35 definitions by klidenengro
handsome, cute, cool. from the Romany Gypsy word for good-looking, rinkano. now also has a dismissive perjorative usage arising from its apparent diminutive sense which arises from the internal rhyme
by klidenengro February 13, 2004
by klidenengro January 30, 2004
Also gesumph or gesumpf, said to have come into the British property business from the second-hand car trade in the 1970s. originally means to swindle, cheat or steal, now means to outbid (peculiar to the English and Welsh housing market). Ultimately derived from a German word meaning to put into a swamp or, in the modern idiom, to dump in the shit. first recorded in English in 1928
the bastards gazumped me
by klidenengro January 30, 2004
Area of specific interest. Heard recently on BBC Radio 5, ‘Right up your Strasse’. Clearly calqued from ‘right up your street’ but with a tone of contempt. Does the rhyme and association with ‘up your arse’ have anything to do with it?
by klidenengro January 30, 2004
happiness, in good order. Romany word used by super-chav Jamie Oliver. Kushtipen was once the English Romany word for 'happiness' from a Persian word meaning 'happiness'
everything's kushti
by klidenengro January 30, 2004
originally a 'dick-head'. From the French word 'noeud'(literally 'knot'), the slang meaning of which is the glans penis, the enlarged section at the head of the penis, hence 'dick-head'.
whadda nerd!
by klidenengro February 4, 2004
by klidenengro January 30, 2004