1. a very stupid person. Arthur’s constant obliviousness of his surroundings and general stupidity made him a perfect example of a clotpole.

The Spanish subject pronouns are: yo, tú, él, ella, usted in the singular, and nosotros/nosotras, vosotros/vosotras, ellos/ellas, ustedes in the plural.

11 Bloody Brilliant British English Phrases

1. “Fancy a cuppa?” meaning: “Would you like a cup of tea?”
2. “Alright?” meaning: “Hey, how are you?”
3. “I’m knackered!” meaning: “I’m tired.”
4. Cheeky. meaning: playful; mischievous.
5. “I’m chuffed to bits!” meaning “I’m very pleased.”
6. Bloody. meaning: very.
7. To bodge something.
8. “I’m pissed.”

The Oxford English Dictionary has launched a search to find the first recorded use in English of the word ‘numpty’, which means a foolish or stupid person. Since the mid-1980s, numpty has been used as a mild term of abuse in Britain.

I was thinking today, for some reason, about the words git and twit, two ancient playground insults which are seldom heard today. A git, I was solemnly told, means ‘a pregnant camel’ while a twit is a pregnant goldfish. …

: any of several birds of prey: a : a kite (Milvus milvus) b : buzzard.

noun. an archaic name for polecat.

1 dialectal, chiefly British : an untidy woman : slattern. 2 dialectal, chiefly British. a : cat.

1 dialectal, British : a European mole (Talpa europaea) 2 dialectal : a stupid or shiftless person the old man …

1 obsolete : a hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering nuts.

1. Inhuman; cruel. Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G.

Maggot-pie(noun) a magpie.

We want it to feel really alive.” One of those invented phrases is “flap dragon,” which refers to a venereal disease a harlot is rumored to suffer. Hailed as a feminist workplace drama, Harlots lets the female characters do most of the dirty talk, perhaps because they do most of the talking in the first place.

An elf-skin is “a man of shrivelled and shrunken form,” says the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).