A nickname given to the English national football team after reaching the Euro2021 final following a blatant dive by Raheem Sterling. Similar to terms like Pessi and Penaldo, the nickname is used in a derogatory manner.
Pengland fans complain for 30 years about Maradona’s hand of god but then say that Sterling was clever.
A partial outdoor canopy under which one drinks beer in the summertime. Should a person pass out under one, that person will receive a weird stripey sunburn.
Sweet pergola on your deck there, Gigi. Now where's the grill?
Pengland is commonly known as England. When 4 elements of stupidity- Diving, Ghosting, Crying & Corruption combined a new nation Pengland was formed. Chokes badly in football, cricket everywhere. Pays refs & umpires for winning matches everywhere.
Sterling is the bestplayer of Pengland because he holds the record for diving in football matches.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murdererused a serrated blade.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).