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I frequently come across english words which I don't understand,and cannot find in any online dictionaries.Thus,I will ask for explanations here 🙂
What does it mean,when a brit says 'Cathy is a slag'.I found the following explanation on dictionary.com: slag: The vitreous mass left as a residue by the melting of metallic ore
Surely that's not what he meant 😕

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Originally posted by SirLoseALot
I frequently come across english words which I don't understand,and cannot find in any online dictionaries.Thus,I will ask for explanations here 🙂
What does it mean,when a brit says 'Cathy is a slag'.I found the following explanati ...[text shortened]... y the melting of metallic ore
Surely that's not what he meant 😕
A "slag" is a female who is rather unchoosy about the number of sexual partners she has had, or is having(!).

Unfairly, the male equivalent is a "stud"

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Originally posted by Favs
A "slag" is a female who is rather unchoosy about the number of sexual partners she has had, or is having(!).

Unfairly, the male equivalent is a "stud"

That makes sense.Thanks! 🙂

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Originally posted by SirLoseALot
That makes sense.Thanks! 🙂
Any time - I'm pretty good with me slang, being a quick wiv me noggin, never getting a munk on, whilst walking along me ginnel into the me house to do a bit o' fettleing.


Trans:
noggin - head
munk - sulk
ginnel - a.k.a snicket, it's a short path or cut through
fettleing - cleaning

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I don't know what your mothertounge is, but you could check out http://dict.leo.org
German 😉
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Originally posted by SirLoseALot
I frequently come across english words which I don't understand,and cannot find in any online dictionaries.Thus,I will ask for explanations here 🙂
What does it mean,when a brit says 'Cathy is a slag'.I found the following explanation on dictionary.com: slag: The vitreous mass left as a residue by the melting of metallic ore
Surely that's not what he meant 😕
Surely that's explanation enough?

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there is a site which deals with slang words, or dialect terms that peple can put there local terms on. strange that it was on the radio yesterday? telling everyone

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A good idea is to Google it, with the search terms
+slag slang
which will show for example that slag is also used as a verb "to insult"

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Originally posted by Toe
A good idea is to Google it, with the search terms
+slag slang
which will show for example that slag is also used as a verb "to insult"
A warning however. Be careful. You don't want to type certain words into google. I'd give examples but that would get me in trouble.

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
A warning however. Be careful. You don't want to type certain words into google. I'd give examples but that would get me in trouble.
Wise. Very wise.

You can however turn on "SafeSearch Filtering" in Google's preferences settings (once preferences are set, they are remembered until changed or you clear out all your cookies). The sites avoided are often little more than noise anyway, depending on what you are looking for of course.

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
A warning however. Be careful. You don't want to type certain words into google. I'd give examples but that would get me in trouble.
Why do you get in trouble when googleing for "dirty" words?
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Originally posted by Toe
A good idea is to Google it, with the search terms
+slag slang
which will show for example that slag is also used as a verb "to insult"
Actually, you would have to say "to slag off" for it to mean "to insult"...

As in "Stacy slagged off Tracy" or "Stacy was slagging off Tracy"

Doesn't anyone know "The Fat Slags" from the Viz comics?



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Originally posted by Favs
Actually, you would have to say "to slag off" for it to mean "to insult"...
Are you slagging my slang?
See? You don't.

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Originally posted by Toe
Are you slagging my slang?
See? You don't.
I am, because "slagging" is a real word used in both the engineering industries and in cyclone analysis.

Check this out:

http://www.nationalslagassoc.org/

and

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=slag

tr. & intr.v. slagged, slag·ging, slags
To change into or form slag.

However:

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/phrasal-verbs/slag-off.html

MEANINGS:

criticise heavily

EXAMPLES:

The concert was terrible and all the papers slagged the band off.



You have to have the "off" bit or it just ain't slang!

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Originally posted by Favs
...
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/phrasal-verbs/slag-off.html
...
You have to have the "off" bit or it just ain't slang!
erm, its slang here: there ain't no "correct" slang.
If you want to use the www as reference, try
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/s.htm
"Verb To put down, verbally. Meaning the same as 'slag off'"
or
http://www.thecraic.net/glossary.html
"...In the Midlands, if people don't slag you unmercifully, it's a sign they probably don't like you."
or
http://english2american.com/dictionary/s.html
"To slag someone (or in more common usage, to slag them off) is to "have a go" or pick on them."

In a colloquialism there's little room for correctness. By it's very nature it will be modified by the group that uses it.

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