"Butter-fly"

How can a civilised people call a Schmetterling "butterfly", that is beyond me, tossers.

flabbergasted....:doh:

Cattywampus

Definition:
dialect : askew, awry, kitty-corner.

Kustantaa meaning "publish", but it's close to kusta antaa, which means literally "to give piss".

Same thing, where our newspapers are concerned :)

Gardyloo

Definition:
Used in Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets.

Squirrel
 

http://i.imgur.com/9AYfcfN.jpg What's wrong with eichhörnchen?

Taradiddle

Definition:
1 : a fib 2 : pretentious nonsense

Why is "pounds" abbreviated "lbs"?:doh:

Because Romans, and Romans are always cool.

(Click!)

Thanks.:salute:

Billingsgate

Definition:
coarsely abusive language

"really" and "quite".

For instance, consider the difference between:-

• That's good (possibly it's good, or just dismissive)
• That's quite good (a little effusive)
• That's really quite good (effusive)
• That's really good (overly effusive)
• Really, that's quite good (condescending, but a good effort for someone of your calibre).
• Really, that's good (it's bad)
• Really. (disbelief / I disagree / astonishment)
• Really? (are you quite mad?)
• Quite. (I agree wholeheartedly)
• Mad (mad)
• Quite mad (bonkers)
• Really mad (angry)

Mind you I am English.

...and don't get me started on "rather"

One phrase I am supremely tired of hearing is "at the end of the day"

Gwd, I hear that 50 times a day,:/\\!!

At the end?

Sometimes, but mostly all the time.:03:

So, at the end of the day, it really gets on your wick?...


<O>

Snickersnee

Definition:
1 archaic : to engage in cut-and-thrust fighting with knives 2 : a large knife

Example:
"Oh, never shall I / Forget the cry, / Or the shriek that shrieked he, / As I gnashed my teeth, / When from its sheath / I drew my snickersnee!" — The Mikado by W. S. Gilbert

About the Word:
Snickersnee comes from the Dutch phrase steken of snijden, "to thrust or cut." Over time, snick and snee, snick-or-snee, and snickersnee followed.