adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe someone as jammy, you mean that they are very lucky because something good has happened to them, without their making much effort or deserving such luck. [British, informal] You'd think that at least he'd have the good grace to admit his blinding, jammy luck.
Definition: Having good luck, albeit undeserved. Origins: From the popular biscuits Jammie Dodgers, which were named after the Beano character Roger The Dodger (a child famed for his ability to avoid chores and homework).
Jammy is a slang word for "lucky" in the UK. So a Jammy Dodger is a scamp or scoundrel who can talk his way out of trouble. It is said that the cookie got its name after the character Roger the Dodger from "The Beano" comics, one of Britain's most popular comics since the 1930s.
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What does jammy mean in Yorkshire?
Jammy. In British slang, to use “jammy” you would be describing someone who is extremely lucky for something! A “jammy” person would be lucky because something good has happened to them that didn't require much effort.
something done or had quickly, especially sex or an alcoholic drink: Let's just have a quickie. a quickie divorce. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Alcohol - general words.
Try it for free as part of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary app. (British English, informal) lucky, especially because something good has happened to you without you making any effort.
Rubber. This is an informal way of saying condom on the US – so a rubber is a contraceptive. We just call them condoms in the UK. And we use rubbers to remove pencil marks from paper.
Some examples of modern British slang include "peng" (meaning attractive or good-looking), "bare" (meaning a lot of something), and "banter" (meaning playful teasing or joking around).
Jiffy – this is a quintessentially British saying meaning you'll do something immediately. You might say it to show you are keen, for example: “If you're cooking dinner I'll be there in a jiffy.”
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“Manky” is an Irish expression to mean disgusting, dirty or rotten. It can refer to anything, but is commonly used to describe the weather in Ireland. For example, “It's absolutely manky out.” Similar to the one above, “Poxy” is a term to describe something that's either not great or not working.
The word fart is the first and therefore, the oldest swear word in the English language. In old English, the word had a different form — “feortan.” In Latin, the word had a very different form “pedere.” Its proto-Indo-European root is *perd which means to break wind loudly.
the act of laughing at someone or something in a silly and often unkind way: She barely stifled a snicker. His clothes prompted snickers and taunts from neighborhood boys. Synonym. snigger mainly UK.
My dictionary also points out that although the word is an adjective, it also has a British meaning, namely, a noun for the thin salty snacks such as what we call potato chips. So we've come full circle, a thin salty snack in America is a "chip," in England, it is a "crisp," or "crisps."
'Manky' doesn't seem like the most pleasant word, well that's because it isn't! This phrase is used mostly to describe something that's dirty or quite frankly disgusting. “Eeerrgh, that's manky.” In Yorkshire, instead of the standard response 'I know', 'Anno' is the alternative phrase.
