Origin of this expression:
It’s likely that “tickety-boo” comes from the Hindi ṭhīk hai babu, which means ‘it’s all right, sir’.
Everything is tickety-boo – Danny Kaye (from the movie Marry Andrew, 1958):
Category: slang
Whatever – English slang
Example sentences from the web:
- Boy: I am exhausted today. Looking forward to going home and doing nothing, hopefully, you’re up for the same?
Girl: Yeah, whatever. - Whatever. It’s like you want to get your heart broken again.
- Whatever… just another reason we made the right decision.
An interesting discussion on this topic: When did “Whatever.” begin to be used as a sentence?
Notice that ‘whatever’ has other meanings. It can be used as an adverb, a conjunction, a determiner, or a pronoun.
As a pronoun it introduces a relative clause and its meaning is: ‘everything‘; ‘anything that‘. For example: Do whatever he asks you to. As an adjective, it means ‘of any kind‘; ‘in any amount‘; ‘no matter what‘. For example, I saw no point whatever in continuing. Furthermore, we use it in questions as a synonym of ‘what’, but with more emphasis. For example: Whatever do you mean? = What do you mean? ‘Whatever’ is also used as a conjunction. In this case, it connects two clauses: I won’t go there, whatever he says.
“Knackered” – British slang
Example sentences from the web:
- The rider forgot to eat before the last climb of the day and he was completely knackered half way up
- I helped my parents with house chores today. I’m too knackered to join you for dinner, I’m sorry.
- She has finished the book. Then she fell asleep immediately, she was so knackered!
“Butty; buttie” – British slang
Example sentences from the web:
- Get yourself a piece of bread, I’ll make you a chip butty.
- Give us an egg butty and don’t break the yolk.
- “What’ve you got for your dinner?”
“Cheese butties.”
Notice that you could also hear the term ‘sarnie’ (British slang) referring to a sandwich.
Example sentence from the web:
- Do us a favour, pop to the shops and get us a sarnie.
“To fancy” – English slang
Example sentences from the web:
- The thing is, you marry a woman you fancy.
- Did you fancy anyone?
- No, I do not fancy Miss Pattman and I will not have her disrespected in this way.
Notice that in British English “to fancy” means also “to like something”:
If you both fancy the dress, you’ll just have to share and wear it one after the other.
“To scarf” – English slang
Example sentences from the web:
- I scarfed down the burger.
- Dude, I totally scarfed that burrito!
- I can easily scarf an entire banana split.
“A hoodie” – English slang
A “hoodie” is also any person that lives or came from the hood (the ghetto).
Example sentences from the web:
- There was a hoodie watching us.
- I just keep seeing that faceless person in the black hoodie.
- Yall seen dem hoodies shooting dice in da cut back there?? F*ck, I think we back in da ghetto yall…
- Don’t go near that hoodie, he’ll blow your kneecaps off.
“To chill out” – English slang
Example sentences from the web:
- Mummy will be back in just a minute, so just chill out.
- I chill out after a long, hard day’s work.
- Sunday, before bed, light a few candles with the scent to chill out for the week ahead.
“Bloke” – British slang
Other examples from the web:
- You blame that bloke for your situation.
- You look like the bloke from Stranger Danger posters.
- Who’s that bloke with the funny sunglasses sitting on the plush lounge next to Susan?
- He’s a funny bloke.
- I was told you had more imagination than other blokes in the big firms.
Terms you may not know:
– TO BLAME = to hold responsible; to find fault with.
– PLUSH = expensive and luxurious.
– LOUNGE = waiting room; casual bar (hotel).
– FIRM = a partnership or association for carrying on a business.
“Chuffed” – British slang
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