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• blaw — n British cannabis, marihuana. An altered pro nunciation of blow, heard since 2000 …   Contemporary slang

• choom — n Australian an English person. Now usually pejora tive, the term seems to have appeared during World War I and was probably an imitation of the northern English pro nunciation of chum …   Contemporary slang

• ho — n a. a female prostitute, promiscuous and/or immoral woman b. a female The southern US and Afro Caribbean pro nunciation of whore became one of the best known items of hip hop and rappers slang, moving, like many pejorative terms in transgressive …   Contemporary slang

• joanna — n British a piano. A rhyme on the cockney pro nunciation of the instrument. ► Give us a tune on the old joanna. See also Jewish typewriter / piano / pian ola /joanna …   Contemporary slang

• kayf — n British an alternative rendering of caff (cafe), imitating the jocular or unwitting mispro nunciation of the original French …   Contemporary slang

• kafe — n British an alternative rendering of caff (cafe), imitating the jocular or unwitting mispro nunciation of the original French …   Contemporary slang

• laff — n a source or occasion of amusement. A jocular, ironic or journalese form of laugh . When said by southern British speakers it is distinguished by a pro nunciation rhyming with chaff …   Contemporary slang

• piano — adj British faint, delicate, under the weather or indisposed. This upper class expression derives from the Italian musical term piano, which is an instruction to play or sing softly. The British speaker s pro nunciation, in imitation of the… …   Contemporary slang

• shinaton — n a girl who gives a lot of oral sex. The term is probably an Afro Caribbean pro nunciation of shinathon , an imaginary event combining shiner(s), fellator(s) and marathon …   Contemporary slang

• shmeg — n British an idiot. A schoolchildren s term, fash ionable from the 1980s, which is a vari ant form of smeg or smeggy (from smegma), a word popular among young males in the punk era. The altered pro nunciation is influenced by Yiddish words such… …   Contemporary slang