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More Britishisms

    Moggy (n.):  An ordinary cat.

Others, all from a book I just finished: doddle, jacket potato, pong, fly sheet, footwell, settles, bin liner, skint, bleeper, scarper, AGM, spotty herbert, dust-dancers, cutlery draw, shufti, picnic hamper, stodge, going to the Casualty, skip, ‘having me on’, pebble-dashed, top up, nutters, lay-by, slowcoach, selvedge, tosser, punters, dozy, bacon-butties, and ‘trying it on’.

Britishisms

    Britishism for the Day:  "spotty herbert" (n., phrase):  a foolish person.

Chocolate Hobnobs

    Chocolate Hobnobs are mentioned in a book I'm reading, and while I could suss out that they were some sort of sweets, I frankly have never heard of them.

    Apparently, they're made in, and quite popular in England.  So why haven't they been exported to us Yanks?

And Bob's Your Uncle

    Without a doubt, the favorite expression I've learned from reading books by British authors is: "And Bob's your uncle". 

Britishisms for the Day

   I mean, really.  What possible reason can be given for calling them a Boot and a Bonnet?

Britishism for the Day

Britishism for the Day : Pantechnicon (n.) : a large van for moving furniture and other household items. (in the US, we'd call it a moving van).

    I ran across this word in Tom Holt's "Faust Among Equals".