Beware of Slang

Today’s English
April 13th, 2017

“Slang" generally refers to informal words and phrases used in a particular context by particular class of people. Though slang is used mostly by native speakers of English and often considered to be offensive and dangerous, the non-native speakers of English need to know the meaning so that they can at least understand if those words are found in the book they read or the movie they watch.  Slang is too hot to handle, so just know the meaning and don’t risk yourself by using them. Slang is of three kinds – offensive words, vulgar words (more offensive) and taboo words (the most offensive). Words from 1 to 13 belong to the first category, 14 to 17, the second and the rest the third.

1. Airhead – a silly or stupid person
2. Geezer – an old person
3. Piss off! – go away!
4. Yankee – an American
5. Shit – an exclamation showing frustration, anger
6. Hooker – a female prostitute
7. Bullshit – nonsense
8. Bloody – used to offensively criticize
9. Damn – an expression of anger
10. Shithole – an extremely dirty place
11. Cock-up – a big mistake, anything done very badly
12. Smart-ass – an annoying person showing so-called cleverness
13. Tight-ass- a miser
14. Crab – faeces
15. Tits – woman’s breasts
16. Piss – to urinate
17. Whore – a female prostitute
18. Kike – the most offensive word for a Jew
19. Wop – the most offensive word for an Italian
20. Cunt – the most offensive word for a fool(

(Do you know that the oxford dictionary of modern slang lists as much as 6000 slang words that have to be carefully used in day-to-day speech?)