kit

Clothes, something that is removed when someone gets their kit off. Originally Kittel, a white cotton or linen robe worn by orthodox Jews on certain holy days (also used as a shroud), overall, smock. Yiddish from MHG ultimately from Arabic source, cogn. with ‘cotton’

Helen Mirran is famous for taking her kit off

by klidenengro January 30, 2004

nark

informer, someone who has got their nose into your business. Romany word 'naak' means nose. Not to be confused with the later American word with similar meaning which is an abbreviation for 'Narcotics Agent'

A coppers's nark

by klidenengro January 30, 2004

kushti

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

Gypsy

Descendant of the original Indian travellers who arrived in Western Europe after the downfall of the Byzantine empire in the 15th Century. The called themselves the 'Lords of Little Egypt' which contracted to Egyptians, Gyptians and eventually Gypsies or Gyppos. Little Egypt was the name given to the area we now call Turkey.

My mother said
I never should
play with the Gypsies
in the wood

by klidenengro January 30, 2004

nerd

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 October 15, 2006

goolies

testicles. Hindi word 'goli' means a ball or small sphere. see also pills

she kicked him in the pills

by klidenengro January 30, 2004

wonga

English Romany word for money. Originally means burning embers and in other european Romani dialects 'angaar' still has that meaning. In 18th and 19th century English 'coal' also meant money. Wonga is the romani calque.

moola, dosh, bread, wonga, I don't care as long as its money

by klidenengro September 09, 2004