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British Isles

The British Isles is the collective name for the islands of Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and all of the surrounding islets. The term is used mainly referring to weather and nature stuff, and also has some cultural use. Some Irish people have hard reservations about the term being applied to the island of Ireland, and so the British and Irish governments no longer use it. But Irish people who are not insecure about Ireland's future have no problem with the term, recognising that its just the name of a place, not a secret government.

Origin: Britain and Ireland were called "Britain" and "Britanis" in Roman times, which translates as Great Britain and Little Britain.
"This species of owl can be found throughout the British Isles.."

"Ireland was separated from the British Isles in 1922, we went out and cut it loose, so fuck off with your owls"
by Robert_HS March 22, 2006
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british empire

1. One of the largest empires in history, and where the sun never sets

2. A genocidal, arrogant, racist, society of assholes, and looters that plundered and looted nations

3. The reason South Asia is made fun of

4. Reasons for most of the problems in the world

5. Some thing british people are overly proud of, and will not accept that it was brutal and racist towards its colonies
Britisher: Our empire was the largest and the best empire in the world.

Person under the rule: * Whipser*But it was really racist toward us
Another Person under the rule: IKR all they did was loot us, and never do anything good to us

Every British person in a 10 mile radius: How dare you insult our glorious british empire, bitch.
by The Indian Shrek June 17, 2020
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high class british porn

...they even have some of that high class british porn!

"almost...almost...almost...there we are"

"well done"
by hauntedfox May 5, 2009
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British Airways 767

A type of aircraft that always fails, is late, or gets cancelled generally because of technical issues
I see my aircraft has had another British Airways 767 issue.
by yololiverb1 May 29, 2018
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British

The people of Britain or UK that are awesome people, even to the Americans say that are horrible and make fun of their accents, British people are more famous than just stupid Americans because the Americans are dumb enough to make British people famous anyways because of their accent or where they came from plus Britain is a good place for touring like going to Big Ben, London eye, 10 Downing Street, Buckingham Palace, Castle of Edinburgh There are many more on ONE little island as for America they have two big continents that they barley can make famous touring places… people like Britains won’t accept that on a huge island as for France they are the most visited country in the whole wide world.
Fuck the Americans, Britain is better as for they have great British accents than having an American accent.
by @Gmail God March 23, 2022
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British Fuck

Your British ex-boyfriend. The guy who's accent used to be so sexy and mysterious. Now, he's just that annoying guy with the lame accent.
Friend: "How's your boyfriend?"
You: "We don't talk about that British Fuck anymore!"
by RmMcC March 8, 2009
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Britisher

A word describing a Briton, used by Indians (in India) to describe their former British imperial masters. Usually not very perjoritive in India, although more so in 19th. cent. U.S.A. May conjure up the image of the starchy "burra-sahib" of the British Empire.
The Britishers built the railways in India, and unified the country.
by J.G. Middleton August 23, 2007
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