wanker
has been listed 38 times with 2 comments
sod off
has been listed 3 times with 0 comments
jolly good
has been listed 3 times with 0 comments
smashing
has been listed 11 times with 0 comments
good show
has been listed 3 times with 0 comments
arse
has been listed 18 times with 2 comments
wot
has been listed 7 times with 4 comments
good lad
has been listed 1 time with 0 comments
righto
has been listed 2 times with 0 comments
good day
has been listed 2 times with 0 comments
cheerio
has been listed 10 times with 6 comments
love
has been listed 167 times with 8 comments
governor
has been listed 6 times with 0 comments
bollocks
has been listed 44 times with 2 comments
blimey
has been listed 26 times with 17 comments
i say
has been listed 2 times with 0 comments
chap
has been listed 13 times with 0 comments
bloody
has been listed 27 times with 1 comment
Brilliant! Everything is just tickety-boo, oojah-cum-spiff here at Greyfriars. Though Bulstrode is a bounder and a cad, Bob Cherry will give him a sound thrashing.
Hurree Jamset Ram Singh (Inky).
Meanwhile, that blighter House continues to impersonate Bertie Wooster on Sunday evenings on many public television stations.
Tootle-pip!
You've got two kinds of stereotypical Britishisms here: ones which are actually in common use, like wanker, bollocks, cheerio and good lad, and ones confined mostly to fiction, like jolly good, i say, spot of tea and good show. These were all current in decades past, but having been fossilised in the foreign conception of Britain have now (perhaps consequently?) become unpopular.
I think there are a few similar lists around for you to mine. I think arby has one?
Spiffing idea, actually, palooka. Well done that man/girl
Yes, it is friendly, isn't it? I know they say mate in the UK, but to me that's much more stereotypical of Aussies than Brits. Come to think of it, I'm curious about the difference between sod off and jog off. Are they basically the same? I'll add jolly good, which is not the same thing as jolly well but belongs on the list nonetheless. :-)
What's a list of Britishisms without mate, and the insulting: Sod off and wanker? This list is too friendly. ..And isn't it "jolly good" rather than "jolly well"? Maybe both.
Great list uselessness! I will jolly well favorite the whole bloody thing.