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Cake-hole – Your mouth
Char [1] – A cup of ‘Char’ (tea)
Char [2] – A ‘cleaning woman/man’ i.e. a Charlady/man
Chat up - To ‘chat someone up’, is to try and ‘get acquainted’ . . . if you saw a guy (or girll) somewhere & you wanted to get to know them better, you’d try to ‘chat them up’!
Cheeky - This term can be used in a couple of different, ways. Say you were going to park your car in a store car park, you spot an ideal spot and begin your manouvere . . . suddenly another, car slips into ‘your’ parking spot!! . . . Now this driver would be a ‘cheeky so and so’ (ad lib, for choice phrases to call him/her)lol But then you can use this phrase in a more friendly way – like if a kiddie knocks at your door and asks you if he/she can wash your car (usually, for a price) and you have actually just witnessed hin rubbing ‘mud’ on your car, you could call him a ‘cheeky monkey’, for trying his luck! lol, and put it down to mischief.
Cheerio – This is a less formal version of ‘goodbye’.
Cheers – Usually, a drinking ‘salute’ as you clink glasses. Also a term of ‘thank you’ i.e. “cheers for that”.
Cheesed off – How you feel when things just won’t go right for you (pissed off, is another definition of this feeling)
Chin Wag – A tem for having a chat with someone (what Lynnette and I do sometimes)lol
Chinese Whispers – Or, how ‘gossip’ can spread and loosing the ‘truth’ along the way – one person hears something . . tells someone else, she tells someone (a bit of the original can either be increased or exaggerated) the person that she tells forgets an important bit, so makes something ‘else’ up. . . . etc, etc, etc.
Chivvy along – Usher another person along – ‘hurry them up’- Bedrock ‘chivvyies me along’ when I am taking too long to get ready [glare]lol
Chuffed - Really pleased about something! i.e. I was ‘chuffed’ at my grandsons recent Karate grades!
Clear Off!! – No, it doesn’t mean clear the table (though I suppose it could lol) It is a well defined way of perhaps, telling a gang of youths who were gathering outside your house making lots of noise, to go away . . .(that is the ‘polite’ way . . . I, don’t use it ‘exactly’, like that . . . )!! (I’m not known for my ‘politeness’)lol
Cobblers – First of all, a ‘Cobbler’, is a man who mends shoes; To use the word ‘Cobblers’ is a way of telling someone that he/she was speaking a load of ‘garbage’. It originates from cockney rhyming slang for ‘ Cobblers Awls’ - - - BALLS !
Cock-of-the-walk – An arrogant person who believes him/herself to be ‘above’ everyone else.
Cock up – A ‘mistake’ (nothing, to do with a male chicken . . . . or, human anatomy)!!!
Cockney rhyming slang – Read my previous posts . . . !!lol
Cock Sparrow – Apart from being a male Sparrow, it is also known as a ‘lively quarrelsome’ person. In London, the cockneys would pronounce it :- Cock Sparrer.
Codswallop – Nonsense i.e. ‘what a load of codswallop’!
Cracking – Something which is very good i.e. Nittinneedles garments are ‘cracking’!
Crap – This is not as rude here as it might be in the U.S. It is like the ward codswallop – a lot of nonsense.
Corker – An excellent or astonishing person or thing (like me, mayhap . . . . . . . . )lol lol
