se estremecfa y le temblaban las ma-nos. Estaban los numeros de los tipos buenosa quien buscar, y los de los tipos malos a quie-nes evitar.• — Y solo le vistes dos veces? — Dos ve-ces. Y nunea me lo tire. Nunca lo pidi6.

SYNONYMS:

John • You're teary-eyed, huh?You're upset? You're a good ac-tress, you know that? Goodfuckin' actress. You can fuckin'get that pity out of people. I'mnot a John, you understand? You

always thought I was, but I'mnot. And I'm not a sucker. (Ca-sino) • Two male prostitutes wereduking it out over the favors of acustomer in a white Jaguar... TheJohn in the Jag noticed the black-and-white and said adios, roaringaway. (Joseph Wambaugh)

short-timer (US) Originally aperson due to leave military serv-ice shortly. • Bangkok. Girlie barsgalore, packed with strippers andpimps and whores and the short-timers who made it all possible.(James Laffan)

5. i whorehouse -burdel, casa de putas

• You don't know what the fuck you're talkingabout, Scoop. The fucking Communists don'tbelieve in God, and wherever they come topower, what's the first thing they do? Kill thepriests, rape the nuns, and turn the churchesinto whorehouses. (Charley Rosen)• The city has become famous for itslicentiousness, as a gambling den, awhorehouse, a place of bawdy songs and wild,loud music. (Salman Rushdie)• Ricky! You're an international businessman.Tell us, in your opinion, where are the bestwhorehouses in the world? Other than SanFrancisco? (Hank Hyena)

• No sabes de que cono estas hablando, Scoop.Los jodidos comunistas no creen en Dios, ydondequiera que llegan al poder, £que es laprimera cosa que hacen? Matar a los curas,violar a las monjas, y convertir las iglesias enprostibulos.• La ciudad se ha hecho famosa por su liberti-naje, como un centro del juego, un burdel, unlugar de canciones obscenas y musica alta ysalvaje.. Ricky! Tu eres un empresario internacio-nal. Dinos, en tu opinion, donde estan los me-jores burdeles en el mundo? Aparte de SanFrancisco?


« And your father would go down to a tavernwhere he would get drunk with some otherdrinking machines. Then all the drinkingmachines would go to a whorehouse and rentsome fucking machines. And then you fatherwould drag himself home to become anapologizing machine. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

• Y tu padre se iba a una taberna donde se em-borrachaba junto con otras maquinas bebedo-ras. Y despues, todas las maquinas bebedorasse iban a un prostibulo y alquilaban maquinasfolladoras. Y despues, tu padre volvia arras-trandose a casa para convertirse en una mi-quina de pedir perdon.

SYNONYMS:

cat house • Let's do it tonight...Get us some chippies. You knowwe can. And if we don't, heknows a cat house, it fulla cats.(David Rabe) • Instead of a manof the cloth, we'd pledged ourdevotion in the presence of a guy

named Norm whose uniform hadbig collars and more fringe thanall the curtains in a Nevadacathouse. (Mary ElizabethWilliams)knocking-shop • I do under-stand that an introduction — ordating, or whatever the term ofthe day is — agency is not the

same as a knocking shop, but allthis 'refained' gentility sitsstrangely with the actual busi-ness of getting bodies together.Perhaps it would be easier tocontrol if a knocking shop wereall it was, but what everyonewants these days is not sex, butrelationships. (Guardian)

15. j pimp -chulo

* A small number of women told us they hadseveral 'boyfriends' who would 'help themout with a bill in exchange for 'going out'.Others admitted to 'selling sex* or 'sellingass'. When we pressed them, we found thatthe women used these terms to distinguishtheir activities froan those of 'professionals*— women who worked for a pimp andsolicited on a daily basis, (Kathryn Edtn)

. Un numero redueido de mujeres nos dijeronque tenfan varies 'novios' que les 'ayudaban'con un billete a cambio de 'salir', Otras ad-mitieron que 'vendian sexo' o 'vendian sueulo'. Cuando insistimos, nos enteramos quelas mujeres usaban estos terminos para dis-tinguir sus actividades de las de las 'profe-sionales' — mujeres que trabajaban para unchulo y que hacian la calle a diario.


EXERCISE 5.1


1. (a) on the game (b) trick (c) pimp (d) cat house (e) John (f) tearoom2. (a) butch (b) jock (c) gender-bender (d) rug-muncher (e) diesel (f) lesbo3. (a) be ambisextrous (b) be a switch-hitter (c) flash (d) be versatile (e) swing both ways

(f) be AC-DC4. (a) bum boy (b) poof (c) queen (d) fudgepacker (e) fag-hag (f) ponce5. (a) bulldyke (b) working girl (c) pro (d) tart (e) hustler (f) hooker6. (a) nonce (b) swish (c) perve (d) fladge (e) scarf (f) flash

EXERCISE 5.2

Here are some less common idiomatic and slang terms related to sexual proclivities. Try to identifythe subject to which each group of terms refers.

1. an academy, bag-shanty,band box, beauty parlour,beaver base, birdcage, cakeshop, cat flat, fish market,fuckery, garden house, la-dies' college, leaping house,nunnery, riding academy,sporting house

2. an Amy-John, boon dagger,beaver eater, carpet muncher,fairy lady, fem, fluff, Jasper,lesbyterian, Margie, ruffle,Sappho, sergeant, tribadist,tootsie, wolf

3. an apron squire, ass peddler,button broker, crack sales-man, fishmonger, honey man,missionary, prosser, runner,stable boss, tout

4. a bachelor's wife, bimmy,bobtail, business girl, butt-peddler, common sewer, com-pany girl, crack salesperson,cruiser, guinea hen, hat-rack,hay-bag, lease-piece, live-stock, mattress, merry-legs,moonlighter, overnight bag,piece of trade, raspberry tart,sales lady, zook

5. an Alice, angel, auntie, blowboy, bun duster, buttercup,broken wrist, brown-hatter,cream puff, daffodil, ducky,Ethel, flit, gobbler, himmer,lisper, lily, Mary Ann, meathound, mince, mattressmuncher, pink pants, pantywaist, powder puff, punk,pillow biter, quince, rear ad-miral, rear gunner,rimadonna, receiver, sissy,three-dollar bill, undercoverman

EXERCISE 5.3


1. Quieres utilizarme para cada toda cosa estrafalaria y cachonda que se te ocurra. 2. Otras mujerestrabajaban para un chulo y hacian la calle a diario. 3. Las mujeres se desmayaban cuando le veian enla pantalla, pero en realidad Hudson era marica. 4. Voy a dejar en vergiienza las putas de TimesSquare con todos los tios que me como ahora. 5. Patricia era una ninfomana, nunca tenia suficiente. 6.Hay que tener mucho cuidado con las marimachos, si no, te daran de hostias. 7. La ciudad se ha hechofamosa por sus burdeles. 8. El tipo era bisexual... quiero decir que jodia con hombres y mujeres y lejodian hombres y mujeres. 9. El analisis me ha convertido en una ninfomana, con sexo en el seso. 10.Se sentia tan cachondo que decidio tomarse el resto del dia libre y quizas encontrar una puta de treintadolares. 11. Danny habia salido del armario y habia proclamado que era maricon. 12. La mayoria delos chulos procuran no espachurrar la cara. Pegan en la mejilla, junto a la mandibula, evitando


los ojos y la boca. 13. La puta esta echando un vistazo a su agenda. 14. Por que te refieres a ti mismacomo una marimacho? 15. Que es la primera cosa que hacen? Matar a los curas, violar a las monjas,y convertir las iglesias en prostibulos. 16. Sally tenia una casita y alli lo pasabamos bien, jodiendo ycomiendo. Me alimentaba bien y me debilitaba al mismo tiempo. Nunca tenia suficiente. Sally erauna ninfomana. 17. Jack se lo hace con travestis. Algunos de ellos tienen mejor aspecto que muchasmujeres. 18. Dice que quiere hacer algo muy retorcido. 19. Es maricon entonces? No se si he cono-cido algun maricon antes. 20. Dicen que lo de las marimachos en la seccion de cartas de Penthouseesta escritopor tios.

EXERCISE 5.4

(A New York cabby, Travis, describes his working routine. Later he converses with a childprostitute, Iris.)

I work the whole city, up, down, don't make no difference to me — does to some. Somewon't take spooks — hell, don't make no difference to me... They're all animals anyway. Allthe animals come out at night: whores, skunkpussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies,sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. Each nightwhen I return the cab to the garage I have to clean the come off the back seat. Some nights Iclean off the blood.

IRIS: God, you are so square.

TRAVIS: Hey, I'm not square, you're the one's square. You're full of shit, man. What areyou talking about? You walk out with those fucking creeps and low-lifes and degenerates outon the streets and you sell your little pussy for nothing, man? For some low-life pimp whostands in the hall? And I'm square? You're the one's square, man. I don't go screwing with abunch of killers and junkies like you do. You call that hip? What world are you from?

From the film Taxi Driver, written by Paul Schrader


1. An offensive term for a black person. 2. A word which means prostitute. 3. A familiar term for asodomite. 4. Two words used to refer derogatorily to male homosexuals. 5. A word for semen. 6. Anexpression which means: mistaken, seriously ill-informed. 7. An adjective which has no precise meaningbut is used simply for emphasis. 8. A word which means vagina. 9. A word which refers to a man wholives off the earnings of a prostitute. 10. A verb meaning to have sexual intercourse.


6. UNPLEASANT PEOPLE, THINGS, PLACES, ETC.

6. a bastard -cabron, hijo puta

• I want you to remember that no bastard everwon a war by dying for his country. He won itby making the other poor dumb bastard diefor his country. (Pattori)• Sharon was on top form. 'Bastards!' she wasalready yelling by 8.35, pouring three-quartersof a glass of Kir Roy ale straight down herthroat. 'Stupid, smug, arrogant, manipulative,self-indulgent bastards.' (Helen Fielding)• Al Mackey had to hit the brakes as thefreeway motorists slowed to ogle some poorbastard getting a speeding ticket. Better himthan me! (Joseph Wambaugh)• That bastard Moss had the ear of the chiefof police and every other idiot who didn'tknow him well! (Joseph Wambaugh)

• Quiero que recuerdes que ningtin bastardogand una guerra al morir por su pais. La ganoconsiguiendo que otro bastardo imbecil mu-riese por su pals.• Sharon estaba en forma. Ya estaba gritando'jbastardos!' a las 8.35, mientras bebia de untrago un vaso casi lleno de Kir Royale. 'Bas-tardos estupidos, petulantes, arrogantes, ma-nipuladores y autoindulgentes.'• Al Mackey tuvo que frenar en seco cuandola patrulla de la autopista redujo para poneruna multa por exceso de velocidad a un pobrebastardo. Mejor el que yo!• Ese eabrdn de Moss tenia al jefe de policfay a cualquier otro idiota que no le conocierabien metidos en el bote!

SYNONYMS:We can use any number of terms of abuse to describe people we find unpleasant or contemptible. Thefollowing words can all be applied to men. Used derogatorily, most of them have no particularsignificance. In a few cases, however, there may be reference to specific kinds of behaviour. When thisis so, it is indicated in the text.

arsehole, asshole • Both of youassholes knock it the fuck off andcalm down! (Reservoir Dogs)• Half of them are nasty skankswho wouldn't be shit if theyweren't surrounded by a bunch ofdrunken horny assholes. I'm notgonna be one of those assholes.(Swingers)• 'Lerner,' Madge said, 'is a se-nile Viennese asshole And he'sa lech.' (Robert Stone) • ToHicks' utter astonishment, Eddieslapped him twice across theface. 'You nickel and dimeasshole — don't you darethreaten me with violence.'(Robert Stone)bleeder (UK) • I don't knowwhat in the world I shall do when

you've all gone. Perhaps, in theDean's eyes, I shall 'quietendown'. Fuck the bleeder. (PhilipLarkin)bugger • A timid, quaking littlebugger who lived in constant fearof going broke some day — the18th of March perhaps, or the 25th

of May precisely. (Henry Miller)• When I said that Oxford peoplewere clever but mediocre, I meantthe dons, dear boy, not the under-graduates. The dons are thedreariest set of buggers it's everbeen my lot to meet. (PhilipLarkin) • You crafty bugger. Fancynot letting on. (John McGrath)bullshit artist • I had knownBunny for several years now,and I knew that his only connec-

tion to the record company ex-ecutives whose names hedropped with annoying regular-ity was in his capacity as theirweekly supplier of weed. But Ididn't dare tell Big K that Bunnywas a bullshit artist. I assumedhe would learn the truth in hisown time. (Douglas Century)chickenshit • When the two po-licemen got to the wounded sus-pect and stood over him, heyelled in panic and shock, 'Youshot me in the back, youchickenshit!' (Joseph Wambaugh)cock-knocker • He started it!Fucking cock-knocker! He'slucky I didn't put my pen throughhis thorax! (Chasing Amy)cocksucker • He insulted Billy.


And then I walked over to himpolitely and he tells me to gofuck myself. Then he called mea faggot. So what do you think Ido? I threw that cocksucker out.(Casino) • Who said that? Whothe fuck said that? Who's theslimy little Communist shittwinkle-toed cocksucker downhere who just signed his owndeath warrant? (Full MetalJacket) • He had his pockets fullof human finger bones. He atehis victims, the cocksucker.(Robert Stone)cunt • There was a sympatheticarticle about Kingsley in the lat-est 'Cambridge Review', whichsurprised me as I normally re-gard them as a pack of Cam-bridge cunts obsessed with Tedand Pound and so forth. (PhilipLarkin) • Apparently the anthol-ogy is the right length, which isgood, but there are howls at theomission of certain parties, prin-cipally McDiarmid or howeverthe cunt spells his name. (PhilipLarkin) • 'They're a right parcelof fuckin' cunts, thon boys.' Helooked uneasily at the officer. 'Ifyou'll excuse that class of talk,sir.' (Shaun Herron) • 'Well,' Isaid, 'I think all Americans arecunts.' (Joe Orton) • You stupidfucking cunt. You, Williamson...I'm talking to you, shithead...You just cost me six thousanddollars. (David Mamet)dickhead • If there is one thingin this world that I hate, it is anunlocked footlocker ... If itwasn't for dickheads like you,there wouldn't be any thieveryin this world. (Full Metal Jacket)• Each one of these counts holdtwenty-five-to-life... Twenty-five fucking years, pal. Bye-bye,dickhead. See you in Attica.(GoodFellas)dipshit • He got up from hischair, walked to the door, andgently edged one of the curtains

aside. 'What the fuck are thosedipshits doing out there?'(William Gibson)dork •—You guys look like...what do they look like, Jimmie?— Dorks. They look like a cou-ple of dorks. (Pulp Fiction)douche bag • That mother-fucker, he's every kind ofdouche bag from full to empty.(Joseph Wambaugh)fink • Why do I have to shtupher, O.K.? Why am I the one toshtup her all the time? I can doto her no more, you fink! Mylegs are chapped. (Lenny Bruce)fuck • You're one sick fuck,Fink. (Barton Fink) • 'You stu-pid fuck,' Danskin said, 'peoplealways say that to writers. Nowhe thinks you're an asshole.'(Robert Stone) • Now, don't getsmart with me, Bob, don't getsmart with me, you young fuck,we've been sweating blood allday on this. (David Mamet) • 'Yafuck, ya!' yelled Father Willie.'Ya dirty slant-eyed heathengodless little fuck, ya!' (JosephWambaugh)fucker • I'm comin' outta here,and any fucker I see out there,I'm gonna kill him ... and anyfucker takes a shot at me, I ain'tjust gonna kill him, but I'mgonna kill his wife and all hisfriends and burn his fuckin 'house, you hear? (Unforgiven)• I couldn't think of a fuckin'thing to say. I froze. The littlefucker looked at me like I was adummy. (Robert Stone) • Whenhe kissed her neck, she shiftedto give him a wasted smile.'You're a funny little fucker,' shesaid. (Robert Stone)fuckface • Her favourite line ofEnglish prose is a masterpiece:'Fuck my pussy, Fuckface, till Ifaint.' (Philip Roth)fuckhead • What was he? Someback-country fuckhead with astethoscope. (Stephen King)

fuckwit • Tell him to bugger offfrom me. Emotional fuckwit.(Helen Fielding)get, git (UK) • Where's thatFlynn? He's gone as well, hashe? Cheeky twit. I'll thump thatget one of these days. Thinks hecan get away with poxy murder— well he poxy can't. (JohnMcGrath) • Whilst I fuckedDave, Tills pulled himself off.Also, and I remember thinking,'Kinky Irish Catholic get', hekept smacking my buttocks. (JoeOrton)gobshite • And who the hell doyou reckon to be your mates? Ifyou imagine for one minute thateither of those two rottengobshites will think any the bet-ter of you, you're dreaming.(John McGrath)jagoff • Why don't you take thatfuckin' pen and shove it up yourass, you fuckin' jagoff? (Casino)• I come into the fuckin' officetoday, I get humiliated by somejagoff cop. (David Mamet)jerk, jerk-off (US) • You fuckin'moron, I'll be filling out paperwork for the next two months be-cause of you, you fuckin' jerk-off.(Casino)mother (US) Short for mother-fucker. • — I wish he was abroad. It's so much easier to taila broad. — Broad or not, he's onetough mother to tail. (JosephWambaugh) • You're on my list,mother! I'm going to get you, youdirty mother! You rotten bastard!Cocksucker! (Charles Bukowski)motherfucker (US) • Get thisthrough you head, you Jewmotherfucker, you. You only ex-ist out here because of me! That'sthe only reason! ... You're fuckin'warned! Don't ever go over myfuckin' head again! Youmotherfucker, you! (Casino)• AK-47, the very best there is.When you absolutely, positively,gotta kill every motherfucker in


the room, accept no substitute.(Jackie Brown)numbnuts (US) • What is yourmajor malfunction, numbnuts?!!Didn ' t Mommy and Daddyshow you enough at tent ionwhen you were a child?!! (FullMetal Jacket)pissant (US) A despicable or in-significant person. • Yeah, I wasthe Kid. It got so that everypissant prairie punk who thoughthe could shoot a gun would rideinto town to try out the WacoKid. I must've killed more menthan Cecil B. De Mille. (Blaz-ing Saddles) • Even if I didknow, I wouldn't tell a pissantlike you. (Good Will Hunting)piss artist A loud-mouthed fool.• Things are so bad in the Eng-lish soccer squad that severalcommentators are, apparentlywithout irony, recommendingthe recall of the Piss Artist For-merly Known As Gazza for thePoland match. (Guardian)• I imagine decades of piss-art-istry can't help leaving their markon the character. (Kingsley Amis)prat (UK) • 'I mean, it's noth-ing. It's just some girl who's stu-pid enough to let me shag her fora couple of weeks.' 'What?' ex-ploded Sharon, beginning to turnpink. 'That's the most repulsivething I've ever heard anyone sayabout a woman. Arrogant littleprat!' (Helen Fielding)prick • How dare you try to lay aguilt trip on me about it! Who thefuck do you think you are, youjudgmental prick! (Chasing Amy)• Then you're going to go off toStanford, you're going to marrysome rich prick who your par-ents will approve of. (Good WillHunting)putz • I can't really believe thatLeila would do this. After all,she's an artist, a heroine, a femi-nist. Why would she let this putzabuse her? (Erica Jong) • 'You

nasty little putz' the voice said,full of contempt and revulsion,'you're enough to make anyonepuke!' (William Styron)S.O.B., s.o.b. (US) Short forson of a bitch. • I couldn't havecalled him an s.o.b. — I didn'tknow he was one. At the time.(John F. Kennedy) • The S.O.B.,he hates my father... You wantto know why the S.O.B. hates myfather? You want me to tell you?All right... I will now tell youwhy the S.O.B. hates my father.(Edward Albee)schmuck • Look, I'm not ask-ing for the world — I just don'tsee why I should get any less outof life than some schmuck likeOogie Pringle or Henry Aldrich.(Philip Roth) • Did you thinkyou were a second Irvine Vibert,you schmuck? (Robert Stone)• Danskin, what a schmuck youare, what a contemptible idiot,what a fucking fool. (RobertStone)scrote • Scrotes! That's what allpeople are: ignorant filthy dis-gusting ugly worthless scrotes!Scrotes! (Joseph Wambaugh)• He believed implicitly that ifyou ever backed down even fora moment in dealing withassholes and scrotes the entirestructure of American law en-forcement would crash to theground. (Joseph Wambaugh)scumbag • Captain Woofer saidto send him a pair of grungy,ugly, filthy, hairy, disgusting,creepy scumbags who would fitin with the run-of-the-mill Hol-lywood street folks. (JosephWambaugh) • Were you born afat slimy scumbag, you piece ofshit, Private Pyle? Or did youhave to work on it? (Full MetalJacket)• Long Beach Mike isn't youramigo, he's a fuckin' scumbag.The piece of shit is selling outhis real amigos, that's how much

of a good fuckin' guy he is. (Res-ervoir Dogs)shagbag • John Heath-Stubbs isreading some of my poems at ameeting of shagbags in Londonnext Friday. (Philip Larkin)shit • Much of the play's lackof success must be put down tothe theme and to the undoubtedfact that the general public are,where plays are concerned, ig-norant shits. (Joe Orton) 'You'retoo young to remember a bloodyold fool and by the bye frightfulshit called Bevan Hopkin whocalled the police in at a Renoirexhibition at the Trevor Knudsen— in 1953, not 1903. (KingsleyAmis)shitbag • When wil l thesesodding loudmouthed cuntingshitstuffed pisswashed sons ofpoxed-up bitches learn that thereis something greater than litera-turel A bastard who can bastardwell write bastard shit like thatbastard well ought to be bastardwell stuffed with broken glass,the bastard. 'For he taught as onehaving authority, not like theshitbags and tossbottles'. (PhilipLarkin)shithead • You know what is freeenterprise? ... The freedom of theIndividual to embark on AnyFucking Course that he sees fit inorder to secure his honest chanceto make a profit ... The country'sfounded on this ... Without thiswe're just savage shitheads in thewilderness. (David Mamet) • Youshithead, you don't fuck with us,I'll kick your fuckin' head in.(David Mamet)slag (UK) • As sentence was an-nounced, the dead boy's fathershouted: 'I hope you rot in it,you slag.' (Daily Telegraph)sod (UK) • How kind of you tosend me (your book about)Arthur Wellard, and what a sodI am not to have written earlier.(Philip Larkin)


son of a bitch • I had to admirethis fuckin' guy. He was one ofthe toughest Irishmen I ever met.This son of a bitch was tough.(Casino)tosser (UK) • — Which livingperson do you most admire? —No one really — they're alltossers. (Guardian) • I've reallyenjoyed the people we'veworked with on the whole, andthat's rare. You normally comeout of a production saying 'I'mglad to see the back of that bunchof tossers', but this wasn't likethat at all. (Guardian)turd • Cutthroats and scumbagswere coming out of the wood-work ... these guys were worldclass turds. And I'm sorry, butthey got what they deserved.(Desperado) • All the freshmen

are odious little turds indistin-guishable from Harris. (PhilipLarkin) • I can drop the littleturd off the Capitol RecordsBuilding, you want me to.(Joseph Wambaugh) • It's allright when little turds andturdettes, especially the latter,go on about exciting break-throughs in advertisements andarts pages. (Kingsley Amis)twat • When I got back home,Kenneth H. was in a rage. He'dwritten in large letters on thewall, 'JOE ORTON is A SPINELESSTWAT'. (Joe Orton) • The editorliked them, but the paper'scoolly scathing stars had de-cided the band were a bunch ofpublic-school twats f l i r t ingtouristically with black Ameri-canisms. (Guardian)

wanker (UK) • I went to Zim-babwe with my wanker boy-friend. (Naked) • As I lay I triedto block out the screams. I hadenough problems without havingto listen to that wh in ig wanker.His screams were beginning toannoy me. They were interrupt-ing my thoughts. They were in-creasing my fear. (Ken Lukowiak)• Well, fuck me. If it isn't oneof our glorious leaders. I won-der what the fuck this mentallyretarded wanker wants. (KenLukowiak)whoresmelt, hoor's melt (Irish)• But it was of Parnell that hespoke most: 'A king,' he calledhim, 'A hero who would havefreed Ireland,' but for the opposi-tion of the black-hearted 'hoors'melts'. (Sean O'Callaghan)

6. b arselicker -lameculos

• The feuds do not end with his politicalopponents. Many have been with formerfriends. 'Kusturica is the greatest traitor toBosnia,' one told me. Another said he was a'war criminal, a Chetnik arselicker, a puppetof Milosevic... It makes me puke to think ofhim.' (Guardian)• Cracking good news about the election,what? I can hardly believe we've got that littleshit and his team of arselicking crooks out ofthe way. (Philip Larkin)• I lose touch instantaneously with that ass-licking little boy who runs home after schoolwith his A's in his hand, the over-earnestinnocent endlessly in search of... his mother'sapprobation. (Philip Roth)

• Las disputas no acaban con su oposici6n po-litica. Muchos han sido antiguos amigos.'Kusturica es el mayor traidor de Bosnia,' medijo uno. Otro dijo que era 'un criminal de gue-rra, un lameculos de Chetniks, una marionetade Milosevic... Me dan ganas de vomitar alpensar en e1.'• Noticias cojonudas acerca de las elecciones,verdad? Casi no me puedo creer que haya-

mos conseguido quitar del medio a ese mier-da y a su equipo de chorizos lameculos.• Pierdo contacto momentaneamente con esechiquillo lameculos que corre a casa a la sali-da de la escuela con la cartilla en la mano, elpequeno inocente excesivamente serio, inter-minablemente consagrado a la btisqueda de,..la aprobacion de su madre.

RELATED TERMS:

brown-nose • Nobody promotesan invisible employee. Start toattend meetings. Sound positive.

Exude confidence. Neverbrown-nose, though. Suckers-up inevitably end up being anembarrassment to all con-cerned and you may pick the

wrong boss to toady around.(Guardian) • We could argueabout whether a Supreme Courtclerkship is evidence of bril-liance or just consummate


brown-nosing. (Salon)kiss somebody's ass • — He didthat to me once. He tried to starveme. — I don't care. I'm not kiss-ing his ass. I'll quit or starve, any-thing. (Charles Bukowski) • Nowand then I made some bad blun-ders, and if it weren't that I hadlearned how to kiss the boss's ass,I would have been fired, that's cer-tain. (Henry Miller) • This is the

reality... you're not going to getyour ass kissed here, because bothme and Walt think you suck.(Chasing Amy)suck somebody's ass • How hewould have hated being a lieu-tenant and sitting at a desk andsucking some captain 's ass.(Joseph Wambaugh) • Aftersucking the boss's ass for awhole week — it's the thing to

do here — I managed to landPeckover's job. (Henry Miller)suck up to somebody • Youshouldn't suck up to that woman.She's got a dirty mind. Halfthe mothers in America, withtheir precious big pussies andtheir precious little daughters,half the mothers in America havedirty minds. Tell her to shove it.(Charles Bukowski)

6. c bitch -zorra, lagarta

• There is not one loyal bone in that bitch'sbody. (David Mamet)• You haven't been straight with me ever sinceI met you! You never loved me in the first pla-ce! I need eyes in the back of my fuckin' headwith you, you fuckin* bitch! (Casino)• He thinks we are the Bitch Queens from Hell— which is a misapprehension because,although we have discovered our InnerBitches, we have not yet unlocked them.(Helen Fielding)• Wouldn't she often have to go to the John,and start unzipping her jeans in front of Al asshe walked out of the room? She was just thatkind of bitch, all right? (Joseph Wambaugh)• That last bitch he married never even saw toit that he had decent underwear. (JosephWambaugh)• If that loudmouth bitch was my old lady I'dkick her in the cunt. (Joseph Wambaugh)

• No hay un solo hueso del que te puedas fiaren el cuerpo de esa zorra.• jNo has sido honesta conmigo desde que teconoci! Jamis me quisistes! Contigo, nece-sito ojos en la nuca, jputa zorra!

• Cree que somos las Putas Reinas del Infierno;lo cual es un malentendido porque, pese a queya hemos descubierto a la puta que llevamosdentro, todavia no las hemos liberado.

• No tenia que ir con frecuencia al bano y seempezaba a bajarse la cremallera de los va-queros delante de Al al salir de la habitacidn?Era ese tipo de zorra, de acuerdo?• La ultima zorra con la que se caso ni siquie-ra se preoeupd de que tuviera calzoncillos de-centes.• Si esa puta bocazas fuera mi vieja, le dariauna patada en el cono.

SYNONYMS:These are some of the more common abusive terms applied to women. As with the deprecatory termsused of men, these only rarely have a specific meaning over and above their value as insults.

bag • 'And you do realiseMiddlemarch was originally abook, Bridget, don't you, not asoap?' I hate Perpetua when shegets like this. Stupid old fartarsebag. (Helen Fielding)cooze (US) • Let me tell youwhat 'Like a Virgin' is about. It'sabout some cooze who's a regu-

lar fuck machine. I'm talking,morning, day, night, afternoon,dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick,dick, dick, dick, dick, dick.(Reservoir Dogs)cow (UK) • Kenneth sniffed andhis nose appeared to be about afoot long. ' Silly cow your agent,isn't she? Don't you think so?

That Peggy Ramsay? Silly cow.'(Joe Orton) • Jean's a right littlecow, isn't she? (E.A. Whitehead)cunt • Beth Kramer's an aggres-sive, tight-assed, busybody cunt,and it's none of her fucking busi-ness how I speak to my son.(Deconstructing Harry) • I justhad to kill Linda, Mr Vale, that


— that cunt just got what she de-served. (Primal Fear) • Some-how I feel sorry as hell for herand yet I don't give a damn. Acunt who can play as she doesought to have better sense thanbe tripped up by every guywith a big putz who happensto come along. (Henry Miller)• And your friend, Joan... thatcunt was born in a car crash.(David Mamet)moo (UK) • The receptionistsaid, 'Well, I've nothing on myconscience.' She went into thedispensary with the coffee.'Silly moo,' Leonie said. (JoeOrton) • Some specced-up babeasked me if I didn't feel insig-nificant alongside those writerswho've had illness and death in-flicted upon them. Of course, Ifeel insignificant, you fuckingmoo. Even a crashing dungbrain like Jeremy Clarkson

could tell you that a sense ofinsignificance might just belinked to suicidal tendencies.(Guardian)skank (US) • I spend half thenight trying to talk to some girlwhose eyes are darting aroundto see if there's someone moreimportant she should be talkingto... Some fuckin' skank who ishalf the woman my girlfriend is.(Swingers)slag (UK) • You tell people —well, men — your story and it'sstored away and used againstyou. One said to me in a row: 'Youare nothing but a slag and an easylay and not even a good one forall the practice you've had.'(Guardian)slut • If you didn't want to goout with me anymore, why didn'tyou just say so? Instead you pus-syfoot around and see that slut be-hind my back! (Clerks) • You

prick! You bastard! Yousonofabitch! You think you'redealing with some old slut?Look at me: thirty-one! Youthink 'cause you're hung you canget away with this crap? (JamesLeo Herlihy) • You remember theslut roamed into Sears and hadthe baby in the rest room? Shecut the cord with her finger-nails and just dumped the lit-tle toad in the trash and left itfor the janitor to find next day.(Joseph Wambaugh)twat • I can't even give you thetime of day without getting thelook: oh shit, here comes anotherdumb and stupid remark out ofthat brainless twat. I say, 'It'sfive to seven,' and you think,'How fucking dumb can she be!'Well, I'm not brainless, and I'mnot a twat either, just because Ididn't go to fucking Harvard!(Philip Roth)

6. d bummer -conazo, latazo

Slang, but neither obscene nor offensive. The word may be used of any bad experience, occasion,situation or place. Originally an unpleasant or depressing experience with LSD or other narcotic.

• — As you can see, it is a ransom note. Sentby cowards. Men who are unable to achieveon a level field of play. Men who will not signtheir names. Weaklings. — Bummer. (The BigLebowski)

We read of Saul that 'when he stood amongthe people, he was higher than any of thepeople from his shoulders and upward.' As aking, Saul turned out to be a bummer; butnever mind, he sure was tall. (Tom Ferrell)• For Deadheads, the death of Jerry Garcia lastweek was one big bummer, man. (New YorkTimes)• The adolescent does away with theconcreteness and complexity of hisexperience, and substitutes instead his ownprimitive abstractions. Everything is 'groovy'or 'a bummer.' (Anatole Broyard)

• — Como puedes ver, es una nota de rescate.Enviada por cobardes. Hombres incapaces detener exito en un campo de juego igualado.Hombres que no firmarian con sus nombres,Debiles. — Que rollo.• Leimos acerca de Saul que 'cuando estabaentre los suyos, era mas alto que cualquiera,les sacaba la cabeza.' Como rey, Saul resultoser un enano; pero es igual, si que era alto.

• Para los seguidores del grupo musical LosDeadheads, la muerte de Jerry Garcia la se-mana pasada fue un mazazo, colega.• El adolescente se deshace de lo especifico ycomplejo de su experieneia, y lo sustituye porsus propias abstracciones primitivas. Todo es'dabuten' o 'un cofiazo'.


SYNONYMS:The following words, which we have already seen applied to people, can also be used to describe oraddress the unpleasantly non-human: objects, events, experiences, concepts, problems, etc.

bastard • The only thing wrongwith the present is the bastarddoesn't exist. Because thepresent is the future ... It's aconstant process of cominginto being and passing away.(Naked)• I poked the aching tooth.'Bastard.' It made it worse.The pain made me fall to myknees. I pulled my mouth to atap and swilled it with coldwater. 'You fucking bastard.'(Ken Lukowiak)

bitch • It was rough terrain andthe going was hard. From themap it was obvious that the lastfew miles were going to be abitch. (James Laffan)bugger • I think I could've prob-ably managed to convince themif I hadn't had this bugger of atoothache. I had to clench myjaws every time it throbbed.(John Ogilby)fucker • Here's the really men-tal fuckin' thing, when we wereon the boat goin' down and

comin' back again, we wereearnin' more fucking moneythan when we were on the Is-lands running around andblowin' away the fuckin' Argies.I mean, you know, how the fuckdo they work that fucker out?(Ken Lukowiak)motherfucker • He shows Ma-rino a long, ugly scratch on hisarm. He says: 'Can you fuckingbelieve that? Look at thismotherfucker'. (Casino)

66.e clap -gonorreaFrom Old French clapoir, a venereal bubo or swelling.

• Do you know he has a drippy faucet?... Ihappen to know that in Hollywood patrol rightnow the clap's as common as a head cold.(Joseph Wambaugh)• Barbers — cutters of beards — were atraditional male enclave. And, going back tothe Norman barber-surgeon, they specialisedin male requirements and ailments:prophylactics and clap. "Will there be anythingelse, sir?' the hairdresser would delicatelyinquire, as he brushed the clippings off yourshoulders. (Guardian)* Mrs Schekner, you got the clap. Littledischarge, dear. Tell you what, we're gonnagive you a little, ah, vitamin-booster, a littlepenicillin. (Lenny Bruce)* I can say this now, hand on heart, honest toGod and hope to catch the clap if I'm lying.(Ken Lukowiak)

• Sabes que ha pillado una infeccion vene-rea?... Se, de hecho, que ahora mismo en lapatrulla de Hollywood la infeccion venerea estan conun como el catarro.• Los barberos — los que cortaban las barbas— eran tradicionalmente hombres. Y, regre-sando a los barberos-cirujanos normandos, seespecializaban en los requisites y las dolen-cias masculinas; profilacticos e infeccionesvenereas. 'Alguna cosa mas, senor?' solia pre-guntar el peluquero con delicadeza, mientraste cepillaba el pelo de los hombros.• Seflora Schekner, tiene usted una enferme-dad venerea. No hay duda, querida. Mire, levamos a dar una pequena... ayuda vitaminica,un poco de penicilina.• Esto lo puedo deck ahora, con el corazdn en lamano, lo juro por Dios y que contraiga una in-feccion venerea si miento.

RELATED TERMS:

a dose • Any venereal infection.• She's riddled with pox. I know

four blokes who've copped adose from her. (Bill Turner)• Don't Give A Dose To The OneYou Love Most. (New York

Daily News)crabs An infestation of crab licein the pubic area. • — I haven'tfucked anybody else! I got it


from YOU! You're a carrier, a dis-ease ridden slut! — What? —The crabs, the crabs, you gaveme the C R A B S ! (CharlesBukowski) • I happen to knowhe's practically raising crabs.A steno works Hollywoodnightwatch told me. He hasthem in his armpi ts even.(Joseph Wambaugh)jack (Austr.) Rhyming slang ofjack in the box and pox. • Gotmalaria, beriberi, malnutritionand probably a dose of jack.(Martin Medcalf)

pox (UK) • No clap, no chan-cres, no syphilis: I have neversuffered from pox of any de-scription. I always take ex-treme care not to. (JohnMcGrath)• Hey, your gums are rotting.Bloody hell, he's got syphiliticteeth. Look at that. Look, it'strue, isn't it? Here — how doyou manage to catch pox therethen — you dirty bastard (JohnMcGrath) • How're you likingbeing fifty? Rotten decade forme... Thirties and forties were

all right. As for the sixties,well, 'Yer can't get pox, Insidea wooden box.' (Philip Larkin)syph, siph, siff Abbreviationof syphilis, but sometimes, asin the first example, used in awider sense. • Being a full manin macho white Atlanta in-cludes making fun of the AIDSBall. 'Let's Riff for Syph!'Wolfe writes. (Salon) • Whydon't you tell us about that timeyou got siff from your niggermaid? (Charles Willingham)

6. f crud -porquena

In Middle English the word meant 'coagulated milk', later it was used to describe dried semen. Nowit denotes any substance perceived as loathsome — vomit, pus, slime, etc. — or, figuratively, anythingwhich is markedly inferior.

• Let's clean him up. Featherstone, dosomething, will you? Get some of the crud offhim, before it hardens. (John McGrath). Mr. Le Coze said the non-stick cookwarewas wonderful for cooking fish. So I boughtmy first pan. And it was good, for a veryshort while. Then it started to accumulateblackened crud.(Guardian)

• Trashy tourist attractions ('acres of moderncrud', as Horwitz puts it) are a blot on thecontemporary South's landscape. (New YorkTimes)» — What if she's carrying a disease?—You'resuch a fucking asshole. — What? Oh, it's notpossible that she's all crudded up? ... That bitchcould be a bigger fucking germ farm than thatmonkey in Outbreak! (Chasing Amy)• I burst into a fit of coughing. Half stranglingon the goo and crud of threescore dailyCamels, I was surprised that I was coherent atall. (William Styron)

• Vamos a limpiarle. Featherstone, haz algo,quieres? Limpiale esa mierda, antes de que

se endurezca.• El senor Le Coze dijo que las sartenes deteflon eran maravillosas para cocinar pesca-do. Asi que compr6 mi primera sarten. Yestuvo bien, durante un tiempo muy corto.Despues empez6 a acumular mierda enne-grecida.• Atracciones deplorables para turistas('acres de mierda moderna', segun Horwitz)son un manchon sobre el paisaje contem-pordneo del sur.• — Que pasa si esta in fectada? — Eres unputo gilipollas. — Que Ah, no es posibleque este llena de mierda? ... Esa zorra podriaser una puta granja de germenes may ores queel mono ese en Estallidol• Empece a toser violentamente. Medio aho-gandome con toda la mierda de treinta y tan-tos Camels diarios, me sorprendid que fueraen lo mas minimo coherente.


SYNONYMS:

dreck • Underworld is amongother things a witty and dramaticmeditation on excreta, voidance,leavings, garbage, junk, slag,dreck. (Martin Amis) • He is be-ing pestered by an aspiring au-thor of science fiction drecknamed Milo Levi-Nathan. (Mar-tin Amis)glop (US) • Plates, floors, even thepockets of our corduroy jacketswere soon encrusted with a whiteglop that could have afforded ar-chaeologists a lifetime of explo-ration. (Pico Iyer)

gook • The old woman wiped astring of gook off her arm and,grabbing the doctor's surgicalscissors, clipped the umbilicalcord herself. (Aimee Bender)• We are ankle-deep in Mr.Clinton's own character-gook.We are trapped in his own sickdecision to risk the Presidencyfor back-office sex with a sub-ordinate. (New York Times)grot • Ministers reel off trium-phant statistics about employ-ment, hospital lists, the mini-mum wage and family benefits.But voters who are out of workor in low-paid exploitative jobs,

living in grot, and surrounded byevidence of greed and massivesocial disparity, don't care forstatistics much. (Guardian)gunge (UK) • Ventilation ductsare not cleaned. There is all sortsof gunge in them, including deadpigeons, which affects people'scirculation rates. (Guardian)gunk • Defaced by time, pigeongunk and insensitive landlordseager to remove potential liabili-ties, New York's once abundantcrop of architectural stoneworkhas suffered countless indigni-ties. (Andrew Jacobs)

6. g cruddy -asqueroso

The adjective from crud, meaning nasty, disgusting, loathsome, repellent.

• Prostitution, pornography, drugs —Dublin'sfair city is looking pretty cruddy in 'The GoodLife', John Brady's latest novel. The pollutedcanal where a prostitute's beaten body iswashed up bears witness to the city'sdegradation. (New York Times)•* I can sit in a diner or a cruddy little restau-rant halfway across the country, and there willbe people in the booth next to me, and becauseI'm a woman of a certain age they'll sayanything as if no one were there. People willsay absolutely outrageous, incredible things.(E. Annie Proulx)

• La prostitucion, la pornografia, las dro-gas — la bella ciudad de Dublin se ve bastantellena de mierda en 'La buena vida', la ultimanovela de John Brady. El canal contaminadodonde aparece el cuerpo machacado de una pros-tituta es testigo de la degradacidn de la ciudad.• Puedo estar sentada en un cafe o en un res-taurante de mierda a medio camino del otrolado del pais, y habra gente en la mesa a milado, y porque soy una mujer de una ciertaedad dirain cualquier cosa como si no estuvie-ra. La gente dira cosas ultrajantes, cosas in-crefbles.

SYNONYMS:

grotty • He used to live on acidand Mars bars in a grotty squat.Now he sips bubbly with Ma-donna (Guardian)icky • — He ate you out? Didyou like it? — Well... I don'tknow — it was weird. At first itfelt icky, then it felt kind of

okay. (Cruel Intentions')scuzzy • With more and morepeople working from home orbuying books and clothes on theinternet rather than schleppingto the high street, we are becom-ing increasingly home-based.But this doesn't mean we'rehanging out in scuzzy old track-suits. We're more likely to be

padding around in a little latte-coloured cashmere sweater andfleece drawstring trousers.(Guardian)yucky • And kids have a natu-ral reluctance to think abouttheir parents' sex lives. Anyquestion you answer will prob-ably conjure up images of younude and passionate — yuck.


(Salon) • He came bounding intothe room and straight away dida Barry Manilow, that ever-so-

yucky trick of finding an enthu-siastic stranger in the audienceand pointing a finger and saying

'Hi!', thus exuding a warmththat does not, in cold fact, exist.(Guardian)

6. h arsehole of the earth, etc -el culo del mundo

The terms in this section refer to places perceived as disagreeable or of markedly inferior quality.

• Well, sir, I'm 8,000 miles from home, in aplace that has already proved itself to be thearsehole of the earth. Four of my friends aredead, I'm up to my neck in shit, mud andwater... How the fuck do you think I feel, shitfor brains? (Ken Lukowiak)• Just the thing for a bloody rainy chillyafternoon in this arsehole of East Riding.(Philip Larkin)• 'Why would anybody in his right mind go toMidland City?' the driver wanted to know.'Midland City is the asshole of the universe'.(Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

• Bueno, senor, estoy a 8.000 millas de casa,en un lugar que ya ha demostrado ser el culodel mundo. Cuatro de mis amigos estan muer-tos, estoy hasta el cuello de mierda, barro yagua... Como cono crees que me siento,gilipollas?• Justo lo que hace falta en una jodida tardefria y mojada en este culo del mundo de EastRiding.• ' A quien, en su sano juicio, se le puedeocurrir ir a Midland City?' — quiso saberel camionero. 'Midland City es el culo delmundo.'

SYNONYMS:

shithole • Which one of youfuckers owns this shithole? Youthere, fat man, speak up.(Unforgiveh) • 'This place? Thecleanest?' said John Young, 62,who runs a flower stall outsidethe Mander Shopping Centre.'No, you got on the wrongtrain, mate. You want Winches-ter or Warminster. This is Wol-

verhampton. It's a shithole.'(Guardian)dump • She's a housewife... Andshe comes in, and she looksaround, and she puts her grocer-ies down, and she says, 'What adump!' (Edward Albee) • — Getyour clothes on and let's blowthis dump. — Where to? — Any-where. Nell 's. The garbagescow. Connecticut. (Erica Jong)hole • Yesterday they were

fighting again, but it's quiettoday. I'm ready to go back,bombs and all. It's better thanthis hole. (Guardian)pisshole • Come on, Billy. Sheisn't going to come. Let's get outof this pisshole and back downto the boozer. (John Ogilby)sewer • I hate it! I hate NewYork! I don't ever want to goback to that sewer! (Philip Roth)

it sucks -es una mierda

(US) The verb suck is used intransitively to denote anything unpleasant, distasteful, rebarbative orworthless. The expression is sometimes expanded to it sucks like an Electrolux, referring to an earlyvacuum cleaner.

• We're going to spend half the night drivingaround the hills looking for one party and thenleaving 'cause it sucks. Then we're going tolook for this other party you heard about. But,Trent, all the parties and bars, they all suck.(Swingers)

• Vamos a pasarnos la mitad de la noche con-duciendo por las colinas buscando una fiestay luego marchandonos porque es una mierda.Entonces vamos a ir a buscar esta otra fiestaque te han comentado. Pero, Trent, todas lasfiestas y los bares, son una mierda.


« Just remember one thing: it can't get anyworse, it can only get better. I mean, highschool is the bottom. Being a teenager sucks.But that's the point, surviving it is the wholepoint. (Pump Up the Volume)* Emmie, I hate my life. My life sucks. I amtotally fucked. Or not fucked. I am in suchpain. (Erica Jong)

• Solo acuerdate de una cosa; no puede em-peorar, solo puede mejorar. Es decir, el insti-tuto es lo peor. Ser un adolescente es unamierda. Pero de eso se trata, de sobrevivir, esoes preeisamente de lo que se trata.• Emmie, odio mi vida. Mi vida es una mier-da. Estoy completamente jodida. Bueno,jodida no. Estoy dolorida.

RELATED TERMS:

gross, gross out (US) Grossis the adjective and means dis-gusting. The verb to gross outmeans to disgust or to be dis-gusted. • I ain ' t in favor ofkiddy porn, you understand.Makes me wanna barf. Someof those little girls and boys,eight, nine years old. I hadsome tricks once, they had to

see that stuff before I couldmake them come off. I almostgrossed out. I never take a tricka second time if he makes mewatch kiddy porn. (JosephWambaugh) • -I'm serious, hejust yanked it out and showed itto me. You know, like the Presi-dent did to that woman. —Gross. — It wasn't gross. It waskind of cool. (American Beauty)• — I bet he's got a big dick. —

You are so grossing me out.(American Beauty)be the pits (US) To be themost loathsome place or situ-ation imaginable. • Asked whatnew Davis Cup captain JohnMcEnroe might have been say-ing after a performance likehis f i rs t two sets today,Sampras replied: 'You're play-ing like the pits of the world.'(New York Times)


EXERCISE


1. (a) cow (b) cunt (c) bummer (d) bag (e) slut (f) slag2. (a) asshole (b) cocksucker (c) dipshit (d) brown-nose (e) fuckhead (f) fucker3. (a) bastard (b) bitch (c) fucker (d) motherfucker (e) bugger (f) slut4. (a) piss artist (b) prick (c) shithole (d) gobshite (e) jerk-off (f) schmuck5. (a) scumbag (b) shit (c) tosser (d) scrote (e) bitch (f) twat6. (a) pox (b) pisshole (c) jack (d) clap (e) a dose (f) syph7. (a) slag (b) grot (c) gook (d) grunge (e) dreck (f) crud

EXERCISE 6.2

Here are some less common idiomatic and slang terms related to unpleasantness. Try to identify thesubject to which each group of terms refers.

1. active citizens, crotch crickets, gentlemen's companions, neighbours to the south, pantsrabbits, seam squirrels

2. yuck, schmutz, ook, scunge, scuzz3. coachman on the box, French gout, Irish mutton, Ladies' fever, lifelong friend,

Neapolitan bone ache, Old Joe, Spanish needle, the old dog4. eurner, gleet, glim, haircut, Lulu, morning drop, stank cock, strain

EXERCISE 6.3


1. Que...? Reconoces que lo hiciste a proposito, cacho cabron? 2. Limpiar este homo es muy jodido.3. Lo siento, tienes una infeccion venerea. 4. No hay un solo hueso del que te puedas fiar en el cuerpode esa zorra. 5. Estuvo bien, durante algun tiempo. Despues empezo a acumular mierda ennegrecida.6. jEstas en mi lista, cabron! Te voy a romper el culo! 7. A quien se le puede ocurrir ir alli? Es elculo del mundo. 8. Mi idea era la de vagar por ahi sin hacer nada, esquivando siempre al patron yevitando a los lameculos que podian chivarse. 9. Quiero que recuerdes que ningun bastardo gano unaguerra al morir por su pais. 10. Que pasa si esta infectada? Es posible que este llena de mierda. 11.Esta mierda de pintura no hay quien la quite. 12. El instituto es lo peor. Ser un adolescente es unamierda. 13. La ultima zorra con la que se caso ni siquiera se preocupo de que tuviera calzoncillosdecentes. 14. Se especializaban en los requisitos y las dolencias masculinas: profilacticos e infeccionesvenereas. 15. ;Tu no me mereces, zorra! jBueno, se acabo! Fuera! 16. Es un lameculos, nada mas.Me dan ganas de vomitar al pensar en el. 17. La prostitucion, la pornografia, las drogas — laciudad se ve llena de mierda. 18. Maldicion! No podia volver sin el recibo firmado! Los cabronessiempre pedian firmas para todo. 19. Odio la vida que llevo. Mi vida es una mierda. Estoy completa-mente jodida. 20. Una botella de whisky — justo lo que hace falta en una jodida tarde Ma y mojadaen este culo del mundo.


6.1

EXERCISE 6.4

Scandinavian Splatch gives a whole new meaning to the expression 'dirty movie'. Theopening scene sets the tone. It shows a couple of Swedish nurses in immaculate uniformspouring buckets of fudge-coloured gook over each other's heads. This means they have to goand get cleaned up, so, big surprise, soon we find them frolicking naked in the tub together.Only thing is, the tub isn't full of water but of some nameless yellow gunk, possibly semi-melted butter. There's an outdoor mud scene too. Whatever happens, the characters, if theycan be called that, always get wet and messy in their dressy clothes first, then proceed tonudity while being gunged at every stage. Blue goo is poured over their bodies, pink goo ispoured over their bodies, diesel oil is poured over their bodies, and on and on. Whenever thepace seems to be slacking, yucky viscous dreck descends from on high. Meanwhile femalemasturbation provides an important thematic counterpoint. A redheaded model gets messyin her clothes with a large bowl of multi-coloured, pudding-consistency glop, rubbing it intoher outfit, then into herself. She gets cleaned up, changes into lingerie, then creams herselfoff all over again, this time with the aid of some tan-coloured cake-mix and a dildo. Anotherscene involves two girls, one of whom spoons white gunge into the other's wide-open beaverand then licks it out. Male characters likewise pour variegated syrups and creams and globsof unidentifiable glop over their standing schlongs, a measure that proves irresistible to thehungry nurses, models and museum tour guides. Perhaps it all has some kind of ecologicalsignificance. In short, if you like to see nice clothes being ruined, good food being wasted,and well-endowed bodies being licked and sucked and fondled and fucked, ScandinavianSplatch is the one for you.

From a review in Tenedor by Gabriella T. Oldfield


1. Six synonyms for disgusting semi-liquid substances. 2. One term for a disgusting semi-liquidsubstance used (unusually) as a verb. 3. An adjective meaning disgusting. 4. A phrasal verb meaningto masturbate, used especially of a woman. 5. A noun meaning an object shaped like an erect penisused for sexual stimulation. 6. A slang word for vagina. 7. A slang word for penis. 8. A verb meaningto do the sex act with someone.


7: INCOMPETENCE, INFERIOR QUALITY

7. a fuck up -cagar, cagada, capullo

As a verb, it means to make a serious mistake; to spoil or to ruin. As a noun, it means the mistakeitself, the situation resulting from the mistake, or a totally incompetent person.

• I fucked up, Frankie. I fucked up good thistime. Should never have started with thisfuckin* broad. I'm in a bad fuckin' spot here.You know that? Bad fuckin' spot. (Casino)» What you're hired for is to help us — doesthat seem clear to you? To help us. Not to fuckus up...to help men who are going out there totry to earn a living. You fairy. You companyman... (David Mamet)• They fuck you up, your mum and dad; Theymay not mean to, but they do. (Philip Larkin)• What are rockets? I mean, they're just bigmetal pricks! You know, I mean, the bastardsaren't satisfied with fuckin' the earth up —they gotta fuck space and all. (Naked)• Spud had done well. I was proud of him. Hefucked up good and proper. (Trainspotting)• I hate doing the dishes. It fucks up my nails.(GoodFellas)• This was his nightmare. The dodgiest scamin a lifetime of dodgy scams being perpetratedwith three of the most useless and unreliablefuck-ups in town. (Trainspotting)• That was about as fucked up a come-on as Iever sat still for,' she told him. (Robert Stone)» They say the world is coming to an end. Theysay that's why it's so fucked up. (Robert Stone)

• La jodf, Frankie. La jodf de verdad esta vez.Nunca debf de empezar con esta puta zorra.Estoy francamente jodido. Lo sabes? Fran-camente jodido.• Se te contratd para ayudarnos - esti claro?Para ayudarnos. No para jodernos... para ayu-dar a hombres que van a salir a intentarganarse la vida. Maricdn, Funcionario...

Te joden, tu madre y tu padre; Puede que nosea su intencidn, pero lo hacen.• Que son los cohetes? Digo yo que, jsdloson grandes penes metalicos! Ya sabes, esosbastardos no se contentan con joder la tierra -tienen que joder el espacio.• Spud habia hecho bien. Estaba orgulloso dee1. La jodi6 como Dios manda.• Odio lavar los platos. Me jode las unas.

• Esto era su pesadilla. La movida mas jodidaen toda una vida de movidas jodidas iba a serperpetrada por tres de los colgados mas intiti-les y menos de fiar de todo el pueblo,• 'Eso es el intento de ligar mas jodido quejam£s he visto,' le dijo.• Dicen que el mundo va llegando a su fin.Dicen que por eso estd tan jodido.

SYNONYMS:

balls up Both a verb and a noun.• This evening I painted the sightof the garden from the diningroom window in water colours.This started all right in a vicar's-daughter way but finished asrather a balls up. (Philip Larkin)banjax A verb only. • Lastyear's copyright infringement

action against The Full Monty byplaywrights Stephen Sinclairand Anthony McCarten was atleast partially banjaxed by de-fence attorney Bert Fields de-claring 'it's a shame to try tohurt a wonderful film like this,even if you think it was stolen'.(Guardian)bollix, bollox A verb, sometimesfollowed by up. • Gore did not

boast to anyone, off the record ornot, about being a model forOliver in Love Story. A Tennes-see newspaper first noted the LoveStory connection, which the NewYork Times proceeded to bollixup. (Salon) • But the trouble withtraveling like a backpacker is thatyou've got to make difficultchoices about lodgings, sightsee-ing and transportation at every


step along the way — whichwould bollix me up. Once I'vecobbled my trip together and setoff, I try to cut loose and enjoy.(New York Times)bugger up • If you take youreyes off the ball for even a frac-tion of a second, you'll buggerup the approach shot, and thenyou have absolutely no chanceof making the volley you want.(Roy Logan)cock up A verb and a noun.• He is a piece of slimy refuse,incapable of carrying out thesimplest murder without cock-ing it up. (Peter Cook) • I nolonger associate Spring with

daffodils and fresh-mown grassand the prospect of cricket; it iswhat I endure for hours on endwhen there has been yet anothercock-up over my mobile phoneaccount. (Guardian)make a balls of something• Mrs Thatcher made a terribleballs of trying to bring the gov-ernment down, but I still thinkshe's all right. (Philip Larkin)make a hen's arse of something(Irish) • With a useless wankerlike that it hardly matters whatjob you give him. You just knowhe's going to make a hen's arseof it. (James Laffan)screw up • I mean that doctors

and professional men are themost arrogant and incompetentwitnesses at any criminal pro-ceedings and that they'll screwup your case for sure. (JosephWambaugh) • Cecile attemptsthe A minor scale, fucking upbadly. Kathryn enters and shud-ders in silence. Cecile tries againand once again screws up.(Cruel Intentions)sod up • The last four monthshave been fucked up by poorMonica getting shingles... It isa particularly nasty sort — her-pes ophthalmicus — has soddedup her left eye so that she seesdouble. (Philip Larkin)

7. b | fuck about (around) -perder el tiempo, joder

To behave foolishly, especially in a time-wasting or distracting way.

• Look, will you stop fuckin' about? If you'regonna stick the boot in, will you get on withit? (Naked)

« Will you stop fuckin' about and fidgetin' inmy peripherals — I'm trying to concentrate.

. thought, 'Wow! Clearly this is the result ofsome fantastic thinking.' But sadly it wasn'tso. Called upon to explain or defendthemselves, they couldn't. They were justfucking around, basically — which I thoughtwas a waste of time. (Guardian)

• Mira, deja de joderla por ahi. Si vas a darmede hostias, hazlo de una vez.

• Podrias dejar de joder por ahi y estarte quie-to en mis cercanfas — estoy intentando con-centrarme.• Pensd, ' lncrefble! Claramente, este es el re-sultado de algun proceso de pensamiento fan-tlstico.' Pero, por desgracia, no fue asi. Alpedirles una explicacion o que se defendie-sen, no pudieron. S61o estaban haciendo elgilipollas, basicamente — lo cual, pense queera una perdida de tiempo,

SYNONYMS:

arse about • I remember withenvy the evenings we used tohave about a year ago: certainpercentage of creative arsing-about. (Philip Larkin) • WhyMrs Thatcher is arsing roundChina now I can't imagine, ex-cept that it's a well to keep aneye on all these foreigners.(Philip Larkin)

bugger about (UK) • Just packit in! Stop it! Stop buggeringabout! Will you keep still?! (Na-ked) • Let's not bugger aroundbeing polite. (John Wainwright)fart about • A man, he walksin here, well-dressed ... comesinto a junkshop looking forcoins. He far ts around, hepicks up this, he farts around,he picks up that . (DavidMamet) • We got a big prob-

lem we' re t ry ing to solve.Now, would you like to sitdown and help us solve it, ordo you two want to piss fartaround? (Reservoir Dogs) • Ifart about at College, drink lit-tle, read rather too much. . .(Philip Larkin)piddle about • Where on earthdoes the time go? I seem to justpiss it away, piddling about do-ing everything and nothing.


(Arnold Littledale)piss about • I piss about spend-ing money, doing housework,tossing myself off (to put itcrudely), and listening to Those

Awful Blaring Jazz Things.(Philip Larkin)play silly buggers (UK) • I 'msure none of this had anythingto do with the supposed threat

to our privacy. It was our God-given right to play silly bug-gers that was threatened, and thenation responded magnificently.(Keith Waterhouse)

7. c I snafu -metedura de pata, cagada

Originally a US services' term, formed from the first letters of 'situation normal, all fucked up' (or, ina politer version 'all fouled up'), the word can be used as either noun or verb. Related, less commonterms are: fubar ('fucked up beyond all recognition'), fubb ('fucked up beyond belief), fumtu ('fuckedup more than usual'), janfu ('joint army-navy fuck-up'), sapfu ('surpassing all previous fuck-ups'),and tarfu ('things are really fucked up'). As the examples demonstrate, snafu is now a completelyrespectable word. It is usually employed as a noun but also increasingly as a verb.

• Bill Gates said that small businesses and anyorganisation using older computer systemscould still face bug-related problems in theweeks ahead. 'There are lots of snafus that wehaven't seen yet. There is still a little bit of amess there that will have to be cleaned up.'(Guardian)• Every now and then something snafus andthere is one hell of a mess. (John Grady)• My arrangements seemed snafued. I guessthe lines got crossed. (G. Markstein)• The Turkish barbed wire was hard to cut.Watches had not been synchronized. And theTurks were up above the beach, firing downat anything that moved. Snafu is what wenowadays call such a shambles. (New YorkTimes)• Yesterday's events appeared to be a large-scale public relations snafu. (New York Times)

• What was it about the Second World Warthat moved the troops to constant verbalsubversion and contempt... devising SNAFU,with its offspring TARFU, FUBAR, and theperhaps less satisfying FUBB? It was not justthe danger and fear... It was the conviction thatoptimistic publicity and euphemism hadrendered their experience so falsely that itwould never be readily communicable.(Atlantic Monthly)

• Bill Gates dijo que las pequenas empresas ycualquier organizacion que este usando un sis-tema de ordenador viejo podria tener proble-mas con virus en las pr6ximas semanas. 'Haymuchas meteduras de pata que aun no hernosvisto. Aum hay un pequeno desmadre que ha-brfi que arreglar.'• De vez en cuando, alguien la caga y hay unjodido desmadre.• Han metido la pata con mis planes. Supon-go que hubo un cruce de lineas• El alambre de puas turco era diffcil de cor-tar. Los relojes no habian sido sincronizados.Y los turcos estaban en la playa, disparando atodo el que se moviera. 'Una cagada' asi escomo hoy en dia llamamos a semejante de-sastre.• Los acontecimientos de ayer parece que fue-ron una cagada de relaciones ptiblicas a granescala.• Que es lo que durante la segunda guerramundial llevo a las tropas a la constantesubversi6n verbal y al desprecio... creandola palabra "cagada", con su prole TARFU,FUBAR y quizas el menos satisfactorioFUBB? Era la conviccidn de que la publi-cidad optimista y el eufemismo habian dadouna imagen tan falsa de su experiencia quenunca se podrfa comunicar con facilidad.


7. d half-arsed, half-assed -muy poco brillante

The word has three basic meanings: of low quality, bad, inferior, unsatisfactory; ineffectual,incompetent; foolish, stupid.

• Do you mean to tell me that while you havezero problem with me sleeping with half thewomen in New York city, you have some sortof half-assed mealy-mouthed objection topubescent antics that took place almost tenyears ago? What the fuck is your problem?(Chasing Amy)• I've got no reason to believe that if he foundhimself in the mayor's chair he wouldn't con-tinue to extrude half-arsed ideas. (Guardian)• We were just an ordinary vanful of peoplepressed together tightly in the darkness,laughing at some half-assed joke, rumblinghome from a party on a steamy summer night.(Douglas Century)

• Me quieres decir que mientras que no te im-porta que me haya acostado con la mitad delas mujeres de Nueva York, tienes algiin tipode objecidn mal expuesta y patetica a trave-suras propias de adolescentes que ocurrieronhace casi diez anos? Cual es tu jodido pro-blema?• No tengo motivos para creer que si se en-contrara en la silla del alcalde, no continuariapatrocinando ideas de mierda.• S61o eramos un grupo ordinario de gente queviajaba en una furgoneta, apretujados en la os-curidad, riendonos de chistes idiotas, caminode casa despues de una fiesta en una calidanoche de verano.

7. e shitty -de mierda

Depending on the context, the word can have a wide range of meanings: insignificant; of poor quality;tedious and unpleasant; futile; malicious, nasty; unwell.

• Another thing he will make sure of, he says,is that his kids know how privileged they are.'They won't grow up in a shitty council housewith no money, but they'll have a pretty goodidea what it's like, because I've been there.'(Guardian)• I didn't say I wasn't gonna do it, I justremarked on how shitty the situation is!(Reservoir Dogs)• You want to go back to your shitty littleexistence? Go ahead, leave. There's the door.No one's stopping you. (Swimming WithSharks)• You're so obsessed with making everythingseem so much more epic, so much moreimportant than it really is. Christ, you workin a convenience store, Dante. And badly, Imight add. I work in a shitty video store, badlyas well. (Clerks)

• De otra cosa que se asegurara, dice, es deque sus hijos sepan lo privilegiados que son.'No se criaran en una mierda de viviendade proteccion oficial sin dinero pero ten-dran una idea de lo que es eso, porque yame toc6 a mi.'• No dije que no lo iba a hacer. S61o mencio-ne lo jodida que esta situacion!

• Quieres regresar a tu pequena jodida exis-tencia? Adelante, marchate. Ahi tienes la puer-ta. Nadie te lo impide.

• Estas tan obsesionado con hacer que todoparezca mucho mas epico, mucho mas impor-tante de lo que es. !Jesus!, trabajas en unatienducha, Dante. Y de mala manera, anadi-rfa. Yo trabajo en un video club de mierda, ytambien de rnala manera.


SYNONYMS:

chickenshit Cowardly; petty,insignificant. • The choice wasmade and there was nothing tobe had from chickenshit specu-lation. The roshis were right: themind is a monkey. (RobertStone) • Please can I go homenow? Craven, chickenshit, andbourgeois. (Robert Stone) • Weain't got much these days. Cou-ple chickenshit domestic shoot-ings. Want some help? (JosephWambaugh)crap • Man will cease to exist.Just like the dinosaurs passedinto extinction, the same thing'llhappen to us. We're not fuckin'important. We're just a crapidea. (Naked)crappy • Did George Hartleyread a crappy little poem I wassilly enough to let him haveyears ago? I bet it fell as flat asa flounder. (Philip Larkin)• When I was in my teens I usedto read all those crappy maga-zines about how to find Mr Rightand how to make him yours forlife. Shit! Every penny I hadwent on clothes and make-up. Ireally swallowed all that crap.(E.A. Whitehead) • He didn'tseem to reali/e the sheercrappiness of his argument.(Jonathan Coe)crummy Originally, infestedwith body lice, lousy. Now the

word, like lousy, has come tomean: bad, of inferior quality,shoddy; insignificant, trifling,paltry. • — What does that getme? — Maybe it gets you put tosleep. Or maybe you get to liveyour crummy little life. (RobertStone) • I pass my life incrummy, totally pointless infi-delities... would-be infidelities.(Edward Albee)lousy • Life here is still lousy,due to my inability to live it.(Philip Larkin) • Watched variouslousy programmes on the TV un-til 7:30. (Joe Orton) • — Do youdig karate, Al? — Can't say as Ido, Herman. Actually, I'm inlousy shape. (Joseph Wambaugh)piss-poor, piss poor • You'veall heard about the Law of theSix Ps: proper preparation pre-vents piss-poor performance.Well, it applies in every field.(Gus Blackburn) • I have gonethrough all that stuff to find sto-ries for my books and a lot of itis poorly written, just piss poor.(Howard Sounes) • Europe is apiss-poor place for music.(Rolling Stone)pissy • Dull non-day today, fol-lowing a pissy evening attend-ing the annual dinner of the HullMagic Circle. (Philip Larkin)raggedy-ass • I realized the rea-son for the baroque church, thegrand church in the povertyneighborhood. A raggedy-ass

guy won't go into a raggedy-asstemple: 'I live in a shithouse —whadda I gotta go in one faw?'(Lenny Bruce) • She think she begittin the house and the car be-cause this old man wif a brain likepigfeet made some kind of rag-gedy ass agreement she think is alegal will. (Joseph Wambaugh)shit, shite • I hate being Scot-tish. We're the lowest of thefucking low, the scum of theearth, the most wretched, ser-vile, miserable, pathetic trashthat was ever shat into civiliza-tion. Some people hate the Eng-lish, but I don't. They're justwankers. We, on the other hand,are colonized by wankers. Wecan't even pick a decent cultureto be colonized by. We are ruledby effete arseholes. It's a shitestate of affairs. (Trainspotting)• He worked for a while atMilliron's, and in various smallfactories in the garment district,'shit jobs' where he connived towaste as much time as possible.(Howard Sounes)shit-eating • What kind of ques-tion is that! What kind of shit-eating remark is that supposedto be! Are you another heartlessbastard too? (Philip Roth) • Andthat shit-eating grin of yours dayafter day cool as a cucumber,butter wouldn't melt in yourmouth, would it... (WilliamStyron)

bullshit -sandeces, gilipolleces

The word can be used as a verb, a noun, or an adjective. As a noun, it means; nonsense, pretentioustalk, deceitful absurdities, baloney. As a verb: to talk foolishly or pretentiously, or with a view todeceiving the listener.

. Banky's not known for believingmisinformation. He's got a pretty good bullshitdetector. (Chasing Amy)

• A Banky no se le conoce por aceptar infor-macion falsa. Tiene un estupendo detector dechorradas.

78 El Ingles Prohibido

EDITORIAL STANLEY

7.a

• — But, Your Honor, she is of age, after all, aconsenting adult... — Don't bullshit me withlegalisms, Portnoy. You knew right fromwrong. (Philip Roth)

• Please, let us not bullshit one another about'love' and its duration. (Philip Roth)• Put yourself in our place. Would you kiss aleper? What the hell are you gonna get outtathat? Awright? That's a lotta bullshit — youtry to kiss them and they fall apart. (LennyBruce)• Rehabilitated? That's just a bullshit word.So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, andstop wasting my time. Because, to tell you thetruth, I don't give a shit. (The ShawshankRedemption)• Tiffany Charles was a sucker for young-looking older guys like this, or else for bigsweaty animals that socked it to you and nobullshitting around. (Joseph Wambaugh)

• — Pero, Senoria, ella es mayor de edad,despues de todo, una adulta que consien-te... — No me vengas con gilipolleces lega-les, Portnoy. Ya sabes distinguir lo que estabien de lo que esta mal.• Por favor, no nos andemos con tonterias so-bre el 'amor' y su duracion.• Ponte en nuestro lugar. Besarias a un le-proso? Que' cono vas a conseguir con eso?De acuerdo? Es un montdn de mierda — in-

tentas besarles y se caen a cachos.

• Rehabilitado? Eso es s61o una jodida pala-bra, Asi que adelante y pon el sello en tu for-mulario, ninato, y deja de hacerme perder eltiempo. Porque, a decir verdad, me importauna mierda.• A Tiffany Charles le perdian los tipos mayo-res como este que aparentaban ser mas jove-nes, o sino los animales grandes y sudorososque te la pegaban y no de cona.

SYNONYMS:

The following terms are synonyms for bullshit used as a noun and as an interjection. Only shit can beused in this context as a verb.

ballocks, bollocks • — 'Resolveis never stronger than in themorning after the night it wasnever weaker.' What do youthink of that? — It's a load ofbollocks. (Naked) • Had a fear-ful weekend judging the ArvonPoetry Competition... To thinkthat someone is going to get FIVETHOUSAND POUNDS for some utterballocks makes me want to dodamage. (Philip Larkin) • ForGod's sake, don't talk ballocks,Johnson. (Joyce Cary)balls • Ah, beauty, beauty! Whatis truth? Balls. What is love?Shite. What is God? Bugger.(Philip Larkin) • Have you readthis stuff? 'The Zionist con-spiracy, the worldwide Jewish

plot'. This is a lot of anti-Se-mitic bal ls is what this is.(Alan Beretta)cobblers (UK) • All the guffabout mutual respect betweenpolice and criminals was just aload of old cobblers. (G.F.Newman)crap • — What do you believein then? — Well, I believe in thesoul. The cock. The pussy ...High fiber. Good Scotch. Thatthe novels of "Susan Sontag areself-indulgent, overrated crap.(Bull Durham) • An army is ateam. It lives, sleeps, eats, fightsas a team. This individualitystuff is a lot of crap. (Patton)• What a bunch of crap, huh?(David Mamet)

dung • Don't ever go to see anyfilm Myriam recommends.You'll wind up wasting anevening watching a load of arty-farty dung. (John Ogilby)horsedung • Men, the stuff weheard about America not want-ing to fight, wanting to stay outof the war, was a lot ofhorsedung. Americans tradition-ally love to fight. All real Ameri-cans love the sting of battle.(Patton)horseshit • — We're going toget respect by any means neces-sary. — Ah, c 'mon, that 's abunch of horseshit! (ChasingAmy) • — I think that's veryinteresting how they use theDufy Blue with so many other


pastels. — That sounds like alotta Commie horseshit to me.(Lenny Bruce) • How'd I ever getmixed up in this happyhorseshit? (Robert Stone) • Havejust started the third of threeAgatha Christie paperbacks, the

first two of which were horseshit.(Philip Larkin) • You are now deal-ing in the cheapest kind of NewYork-liberal, hypocritical horse-shit! (William Styron)shit, shite • Soul is the musicpeople understand ... it sticks its

neck out and says it straightfrom the heart. Sure there's a lotof different music you can getoff on but soul is more than that.It grabs you by the bollocksand lifts you above the shite.(The Commitments)


EXERCISE 7.1


1. (a) piss about (b) fart about (c) shit about (d) bugger about (e) arse about (f) fuck about2. (a) crappy (b) crummy (c) lousy (d) piss-poor (e) horseshit (f) raggedy-ass3. (a) chickenshit (b) cobblers (c) bullshit (d) crap (e) balls (f) horsedung4. (a) fuck up (b) bugger up (c) cock up (d) balls up (e) screw up (f) piss-up

EXERCISE 7.2

Complete the following sentences by choosing the appropriate words in a, b, c, d, or e. In eachcase, only one answer is possible.

1. The script was stupid, the acting was terrible, and the direction was non-existent. In short, it wasone of the films I've ever seen.

(a) crappiest (b) fartiest

2. They have some kind of

(c) fuckedest (d) most buggered (e) most piddled

plan to go to China during the summer, but they still haven'tthe least idea of how they're going to finance the trip.

(a) shit-kicking (b) shit-stirring (c) horsedung (d) pissed-off (e) half-assed

3. Harry is totally incompetent. It doesn't matter what you ask him to do, you can be sure he'll

(a) fuck it out (b) fuck it off (c) fuck it over (d) fuck it up (e) fuck it in

4. Listen, all I want you to do is to tell me the facts. Don't me, just tell me the truth.

(a) ballocks (b) cobblers (c) dung (d) crap (e) bullshit

5. You'll never pass this exam if you go on and wasting time. Sooner or later, you have toget down to work.

(a) ballsing up (b) fucking about (c) cocking away (d) farting over (e) snafuing

EXERCISE 7,3


1. Trato de pegarmela con no se que excusas. 2. De vez en cuando, alguien la caga y hay un jodidodesmadre. 3. Mira, deja de joder por ahi. Si vas a hacerlo, hazlo de una vez. 4. Mis hijos no se criaranen una mierda de vivienda de proteccion oficial. 5. La cago con la organizacion. 6. Trabaja en unvideo club de mierda. 7. Los acontecimientos de ayer parecieron ser un desastre de relaciones publi-cas a gran escala. 8. — Dice que es rico. —jQue cono a a ser rico ese! 9. Los numeros estan todosmal. 10. Trato de pegarmela con no se que excusas. 11. Tiene algun tipo de objecion patetica a lastravesuras de adolescentes que ocurrieron hace casi diez anos. 12. Por favor, no nos andemos contonterias sobre este asunto. 13. [Esta vez intenta no cagarla! 14. No me vengas con sandeces! 15. Nodije que no lo iba a hacer. Solo mencionaba lo jodida que esta la situacion! 16. Dicen que el mundova llegando a su fin. Dicen que por eso esta tan jodido. 17. Era una pelicula de mierda. 18. Su decisionnos jodio las vacaciones. 19. Quieres regresar a tu pequena jodida existencia? Adelante. Ahf tienes lapuerta. Nadie te lo impide. 20. No era el resultado de algun proceso de pensamiento fantastico. Soloestaban haciendo el gilipollas, basicamente.


EXERCISE 7.4

(Joe tells a joke involving several national stereotypes. In modern American jokes people of Polishdescent are remarkable for their stupidity.)

JOE: So they're talkin' about how they get their wives off, and the French guys says: (ina bad French accent) 'All I gotta do is take my pinky and tickle my Fifi's little oo-la-la andshe rises a foot off the bed.'

So the dago says: (in a good Brooklyn accent) That's nothin'. When I take the tip ofmy tongue and wiggle it against my Mary Louise's little fun pimple, she rises two feet off dabed.'

Then our friend from Poland says: (in dumb voice) 'You guys ain't no cocksmen. WhenI get through fuckin' my Sophie, I wipe my dick on the curtains and you know what? She hitsthe roof!'

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Ain't that a masterpiece? Stupid fuckin' Polack, wipes his dickon the drapes.

From the screenplay of Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino


1. A phrasal verb meaning: to bring someone to orgasm. 2. An offensive term for a Spaniard or Latin-American. 3. A slang term for the clitoris. 4. A word designating a man regarded and evaluated as asex partner. 5. A verb meaning to have sexual intercourse with someone. 6. A slang term for the penis.7. An adjective with no precise meaning, used strictly for emphasis. 8. An offensive term for a personof Polish descent.


8: EMPHASIS

fuck - a la mierda!

This is by far the strongest of the swearwords listed in this section, words which, if taken literally,include wishing a person or thing to eternal damnation (damn, goddamn, to hell with) and mentallysubjecting the person or thing to an act of rape (fuck, screw, shag) or sodomy (sod, bugger). Inpractice, of course, such words are not primarily intended as vehicles of precise meaning but ratheras expressions of emphatic annoyance, indignation, rejection, surprise, etc.

•Hove the F-word. I never tire of it. Fve beentold it's unladylike, and I'm sure that's true,but what the heck — nothing says it better.Maybe the best thing about it is its manifolduse: Front the essential 'Fuck you!' to therelatively genteel 'Well, fuck me!' You don'thave to be a sailor to revel in this word. (AmyWallace)

If I walk away from this, he thought, I'll bean old man — all ghosts and hangovers andmellow recollections. Fuck it, he thought, thisis the one. This is the one to ride till it crashes.(Robert Stone)

— Ah fuck it. — Sure! Fuck it! That's youranswer! Tattoo it on your forehead! Youranswer to everything! (The Big Lebowski)

Fuck me, who cares if we're not nice —we're necessary. That's more important.(Robert McLiam Wilson)« — Suppose any of the neighbours were tolook out and see them. — Oh, fuck theneighbours! (Francis King)At eleven o'clock it was all settled; they were

going to run away, to Borneo. Fuck thehusband! She never loved him anyway. (HenryMller)

Business bad? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, youhad a fire? Fuck you, pay me. The place gothit by lightning, huh? Fuck you, pay me.(GoodFellas)

• Me encanta la palabra 'joder'. Nunca me can-so de ella. Me ban dicho que no est5 bien quelo diga una senorita, y seguro que es cierto,pero que mas da - nada lo expresa tan bien.Quizas lo mejor de todo sean sus multiplesusos: Desde el esencial' Joclete!' hasta el rela-tivamente suave 'Pues, jddeme!' No hace faltaser un marinero para disfrutar de esta palabra.• Si me alejo de esto, penso, me sentire viejo— todo serin fantasmas y resacas y recuer-dos dulces. Que se joda, pensd, este es el quecuenta, Este es el que hay que montar hastaque se estrelle.• — Ah, que se joda. — Bien! Que se joda.EJsa es tu respuesta! Tattialo en tu frente! Tu

respuesta a todo!• jQue se odanS, a quien le importa si no so-mos amables — somos necesarios. Eso es m£simportante.• — Suponte que algunos de los vecinos seasomaran y les vieran. — {Que se jodan losvecinos!

A las once, ya estaba todo decidido; se ibana escapar a Borneo. jQue se joda el marido!De todos modos, nunca le habia amado.

El negocio va mal? ddete, pagame.Tuviestes un incendio? Jodete, pagame.Cayo un rayo sobre el local, eh? Jodete,

pagame.

SYNONYMS:

damn, God damn, goddamn• During that time I went to a

meeting of radicals... MichaelGold made a speech and kept re-peating: 'Stick to your class,damn it, stick to your class.'

(Katherine Anne Porter) • Thevoice was a man's, and it waslaced with authority. 'Get backhere, God damn it!' (James


8.a

Carrol) • You unspeakable creep!You wretched swine! God damnyou to hell forever for betrayingme behind my back, you whomI trusted like the best friend Iever had! (William Styron)bugger (UK) • Oh, bugger it.I'm going to give up. Hadenough. (Kingsley Amis) • I'llbe buggered if I can understandhow it could have been anythingelse. (Samuel Beckett)screw • I stood in the hallwayfor a beat, the familiar feelingof dread washing over me. Screw

this. I put my books in my lockerand went home. (David Obst)• 'Don't shout, there might bekeepers.' 'Screw the keepers,' hecried. (Roald Dahl)shag • —Well, smart arse, in lieuof money what are we going topay the rent with? — Shag therent, I have other things to worryabout. (Tony Carlin)sod (UK) • Oh, sod it, I amgoing to go shopping. (HelenFielding) • 'I'd rather be athome,' said the chief camera-man, 'and sod the overtime.'

(John Wain)to hell with • I spend longhours slumped in front of theTV... watching sport and oldfilms. Nothing else: to hellwith news or politics. (PhilipLarkin) • Being a fiery youngwoman, a feminist who be-lieved she was wi th in herrights to dance with whoevershe liked, however she wanted,Linda told him to fuck off.They were finished. To hellwith Bukowski! (HowardSounes)

8. b fucking -de mierda, punetero

The word is used adjectivally or adverbially, intensifying an adjective. In many cases it has no parti-cular significance and is used simply for emphasis or to balance the rhythm of a phrase. Otherwise,the adjective means wretched, rotten, accursed; the adverb means extremely, very.

• Now this kid, this kid was great. They usedto call him Spitshine Tommy. I swear to God.Oh, he'd make your shoes look like fuckingmirrors. Excuse my language. (GoodFellas)• — You shot him in the foot, Tommy. — He'sfucking fine. All right, so he got shot in thefoot! What is it, a big fucking deal? — Heneeds a fucking doctor. (GoodFellas)• 'If I beat up on you... I'd be within my rights',he told her. 'You can't deal with people in thisoutrageous fucking manner.' (Robert Stone)• He comes in here like I'm his fuckingdoorman. (David Mamet)• You listen carefully! You ever fuckin' touchher again, you ever do anything like that again,I'll fuckin' kill you. Pure and simple. Do youhear me? Pure and fuckin' simple, I'll fuckin'kill you, you bitch. (Casino)

• Este crio, este crfo era genial. Le llamabanlimpia-escupitajos Tommy. Lo juro por Dios.Oh, hacia que tus zapatos parecieran jodidosespejos. Disculpa mi lenguaje.• — Le disparaste en el pie, Tommy. — Joder,estd bien. Vale, jle dispararon en el pie! <,Yque cono importa? — Necesita un jodido me-dico.• 'Si te fuera a pegar... estaria dentro de miderecho,' le dijo, 'No puedes tratar a la gentede esta manera tan increfblemente jodida.'• Entra aqui como si yo fuera su jodido por-tero.• Esciichame con atenci6n! Si la vuelves atocar, si vuelves a hacer algo por el estilo,te matare, joder. Puro y sencillo. Me oyes?Puro y jodidamente sencillo, te matare,jodida zorra.

SYNONYMS:

bleeding (UK) • I should liketo say how much I admire yourfight against the bleeding army.

I don't think I should have thecourage myself. (Philip Larkin)bloody (UK) • I had this dreamthe other night, about these twoskeletons having a fuck. It was

a right bloody racket — wokeme up. (Naked) • Now then,who's for the canteen? I thinkwe've had enough of this bloodyshed. (John McGrath) • That was


pretty bloody stupid, O'Rourke,and unnecessary. (John McGrath)damn, damned • Stop thatdamned ringing: How tinnituscan drive you crazy, and how itcan be cured. (Salon) • — A guybusts his damned ass and youdon't appreciate it. —Youhaven't been busting your ass,Chinaski. (Charles Bukowski)effing A euphemistic substitutefor fucking. • Fortunately, inspite of increasing public usage,the F-word hasn't entirely lostits pizazz — the New YorkTimes still refuses to print it,and people still say, 'Oh, fudge!'or 'I'm so effing mad!' (AmyWallace)frigging • Shoot the hump! Blowhis friggin' head off! (Sea of Love)• Your whacking great book onStalin's purges came this after-noon; I began putting my nosein it as a change from writingmy frigging annual report.(Philip Larkin) • Minnie's afunny friggin' name for a guy.(Ethan Coen)goddamn, goddamned • I don'tgive a shit who he's connected

to. Tell him to take his fuckin'feet off the table. What's hethink this is, a goddamn sawdustjoint? (Casino) • Come downhere and talk to me, goddamn it!Fuck you! Goddamn you, comeout here! (Casino) • Well, I'll ex-plain —if you ' l l get yourgoddam hands off me. (LennyBruce) • I don't want you toworry about a goddamned thing.(David Mamet)hellish • Life is hellish busy atpresent. (Philip Larkin)motherfucking • 'Cause me,once I decide I want some-thing, there ain ' t a goddammother fuck in ' thing gonnastop me from gittin' it. (JackieBrown) • Black rage! Black rage!I kill all white folks I lay mymotherfuckin' eyes on!! (Chas-ing Amy) • — You hit a bump orsomething and the gun went off.—The car didn't hit no mother-fuckin' bump! (Pulp Fiction)poxy • He had a glass eye... Iremember once I was havingdinner with him and he took itout and wiped it. It slipped fromhis hand and fell straight into the

pudding. What a fucking carry-on there was. This dirty, shitty,Welsh fucker searching in theice-cream for this rotten, filthyglass thing that'd slipped fromhis poxy head. I had to refuse thepudding after that. The dirtyshit. (Joe Orton)ruddy (UK) Euphemistic al-teration of bloody. • I'm sittinghere writing with a ruddy greatdamp patch. No, it's not my ad-vancing old age, but a brown,mouldy ceiling-cyst, directlyabove my head. (Guardian)sodding (UK) • Fuck thisarseholing typewriter. What'sthe matter with the soddingthing? (Philip Larkin) • HaveI read 'The Groves of Aca-deme' — of course I have:sodding good too. (Phi l ipLarkin) • Life in the centres ofexcellence is sodding hell at themoment, just work and squabbleand worry. (Philip Larkin) • Iwear two hearing aids now,permanent ly . Can ' t hear asodding word otherwise, andnot much if I do. (Philip Larkin)

•8. c fucking well -icono! carajo!

Words added parenthetically for emphasis. Sometimes they mean: certainly, definitely.

• I resolved that I would draw the line as tohow far Nathan would proceed in hisharassment. He would bully Sophie no more,I decided, and he had fucking well betterwatch his step with me. (William Styron)• — You can't protect a kid from somethinglike that. — Yes, you fucking-well can. Butyou have to make an effort! (James Laffan)• How do I know what he said? I know whathe said because I was fucking well there. Iwas the craphead he fucking well said it to.(John Ogilby)

• Decidi que trazaria una linea hasta dondepodrfa llegar Nathan con su acoso. Nointimidaria m&s a Sophie, decidi, y m£s le va-

lia tener cuidado con lo que hacia.

• — No se puede proteger a un crio de unacosa asi. — Si que puedes, joder. jPero tienesque hacer un esfuerzo!• Como Se lo que dijo? se lo que dijo porqueestaba alli, cono. Yo era el hijo de puta a quiense lo dijo, joder.


YNONYMS:

bleeding well (UK) • He has nochance of getting off with her,and he bleeding well knows ittoo. (Alan Beretta)bloody well (UK) • 'You'redrunk. You're just trying to es-cape from your yawning emo-tional hole into drink.' 'Well, so'sbloody well Shazzer,' I said sulk-ily. (Helen Fielding) • Where thebloody hell's Dorfman? The bas-

tard's cost me thirty grand al-ready. (Naked)damn well • You're going to bethe best damn President our coun-try has ever seen. You damn wellare! (Louis Fradin) • I asked aninfantry colonel whether he gavehis battalion a pre-battle lecture.The colonel replied approxi-mately as follows: — 'You candamn well bet I do.' (AtlanticMonthly)goddam well • 'She's lost her

voice!' Becca called back, en-joying the drama. 'Then she cangoddam well find it.' (SaraParetsky)sodding well (UK) • They saythey'll pay before the end of themonth, that's fine by me. But I'lltell you this, they'd bettersodding well pay. 'Cause if theydon't, our friend Razors is go-ing down there to have a friendlyword. (Alan Beretta)

8. d a hell of a -sensacional, de padre y senor mw

The phrase is used adjectivally, as in the first example, or adverbially, as in the second. Two variationsare exemplified below, a helluva and one hell of a.

• She seemed like a hell of a girl, huh? Thelittle I saw of her. (David Mamet)• To Mike Woo, a real neat Marxist Leninistand a helluva nice guy. Always a pal, Chair-man Mao. (Robert Stone)• 'Excuse me for staring,' he said in a NewYork accent. 'I was just admirin' that colossalshirt. Yeah, that is one hell of a shirt. I'll betyou paid a pretty penny for it, am I right?'(James Leo Herlihy)

• Parecia una chica estupenda, verdad? Lopoco que vi de ella.• Para Mike Woo, un marxista leninista muymajo y un tipo cojonudo. Siempre tu colega,Presidente Mao.• 'Disculpame por quedarme mirando,' dijocon acento neoyorkino. 'Solo estaba admiran-do esa camisa tan flipante. Si, es una camisacojonuda. Apostaria que te cost6 un ojo de lacara, verdad?'

8. e ... as hell -sumamente

The following phrases are added after an adjective, with the meaning: extremely, very.

• I know this sounds pretentious as hell, but Ilike to think of us as artists. (Chasing Amy)

• Se que esto suena la hostia de pretencioso,pero pienso en nosotros como artistas.

SYNONYMS:

as piss • Sometimes your para-noia and suspicious bullshit is

amusing. Sometimes it's justfucking annoying as piss!(Chasing Amy)as fuck • Now down here we

have a man-hating, angry-as-fuck, agenda-of-rage, bitterdyke. (Chasing Amy)


8. f for fuck's sake -iputamadrel icarajo!

An expression of strong emotion, exasperation, anger, surprise, despair, etc., in which fuck is substitutedfor God, Jesus, Christ, etc

• Despite herself, she laughed loudly — hersignature laugh, a cross between a bark and aneigh. He clapped a hand over her mouth. 'Forfuck's sake. People are right outside.'(Courtney Weaver)• Would you for fuck's sake try and keep thenoise down? Just because you shower of shitesdon't have to get up in the morning doesn'tmean nobody else does. (John Ogilby)• Ah for fuck's sake, what's that meddlingbastard gone and stuck his nose into now?(James Laffan)

* A pesar de si misma, se rio en voz alta — surisa era, un cruce entre un ladrido y unrelincho. Le puso la mano sobre la boca. ' Jo-der. Hay gente ahi fuera.'

Te importaria bajar ese jodido ruido? Soloporque vosotros, cabrones, no tengais quelevantaros por la manana no significa que losdemas no tengamos que hacerlo.

Carajo!, en que ha ido a meter sus naricesese bastardo entrometido ahora?

RELATED TERMS:

These expressions are all used as

for Christ's sake, for chrissakes• Yes, Holden, that's all it was:some sex! Most of it stupid highschool sex, for Christ's sake!(Chasing Amy) • You're a grownwoman, behave like it forchrissakes. (David Mamet) • Iheard my own voice now.'Nathan, for Christ's sake, lay offher!' I had gotten to my feet.(William Styron) • Those whohave actually listened to the un-expurgated tapes know that Nixonwent in for Sunday-school swear-ing and precious little else. Hisdeleted expletives overwhelm-ingly consisted of 'Goddamn','hell', 'damn', 'Christ', 'forChrist's sake', 'what in the nameof Christ' and 'oh, God'. The dirti-est words in the president's ver-nacular were 'crap', 'shit', and'asshole'. (Jonathan Aitken)for God's sake • Dripping withwater, he had a strange dignityas he tried to calm his frightenedcaptors. 'Listen to me. I'm un-

expletives.

armed, I'm unguarded. ForGod's sake, I'm naked.' (NeilGordon)for the love of Christ • Thebroad jumps back on the bed andyells 'Now, give it to me now forthe love of Christ. ' (DavidMamet)for the love of God • 'For thelove of God, get a hold on your-self, McManus,' Powers saidcontemptuously. (Shaun Herron)holy Jesus • The sky was fullof what looked like huge bats,all swooping and screeching anddiving around the car, and avoice was screaming: 'Holy Je-sus! What are these goddamnanimals?' (Fear and Loathing inLas Vegas)Jesus Christ • Jesus Christ, Iget home from work, all I wantto do is put my feet up andwatch the telly, not get in-volved in one of your orgies.(Naked) • — That's it for me.From here on in, you can con-

sider my ass retired. — JesusChrist! — Don't blaspheme! —Goddammit, Jules... — I saiddon't do that. (Pulp Fiction)• 'Oh, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ,'I kept hearing myself mutter,half aware of the questioninglook on the face of the old man,who as a member of the SecondBaptist Church of Washingtonwas doubtless unprepared forsuch impiety from a preacher.(William Styron)fucking hell • — 'What timedoes she get back?' — 'Dunno.About seven or something.' —'Fuckin' hell!' (Naked) • Fuckin'hell! I've seen more life in anopen grave. I mean, you don'tseem very pleased to see me.(Naked)• Fuckin' hell! Stupid fuckin'cunt's gone and got lost. (Naked)bloody hell, bleeding hell (UK)• 'Bloody hell,' he said at last. 'Ihate these European art movies,don't you?' (Jonathan Coe)


8. g I the fuck -cono, caraio

An adverbial phrase mainly used for rhythmic fullness in hostile questions or to intensify the emotionalcharge of hostile commands and assertions.

• Jesus Christ, why don't you just shut the fuckup. You're yap, yap, yapping all the time. Giveme a fucking headache. (Chasing Amy)• — How am I supposed to feel about all ofthis? — How are you supposed to feel aboutit? Feel whatever the fuck you want about it!The only thing that really matters is how youfeel about me. (Chasing Amy)• 'What the fuck!' Converse exclaimed. Quiteinvoluntarily. (Robert Stone)•You ain't gonna do a goddam thing, now hangback and shut the fuck up. (Pulp Fiction)• They had so much fuckin' money in there,you could build a house out of stacks of $100bills. And the best part was that upstairs, theboard of directors didn't know what the fuckwas going on. (Casino)• 'Get out,' I shouted again. 'Get yourgoddamned foot out of that door and leave methe fuck alone!' (William Styron)• Everyone was happy. Everyone was smiling.And why the fuck not? We were alive and moreto the point it was looking like we had a chanceto stay that way. (Ken Lukowiak)

• Jesus, £por que cono no te callas? Estds queno callas en.todo el dia. Me das un puto dolorde cabeza.• — Como se supone que me tengo quesentir acerca de esto? — Como se suponeque te tienes que sentir? Siente lo que tede la puta gana! Lo Snico que importa esque sientes por mi.• Que cono!' exclamo Converse. Del todoinvoluntario.• No vas a hacer ni hostias, quedate atras ycierra la puta boca.• Tenian tanto puto dinero ahi dentro, que sepodrfa construir una casa con los montonesde billetes de $100. Y lo mejor de todo eraque la junta directiva no sabia que cono esta-ba pasando.• 'Sal de aqui' grite otra vez. ' Saca tu putopie de la puerta y dejame en paz de una jodidavez!'• Todos eran felices. Todos estaban sonrien-do. Y por que cono no? Estibamos vivos yadema's, parecfa que tenfamos posibilidadesde seguir asi.

SYNONYMS:

the hell • 'The thing to do,' hethought at length, 'is to get the

hell out of here, away tosomeplace.' (James Leo Herlihy)the blazes A euphemistic sub-stitute for hell. • Where the

blazes have you been? Have youany idea what time it is?(Rodney Forsythe)

8. h I the shit out of... -severamente

To beat the shit out of someone is to beat or thrash that person thoroughly (moler a alguien a palos).Any verb denoting assault or punishment may replace beat: kick, knock, hammer, slap, scare, etc.

• Well, I got mad and it felt terrific! I felt likeI could beat the shit outta all those punks! Ex-cuse my language, just beat them to a pulp!(Fried Green Tomatoes)

« Pues, me enfade" y me sentf estupendamen-te! Me sentf como si pudiese dar de hostias aesos pringaos! Perdona mi lenguaje, solo dar-les de tortas!


And then he counts to three and she doesn'tmove and then he gets down on his knees andbegins to slap the livin' shit out of her.(William Styron)* Our war had so far consisted of watchingthe Argentine Air Force bomb the shit out ofour Navy. (Ken Lukowiak)* Listen, I know I'm boring the shit out of you,but I've got to talk to somebody. I can't talkto those guys upstairs. (Henry Miller)

• Entonces 61 cuenta hasta tres y ella no semueve y entonces se arrodilla y empieza adarle de hostias.

• Nuestra guerra hasta ahora habia consistidoen contemplar como la fuerza aerea argentinabombadeaba a nuestra marina.• Oye, se que te estoy aburriendo mortalmente,pero tengo que hablar con alguien. No puedohablar con esos tipos del piso de arriba.

SYNONYMS:

the hell out of... • Every hookerI ever speak to tells me it beatsthe hell out of waitressing.Waitressing's got to be the worst

fucking job in the world.(Deconstructing Harry) • Theposter said 'More chilling thanThe Exorcist... More hauntingthan The Sixth Sensel It will scarethe hell out of you.' It bored the

hell out of me. (Guardian) • We'regoing to take the enemy by thenose and kick him in the ass. We'llkick the hell out of him. We'll gothrough them like crap through agoose.


(patton)

EXERCISE 8.1


1. (a) bloody (b) poxy (c) goddam (d) half-assed (e) motherfucking (f) sodding2. (a) damn it (b) shit it (c) sod it (d) to hell with it (e) screw it (f) bugger it3. (a) for the love of Christ (b) for fuck's sake (c) for Christ's sake (d) Jesus H. Christ (e) the fuck

(f) fucking hell4. (a) bleeding well (b) fucking well (c) cunting well (d) damn well (e) sodding well

(f) bloody well

EXERCISE 8.2


thing I ever did in my life. Apart from getting mar-1. Quitting that job was the stupidestried, that is.

(a) bastard (b) whoring (c) fucking

2. You're in a lot of trouble, pal. I advise you to get _

(a) the fuck (b) the crap (c) the shit

3. She was nice-looking woman, I mean really beautiful.

(a) a fuck of a (b) a shag of a (c) a shit of a (d) a hell of a (e) a bastard of a

(d) pissing (e) shitty

out of here before the cops arrive,

(d) the cunt (e) the crud

4. Turn that goddamned radio off .! It's driving me crazy.

(a) for crap's sake(b) for fuck's sake (c) in Christ's sake (d) in fuck's sake (e) in fuck's name

EXERCISE 8.3


1. j Y a ti que cono te importa, imbecil! j Largo de aqui! 2. jQue cacho chuleta te estas comiendo! 3.jQue se jodan los vecinos! A quien le importa lo que piensen? Nunca antes nos han preocupado. 4.No entendi un carajo. 5. Le puso la mano sobre la boca. 'Joder. Hay gente ahi fuera.' 6. Que conohacias el otro dia espiando a mi mujer? 7. Jesus, £por que cono no te callas? Me das un puto dolor decabeza. 8. Luisa juega de puta madre! 9. Es una camisa cojonuda. Apostaria que te costo un ojo dela cara. 10. CIA mi que cono me importa lo que diga Lou Reed! 11. Se que esto suena la hostia depretencioso, pero pienso en nosotros como artistas. 12. Apaga esa television, cono! 13. Saca tuputo pie de la puerta y dejame en paz de una jodida vez! 14. Esta mierda de miercoles es un conazo.15. Como se lo que dijo? Se lo que dijo porque estaba alli, cono. 16. Oye, se que te estoy aburriendomortalmente, pero tengo que hablar con alguien. 17. No se como cono aprobo! 18. Nuestra guerrahabia consistido en contemplar como la fuerza aerea argentina bombadeaba a nuestra marina. 19.Entra aqui como si yo fuera su jodido portero. 20. No vas a hacer ni hostias. Cierra la puta boca.


EXERCISE 8.4

(Nicky, a brash and assertive hoodlum, chastises Al, one of his employees and a compulsivegambler. Al is lying about what happened to some money Nicky gave him.)

AL: When I left here with the money...NICKY: Mm.AL: ...I got muscled on the street.NICKY: Mm.AL: A couple of guys, I owe them. So, that's what I did. I gave 'em the money. That's what Idid.NICKY: Yeah?AL: Yeah.NICKY: You call yourself a man? You know you're a lyin', low-life, motherfuckin' gamblingdegenerate prick? You know that's what you are? Two small kids at home. I gave you moneyto pay the fuckin' rent and buy groceries, put the heat on. You know your wife called Frankieand told him the fuckin' heat's off? Huh? And you didn't gamble that fuckin' money? You'regonna stand here and tell me that?(AL shakes his head 'no'.)

No, no? You didn't?AL: I didn't give 'em the m-NICKY: Don't fuck with me, Al! Don't make a fuck out of me! You want to embarrass me andmake a fool out of me?! You didn't gamble?! Tell me you gambled the fuckin' money, I'llgive you the fuckin' money to put the fuckin' heat on! Did you gamble?! Huh?!(AL nods 'yes', bowing his head in shame.)Fuckin' degenerate, you.(NiCKY takes some money from his coat pocket and starts counting out some bills.)Fuckin' kids at home! Here. (Giving him the money.) Get the fuck out of here.AL: Thanks, Nick.NICKY: Yeah, thanks.(AL walks out.)Let me find out you fucked up, I'll leave you wherever I find you.

From Casino, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese


1. Two all-purpose adjectives with no precise meaning, used exclusively for emphasis. 2. A term ofabuse applied to a man. 3. A phrasal verb meaning to cause someone difficulty or trouble. 4. A verbalexpression meaning to make a fool of someone. 5. A two-word adverbial expression with no precisemeaning, added to any utterance for greater emphasis. 6. A phrasal verb meaning to make a seriousmistake, to fail by blundering, to ruin one's prospects.


9: RACIAL INSULTS

9. a Whitey - el hombre bianco!

Black English word, intended contemptuously or dismissively, for a white person.

• The average whitey out here got everything,you dig? And the nigger ain't got shit, y'know?

(Atlantic Monthly)• Trying to fail the physical examination, hetook a drug to make his heart sound defective.

Shorty felt about the war the same way I and

most ghetto Negroes did; 'Whitey ownseverything. He wants us to go and bleed forhim? Let him fight.' (Ronald Takaki)

El tipico bianco ahi fuera lo tiene todo,entiendes? Y el negro no tiene una mier-

da, sabes?• Intentando suspender su examen fisico, tom6una droga para intentar que su corazdn sona-

ra defectuoso. Shorty opinaba sobre la guerra

igual que yo y la mayoria de los negros delghetto: 'El hombre bianco es dueno de todo.El quiere que vayamos y sangremos por 61?

jQue luche el!'

RELATED TERMS:

Boss Charley (US) Black Eng-lish. • He said, 'It doesn't matter,the end result, as long as we trickWhitey, as long as we fuck upBoss Charley.' (Lenny Bruce)cracker (US) A southern rusticor poor white. • I was broke in onthe job by a cracker named DixieSugg who hated black people. Hetaught me you gotta practicallycut off their heads and shrink 'emto kill the motherfuckers. (JosephWambaugh)• Then Tyrone and Leroy sleepthrough you getting beat up bysome cracker shitbird. I thoughtyou colored guys stuck together.(James Ellroy)gringo Used contemptuously by

Spanish Americans to refer toEnglish people or Anglo-Ameri-cans. From Mexican gringo, gib-berish. • The old gringo referredto by the title of CarlosFuentes's latest book happens tobe Ambrose Bierce, the Ameri-can journalist and short-storywriter who left for Mexico in1913 and who mysteriously dis-appeared. (New York Times)honky, honkey (US) Black Eng-lish. • She was twenty years old,and almost honky white. She hada medium Afro, very frazzled atthe moment. (Joseph Wambaugh)• 'You honky motherfucker!' theblack hod carrier yelled when hefinally exploded. (JosephWambaugh) • 'Oughtta keep thejiveass honkies outta our neigh-

borhoods,' said Easy. 'Most athese young j i t terbug socialworkers don't look like they gotall their shit in one bag anyhow.'(Joseph Wambaugh)ofay (US) Black English. • — Inever truck with no sissies. — Iknow that, son. — I ain't yourson, you ofay fuck. (James Ellroy)• Only an ignorant ofay couldcall Sigourney Weaver the firstfemale action hero. Hey, baby,ain't you never heard of PamGrier? Check out Coffy and FoxyBrown. (Salon)the Man (US) Black English.• Rus is not Uncle Tomming itaround Harlem with the Man. Hehas brought a foreign visitor.(Guardian)

9. b I Brit -bntamcoShort for Briton or Britisher. Generally inoffensive.

• Over the last 10 years the Brit has enteredthe mythology of New York City. He is usually

- depicted as a member of the London bon tonwho comes to America as an indefatigable

Durante los ultimos 10 anos el britaeico haentrado en la mitologia de la ciudad de NuevaYork. Normalmente es presentado comomiembro del bon ton de Londres que viene a


leech, deadbeat and sponger. (Tom Wolfe)

• Beaton went higher and further, on spongeddinners, weekends, yacht trips and hotelsuites, than any Brit of his time, and hemocked the Yanks more openly. (Tom Wolfe)

• To me, as a Brit, the sense of power isamazing. The sense that decisions haveconsequences, which they don't seem to inBritain, is very strong and beguiling. I canalways understand why the Brits come andcolonize American newspapers, Americanmedia, or try to, because this is the real thing.It's played with live ammunition here. (JohnLe Carre")

America como una sanguijuela infatigable, unmuerto de hambre y un aprovechado.• Beaton subid mas y mas alto, con cenas, fi-nes de semana, viajes en yate y habitacionesde hotel por el morro, mas que cualquier otrobrit&nico de su tiempo, y se pitorreaba de losamericanos mas descaradamente.• Para mi, como britanico, la sensacion de po-der es alucinante. La sensaci6n de que las de-cisiones tienen consecuencias, al parecer alcontrario que en Gran Bretana, es muy fuertey seductora. Siempre puedo entender por quelos britanicos vienen y colonizan los perid-dicos americanos, los medios de comuni-caeion americanos, o lo intentan, porqueeso es lo autentico. Aqui se juega con mu-niciones reales.

RELATED TERMS:

Brummy, Brummie A personfrom Birmingham. • One in-mate, known as Brummie Bob,threatened to instigate a full-blown food strike if he wasn'tprovided with 'proper scran,right fookin' now'. (Guardian)Jock A Scot. • I need not haveworried. The first person Ibumped into in Glasgow wasUlrika Johnson, who greeted mewith a big kiss. I made straightfor the pub and was treated likean honorary Jock. (Guardian)limey An English person. • A

reader willing to put up with Mr.Card's digressions, his intrusiveasides, his lack of chronology,his occasionally infelicitouschoice of words (he calls the ac-tor George K. Arthur 'the in-genuous Limey') may be wonover by his obvious love of hissubject. (New York Times)pommy, pommie (Austr) AnEnglish immigrant. • The pommybird woke up and chucked all overthe multi-coloured woolen blan-ket. (Swag)Scouse A person from Liver-pool. • While she was growingup, Cherie would see her father,

Tony Booth, on television play-ing the 'Scouse git' in Till DeathDo Us Part. (Guardian)Taff, Taffy A person fromWales. • The Welsh are still seenas fair game (for racist denigra-tion). The rhyme that begins'Taffy was a Welshman, Taffywas a thief was included in atreasury my daughter was givenrecently. (Guardian) • Reports ofthe violence were posted on thenet during the fighting. One up-date read: 'Get ready Taffies, weare coming to wreck your coun-try. We are also flying the flagof St George.' (Guardian)

9. c I Mick -irlandes

Derogatory term for Irish people. From the commonness of the male personal name Michael in Ireland.

• Hell's Kitchen was dominated by the Irish,and it was said there used to be signs on thepiers there that read NO WOPS; in Brooklyn theItalians were in charge, and they put up signson the piers there that said NO MICKS. (MalachyMcCourt)

• El barrio de Hell's Kitchen era dominado porlos irlandeses, y se dice que habla carteles enlos muelles que ponia PROHIBIDO HALIANOS; enBrooklyn, los italianos estaban al mando, yponfan carteles en los muelles que decian PRO-HIBIDO IRLANDESES.


• The Irishman used to be characterized by theAmericans as a 'Mick' or 'Paddy'. Any suchsocial distinctions constitute serioushandicaps in the matrimonial race; but on theother hand, as they are in consequence largelyartificial, they tend to disappear with thedemonstration of economic and socialefficiency. (Atlantic Monthly)

• Antes el irlandes era denominado por losamericanos como 'Mick' o 'Paddy'. Seinejantedistinci6n social constituye un serio obstacu-lo en la carrera matrimonial; pero por otraparte, como son muy artificiales, tienden adesaparecer con la demostracion de la efiea-cia economica y social.

SYNONYMS:

paddy Often derogatory. Fromthe diminutive of Patrick.• Paddy yourself! How dare

you call me Paddy? (GeorgeBernard Shaw)bog-trotter • He vowed to geta suntan and have his teethcapped. Jesus, around here he

felt like his old man must havefelt as a bogtrotter at Ellis Is-land. (Joseph Wambaugh)

9. d Yank, Yankee -yanqui, g]in

A US citizen from either the northern or southern states. The term is generally inoffensive.

• Each soldier lies on his back with his jungleknife unsheathed in his clenched fist. The Yanksleeps, but his killer instinct is wide awake.(Stanley A. Frankel)» Mr. Edelman did not consider Englandforeign when he was hired to bring Yankeebusiness know-how to a firm founded in 1899by another Yank, Albert Curtis Brown. (NewYork Times)

They wrestled the Americans toward the sheddoor affectionately... They called them 'Yank',promised them that 'Jerry was on the run', andso on. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)• Why do Yanks say blow when they meansuck? And arse when they mean cunt? Talkabout separated by a common language...(Philip Larkin)

• Cada soldado se tumba de espaldas con sucuchillo de jungla desenfundado en su punocerrado. El americano duerme, pero su instin-to asesino esta completamente despierto.• El senor Edelman no considero a Inglaterracomo pais extanjero cuando fue contratadopara traer conocimientos empresariales ame-ricanos a una empresa fundada en 1899 porotro americano, Albert Curtis Brown.• Condujeron a los americanos hacia la puertadel cobertizo afectuosamente... Les llamaban'Yank', les prometian que 'Jerry estaba hu-yendo', etc.• Por que los americanos dicen soplar cuandoquieren decir chupar? Y culo cuando quierendecir cono? Ya ves, separados por un idiomacormin...

9. e frog -franchute, gabacho

Applied derogatorily to a French person and to the French language. From their supposed fondnessfor eating frog-legs.

• One night the telephone rang and a foreign-sounding fellow introduced himself as BarbetSchroeder, a film director. Bukowski's number

• Una noche el tele fono sono y un tipo conacento extranjero se present6 como BarbetSchroeder, un director de cine. El numero de


was unlisted and he did not take kindly to theintrusion. 'Fuck off, you French frog,' he said.(Howard Sounes)• France, yeah sure, beautiful country, beautifulwomen, great food, great wine. Full of yourfucking frogs, though, innit? (Alan Beretta)» There are photographs showing specimensof manhood 'before and after'. All frogs... Afrog should have just a wee bit of a paunch,like the Baron de Charlus. (Henry Miller)

Bukowski no aparecla en el listin y no le hizogracia la intrusion. 'Jodete, gabacho,' le dijo.

• Francia, si, claro, un pais hermoso, mujereshermosas, comida maravillosa, vino maravi-lloso. Pero esta lleno de gabachos, no?• Hay fotograffas que muestran especfmenes devirilidad 'antes y despueY. Todos franchutes...Un franchute deberia tener simplemente un po-quito de barriga, como el bardn de Charlus.

9. f kraut -alemdn

Applied derogatorily to a German. From the prevalence of sauerkraut in the German diet.

• Who's in charge of scheduling? Burkhalter.I told that Kraut a fucking thousand times Idon't roll on shabbas. (The Big Lebowski)• I'm trying to cheer her up, you stupid Kraut!(John Cleese)• Slang words, like curses, are notoriouslydifficult to translate without losing their spice.In this case, nicknames like Kraut, Jerry orHun (Churchill's favorite) reflect Americanand British experience with Germany, while'le Boche' refers to a nation that invadedFrance three times in a century. (New YorkTimes)

• Quien esta al mando de la planificacidn?Burkhalter. Le dije a ese alemdn mil putas ve-ces que no juego a los bolos en el shabbas.• Estoy intentando animarla, jestupido ale-man!• Las palabras en jerga, como los tacos, sonnotoriamente dificiles de traducir sin que pier-dan su picardia. En este caso, apodos comoKraut, Jerry o Hun (el favorito de Churchill)reflejan la experiencia americana y britanicacon Alemania, mientras que 'le Boche' se re-fiere a una nacidn que invadi6 a Francia tresveces en un siglo.

SYNONYMS:

Boche • We'll put Ipswich roundthere. We'll put Lyme Regiswhere Ipswich was. And we'll putGreat Yarmouth where LymeRegis was. There now, that shouldfool the Boche. (Peter Cook)Fritz From German Fritz, nick-name for Friedrich. • Ah rot off,Fritz. You know what Germanhouse painters grow up into, don'tyou, Fritz? (John McGrath)Heinle (US) From the Germanname Heinrich. • There were so

many races; so many creeds andsects all huddled together in anarea not more than a mile square.The people called each othernames: Mick, Heinie, Guinea,Hunky, Polack, Wop, Sheeny,Squarehead, Bohunk, Chick andGreaseball. (Robert Cornfield)Hun • We won't just shoot thebastards. We're going to cut outtheir living guts and use them togrease the treads of our tanks.We're going to murder those lousyHun bastards by the bushel.(Patton) • I have a new car, filthy

Hun Audi. (Philip Larkin)Jerry (UK) • — You were aircrew, weren't you? — Naviga-tor bomber-aimer. I joined un-der-age to get a crack at Jerry.Soon as I passed out flight-ser-geant, ready to go on ops, oldAdolf packs it in. (Peter Nichols)squarehead • There was a bul-let-head priest in the GermanCatholic church on the Northsideand one day he and his motherwent there to beg. The squareheadslammed a fifty-cent piece downon the table. (Robert Stone) mm


9.g kike -judioDerogatory or offensive. Sometimes used by Jews of other Jews they regard with contempt, as in thethird example.

• The word 'nigger' — along with 'chink','kike' and the rest of our questionablelinguistic heritage — once was a 'legitimate'word in American society. We need tounderstand at what point our culturerecognized that the insult was taboo. (Salon)

• My father was a social worker who cru-saded for birth control and fought housingdiscrimination against Jews. Yet I onceheard him describe an objectionable Jew asa 'kike'. All this, it must be remembered,occurred before the Holocaust revealed tothe world where such ugliness ultimatelyled. (New York Times)• You're a kike, Weiss, a kike, the kind of meanlittle creep that gives Jews a bad name.(William Styron)

• La palabra 'nigger' ('negro') — al igualque 'chink' (chino), 'kike' (judio) y el restode nuestra dudosa herencia linguistica — unavez fue una palabra 'legitima' en la socie-dad americana. Necesitamos entender enquee momento nuestra cultura reconocidque el insulto era tabu.• Mi padre era un trabajador social que Iuchopor el derecho a los anti-conceptivos y peleoen contra de la discriminacion en la venta deinmuebles a los judfos. Aun asi, una vez le oidescribir a un judio reprobable como 'kike'.Todo esto, hay que acordarse, ocurrio antesde que el Holocausto revelara al mundo hastadonde llegaba finalmente esta fealdad.• Eres un 'kike', Weiss, un 'kike', el tipo decabron con mala leche que da mala fama a losjudios.

SYNONYMS:

Heeb, Heebie, Hebe (US) • Amillion times I wanted to yell inhis fuckin' ear: 'This is LasVegas! We're supposed to be outhere robbing, you dumb fuckin'Heeb'. (Casino) • Moses Man-kowitz? Redbeard Mahoney?The Irish son of a bitch was afucking hebe! (Joseph Wam-baugh) • I found myself brood-ing blackly on my recent rob-bery. And Morris Fink. Fink!That fucking little hebe.(William Styron)

Jew boy • Kid, you have got J-E-W written right across themiddle of that face — look atthe shnoz on him, for God'ssakes! That ain't a nose, it's ahose! Screw off , Jewboy!(Philip Roth) • The Cossacksare coming! Here's one Jew-boywho's going to make tracks forthe countryside!' (WilliamStyron)sheeny, sheenie • 'Sheeny!' sheis screaming. 'Hebe! You can'teven come off unless you pullyour own pudding, cheap bastardfairy Jew!' (Philip Roth)

mocky, mockie (US) • Love thyneighbor... if he's not a mockieor a slicked-up greaseball fromthe Argentine. (Isaac Wolfert)Yid • Who do you think they'realways giggling about as it is?You! The skinny Yid and hisshnoz following them around...(Philip Roth) • Someone callsme a Sheeney, I'll knock 'emright on their ass... I wanna tellyou sometin. I don't care whatthe hell a guy is so long as theykeep their place, you know.(Lenny Bruce)


9. h I Polack -polaco

Mainly derogatory. As the English tell jokes belittling the Irish for their stupidity, so Americans tellPolack jokes. Curiously, although the word is pejorative in English, it comes from the Polish wordPolak, a Pole.

• Then our friend from Poland says: 'When Iget through fucking my Sophie, I wipe ray dickon the curtains, and you know what? She hitsthe roof!' Ain't that a masterpiece? Stupidfuckin' Polack, wipes his dick on the drapes.(Reservoir Dogs)• You and I know what a Jew is — One WhoKilled Our Lord. We did this about twothousand years ago — two thousand years ofPolack kids whacking the shit out of uscoming home from school. (Lenny Bruce)» The other important reason for his rejectionwas the fact that he was a Polack, a Germanword which has the same sneeringlycontemptuous meaning in German as it has inEnglish. (William Styron)• You're a dirty Polack and Polacks are thieves.My mother says that Polacks are worse thievesthan Gypsies and dirtier too. You smell!(William Styron)

• Entonces nuestro amigo de Polonia dice:'Cuando termino de foliar a mi Sophie, melimpio la polla con las cortinas, y sabes que?jSe pone histerica!' jVaya obra de arte! Putoestupido polaco, se limpia la polla con las cor-tinas.• Tu y yo sabemos lo que es un judio — UnoQue Mato A Nuestro Senor. Hicimos esto hacedos mil anos — dos mil anos de aguantar acrios polacos dandonos de hostias al ir a casade la escuela.• La otra razon importante de su rechazo erael hecho de que era 'polak', una palabra ale-mana que tiene el mismo significado de des-precio y desden en alemdn como en ingles.

• Eres una asquerosa polaca y los polacos sonladrones. Mi madre dice que los polacos sonpeores ladrones que los gitanos, ;y mas su-cios tambien! Apestas!

9. i Russkie -ruso

• There will never be another Conservativegovernment. What there will be is a series ofLabour governments that will bankrupt thecountry so that we are all starving, at whichpoint the Russkies will step in. (Philip Larkin)

• No volvera a haber otro gobierno conserva-dor. Lo que habra sera una serie de gobiernosliberales que llevardn al pais a la bancarrotapara que estemos todos muriendonos de ham-bre, momento en el que entrardn los rusos.

j raghead -drabe

Derogatory or offensive term for an Arab. From the fact that Arabs often cover their heads with awhite or red-and-white checked gutrah.

* Could he speak Arabic? Are you joking? Helived in the desert with them for nearly twentyyears. He could speak it like a raghead. (W.C.Doughty)

si sabia hablar drabe? Bromeas? Vi-vio en el desierto con ellos durante casi vein-te anos. Lo hablaba como un 'raghead'('cabeza de trapo', rabe).


* Every Friday morning, just after the prayer,the more blood-thirsty ragheads would crowdinto Chop Square to see some poor bugger gethis hand or his head lopped off. (W.C.Doughty)

• Cada viernes por la manana, justo despuesdel rezo, los arabes mis sanguinarios se so-lian concentrar en Chop Square para ver comole cortaban la mano o la cabeza a algto pobredesgraciado.

SYNONYMS;

camelfucker (US) Derogatory.• Look at our current situationwith that camelfucker in Iraq.Pacifism is not something tohide behind. (The Big Lebowski)camel jockey (US) Derogatory.Like the previous term, from the

alleged use of the camel forsexual gratification in the Mid-dle East.• The British papers quickly fol-lowed the American lead. Al-though none quite sank to thelevel of 'Camel jockeys killedyour kids', the British tabloidswere not far behind. (Observer)

fig-eater (US) Derogatory. • Imean 'Nam was a foot soldier'swar... Just me and Charlie, man,eyeball to eyeball... Worthyfuckin' adversary... Not a bunchof fig-eaters with towels on theirheads tryin' to find reverse on aSoviet tank. (The Big Lebowski}

Applied derogatorily to an Italian or to a person of Italian descent and to the Italian language.

• Presumably because they were unable toovercome some slight vestigial embarrassmentabout doing business with the greasybeperfumed wop who has cuckolded one oftheir oldest friends they omitted to mentionthe whole business to me. (Helen Fielding)• Apparently some sort of deal has been donewith... with the filthy wop... and they'verecovered some of the money. (Helen Fielding)• In a democratic, catholic, real Americangame like baseball, there has been nodistinction. The Mick, the Sheeny, the Wop,the Chink, the Cuban, the Indian, the Jap orthe so-called Anglo-Saxon — his 'nationality'is never a matter of moment if he can pitch,hit, or field. (Sporting News)

* Al parecer, al no ser capaces de superar losleves vestigios de verguenza que les quedabapor hacer negocios con el italiano grasiento yperfumado que le habia puesto cuernos a unode sus mas antiguos amigos, se olvidaron decomentarme todo el negocio,

Parecer ser que se estla llevando a cabo untrato con... con ese sucio latino... y han recii-perado parte del dinero.* En un deporte democratico, catolico y ge-nuinamente americano como es el beisbol, noha habido distinciones. El irlandes, el judio,el italiano, el chino, el cubano, el indio, el japo-nes o el supuesto anglo-saj6n — su 'nacionali-dad' nunca es tema de debate si puede lanzar,batear o recibir.

SYNONYMS:

Eyetie Derogatory. • Kingsleyis summering on some southernisle: just for a handful of Eyetietit he left us. (Philip Larkin)guinea (US) Derogatory. Appliedto an immigrant of Italian (orsometimes Spanish) origin. • I

spent hundreds of thousands ofdollars on her, I was gonna makeher a big star! ... And then JohnnyFontane comes along with his ol-ive oil voice and his guinea charm,and she runs off. (The Godfather)greaseball (US) Derogatory. Usu-ally refers to a person of LatinAmerican descent, but also, as

here, to those of Italian extrac-tion. • There was nothing wecould do about it... we had to sitstill and take it. It was amongthe Italians. It was realgreaseball shit. They even shotTommy in the face so his mothercouldn't give him an open coffinat the funeral. (GoodFellas)


9. k wop -italiano

9. I dago -espanol, sudaca

Derogatory. A person of Spanish (or, as the examples make clear, sometimes Italian) extraction.

• Harry Truman was a man of many pre-judices. His letters are peppered with thestandard-issue epithets of the world inwhich he grew up — dago, nigger, bohunk.(New York Times)• Of course, it didn't hurt La Guardia thathe had an Italian-American father and aJewish mother and was a practicing Protes-tant. Robert Moses, who sometimes calledhim a dago, came to envy his politicaltouch. (New York Times)• Billy wants to know if you can get him adeal on one of those dago sports cars.(Lenny Bruce)

• Harry Truman era un hombre de muchosprejuicios. Sus cartas estfin repletas de lostipicos epitetos del mundo en el que se cri6— dago (espanol), nigger (negrata), bohunk(hungaro).• Claro, que no le hizo ningun dano a LaGuardia el que tuviera un padre america-no-italiano y una madre judia y que fueraprotestante practicante. Robert Moses, quea veces le llamaba 'dago, llego a envidiarsu toque politico.• Billy quiere saber si le puedes conseguir unchollo con uno de esos coches deportivos ita-lianos.

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The following terms referring to people of Latin American origin are all derogatory.

greaseball (US) • I figured Icould be doing better things withmy life than taking knives awayfrom greaseballs in zoot suits.(Raymond Chandler)greaser (US) • I am hard but Iam fair. There is no racial big-otry here. I do not look down onniggers, kikes, wops or greasers.Here you are all equally worth-less! (Full Metal Jacket)spic, spick (US) • I wanna take

this little turd and grind him upin the cement mixer until he'staco meat! And put him in a ma-nure bag and send him to thosewetback farmworkers to spreadon all that boycotted lettuce. Iwonder how that spic prickCesar Chavez would like that?(Joseph Wambaugh) • Whatabout the filthy spick fucker thatthe sarge blew away? (KenLukowiak)

wetback (US) Applied to anillegal immigrant from Mexicoto the US. From the practiceof swimming the Rio Grande.• Now the bartender was awetback, he was a friend of mine,his name was Carlos. (ReservoirDogs) • You write half the timelike some ignorant wetback. Youdidn't learn no English in thoseChicano East L.A. schools.(Joseph Wambaugh)

9. m gook -asiatico, chino, amanlloMainly US. An offensive term for any East Asian or Polynesian or immigrant of East Asian origin.

* Too many foreigners own liquor stores.Vietnamese, Koreans, they can't fuckin' speakEnglish. You tell them: 'Empty out theregister', and they don't know what it fuckin*means. We keep on, one of those gookmotherfuckers' gonna make us kill 'em. (PulpFiction)

• Demasiados extranjeros son duenos de tien-das de licores. Los vietnamitas, los coreanos,no pueden hablar el jodido ingles. Les dices:'Vacia la caja registradora', y no saben quecono les est£s diciendo. Si seguimos asi, unode esos jodidos asiaticos va a conseguir quele matemos.


• Cokes got the silver star for rollin' a barrelof oil down a hill in Korea into forty-sevenchinky dinky Chinese gooks who wereclimbin' up the hill and when he shot into itwith his machine gun, it blew them all to grapejelly. (David Rabe)

• Cokes recibio la estrella de plata por hacerrodar por una colina un barril de aceite enCorea hacia cuarenta y siete jodidos chinosque lo estaban subiendo y cuando disparo con-tra ellos con su ametralladora, les volo por losaires, convirtiendoles en mermelada de uva.

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chink, chinkey A Chinese per-son. • There was an American flagon the front and Chinese charac-ters painted on the back of thebox. The message on the back,roughly translated, read: 'UncleSam's taxes suck. It's every Chinkfor himself.' (Joseph Wambaugh)• The wogs and Chinks all see theday approaching when the Britishgo for good. (Peter Nichols) • Didyou eat today? No? Come on,we're going to swing by theChinks, we got to talk. (DavidMamet)dink A Vietnamese. • I keepthinkin' there was maybesomethin' I coulda done differ-ent. Maybe not drunk so much.Or if I'd killed more gooks, ormore Krauts, or more dinks.(David Rabe)Jap A Japanese. • Keep your

mouth shut and watch how peo-ple do it. Watch how the Japs do,they're the coolest people in theworld. (Robert Stone) • JuicyLucy's a Jap ... knows all thosemassage tricks from Japan.That'll be an extra twenty. JuicyLucy don't give nothing but theAphrodite Special.' (JosephWambaugh)Nip A Japanese. • You're a Nip.You all look alike. (JosephWambaugh) • Knock off that Japstuff, goddamnit. That fuckingLieutenant Finque made me goto another Nip luncheon today.(Joseph Wambaugh) • If anybodyknows the strength of Nips be-hind our lines, it's Tojo there.(Willis Hall)slope (US) Originally any EastAsian (from Asians ' stereo-typically slanting eyes), but sub-sequently applied specifically tothe Vietnamese.

• — What did the slope looklike? — I don't know. StringyOriental guy, is all. I rememberone thing. He smiled when hebrought me a martini and hehad a mean smile. (JosephWambaugh)slopehead (US) An East Asianor person of Asian extraction.• Buckmore Phipps hated allniggers. He also hated greas-ers, slopeheads, kikes, judges,lawyers, fags, dopers, report-ers, po l i t i c ians . . . (JosephWambaugh)Tojo A Japanese. Sometimes,as here, a form of address.• It's a photo! It's a picture ofa Nippo bint! Who's this then,eh? You got wife? Your missis?Japanese girl very good, eh?Good old Tojo! She's a bitshort in the pins, that's all. Butvery nice. (Willis Hall)

19. n nigger -negro

A coloured person. The term is generally derogatory or offensive when used by a white person, butneutral or even approving in Black English. From French negre, black.

* If there was one thing Roscoe Rules wished,after having seen all of the world he cared tosee, it was that there was a word as dirty as'nigger' to apply to all mankind. Since he hadlittle imagination he had to settle for 'asshole'.(Joseph Wambaugh)

• Si habia una cosa que Roscoe Rules desea-ba, tras haber visto todo lo que deseaba ver,era que hubiera una palabra tan sucia como'negrata' para aplicarla a toda la humanidad.Como tenfa poca imaginacion tuvo que con-formarse con 'gilipollas'.


* I'm the only one acting like a professional.You guys act like a bunch of fucking niggers.You ever work a job with a bunch of niggers?They're just like you two, always fighting,always saying they're gonna kill one another.(Reservoir Dogs)

* Ain't that a sad sight, daddy. He walks intojail a white man, walks out talkin' like anigger. It's all that black semen been shootingup his butt. It's backed up into his brain andcomes out of his mouth. (Reservoir Dogs)

You see the fight last night? What a fuckin'slaughter, right? I tell you the only way to geta nigger to bleed is put a razor in your glove.(Robert Stone)* Know why niggers survive serious wounds,partner? They're too dumb to go into shock.(Joseph Wambaugh)* He'd have loved to have gone to Africa andhired out as a mercenary. 'Imagine gettingpaid to kill niggers,' he mused. (JosephWambaugh)

• Soy el unico que se esta comportando comoun profesional. Os comportais como una pan-dilla de jodidos negratas. Alguna vez habeescurrado con una pandilla de negros? Son exac-tamente como vosotros dos, siempre pelean-do, siempre diciendo que se van a matar eluno al otro.• Eso es una perspectiva triste, papa. Entra enla carcel un hombre bianco y sale hablandocomo un negrata. Es todo ese semen negro quele han estado metiendo por el culo. Se le haido al cerebro y le sale por la boca.• Vistes la pelea anoche? Vaya puta masacre!Te digo que la unica forma de conseguir queun negrata sangre es poniendo una cuchillaen el guante.• Sabes por que los negratas sobreviven a lasheridas serias, colega? Son demasiado estti-pidos para entrar en estado de shock.• Le hubiese encantado ir a Africa y ser con-tratado como mercenario. 'Imagfnate que tepaguen por matar negratas,' pens6.

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Unless otherwise stated, the following terms are offensive. All refer to black people.

boogie (US) • Lots of boogiescomin' in now, since the war.Williamsburg. Brownsville.Bedford-Stuyvesant , that 'swhere they're movin' into.Fuckin' apes, I call 'em. Boy, doI hate those boogies. Apes!(William Styron)blood (US) • They had pickedhim up two blocks from theMontalvo in front of twenty citi-zens. He had ridden to the ho-tel wi th a pistol pressedagainst his scrotum. 'Nobodyout there but bloods, bubi, 'Danskin had told him. 'Theydon't care.' (Robert Stone)brother (US) An inoffensive

term. • Those movies are abouthow the white man keeps thebrother man down — even in agalaxy far, far away. Check thisshit. You got cracker farm-boyLuke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy— blond hair, blue eyes. And thenyou've got DarthVader: theblackest brother in the galaxy.(Chasing Amy)coon • We could have talkedabout sports. I mean Southernsports, like lynching niggers — orcoons, I think you call themdown there. (William Styron)• Look, nobody wants a Sheeneyplowing their sister, and I don'twant no coon doing it to my sis-

ter. (Lenny Bruce) • Thanks forthe card from coonland — scumyou are for slinking off to avoidthe rigours of the English win-ter. (Philip Larkin)darky, darkle • It's NiggerHunting time. Any Nigger. Theywouldn ' t give up unti l theywould find one. From then on,Lord have mercy on the poordarkie... they would shoot himdown like a dog. (LaurenceBergreen)jigaboo (US) • 'The Man' whohad gained the loathing of 'right-thinking' people everywhere, in-cluding the South, by his straight-forward promiscuous public use


of words like 'nigger', 'coon','jigaboo'... (William Styron)• Political infighting, lad. Thepinko Democrats have takenthe tack of jigaboos wronglyaccused, intend to press theissue during the primary elec-tions. (James Ellroy)jungle bunny (US) • Neverceases to amaze me. Fuckin' jun-gle bunny goes out there, slitssome old woman's throat fortwenty-five cents. Fuckin' nig-ger gets Doris Day as a paroleofficer. But a good fella like yougets stuck with a ball-bustingprick. (Reservoir Dogs)Paki (UK) Applies specifi-cally to an immigrant fromPakistan. • Well, gin and tonictime: I feel I've earned it, hav-ing mown a lawn, hoed andsnipped and dealt death withthe Weedol. I just about keepit down. More than the bloodyPaki next door does... Kick'em out. (Philip Larkin)shine (US) • This place calledFlorian's was under the samename when it was a white night

trap. The sign was expensiveso the shines just went on us-ing it when they took over.(Raymond Chandler)smoke (US) • One time therewas five smokes carved Harlemsunsets on each other down onEast Eighty-Four. There wasblood on the furniture, blood onthe walls, blood even on the ceil-ing. (James Ellroy)spade • Suddenly I knew — somebig spade was going to leap outof the bedroom closet and springfor my heart with his knife.(Philip Roth) • 'I understand,'the receptionist said. 'I knowwhat kind of massage you need.Now, Laverne's a spade. Youain ' t prejudiced, are ya?'(Joseph Wambaugh) • Thisspade's the troublemaker. I thinkhe's got a leaky seabag.Dingaling. Psycho. (JosephWambaugh)spook (US) • He'd heard aboutthe latest do-gooder scheme onthe six o'clock news, the idea be-ing to compel criminal offendersto make restitution to their vic-

tims... 'Course you ain't a spook.They might not let you in theseprograms so easy, you turnedcrooked.' (Joseph Wambaugh)• Maybe it was some otherspooks... Do you care? Thoseniggers raped your woman, sowhat you did was right. (JamesEllroy) • Some won't take spooks— Hell, don't make no differenceto me. (Taxi Driver)Uncle Tom Specifically, a ser-vile black man. • The film's onesympathetic black character, alovable Uncle Tom who servedas a sidekick to the eponymousheroes, was cheerfully assassi-nated to supply a few seconds'worth of pathos. (Jonathan Coe)wog • Hospital staffed entirelyby wogs, cheerful and incompe-tent. (Philip Larkin) • One mightvisit Hollywood proper to havelunch, what with Beverly Hillsoverrun by Arabs, Iranians, Tex-ans, and other wogs withmegabucks. (Joseph Wambaugh)• I've had enough of him — hestinks of garlic and wog grub.(Willis Hall)

9. o I Aussie -austrahano

The term is completely inoffensive.

* Arrogant Aussie, David Leapman's newbiography of Mr. Murdoch, describes hisNew York Post as 'a force for evil'. (NewYork Times)• We bought one or two of every shellfish, mostof them new to an American and a few of themrepulsive, boiled them up and served themwith beer on a table spread with newspapers.I was an Aussie that night, tossing backFoster's lager and as happy as I'd ever been.(Mary Cantwell)

• Australiano arrogante, la nueva biograffa deDavid Leapman sobre el senor Murdoch, des-cribe a su peri6dico New York Post como 'unafuerza maligna'.• Compramos uno o dos de cada clase de ma-risco, la mayoria de ellos desconocidos paraun americano y algunos otros repulsivos, loshervimos, y los servimos con cerveza en unamesa cubierta con periodicos. Era una austra-liana esa noche, tragando cerveza Foster y tancontenta como nunca.


EXERCISE 9.1


1. (a) kraut (b) kike (c) sheeny (d) mocky (e) Yid (f) Heebie2. (a) wetback (b) spic (c) greaser (d) frog (e) greaseball (f) dago3. (a) slopehead (b) slope (c) Nip (d) Chink (e) gook (f) wop4. (a) Whitey (b) paddy (c) Boss Charley (d) honky (e) ofay (f) the Man5. (a) Boche (b) squarehead (c) raghead (d) Fritz (e) Hun (f) Jerry6. (a) jigaboo (b) jungle bunny (c) boogie (d) dink (e) coon (f) spade

EXERCISE 9.2

What national or ethnic groups are referred to in the following typical racist complaints? Explainthe offensive and derogatory terms shown in italics.

1. How would you feel about it if your sister was dating some greasy spiel 2. You can never trust theMicks. Sooner or later they'll stab you in the back. 3. What I can't stand about the/rags is that they'resuch self-satisfied, arrogant bastards. 4. All those kikes are interested in is getting their hands onyour money. 5. If the jigaboos start moving into this neighborhood, our property won't be worth shit.6. I have nothing against the ragheads, except that they're dirty, smelly, thieving, lying bastards. 7.Who do the Krauts think they are, dictating to the rest of us? You'd think they were the ones who wonthe war. 8. Your typical wop is nothing more than a ponced-up fruit.

EXERCISE 9.3


1. Eres un asqueroso polaco y todos los polacos son unos ladrones. 2. Francia es un pais hermoso, conmujeres hermosas, comida maravillosa y vino maravilloso, pero desgraciadamente esta lleno de gabachos.3. Quiere saber si le puedes conseguir un chollo con uno de esos coches deportivos italianos. 4. Eltipico bianco lo tiene todo y el negro no tiene una mierda. 5. Los irlandeses ponian carteles en losmuelles en los que ponia PROHIBIDO ITALIANOS. 6. Le hubiese encantado ir a Africa y ser contratadocomo mercenario. 'Imagmate que te paguen por matar a negratas,' penso. 7. Estoy intentando animar-la, jestupido aleman! 8. jPuto estupido polaco!, se limpia la polla con las cortinas. 9. Por que losamericanos dicen 'soplar' cuando quieren decir 'chupar'? 10. Tu y yo sabemos lo que es un judfo —Uno Que Mato A Nuestro Senor. 11. Parecer ser que se esta llevando a cabo un trato con un suciolatino y que han recuperado parte del dinero. 12. Si habia una cosa que deseaba, era que hubiera unapalabra tan sucia como 'negrata' para aplicarla a toda la humanidad.


EXERCISE 9.4

(New recruits to the US Marine Corps, destined to serve in Vietnam, are greeted by their SeniorDrill Instructor on the first day of training.)

HARTMAN: I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your Senior Drill Instructor.

If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon,you will be a minister of death, praying for war. But until that day you are pukes!You're the lowest form of life on earth. You are not even human fucking beings!You are nothing but unorganized grabasstic pieces of amphibian shit! Because Iam hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn.I am hard, but I am fair! There is no racial bigotry here! I do not look down onniggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless! Do youmaggots understand that?

RECRUITS: [in unison] Sir, yes, sir!

HARTMAN: Bullshit! I can't hear you!

RECRUITS: [louder] Sir, yes, sir!

HARTMAN: What's your name, scumbag?

SNOWBALL: [shouting] Sir, Private Brown, sir!

HARTMAN: Bullshit! From now on you're Private Snowball! Do you like that name?

SNOWBALL: [shouting] Sir, yes, sir!

HARTMAN: Well, there's one thing that you won't like, Private Snowball! They don'tserve fried chicken and watermelon on a daily basis in my mess hall!

SNOWBALL: Sir, yes, sir!

JOKER: [whispering] Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?

HARTMAN: Who said that? Who the fuck said that? Who's the slimy little Communistshit twinkle-toed cocksucker down here, who just signed his own death warrant? Nobody,huh?! The fairy fucking godmother said it! Out-fucking-standing! I will P.T. you alluntil you fucking die! I'll P.T. you until your assholes are sucking buttermilk. Was ityou, you scroungy little fuck, huh?!

COWBOY: Sir, no, sir!

HARTMAN: You little piece of shit! You look like a fucking worm! I'll bet it was you!

COWBOY: Sir, no, sir!

From the screenplay Full Metal Jacket by G. Hasford, M. Herr and S. Kubrick


1. A term of insult, deriving from the slang word for vomit. 2. An adjective and adverb with no precisemeaning, used purely for emphasis. 3. An insulting neologistic adjective, with no precise meaning inthis context. 4. A word meaning excrement. 5. An offensive term for a black person. 6. An offensiveterm for a Jew. 7. An offensive term for an Italian or person of Italian descent. 8. An offensive termfor a Mexican or person of Mexican descent. 9. An interjection meaning 'Nonsense!' 10. Three insultingterms which can be applied to men. 11. A word meaning rectum. 12. An adverbial expression usedpurely for emphasis.104 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY

10: IDIOMATIC USAGES

10. a I Expressions with "fuck"

Fuck is used in a large number of phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions, many of which havealready been encountered in the preceding pages. Here are some others, all common.

give a fuck A basic expressionmeaning to care. It is often usedin the negative, meaning not tocare one whit, to be utterly in-different; and sometimes en-hanced with the adjective flying.Expressions with the samemeaning are not give a damn andnot give a rat's ass. • You madeno attempt to disguise anything.You didn't give a fuck!(Deconstructing Harry) • Imag-ine you're a deer. You're pranc-ing around. BAM! A fuckin' bul-let rips off part of your head!Your brains are lying on theground in little bloody pieces.Now I ask you, do you give a fuckwhat kind of pants the son of abitch who shot you was wearing?/(My Cousin Vinny) • When grilledabout her increasingly controver-sial appearance, Cher remarked:'Am I obsessed with the way Ilook? Ooh ... Do you know whatI'd like to say to that? I don't givea flying fuck.' (Salon)take a flying fuck Similar inmeaning to go to hell or go andfuck yourself. Sometimes en-hanced with humorous expres-sions like at a rolling doughnut,at the moon, or at a rubber duck.• — Oh God, oh God, what'll Itell Rosie, what'll I tell her? —Tell her to take a flying fuck,pal. This concerns you and me,and nobody else. (David Mairs)• As gently as I could, I wouldtell him to take a flying fuck atthe moon. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)fuck all (UK) Nothing at all.

Comparable expressions aredamn all, bugger all and sod all.Euphemistic variants are sweetf.a. and sweet fanny adams.• Dear Jim, I'm beginning a let-ter to you because there's fuckall to do and I'm tired of doingit. (Philip Larkin) • Never acceptwhat you don't want. Keep re-fusing, and in time you may getwhat you do want. On the otherhand you may end up with fuckall. (Philip Larkin) • He said: 'Ifyou want to have the baby, haveit. It's your decision,' as if it wasfuck all to do with him. In prac-tice it was fuck all to do withhim. He never took any noticeof the baby when it arrived.(E.A. Whitehead) • If you ask me,we're heterosexual by default, notbe decision. It's just a question ofwho you fancy. It's all about aes-thetics and it's fuck all to do withmorality. (Trainspotting)fuck off To leave, depart, goaway. Often an injunction. • —I thought you said you neverwanted to see me again. — Idon't ever want to see you again,so will you fuck off back upstairs?(Naked) • — He's gonna have aword with his old lady. You'regoing to arrange a reunion. —She'll tell him to fuck off.(Robert Stone)• Amazing how quickly the bloomfades on 'fuck off', you know. Sayit a couple of times running andyou've got out of it nearly all ofwhat you're going to get.(Kingsley Amis) • 'Can I go home

now?' He dismissed me with awave. 'Yeah, fuck off. And don'tdo this again.' (Robert McLiamWilson)go and fuck yourself An ex-pression of refusal. Inasmuch asit has any precise meaning, itmay be translated as: may yoube accursed, confounded, re-jected, humiliated, etc. • Hey,man, if my fucking ex-wifeasked me to take care of herfucking dog while she and herboyfriend went to Honolulu, I'dtell her to go fuck herself. (TheBig Lebowski) • Suddenly hatethe guests. Have had to slave fortwo days, and now they will allswan in, demanding food likecuckoos. Feel like opening doorand shouting, 'Oh, go fuck your-selves.' (Helen Fielding)what the fuck Often it is shortfor 'what the fuck does it mat-ter?' Or, it can simply mean'what' with 'the fuck' added foremphasis: see 8.f above. • Well,what the fuck, it didn't cost youanything. (David Mamet) • Theyhave the right idea. Armed to thehilt. Sticks, Mace, knives ... whoknows what the fuck they got.(David Mamet) • She seemed likea hell of a nice girl, huh? The lit-tle I saw of her ... Well, what thefuck, I only saw her for a minute.I mean first impressions of thiskind are often misleading, huh?(David Mamet) • You're seeing alot of this broad. You getting seri-ous? But what the fuck, that'syour business. Right? (David


Mamet) • Well, what the fuck, Iwas only a kid. A kid laughs thesethings off. You forget, you go onliving ... what the fuck, huh?(David Mamet)thank fuck Substitution of fuckfor God, Christ, etc. • Thankfuck for that. Just for a momentthere, I thought we were in trou-ble. (James Laffan)fuck knows Substitution of fuckfor God, Christ, etc. • That's allSandra's collection. She's inZimbabwe at the moment. Andfuck knows what she's gonnabring back from there. (Naked)• When the uniform had movedon, Pyle said, 'Fuck knows whatthey wanted us for with himaround.' (G.F. Newman)fucking A (US) An exclamationof pleasure, joy, triumph, etc.meaning: absolutely, definitely.Usually the word right can besubstituted for A. • They're allhugging and kissing and happywith each other, and Ice comesup to Maverick and he says,'Man, you can ride my tailanytime!' And what does Mav-erick say? 'You can ride mine!'Fuckin'-A, man! (Sleep WithMe) • — This is theft. You'regonna pay for this. — You'refucking A he's gonna pay for it,man. He's gonna burn for it.(Robert Stone) • — They love it.— You're fuckin' A. They loveit. The more ghastly, the morehorrible, the more they love it.(Robert Stone) • — He's a realgood card player. — You'refucking A he is. The fucker wonfour hundred bucks last night.(David Mamet) • —You're prob-ably just upset. —You're fuckin'A I'm upset. I am very upset,Don. (David Mamet)get to fuck Expression of sur-

prise, disbelief or angry rebuttal.• — How old do you think Iam? — About forty. — I'mtwenty-seven. — Oh, get tofuck! (Naked)fucked if I know Equivalent ofI'm damned if I know: I don'tknow at all, I have no idea.• — What's the matter? What'sgoing on? — Fucked if I know.(Naked)sure as fuck Certainly. Cf. sureas hell. • You better start think-ing about it. 'Cause I sure asfuck am thinking about it. Infact, that 's all I 'm thinkingabout. (Reservoir Dogs)am I fuck? A constructionwhich can be employed with anytense, rather like a question tag,signifying: by no means, cer-tainly not. • — It's my good-luckcharm. — Has it brought youmuch? — Has it fuck? (Naked)• — I've been looking all overfor you! —Aye, well, I was withhim. — Were you fuck. (Naked)• — I'll bring it back next week.— Will you fuck? You'll bringit back this very day, otherwiseit stays right here. (JamesLaffan)fuck around with somebody Tocause someone trouble. • Beingmade a wiseguy ... means youbelong to a family. It means thatnobody can fuck around withyou. It also means that you couldfuck around with anybody justas long as they aren't also amember. It's like a licence tosteal. It's a licence to do any-thing. (GoodFellas)

.fuck with somebody Identicalin meaning to fuck around withsomebody. • We are the middlechildren of history, raised by tel-evision to believe that somedaywe'll be millionaires and movie

stars and rock stars. But wewon't. And we're just learningthis fact. So don't fuck with us.(Fight Club) • Look, they abso-lutely will not bother you... theywill not fuck with you if you de-liver. (Robert Stone) • — Jesus.Are you fucking with me here?— I'm not fucking with you,Donny. (David Mamet)fuck around with somethingTo tamper, play, toy or meddlewith something, to treat some-thing in an irresponsible way.• This is your life you're fuckin'around with, which youshouldn't be doin', 'cause youonly got one. (Pulp Fiction)• Quit fucking around with thatswitch and pay attention. WhatI tell you now may just keepyour ass out of jail. (Lew Cole)fuck somebody over To victim-ize and maltreat, sexually or oth-erwise. • — 'Your boyfriendBroadway Joe has a bayonet.He's gonna do you some nasti-ness with it tonight. He's on hisway right now to fuck you over.'— 'Fuck me over?' — 'It won'tbe as nice as it sounds', Hickssaid. (Robert Stone) • You eatshit all your life and you hateevery fucking minute of it andyou'd like to fuck over half thecountry but you have to swallowit because you've got no guts.(Robert Stone) • God, that'swho. He's been fucking us oversince way back in Genesis.(Salon)• They were so accustomed tobeing used and fucked over thatthey probably would do nothing.(Howard S. Becker)fuck somebody in the ass Meta-phorically, to cause someone se-rious difficulties or problems.• What is this 'day of rest' shit,


man? What is this bullshit, man?I don't fucking care! It don'tmatter to Jesus! But you're notfooling me! You might fool thefucks in the league office, butyou don't fool Jesus! It's bushleague psych-out stuff! Laugh-able, man! I would've fuckedyou in the ass Saturday, I'll fuckyou in the ass next Wednesday

instead! (The Big Lebowski)fuck somebody out of some-thing To deprive someone ofsomething, often by dishonest orunderhand means, or to causesomebody to be deprived ofsomething, e.g. through incom-petence. • You be as cold as youwant, but you jus t fucked agood man out of six thousand

dollars and his goddam bonuscause you d idn ' t know theshot. (David Mamet)fuck a duck! An expression ofsurprise and incredulity. • I wishto Christ I had had brains enoughto think of a title like that...Well, fuck a duck! I congratu-late him just the same. (HenryMiller)

10. b Expressions with "shit'

shit, jackshit Very little ornothing. • There's a gulf in thiscountry, an ever-widening abyssbetween the people who havestuff, and the people who don'thave shit. (Grand Canyon) • Youthink you know it all, don't you?You're 25 years old. You're ababy. You don't know shit.(Swimming With Sharks) • Youguys don't say shit about whoyou are, where you been or whatyou've done. (Reservoir Dogs)• Finally I said, 'Fuck this shit.'I'm making this bitch rich. Shedidn't have to do jack shit, shenever even had to meet all thesepeople. I was doin' all the work.(Reservoir Dogs)... and shit Words often taggedon to the end of statements,meaning (when they mean any-thing): and so on, etcetera. • Mybook, 'White-Hating Coon',don't have any of that bullshit.The hero's name is Maleequaand he's descended from theblack tribe that established thefirst society on the planet whileall you European motherfuckerswere all hiding out in caves andshit, terrified of the sun. (Chas-ing Amy) • I thought you had thisplace cased, man. You said youhad maps and shit. (Robert

Stone) • Me and Rick Derris usedto hang out with her for awhile...'cuz her parents were like neverhome, and shit. (Chasing Amy)• And one day, Rick just whipsit out, and starts rubbing it onher leg and shit. (Chasing Amy)She's all wet and shit, and I justwent to work. (Chasing Amy)full of shit Wrong, mistaken,ill-informed, not to be credited.• I was young, too. I felt just likeyou. Hated authority. Hated allmy bosses, thought they werefull of shit. (Swimming WithSharks) • 'John,' she said, 'youare so full of shit. Honestly —you're a bad guy.' (Robert Stone)• You sit on a barstool next to aman who's full of shit and prettysoon you'll know it. (Ethan Coen)• If everybody here says you arefull of shit, and you don't ac-knowledge it or see how that as-sessment serves you, you aredoomed. (Business Week)a shitload of... A great deal of,a lot of. • Oh wow, she doesn'tknow you're here. Jesus, youcould get in a shitload of trou-ble for this. (Cruel Intentions)• These little gadgets here arereal popular. We're moving ashitload of them right now.(Stanley Home)

give a shit Identical in mean-ing to give a fuck in 10.a above.• You're so self-engrossed, youdon't give a shit who you de-stroy. (Deconstructing Harry)• Has the whole world gonecrazy? Am I the only one herewho gives a shit about the rules?(The Big Lebowski)a crock of shit Nonsense; lies andexaggerations; mendacious cant.• — This is such a crock of shit.— Mr Slade, will you watch yourlanguage. (Scent of a Woman)• My sane mind seems more andmore in charge. What a crock ofshit sobriety is! It makes every-thing that used to be so easy sud-denly so hard. (Erica Jong)tough shit An ironical andmocking expression, meaning:that's too bad, that's a terribleshame. • Your girlfriend doesn'tlove you? Tough shit, that's theway it goes. (Swimming WithSharks) • That 's tough shit,man, my heart really bleeds.(W.T. Tyler)(all) to shit An expression usedas an intensifier, equivalent inmeaning to (all) to fuck, (all) tohell, (all) to pieces, etc. • 'HueCity,' Hicks said. 'We had guyswho were dead the day they hitthat place. I had six buddies shot


to shit in Hue City in one morn-ing.' (Robert Stone) • The carstarts rolling down the hill, andmy right knee is cut up all to shit.(Chasing Amy)shoot the shit To chat amiably.• Too bad I won't be around fora lively conversation, but I'mgetting out of here. It would havebeen nice to talk with you. We'dhave had great fun shootin' theshit, you and I. (William Styron)• Listen, I'm gonna come over,we'll shoot the shit, OK? See ya.(Lenny Bruce)shit somebody To lie, exagger-ate, try to deceive someone.• Carl looks at me in despair. 'Ishe shitting me, that bastard?' hemurmurs in my ear. (HenryMiller) • What are you smilingfor? Was he shitting me aboutthat? (Henry Miller) • The sky'sthe limit, Wilson, I shit you not.(W.T. Tyler)cut the shit To stop talking non-sense. Similarly, cut the crap.• — Cut the shit! I don't thinkyou called anybody except somecooze you once fucked... And Idon't think that's good enough.— Yeah, well I don't give a fly-ing fuck what you think! (Res-ervoir Dogs)talk shit To talk nonsensicallyor pretentiously. See 7.f above.• 'Please stop talking shit', shebegged him. (Robert Stone)look like shit To look terrible.• — What are you doing here?You look like shit. — Just try-ing to blend in with the sur-roundings. (Naked)take shit from somebody Inthis expression, shit signifiesdisrespect, insults, offensive orcontemptuous treatment whichone refuses to accept. • — Don'tforget who's doing who a favor.

— If the price of that favor is Igotta take shit, he can stick hisfavor straight up his ass. (PulpFiction) • 'He's a tough guy. Hedoesn't take any shit from any-body.' A good quality when asalesperson is wrangling withcompetitors; bad when he or sheis dealing with customers andcolleagues. (Peter Carbonara)be on someone's shit list To beon an imaginary list of peoplewho are hated, not trusted, to beavoided, etc. • You are definitelytop of my shit list, man. I don'tcare how long it takes. Sooneror later I'll get you for this.(Bring Me the Head of AlfredoGarcia)to pull shit To behave dishon-estly or outrageously. • You seethat slut behind my back. You'vebeen talking to her on the phonefor weeks! Then you pull thatshit this morning, freaking outbecause I've gone down on acouple of guys. (Clerks) • Youain't Lennie Fleming. I don'tknow what kind of shit you'retrying to pull here, pal, but I in-tend to find out. (Lew Cole)when the shit hits the fanWhen trouble breaks out; whenthings turn nasty; when the cri-sis erupts. • You're tight as adrum... you're like the mostwired guy I ever been with...but I bet you're a good manwhen the shit hits the fan. (Seaof Love)a shit storm A very confusedsituation or affair; a crazy, dan-gerous jumble. • You know Ihave a kid, he's twelve now. Lastsummer I sent him to survivalschool. Toughen him up for thebig shit storm. (Robert Stone)be in deep shit To be in serioustrouble. • 'I think we're in deep

shit, guys, ' Grattarola said.'These are the dumbest bastardsI've ever run into. We've gotmanagers who don't understand,and are a bunch of hustlers.We've got brokers who are stu-pid, and not well trained.'(Business Week)be up shit creek (without apaddle) To be in serious diffi-culty; ruined. • If the cops seeyou, you'll be up shit creek forsure. (Robert L. Chapman)• Where does all this leave Japan,in Simpey's view? Up shit creek.Simpey is bearish about Japanesemultinationals. (Fortune)shit a brick To have an emo-tional crisis, usually to becomeupset or angry. • 'None of youcame to me, I approached all ofyou. I know you. I know yourwork, I know your reputation. Iknow you as men. Except forthis guy.' Joe points a finger atFreddy. Freddy shits a brick.(Reservoir Dogs)that shit A phrase used to referback to a previously stated sub-ject. • What you don't know aboutme I could just about squeeze intothe Grand fucking Canyon. Didyou know I always wanted to be adancer in Vegas? Bet you didn'teven know that shit, did you?(Chasing Amy) • — She workedfor a theater in the city. Beforethat she worked in the Anthropol-ogy Department at U.C. She stud-ied acting in New York a long timeago. — I know all that shit, man.(Robert Stone)this shit Refers to the presentunpleasant or annoying situa-tion. • 'Why does this shit hap-pen to me?' he asked Marge.'Do I like it?' (Robert Stone).• Don't tell nobody about this.This shit's between me and


you... It ain ' t nobody else'sbusiness. (Pulp Fiction)scared shitless Terrified. Avariant is shit-scared. Fromthe verbal expression to scarethe shit out of someone; see 8.gabove.• Well, what aren't you scaredof? You live in a safe little worldwhere no one challenges you andyou're scared shitless to do any-thing but defend yourself be-cause that would mean you'dhave to change. (Good WillHunting) • You're jus t shit-scared, you're like a frightened

little lad, who wants to run hometo his mammy. (John McGrath)• When art lies, it becomes worth-less. So I gotta keep telling thetruth, even if it scares the shit outof me, like it scares the shit outof you. (Grand Canyon)go batshit (US) To becomecrazy, uncontrollable. • Someguys couldn't take it, they wentbatshit. It would drive you nuts.(Robert Stone)go apeshit (US) To become ir-rational and destructive; run ber-serk. • Okay, so I tailed BudWhite. Dud was afraid he'd go

apeshit over some hooker snuff,'cause White had that tendencywhere young stuff was con-cerned. (James Ellroy)holy shit An expression of sur-prise, incredulity, etc., in whichshit is substituted for Moses, Je-sus, God, etc. • Holy shit, is thatthe time? We've gotta beat traf-fic. (Chasing Amy) • Holy dogshit!Texas! Only steers and queerscome from Texas, Private Cow-boy! And you don't look muchlike a steer to me, so that kindanarrows it down. (Full MetalJacket)

10. c Expressions with "ass", "arse

somebody's ass (US) The wordass is often used for emphasisand euphony to signify thewhole person, i.e. the personbeing addressed or talked about.Thus, your ass means you, herass means her, etc. • You're notlying, are you, John? You're notlying to protect her ass? (LewCole) • I will never forgive yourass for this shit. This is somefucked-up repugnant shit. (PulpFiction) • God was here beforethe Marine Corps! So you cangive your heart to Jesus, but yourass belongs to the Corps! (FullMetal Jacket)bust one's ass (US) To work orperform to one's utmost; to ex-ert oneself considerably.• You don't have any idea whatyou're talking about. These peo-ple bust their ass. This is a hardjob. (Reservoir Dogs) • —A guybusts his damned ass and youdon't appreciate it. — Youhaven't been busting your ass,Chinaski. (Charles Bukowski)get one's ass in gear To get

down to work; become opera-tional; stop loafing and wastingtime. • Go on home, get a nicehot bath. Rest up... 15 minutes.Then get your asses back in gear.We're under a lot of pressure,you know. (All the President'sMen)haul ass (US) To leave, de-part, clear out; to act promptly,especially in response to acommand. • Now come on,haul ass. Just get the hell outtahere! (Lenny Bruce)kick ass To assert power, berough, take revenge, punish. • Sorevolution is in — boots and car-tridge belts and Chinese shit. Allthe rich suburban kids — theirparents never bought them cappistols, now they want to kickass. (Robert Stone) • Don, I talkstraight to you 'cause I respectyou. It's kickass or kissass, Don,and I'd be lying if I told you anydifferent. (David Mamet) • Youmade me bleed, motherfucker!You gonna pay. I'm gonna kickass for this! (Joseph Wambaugh)

kiss my ass To kiss someone'sass is to flatter one's superiors;see 6.b above. The imperativekiss my ass is unrelated andmeans the same as go and fuckyourself. • What the fuck hap-pened to the Delta I used toknow? Where's the spirit?Where's the guts, huh? 'Ooh,we're afraid to go with you,Bluto, we might get in trouble.'Well, just kiss my ass from nowon! Not me! I'm not gonna takethis. (Animal House) • You everheard of 'marshalling your salesforce'...what are you, you're asecretary, John. Fuck you.That's my message to you. Fuckyou and kiss my ass. (DavidMamet)my arse An expression of utterscepticism, disbelief or defi-ance. • — What's up? — Noth-ing. — Nothing my fuckin arse.(Shaun Herron) • — One was aman, a good-looking man at that.— Man my ass, they werelesbos. (Chester Himes)in a pig's arse An expression


of vehement denial, meaning:not at all, never. • — Look, ifit'll make you happy, I'll go andapologize. — In a pig's arse youwill. You've done enough dam-age already. (John Ogilby)not know one's arse from one'selbow To be ignorant, hope-lessly ill-informed or stupid.• As for foreign policy, it's clearto everyone that Mr Gore doesn'tknow his ass from his elbow.(Village Voice) • Can I show yousomething, pal? You see that atthe top of your legs? That's yourarse, and that there's yourfuckin' elbow. Do you wannawrite it down? (Naked)have one's head up one's ass(US) To behave stupidly, blindly,without a proper regard for theconsequences. • What are youasking that guy for? What's hegonna tell you? What's he know,for Christ's sake? He has hishead up his ass 'on a permanentbasis. (William Bennet)a pain in the arse An annoyingor obnoxious person or thing.• Then that got to be a pain inthe ass. People called me on the

phone all the fuckin' time. Icouldn't rent a fuckin' tape with-out six fuckin' phone calls inter-rupting me. (Reservoir Dogs)• You can see immediately whata pain in the ass the Borowskisare. (Henry Miller) • 'I can seewhere you could be a pain in theass,' he told her. (Robert Stone)• I thought he'd never shut thefuck up. What a pain in the ass.(GoodFellas)tight-assed A tense or morallyrigid person. • Beth Kramer's anaggressive, tight-assed, busy-body cunt, and it's none of herfucking business how I speak tomy son. (Deconstructing Harry)• He sucked my cock. After-wards I fucked him. It was dif-ficult to get in. He had a verytight arse. A Catholic upbring-ing, I expect. (Joe Orton) • Out-side the main building was agroup of stuffy, tight-arsed Eng-lish and American businessmen.(Joe Orton)someone's ass is on the lineSomeone is at risk; the subjecthas taken a dangerous responsi-bility. • We lose the perspective

of who we are. It's tragic thatour entrepreneurs — the peoplewho put their asses on the lineevery day, the people who havethe intelligence, drive, ambition,commitment, and courage —should wake up one morning andrealize that they've created a mon-ster that's devouring their life.(Lanny Goodman) • The reason Imake the decisions and youdon't, sweetheart, is because it'smy ass that's on the line, notyours. (Lew Cole)a horse's ass A persistent andobnoxious fool; a contemptibleperson. • Baxter, you sound likea silly pseudointellectual horse'sass. You're gettin' embarrassin'.(Joseph Wambaugh)laugh one's ass off To laughheartily, unrestrainedly. Substi-tution of ass for head in laughone's head off. • I'll bet you tenthousand dollars he laughs hisass off. (Pulp Fiction)assways Incorrectly, awkwardly.• He stands there with one armin his coat sleeve and his hat onassways and he begins to dreamaloud. (Henry Miller)

10. d I Expressions with "balls" "ballocks'

a lot of balls Balls signify cour-age, nerve, guts. • I got respectfor this kid. He's got a lottafuckin' balls, this kid. Good foryou. Don't take no shit off no-body. (GoodFellas) • My secondex-wife. I liked her best in someways. She had the most balls.Took every dime I had. I like tosee her once in a while and visitmy ex-dog and my ex-car.(Joseph Wambaugh) • Eddie hadballs and audacity and he was notbasically rash. (Robert Stone)

bust one's balls To take a greatdeal of trouble with something;to exert oneself to the utmost.• Give me the fucking money!You hear me? I got to come hereand bust my balls! Give me thefucking money! (GoodFellas)bust (break) somebody's ballsTo cause someone a great dealof trouble, or to punish harshly.• People remember. They'll re-member specific people whobroke their balls. (Lenny Bruce)• She's a good woman. You

didn' t treat her right. Shewalked. You want to kick some-body's ass about it, kick yourown. You want to break balls?Break your own. (Sea of Love)• I'm hearing things from secu-rity. They're all ex-cops. TheSheriff's lookin' to bust yourballs. (Casino) • — I swear toGod I've never known a ball-buster like you in my whole life.— Hey, who loves you more thanI do? I'll do anything for you.— Yeah, except to stop busting


my balls. (GoodFellas)• Mackey was just finishing upthe second oh-so-quick mar-riage to that cunt who not onlybusted his balls but jumped upand down on them with cleats,leaving him as bankrupt asChrysler Corporation. (JosephWambaugh)have somebody by the balls Tohave someone in a helpless situ-ation; to have absolute controlover someone. • They have meby the balls. On account of thebust they can put me back in themadhouse for life. If I do whatthey want, I'll get maintenance

and stay out. (Robert Stone)• You take him and you put himdown in some strange town withjust a nickel in his pocket, andby nightfall he'll have that townby the balls. This is not talk,Bob, this is action. (DavidMamet) • You're in no position todictate terms, Jacky. We have youby the balls. (William Bennet)give someone a ballocking(UK) To reprimand someone.• I explained to them that Kathywas due at any moment and Ineeded a mattress for her tosleep on. Frank gave me aballocking for not drawing the

mattress earlier. (Ken Lukowiak)• Sir John French, CIGS, camedown for open day, gave every-one a bollocking for slacknessand indiscipline, and shortly af-terwards retired the Commandant.(Times Literary Supplement)not get one's balls in an uproar(US) To avoid becoming excitedor upset, to remain calm. (TheBritish equivalent of this expres-sion is not get one's knickers ina twist.) • Okay, okay, okay, I'msorry. I put that rather badly. Iexpressed myself clumsily. Noneed to get your balls in an up-roar. (Robert Morrison)

10. e Expressions with "hell'

not give a hoot in hell To be ut-terly indifferent to; to have no re-spect for. • Americans love a win-ner and do not tolerate a loser.Americans play to win all thetime. I wouldn't give a hoot in hellfor a man who lost and laughed.(Pattori)for the hell of it For no definiteor useful reason; for fun; casually.• What the hell, good for thegoose, good for the gander. Wewere legally separated. I made itwith a lotta chicks, you're enti-tled to make it with a lotta guys.

I'd just like to know, for the hellof it. Did you make it with a lotof guys? (Lenny Bruce)a snowball's chance in hell Noteven the remotest possibility, nochance whatever. • Can he beatWilkenson? Can he beat a formerworld champion? Are you kid-ding me? He doesn't have asnowball's chance in hell. (JohnOgilby)give someone hell To reprimandor punish severely. • If Itor sus-pected I was doing stuff behindhis back, he'd give me hell, I

suppose, and then we'd end upgetting rather angry with eachother. (Gabriella T. Oldfield)play hell with something Todamage, destroy; to thwart.• This is a holiday resort, we livefor the summer months. If peo-ple watch t.v. all winter long andsee the oil washing up on thebeaches and the birds coveredwith slime and whatnot, believeme, that's the kind of public-ity that plays hell with ourbookings. (Guardian)

10. f I Expressions with "bitch'

bitch about something Tocomplain, to gripe. • It startedover Sam's bi tching aboutKimberly's cooking which likeeverything else in their mar-riage had deteriorated to thepoint that even she could hardlyeat it. (Joseph Wambaugh) • Wethen spent the rest of the day-

light hours having to listen toFrank bitching about Yank andYank bitching about Frank. Iswear, the way they were go-ing on you would have thoughtthey were married. (KenLukowiak)I'll be a son of a bitch! Anexpression of surprise or incre-

dulity, identical in meaning to/'// be damned. • Austin? Theypromoted Austin? They chosethe most dishonest, incompe-tent, useless nincompoop inthe group? Well, I'll be a son ofa bitch! Now I know they're ca-pable of anything. (aE.R. Lever)


10. g I Expressions with "bugger'

bugger somebody about (UK)To cause difficulties for someone.• Well, if your New Year resolu-tion is not to let any bugger bug-ger you about, mine is not togive a bugger for any bugger.(Philip Larkin) • Police interven-tion is common. 'They bugger usabout for no reason,' saidRainey. 'They move us on just

for the sake of it.' (Guardian)bugger off (UK) To leave, de-part, go away. Cf. fuck off, etc.• Tell him to bugger off from me.Emotional fuckwit . (HelenFielding) • There was no sign oflife. Either he had buggered offhome already or he was sleep-ing on the job. (Roy Logan)bugger all (UK) Absolutely

nothing. Cf. fuck all, damn all,sod all, etc. • Admittedly I knowbugger all about politics. (PhilipLarkin) • I have got a first in mySchools... It is all the more re-markable because I made nu-merous blunders and knew sweetbugger all about my subject.(Philip Larkin)

10. h Expressions with "piss'

piss with rain • It was pissingwith rain when we left the house.Mud all over the place. (JoeOrton) • You may think that ac-quiring water on a place like theFalkland Islands would not fallinto the category of one of theworld's most difficult things todo; after all, it does piss withrain all day almost every day.(Ken Lukowiak)get pissed, be pissed (UK) InBritish usage, pissed meansdrunk. Related expressions areto go on the piss (to go drink-ing) and a piss-up (a drinkingsession). • I've got a great idea,Alexander. I think I'm going toget pissed and jump off the wa-ter-tower. (John McGrath) •Three months before that, out onan exercise, he climbed up a py-lon, pissed as a fart, and swunghand over hand along the wire;then he dropped off. (JohnMcGrath) • I used to have fanta-sies about him getting pissed andwrapping his car around a lamp-post. That would have made mehappy. (E.A. Whitehead)piss off Go away, depart. Cf.fuck off, sod off, etc. • His boilsare slightly better but still pain-

ful. 'Imagine how Job felt,' Isaid, 'and you'll forget yourtrouble.' 'Piss off,' he said. (JoeOrton)• He leaned round the door andshouted something in Arabic. Itsounded like some phrase like,'You won't be needed tonight.'The boy pissed off. (Joe Orton)• We were going to get there, doa bit of sabre rattling, the Argieswould piss off back to Argentinaand we'd all sail home disap-pointed. (Ken Lukowiak) • Iwould be able to get the job donein half the time if they would alljust piss off and leave me alone.(Ken Lukowiak)piss somebody off In both Brit-ish and American English, thismeans to make somebody angryor indignant. Only in the US,however, does pissed used with-out off mean angry. • Well, what-ever he said pissed off the bar-tender plenty. And thoseunsavory characters I was tell-ing you about? They got pissedtoo. Started pulling guns andknives and what have you. (Des-perado) • I don't mind thatyou're careful. This doesn't pissme off. What gets me mad is

when you get loose. (DavidMamet) • Everybody was pissedoff when I was a kid. I was prettypissed off myself. (RobertStone) • This guy's a fuckingpsycho. And if you think Joe'spissed at us, that ain't nothingcompared to how pissed off I amat him, for putting me in thesame room as this bastard. (Res-ervoir Dogs)piss something away Towaste, squander. • I mean, wepiss away a million dollars onRadio Free Europe, and don'tknow anything about the coun-try within the country — don'tknow anything about Missis-sippi. We got to stop pissingaway all the money on RadioFree Europe. (Lenny Bruce)take the piss (out of somebody)(UK) To tease, make fun of ormock someone. • Oh, don' tfuckin' take the piss out of me,you bastard! (Naked) • — Areyou taking the piss? — You'refuckin' giving it away, aren'tyer? (Naked) • — Why do youfeel the need to take the piss?— I'm not taking the piss. It'snice that. (Naked) • I had thefeeling he was taking the piss


out of me. Bloody cheek. (HelenFielding)piss against the wind To wasteone's time and effort. • This willnever work. Don't you see,we're just pissing against thewind. We don't have a hope inhell of convincing them withthis. (Daniel Ogg)a piece of piss (UK) Something

extremely easy to do. Humorousalteration of a piece of cake.• So what's hard about teachingin a school like this? Comparedto your inner cities, it's a pieceof piss. (David Bellis)pisswarm As warm as freshurine. • — What do you want?— Beer. — All I have is piss-warm Chongo. — That's my

brand. Mmmmm... this is damngood. (Desperado)full of piss and vinegar (US)Brimming with energy; peppyand assertive. • I hate that bas-tard. How does he manage tobe so bright-eyed and bushytailed and full of piss and vin-egar at this hour of the morn-

10. i Expressions with "tits

get on somebody's tits (UK) Toannoy or irritate someone, espe-cially repeatedly. • — And whatabout Andrew? Why are you al-ways needling him? — Oh, hegets on my tits. (E.A. Whitehead)tits and ass A display of female

bosoms and bottoms. • Tits andass, tits and ass, that's what theattraction is. (Lenny Bruce)a tit man A man whose favouritepart of the female body is thebreasts. • Rufus is a tit man / Suck-ing on his momma's gland... /

Come on, give the little baby asquirt. (Loudon Wainwright)cold as a witch's tit Extremelycold. • For the love of Jesus, geta fire going quick! It's colderthan a witch's tit in here. (IanCochrane)

10. j I Expressions with "finger'

stand around with one's fingerup one ass To be idle and unpro-ductive; to be helpless. • Why areyou here then? If all you're goingto do's stand around with your fin-ger up your arse, you're fuck alluse to me. You might as well fuckoff right now. (John Ogilby)get one's finger out To be-come serious, to get down towork. • Strong language in themouth of royalty still surprises.Back in the sixties Prince Philip

caused a stir by telling Britishworkers it was time to get theirfinger out. (Daily Mirror)give somebody the finger (US)To make a lewd, insulting ges-ture by brandishing the middlefinger while the other fingers re-main folded down. Another ex-pression with the same meaningis to flip somebody the bird. Themeaning of the gesture is fuckyou or up yours! In Britain theequivalent gesture involves rais-

ing two fingers; hence one is saidto give somebody the V-sign.• What amazes me is that youhave decided not just to disagreewith the U.S. government but togive it the finger in public, toembarrass and demean the in-dividuals leading the govern-ment's efforts. (Fortune) • — Canyou sum up your reaction to thegovernment's proposal in a fewwords? — I can sum it up in twofingers. (Ballymena Times) MM

10. k Expressions with "farr

an old fart Any middle-agedor older male. • — So why didya marry her? — I love her.Pretty silly, an old fart like me,huh? (Reservoir Dogs) • Gointo work looking drop-deadgorgeous. Leave no one — espe-

cially Daniel — in any doubt thatyou've thrown him over and sud-denly discovered how marvellouslife is without that pompous, dis-solute old fart bossing you around.(Helen Fielding)not give a fiddler's fart To be

completely indifferent to; not tocare at all. Cf: not give a fuck,etc. • What happens next hasnothing to do with me anymore.I'm out of it. I don't give a fid-dler's fart what happens. (ShaunHerron)


ing? (Bert Garigan)

10. 1 I Expressions with "pussy

to pussy out on somebody Tocancel an action or withdrawfrom it because of fear; to getcold feet. • Don't pussy out onme now. They don't know. Theydon't know shit. You're notgonna get hurt. (Reservoir Dogs)

pussy whipped (US) The termis used of a man henpecked ordominated by a woman. • Dan, Ican advise, I can counsel, I canspeak to you out of my experi-ence ... But in the final analy-sis, you are on your own. If you

want my opinion, however, youare pussy-whipped. (DavidMamet) • Some men are pussywhipped from the day they areborn, some have it happen tothem later in life, some never.(Judith Krantz)

10. m Expressions with "up'

up yours A vigorous exclamationof defiance, contempt, rejection,etc. Short for shove it up your assor stick it up your hole or stuff itup your bum and similar expres-sions. • Roberta was quite sur-prised by the note sent the Fields

Foundation by Mrs Ralph. 'Upyours' the note said. Mrs Ralphdid not appreciate rejection. (JohnIrving) • 'You're dismissed as ofthis day,' he said in a strainedvoice. 'You may pick up your fi-nal paycheck at five o'clock.' 'Up

yours, Weasel, you're firing a manwho's going to be as famous asThomas Wolfe.' (William Styron)get it up To achieve and retainan erection. • It was no good. Icouldn't get it up in the state ofIsrael. (Philip Roth)

10. n Expressions with "get

get stuffed (UK) Equivalent ofgo and fuck oneself. • Discuss,compare, contrast, illustrate. Donot write on both sides of the pa-per at once. Candidates prefer-ring to be ranked by continuousassessment can get stuffed.(Philip Larkin)get off with something To getrelief or pleasure from some-thing; to have an orgasm. • Sojust who the fuck do you thinkyou are, God's gift to Women? I

mean where do you fucking getoff with this shit? (DavidMamet) • It is led by trendy bi-sexual types, who love to get offamidst the chic accoutrements ofa big smack-and-coke party.(Albert Goldman)get somebody off To bring some-body to sexual climax. • Sixteenyears in the slammer without somuch as a whiff of pussy. I gothim off in four seconds flat.(Gabriella T. Oldfield)

get a little on the side To besexual ly un fa i th fu l . • Howwould I feel if I learned myhusband was getting some onthe side? Disappointed, ofcourse, hurt — but not neces-sarily surprised. (Salon)get it on To perform the sex act.• The guy's working for me foryears and all the while, unbe-knownst to me, he's getting it onwith my old lady. (LeonardWarin)


EXERCISE 10.1


1. I don't give a fuck what he thinks. He can go and take

(a) a rat's ass (b) sweet fanny adams(c) a rubber duck (d) a flying fuck

2. If he wants to keep his job, he'd better get his

at the moon for all I care.

(e) a fiddler's fart

. in gear and stop fucking about.

(a) ass (b) arse(c) backside (d) bottom (e) butt

3. Those bastards didn't pay me what they owed me. They fucked three months' salary.

(a) me over (b) me around(c) me out of (d) me away from (e) with

4. Listen, I have a lot of work to do. Why don't you stop and let me get on with it?

(a) cutting my crap (b) cutting the cheese(c) hauling ass (d) buggering my backside (e) busting my balls

EXERCISE 10.2


1. No podia comprender por que no la mandaba a la mierda de una punetera vez. 2. No tiene ni putaidea. 3. Vete a la mierda! 4. —,;,Que gilipolleces estas haciendo, tio? — Yo no hago gilipolleces! 5.jA la mierda con esto! Me voy a casa. 6. Bueno, hazlo como quieras; ;Que mierda importa! 7. Nohizo un carajo! 8. Voy a dejar este trabajo y me voy al cono de una vez. 9. Que cono pasa contigo?Donde cono vas? 10. — No es esto peligroso? — Carajo si lo se. 11. Estoy mas jodido que el cono.

12. Me cago en la mar! Como has logrado hacerlo? 13. jQue examen ni que cono! Tu te vienesconmigo. 14. ;Se jodio el invento! 15. No me importa un carajo lo que digas. 16. i,Que le pida yodisculpas? jUn carajo! 17. Entonces me dijo: 'Dame solo un besito.' ';Vete a tomar por culo!' le dije.18. Repetir la escena? Me cago en la mar! 19. Lo mas probable es que hicieras alguna de tusgilipolleces como de costumbre. 20. — Te gustan mis piernas todavia? — Cono, si.

EXERCISE 10.3


1. Ya es hora de que espabile. 2. Lo que me jode es tener que hacer el trabajo de ella. 3. Francamente,es un pesado de mierda. 4. Deja de darme el conazo, ya te he dicho que no lo tengo. 5. — Se casaronen Japon. — No jodas! 6. jQue conazo eres! 7. No le hagas caso, es un mentiroso de mierda. 8. Escomo la polvora. Francamente, le odio. 9. El ruido le dio un susto de muerte. Estaba cagada de miedo.10. Deja de refunfunar! La situacion ya es lo suficientemente mala sin necesidad de que tu te quejes.11. Se pone muy nervioso cuando hay dificultades, cuando la mierda empieza a salpicar. 12. Estoyharto de que me jodan. 13. No lo quiero. Que se lo metapor el culo! 14. Dejade burlarte de mi! 15.Le importa una mierda lo que piensen los demas. 16. Si hay algo peor que un conazo es una zorraconazo. 17. Su mujer le armo una buena por llegar tarde. 18. Ahora si que estamos jodidos. 19. Meesta cabreando. 20. El contable se marcho con todo el dinero y les dejo con el culo al aire.


EXERCISE 10.4

(A magazine columnist pays tribute to the most frequently used swearword in the Englishlanguage.)

I love the F-word. I never tire of it. I've been told its unladylike, and I'm sure that'strue, but what the heck — nothing says it better. Maybe the best thing about it is its manifolduse: From the essential 'Fuck you!' to the relatively genteel 'Well, fuck me!' You don't haveto be a sailor to revel in this word. Here is a sample of its infinite variety:

'Fucking A! That motherfucker totally fucked me, it was un-fucking-believable! So Isaid, 'Go fuck yourself, you fuck.' That fucked him up. But you know what? I really don'tgive a fuck.'

Where did this word come from? Could Quentin Tarantino have had a career without it?The first question we can approach.

The term first appeared at the start of the 16th century, and its initial dictionaryappearance is in John Florio's World of Wordes (1598): 'Fottere, to iape, to sard, to fucke, toswive, to occupy.' Some say the word derives from Germanic roots that have to do withthrusting, or with the Latin pungare, which means to strike.

One appealing but inaccurate theory is that during the time of the plague — when itwas necessary to increase the population — a royal injunction was issued telling the commonfolk to 'Fornicate Under Command of the King.' The fact is, no one really knows for surewhere it started, not even the OED.

Fortunately, in spite of increasing public usage, it hasn't entirely lost its pizazz —the New York Times still refuses to print it, and people still say, 'Oh, fudge!' or 'I'm soeffing mad!' The most famous story of an F-word euphemism concerns Norman Mailer. WhenThe Naked and the Dead was published in 1948, he was forced to render it as fug. WhenDorothy Parker met Mailer at a party, she said, 'So you're the young man who can't spellfuck?'

From an article in Salon by Amy Wallace


1. A euphemism commonly used when referring to the word 'fuck'. 2. Two expressions which meanapproximately: go to hell, be accursed, etc. 3. An expression of surprise or incredulity. 4. An exclamationof pleasure, joy, triumph, etc. meaning: absolutely, definitely. 5. Two terms of abuse used of a man. 6.A figurative use of the word 'fuck', meaning to cheat, swindle, maltreat or take advantage of. 7. Aphrasal verb which means to injure or maltreat someone. 8. An expression which means not to care atall about something. 9. A euphemistic substitute for 'fuck' used as an interjection. 10. A euphemisticsubstitute for 'fucking' used as an adjective or adverb.

KEY TO EXERCISES

EXERCISE 1.1l.(b) All the words are syno-

nyms for cunt (vagina) exceptputz, which is a synonym forcock (penis).

2.(e) All the words are synonymsfor cock except beaver, whichis a synonym for cunt.

3.(c) All the words are synonymsfor balls (testicles) except pu-bes, which is now a vulgarterm for pubic hair.

4.(a) All the words are synonymsfor tits (female breasts) exceptprivates, which is a commonterm for genitals.

5.(d) All the words are syno-nyms for ass or arse (but-tocks) except bush, which isa synonym for pubes.

EXERCISE 1.21. the female breasts 2. the pe-

nis 3. the vagina 4. the tes-ticles 5. the buttocks

EXERCISE 1.31.1 began to rub my cock against

her belly. She pushed meaway. 2. I began to play withher cunt. Her clit emergedand I caressed it gently. 3.My husband didn't have anypersonality, only an enor-mous cock. 4. Don't just siton your arse, do something.5.1 had an itchy arsehole butthere were too many peopleand I couldn't scratch it. 6.Tits and ass. The only thingthat matters to you is tits andass. 7. We got under thesheets and I began to playwith her private parts. 8. Withone movement of its jaws, thedog could rip my balls off. 9.My scrotum was itchy. Theitch was getting unbearable.I kept on going, scratchingmy balls. 10. Sometimes they

put harmful chemical sub-stances up their asses. 11.The girls didn't have any titsand their asses were tiny. 12.Her pubes were long andtwisted and tangled. 13. Shesat on my lap and kissed me.My cock stiffened against herfirm backside. 14. He needsa kick up the arse before he'lldo anything. 15. I rubbed afinger along her cunt, whichquickly got wet and began toopen. I put my finger inside.16. My foot slipped and I fellon my arse. 17. She was afraidof diseases of the skin, thescalp and the asshole. 18. Hewas still sucking Clare's tits.Her nipples were erect. 19. Shehad her hand on Tom's balls,then she moved it up andgrabbed his cock. 20. It was aquestion of courage. I won-dered if I had the balls.

EXERCISE 1.41. Fucking: an adverb meaning

extremely in 'fucking in-sane'; an adjective added fornegative emphasis in 'Madi-son fucking Avenue' and 'afucking weave' (wig). 2. Tits,niddlers, boobs. Niddlers arespecifically very smallbreasts. 3. Ass. The Britishequivalent is arse. 4. To fuckaround (with someone orsomething). 5. Pubes, bush.6. Bullshit. 7. Fucker.

EXERCISE 2.1l.(c) All the words are terms re-

lated to shit (excrement) ex-cept bogey which is a syno-nym for snot (nasal mucus).

2.(a) All the words are verbsmeaning to puke (to vomit) ex-cept bumf which is a commonslang term for toilet paper.3.(b) All the words are syno-

1,

nyms for come (semen) exceptfart which is an emission of in-testinal gas from the arsehole(anus), especially an audibleone. 4.(f) All the words aresynonyms for the verb to piss(to urinate) except spew, whichis a synonym for puke (vomit).5.(c) All the words are syno-nyms for shithouse (toilet) ex-cept roaster, which is a cat-egory of fart.

EXERCISE 2,2menstruation 2. semen 3.excrement 4. vomit 5. flatu-lence 6. the toilet 7. urine8. to defecate 9. pregnant 10.to urinate

EXERCISE 2.31. I undressed, sprawled out in

the middle of the bed andfarted. 2. It was the worstblowjob I had ever had. Shetook out her handkerchief andgobbed into it as if she werehawking something up. 3. Istretched out next to her. Wekissed. Her mouth smelled ofpuke. 4. The nearest bar wasat least fifty years old. Youcould smell the stench of pissand shit and puke built upover half a century rising upthrough the floor from thetoilets in the basement. 5. I'mgoing to come, Christ, I'mgoing to come! 6. He openedthe shithouse door and wentin. The place stank. He gotout his cock and began topiss. 7. She told him she wason the rag but that didn't coolhis passion in the least. 8. Thedog began to piss. The dogwas full of piss. It ran in long,yellow rivulets across thekitchen floor. 9. 'Listen,' shetold me, 'when you've putthat thing inside me, take it


out just before you come, ok?' 10. After that dinner, I hadthe shits for a month. 11. Youhad to put up with the fartsof those fat-assed nurses. 12.At last I came. Then I restedon top of her. Both of us weresoaked with sweat. 13. Hefelt sick and went to the bogs(crapper / shithouse / etc.).When he threw up, some ofthe puke got on his shoes andhis socks. 14. I'm going totell her the truth. I'm goingto put an end to this shit! 15.Don't forget to buy somebumf (or asswipe). We'renearly out. 16. I ran to thebathroom and puked. I triedto brush my teeth but the onlything I managed to do was topuke again. 17. The door wasnear the bathroom. There wasalways somebody coming andgoing to have a piss (take a leak/ etc.). 18. From one of his nos-trils a nearly invisible threadof snot was running and gath-ering, finally, into a littlegleaming ball. 19.1 got up andwent to the crapper. I had theshits / the trots / the runs / etc.Then I got up and wiped myass and looked at what I'ddone: what a mess! 20. I hadto go for a piss. The shithousewas at the end of the corridor.

EXERCISE 2.41. John, restroom, shithouse 2.

dong, dick, cock 3. balls 4.to take a leak 5. fruit 6. toblow somebody

EXERCISE 3.1l.(d) All the words are syno-

nyms for a hard-on (an erec-tion) except stud, which re-fers to a male of great sexualprowess, or reputedly so.2.(e) All the words are syno-

nyms for horny (sexuallyaroused) except dolly whichis a term referring to a sexu-ally attractive girl or youngwoman. 3.(f) All the wordsare more or less derogatoryterms for women consideredpurely as sexual objects, ex-cept stunner which is anadmirative term for an excep-tionally attractive woman.4.(a) All the words usually re-fer to men considered assexual objects, except forcrumpet which denotes asexually desirable woman.5.(b) All the words refer tostates of sexual desire andarousal except jailbait, whichrefers specifically to a girlwho is under the legal age ofconsent.

EXERCISE 3.21. an easy woman 2. an erec-

tion 3. sexually aroused 4. alecher

EXERCISE 3.31. Ron Jeremy isn't exactly the

typical stud. 2. Often I'vethought how nice it would beif a guy came into my home,fucked me and just left, with-out chatting me up or sayinganything. 3. I took off mytrousers and began to kiss her.I soon got a hard-on. 4. He'sgot the hots for my girlfriend,it's disgusting. 5. Look hownice the science-fiction babesare in their tight jumpsuits.6. We went out a few times.We never had sex, but wefooled around. 7. She crossedher legs and her dress movedup even higher. Damnedcockteaser! 8. Don't talk likethat, you're making me horny/ randy. 9. She was beautiful!She was young! She was in-

nocent! She was the bestpiece of ass I've ever had! 10.I haven't had a hard-on forages. 11. Some fucker triedto chat me up! He was reallycrude! I really hate thoseguys! They're repulsive. 12.There are dirty movies likeDeep Throat, which are likewet dreams. 13. It was excit-ing. I felt as if I was beingraped. I started to get a hard-on. 14. Who in his right mindwould have thought that shehad the hots for him? 15.Sexual relations means sexualintercourse. We were onlyfooling around. 16. — Clara'scheating on me. — What doyou mean? — That my wife'sscrewing around. 17. It wassuddenly as if my life weretaking place in the middle ofa wet dream. 18. I could seethose long legs, the knees, thedelicate ankles. I began to gethorny. 19. 'He said I was agreat piece of ass,' Laura an-nounced nostalgically. 20. Ilistened to her breathe deeply,then whimper. It excited meand I got a hard-on.

EXERCISE 3.41. Fucking: 'a fucking house-

wife', 'a fucking leper', 'afucking hypocrite'. 2. Tofuck. The verb can be used in-transitively ('if I wouldn'tfuck'), transitively (to fucksomeone), and in passiveconstructions ('to get fuckedby the first man I could'). 3.To chat someone up: 'I chat-ted him up and then took himback to the house. 4. To snog:'we sat on the couch andstarted snogging'. The term isBritish. The Americanequivalent is to neck. 5. Onthe game. 6. To bang some-


one: 'if he banged me on thespot'. 7. To bugger off: 'Itold him to bugger off. 8.To lick someone out. 9. Towank oneself off. Usually thisverb is not used phrasally andis simply to wank. 10. Bas-tard. 11. Dick. 12. Come:'there was come all over thecouch'.

EXERCISE 4.1l.(d) All the terms relate to acts

of oral sex except wank,which means to masturbate.2.(e) All the words are syno-nyms for the verb fuck, usedtransitively (to engage in thesex act with someone) exceptsnog, which means simply tokiss and caress. 3.(c) All thewords are synonyms for arubber (a condom) exceptcherry which is a synonymfor virginity. 4.(b) All thewords relate to different de-grees of amorous engagementshort of actual intercourse ex-cept shag which is a synonymfor fuck. 5.(f) All the termsmean to jerk off (to mastur-bate) except get one's rocksoff, which means to fuck.

EXERCISE 4.21. a condom 2. sexual inter-

course 3. caressing, foreplay4. to perform fellatio 5. tohave sex, copulate 6. to haveanal intercourse 7. femalemasturbation 8. group sex 9.(performing) cunnilingus 10.male masturbation

EXERCISE 4.31. Here's a lovely girl, only she

doesn't want to. go down onme / blow me / give me ablowjob / suck me off / etc.2.1 jerked off / wanked / beatmy meat / etc. regularly, but

the idea of having a relation-ship with a woman was be-yond my imagination. 3. Ifone of my friends found outthat my wife was having a bitof nooky with (was fucking /screwing /etc.) someone else,I wouldn't want him to tellme. 4. It wasn't an accident,it was because you werefucking his wife. That's whyhe shot you. 5. Her voice wassoft and sad. I'd like to fuckyou, I thought. 6. I had myown ideas about sex. I wasconstantly horny and jerkedoff continuously. 7. He hadbeen buggered by a sailor andhad to be operated. 8. Thisbastard has been banging /fucking / screwing / etc. hersince he got out of jail! 9. Shefelt upset and humiliated, al-legedly because the presidenthad groped her. 10. All thatnight I would screw you re-lentlessly, until I split youdown the middle... I'd makeyou come more than you'dever dreamed of in all yourlife. 11. Did I ever tell youabout the Asian girl we usedto gangbang in Vietnam? 12.Victor goes into a chemist'sand buys a packet offrenchies (rubbers, etc.) 13.When was the last time youhad a fuck? 14.1 went to bed,had a wank / jerked off / etc.and fell asleep. 15. I don'twant to see her body, or ca-ress it, or go down on it. 16.The men are pressing againstyou. Their hands are all overyour body, squeezing againstyou and groping you. 17.When a chick goes down onme, I tell her where to go andhow it feels. 18. What hurtme most was when you toldme I hadn't 'the least fucking

idea of how to screw'. 19. Iused to be completely frigid.Now all I do is think aboutfucking / screwing / gettinglaid / etc. 20. — I've neverbeen called that in my life.— Well, you've jus t lostyour cherry.

EXERCISE 4.41. son of a bitch 2. ass 3.

swinger 4. to eat someone'spussy 5. a wet dream 6. togo down on somebody 7.joint 8. to suck somebody off

EXERCISE 5.1l.(f) All the words relate to the

world of 'straight' prostitu-tion except tearoom, which,in American English, refersspecifically to a public lava-tory or urinal frequented bymale homosexuals. 2.(c) Allthe words refer to dykes (fe-male homosexuals) exceptgender-bender, a synonymfor a bisexual person or per-son who deliberately affectsan androgynous appearance.3.(c) All these terms relate tobi-sexuality except flash,which refers specifically tothe practice of exposing one'sgenitals for sexual gratifica-tion. 4.(e) All the words aresynonyms for a homo (a malehomosexual) except fag-hagwhich describes a woman, notnecessarily homosexual, whohabitually consorts with malehomosexuals. 5.(a) All thewords are synonyms for pros-titute except bulldyke, whichdenotes a lesbian withstrong masculine tenden-cies. 6.(b) All the wordsrelate in different ways tosexual perversion exceptswish, which is a term for a


male homosexual of mark-edly feminine tendencies.

EXERCISE 5.21. a brothel 2. a female homo-

sexual 3. a pimp 4. a prosti-tute 5. a male homosexual

EXERCISE 5.31. You want to use me for every

weird, kinky thing you canthink of. 2. Other womenworked for a pimp and solic-ited on a daily basis. 3.Women fainted when theysaw him on the screen, but inreality Hudson was a fruit /homo / etc. 4. I'm going toput the hookers on TimesSquare to shame with all theguys I go down on now. 5.Patricia was a nympho, shecould never get enough. 6.You have to be really carefulwith dykes, if not they'll beatyou up. 7. The city has be-come famous for its whore-houses / cat houses / etc. 8.The guy was ambisextrous...I mean that he fucked men aswell as women and that menand women fucked him. 9.Analysis has turned me intoa nympho, with sex on thebrain. 10. He was feeling sohorny he decided to take therest of the day off and maybefind a thirty-dollar whore /hooker / pro / etc. 11. Dannyhad come out of the closetand had declared that he wasqueer / bent / homo / etc. 12.Most good pimps try not tomash up the face. They hit onthe cheek, next to the jaw,avoiding the eyes and themouth. 13. The hooker washaving a look at her trickbook. 14. Why do you referto yourself as a dyke? 15.What's the first thing they

do? Kill the priests, rape thenuns, and turn the churchesinto whorehouses / cat houses/ knocking shops / etc. 16.Sally had a little cottage andthere we had a good time,fucking and eating. She fedme well and drained mystrength at the same time. Shecould never get enough. Sallywas a nympho. 17. Jack doesit with trannies. Some ofthem look better than a lot ofwomen do. 18. He says hewants to do something reallykinky. 19. Is he a homo then?I don't know that I've evermet any homos before. 20.They say that the dyke stuffin the letters section in Pent-house is written by guys.

EXERCISE 5.41. a spook 2. a whore 3. a bug-

ger 4. a fairy, a queen 5.come 7. ful l of shit 8.fucking ( ' those fuckingcreeps') 9. a pimp 10. toscrew

EXERCISE 6.1l.(c) All the words are insulting

terms for women exceptbummer, which denotes anybad experience, occasion,situation or place. 2.(d) Allare insulting terms applied tomen but none has any particu-lar meaning in this contextbeyond its value as an insultexcept brown-nose, which re-fers specifically to a syco-phantic employee seeking tocurry favour with his superi-ors. 3.(f) All the words canbe applied to the unpleasantlynon-human: objects, experi-ences, concepts, problems,etc. All, that is, with the ex-ception of slut, which canonly be applied to a woman,

meaning that she is of loosemorals or disreputable con-duct. 4.(c) All the words areinsulting terms for men ex-cept shithole, which refers toan unpleasant or insalubriousplace. 5.(e) All the words canbe insulting terms for menexcept bitch which (except ina homosexual context) canonly be used of a woman.6.(b) All the words refer tovenereal disease with the ex-ception of pisshole, whichrefers to an unpleasant, back-ward or insalubrious place.7.(a) All the words refer toloathsome substances exceptslag, an insulting term usedof either a man or a woman.

EXERCISE 6.21. crab lice 2. disgusting filth

3. syphilis 4. gonorrhoea

EXERCISE 6.31. What...? You admit that you

did it on purpose, you fuckingbastard? 2. This oven's a bas-tard / bitch / motherfucker /etc. to clean. 3. I'm sorry,you've got the clap. 4. Thereisn't one loyal bone in thatbitch's body. 5. It was goodfor a short while. Then it be-gan to accumulate blackenedcrud. 6. You're on my shit list,you bastard / motherfucker /cocksucker / etc! I'm goingto bust your ass! 7. Whowould want to go there? It'sthe arsehole of the earth. 8.My idea was to wander aboutdoing nothing, always dodg-ing the boss and avoiding thearselickers who could rat tothe boss. 9. I want you to re-member that no bastard everwon a war by dying for hiscountry. 10. What happens ifshe's infected? It's possible


that she's all crudded up. 11.This paint's a real bugger /bastard / bitch / motherfucker/ etc. to get off. 12. Highschool is the pits. Being anteenager sucks. 13. The lastbitch he married never evensaw to it that he had clean un-derwear. 14. They specializedin male requirements and ail-ments: rubbers and clap. 15.You don't deserve me, youbitch! Well, it's over! Get out!16. He's only an arselicker. Itmakes me puke just to think ofhim! 17. Prostitution, pornog-raphy, drugs — the city lookspretty cruddy. 18. Damn! Youcouldn't go back without asigned receipt! The bastardsalways asked for signaturesfor everything. 19. I hate mylife. My life sucks / is thepits. I'm completely fucked.20. A bottle of whisky - justwhat's needed for a bloodyrainy cold afternoon in thisarsehole of the earth.

EXERCISE 6.41. gook, gunk, goo, dreck, glop,

gunge 2. gunge ('gunged atevery stage') 3. yucky 4. tocream oneself off 5. dildo 6.beaver 7. schlong 8. to fuck

EXERCISE 7.1l.(c) All the terms are phrasal

verbs meaning to behavefoolishly, especially in atime-wasting or distractingway, except shit about, whichmeans nothing. 2.(e) All thewords are adjectives meaninginsignificant, of poor quality,tedious, unpleasant, mali-cious, or unwell, dependingon the context; all, that is, ex-cept horseshit, a noun mean-ing nonsense, pretentioustalk, baloney. 3.(a) All the

words can mean nonsense,pretentious or deceitful talk,except chickenshit, an adjec-tive which means cowardly,petty, insignificant. 4.(f) Allthe terms are phrasal verbsmeaning to make a mess ofsomething (to mess up, foulup, spoil or ruin) with the ex-ception of piss-up, which isa noun denoting, in BritishEnglish, a serious drinkingsession (see Chapter 10).

EXERCISE 7.2l.(a) 2.(e) 3.(d) 4.(e) 5.(b)

EXERCISE 7.31. He tried to bullshit me with

some excuse. 2. From time totime something snafus andthere is one hell of a mess. 3.Look, stop fucking about. Ifyou're going to do it, just doit, ok ? 4. My children won'tgrow up in a shitty councilhouse. 5. He fucked-up the ar-rangements, (or He made acomplete balls-up / cock up /etc. of the arrangements.) 6.He works in a shitty videoclub. 7. Yesterday's events ap-peared to be a large-scale pub-lic relations snafu. 8. — Shesays he's rich. — Bullshit! 9.The numbers are all screwed/ fucked / cocked / bollixed /etc. up. 10. He tried tobullshit me with some ex-cuse. 11. He has some kindof half-assed objection to pu-bescent antics that took placealmost ten years ago. 12.Please, let's not bullshit our-selves about this business. 13.Try not to fuck / cock /ballocks / etc. it up this time.14. Don't bullshit me! 15. Ididn't say I wasn't going todo it. I only said how shittythe situation is! 16. They say

that the world is coming to anend. They say that's why it'sso fucked up. 17. It was alousy / crummy / shitty /crappy / etc. film. 18. Hisdecision fucked up / buggeredup / cocked up / etc. our holi-days. 19. You want to go backto your shitty little existence?Go ahead. There's the door.Nobody's stopping you. 20. Itwasn't the result of some fan-tastic thought process. Theywere just fucking about, ba-sically.

EXERCISE 7.41. to get someone off 2. a dago

3. fun pimple 4. a cocksman5. to fuck 6. dick 7. fucking('stupid fucking Polack') 8.a Polack

EXERCISE 8.1l.(d) All the words are syno-

nyms for fucking, used asan expletive, except half-assed, which means ineffec-tual, incompetent or stupid(See Chapter 7). 2.(b) Allthe phrases are expressionsof emphatic annoyance, in-dignation, rejection, sur-prise, etc, with the excep-tion of shit it, which meansnothing. 3.(e) All thephrases can be used as ex-clamations, expressing ex-asperation, anger, surprise,despair, etc., with the ex-ception of the fuck, which isalso used as an intensifierbut not as an exclamation.4.(c) All are expletivephrases which can be addedparenthetically to a sen-tence, except for cuntingwell, which means nothing.

EXERCISE 8.2. (c) 2.(a) 3.(d) 4.(b)


EXERCISE 8.31. What the fuck has it got to do

with you, you idiot. Fuck offout of here! 2. That's one hellof a chop you're eating! 3.Fuck the neighbours! Whogives a fuck what they think?They never worried us before.4.1 didn't understand a bloody/ fucking / etc. word. 5. Heput his hand over her mouth.'For fuck's sake, there arepeople out there!' 6. What thefuck were you doing the otherday spying on my wife? 7.Jesus Christ, why don't youjust shut the fuck up! You'regiving me a fucking head-ache. 8. Luisa is a bloody /fucking / goddamned / etc.fantastic player! 9. It's a hellof a shirt. I bet it cost you abomb. 10. What the fuck do Icare what Lou Reed says! 11.I know that this sounds aspretentious as hell, but I thinkof us as artists. 12. Turn off thatbloody / damned / goddamned/fucking/etc. television! 13.Get your fucking (goddam /bloody / etc.) foot out of thedoor and leave me the fuckalone (and fucking leave mealone / etc.)! 14. This effingdog is an effing nuisance (apain in the arse / a pain in theballs / etc.). 15. How do Iknow what he said? I knowwhat he said because I wasfucking well there. 16. Lis-ten, I know I'm boring thehell / the shit / the fuck outof you, but I've got to talk tosomebody. 17. I don't knowhow the fuck / the hell / inhell / etc. he passed. 18. Ourwar had consisted of watch-ing the Argentine Air Forcebomb the shit out of ourNavy. 19. He comes in here

like I'm his fucking doorman.20. You're not going to do afucking thing. Shut yourfucking mouth / shut the fuckup / etc.

EXERCISE 8.41. motherfucking, fucking ('pay

the fucking rent', 'the fuckingheat', 'that fucking money',etc.) 2. prick 3. to fuck withsomeone 4. to make a fuckout of someone 5. the fuck('get the fuck out of here') 6.to fuck up

EXERCISE 9.1l.(a) All the words are insulting

terms for Jew, except kraut,which is a derogatory termfor a German. 2.(d) All theterms can be derogatorily ap-plied to people of Latin Ameri-can origin, except frog, a per-son from France. 3.(f) All thewords are insulting terms forpeople of Oriental origin ex-cept wop, which is a deroga-tory word for an Italian. 4.(b)All the words are derogatoryterms used by blacks to de-scribe white people, exceptfor paddy which is refers to aperson from Ireland. 5.(c) Allthe words are synonyms forkraut (a German) exceptraghead, which is a deroga-tory term for an Arab. 6.(d)All the words are insultingterms for blacks with the ex-ception of dink, a Vietnamese.

EXERCISE 9.21. a Spaniard, a person of Span-

ish descent, or a Latin Ameri-can 2. the Irish 3. the French4. the Jews 5. Black people6. the Arabs 7. the Germans8. Italians

EXERCISE 9.31. You're a dirty Polack, and all

Polacks are thieves! 2. Franceis a lovely country, withlovely women, great food andgreat wine, but unfortunatelyit's full of frogs. 3. He wantsto know if you can get him adeal on one of those wop(dago / Eyetie) sports cars. 4.The typical Whitey has eve-rything, the nigger doesn'thave shit. 5. The Micks putup signs on the piers whichsaid no wops. 6. He'd haveloved to have gone to Africaand been hired as a merce-nary. 'Imagine getting paid tokill niggers,' he thought. 7.I'm trying to cheer her up,you stupid Kraut! 8. Stupidfucking Polack, he wipes hiscock on the drapes. 9. Whydo Yanks say 'blow' when theymean 'suck'? 10. You and Iknow what a kike (sheeny /heebie / Yid / etc.) is — OneWho Killed Our Lord. 11.Apparently some sort of dealhas been done with the filthywop and they've recoveredsome of the money. 12. Ifthere was one thing hewanted, it was that there wasa word as dirty as 'nigger' toapply to all mankind.

EXERCISE 9.41. pukes 2. fucking ('human

fucking beings', 'the fairyfucking godmother', 'out-fucking-standing', 'until youfucking die', 'a fuckingworm') 3. grabasstic 4. shit5. nigger 6. kike 7. wop 8.greaser 9. bullshit 10.scumbag, cocksucker, fuck('you scroungy little fuck')11. asshole 12. the fuck('Who the fuck said that?')


EXERCISE 10.12.(a) 3.(c) 4.(e)

EXERCISE 10.21. I couldn't understand why I

didn't tell her to go and fuckherself (get fucked / take aflying fuck / etc.) once andfor all. 2. He knows fuck all /bugger all / damn all / sod all/ etc. (about it). 3. Go andfuck yourself / fuck off / goand get fucked / etc. 4. - Whatare you fucking around withnow, man? — I'm not fuckingaround! 5. Fuck this / fuckthis shit! I'm going home. 6.Okay, do it your way. Whatthe fuck! 7. She did fuck all /damn all / bugger all / etc. 8.To hell with it / fuck it all /etc., I'm leaving this job. 9.What the fuck's wrong withyou? Where the fuck are yougoing? 10. — Isn't this dan-gerous? — Fucked (damned/ buggered / etc.) if I know.11. I'm totally fucked /fucked out / knackered. 12.Fuck me! How did you man-age to do it? 13. Fuck theexam! You're coming withme. 14. Now we've reallyfucked (screwed / buggered /

cocked / etc.) things up! 15.I don't give a fuck / a damn /a shit / a bugger / etc. whatyou say. 16. Me apologize tohim? Like hell I will! (Likefuck I will! / Will I fuck! /Will I hell! / etc.) 17. Thenhe said to me: 'Just give mea little kiss'. 'Go and fuckyourself!' I told him. 18. Dothe scene again? What thefuck! 19. Most probably youwere fucking around as usual.20. — Do you still like mylegs? — Fuck, yes.

EXERCISE 10.31. It's about time he pulled his

finger out. 2. What pissesme off is having to do herwork. 3. Frankly, he's a bor-ing old fart. 4. Stop bustingmy balls, I've already toldyou I haven't got it. 5. —They got married in Japan.— No shit! 6. What a painin the ass you are! 7. Don'tpay any attention to him,he's full of shit. 8. He's fullof piss and vinegar. Quitefrankly, I hate him. 9. Thenoise frightened the life outof her. She was shit scared/ scared shitless. 10. Stop

grumbling! The situation isbad enough as it is withoutyour bitching. 11. He be-comes really nervous whenthings go wrong, when theshit hits the fan. 12. I'm fedup with being pissed about.13. I don't want it. He canshove it / stick it up hisarse! 14. Stop taking thepiss out of me! 15. Shedoesn ' t give a shit whatanybody thinks. 16. Ifthere's anything worse thana pain in the arse, it's a fe-male pain in the arse. 17. Hiswife gave him hell for arriv-ing late. 18. Now we're reallyin the shit / up shit creek(without a paddle). 19. I'mgetting really pissed off withhim. 20. The accountant leftwith all the money and leftthem up shit creek.

EXERCISE 10.41. the f-word 2. fuck you, go

fuck yourself 3. fuck me 4.fucking A 5. motherfucker,fuck ('you fuck') 6. to fucksomeone ('the motherfuckertotally fucked me') 7. to fucksomeone up 8. to not give afuck 9. fudge 10. effing

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INDEX OF TERMS

References in this index are to the chapters and sections in which items are listed and exemplified.

A Aussie 9oAztec revenge 2d

AC-DC 5dall to shit l0bam I fuck l0aambisextrous 5dand shit 10barse la; arse about

7b; arse-bandit 5a;arse-licker 6b; apain in the arse l0c;half-arsed 7d; in apig's arse l0c; myarse l0c; not knowone's arse fromone's elbow l0c;

arse about 7barse-bandit 5 aarsehole, asshole 1b;

6a; arsehole of theearth 6g

arse-licker 6bas fuck 8eas hell 8eas piss 8eass la; a horse's ass

l0c; a piece of ass3h; assways l0c;ass-wipe 2f; bustone's ass l0c; getone's ass in gearl0c; half-assed 7d;haul ass 10 c; haveone's head up one'sass l0c; kick asslOc; kiss my asslOc; kiss some-body's ass 6b; laughone's ass off lOc;raggedy-ass 7e;somebody's ass lOc;someone's ass is onthe line lOc; tight-assed lOc; tits andass 101

assways lOcass-wipe 2f

Bbabe 3gbackside labag 6cball 4bballocks, bollocks

(testicles) Id; (non-sense) 7f; (repri-mand) lOd

balls (testicles) Id;(nonsense) 7f; a lotof balls lOd; ballsup 7a; bust one'sballs lOd; bust(break) somebody'sballs lOd

balls up 7abang 4bbanjax 7abarf 2gbastard (term of

abuse) 6a; (unpleas-ant thing or experi-ence) 6d

bazooms libe all over 3cbe in deep shit lObbe on someone's shit

list lObbe pissed lOhbe the pits 6ibe up shit creek

(without a paddle)lOb

beam labeat one's meat 4gbehind labent 5abi5dbi-guy 5dbike 3n

bimbo 3hbit of all right, a 3gbitch (term of abuse)

6c; (difficult situa-tion) 6d; (complain)bitch about some-thing l0f; (expres-sion of surprise) I'llbe a son of a bitchl0f

bitch about some-thing l0f

blazes, the 8fbleeder 6ableeding 8b; bleeding

well 8e; bleedinghell 8e

blood 9nbloody 8b; bloody

well 8e; bloody hell8e

blow 4e; blowjob 4eblow beets 2gblowjob 4eblue veiner 3fBoche 9fbog, bogs 2e; bog-roll

2f; bog-trotter 9cbogey 2ibog-roll 2fbog-trotter 9cboke 2gbollix, bollox 7abone, boner 3fbonk 4bboobs libooger 2iboogie 9nboozer 2gBoss Charley 9abreezer 2cbristols liBrit 9bbrother 9nbrown-nose 6b

B rummy, Brummie9b

bugger (to sodomize)4i; (unpleasant expe-rience) 6d; (empha-sis) 8a; bugger up7a; bugger about7b; play silly bug-gers 7b; buggersomebody aboutl0g; bugger off l0g;bugger all l0g

bugger about 7bbugger all l0gbugger off l0gbugger somebody

about l0gbugger up 7abulldyke 5bbullshit 7fbum boy 5 abum-bandit 5abumf 2fbummer 6cbuns labush Igbust (break) some-

body's balls l0Odbust one's ass lOcbust one's balls l0dbutch 5bbutt labutt-fuck 4i

ccamel jockey 9jcamelfucker 9jcan la; 2ecanoodle 4acat house 5ichat up 3ccheeks lacherry 4hchickenshit 6a; 7e


chink, chinkey 9mchippy 3hchopper Icchuck up 2gchunder 2gclap 6eclit Ifcobblers Id; 7fcock Ic; cocksucker

3b; cockteaser 3i;cock-knocker 6a;cock up 7 a; sucksomebody's cock 4e

cock up 7acock-knocker 6acocksucker 3b; 6acockteaser 3icold as a witch's tit

10icome, cum 2jcoon 9ncooze 6ccottage 5ccow 6ccrabs 6ecracker 9acrap (body waste) 2b;

(poor quality) 7e;(nonsense) 7f

crapper 2ecrappy 7ecrock of shit, a l0bcrud 6fcrummy 7ecrumpet 3hcunt (vagina) le;

(term of abuse) 6aand 6c; cunt-struck3b

curse, the 2kcut the shit l0b

Ddago 91daisy chain 4ddamn well 8cdamn, damned (ex-

pletive) 8a; (empha-

sis) 8b; damn well8c

darkie, darky 9ndick Icdickhead 6adiddle 4bdiesel 5bdingleberry 2bdink 9mdip one's wick 4bdipshit 6adipstick Icdolly, dollybird 3gdong Icdoodley-squat 2bdork Ic; 6adose, a 6edouche bag 6adrag queen 5edreck 6fdryhump, dryfuck 4adump 2b; 6hdung 7f; horsedung

7fdunny 2eDurex 4fdyke, dike 5 a

Eeat 4e; eat pussy 4e;

eat somebody out 4eeat pussy 4eeat somebody out 4eeffing 8beye (the), the glad

eye 3 aeye, glad eye 3 aEyetie 9h

Ffag 5 afaggot 5 afag-hag 5bfairy 5afanny (US buttocks)

la; (GB female geni-tals) le

fart (body function)2c; 10k; fart about7b; an old fart 10k;not give a fiddler'sfart 10k

fart about 7bfeel up 4afemme 5bfig-eater 9jfinger 10j; stand

around with one'sfinger up one assl0j; get one's fingerout l0j; give some-body the finger l0j

fingerfuck,fingerbang 4a

fink 6afist, fist-fuck 4ifladge, flage 5fflag 5 aflash 5ffloozie, floozy 3hfool around 3dfootsie 4afor Christ's sake, for

Chrissakes 8efor fuck's sake 8efor God's sake 8efor the hell of it l0efor the love of Christ

8efor the love of God 8efox 3gfrench 4e; french let-

ter; frenchie 4ffrench letter, frenchy

4ffrig 4bfrigging 8bFritz 9ffrog 9efruit 5 afuck (sexual activity)

4b; (unpleasant thingor person) 6a; (em-phasis) 8a; am Ifuck? lOa; as fuck8d; for fuck's sake

8e; fuck about,around 7b; fuck alllOa; fuck aroundwith somebody lOa;fuck around withsomething l0a; fucka duck l0a;fuckface 6a;fuckhead 6a; fuckknows l0a; fuck up7a; fuckwit 6a; fucksomebody in the assl0a; fuck somebodyout of somethinglOa; fuck somebodyover lOa; fuck withsomebody lOa;fucked if I knowlOa; fuck off lOa;get to fuck lOa; goand fuck yourselflOa; give a fuck lOa;sure as fuck lOa;take a flying fucklOa; thank fuck lOa;the fuck 8f; whatthe fuck lOa

fucker 6a; 6dfuckface 6afuckhead 6afucking 8b; fucking

well 8c; fucking hell8e; fucking A lOa

fucking hell 8efucking well 8cfuckwit 6afudge packer 5 afull of piss and vin-

egar l0hfull of shit l0bfun pimple le

Ggangbang 4dgender-bender 5dget a little on the side

l0nget a rise 3fget it on l0n


get it up 10mget off withget off with some-

thing lOnget on somebody's

tits 10iget one's ass in gear

lOcget one's end away 4bget one's finger out

10iget one's hole 4bget one's leg over 4bget one's oats 4bget one's rocks off 4bget pissed l0hget somebody off lOnget stuffed lOnget to fuck lOaget, git 6agissum 2jgive a fuck lOagive a shit l0bgive head, give a

headjob 4ggive oneself a hand-job 4e

give somebody thefinger l0i

give someone aballocking l0d

give someone hell l0ego and fuck yourself

lOago apeshit l0bgo batshit l0bgo down on someone

4ego for a piss 2ego for the big spit 2ggob 2hgobshite 6agod damn, goddamn,

goddamned 8a; 8bgoddam well 8cgook (disgusting sub-

stance) 6f; (EastAsian) 9m

goolies Id

goose 4bgreaseball 9k; 91greaser 91gringo 9agrope 4agross, gross out 6igrot 6fgrotty 6gguinea 9kgunge 6fgunk 6f

Hhalf-arsed, half-assed

7dhanky-panky 4chard-on 3fhaul ass lOchave one's stand up

one's ass lOchave somebody by

the balls l0dhead 2eHeinie 9fhell: a hell of a 8d; a

snowball's chancein hell l0e; ...as hell8e; for the hell of itl0e; give someonehell l0e; the hell 8f;the hell out of 8g;not give a hoot inhell l0e; play hellwith something l0e;to hell with 8 a

hellish 8bhole 6hholy Jesus 8eholy shit l0bhomo 5ahonky, honkey 9ahooker 5ghorn 3fhorny 3bhorse's ass, a lOchorsedung 7fhorseshit 7fhot 3b

hot pants 3 ahots 3 ahots, the 3ahow's your father 4chummer 2chump 4bHun 9fhunk 3ehustler 5g

Iicky 6gin a pig's arse lOcit sucks 6i

lakick ass lOckike 9gkinky 5fkiss my ass lOckiss somebody's ass

6bknackers Idknee-trembler 4cknock off 4bknockers liknocking-shop 5ikraut 9f

LJJ. Arthur 4gjack 6ejack off 4gjackshit l0bjag off 6ajailbait 3hJap 9mjerk 6ajerk off 4g; 6aJerry 9fJessie 5aJesus Christ 8ejigaboo 9njism 2jjizz 2jjock 5bJock 9bJohn 2e; 5hJohn Thomas Idjohnny 4fJohnson Icjoint Icjugs lijump 4bjungle bunny 9n

Kkarzy 2ekeister laKhyber, Khyber pass

laugh one's ass offlOc

lav, lavo 2elay 3h; 4bleak 2alech, letch 3 aIes5blesbo, lesbie 5blimey 9bloo 2elook like shit lOblot of balls, a l0dlousy 7e

Mmake a balls of some

thing 7 amake a hen's arse of

something 7amake a pass 3cmake it 4bmake out 4amake out 4bman eater 3hMan, the 9amarbles Idmelons liMick 9cmonthly flowers 2kmoo 6cmother 6amotherfucker 6a; 6d


motherfucking 8bmuff Igmuff-dive 4emuff-diver 5bmy arse lOc

Nnail 4bnancy-boy, nance 5aneck 4anigger 9nNip 9mnonce 5fnooky 4cnot get one's balls in

an uproar l0dnot give a fiddler's

fart 10knot give a hoot in hell

l0enot know one's arse

from one's elbowlOa

numbnuts 6anuts Idnympho 3h

Oofay 9aold fart, an 10kon the game Sgone of those 5 aone-night stand 4cother, the 4c

Ppaddy 9cpain in the arse, a

lOcPaki 9npansy 5 aparts 1hpecker Icpee 2aperve (to ogle) 3a;

(abbreviation) 5f

peter Ic; pull one'speter 4g

pick up 3cpiddle 2apiddle about 7bpiece of ass 3hpimp 5jpish 2apiss 2a; as piss 8d; a

piece of piss l0h;full of piss and vin-egar l0h; get pissed,be pissed l0h; gofor a piss 2e; pissabout 7b; pissagainst the windl0h; piss artist 6a;pisshole 6h; piss offl0h; piss-poor 7e;piss somebody offl0h; piss somethingaway l0h; pisswarml0h; piss with rainlOh; take a piss 2a;take the piss (out ofsomebody) lOh

piss artist 6apissant 6apissy 7eplay footsie 4aplay hell with some-

thing l0eplay silly buggers 7bpogue 5 apoke 4bpommie, pommy 9bponce 5 apoof, pouf, poove 5 apoofter 5 apooh, poo, poo-poo

2bpoontang 4cpoop, poopy 2bpox 6epoxy 8bprat 6aprick (anatomy) Ic;

(term of abuse) 6aprickteaser 3h

private parts Ihprivates Ihpro 5gprofessional girl 5gprosty 5gpubes Igpuke 2gpull one's peter 4gpull one's putz 4gpull one's wire 4gpull shit 10 bpussy 3h; to pussy

out on somebody101; pussy whipped101

pussy out on some-body 101

put the make on 3cputz (penis) Ic; (un-

pleasant person) 6a;pull one's putz 4g

Qqueen 5aqueer 5a

Rrag, the 2kraggedy-ass 7eraghead 9jralph 2gramrod 3frandy 3brandy-arsed 3bream, rim 4irear laride 4brise 3froaster 2croot 3h; 4brubber 4fruddy 8brug-muncher 5brumpy-pumpy 4cruns 2druns, the 2dRusskie 91

sS.O.B., s.o.b. 6ascared shitless l0bscarfing 5fschlong, shlong Icschmuck 6ascore 4bscouse 9bscrew (sexual activity)

3h; (emphasis) 8a;screw around 3d;screw up 7a

scrote 6ascum 2jscumbag 6ascuzzy 6gshag 4b; 8a; shagbag

6ashagbag 6ashine 9nshit bag 6ashit out of, the 8gshit somebody l0bshit storm, a l0bshite, shite 6a; 7e; If;

all to shit l0b;...and shit l0b; be indeep shit l0b; be onsomeone's shit listl0b; be up shitcreek without apaddle l0b; a shitstorm l0b; crock ofshit l0b; cut theshit l0b; full of shitl0h; give a shit l0b;go apeshit l0b; gobatshit l0b; holyshit lOb; horseshit7f; look like shitlOb; pull shit lOb;scared shitless lOb;shit; jackshit lOb;shit a brick lOb;shitbag 6a; shit-eat-ing 7e; shithead 6a;shithole 6h; shit-house, shite-house

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shit-eating 7eshithead 6ashithole 6hshit-house, shite-

house 2eshitload of, a lObshits, the 2dshitty 7eshoot 2jshoot the shit lObshort-timer 5hshouse 2cshtup 4bsixty-nine, soixante-

neuf 4eskank 6cskin 4fslap and tickle 4aslash 2asleep around 3dslip it to somebody

4bslope 9mslopehead 9mslut 6csmoke 9nsmooch 4asnafu 7csnatch-hair Igsnog 4asnot 2isnowball's chance in

hell, a l0esod (homosexual) 5a;

(unpleasant person)6a; (emphasis) 8a;sod up 7b

sodding 8b; soddingwell 8c

sodding well 8csomebody's ass lOcsomeone's ass is on

the line lOcson of a bitch 6aspade 9nspew 2gspic, spick 91spook 9nspunk 2jsquarehead 9fsquelcher 2csquits 2dsquits, the 2dstand 3fstand around with

one's finger up oneass l0j

stones Idstud 3estuff 4bstunner 3gsuck somebody's

cock 4esuck up to somebody

6bsuck, suck off 4e; 6b;

suck somebody'sass 6b; suck up tosomebody 6b

sure as fuck lOaswing 3d; swing both

ways 5dswing both ways 5dswish 5 asyph, siph, siff 6e

TTaff, Taffy 9btail latake a flying fuck lOatake a leak 2atake a pee 2atake a piss 2atake shit from some-

body lOb

take the piss (out ofsomebody) lOh

talk shit lObtart 3h; 5gtear it off a bit 4btearoom 5cthank fuck lOathat shit lObthat way 5 athatch Igthis shit lObthrow up 2jtight-assed lOctinkle 2atit man, a 101tits li; get on some-

body's tits 101; titsand ass 10 i; titman; a 10 i; cold asa witch's tit 101

to hell with 8aTojo 9mtool Ictoss off 4gtosser 6atouch up 4atough shit lObtoy boy 3etrade 5 atramp 3htrannie 5etrick 5htrim 3hTrojan 4ftumble 4cturd (body waste) 2b;

(unpleasant person)6a

turned on 3bTV5etwat (female genitals)

6a; (term of abuse)6c

uUncle Tom 9nup yours 10m

vT

versatile 5d

Wwang Icwank 4gwanker 6awee-wee 2awet dream 3e; 3jwetback 91whack off 4gwham, bam, thank

you ma'am 4cwhang, whanger Icwhat the fuck lOawhen the shit hits the

fan lObwhitey 9awhorehouse 5iwhoresmelt, boor's

melt 6awiddle 2awilly Icwog 9nwop 9kworking girl 5g

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