Probably because if you take away the S, it's "hammered" which is a more common slang term for drunk.
bakkie - pickup truck zarm - sandwich stukkie - girl / woman cherry - girl / woman braai - barbecue lightie - boy / child Jesus and His Brothers - J&B Whisky tekkies - running shoes
Kicks's A** -Is really awesome; cool; tough; strong; as in: That show really kick's a**! Or he really kick's a**, so you better not mess with him.
Bee's knees - cool, awesome, perfect, best, etc. A hot cup of coffee and a good book are the bee's knees for me. That one is a little bit dated, though some of my older friends still say it.
I suppose this is international, in the sense that everyone in the English speaking world, ever, has heard it. Well, everyone born after the fall of the Bastille, anyway.
I just wondered. There is a lot of british slang on TV that I have no idea what it means. Have you ever seen Beer Fest?
It's a very umm..a movie. For adults, not a porn! Just has some nudity, and swearing. It has a part with British guys and they like rattle off a bunch of stuff that I have no idea what it means.
If it's American guys pretending to be British, then it probably doesn't mean anything. Actually, even if it's British guys, in an American movie, it probably doesn't mean anything.
I will have to try and watch it, and try to write it all down, and then post it to see if it means anything. It's an hilarious movie. Wrong on so many levels, but hilarious.
My spoken english is far from proper simply due to the sheer amount of slang that I work into a conversation... Slang words I use are mainly Gay: Gay, in no way referring to sexuality, or wellbeing, infact the opposite, it's used to describe a characteristic/situation that you don't agree with, it's often one that annoys you. For example, 'I offered to buy her lunch for her, but she refused cos she's gay like that.' or 'My internet download ran out, it's so freakin' gay' Hell/Full/Fully: All used in replacement for 'very' and 'alot', it's also used to express the intention of an action. 'That game we played yesterday was hell/full fun' 'I'm fully/hell going to shower when I get home'
Chayeah It's very common word in a bunch of countries. Probably because it's so widely used within the internet... just like other words like scrub/noob/pwned/owned/micro ect I wouldn't expect much of the cyber language to be different between australia and the usa or the uk.
Bugger her for a game of sogers. Tossers & Sheepshaggers. Test your metal. Worth a squid. You all for a coat and no trousers, you are. Shove off! Gonna put the skitters on your island wickers you blonker. I can figure some of it out by the way it was used. But some I could only guess at. Sorry if any of it is um...british swearing.
That was all jibberish. With the possible exception of "sheepshagger" meaning a welsh person... Although if you actually meant "test your mettle" that basically means to test a person's fortitude, but I wasn't aware that was slang.
