Oh those wacky Brits and their quaint little words
I read recently a youth book called "Papergirl", about the 1920 Winnipeg general strike, and they frequently used that word in it. I think it's not just British slang, it's an old timey word like "commie" is used today.
Bolo was a derogatory expression for Bolsheviks used by British service personnel in the North Russian Expeditionary Force which intervened against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, and other Nazi leaders used it in reference to the worldwide political movement coordinated by the Comintern.
sometimes wikipedia produces a banger juxtaposition
Was it just used as a noun or in the adjective sense listed above?
I had to learn the word “chuffed” in my 20s, I thought my British friends were pulling my leg with a fake word
Pop quiz, please explain what the following words mean:
Naff
Spoff
Guff
Naff is when something is crap or actually terrible - usually in a quality sense - like cheap and nasty. It can also mean uncool, as the children say nowadays.
I don't think spoff means anything unless you mean 'spaff' which means when someone cums, as in '...he got the gush and fucking spaffed all over the place. Curtains, carpet, face.'
And guff has a few meanings. Guff can be another word for nonsense - '...they were talking pure guff...' as in they have no clue about the subject. Another meaning, which I only really heard and used when I was a kid growing up in Scotland, is when someone farts '...jesus fuck man, who guffed? It's like something crawled up their arse and died'.
That's three for three :party-parrot:
Huh, I guess spaff is the more common spelling. I've heard spoff too though
Yeah, I can believe that - like a lot of these things it will vary from region to region. The West coast of Scotland is a goldmine for slang and chat that never travels anywhere else.
I've always thought of naff as being about something being tacky as opposed to just poor quality
It's used as a compliment on some old episode of doctor who I watched once
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Tegan_Jovanka
It was one of the companions, just found her. She calls herself "downright bolshie" and it looks like the wiki nerds are arguing over it on whether or not she's calling herself a commie or not.
Either way she's using it to compliment herself.
