Translation please: Buggard & Bullocks

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So I've been really getting into contemporary British sitcoms lately - The Office and Coupling - I love them both, and highly recommend them. (Especially if you like other shows like the Black Adder, and Faulty Towers ...) Anyway, I was wondering if I could get a translation, explaination of these two terms that I keep hearing over and over: Buggard, and Bullocks. (I'm not sure on the spelling.)
 
Bollock: One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

Bollocks:
[Brit] (slang) nonsense
 
vidled said:
Bollock: One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

or

[Brit] (slang) nonsense
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Awsome, thanks for the reply. I wanted to add these word to my vocab, but I think it's important to know what you're saying before you say it ...
 
Yer welcome.

I deleted the true meaning of bugger, and buggered, as I'm not sure if it be allowed on this forum. However, if you were subscribed to this thread for getting email notification, you would have seen the unedited reply. ;-)
 
vidled said:
Yer welcome.

I deleted the true meaning of bugger, and buggered, as I'm not sure if it be allowed on this forum. However, if you were subscribed to this thread for getting email notification, you would have seen the unedited reply. ;-)
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That's just no fair! We are all equals here! We don't want Ryan to be smarter thant the rest of us!

C'mon, we are adults - spill the beans! I can't wait to know!
 
Okay then:

Bugger:
"Someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)"

Buggered:
"Practice anal sex upon"

Interestingly, since it's such a common word in such places as Australia and New Zealand, the Kiwis had a very successful ad campaign (Toyota IIRC), where something went really wrong during the ad which always ended with someone saying "Bugger".

(Notice the difference in meanings here between the slang usage: "buggered = tired out" and "bugger = oh damn, or bummer". Also, the slang usage above of "bugger" is when used as an interjection. There is also the slang usage, as in "He's a bugger" which would mean: "He's a scoundrel").
 
LOL, you yanks are funny

Right, excuse the swearing please:

Buggard - Buggered:

Stems from buggery, which is, ahem, anal intercourse.

Also means broken: eg, My TV is buggered.

You could say: I'm buggered - nothing anal, justs means you're ill or maybe in trouble.

Also: "Oh bugger!" means "Oh darn!" which is not all that rude.

"You bugger!" = "You bastard!" - not as strong as bastard though, or as rude. Generally an older saying, a bit like "you git!"

Bullocks:
This is a bull with its testicals removed...I think you mean:

Bollocks, or "bollox" if you are "hip":

An expletive, used like "****", eg, Oh bollocks! = Oh ****!

Other uses:
"That's bollocks!" = that's rubbish or untrue
"That's the bollocks!" = adding "the" makes it mean that's great, or the best (ie the opposite of above)
"You talk bollocks!" = you talk nonsense.
 
Well, while we're educating each other... "Yanks" is not considered an affectionate term by most who live in the South (USA). If you were to go to Louisiana to make a documentary about Hurricane Katrina survivors and referred to them as Yanks or Yankees, then you might get in a fight.
 
Sorry, it isn't considered derogatory over here... I thought it sounded nicer than "you Americans," no offense meant at all.

I used to have an American girlfriend and I called her "Yank" the whole time. I hope I didn't mentally scared her...
 
It doesn't offend me at all, but I know people that are offended by the term. It dates back to America's Civil War and has nothing to do with the American Revolution, ya know.
 
Pommy?

Ok now your going to have to open up the class again, whats that mean?

And while were on the subject, what exactly is a 'git'?
 
git = A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible

Pommy (or poms): a term the Aussies and Kiwis use for the British. Somewhat disparaging.
Its orgin is not clear, and there are several schools of thought on that one.
 
"Pommy" is a slang word for English people, I normally hear Aussies and Kiwis saying it though.

A git is an annoying person.
 
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