No, I’m not having narcotic withdrawals from Percocet or anything over here- I’m referring, instead, to Bridget Jones’ Diary, one of my favorite novels of all time (and its sequel, Bridget Jones, the Edge of Reason).

I like this book because it has endearing, smart characters, because it is downright hilarious, and also because of all of the British slang I picked up in my many reads through the two books.

What are some of my favorites? Here we go:

• tart (promiscuous woman)
• f$%(-wittage (self-explanatory)
• singleton (single person)
• smug-married (self-explanatory)
• fags (cigarettes)
• pissed (drunk)
• flat (apartment)
• bollocks (S&%$)
• wanker (not a nice name to call someone)
• gherkin (appetizer)
• paddling pool (kiddie pool/ wading pool)
• sod off (eff off)
• bugger off (again, eff off)
• bottom (bottom, but they use it more than us)
• takeaway (take out)
• lorry (truck)
• flash (fancy)

sooooo… did I miss anything? Do you ever use any of these words? What slang words are you using these days? (I feel cut off from the real world, after all- keep me hip!)

Meri