Calling all Brits --- 'English to English Dictionary' Help !

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From the Dictionary of English Slang and Colloquialisms:

blag - Verb. To lie, or use clever talk with profit as an objective, to wheedle or persuade for gain. E.g."I blagged a lift to work with my sister but had to get the bus home."
Noun. 1. A con, a 'scam'.
2. A violent robbery or raid.

blag artist - Noun. A person with a reputation for using clever talk for self gain.

blagger - Noun. 1. A robber, especially of banks, and often with the use of a weapon or violence.
2. See 'blag artist'.

butty - Noun. 1. A sandwich. The term originates in the North of England but has gained national use. Also spelt buttie. {Informal}
2. Term of address for a friend. [Welsh use]

div - Noun. An idiot, a pitiable person, a contemptible person. Cf. 'divvy'.

plod - (This one had a different provenance for slang) Noun. A policeman/woman. From a character in Noddy, a series of children's books written by Enid Blyton in the 1950s. (Sure enough, I look up Noddy and found the 2nd character listed as Mr Plod aka PC Plod, the policeman or Toyland)

plonk - (I agree with the previous posted definition of this one - a policewoman basically, but here was another definition of this slang) Noun. Cheap or inferior wine. {Informal}

poof/puftah - Poof was given as: Noun. 1. A male homosexual. Also 'puff'. Derog.
2. A feeble, despicable person. Derog.
Puftah/pooftah was given as: Noun. 1. A homosexual, usually male. Derog.
2. A soft, feeble person. Derog.
* Also spelt pooftah and generally heard pronounced as poofdah.

sod - Noun. 1. A contemptible or objectionable person.
2. A pitiable person. E.g."He's just had his car stolen and his wife has just run off with the milkman, the poor sod." This use is also be found with the expressions 'poor bastard' and 'poor bugger'.
3. A thing or action that is difficult or problematic. E.g. "We had a sod of a journey, getting stuck in a traffic jam at Birmingham for over 3 hours."
* Abb. of the word sodomite.

wanker - Noun. 1. A masturbator.
2. A contemptible person.
3. An idiot, an incompetent person.

These definitions of slang came from http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/index.htm, an incredibly fun read. Enjoy!

Poofter is one of my favorite words I picked up from Australian and British movies, I've incorporated it into my lexicon. I had assumed it was an old word for the types of guys drawn to being powder poofters and hair dressers back in the 18th century. But I heard it is of more recent origin and refers to the fact that their rear ends aren't tight from what they do and when they pass gas they are unable to let out a loud one like a truck driver and instead it just "poofs" out quietly.

okay so what is the deal with gov, guv, governor, guvnah?

butty --- what they call a sandwich Lancashire

plod --- policeman on the beat (foot patrol)

plonk --- uniformed policewoman (Never heard that one) cheap wine usually in jugs

poof / poofta - derogatory term for openly gay.

sod -- can be either affectionate or derogatory, as in "silly sod", "poor sod" "stupid sod"

wanker --- derogatory - pretty much the same as punk

Right let's get to grips with this and as a wordsmith (journalist) I will attempt it.

blag --- blackguard ?? / blackheart ?? (as in "villain" ??) Could mean to Blag your way into a scenario "big up" make yourself better than you are etc


butty --- sandwich ? (as in "jam butty") That's a yes to this.

div --- idiot / moron
(defined elsewhere in these postings) Might mean divi up I.E and the end of a card game you have to pay up!

plod --- uniformed constable ?
(since they are on foot patrol -- "plodding" along) Basic copper or woodentop. Sorry to all Police out there.

plonk --- uniformed policewoman ?
(someone to seat -- "plonk" -- onto one's lap ?) Wine....

poof / puftah --- derogatory term --- implies that someone is unmanly or gay. Yes a gay person.

sod --- useless person ? -- derivation ?? Oh sod like you have just made a mistake or dropped your favourite mug and smashed it. Just an expression that deals with this crisis.

wanker --- literally, one who constantly "plays with oneself,"
so in effect, a useless person. Yeah a 'tosspot' a person you think is wasted space a fool.

‘Plod’ is generic nickname for lower-ranking uniformed policemen possibly derived from the character Mr Plod the policeman, a character in Enid Blyton’s ‘Noddy’ stories for children. His name may well (as you suggest) be derived from the once-common practice of police constables walking — or plodding along — their beat (the local area for which they had responsibility when on duty).

However ‘poof’ or ‘poofter’ might be spelled, in the north of England (eg the Manchester of Life On Mars) they are/were commonly pronounced with a shorter vowel sound (like ‘woof’ rather than ‘roof’, as another contributor has already pointed out). Yes, it is a somewhat derogatory term applied to either effeminate or homosexual men. For all I know, southern Brits may well use the longer vowel sound (as suggested by the London rhyming slang ‘iron’ [abbreviated from ‘iron hoof’] = ‘poof’). Hunt refers to Tyler as ‘Dorothy’ throughout the series. Being a female name this obviously implies a less than ‘manly’ character. The term ‘a friend of Dorothy’ was once another euphemism for a ‘gay’ man in the less-than-politically-correct mid-twentieth century.

‘Sod’ is a term of (usually mild) reproof or — sometimes — sympathy or affection, as in “you stupid sod” or “you poor sod”. It might possibly be a shortened form of the word ‘sodomite’ (cf ‘bugger,’ also equally curiously and similarly used in reproving or sympathetic circumstances). Despite the dictionary definitions of these words, they are generally not considered to be anywhere nearly as offensive as the F word when used in this colloquial fashion.

A ‘wanker’ is, indeed, one who ‘plays with himself.’ ‘Tosspot’ has come to have the same meaning in modern colloquial speech (presumably because it contains ‘toss’, a slang term meaning the same as ‘wank’ [as a verb] and the physical product of that verb [as a noun]). Although ‘tosser’ is therefore obviously synonymous with ‘wanker,’ ‘tosspot’ was in fact originally (about 16th century) a slang term for a drunkard. Hunt undoubtedly uses the term in the more obscene, modern sense.

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