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El Inglés Prohibido

www.FreeLibros.org EL INGLES PROHIBIDO GLENN DARRAGH

E D I T O R I A L S T A N L E Y www.FreeLibros.org EL INGLES PROHIBIDO

WRITTEN BY GLENN DARRAGH

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Examples of usage were drawn from newspapers and magazines as indicated in the text of the book, as well as from the following printed sources: Albee, Edward: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Amis, Kingsley:The Green Man, The Old Devils', Amis, Martin: Money, London Fields; Barnes, Julian: Talking it Over; Beckett, Samuel: Molloy; Bender, Aimee: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt; Bennet, William: The Falkland Line; Beretta, Alan: What's Your Game?; Bergreen, Laurence: Louis Armstrong, An Extravagant Life; Bruce, Lenny: The Essential Lenny Bruce; Bukowski, Charles: Post Office, Factotum, Women, Love is a Dog from Hell; Carlin, Tony: One More Hand; Carrol, James: An American Requiem; Century, Douglas: Street Kingdom; Chandler, Raymond: Farewell, My Lovely; Chanteau, Diane: The Longest Sausage In The World; Chapman, Robert L.: American Slang; Cleese, John: Fawlty Towers; Coe, Jonathan: The House of Sleep; Coen, Ethan: Gates of Eden; Cole, Lew: 12465 Kimberland Ave.; Cook, Peter: Beyond the Fringe; Cornfield, Robert: The Tree Still Grows in Brooklyn; Corsitto, Christopher: Next Door To Erica; Doughty, W.C.: Charabia Deserta; Edin, Kathryn: Making Ends Meet; Ellroy, James: L.A.Confidential; Fielding, Helen: Bridget Jones's Diary; Garrigan, Bert: Where Sympathy is Found; Gordon, Neil: The Gun Runner's Daughter; Greene, Graham: The End of the Affair; Hall, Willis: The Long and the Short and the Tall; Herlihy, James Leo: Midnight Cowboy; Herron, Shaun: The Whore-Mother; Irving, John: The World According to Garp; Jong, Erica: Any Woman's Blues; Jonson, Gregory: Mountain Male; Keaton, Norman: Falling Off A Ladder; Laffan, James: Up and Down the Lisburn Road; Larkin, Philip: Collected Poems, Selected Letters; Lawrence, D.H.: Lady Chatterley's Lover; Logan, Roy: Working it Out With a Pencil; Lukowiak, Ken: A Soldier's Song; Mairs, David: Top Drawers; Mamet, David: American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Duck Variations, Glengarry Glen Ross; Marcus, Tom: River Deep; McCabe, Frank: McCabe at the Movies; McCourt, Malachy: A Monk Swimming; McGrath, John: Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun; McPhee, Nancy: The Book of Insults; Miller, Henry: Tropic of Cancer; Newman, G.F.: Law & Order; Nichols, Peter: ; Obst, David: Too Good To Be Forgotten; Ogilby, John: Twat and Twaddle; Oldfield, Gabriella T.: Tom and Verna; Orton, Joe (ed. Lahr, John): The Orton Diaries; Osworth, Barry: Upside Down; Palahniuk, Chuck: Fight Club; Paretsky, Sarah: Ghost Country; Price, Richard: Three Screenplays, dockers; Rabe, Da- vid: Streamers; Rosen, Charley: Barney Polan's Game; Roth, Philip: Portnoy's Complaint; Schrader, Paul: Taxi Driver; Sounes, Howard: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life; Stone, Robert: Dog Soldiers; Styron, William: Sophie's Choice; Takari, Ronald: A Larger Memory; Tarantino, Quentin: Reservoir Dogs; Thomas, Philip: Rathmines Rag; Vonnegut Jr., Kurt: Mother Night, Slaughterhouse 5, Breakfast of Champions; Wain, John: Life at the Top; Wambaugh, Joseph: The Choirboys, The Glitter Dome, Echoes in the Darkness; Waugh, Evelyn: Officers and Gentlemen; Whitehead, E. A.: Old Flames, Mecca, The Foursome, Alpha Beta, The Sea Anchor; Wilson, August: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; Wilson, Robert McLiam: Eureka Street. Hank Hyena, Garrison Keillor, Susie Bright and Courtney Weaver are columnists for Salon. www.FreeLibros.org Illustrative sentences were also taken from the following films: American Beauty: ; Animal House: Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Harold Ramis; As Good As It Gets: James L. Brooks; Austin Powers: Mike Meyers; Barton Fink: Joel and Ethan Coen; Beautiful Girls: Scott Rosenberg; Blazing Saddles: and ; Bound: Larry and Andy Wachowski Bull Durham: ; Casino: and ; Chasing Amy: Kevin Smith; Clerks: Kevin Smith; Cruel Intentions: Roger Kumble; Deconstructing Harry: ; Desperados: Robert Rodriguez; Donnie Brasco: Screenplay by from the book by Joseph D. Pistone and Richard Woodley; Fargo: Joel and Ethan Coen; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Screenplay by Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni, Tod Davies and Alex Cox from the book by Hunter S. Thompson; Fisher King, The: Richard LaGravenese; Fried Green Tomatoes: Fannie Flagg and Carol Sobieski; Full Metal Jacket: Gustave Hasford, Michael Herr and Stanley Kubrick from the novel 'The Short Timers' by Gustav Hasford; Gattaca: Andrew M. Niccol; Get Shorty: Screenplay by Scott Frank, based on the novel by Elmore Leonard; Glengarry Glen Ross: David Mamet; Go: John August; Godfather, The: and from the novel by Mario Puzo; Good Will Hunting: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck; Goodfellas: Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese; Grand Canyon: and Meg Kasdan; Green Mile, The: Screenplay by Frank Darabont from the novel by Stephen King; Happiness: Todd Solondz; Jackie Brown: Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, based on the novel by Elmore Leonard; L.A. Confidential: Screenplay by Brian Helgeland from the novel by James Ellroy; Leaving Las Vegas: Screenplay by Mike Figgis from the novel by John O'Brien; Lost Highway: David Lynch; My Cousin Vinny: Dale Launer; Night on Earth: Jim Jarmusch; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: and Lawrence Hauben from the novel by Ken Kesey; Patton: Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North; Primal Fear: Ann Biderman and Steve Shagan from the novel by William Diehl; Pulp Fiction: Quentin Tarantino and Roger Roberts Avery; Pump Up The Volume: Allan Moyle; Ref, The: Richard LaGravenese and Marie Weiss; Reservoir Dogs: Quentin Tarantino; Scent of A Woman: Bo Goldman, from a screenplay by Ruggero Maccari and Dino Risi, from the novel by Giovanni Arpino; Shawshank Redemption, The: Screenplay by Frank Darabont from the novella by Stephen King; Smoke: Auster, Paul; Stripes: Len Blum and Daniel Goldberg; Swimming with Sharks: George Huang; Swingers: Jon Favreau; Taxi Driver: Paul Schrader; The Big Lebrowski: Joel and Ethan Coen; The Commitments: , , from the novel by Roddy Doyle; Trainspotting: Screenplay by John Hodge based on the novel by Irvine Welsh; Unforgiven: David Webb Peoples; Very Bad Things: Peter Berg; Wag The Dog: David Mamet; Wild At Heart: David Lynch, based on the book by Barry Gifford.

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1: PARTS OF THE BODY 4: SEXUAL ACTIVITY

1. A ARSE / ASS -CULO 1 4. A GROPE -MAGREAR 36 1. B ARSEHOLE, ASSHOLE -ANO 2 4. B FUCK -JODER, FOLLAR . . . 37 1. C COCK -POLLA, VERGA 3 4. C NOOKY, NOOKIE -POLVOS 39 1. D BALLS -HUEVOS, PELOTAS, COJONES 5 4. D GANGBANG -VIOLACION COLECTIVA, 1. E CUNT -CONO, CHOCHO 5 SEXO TRIBAL 40 1. F CLIT -CLITORIS 7 4. E GO DOWN ON SOMEONE -CHUPAR, MAMAR 41 1. G PUBES -VELLO PUBICO 7 4. F RUBBER -CONDON, GOMA, GLOBO 43 1. H PRIVATE PARTS -PARTES PUDENDAS 8 4. G JERK OFF -HACERSE UNA PAJA, PELARSELA . 43 1. I TITS -TETAS 8 4. H CHERRY -VIRGINIDAD 45 EXERCISE 10 4. I BUGGER -SODOMIZAR, SODOMITA 45 EXERCISE 47 2: BODY FUNCTIONS 5: SEXUAL TASTES 1. A PISS -MEAR, MEADA 12 2. B SHIT, SHITE -CAGAR, MIERDA 13 5. A HOMO -MARICA, MARICON 50 2. C FART -PEDO 14 5. B DYKE, DIKE -MARIMACHO 52 2. D THE SHITS -LA CAGALERA 15 5. C COTTAGE -LAVABO PUBLICO PARA CITAS 2. E SHIT-HOUSE, SHITE-HOUSE -RETRETE, HOMOSEXUALES 53 CAGADERO 15 5. D AMBISEXTROUS -BISEXUAL 53 2. F BUMF -PAPEL HIGIENICO 16 5. E DRAG QUEEN -TRAVESTI 54 2. G PUKE -VOMITAR, VOMITONA 17 5. F KINKY -PERVERTIDO 55 2. H GOB -ESCUPIR, ESCUPITAJO 18 5. G PRO -PUTA 56 2. I SNOT -MOCOS 18 5. H TRICK -PUTERO, PUTANERO 57 2. J COME, CUM -LECHE, SEMEN 19 5. I WHOREHOUSE -BURDEL, CASA DE PUTAS . . 57 2. K THE RAG -LA REGLA, EL PERIODO, 5. J PIMP -CHULO 58 COMPRESA 20 EXERCISE 21 6: UNPLEASANT PEOPLE, 3: SEXUAL DESIRE THINGS, PLACES, ETC. 6. A BASTARD -CABR6N, HIJO PUTA 61 3. A THE HOTS -DESEO 24 6. B ARSELICKER -LAMECULOS 64 3. B HORNY -CALIENTE, CACHONDO 24 6. C BITCH -ZORRA, LAGARTA 65 3. C CHAT UP -LIGAR, ENRROLLARSE CON 25 6. D BUMMER -CONAZO, LATAZO 66 6. E CLAP -GONORREA 67 3. D FOOL AROUND -TENER ENREDOS 26 6. F CRUD -PORQUERIA 68 3. E STUD -SEMENTAL 28 6. G CRUDDY -ASQUEROSO 69 3. F HARD-ON -ERECCI6N 28 6. H ARSEHOLE OF THE EARTH, ETC 3. G BABE -BOMBON, NINFA 29 -EL CULO DEL MUNDO 70 3. H A PIECE OF ASS -UN POLVO 30 6. I IT SUCKS -ES UNA MIERDA 71 3. I COCKTEASER -CALIENTAPOLLAS 32 EXERCISE 6.1 72 3. J WET DREAM -SUENO HUMEDO 32 EXERCISE 34 www.FreeLibros.org 7: INCOMPETENCE, INFERIOR 10: IDIOMATIC USAGES QUALITY 10. A EXPRESSIONS WITH "FUCK" 105 10. B EXPRESSIONS WITH "SHIT" 107 7. A FUCK UP -CAGAR, CAGADA, CAPULLO .... 74 10. c EXPRESSIONS WITH "ASS", "ARSE" .... 109 7. B FUCK ABOUT (AROUND) -PERDER EL 10. D EXPRESSIONS WITH "BALLS" "BALLOCKS" 110 T1EMPO, JODER 74 10. E EXPRESSIONS WITH "HELL" 1ll 7. C SNAFU -METEDURA DE PATA, CAGADA .... 76 10. F EXPRESSIONS WITH "BITCH" 1ll 7. D HALF-ARSED, HALF-ASSED -MUY POCO 10. G EXPRESSIONS WITH "BUGGER" 112 BRILLANTE 77 10. H EXPRESSIONS WITH "PISS" 112 7. E SHITTY -DE MIERDA 77 10. I EXPRESSIONS WITH "TITS" 113 7. F BULLSHIT -SANDECES, GILIPOLLECES .... 78 10. J EXPRESSIONS WITH "FINGER" 113 EXERCISE 81 10. K EXPRESSIONS WITH "FART" 113 10. L EXPRESSIONS WITH "PUSSY" 114 8: EMPHASIS 10. M EXPRESSIONS WITH "UP" 114 8. A FUCK - A LA MIERDA! 83 10. N EXPRESSIONS WITH "GET" 114 8. B FUCKING -DE MIERDA, PVNETERO 84 EXERCISE 115 8. C FUCKING WELL - CONO!CARAJO! 85 8. D A HELL OF A -SENSACIONAL, DE PADRE KEY To ExERCISES 117 Y SENOR MIO 86 INDEXOFTERMS 125 8. E AS HELL -SUMAMENTE 86 8. F FOR FUCK'S SAKE - PUTA MADRE! CARAJO! 87 8. G THE FUCK -CONO, CARAJO 88 8. H THE SHIT OUT OF... -SEVERAMENTE 88 EXERCISE 90 9: RACIAL INSULTS 9. A - EL HOMBREBLANCO! 92 9. B BRIT -BRITANICO 92 9. C MICK -IRLANDES 93 9. D YANK, -YANQUI, GIRI 94 9. E FROG -FRANCHUTE, 94 9. F -ALEMAN 95 9. G -JUDIO 96 9. H - 97 9. I RUSSKIE -RUSO 97 9. J RAGHEAD -ARABE 97 9. K -ITAL1ANO 98 9. L DAGO -ESPANOL, SUDACA 99 9. M -ASlATICO, CHINO, AMARILO 99 9. N - 100 9. O AUSSIE -AUSTRALIANO 102 EXERCISE 103 www.FreeLibros.org INTRODUCTION

The aim of this book is to teach what is still commonly known as 'bad language'. Depending on the degree to which it is tolerated, it is also described as strong, foul, picturesque, earthy, rough, salty, colourful, naughty, profane, adult, taboo, vulgar, dirty, filthy, low, obscene, and much else besides. Whatever the adjective, the language in question consists of a relatively small group of words and expressions that are never taught in school, not even in language schools to adult students of English. In that sense, it constitutes a kind of forbidden language or counter-language within the main body of English. Why this language is not taught in the usual way is simple to explain: it embarrasses, upsets, insults or otherwise offends a great many people. Of course, every native speaker of English who is more than five years old knows the main swearwords of the language. But most people, most of the time, still prefer not to use them. For this reason alone, second-language learners of English are probably well advised not to use them either, or at least not until they have become sensitive to the effects they are likely to produce.

If that is so, why study a book like this at all? In a word: to understand. In the past thirty years, language and cultural values have changed considerably. It is little short of astonishing, given the liberality of language in present-day films, that the first recorded use of the word 'fuck' in a major commercial movie occurred only in 1970, in Robert Altman's M*A*S*H. Since then, especially in the last decade, Hollywood has discovered that bad language is good box office. On television, too, in Britain and also in the United States outside the expletive-free national networks, swearing is now commonplace and uncontroversial. The same is true of the printed word. Not only in books but in national newspapers and magazines, words now frequently appear which only a generation or two ago would have earned their authors a mouthful of soap. Everywhere, the electronic bleeps and the blanks and asterisks which formerly protected the innocent have been put on the shelf. Some speculate that within ten or fifteen years, the dreaded f-word itself will be wholly acceptable, even for children. www.FreeLibros.org It would not be the first time some illicit term were to gain respectability. The expression 'it sucks', used to refer to things of inferior quality, originally had direct connotations of oral sex. The noun 'snafu', meaning a bungled or confused situation, began as military slang, an acronym for 'situation normal, all fucked up'. The word 'gay', now the usual term for a homosexual, was originally American tramps' slang for the homo- sexual companion of an older vagrant. Many such words have migrated, at least partly, towards standard English in recent years. As films, television, books, magazines and the Internet propagate the once-censored vocabulary, the trend is likely to continue. In the meantime, however, students of English as a foreign language now more than ever need some kind of guide to this blossoming branch of the language.

The present book, designed for students who have already attained a good level of general English, may be used as both a reference guide and an instruction manual. Each chapter deals with a particular aspect of taboo language. Chapter 1, for example, lists basic slang words, all considered vulgar, for intimate parts of the body: arse, arsehole, cock, balls, cunt, clit, tits, etc. A separate section within each chapter is devoted to each of these basic terms, with numerous examples of usage drawn from a wide range of contemporary sources, principally films and novels, but also plays, diaries, letters, newspapers, magazines, and so on. Each section also lists synonyms for these basic words or other terms related to them, again with numerous examples. Thus, in Chapter 1, section l.c deals with 'cock', giving seventeen common synonyms. When words or expressions are used mainly or exclusively in a particular part of the English-speaking world, then this is indicated in brackets, as follows:

dong (US) • I was wholly incapable of keeping my paws from my dong once it started to climb up my belly. (Philip Roth)

When there is no such annotation, the word is used or understood by English-speakers everywhere. Where examples are drawn from printed sources, the name of the author or journal is shown in brackets after the quotation. If, as is frequently the case, the source is a film, then the title of the film is shown italicised and in brackets after the quotation, thus:

dick • I would suck your dad's big fat dick, and then I would fuck him till his eyes rolled back in his head! (American Beauty)

An answer key to the exercises is provided at the end of the book, along with an index to all the words and expressions listed and exemplified in the text. www.FreeLibros.org Finally, it is worth repeating the warning given above. Most of the words and phrases presented in this book are offensive to someone. A small number of inoffensive and euphemistic terms have crept into the text when their presence seemed justified by considerations of completeness, and such terms are signalled when they occur. But the vast majority are offensive (particularly the racist terms dealt with in Chapter 9). If, as the examples prove, you can scarcely hope to understand much of modern culture without a basic knowledge of 'bad language', you still ought not to use it in front of children, mothers, maiden aunts, clergymen, policemen, judges, or other sensitive souls. Not even when they are using it in front of you.

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www.FreeLibros.org 1. PARTS OF THE BODY 1. a arse / ass -culo An Old English word, arse is mainly British while ass is mainly American. Similarly with derivative words: arsehole, arselicker, etc. are British, while asshole, ass-kisser, etc. are American. Exceptions do occur, however. For example, at the start of the Gulf War in 1991, no less an American than George Bush, then President, declared: 'Saddam is going to get his arse kicked'.

• What she reminds me of is those girls you • Me recuerda a una de esas chicas que se ven see prancing up and down the King's Road in por King's Road en vaqueros desgastados me- faded jeans with tight little arses and bobbing neando sus culitos prietos y tetas balan- tits. (E.A. Whitehead) ceantes. • The slut got up and started to play pinball, • La putilla se levanto y se puso a jugar al wiggling her ass to help the balls move around. pinball, meneando el culo para acompanar (Charles Bukowski) elmovimiento de las bolas. » He suffered —did he suffer!— from constipa- • Sufria — Vaya si sufria! — de estreftimien- tion... my father reading the evening paper with to... mi padre leyendo el periodico vespertino a suppository up his ass. (Philip Roth) con un supositorio en el culo. • The truth is that I've had a long-standing • La verdad es que he tenido un problema des- problem with heroin addiction. I've been de hace mucho con la heroina. He tenido known to sniff it, smoke it, swallow it, stick it ocasion de esnifarla, tragarla, metermela por up my arse and inject it into my veins. el culo e inyectaimela por las venas. (Trainspotting') • Her ass was still shapely as were her legs • Su culo todavia mantenia una buena Imea, and she had a seductive wiggle when she igual que sus piernas, y cuando andaba tenia walked. (Charles Bukowski) un contoneo de lo mas seductor.

SYNONYMS: It was just a friendly little pat me bum. (John McGrath) on the behind. (David Mairs) buns (US) From the hemi- backside • They sat around on • These rich cunts... whenever spherical shape of the buttocks. their backsides day after day, they want to lower their soft • OK, guys, hustle your buns — drinking tea and doing nothing, behinds, there's always a chair we've got a lot of work to do. except complaining, of course. standing ready for them. (Christopher Corsitto) • I was (Norman Keaton) • I've got (Henry Miller) given a cat-o'-nine-tails and frost-bite. The ten fingers of my bottom Euphemistic. • — You asked if I wanted to participate. hands, the ten toes of my feet, know, you've got a lovely bottom. A man's buttocks were bared be- and the two cheeks of my back- — Oh, you've noticed? — Only fore me — a young man, young side. If I stay out there one it takes up half the mattress. (E.A. and handsome, with firm buns minute longer, I'll have a frost- Whitehead) — and I began to flog him. bitten cock. (John McGrath) bum (UK) • .—'Where shall I (Erica Jong) beam Especially used to refer sit'? — 'Sit on your bum, mate. butt (US) From buttocks. • She to the width of the hips and but- That's what I would do'. (Tom slipped on the ice and fell hard tocks. • She's a nice-looking Marcus) • Have no fear, I am not on her butt. (Daniel Ogg) • Can woman. A bit broad across the dead: I've bumped my bum and any of us honestly say we have beam, it's true, but a nice looker I've hurt my head. How's that? not wondered what our ancestors just the same. (James Laffan) (John McGrath) • Give me time. wiped their butts with in the ab- behind Euphemistic. • What do Give me time. You bastards sence of toilet paper? (Salon) you mean 'sexual harassment'? won't give me time to scratch • Can your marriage survive www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 1 when you can't stand the sight fanny (US) Relatively inoffen- khyber, Khyber Pass (UK) of his ever-widening butt laying sive in the US, but taboo in the Rhyming slang of pass and ass on the couch? (Salon) • Women UK, where it has a different or arse. • He needs a good kick are cursed with big butt phobia. meaning. See l.e below. • I hate up the khyber is what he needs. (Salon) using an outside john. In sum- (Alan Beretta) can (US) • It was a bad case of mer the flies are swarming all rear Euphemistic. • And if the haemorrhoids. He could hardly over you, in winter you freeze kiddies misbehave, don't be sit down, his can was hurting your fanny off. (Gregory Jonson) afraid to give them a slap on the him so much. (James Laffan) • Was it nature or nurture that rear. (Daily Mirror) • Monica Lewinsky seduced the sent me, from an early age, tail (US) Often used in figura- most powerful man in the world into fits at the sight of the tive phrases like work one's tail with a flash of her thong-clad word 'toilet', or had me roll- off, run one's tail off. • Don't can. Why is this unmentionable ing on the floor at the thought you understand? If you don't do garment ? (Salon) that a girl could be named it, they're going to toss you out cheeks Used especially to refer 'Fanny'? Half of my relatives on your tail. (Lew Cole) • This to the two halves of the buttocks. do not think bathroom humor is the first time you've had your • She started cleaning at the sink. is funny. (Salon) tail out of that kitchen since we As she bent over ... I saw two keister (US) • So much confi- got here. (William Faulkner) • I cheeks. Two cheeks. Mama mia! dential information was being walked out, the old car started An ass from out of this world. leaked to the press that President and soon I was back in bed with With tiny white panties, riding Ronald Reagan finally lost pa- Betty. I pushed up against her up a little so you could see one tience. 'I've had it up to my warm tail and was asleep in 45 whole cheek. The other was keister with these leaks,' he de- seconds. (Charles Bukowski) partly covered. (Night on Earth) clared. (Newsweek) 1. b arsehole, asshole -ano

• What's wrong with assholes, baby? You've • Que tienen de malo los anos, nena? Tu tie- got an asshole, I've got an asshole... The world nes un ano, yo tengo un ano!... El mundo esta is full of billions of assholes, the President repleto de millones de anos. El presidente tie- has an asshole, the carwash boy has an ne un ano, el lavacoches tiene un ano, el juez asshole, the judge and the murderer have y el asesino tienen anos. assholes. (Charles Bukowski) • There were thousands upon thousands of • Habia miles y miles de personas que com- people who bought bad chemicals and ate praban sustancias quimicas nocivas y se las them or sniffed them or injected them into their comian o las esnifaban o se las inyectaban en veins... Sometimes they even stuffed bad las venas... A veces, incluso se metian las chemicals up their assholes. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) sustancias quimicas nocivas por el agujero del culo. * Around the toilet seat was a band of paper... • Alrededor del retrete habia una banda de pa- This loop of paper guaranteed Dwayne that pel... Aquella banda de papel le garantizaba a he need have no fear that corkscrew-shaped Dwayne que no tenia por que temer que ningiun little animals would crawl up his asshole and bichito con forma de sacacorchos fuera a eat up his wiring. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) metersele por el culo y a comerle sus cables. * I wouldn't go near that pool if you paid me • Yo no me acercaria a esa piscina ni aunque — it is a breeding ground for polio and spinal me pagaran; es un caldo de cultivo de la polio meningitis, not to mention diseases of the skin, y la meningitis espinal, por no hablar de las the scalp, and the asshole. (Philip Roth) enfermedades de la piel, el cuero cabelludo y el ano. www.FreeLibros.org2 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY SYNONYMS: Bend over and show me that round brown. I gotta see if round brown • Turn around and you're hiding a machine gun in bend over and spread your cheeks, there. (Joseph Wambaugh) •••

1. c cock -polla, verga

* My husband had this big cock and that's all • Mi marido tenia una polla enorme, pero era he had. He had no personality. Just a big cock, lo unico que tenia. No tenia personalidad. Solo and he thought that was all he needed. (Char- una enorme polla y pensaba que era lo unico les Bukowski) que habia que tener. * She had my cock in her hand, playing with • Tenia mi polla en su mano, jugando con ella, it, rubbing it. (Henry Miller) frotandola. * She came out with her drink, sat on my lap, • Salio con su copa y se sento en mi regazo, kissed me, putting her tongue into my mouth. me beso, metiendome la lengua en la boca. My cock leaped up against her firm bottom. Mi polla se puso como una roca al contacto I grabbed a handful. Squeezed. (Charles de su firme trasero. Se lo agarre". Aprete". Bukowski)

SYNONYMS:

All the following terms are taboo. In context, however, some may seem more comical than others. Some — e.g. peter, Johnson and willy — would be more likely to be used by, and with, children.

chopper • Men who drive cars Dogs) • I do not take short men tool. Or a peter. — I've heard like that subconsciously believe seriously. If they're my height, Nathan call it his dork. Also, his they've found an extension of maybe. But I look at a short man putz. (William Styron) their chopper — sleek, power- and I think Big Ego, Small Dick. dork (US) Perhaps a variant ful, irresistible. (Gabriella T. Is that so terrible? (Courtney of dirk, a dagger. • He had the Oldfield) Weaver) • I would suck your great bulging muscles of a • I know what it's like when dad's big fat dick, and then I body-builder but this strangely you're young. The pressure to be would fuck him till his eyes contradictory modest little a big strong man. I went through rolled back in his head! (Ameri- dork. (Gabriella T. Oldfield) all that. My father thought the can Beauty) .• What strength she has stored ultimate in masculinity was to dipstick From the dipstick of a in that slender frame — the stick your chopper into anything car. • He accepted her invitation glorious acrobatics she can that wore a skirt. (Peter Nichols) with high, alas soon-to-be-dis- perform while dangling from dick • Hey, listen, I want some- appointed, hopes of soon getting the end of my dork! (Philip body good — and I mean very his dipstick wet. (Alan Beretta) Roth) good — to plant that gun. I don't dong (US) • I was wholly inca- John Thomas Arbitrary use of want my brother coming out of pable of keeping my paws from a male name. • 'John Thomas! that toilet with just his dick in my dong once it started to climb John Thomas!' she said and she his hands. (The Godfather) up my belly. (Philip Roth) quickly kissed the soft penis, • 'Like a Virgin' is all about a • — What do you call it in the that was beginning to stir again. girl who digs a guy with a big South? — Sometimes we call it (D.H. Lawrence) • If you get any dick. The whole song is a meta- a pecker. In parts of the upper trouble with them, funny busi- phor for big dicks. (Reservoir South they call it a dong or a ness in the ablutions, admiring www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 3 your John Thomas, any of that, upward, and you put honey all • Schlong: the word somehow have a word with me. (Peter over his balls and pecker, and catches exactly the brutishness, Nichols) • Poor old John Thomas you cut off his eyelids so he the meatishness, that I admire is as limp and as moribund as a has to stare at the sun till he so, the sheer mindless, weighty, flayed worm. (William Styron) dies. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) and unselfconscious dangle of Johnson Arbitrary use of the peter From the male forename that living piece of hose through surname Johnson. • Tomorrow and the association with pee, which he passes streams of wa- vee come back and cut off your urine. • This guy goes to the ter as thick and strong as rope. chonson... Ja, your viggly penis, doctor. He says, 'Doc, I've got (Philip Roth) • 'I see you're Lebowski. (The Big Lebowski) this terrible pain in my peter'. checking out my shlong,' • Vagina. The word itself (Tom Marcus) • Do you suck Wayne says. 'Yep.' 'And...?' makes some men uncomfort- dicks? Are you a peter-puffer? 'Frankly, I'm underwhelmed.' able. They don't like hearing (Full Metal Jacket) • No lip- (Erica Jong) it and find it difficult to say. stick on the glass? Baby, do tool • He allowed me to have the Whereas without batting an you think you have any lipstick prick between the buttocks, eye a man will refer to his left on your mouth after three which, as I fucked, he agitated 'dick' or his 'rod' or his or four of those flossy fatcats in a most alarming way. At this 'Johnson'. (The Big Lebowski) from Brentwood with those point I put my hand under him joint (US) • One of those limp little peters make you and took his medium-to-large motherfuckers grabbed me suck your eyes crossed? tool in my hand. (Joe Orton) when I was Bobby's age. At the (Joseph Wambaugh) wang (US) He was lying on movies... we're all wondering prick • You need something his back. His ankles were what this old guy is doing at to make that beautiful ass of crossed. His hands were folded the cartoons, and he sits down yours gyrate with joy, a big behind his head. His great at the end of the row, and half- stiff prick rammed into that wang lay across his thigh like way through he reaches over cunt you've got locked up... a salami. It slumbered now. and grabs my joint. Reaches (William Styron) • The ad in (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) over another guy and grabs me Rolling Stone is certainly eye- whang, whanger (US) • His by the joint. (David Mamet) catching — the words 'Why right eye was closed, the left • Hey, Joe. You been kissing Women Love a Small Prick', eye nearly so. He was unaware Anastasia, you better go swal- appearing opposite a bedroom- of her fondling his flaccid low a drugstore and I ain't kid- eyed model in lingerie. But whanger. (Joseph Wambaugh) ding. She's copped every joint read the fine print — it's a • — Absence makes the cock in Albuquerque. (James Leo pitch for a home HIV test, and grow harder. — Stop it with Herlihy) the prick in question is the your fortune cookie philosophy! pecker (US) • When he was kind made on a finger to get I got a limber whang. I don't get asleep, I couldn't restrain my- the blood sample. (Salon) straight I might as well become self any longer. I carefully putz (US) Yiddish, from Mid- a priest! (Joseph Wambaugh) peeled back the sheet to peek dle High German putz, orna- • 'Oh, honey!' cried the whore. at his pecker. (Gabriella T. ments. Properly, the foreskin 'You got balls like an elephant Oldfield) of a penis after it has been re- and a whang like an ox!' • All she done was... when she moved, but generally applied (Joseph Wambaugh) seen he had a teensy little to the penis as a whole. • This willy (UK) Some drunkard was pecker, she gave a giggle. sex maniac! He simply cannot caterwauling in the street. 'Will That's all. She didn't know no — will not — control the fires you still love me when I'm old better. (Unforgiven) • You in his putz, the fevers in his and grey and the tip of my willy stake a guy out on an anthill brain... (Philip Roth) turns blue?' (James Laffan) in the desert, see? He's facing schlong, shlong (US) Yiddish. www.FreeLibros.org4 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY 1. d balls -huevos, pelotas, cojones

• Then I felt something jamming its way into . Entonces senti algo que me hurgaba en la My -crotch. It moved way up there, I looked entrepierna, iba subiendo hacia arriba. Me round and there was a German Shepherd, full- volvi y vi un pastor aleman, Wen crecido, grownt, with his nose half-way up my ass. With con su hocico debajo de mi culo. Con un one snap of his jaws he could rip off my balls. movimiento de mandibulas me podia arran- (Charles Bukowski) car las pelotas. . 'For an ugly old son of a bitch, you've got a * —Para ser un feo hijo de puta tienes mu- lot of balls,' She said. (Charles Bukowski) chos cojones —-dijo ella. . Tammie had her head in Bobby's lap and she * Tammie tenia su cabeza en el regazo de had her hand on his balls and then she moved Bobby y tenia la mano puesta en sus huevos, it up and grabbed his cock and held his cock, luego la subi6 y agarro su polla, sosteniendo- and alt the time her eyes looked directly at la, y en todo momento sus ojos me miraban me. (Charles Bokowski) directamente.

SYNONYMS: cobbler's awls and balls. • Give (Peter Nichols) him a swift kick in the cobblers, nuts • Lyndon Johnson was cyni- ballocks From Old English then run like hell. (Alan Beretta) cal about schemes to win the bealluc, testicle. • He's not par- goolies Apparently derived from hearts and minds of the Vietnam- ticularly sophisticated. Seems to Hindustani gol, a ball. • They'll ese. His philosophy was: Grab spend a lot of time publicly do what we want because they them by the nuts, their hearts and scratching his ballocks. (James don't have any choice. We have minds will follow. (Newsweek) Laffan) • It was in the 18th cen- them by the goolies and they know • Nigel St Claire didn't know tury that some of our rude words it. (David Bellis) bowling balls from elephant's first became so. 'Ballocks', for in- (UK) • The absurdity nuts, for chrissake! (Joseph stance, was, from the llth cen- of it all struck me like a fist in the Wambaugh) tury, simply the usual term for knackers. (Philip Larkin) • I may stones Originally in standard use, 'testicles' (the reassuringly Lati- regret him for a while tonight. His but now slang. • As my old un- nate term that is now acceptable), knackers were superb. (Graham armed combat instructor used to but somehow, by 1800, became Greene) say: a boot in the stones is worth improper. (Guardian) marbles • You touch my stuff, two in the teeth any day of the cobblers (UK) Rhyming slang of you get a boot in your marbles. week. (William Bennet)

* And what about the Irish girl? She was in * Y que me dices de la chica iriandesa? Entra- and out of her chalet every half hoar with a ba y salia de su chalet cada media hora con different bloke. She must have a cunt like un tipo diferente, Debia de tener un cono como Heathrow Airport. (E.A. Whitehead) el aeropuerto de Heathrow. * O Tania, where now is that warm cunt of • Oh, Tania! Donde estara ahora aquel cali- yours, those fat, heavy garters, those soft, do cono tuyo, aquellas gruesas y pesadas li- bulging thighs? There is a bone in my prick gas, aquellos muslos suaves y turgentes? six inches long, I will ream out every wrinkle Tengo un hueso en la picha de quince centi- in your cunt, Tania, big with seed. (Henry metros, Voy a alisarte todas las arrugas del cono. Tania inundandote de esperma. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 5 • Amazing! Astonishing! Still can't get over • Sorprendente! jAsombroso! Todavia no pue- the fantastic idea that when you are looking des admitir la fantastica idea de que, cuandd at a girl, you are looking at somebody who is estas mirando a una chica, estas mirando a al- guaranteed to have on her — a cunt! They all guien que, sin la menor duda, posee... un cono! have cunts! Right under their dresses! Cunts jTodas tienen cono! jDebajo mismo de sus — for fucking! (Philip Roth) vestidos! Conos... jpara joder! • I placed her hand on my cock and then pulled • Puse su mano en mi verga y luego le sub! el up her nightie. I began to play with her cunt. camison. Empece a jugar con su cono. Se eri- The clit came out and I touched it gently again gid el clitoris y lo acaricie con ternura, una y and again. Finally, I mounted. My cock entered otra vez. Finalmente, la monte. Mi verga en- halfway. It was very tight. (Charles Bukowski) tr6 hasta la mitad. Su cono era muy estrecho.

SYNONYMS: clear as daylight. (Alan Beretta) snatch • Sharon Stone crossed minge • How d'you fancy a her legs and flashed some snatch beaver • The expression was touch of Black Velvet? Old — about one tenth of a second's first used by news photogra- Sylvia now? She's a good sort. worth — and was instantly phers, who often got to see up Clever too. They reckon she can world-famous. (Frank McCabe) women's skirts at accidents and smoke a cheroot in her minge. • What word to use? 'Pussy' was sporting events and from under- (Peter Nichols) on the tip of my tongue. But per- neath fire escapes and so on. pootie Corruption of pussy. haps he found that offensive. They needed a code word to yell • She's quite cute, you know. Cunt? No, that was worse. to other newsmen and friendly Young supple breasts, a tight Snatch? Beaver? Hole? No, no, policemen and firemen and so firm ass, and an uncharted and no. Plain old vagina? No, he on, to let them know what could pootie. (Cruel Intentions) wasn't my gynecologist. I be seen, in case they wanted to pussy (US) Possibly from Old sighed. (Courtney Weaver) see it. The word was this: 'Bea- Norse puss, meaning a pocket or twat • He would sit in the dark ver!' (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) • She pouch. • What are you talking for hours on end remembering might have been fifteen, but about? You walk out with those her pendulous tits, her when you get that little red bea- fuckin' creeps and low-lifes and twat. Men are more sentimental ver right up there in front of degenerates out on the streets than women. (John Ogilby) • A you... no man alive could resist and you sell your little pussy for man! That was what she craved. that. (One Flew Over the Cuck- nothing. For some low-life pimp A man with something between oo's Nest) who stands in the hall? And I'm his legs that could tickle her, box • She was wearing toreador square? You're the one that's that could make her writhe in ec- pants so tight you could almost square. (Taxi Driver) stasy, make her grab that bushy see the crack of her box. (Joseph slit • Oh, thou evil-smelling Slit twat of hers with both hands and Wambaugh) • The chief looked / But half an inch removed from rub it joyfully, boastfully, at Mrs Billings spread-eagled on shit! / How can men wallow in proudly, with a sense of connec- the bed... 'Damn, she's got a thy piss / And call it tion, a sense of life. (Henry hairy box!' Chief Lynch whis- bliss? (Robert Burns) • His cock Miller) tled. (Joseph Wambaugh) was out, large, purple, ugly... • His blue eyes crossed and fanny (UK) Not the same mean- Martin heard the boys' voices bulged from the meticulous ing as in the US. See l.a above. saying, 'Look! Look! He's got maddening scrutiny of the • She had her dress hiked up and that big thing and he's trying to golden twat of his beloved. she wasn't wearing any knick- stick that big thing into her slit!' (Joseph Wambaugh) ers. I could see her fanny as (Charles Bukowski) www.FreeLibros.org6 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY 1. f clit -clitoris • Now, look, I want to show you something • Atento, quiero ensenarte algo — el clitoris. — the clit. It's where the feeling is. The clit Es el punto sensible. El clitoris se esconde, hides, you see, it comes out when it's excited ves?, y sale cuando hay suficiente excitacion. enough. It's pink and very sensitive. You only Es rosado y muy sensible. Solo has de rozarlo have to touch it with the tip of your tongue. con la punta de la lengua. (Charles Bukowski) • I rubbed a finger along her cunt. Soon it got • Pase un dedo por su cono, pronto se hume- wet and began to open. I put my finger inside. deci6 y empezo a abrirse. Meti el dedo den- Then I pulled it out and rubbed the clit. (Char- tro, luego lo saque y frote el clitoris. les Bukowski) • I blossomed and Elmore sulked. Less and • Madure y Elmore se puso de mal humor. Cada less was his tongue felt on my clit or his cock vez con menor frecuencia era sentia su lengua on my buttocks. (Erica Jong) en mi clitoris o su polla sobre mis nalgas.

SYNONYMS: my Mary Louise's little fun pim- fun pimple When I take the tip ple, she rises two feet off the bed. of my tongue and wiggle it against (Reservoir Dogs)

1. g pubes -vello pubico Not an obscene or even a slang term, pubes has nevertheless acquired taboo connotations, by association with contexts like those which follow:

• Nick went down and spread Linda's legs. Her • Nick se inclino y abrio las piernas de Lin- pubes were long and twisted and tangled. da. Los pelos de su cono eran largos, riza- (John Ogilby) dos y enredados. • Her pubes were the same colour as the hair • Su vello pubico era del mismo color que el on her head: red, like fire. (Charles Bukowski) de su cabeza: rojo, como el fuego. • I wanted for her to put my cock in her cunt, • Espere que la metiera dentro, pero ella si- but she just kept rubbing. Her pubes began to gui6 frotando. Su vello empez6 a irritarme la irritate my cock. I pulled away. (James Laffan) polla. Abandon6.

SYNONYMS: blance between the pubic hair and thatch • don't like women a fur muff. • Then he tells me he with too much thatch, in fact bush • It was a bush shot. You buried his head in her muff. they tend to like them clean- could see the pubic hair but not (Henry Miller) shaven. (W.C. Doughty) • He the sex parts. (John Irving) • Im- snatch-hair • Know what I did found that Foxy Farrell made plants, calogen, plastics, capped when I was fifteen? Sent a lock him itch all over — to throw her teeth, the fat sucked out, the hair of my snatch-hair off in an en- down and bury his face in the extended, the nose fixed, the bush velope to Marlon Brando. burnished thatch of pubic hair shaved — these are not real wo- Prick didn't even have the which had been shaved to the men, alright? (Beautiful Girls) courtesy to acknowledge re- shape of a heart. (Joseph muff From the alleged resem- ceipt. (Philip Roth) Wambaugh) www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 7 1. h private parts -partes pudendas

. 'Look,' I said, once we were out of the store, • —Mira —dije, una vez que salimos de la 'a little shopping advice; when you go off to tienda—, permiteme un consejo: cuando va- do something so very simple as exchanging yas a hacer algo tan sencillo como cambiar money for goods, it isn't necessary to flash dinero por una mercancia, no es necesario que your snatch at everyone this side of the le ensenes el cono a todo el mundo. De acuer- horizon. Okay?' 'Flash what? Who flashed do? — Ensenar que? Quien ha ensenado anything?' 'You, Mary Jane! Your supposedly nada? —jTu, Mary Jane! Tus supuestas par- private parts!' (Philip Roth) tes intimas!

SYNONYMS: burly man. In each instance, he Squad would have called her is naked but for a computer icon, 'privates'. (Ed McBain) privates • The most playful a space-age fig leaf, covering his parts Lydia was probably kiss- variation is Barbara Aselmeier's. privates. (New York Times) ing some son of a bitch right Her screen boasts a dozen iden- • The dancer wiped the black now, or worse, kissing his parts. tical snapshots of a bearded, man's glasses on what the Vice (Charles Bukowski)

1. i tits -tetas

• — Do you miss having tits? — To be • — Echas de menos tener tetas? — Para serte completely frank with you, that is the stupidest completamente sincero, esa es la pregunta mas question I ever heard. What man in his right estupida que he oido. Que hombre en su sano mind would want tits? (David Mamet) juicio querria tetas? • As we kissed I reached down into her blouse. • Mientras nos besabamos me adentre en su I found a tit and cupped my hand on it and blusa. Encontre una teta y la abarque con mi rolled it around. She wasn't wearing a bra. mano acariciandola. No llevaba sosten. (Charles Bukowski) « He was still sucking Laura's tits, going from • Todavia estaba chupando los pechos de one to the other. Her nipples were erect. Laura, pasando del uno al otro. Los pezones (James Laffan) estaban duros. • I mean, think about it. I have big tits. Is that • Piensatelo. Tengo tetas grandes. i,Es esa la the only reason he was interested in me? It makes unica raz6n por la que se intereso en mi? Me me rethink this entire relationship — did I even hace replantearme toda esta relacidn — lle- know this guy? (Courtney Weaver) gue a conocer a este tipo? • She was a bit fat. Her tits were very large • Estaba un poco gorda. Sus tetas eran muy but they sagged a lot. (John Ogilby) grandes, pero le caian flaceidas. • She was all tits and ass. (Lenny Bruce) • Era todo tetas y culo. • She was on the bed with only her panties on. • Estaba en la cama solo con las bragas pues- One hand was covering her eyes. Her tits tas. Tenia un brazo tapandose los ojos. Sus looked good. (James Laffan) tetas tenian buena pinta. www.FreeLibros.org8 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY SYNONYMS: like, Oh, there's a pair of She still has her dick! (Joseph boobs, I'll go stand next to it. Wambaugh) • I have a feeling all bazooms (US) From a comic I think I'll go talk to it.' (New modern men are like this. They mispronunciation of bosom. • It York Times) spout the lines, but then in the was another case of Bio-Energetic bristols (UK) Rhyming slang of face of some luscious knockers, Breast Cream for South Beach Bristol City, a football club, and they revert back to little boys bazooms. (Elmore Leonard) titty. • Her full and shapely who haven't gotten enough of boobs • Pulling one of her boobs bristols bobbled up and down as that X-rated feeling. How can I out of her bra, she enquired, she ran. (Alan Beretta) trust any of 'em? (Courtney 'Anyone like a little more jugs Perhaps from the associa- Weaver) milk.' (Philip Thomas) • I've tion with milk jug. • Her buns melons • If Demi Moore wants been baby-sitting since I was and jugs filled her bikini to over- to fill her melons up with sili- ten, I've got almost three thou- flowing. (John Ogilby) con, it's ok. with me, but don't sand dollars. I was saving it knockers From the notion of expect me to admire them. for a boob job. But my tits can pendulous breasts knocking to- (New York Times) • Why baby, wait. (American Beauty) • He gether. • The good news is that I did it all for you. I thought also recognizes how the pres- Gloria has a pretty nice set of you'd like it sweetheart... Why, sure to prove his masculinity knockers, all right. And dyna- I thought you'd get all excited... drove him to objectify girls. 'I mite legs. And she ain't got no sort of heave and pant and come treated my girlfriends really balls. The bad news is, she ain't running at me, your melons bad,' he says. 'I admit it. I was had her second operation yet. bobbling. (Edward Albee)

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In each of the following lists, all the words are synonymous except one. Spot the odd man out and explain why the word in question is misplaced. 1. (a) twat (b) putz (c) slit (d) pussy (e) box (f) snatch 2. (a) joint (b) tool (c) dick (d) prick (e) beaver (f) pecker 3. (a) nuts (b) ballocks (c) pubes (d) stones (e) cobblers (f) goolies 4. (a) privates (b) jugs (c) melons (d) bristols (e) knockers (f) boobs 5. (a) tail (b) bum (c) beam (d) bush (e) butt (f) rear

EXERCISE 1.2 Here are some less common slang terms for the various parts of the body dealt with in this chapter. Try to identify the part of the body to which each group of synonyms refers.

1. assets, bangers, bazongas, ba- micky, middle leg, tube, pen- oyster catcher, patch, oven, zookas, billibongs, bombers, cil, dingdong, sausage, poor man's blessing, quiff, bouncers, bubbas, plonker, winkle, stalk, rig, quim, quiver, slot, snapper, butterballs, cantaloupes, ding-a-ling, prong, tonk, shaft, steam room, tunnel, charlies, gazongas, goombas, candle, joy stick, reamer, tick- twitcher, vertical smile hooters, howitzers, ler, wazoo, wire, yang 4. chooms, bangers, cherries, kalamazoos, lactoids, 3. bearded clam, hair pie, ace of clangers, danglers, eggs, nancies, palookas, patooties, spades, bull's eye, bunny, jewels, marbles, onions, peaches, torpedoes, water- button hole, cleft, cockpit, plums, pounders, swingers, melons, wobblers, woofers, cookie, cranny, crease, knackers, pills, rocks zeppelins, zingers cunny, front window, 5. prat, moon, rass, rear, duff, 2. cherry picker, yard, knob, furburger, honey-pot, key- jacksy, tochus, bim, slats, poker, doodle, snake, needle, hole, Lady Jane, meat quoit, chuff, zatch, bronze, pego, machine, dingus, organ, grinder, nest, niche, nook, tush, acre, heinie

EXERCISE 1.3 Translate the following sentences into English. 1. Empece a frotar mi polla contra su vientre. Me aparto de un empujon. 2. Empece a jugar con su cono. Se erigio el clitoris y lo acaricie con ternura. 3. Mi marido no tenia personalidad, solo una enorme polla. 4. No te quedes ahi tocandote las narices, haz algo. 5. Me picaba el ano pero habia demasiada gente y no podia rascarmelo. 6. Tetas y culo. Lo unico que le importa son las tetas y el culo. 7. Nos metimos debajo de las sabanas y empece a jugar con sus partes. 8. Con un movimiento de mandlbulas el perro podia arrancarme las pelotas. 9. Me picaba el escroto. El picor se fue haciendo insoportable. Segui caminando y rascandome los cojones. 10. A veces se metian las sustancias quimicas nocivas por el agujero del culo. 11. Las chicas no tenian tetas y sus traseros eran pequenitos. 12. Los pelos de su cono eran largos, rizados y enredados. 13. Se sento en mi regazo y me beso. Mi polla se puso como una roca en contacto con su firme trasero. 14. Hay que darle una buena patada para que se ponga en movimiento. 15. Pase un dedo por su cono, pronto se humedecio y se abrio. Meti el dedo dentro. 16. Se me fue el pie y me cai de culo. 17. Tenia miedo de las enfermedades de la piel, el cuero cabelludo y el ano. 18. Todavia estaba chupando las tetas de Clare. Los pezones estaban alzados. 19. Tenia su mano puesta en los huevos de Tom, luego la subio hacia arriba y agarro su polla. 20. Era una cuestion de valor. Me pregunte si tendria suficientes cojones. www.FreeLibros.org10 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY EXERCISE 1.4 (Gina picks up a Penthouse magazine and tells two of her male friends, Mitch and Tommy, what she thinks of the image of female beauty the magazine presents.) I'm speaking to both of you, okay, you're both fucking insane. You wanna know what your problem is? MTV, Playboy, and Madison fucking Avenue. Yeah. Let me explain something to you. OK, look, girls with big tits have big asses, girls with little tits have little asses. That's the way it goes. God doesn't fuck around, he's a fair guy. He gave the fatties big, beautiful tits, and the skinnies little, tiny niddlers. If you don't like it, call him. Hey Mitch. Thank you. Oh guys, look what we have here... (picking up Penthouse magazine and opening it) Look at this: your favorite. Yeah, that's nice, right? Well, it doesn't exist, okay? Look at the hair. The hair is long, it's flowing, it's like a river. Well, it's a fucking weave, okay? And the tits. Please, I could hang my overcoat on them. Tits, by design, are intended to be suckled by babies. Yeah, they're purely functional. These are silicone city. And look, my favorite, the shaved pubes. Pubic hair being so unruly and all. Very vain. This is a mockery, this is a sham, this is bullshit. Implants, calogen, plastics, capped teeth, the fat sucked out, the hair extended, the nose fixed, the bush shaved — these are not real women, alright? They're beauty freaks. And they make all us normal women with our wrinkles, our puckered boobs, our cellulite, feel somewhat inadequate. Well, I don't buy it, alright? While you fuckers think that there's a chance in hell that you'll end up with one of these women you don't give us real women any thing approaching a commitment. It's pathetic. I don't know what you think you're going to do. You're going to end up 80 years old, drooling in some nursing home, and then you'll decide that it's time to settle down, get married, have kids. What are you going to do: find a cheerleader? From the screenplay Beautiful Girls by Scott Rosenberg Using what you have learned in this chapter and in the preceding exercises and what you can guess from the context, find words or phrases in the above passage corresponding to these descriptions: 1. A word which, as an adverb, means 'very, extremely'; and which, as an adjective, has no precise meaning but is used purely for negative emphasis. 2. Three words which mean female breasts. 3. The standard American English term for buttocks. 4. A phrasal verb which means to tamper, play, toy or meddle, to treat in an irresponsible way. 5. Two words for pubic hair. 6. A word which, in this context, means mendacious nonsense. 7. A derogatory term which can be used of any male.

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l.a piss -mear, meada

Although both a verb and a noun, like its synonyms listed below, piss is frequently used in verbal constructions like to go for a piss, to take a piss, to have a piss, etc.

« I finished my drink and went into the • Acabe mi copa y fui al bano a echar una bathroom to take a piss. (James Laffan) meada. » How in hell could a man enjoy being • Cdmo cono podia un hombre disfrutar si su awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap sueno era mterrumpido a las 6:30 de la mana- out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush na por el estrepito de un despertador, tenia que teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a pla- saltar fuera de la cama, vestirse, desayunar sin ce where essentially you made lots of money ganas, cagar, mear, cepillarse los dientes y el for somebody else? (Charles Bukowski) pelo y pelear con el trafico hasta llegar a un lugar donde uno suele ganar cantidad de di- nero para otro? • I looked out and saw a guy standing on the • Mire y vi a un tipo de pie en el porche, porch, pissing. He was pissing against a bush meando. Estaba meando en un arbusto a la to the left of the porch. The piss shot upwards izquierda del porche; la meada se arquea ba in a solid stream and then fell back downwards en un solido chorro, hacia arriba, y luego, into the bushes. (Charles Bukowski) hacia los matorrales.

SYNONYMS: pants!' (James Leo Herlihy) lamppost. (Seamus Easton) piddle • Every ten minutes or slash All those hours I've been leak Used mainly in the expres- so he excused himself with the sitting out here waiting for you, sion to take a leak. • Sometimes words, 'I'm going for a piddle. afraid I'd miss you. Christ, I'm somebody would say, 'Excuse Be right back.' I concluded he bursting for a slash. (James me, I have to take a leak'. This had a bad bladder. (Daniel Laffan) was a way of saying that the Ogg) • American researchers, tinkle That's another problem speaker intended to drain liquid standing with stopwatches out- with suede shoes: you're always wastes from his body through a side motorway service sta- in danger of tinkling on them valve in his lower abdomen. tions, have found that women and then the stain's there for- (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) take almost twice as long to ever, isn't it? (Alan Beretta) pee • I had to take a pee, so I ex- piddle as men, or rather twice wee-wee Mainly a children's cused myself and I went to the as long to emerge from the toi- word. • Don't forget, dear, the bathroom down the hallway. lets; one and a half minutes for little ones do a wee-wee before (Smoke) • 'Hey, hey, what's the a woman, an amazing 44 sec- they go to bed. (E.A. Whitehead) matter?' Joe asked. Ratso looked onds for a man. Something has widdle • — 'Anybody know at him quickly and then he looked to be done. (Guardian) where Frankie is?' — 'Yeah, away again, and softly, almost in- pish (Scots, Irish) The dog he's just stepped out for a audibly, he said, 'I peed.' 'You stopped suddenly, cocked a widdle'. (Alan Beretta) what?' 'Peed! Peed! Peed my hind leg and pished against the www.FreeLibros.org12 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY 2. b shit, shite -cagar, mierda

Shit is the more common of the two forms but shite, used mainly in northern England, Scotland and Ireland, is the more expressive. It is both a verb and a noun. As a verb, shit is irregular: either shit- shit-shit, or shit-shat-shat. As the examples demonstrate, the word is frequently used in a figurative sense. Numerous idiomatic uses are examined in more detail in Chapter 10.

• As a schoolboy I could not think of a time • Cuando era nino jamas se me habia ocurri- when I had ever shat in company. I had always do la idea de cagar acompanado. Siempre ha- shat alone. In a room that was locked. The bia cagado solo. En una habitaci6n cerrada con thought of having to shit with someone doing pestillo. Pensar que tendria que cagar con al- the same thing twelve inches away disgusted guien haciendo lo mismo a treinta centfme- me, (Ken Lukowiak) tros me asqueaba. • I went to the crapper and had a shit. • Fui al bafto y eche una cagada. El estreni- Constipation wasn't one of my problems. miento no era uno de mis problemas. (John Ogilby) • I felt like having a shit. I took off my pants • Tenia ganas de echar una cagada. Me baje and squatted in the brush with the flies and los pantalones y me agache entre los arbus- the mosquitoes. I had to wipe myself with tos con moscas y mosquitos. Me tuve que leaves. (Charles Bukowski) limpiar con hojas. » Piles of rubbish everywhere, dirty plates, shit • Montones de basura por todas partes, platos stains in the toilet, crud in the bathtub. sucios, manchas de mierda en el retrete, cos- (Gabriella T. Oldfield) tras en la banera. • She talked about Huxley and Lawrence in • Ella hablaba de Huxley y de Lawrence en Italy. What shit. (Charles Bukowski) Italia. Vaya mierda. • I'm going to tell her the truth. I'm going to • Le voy a decir la verdad. Voy a acabar con end this shit. (James Laffan) esta mierda!

RELATED TERMS: ing or very little. • Their coun- pooh,' one four-year-old tod- try was by far the richest and dler whispered diffidently. crap From the name of Thomas most powerful country on the (Gladys Hellman) Crapper, inventor of the flush- planet ... Most other countries • Gus and Theo, his best mate ing toilet. • Oh, Doctor, I wipe didn't have doodley-squat. from playgroup, hit the potty- and I wipe and I wipe, I spend (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) talk stage together. Their an- as much time wiping as I do dump (US) • You ever take a them, or should I say mantra, crapping, maybe even more. I dump made you feel like you'd became, 'Poo-poo, wee-wee, use toilet paper like it grew on just slept for twelve hours? bum-bum', repeated in the car, trees. (Philip Roth) (Glengarry Glen Ross) • I want at the lunch table and at teatime dingleberry A piece of dried that head so sanitary and squared until the boys were red-faced faecal matter attached to the hair away that the Virgin Mary her- and gasping from giggling. around the anus. • With a pained self would be proud to go in (Carol Hall) expression he detached the tena- there and take a dump! (Full poop, poopy • I never saw such a cious dingleberry, then fetched Metal Jacket) dirty town — litter scattered eve- it up to eye level for inspection. pooh, poo, poo-poo A chil- rywhere, dog poop all over the (James Laffan) dren's word, from the exclama- place. (Gabriella T. Oldfield) • A doodley-squat (US) Mainly tion pooh provoked by an un- recent cartoon on Japanese TV used figuratively, meaning noth- pleasant smell. • 'I need to features a hero who makes a www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 13 sidekick out of his own faeces. hadn't been there more than ten the water. The madam bends Meanwhile, at the local temple, minutes before there were three down and puts a towel over it. visitors buy plastic poop trin- turds on the carpet. A superfi- (Henry Miller) kets to bring them good luck. cially humorous but vicious dis- • Life and literature is a ques- And at the corner store, a vast pute ensued about who had done tion of what one thrills to, and array of poop-shaped candy is the turds. (Helen Fielding) • The further than that no man shall go on sale — a veritable copropha- five of us are standing there without putting his foot in a turd. gous feast. (Salon) looking at the bidet. There are (Philip Larkin) turd A piece of excrement. • I two enormous turds floating in 2. c fart -pedo

• God or somebody keeps creating women and • Dios, o quien sea, no para de crear mujeres tossing them out on the streets, and this one's y de lanzarlas al mundo, y el culo de esta es ass is too big and that one's tits are too small demasiado grande y las tetas de esa son de- and this one is mad and that one is crazy ... masiado pequenas, y esta otra esta chiflada y and this one can't control her farts. (Charles aquella es una histerica... y esta no puede con- Bukowski) trolar sus pedos. • At least McHugh wasn't there, stinking the • Al menos alli no estara McHugh apestando place out with his farts. (James Laffan) los pozos con sus pedos. • Sometimes when I'm drinking a cup of pale • A veces, cuando estoy tomando una taza de tea in which he has dropped a rose leaf he co- te claro en el que ha echado un petalo de rosa, mes alongside of me and lets a loud fart, right se me acerca y se tira un sonoro pedo en mis in my face. He never says 'Excuse me!' (Henry propias nances. Nunca dice: 'jPerddn!' Miller) • When I fart in the bathtub, she kneels naked • Cuando me echo un pedo en la banera, ella on the tile floor, leans all the way over, and se arrodilla desnuda, en el embaldosado sue- kisses the bubbles. (Philip Roth) lo, se inclina y besa las burbujas. • Another animal invented by the Creator of • Otro animal inventado por el Creador del the Universe was a Mexican beetle which Universo era un escarabajo mejicano que po- could make a blank cartridge gun out of its dia convertir su parte posterior en una espe- rear end. It could detonate its own farts and cie de cartucho sin bala por el que lanzar pedos knock over other bugs with shock waves. (Kurt a propulsion y abatir a otros bichos con las Vonnegut Jr.) ondas de choque.

SYNONYMS: fart. • What one of you fuckers would go hee-hee-hee, as if she'd farted? Christ, what a hummer! just accomplished something hi- breezer (Austr) • How could (James Laffan) larious. (John Ogilby) you get any sleep in a ward like roaster (UK) A hot, noiseless, squelcher A fart with liquid that, with half a dozen old noisome fart. • You never knew content. Also known as a GBL geriatric bastards snoring and she had unleashed a roaster until fart, an abbreviation of Gam- wheezing and hawking and let- it was too late. They were silent bled But Lost. • He knew he ting breezers all around you and deadly. The smell, like a fetid shouldn't have eaten the figs. every blessed instant of the wind blowing over a field of pu- Now he'd be laying squelchers night? It was like trying to kip trefying red cabbages, would hit from arsehole to breakfast in a war zone. (Barry Osworth) you all at once, bringing a flood time. (John Ogilby) hummer (UK) An evil-smelling of tears to your eyes. Then she www.FreeLibros.org14 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY 2. d the shits -la cagalera

* The introduction of fresh rations into our La introduccion de provisiones frescas en bodies had a none-too-pleasant effect on our nuestros cuerpos tuvo un efecto nada agrada- digestive systems. We got the shits. (Ken ble sobre nuestros aparatos digestivos. Nos en- Lukowiak) tro la cagalera. * After that dinner, I had the shits for a month. • Despues de esa cena, tuve cagalera durante (Gabriella T. Oldfield) un mes. * When I awakened I was sweating. I got up • Cuando me desperte estaba sudando. Me le- and went to the bathroom. I had the running vante y fui al bano. Tenia diarrea. Cuando me shits. Then I got up and wiped, looked; what incorpore y me limpie, eche un vistazo; vaya a mess, I thought, what a lovely powerful un plato, pense, que adorable y poderosa stink. Then I vomited and flushed it all away. peste. Entonces vomite y tire de la cadena. (Charles Bukowski)

SYNONYMS: loupe. It gives me the runs. (Gabriella T. Oldfield) (David Mamet) the squitters • — Had a rough Aztec revenge Strictly, the term the squits (UK) It was supposed night last night. Boozing and applies only to diarrhoea suf- to be a high-class Parisian res- whoring. Paid for it this morn- fered by visitors to Mexico, but taurant, so you didn't expect the ing though. The agony in the it is widely understood. • With loo to be one of those awful Arab lavatory. — The squitters? (E.A. his luck he'd die of Aztec Re- affairs: two wretched footholds Whitehead) venge anyway, first time he had to squat on and an obscenely the trots • I'd go easy on the ol- a Bibb lettuce salad. (Joseph dark little hole in the middle. To ive oil if I were you, mate, un- Wambaugh) cap it all, at least one previous less you're looking for a case of the runs • I never eat canta- patron had clearly had the squits. the trots. (Alan Beretta)

2. e I shit-house, shite-house -retrete, cagadero

• He felt nauseous. He opened the door of the • Sinti6 nauseas. Abrio la puerta del retrete, y shitehouse and went in. The place stank. He entro. El lugar apestaba. Se sac6 el pijo y em- took out his prick and began to piss. pez6 a mear. (Herbert Loth) • Harry had to go for a piss. The shithouse • Harry tuvo que ir a echar una meada. El re- was at the end of the corridor. (Herbert Loth) trete quedaba al final del pasillo. • I went in and cleaned the shithouse, scrubbed • Me fui a limpiar el retrete, restregar la bane- the bathtub, and changed the sheets and pillow ra y cambiar las sabanas y fundas de almoha- cases on my bed. (James Laffan) da de mi cama.

SYNONYMS: thought, and put the paper in your casual. (Shaun Herron) sock. That was it, do the whole can (US) • In the vestibule, as bog, bogs • Hold on a minute, thing in the bog. They couldn't I'm buttoning my fly, I notice will you, Kev, I have to go to the come into the bog with him; he'd one of them waiting for her bogs. I'll be right back. (Diane put everything in his sock, flush friend to come out of the can. Chanteau) • Go to the bog, he the bog, and come out looking (Henry Miller) www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 15 crapper • She heard a chain turds to clean the head. I want one go anywhere until we find it. being pulled, then the sound of that head so sanitary and squared Especially not to the karzy. flushing. Then Kevin emerged away that the Virgin Mary her- (Barry Osworth) from the crapper, still plunged self would be proud to go in lav, lavo • That smell is famil- intently in his paperback edition there and take a dump! (Full iar. Years ago I painted a ladies' of Being and Nothingness. (Diane Metal Jacket) lavatory. Yeah, a lavo in a club Chanteau) • The day Jon changed John (US) • — You sure you in Slater Street. That was a job I the kitty litter, I nearly went into didn't see my hat? — Look in didn't forget. (E.A. Whitehead) shock... Cyrus the Cat's little the John. — It isn't in the John. loo (UK) • Do you mind if I use crapper certainly had begun to I wouldn't leave it there. (David your loo? (Helen Fielding) smell. (Clea Simon) Mamet) • Have just been sick, and as I • His function? He sees that toi- • Sanitary appliance manufactur- slumped over the loo trying to do let paper is plentiful, especially ers are eager to make our toilets it quietly so Daniel wouldn't hear, in the ladies' crapper. (Charles unisex. As if moving the John he suddenly yelled out from the Bukowski) into the powder room isn't bedroom, 'There goes your inner dunny (Austr) • Dangerous enough, even single-sex conven- poise, my plumptious. Best place place Australia. What with iences are being equipped with for it, I say.' (Helen Fielding) deadly poisonous spiders lurk- traditionally male attire. The shouse (Austr) Syncopated ing under the rim of the toilet Soho bar Pop has installed the form of shit-house. • He spends bowl, a man can't feel safe even Lady P, a urinal for women. half his bloody life locked up in in the comfort of his own dunny. (Guardian) the shouse. Christ only knows (Barry Osworth) karzy (UK) • They've got dope what he's doing in there. head (US) • I want you two in here somewhere. Don't let any- (Barry Osworth)

2. f bumf -papel higienico

The word can have several meanings, depending on context. Usually it means toilet paper, but sometimes it refers simply to paper of poor quality. It is often used derogatorily to mean official documents, as in the third example.

• (UK) If you're going down to the shops, don't • Si vas de compras, que no se te olvide co- forget to buy some bumf, love. We're nearly ger un poco de papel higienico. Casi no nos out. (Diane Chanteau) queda. • (UK) Thank you very much for your letter • Muchas gracias por tu carta y, por favor, and please excuse the bumf this is written on. disculpa el papel cutre en el que esto esta (Philip Larkin) escrito. • (UK) Don't ever start a company, even a • No se te ocurra crear una empresa, por small one, unless you like dealing with bumf, muy pequefia que sea, a no ser que te guste 'cause there's just no end to it. (Alan Beretta) el papeleo, porque eso es algo que no ter- mina nunca.

SYNONYMS: towels, fill the soap containers, down, have a good wholesome use lots and lots of deodorant, crap, then discover there's no ass-wipe • Restrooms were al- and be sure there's plenty of ass- bloody bog-roll. What sort of ways first. Clean the sinks, the wipe and paper toilet seat cov- shitehouse are you wankers toilets, empty the baskets, get ers. (Charles Bukowski) running here anyway? (John the mirrors, replace the hand- bog-roll • I hate that. You sit Ogilby) www.FreeLibros.org16 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY 2. g puke -vomitar, vomitona

• — You make me puke! Uh... you make me • — Me haces vomitar! Uf! ... me haces vo- puke! — That wasn't a very nice thing to say, mitar. — Lo que has dicho es muy desagrada- Martha. (Edward Albee) ble, Martha. • I ran to the bathroom and puked. I tried to • Me fui corriendo al bano a vomitar. Trate de brash my teeth but only puked again — the lavarme los dientes pero lo unico que conse- sweetness of the toothpaste turned my gui fue vomitar de nuevo. El dulzor de la pas- stomach. (Charles Bukowski) ta de dientes me revolvia el estomago. • I stretched out next to her. We kissed. Her • Me arrime a ella. Nos besamos. Su boca olia mouth smelled of puke. (Charles Bukowski) a vomito. • You never knew. You could never be sure. I • Nunca se sabia. Nunca podia uno estar segu- was scared. I felt like puking. (John Ogilby) ro. Estaba nervioso. Sentfa ganas de vomitar. • Garbage man. I shuddered at the thought of • Basurero. Me estremeci al pensar en toda all that garbage, the morning hangovers ... me esa basura, las resacas de madrugada ... y yo puking my guts into the orange rinds, coffee echando las tripas junto a peladura de naran- grounds, wet cigarette ashes, banana peels and ja, posos de cafe, cenizas mojadas de cigarri- the used tampax. (Charles Bukowski) llos, cascaras de platano y tampax usados.

SYNONYMS: All the following are verbs. Single words (barf, boke, chunder and spew) can also be used, like puke, as nouns.

barf (US) • If you're liable to he would chuck up his week's sus Christ Almighty, what a airsickness, make sure you keep wages on the pavement. (James night. Pah! I'm covered in that this little bag handy, to barf into Laffan) rotten bastard's spew. Give us a should the need arise. (Linda chunder (Austr) Even from a rag, somebody. (John McGrath) Starr) • I ain't in favor of kiddy distance I could see he wasn't • Your letter found me last night porn, you understand. Makes me in the car. But in the moonlight, when I came in off the piss: in wanna barf. Some of those little on the ground next to the front point of fact I had spewed out girls and boys, eight, nine years passenger door, I could make out of a train window. (Philip Larkin) old. (Joseph Wambaugh) a great livid patch of chunder. throw up • My god, I feel aw- blow beets (US) What was in (William Williamson) ful. I think I'm going to throw that pie? Everybody who ate it go for the big spit (Austr) You up. (Helen Fielding) • Do you is blowing beets. (Airplane) don't look too clever, Micky. know what those American sol- boke (Scots, Irish) Noun as well Just one thing: if you're going diers did to your poor mother as verb. • Many's the time, after for the big spit, stick your head while your poor father threw a rough night in the boozer, out the window. Don't chuck up up his guts in the next room? MacAleese and I leaned against in here. (Barry Osworth) Those bastards! (Lenny Bruce) the same wall, boking our guts ralph (US) Imitative of the • — Your wife throws up a lot, up. That's the kind of shared ex- sound of vomiting. • The doc eh? — Well, it's true... She perience that cements a friend- gave him some pills that would does throw up a lot. Once she ship. (John Ogilby) help him ralph it up. (Norman starts... there's practically no chuck up Every Saturday night, Keaton) stopping her. (Edward Albee) on his way back from the pub, spew Noun as well as verb. • Je- www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 17 2. h gob -escupir, escupitajo

• She gobbed in his face. (John Le Carre) • Le escupio en la cara. • Moving her head, Jane used her tongue. • Moviendo su cabeza, Jane uso la lengua. Andrew came. Jane gobbed on the carpet. Andrew se corrio. Jane escupio en la alfombra. (Dympna Marston) • Never mind his unpleasant habit of hacking • Ignora su desagradable costumbre de toser up massive gobs of phlegm, which he then cantidades masivas de flema, las cuales expectorates into the Persian carpet at his expectora hacia la alfombra persa a los pies visitor's feet. (Salon) de sus invitados.

An uncountable noun, unlike its synonyms, snot is used with a singular verb. Derivatives are snotty, snot-nosed, and snotty-nosed (mocoso, lleno de mocos, estirado).

• A thin moustache. Vacant eyes. Out of one • Un fino bigote. Ojos ausentes. De uno de of his nostrils streamed a nearly invisible los orificios de su nariz caia un casi invisible thread of snot that had finally gathered into a hilillo de moco que finalmente se recogia en little gleaming ball. The ball had settled in the una pelotilla brillante. La pelotilla de moco moustache and was gathering to drip off. se le habia quedado pegada al bigote y estaba (Charles Bukowski) a punto de caerse. • —You can't get snot off suede. The jacket's • — No se puede quitar los mocos del ante. ruined. You can flake it off, but the black mark La chaqueta esta estropeada. Puedes raspario, will always be there. — What'll I do? — Just pero siempre quedara una marca negra. — Que snot over the whole jacket, that's the only puedo haeer? — Echa mocos por toda la cha- thing you can do! (Lenny Bruce) queta, eso es lo unico que puedes hacer! • It is estimated that, during one winter month « Se calcula que si durante un unico mes de alone, if all the snot blown into Kleenex invierno, todos los mocos soplados en panue- tissues in the United States and Canada were los Kleenex en los Estados Unidos y Canada spread over the playing surface of the Yale se extendiesen sobre la superficie de juego del Bowl, it would reach a depth of one-and-a- estadio de Yale, se alcanzaria una profundi- half feet. (William Styron) dad de 45 centimetros. • You've seen a lot of snot. You've seen it in • Se ve mucho moco. Se ve en la parte de back of radiators in Milner Hotels. Looks like atras de los radiadores en los Hoteles bas-relief wood-glue. (Lenny Bruce) Milner. Parece pegamento para madera.

SYNONYMS: his moustache. (Brian Adgers) film of 'Great Expectations' and booger • Joker's so tough, he'd the fart and booger jokes in bogey His words were dignified eat the boogers out of a dead 'Dumb and Dumber.' (Salon) and moving, or rather, would man's nose ... then ask for sec- snotter I told her I was going have been, had not Sheila found onds. (Full Metal Jacket) • Not and that nothing she could say herself strangely fascinated by everything we see or read has to would change that. She stood the large green bogey, still moist be improving. There's no reason there crying her heart out, snotters and glistening, which adhered to a kid can't enjoy David Lean's blinding her. (James Laffan) www.FreeLibros.org18 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY 2. j come, cum -leche. semen

* She took her handkerchief out of her bag and • Sac6 el panuelo de su bolso y escupio en el began gobbing into it as if she were como si estuviera escupiendo semen. —Eh — expectorating come. 'Hey,' I said, 'What are le dije— Que estas tratando de venderme? you trying to sell me? I didn't come'. (Char- No me he corrido. les Bukowski) * Dan, I love the taste of come. It tastes like • Dan, me encanta el sabor del semen. Sabe a everything good ... just... coming out of your todo lo bueno... saliendo de tu polla... el baile cock ... the Junior Prom ... an autumn de final de curso... una tarde de otono... afternoon ... (David Mamet) * Oh God, did you shoot in her mouth? Oh my • Oh Dios, £te corriste en su boca? Oh, Dios God! And did she swallow it right down, or mio! Y se lo trago, o lo escupio, o se puso spit it out, or get mad — tell me, what did she furiosa? Dimelo! Que hizo ella cuando te do with your hot come! (Philip Roth) corriste? . She's on her back, her legs are in the air, • Esta tumbada, sus piernas en el aire, se esta she's coming like a choo-choo and she's corriendo como un tren y esta gritando — 'no screaming 'don't stop.' (David Mamet) .' Some girls think it's awful to come with a • Algunas chicas creen que es terrible correr- client — but isn't there something rather se con un cliente — pero no es una falta de declasse about never coming with a John? It's clase el no correrse nunca con un cliente? like being one of those union employees who Es como ser un empleado sindicado que no won't move a sheet of paper from one side of mueve un folio de un lado del despacho al the desk to the other if it's not in their contract. otro si no esta por escrito en su contrato. Que What a dreary way to work! (Salon) manera mas deprimente de trabajar!

SYNONYMS: view oinker jism as a repulsive scum (US) You'd be surprised fluid they'd rather not think how many people like to do it in gissum •'Son of a bitch kike!' about. (Hank Hyena) the back of the taxi. Last thing Bubbles screams. 'You got jizz • —What's a jizz-mopper? every night, I have to clean the gissum all over the couch! And —He's the guy that cleans up the scum off the back seat. (Jake the walls! And the lamp!' nudie booth after each guy jerks Newington) (Philip Roth) off. The jizz-mopper's job is to shoot (US) Also used as a verb, jism • Massage parlors were clean off the glass after each guy usually followed by off. • A Jew- something new and exciting in shoots a load. I don't know if ish man, who cared about the New York ... Men could be rubbed you noticed, but cum leaves welfare of the poor of the City all over by a woman until their pe- streaks if you don't clean it right of New York, was eating her nises squirted jism into Turkish away. (Clerks) • Woman wanted pussy! Someone who had ap- towels. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) to fuck me last night. I said, 'No, peared on educational TV was • Lusty sows might regard baby, nothing doing.' Then I told shooting off into her mouth! swine spunk as sexy, and Ne- her I'd do it if she gave me five (Philip Roth) braska pig-ranchers accept it bucks. It takes five bucks worth spunk • We've got a leopard- as a procreating necessity, but of steak to replace that jizz. skin rug in the flat and he wanted ordinary humans undoubtedly (Charles Bukowski) me to fuck him on that. Only I'm www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 19 afraid of the spunk, you see, it little internal dripping you get let before his spunk starts run- might adversely affect the after sex when you stand up, ning down the inside of your spots of the leopard. (Joe and you know you have maybe leg? Well, this time — noth- Orton) • You know that funny two seconds to get to the toi- ing. (Courtney Weaver)

2. k the rag -la regla, el penodo, compresa

A euphemistic term denoting a sanitary towel, sometimes made more specific and less euphemistic, as in the final example below. It is used in various expressions referring to menstruation: to be on the rag, to have the rag, to ride the rag, to wear the rag, to have the rags up, etc.

• — I think she had the rags up. — And how • — Creo que estaba con la regla, — Y tu would you know? — I had a bit of finger pie. como lo sabes? — Le meti un poco el dedo. (E.A. Whitehead) • She told him she was wearing the rag, but • Le dijio que estaba con la regla, pero eso no that didn't cool his ardour in the least. (James enfrio su pasion en lo mas mmimo. Laffan) • So why the long face, man? Your old lady • Por que esa cara, tio? Tu vieja esta con la on the rag? (Poor Black Trash) regla? • There was this thing on the floor., a rag • Habia esta cosa en el suelo... una compresa someone had left there... a jamrag... left it on que alguien habia dejado alli... la habian de- the floor of the lavatory! (E.A. Whitehead) jado en el suelo del bano! • We had Darlene for openers. Probably • Teniamos a Darlene para empezar. Proba- somebody had been murdered or was on the blemente alguna habia sido asesinada o tenia rag or was having a screaming fit, and this was la regla o habia tenido un ataque de histeria y Darlene's chance to dance solo again. (Char- esta habia sido la oportunidad para Darlene les Bukowski) de volver a bailar sola. •You ever seen a nun call a small child a 'fucking • Alguna vez has visto a una monja llamar a cunt-rag'? Wasn't pretty. (Chasing Amy) un crio 'jodida compresa'? No fue bonito.

RELATED TERMS: weeks. (Graham Greene) • Girls flowers' as they called them in used to say they had the curse. Or the days of Vigee-Lebrun and the curse • Is it any wonder that they had a visitor. (New Yorker) Adelaide Labille-Guiard, your menstruation is commonly called monthly flowers • You missed 'perennial visitor', your fall 'the curse'? (Saturday Review) herpes. You missed AIDS. You from the roof —is long overdue. • I forgot the damn pill and I lucked out, fucked out. But Can you be —at forty-four— haven't had the curse for six your period — your 'monthly pregnant? (Erica Jong) www.FreeLibros.org20 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY EXERCISE 2.1 In each of the following lists, all the words are synonymous except one. Spot the odd man out and explain why the word in question is misplaced. 1. (a) turd (b) crap (c) bogey (d) doodley-squat (e) poop (f) dump 2. (a) bumf (b) barf (c) ralph (d) throw up (e) chunder (f) boke 3. (a) spunk (b) fart (c) gissum (d) shoot (e) jism (f) jizz 4. (a) slash (b) wee-wee (c) leak (d) tinkle (e) pee (f) spew 5. (a) John (b) loo (c) roaster (d) head (e) can (f) bog

EXERCISE 2.2 Here are some less common idiomatic and slang terms for body functions, nine of which have been dealt with in this chapter. Try to identify the subject to which each group of synonyms and related terms refers. 1. Aunt Flo, Aunt Rosie, colly- 5. back-talk, blow off, breeze, patch one's cargo, grunt, lay wobbles, drip, Holy Week, bucksnort, burnt cheese, some cable, post a letter, Having the Painters In, jinx, cheezer, cut the cheese, scumber, squat monthlies, Red Sails in the chocolate thunder, crepitate, 9. bagged, broken-kneed, clucky, Sunset, plague, red flag cut one, drop a rose, gurk, cocked-up, double-ribbed, full 2. baby food, fetch, glue, gravy, honk, anal applause, let one, of heir, gone to seed, have one honey, hot milk, load, oyster, Scotch warming-pan, shoot in the oven, in pod, in the pud- soap, spendings, spratz, rabbits, tail shot, talk Ger- ding club, knocked up, on the spume, starch, tail juice, man, tee off, whiffer, winder bones, pillowed, storked, up wad, white blow 6. altar room, biffy, chamber the stick 3. Baby Ruth, cack, cow pucky, of commerce, indoor 10. burn the grass, drain the liz- dead soldier, doo-doo, duty, plumbing, jake, leakery, ard, drain the radiator, kill a hockey, horse dumpling, marble palace, sandbox, snake, let fly, pick a daisy, meadow dressing, night twilight, Used Beer Depart- point Percy at the porcelain, soil, plot, yackum ment, whiz stand, whizzer pump ship, shake hands with 4. blow chow, blow chunks, 7. chamber lye, Cousin Sis, an old friend, shake the dew call Earl, flip one's cookies, Golden Shower, Mickey off the lily, slack, splash, hork, pray to the porcelain Bliss, Number One, tail spring a leak, squeeze the goddess, ride the porcelain juice, yellow stream, zigg lemon, syphon the python, horse, scream at one's feet 8. bury a Quaker, clart, dis- visit Miss Murphy

EXERCISE 2.3 Translate the following sentences into English. 1. Me quite la ropa, me espatarre en mitad de la cama y me tire un pedo. 2. Era la peor mamada que me habfan hecho nunca. Saco el panuelo de su bolso y escupio en el como si estuviera expectorando algo. 3. Me arrime a ella. Nos besamos. Su boca olia a vomito. 4. El bar mas cercano tenia por lo menos cincuenta anos. Apestaba a orina, mierda y vomito acumulada durante medio siglo elevanaose a traves del suelo del bar desde los retretes del sotano. 5. jMe voy a correr, Dios, me voy a correr! 6. Abrio la puerta del cagadero y entro. El lugar apestaba. Saco el pijo y empezo a mear. 7. Le dijo que estaba con la regla, pero eso no enfrio su pasidn lo mas minimo. 8. El perro comenzo a mearse. El www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 21 perro estaba repleto de orines. Corrio en largos y amarillos riachuelos por el suelo de la cocina. 9. — Escucha —me dijo—, cuando me hayas metido esa cosa dentro, sacalajusto antes de correrte, de acuerdo? 10. Despues de esa cena, tuvo cagalera durante un mes. 11. Tenias que aguantar los pedos de aquellas enfermeras culigordas. 12. Finalmente me com. Entonces repose sobre ella. Estabamos los dos empapados en sudor. 13. Se puso malo y se fue al cagadero. Al vomitar, parte del vomito cayo en los zapatos y los calcetines. 14. Le voy a decir la verdad. Voy a acabar con esta mierda! 15. No se te olvide comprar un poco de papel higienico. Casi no nos queda. 16. Me fui corriendo al bano a vomitar. Trate de lavarme los dientes pero lo unico que consegui fue vomitar de nuevo. 17. La puerta estaba cerca de los lavabos. Siempre habia alguien entrando y saliendo para echar una meada. 18. De uno de los orificios de su nariz caia un casi invisible hilillo de moco que finalmente se recogfa en una pelotilla brillante. 19. Me levante y fui al bano. Tenia diarrea. Entonces me levante y me limpie, eche un vistazo a mi obra: vaya un plato! 20. Tuve que ir a echar una meada. El retrete quedaba al final del pasillo.

EXERCISE 2.4

(A vice squad detective quizzes new recruits to his department on what kind of behaviour in a public toilet constitutes an offence.) 'Okay, you're in the trap, peeking through the screen and some dude walks in the John and he pulls down his jeans and there inside the underwear he carries a toothbrush and a feather. And his dick's all wrapped in rubber bands and rags to make it bulge outta his tight pants. And he sits down on the pot and reaches down in the toilet water and after he unwraps it he starts splashing cold water up on his dong. And he brushes it off with the toothbrush. Then he pulls out the feather and tickles his balls and when all this is done he's able to take a leak, which he does sitting down, and then he leaves. Any violation there?' 'None,' Baxter Slate said. 'Okay, what if there ain't no door on any a the toilets, which there ain't because the manager a this department store is trying to discourage the fruits who like to meet here and poke their cocks through glory holes and all that. Now there he is, no door, just side walls around the toilet and everybody walks in can see him, including little kids.' 'Well . . .' Baxter hesitated. 'And just to mix you boys up a little, let's say that our vice complaint which brought us here in the first place is from some lady lives near here and her kids always come use this restroom on the way home from school, and she says they got propositioned by some grown up fruits and don't her kids got no rights?' 'Well . . .' Baxter Slate hesitated. 'Sure, if the fruits didn't get a naughty kick outta doing it in public Johns because it's guilt and sin and fun and anal obsession and everything all mixed up and it ain't the same in a private room, well then we wouldn't have to come here at all. But that ain't the case and it's pretty hard to tell the lady her kids just have to put up with some dude propositioning them or blowing some other dude in front a them in the shithouse, ain't it, Harold? From The Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh www.FreeLibros.org22 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY Using what you have learned in this chapter and in the preceding exercises and what you can guess from the context, find words or phrases in the above passage corresponding to these descriptions: 1. Three words meaning toilet. 2. Three words meaning penis. 3. A word meaning testicles. 4. An expression meaning to urinate. 5. An offensive term for a male homosexual. 6. A word meaning to perform fellatio.

www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 23 3: SEXUAL DESIRE

3. a the hots -deseo

This term, like the others listed below, is slang, but it is not obscene or offensive. On the other hand, it is frequently used in a context where stronger language is likely to occur.

* — He's a total asshole and he's got the hots • — Es un gilipollas y esta enconado con mi for my friend Angela and it's disgusting. — amiga Angela y es asqueroso. — Que?, £pre- What, you'd rather he had the hots for you? ferirfas que estuviera enconado contigo? (American Beauty) . And who in his right mind would ever have • Y quien, en su sano juicio, hubiera creido believed that Elizabeth Taylor had the hots for que Elizabeth Taylor estaba loca por el tio Uncle Hymie? (Philip Roth) Hymie? * What fucking circumstances? Some faggot • Que jodidas circunstancias? Algun ma- queer got the hots for my joint at the cartoons. ric6n se encono con mi polla en los dibujos (David Mamet) animados. . I sweltered with lust, helpless in the throes . Me sofoque de deseo, aperdido en los espas- of an alcohol-induced concupiscence known, mos de una concupiscencia provocada por el at least in that day, by the name of 'the alcohol, conocido al menos en ese dia, por el hangover hots'. (William Styron) nombre de 'resacon calenton'.

SYNONYMS: Sophie had said to herself that the the boys to stare at and perve on. woman's advances just might be (Barry Osworth) hot pants • 'My wife's in Staten innocuous, but now, so close, the the eye, the glad eye • He'd say: Island,' he told Converse. 'She's signs of her voracious letch — 'Do you fancy him?' And of got hot pants for this guy twice first her rapid breathing and then course I'd say: 'Who?' And he'd her age. A guy that owned a res- the ripe rosiness spreading like a say: 'The guy you've been giving taurant out there.' (Robert Stone) rash over the bestially handsome the eye to.' And I'd say: 'Oh for lech, letch The act of leching. face — left no doubt about her in- Christ's sake, can't I even look • Many so-called Platonic tentions. (William Styron) at a man without you throwing friendships are merely one-way perve (Austr) Usually followed a fucking fit?' (E.A. Whitehead) leches. (Sunday Times) • Until by at or on, meaning to ogle. • I do see her giving the glad eye this instant, hoping against hope, • She's a cheap thrill machine for to Pete. (Aldous Huxley)

3. b horny -cahente, cachondo

• What's the legal definition of 'obscene'. To es la definieion legal de 'obsceno'? be obscene, I must stimulate you sexually. Para ser obsceno, tengo que estimularte That's what obscene is — the prurient interest: sexualmente. Eso es lo que es obsceno — el if I get you horny. (Lenny Brace) interes lascivo: si yo te pongo cachondo. • I returned Sophie's squeeze with the clumsy . Devolvi el apreton de Sophie con la presion pressure of unrequited love, and realized as I torpe del amor no correspondido, y me di did so that I was so horny my balls had begun cuenta al hacerlo que estaba tan cachondo que to ache. (William Styron) mis huevos me habian empezado a doler. www.FreeLibros.org24 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY • He touched her cheek. 'You are a gorgeous- • Toc6 su mejilla. 'Eres una pieza esplendida, lookin' piece, Cass. Gets a guy all horny just Cass. Uno se pone todo cachondo con solo lookin' at you.' (James Leo Herlihy) mirarte.' • He was feeling so horny he decided to take • Se sentia tan cachondo que decidio tomarse the rest of the day off, cruise down the Sunset el resto del dia libre, pasar por la zona de Strip, and maybe find a cute thirty-dollar Sunset Strip, y quizas encontrar una prostitu- hooker who could suck the batteries out of a ta de treinta dolares que pudiese sacar las pi- flashlight. (Joseph Wambaugh) las de una linterna a chupetazos.

SYNONYMS: just an open guy, but sometimes randy-arsed • There he was, it seemed like he was bragging festooned by beefy, randy- cunt-struck Infatuated with — he wanted me to believe that arsed wives crying out for a women. • I like Van Norden but she was hot. (Hank Hyena) length. (H.C. Rae) • Hard though I do not share his opinion of randy • She had the rags up. it may be for randy-arsed adver- himself. I do not agree, for ex- The best time of all! Women are tisers to understand, for many ample, that he is a philosopher, always at their randiest during a people sex just isn't that im- or a thinker. He is cunt-struck, period. (E.A. Whitehead) • Any- portant. (Guardian) that's all. (Henry Miller) • We way, after he'd given my tits the turned-on The verb is to turn were all helplessly and hope- required amount of kneading, somebody on. • I don't see any lessly cunt-struck, a vulgar but he'd get really randy and put his chicks that turn me on any more. forcibly accurate expression. hand on my knee, which was the Here's how I know I'm getting old (Frank Sargeson) signal for me to open my legs. — I haven't seen any girls that re- hot • I had a married woman (E.A. Whitehead) • Do you re- ally stimulate me, that look good the other day who told me she member Corporal Pratt that we to me. (Lenny Bruce) • — Sam, hadn't had a lay for six months. knew in Iceland? I remember do you wanna come over here Can you imagine that? Jesus, him, the randy cunt. (Peter and make love to me? — No, I'd she was hot! I thought she'd tear Nichols) • These characters rather have a wet dream. — Well the cock off me. (Henry Miller) seemed bland compared with such then go up on Hollywood Boul- • He told me intimate details a memorable creation as Jack evard and pick yourself up a about Abigail's body and specif- Nicholson's randy Daryl Van queer if I can't turn you on, you ics about their sex life, highly Home (geddit?) in The Witches cocksucker! (Joseph Wambaugh) personal things... Maybe he was of Eastwick.' (Guardian)

3. c chat up -hgar, enrrollarse con

To chat someone up is to engage in flirtatious conversation with that person and usually to make sexual advances. Although neither obscene nor offensive, the term and its synonyms are included here for the sake of completeness.

* (UK) — Even now most men seem to think . — Incluso ahora la mayoria de los hombres they've got to feel you up before they fuck parecen creer que tienen que meterte mano an- you. — Yeah, I've often thought how nice it tes de follarte. — Si, con frecuencia he pen- would be if a bloke would walk into my place sado que agradable seria si un tio entrara en and fuck me and walk out again without casa, me follara y se largara sin enrollarse ni chatting me up or saying anything. Skip all decir nada. Pasar de toda esa mierda. the bullshit. (E.A. Whitehead) www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 25 * (UK) I got a drink, looked around, and then • Fui a por un trago, eche un vistazo, y me fui I went and sat next to the least repellent male a sentar al lado del varen menos repelente del in there, I chatted him up and then I took him lugar. Nos enrollamos y entonces le lleve a back to the house. (E,A. Whitehead) casa. . (UK) You know the way some men will chat . Ya sabes la forma en que los hombres se en- you up and then, hand on heart, they say: rollan y entonces, con la mano en el eorazon, 'There's something I must tell you... I'm dicen: 'Hay algo que te tengo que deck... es- married.' (E.A. Whitehead) toy casado.'

RELATED TERMS: Pride and Prejudice) is my course. • This is someone whom simple human need for Darcy I picked up off the street! Who be all over To display exces- to get off with Elizabeth. sucked me off before she even sive familiarity or affection to- (Helen Fielding) knew my name! (Philip Roth) wards someone. • I found the make a pass To make an amo- • It took me a while to realise continental practice of kissing rous advance. • Men seldom exactly what was happening. on both cheeks, often several make passes / At girls who wear There I was thinking he wanted times, in public, particularly re- glasses. (Dorothy Parker) • I've to hear my views on Proust, pellent. Tom Reagan knew this discussed the lack of a sex life while all the time the bastard only too well, yet each time we with my husband, who admits was only trying to pick me up. met he was all over me with it's psychological, and I tell him (Gabriella T. Oldfield) slabbers and smiles and secre- that I cannot be sure what I'll pull (UK) To pick up a sexual tive whispers. (Gabriella T. do if someone were to make a partner. • A handsome well-built Oldfield) pass at me, given my state. I'd lad like you, I shouldn't think get off with • I hovered indeci- like to be reckless and do some- you'd have any problem pulling sively, then started to sidle away, thing exciting. (Garrison Keillor) the birds. If you were that way at which point Simon said in an • I made a direct pass at Leslie as inclined. (Alan Beretta) irritated superior voice (one you, soon as we were back inside the put the make on (US) King funnily enough, never hear him front door, insinuating my arm Farouk, I read, he'd pull into some use when he is trying to get off around her waist, but she man- small town, Dubuque, Peoria... with you by the photocopier), aged to slip away with a tinkly he'd go put the make on some 'Did you want something, little laugh. (William Styron) waitress. So after work, they'd all Bridget?' (Helen Fielding) • The pick up To form a casual friend- go back to her place and start basis of my own addiction (to ship with a view to sexual inter- making it. (David Mamet)

3. d I fool around -tener enredos One meaning of the verb to fool around is to engage in aimless or irresponsible behaviour; another is to engage in casual sexual relations, usually extra-marital. This may cause some confusion. On the other hand, the synonyms are unambiguous.

• While I was away, some friends took . Mientras estuve fuera, algunos amigos lle- Danny to a party. A platonic female friend varon a Danny a una fiesta. Una amiga drove him home. They ended up fooling platonica le llevo a casa. Terminaron enro- around on the couch, although they didn't llandose en el sofa, aunque no llegaron muy go Very far. (Salon) lejos. www.FreeLibros.org26 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY * There are plenty of people who've strayed • Hay mucha gente que se ha distanciado en in their own marriages and know that it's still sus matrimonios y saben que, aun asi, es po- possible to love your spouse... But even those sible querer a su conyuge... Pero incluso esa people still feel a need to maintain the gente siente aun la necesidad de mantener la expected public stance that holds that good aceptada postura publica que insiste en que la people just don't fool around. (Salon) gente buena no se Ma con otros. . "Sexual relations means sexual intercourse,' • 'Relaciones sexuales significa, el coito,' dijo said Lewinsky. 'We were just fooling around, Lewinsky. 'Solo esta bamos jugueteando, Lin- Linda, just fooling around.' (Salon) da, solo jugueteando.' . — You said you only had sex with three • — Dijistes que solo te habias tirado a tres tios different guys; you never mentioned him! — distmtos; jnunca le mencionaste a e1! — Por- Because I never had sex with him. — You que nunca me lo tire. — Le chupaste la po- sucked his dick! — We went out a few times. lla! — Salimos unas cuantas veces. Nunca nos We never had sex but we fooled around. acostamos, pero jugueteamos. (Clerks) . Eric, my ex-lover, told me about this straight • Eric, mi ex-amante, me hablo de este tio he- guy, Johnny, who was an adorable, outrageous terosexual, Johnny, que era adorable, le en- flirt. He invited Johnny over for a few beers. cantaba flirtear. Invito a Johnny a tomar unas Johnny got drank. They started fooling around. cervezas. Johnny se emborracbo, Empezaron (Greg Nott) a enrollarse. . You like having balls? Ask yourself that • Te gusta tener huevos? Hazte esa pregunta question before you ever start cheating on antes de que se te ocurra empezar a ponerme me, fooling around with some floozie. los cueraos con alguna zorra. (Bernadette Share)

SYNONYMS: • Gary Kamiya, in his apology to tell you that.' (Courtney for Clinton's wild horniness, Weaver) put out (US) Of a woman who states, 'Men who cheat at golf, swing Often applied specifi- is sexually available, often fol- lie to their friends and screw cally to engaging in group sex, lowed by for. • At Coney Island around can be first-rate world partner-swapping, etc. • Chris- that day I thought she was go- leaders.' (Salon) • Apparently, tians who revere traditional ing to eat you up. And now you screwing around is acceptable for scriptural teaching are ignorant tell me it all went flooey. What's men, but not for women. (Salon) rubes. If you don't swing with the matter? I can't believe she • — What did you do with your the sodomites these days, you're wouldn't put out. (William youth? — Stayed out late, smoked nowheresville with the A-list Styron) • 'Southern girls,' I pot, screwed around. — Not your crowd. (Salon) • Stephanie added, thinking grimly of Mary grade school years; your high managed to break into the Alice Grimball, 'are tough to school years. (Chasing Amy) locked basement apartment penetrate, if you'll excuse the sleep around • 'In the '60s, again and this time found a phrase, but once they decide to everyone was hopping in and swinger's magazine with a cer- put out, they're awfully sweet in out of each other's bed. The tain page clipped. The swing- the sack.' (William Styron) rule then was, if you didn't ing couple on that page were screw around To be promiscu- sleep around, you were up- offering to share themselves ous, have many sexual partners. tight... but it's not prudent to with any other congenial cou- • A sex activist defends the right sleep around with many men ple who might write to their of gay men — and everybody nowadays.' She glanced at me post office box. (Joseph else — to screw around. (Salon) sidewise. 'I hope I don't have Wambaugh) www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 27 3. e I stud -semental

A man of great sexual prowess, or reputedly of great sexual prowess, by analogy with stallions kept for breeding. Related terms listed below refer to men considered simply as sexual objects.

• You treat me like your gigolo, not your man. • Me tratas como si fuera tu gigolo, y no como No wonder I feel like a pimp, like a stud, like hombre. No es de extrafiar que me sienta como a fucking consort. (Erica Jong) un chulo, como un semental, como un jodido consorte. • You've got it in your head that Alyssa's not • Se te ha metido en la cabeza que a Alyssa really into chicks — that she just hasn't met realmente no le van los tios - que es solo por- the right man. And you believe you're it. que no ha conocido al hombre adecuado. Y tu You're going to treat her right, fuck her like a te crees que si lo eres. La vas a tratar bien, stud, and 'strait-jacket' her back from the land follarla como un cabron, y traerla de golpe de of the lost. (Chasing Amy) vuelta de la tierra de las perdidas. • Ron Jeremy is the world's most famous male • Ron Jeremy es la estrella masculina del porn star. He's 43 years old, 5-foot-7 and a porno mas famosa del mundo. Tiene 43 anos, slice of cheesecake away from 200 pounds. mide 170 centimetros, y le falta un pelo para He's also as hairy as a Qua Pet. A stereotypical llegar a las 95 kilos. Es tan peludo como un stud, Ron Jeremy is not. (Salon) oso. Ron Jeremy no es exactamente el tipico semental. • What a flourishing business for busy creative • Que negocio mas prospero para empresa- women! AIDS-tested studs for the creative rias creativas! Sementales garantizados de es- woman (or the busy executive) who doesn't want tar libres de sida para la mujer creativa (o para to get involved. But of course it would never la ejecutiva ocupada). La mayoria de las mu- work. Most women don't want studs, AIDS- jeres no quieren sementales, con garantia anti- tested or not — they want love. (Erica Jong) sida o sin ella — quieren amor.

RELATED TERMS: the briefs of our era's most cently to a romanticism hungered-after hunks. (Hank for Latin toy boys, apparent in hunk • 'What a hunk!' She ran Hyena) the sudden popularity of Ricki her claws down the big cop's toy boy Applied to a woman's Martin. (Salon) chest, raking the plunging ny- much younger male lover. wet dream See also 3.j below. lon shirt. (Joseph Wambaugh) • Americans imagine that • I was crazy about this guy. • It's Gwyneth's private life Mexican drug lords have in- Tall, slim, long hair, blazing that has women most curious. fected their innocent teens. blue eyes... a wet dream walk- After all, she's burrowed into This view, I think, has led re- ing. (E.A. Whitehead)

3. f hard-on -erection

• Amidst these flushed and giggling girls... • Entre estas sofocadas y alegres muchachas... I am so awed that I am in a state of desire estoy tan atemorizado que me hallo en un es- beyond a hard-on. My circumcised little tado de deseo que se situa mas alla de la erec- dong is simply shriveled up with veneration. ci6n. Mi circunciso pene esta simplemente, (Philip Roth) encogido de veneracion. www.FreeLibros.org28 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY « But who wins an argument with a hard-on? • Pero £quien gana una discusi6n con una pi- ... Know that famous proverb? When the prick cha tiesa? Conoces ese famoso proverbio? stands up, the brains get buried in the ground! jCuando la polla se levanta, el cerebro queda When the prick stands up, the brains are as sepultado en el suelo! jCuando la polla se yer- good as dead! (Philip Roth) gue, el cerebro esta eomo muerto! » God has a hard-on for marines because we • Dios lo tiene dificil con los marines porque kill everything we see! He plays His games, matamos a todo el que vemos! jEl juega a sus we play ours! (Full Metal Jacket) juegos, nosotros a los nuestros! • But of course I couldn't... I rolled off of her • Pero, naturalmente, no pude... Me separe de and came to rest, defeated, against the wall ella derrotado y apoye la espalda contra la pa- — on my back. 'It's no good,' I said, 'I can't red. —Es imttil —dije—. No se me puede en- get a hard-on in this place.' (Philip Roth) derezar en este lugar. • Quickly, quickly, quickly! Do you feel dizzy? • Rapido, rapido, rapido! Te sientes marea- Do you feel faint? Jesus H. Christ, I think you've do? Te vas a desmayar? Jestis, creo que se got a hard-on! (Full Metal Jacket) te ha puesto dura! • 'I gotta try me some of that,' said an old guy • 'Voy a darme el gusto de probarlo,' dijo un down at the end of the bar. 'I haven't had a viejo desde el fondo del bar. 'No se me ha hard-on since Teddy Roosevelt took his last puesto dura desde que Teddy Roosevelt tomo hill.' (Charles Bukowski) su ultima colina.'

SYNONYMS: bile accidents in the hope that your penis did the thinking for such grave thoughts will cause you. (Henry Miller) blue veiner • He had finally my boner to recede before the rise Usually in the expression managed to get a dance with Ida bell rings and I have to stand. to get a rise. • — Have you Keely, a cute communications (Philip Roth) fucked Sue? What was it like? operator with eyes like a deer. horn • Tills became amorous — It was okay, only I couldn't He had a blue veiner even be- again in about fifteen minutes. I get a proper rise. (Martin Amis) fore the song began. (Joseph got the horn. But I didn't really stand • Labri was lying on the Wambaugh) • I think I'm getting want to be bothered doing much. bed naked, playing with his impotent. I haven't awakened (Joe Orton) cock, which was completely one morning in the past week ramrod • There's just a crack limp. 'He hasn't been able to get with a diamond cutter. Or even a there between her legs and you a hard-on!' Kenneth said in blue veiner. (Joseph Wambaugh) get all steamed up about it — terms of the utmost disapproval. bone, boner • In the classroom you don't even look at it half the 'A fifteen-year-old boy and he I sometimes set myself con- time. You know it's there and all can't get a stand on. It's abso- sciously to think about death and you think about is getting your lutely shameful.' (Joe Orton) hospitals and horrible automo- ramrod inside: it's as though

3. g babe -bombon, ninfa

The following terms, denoting a sexually attractive woman, are neither obscene nor offensive. They may be contrasted in this respect with the terms in 3.h below.

• Ray Bones sits on a boat with his boss, » Ray Bones se sienta en el barco con su jefe, Jimmy Cap, and two bikini-clad babes, both Jimmy Cap, y con dos tias buenas en bikini, of whom rub lotion on Jimmy. (Get Shorty) las cuales frotan a Jimmy con crema. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 29 • Paradoxically, while the US was churning • Paradojicamente, mientras que los Estados out the ditsy, vulnerable Californian pale babe Unidos promocionaba la tipica californiana pa- as the American dream, the German Nazis lida tonta como el prototipo del sueno america- were also extolling the purity of the blonde as no, los nazis alemanes tambien estaban alabando the Aryan ideal. (Guardian) la pureza de la rubia como el ideal ario. • Meanwhile the fanfare around the blond • Mientras tanto, la fanfarria alrededor de la tia chick has increased. — 'Who are you? And rubia ha subido de tono. — ' Quien eres? Y why is everyone taking your picture?' -'I'm por que todos te estan haciendo fotos?' — 'Soy the new Baywatch babe. Brooke Burns.' la nueva tia buena de Vigilantes de la play a. (Salon) Brooke Burns.' • Greg's dorm room: a shrine to hot babes, • La habitaci6n del colegio mayor de Greg: whose posters adorn the walls. (Cruel un santuario dedicado a las tias buenas, cu- Intentions) yos posters adornan las paredes. • Just look at how hot all the sci-fi babes are • Mira que buenas estan todas las ninfas que in their clingy jumpsuits. (Salon) hacen ciencia ficcion con sus monos apre- tados.

SYNONYMS out with. 'What's a lovely dolly of a hooker's heart of gold. (New like you doing slaving away in York Times) bit of all right (UK) Haven't an office?' Translation: 'Wanna stunner Not to be outdone, CBI you seen Colin's missis, then. fuck?' (E.A. Whitehead) director general Adair Turner Came down here the other day. fox (US) • It was Cassius Clay, strode up to a real stunner in She's a bit of all right, I can tell as he then called himself, ac- tight trousers and was soon en- you. She got a right few stares. companied by two gorgeous gaged in a passionate embrace (Alan Beretta) foxes. (Sporting News) • He but media interest waned on dolly, dollybird (UK) Most of knows what happens when a identification of the lucky the blokes are married... You cute-looking fox gets loose in an lady. Mrs Turner. (Guardian) oughta hear the crap they come urban kitchen and the true value

3. h a piece of ass -unpolvo

This is an American usage, understood in the UK but not imitated. One does not speak of a piece of arse. As the following terms refer to women considered strictly as sexual objects, individually or collectively, they may all be considered more or less objectionable. Some of the terms are more specific than others.

•You're why I'm killing myself to be something • jTu eres la razon por la cual me estoy ma- more than just somebody's dumb and stupid tando para ser algo mas que el culo tonto y piece of ass! And now you want to treat me estiSpido de alguien! Y ahora quieres tratarme like I'm nothing but just some hump, to use como si no fuera mas que un ligue, de usar y — use for every kinky weirdo thing you want tirar — usar para las cosas mas estrafalarias y to do. (Philip Roth) cachondas que se te ocurran. * She was beautiful! She was young! She was . Erahermosa! Erajoven! jErainocente! Era innocent! She was the greatest piece of ass el mejor culo que habia tenido, ;y los he teni- I've ever had, and I've had 'em all over the do por todo el mundo! world! (The Godfather) www.FreeLibros.org30 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY • 'He said I was a wonderful piece of ass,' she • 'Dijo que era un polvo estupendo,' anuncid announced nostalgically, and shortly after this, nostalgicamente, y al poco rato, me dijo, 'Nos told me, 'We used to love to fuck in front of encantaba foliar delante de espejos.' mirrors,' (William Styron) • Hello, poor ! How'd you like a • jHola, basurita blanca! Te gustaria catar un piece of ass, poor white trash? (Charles buen culo, basurita blanca? Bukowski)

RELATED TERMS: this includes the old floozy in people (it is called satyriasis in Charlotte who wore a stained men, nymphomania in women) ass Used to describe women and malodorous shift throughout who engage in it compulsively collectively as objects of sexual the whole proceeding. (William and without joy. — Listen, desire. • Then he comes back Styron) Maude, I'm sorry if your step- from the Army and all he cares fuck • You're a lousy fuck. Your mother is a nympho, but I don't about is chasing ass. (John friend, Joan, is a better fuck than see what it has to do with me. Updike) you are... and she's a lousy fuck. (The Big Lebowski) • I suppose bimbo Usually, a sexually at- (David Mamet) you think I'm some kind of tractive young woman of limited jailbait Used of a girl who is nympho? I don't want to be too intelligence; sometimes, a pros- too young to have sex with le- statistical about it, but I am titute. • Sexual infidelity is not gally. • The next year they thirty-eight and I've only fucked the worst thing in the world. Let drifted to Paris, where Farina seven men. (E.A. Whitehead) Dart fuck bimbos, as long as he fell in love with Mimi Baez, a pussy • Mexico, that's a good always comes home to me. lovely piece of 15-year-old place. They got that good pussy (Erica Jong) • Do you know a lit- jailbait. Farina would eventually down there. (Robert Stone) tle bimbo called June? A nutty- divorce his wife. (Salon) • Man, didn't we have a good looking little blonde? (Robert lay • Didn't even say Au revoir time tonight? You rode in my Stone) Walks off swinging her hat and car. I showed you a good cat bike Short for bicycle. • All I humming to herself like. That's house, all that sweet black knew about her was what Ivor a whore for you! A good lay pussy. Ain't we friends? (David had told me, that she was the of- though. (Henry Miller) • He had Rabe) • Let's talk about pussy. fice bike, that every man in the had many a lay but never had a Did you get laid last night? place had ridden the arse off her. more exciting sexual experience (James Ellroy) (Alice Chapman) than scrubbing and lathering the root (Austr) • Johnny Bickel chippy • Momma, Poppa, this is paddy whores. Even now he thought she'd be an easy root my wife, the chippy. Isn't she a got a blue veiner every time he and began to take notice of her. wild piece of ass? (Philip Roth) held a bar of soap. (Joseph (Donald Ireland) crumpet Oh, young man like Wambaugh) • She's the girl you screw • As a matter of fact, she you, soccer star and all that... used to go around with in col- isn't such a great screw, but at shouldn't think you'd go short of lege? She's a good lay. (William least she doesn't nag me day and crumpet? (E.A. Whitehead) Gaddis) night, the way you do. (Alice floozie, floozy • She never had man-eater A sexually voracious Chapman) what it takes to be a call girl like woman. • This chick, Elois, was scrubber (UK) • — I didn't care you — so getting control of your a man-eater-upper. I bet every if he screwed the odd scrubber mind was her revenge. Janelle's guy who's ever met her has now and again. It meant nothing just a puffed up bridge-and-tun- jacked off to her at least once. to me. I could stand it if he nel floozy who thinks she knows (Reservoir Dogs) could. But he couldn't. He let it something about human psy- nympho A sexually voracious go to his head. — He's a roman- chology because she has a CSW. woman. • — It is a male myth tic. (E.A. Whitehead) (Salon) • I had yet to witness a about feminists that we hate sex. slag • He managed to get Judge woman entirely unclothed — and Unfortunately there are some James Pickles to admit that if www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 31 you murdered someone and then a bunch of goofs he works — the Moroccan girl and her girl- said 'it was because he called swingers, whip freaks, far-out friend. They were behaving ex- my mum a slag' you would prob- shit like that. (Robert Stone) actly like English tarts in the for- ably get away with manslaugh- • Some operators have converted ties. (Joe Orton) • 'Confounded ter. (Guardian) nudist colonies into 'swinger whore!' he suddenly bellowed, spare • I got the impression camps', the new rural retreats in a voice which nearly blew me Maurice was on the look-out for for the randy. (Time) from my seat. 'Slut! Malicious a bit of spare. Some of the girls tail Often used in the expressions tart!' (Akbar del Piombo) we get in here don't leave much a bit of tail and a piece of tail. tramp • Yeah, I remember her. to the imagination. (Roger • Where's all the tail today? No Song and dance. Nice legs and Busby) Hermione, no Bunty, no generous with 'em. She went off swinger Often applied specifi- Christabel? (Jeremy Potter) somewheres. How would I know cally to someone who partici- • Him and four buddies want a what them tramps do? pates in group sex, partner- little dough to get a high class (Raymond Chandler) swapping, etc. • I been associ- piece of tail. (George V. trim • I know what you need. A ated with a guy. He's English, Higgins) little trim. (Joseph Wambaugh) he used to be a masseur. He's got tart • What interested me was

3. i cockteaser -calientapollas

• In front of me was a well-groomed woman • Delante mio habia una mujer de muy buena reading a paper. Her dress was up around her catadura leyendo un peri6dico. Su vestido le thighs. She crossed her legs and her dress mo- quedaba bastante por encima de los musios. ved up even higher. The goddamned cockteaser, Cruzo sus piernas y el vestido subio aun mas. I'd give her a hundred strokes, I'd give her Maldita calientapollas, le daria un centenar de seven-and-a-half inches of throbbing purple! embestidas. jLe darfa veinticinco centfmetros (Charles Bukowski) de purpura palpitante!

SYNONYMS: mate. Not worth torturing your- self. You know what they are? prickteaser — Did you get your They're just a couple of prick- hole? — No. — Never mind, teasers. (E.A. Whitehead)

3. j wet dream -sueno humedo

• Adolescence brought the same fevered • La adolescencia trajo las mismas fantasias fantasies and wet dreams everyone febriles y suenos humedos que todo el mundo experiences, but by that time I suppose my siente, pero para entonces supongo que mi ac- attitude was set — if I thought about titud ya estaba fijada - si es que llegaba a pen- masturbation at all, it was only as something sar en la rnasturbacion, solo era como algo other, icky little boys did. (Salon) asqueroso que hacian los otros chicos. * I know it's a cliche to say that films are like • Ya Se que es un topico decir que las pelicu- dreams — like a collective unconscious. There las son como los suenos - como una sub- are horror movies which are like nightmares, conciencia colectiva. Hay peliculas de terror and then there are dirty movies like Deep que son como pesadillas, y luego hay pelfcu- www.FreeLibros.org32 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY Throat and Emmanuelle which are like wet las guarras como Gargania profunda y dreams. (Jonathan Coe) Emmanuelle que son como suenos humedos. * It was suddenly as if my life were taking • Era, de pronto, como si mi vida se desarrollara place in the middle of a wet dream. There I en medio de un sueno humedo. Alli estaba yo, was, going down at last on the star of all those convertido al fin en el protagonista de to- pornographic films that I had been producing das aquellas pellculas pornograficas que in my head since I first laid a hand upon my habia estado produciendo en mi cabeza des- own joint. (Philip Roth) de que puse por primera vez la mano sobre mi propia polla.

www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 33 EXERCISE 3.1 In each of the following lists, all the words are synonymous except one. Spot the odd man out and explain why the word in question is misplaced. 1. (a) boner (b) stand (c) horn (d) stud (e) ramrod (f) blue veiner 2. (a) turned-on (b) randy (c) randy-arsed (d) hot (e) dolly (f) cunt-struck 3. (a) lay (b) man-eater (c) nympho (d) tart (e) bimbo (f) stunner 4. (a) crumpet (b) wet dream (c) toy boy (d) hunk (e) stud 5. (a) the hots (b) jailbait (c) hot pants (d) lech (e) the glad eye (f) perve

EXERCISE 3.2 Here are some less common idiomatic and slang terms for body functions, nine of which have been dealt with in this chapter. Try to identify the subject to which each group of synonyms and related terms refers. 1. alley cat, bangster, bed ing pride, Proud Mary, rock 4. animal, basher, bed-presser, bunny, calico queen, easy python, spike, stalk, stand- belly bumper, Bluebeard, meat, free-for-all, goober up, stiff, stiffer, Steely Dan, chimney sweep, cock grabber, grassback, grind, throbber, woody hound, cocksman, high flyer, hobby horse, hot 3. brimming, bulging, drip- cocksmith, eager beaver, number, hot stuff, Miss ping for it, frisky, gamy, fleece hunter, flesh fly, hair Horner, nestlecock, piece of humpy, in the mood, monger, headhunter, make- stray, push-over, roundheel, juiced up, juicy, lathered, out artist, Mr Horner, pinch- scupper, shagstress, slot-job moist, motor running, on bottom, rooster, rutter, 2. burgeoning truncheon, Cap- for one's greens, oncom- sexpert, sharpshooter, tain Standish, chubby, flag- ing, pruney, rammish, sportsman, stallion, swords- pole, Irish toothache, morn- rooty, ruttish, wet man, woodman

EXERCISE 3.3 Translate the following sentences into English. 1. Ron Jeremy no es exactamente el tipico semental. 2. A he pensado que agradable seria si un tio entrara en casa, me follara y se largara sin enrollarse ni decir nada. 3. Me quite los pantalones y empece a besarla. Se me empalmo rapidamente. 4. Esta enconado con mi amiga, es asqueroso. 5. Mira que buenas estan todas las ninfas de sciencia ficcion con sus monos apretados. 6. Salimos unas cuantas veces. Nunca nos acostamos, pero jugueteamos. 7. Cruzo sus piernas y el vestido se retrayo mas aun. La maldita calientapollas! 8. No hables asi, me estas poniendo cachonda. 9. jEra hermosa! jEra joven! Era inocente! Era la mejor culo que habia tenido en mi vida! 10. No se me ha puesto dura desde hace siglos. 11. ;Un hijo de puta intento ligarseme! (Era de lo mas grosero! jRealmente odio a esos tipos! jSon repugnantes! 12. Hay peliculas guarras como Garganta profunda que son como suenos humedos. 13. Era excitante. Me senti como si estuviese siendo violado. Se me empezo a empalmar la polla. 14. Quien en su sano juicio hubiera creido que ella estaba loca por el ? 15. Relaciones sexuales significa el coito. Solo estabamos jugueteando. 16. — Clara me engana. — Que quieres decir? — Que mi mujer se acuesta con otros. 17. Era, de pronto, como si mi vida estuviera desenvolviendo en medio de una polucion nocturna. 18. Pude ver aquellas largas piernas, las rodillas, los delicados tobillos. Empece a ponerme cachondo. 19. 'Dijo que tenia un culo estupendo,' anuncio Laura nostalgicamente. 20. La escuche respirar fuertemente, luego gemir. Me excitaba. Se me empal- mo. www.FreeLibros.org34 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY EXERCISE 3.4 (Several women are reminiscing about their sexual experiences. One of them tells how she reacted to being abandoned by her husband.) When Edward walked out on me I was desperate. I mean, I was a fucking housewife, had no job, no friends, no contact with anyone. Completely isolated. And I was so angry and humiliated that I was determined to get myself fucked by the first man I could. But could I? I couldn't even meet a man. I mean, I wasn't invited out, the other wives I knew treated me as if I was a fucking leper or something. So finally I had to force myself to go and sit in a pub. I got a drink, looked around, and then I went and sat next to the least repellent male in there. I chatted him up and then I took him back to the house. I'd got everything ready in advance... I'd left the kids at my mother's so we had the place to ourselves ... and we sat on the couch and started snogging. Well... I don't know if it was all the snogging or what but I chickened out. I told him I couldn't make it... because I knew he thought I was on the game. Somehow that thought turned me right off. I said maybe if we could meet again I might feel different, might feel better then. You know what he said? He said he couldn't make assignations because then he'd feel like he was betraying his wife but if he banged me on the spot then he wouldn't feel so bad about it! What a fucking hypocrite! I told him to bugger off. Then he asked me... well, if I wouldn't fuck, could he lick me out and wank himself off? That shook me... I'd never heard of anything like that before! I mean, Edward had never been really hot at sex, and what he had done had always been pretty conventional... he was playing the good Catholic boy, of course... but anyway I was curious so I told this bastard to go right on with it. You know what he said? He said, 'OK, you go and wash it.' Wash it! Christ, it was all right to stick his dick in me but not his precious tongue! But I was stupid enough to trot to the bathroom and do it! After he'd gone I could have kicked myself. There was come all over the couch and I could never get rid of the stains.

From the play Old Flames by E.A. Whitehead

Using what you have learned in this chapter and in the preceding exercises and what you can guess from the context, find words or phrases in the above passage corresponding to these descriptions: 1. A deprecatory adjective used for negative emphasis but with no particular meaning. 2. A verb meaning to have sexual intercourse, to perform the sex act. 3. A verb meaning to engage in flirtatious conversation with a person and usually to make sexual advances. 4. A verb meaning to kiss and caress. 5. An adverbial phrase which means engaged in prostitution. 6. A verb meaning to have sexual intercourse with a woman. 7. A phrasal verb meaning to leave, depart, go away. 8. A phrasal verb meaning to perform cunnilingus. 9. A verb meaning to masturbate. 10. A deprecatory term which can be used of any male. 11. A word which means penis. 12. A word which means semen. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 35 4: SEXUAL ACTIVITY 4. a grope -magrear Used as a verb, the word refers to fondling or attempting to fondle someone's genitals or a woman's breasts. As a noun, it refers to foreplay involving manual stimulation of the genitals.

• Diana Ross' reaction to an alleged mid-frisk • La reaccion de Diana Ross hacia la supues- breast brush by a female security guard at ta rozadura de pecho en pleno cacheo por par- London's Heathrow Airport was to grope the te de una encargada de seguridad en el grabby gal right back and sweetly inquire, aeropuerto de Heathrow en Londres fue la de 'How do you like it?' (Salon) meterle mano y preguntarle con dulzura, Te gusta?' * What? No lustful gallants eager to give you • Que? No hubo ningun galan lujurioso an- your first experience? Your first tender, never- sioso de proporcionarte tu primera experien- to-be-forgotten grope? (E.A. Whitehead) cia? £Tu primera tierna, e inolvidable, metida de mano? . Willey had come directly to her home after a • Willey habia venido directamente a su casa tras November 1996 meeting with Clinton, 'upset una reunion en noviembre de 1996 con Clinton, and humiliated', allegedly because the 'disgustada y humillada', al parecer porque el president had 'groped' her. (Salon) presidente le habia 'metido mano'. • You're jammed into the crowd with no way • Estas atascada en medio de la multitud sin out and all the time the men are staring at you poder salir y los hombres no paran de mirarte and pressing against you. Their hands are all y achucharte. Sus manos estan por todo tu over you. Oh, not the Italian pinch on the cuerpo. Oh, no merefiero al tipico pellizco ita- bottom, I mean they're really feeling your liano en el culo, sino a que estan tocandote de body and squeezing and groping at you. (E.A. verdad, apretujandose contra ti, y metiendote Whitehead) rnano.

RELATED TERMS: The following words denote different degrees of amorous engagement, or different stages of foreplay, from the relatively innocent (neck, footsie, smooch) to the more intense (dryhump, finger-fuck). canoodle (US) To kiss and cud- • She was raised in this house. The in Newark, New Jersey, finger- dle. • One year I lived in a com- girl who has let me undo her bras- fucking your little Jewish girl mune where I loved and slept siere and dryhump her at the dor- friends! (Philip Roth) with two men, both Teamsters, mitory door, grew up in this white • She wants you to fingerfuck one of whom worked the day shift house. (Philip Roth) her shikse cunt till she faints. while the other worked nights. I feel up To fondle someone's (Philip Roth) • Your days of fin- canoodled with Cary on the sofa genitals. • He literally bumped ger-banging old Mary Jane for a couple hours in the after- into Ziggy feeling up the pretti- Rottencrotch through her pretty noon, and with Marcus during the est girl at the party in a dark damp pink panties are over! (Full night. (Susie Bright) corner. (Mordecai Richler) Metal Jacket) dryhump, dryfuck (US) To ap- fingerfuck, fingerbang To insert footsie Amorous and clandes- proximate the sex act without pen- a finger or fingers in the vulva. tine play with the feet. Nearly etration or divestiture, and (so the • I was a guest at Aly Khan's for always in the expression to play term implies) without orgasm. dinner when you were still back footsie. Often used figuratively, www.FreeLibros.org36 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY as in the second example. • I neck To kiss and caress. • — dawned propelled the famously played footsie with her during You know what I'm doing, unromantic couple into each oth- Don Jose's first seduction by George? — No, Martha... what er's arms for a New Year smooch. Carmen. (George Fowler) • Why are you doing? — I'm entertain- (Guardian) • The smooching be- don't you admit it, Irma? You ing. I'm entertaining one of the gins, quite pleasurable at first, played footsie with the SS, guests. I'm necking with one of and after interminable minutes didn't you? Isn't that how you the guests. (Edward Albee) of this foreplay, there starts the got out of Auschwitz, Irma? slap and tickle (UK) Light- repetitious and inevitable build- (William Styron) hearted kissing and caressing. up... (William Styron) make out • Through the window, • He'd woo her the way she ob- snog (UK) To kiss and caress. we see a couple making out on the viously wanted, flowers and at- • I liked him. I thought he was a hood of a car. (Chasing Amy) tention and not too much slap really nice boy. The only thing, • Holden glances at the disc in and tickle. (Colleen McCullough) he always wanted to snog. The his hands. Pictured on it are two smooch To kiss and caress, es- main event of an evening out, for gorgeous chicks, barely clad, pecially while dancing to slow, him, was the snogging session making out. The title is 'Men romantic music. • That was in the back of the car. (E.A. Suck., and so do Girls — All probably a relief for the dimly Whitehead) XXX Action.' (Chasing Amy) lit duo, who had predicted the touch up To fondle someone's • Cecile, we just made out in the end of the world in a special genitals. • Good-looking tart... I middle of Central Park. You can millennium X-Files episode. wouldn't have minded her touch- trust me. (Cruel Intentions) Excitement at being alive as 2000 ing me up. (Clive Egleton)

4. b fuck -joder, foliar

The most popular swearword in English entered the language at the beginning of the 16th century, origin unknown but perhaps related to German ficken, to strike, to copulate with. The verb is used transitively and intransitively. Numerous idiomatic uses are examined in Chapter 10.

• Most other countries weren't even inhabita- • La mayoria de los demas paises ni siquiera ble anymore. They had too many people and eran habitables. Tenian demasiada gente y no not enough space... and still the people went habia suficiente espacio... pero la gente se- on fucking all the time. Fucking was how guia follando sin parar. Follando era como se babies were made. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) hacian los ninos. • Before I went into analysis I was completely • Antes de empezar con las sesiones de tera- frigid, can you imagine? Now all I do is think pia era completamente frigida, £te lo imagi- about fucking. Wilhelm Reich has turned me nas? Ahora lo unico que hago es pensar en into a nympho, I mean sex on the brain. foliar. Wilhem Reich me ha convertido en una (William Styron) ninfomana, con sexo en el seso. * After all a wife is a human being. She needs • Despues de todo, una esposa es un ser hu- a fuck as much as we do. What else is there? mano. Necesita ser follada tanto como noso- A feed, a fuck, a good kip... (E.A. Whitehead) tras. Que otra cosa hay? Comer, foliar, echar una cabezada... * I would look at myself in the mirror, pinch • Me miraba en el espejo, me pellizcaba la the skin under my chin, and decide that I was piel bajo la barbilla, y decidia que estaba pa- going through menopause and was drying up sando por la menopausia, y me estaba que- for want of a good fuck. I am not the sort of dando seca de tantas ganas que tenia de que woman who goes without sex without a me follaran. No soy el tipo de mujer que pue- protest. (Erica Jong) de pasar del sexo sin protestar. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 37 • When was the last time you had a fuck? Is • Cuando fue la ultima vez que follaste? Te that an embarrassing question for you? da corte la pregunta? (Naked)

SYNONYMS: Barnard) • But if you do get laid • I unzipped my fly, pulled down ... if you do manage to moisten my underpants and came on ball Especially of a man. the old wick, how many people Clive's belly. He later told me • That's what any eighteen-year- would stop, before, during, or he'd had it off with a photogra- old chick or thirty-year-old after, and give thanks to a just pher the previous night and so chick will tell you when you take creator? (David Mamet) wasn't much concerned with hav- her out: 'You don't love me, you frig Euphemistic, the original ing it away himself. (Joe Orton) just want to ball me.' (Lenny meaning being to move briskly. hump • — You're disgusting. — Bruce) • And you can tell the • High-pressure romancing: find Because you're going to hump world all about those chicks that 'em, fool 'em, frig 'em and for- Martha, I'm disgusting? (Edward you ball. (Gore Vidal) • What get 'em. (Mezzrow & Wolfe) Albee) • She's moaning and Tom Cruise doesn't know is get one's hole • I was like a groaning and about to go the she's really a hooker, and Jim young bull in those days, getting whole long route. Humping and Belushi's been balling her. my hole three times a night and bumping, and she's screaming ... (Jonathan Coe) still not satisfied. (John Ogilby) all of a sudden she screams bang • He is nine years old. get one's end away (UK) • They 'Wait.' (David Mamet) • Story is Where does he learn phrases like called him Grandad, asking him he humped the faculty wives in 'banging beaver' and 'fuck how his girlfriends were. 'Are alphabetical order. (Malcolm God'? (Deconstructing Harry) you getting it?' they kept repeat- Bradbury) • Less a Don Juan • — This Ms. Allen next door, ing. 'Getting your end away?' than a beta male, I resembled one was he banging her? — I don't (Guardian) of those bachelor sea elephants think so, man, she's like sev- get one's leg over • My God, who gets in some humping when- enty-five years old. (Sea of she wears these tight little skirts. ever the alpha king of the harem Love) • I've been trying to bang I don't know if she realises the falls asleep. (Hank Hyena) this broad for a fucking month effect she has on a bloke like me. jump • She admitted she always now. The only thing is she won't What do you reckon the chances wanted him to jump her. (Robert go out with me alone, you know. of getting a leg over are? (Alan L. Chapman) (GoodFellas) Beretta) knock off (UK) How long's he bonk (UK) • — What is a proper get one's oats • — What's got been knocking off the vicar's relationship? — Living with into you tonight? Needing your wife then? (Alan Beretta) someone who talks to you after oats or something? — I had lay Mostly used passively, to be they've bonked you. (Naked) what you call my oats last night. laid or to get laid. • While you're • Fiona has become so frustrated I do not need them again tonight. struggling with a little bitch like that she has been bonking the (John McGrath) that there may be a dozen cunts chairman of the neighbouring get one's rocks off Used of a on the terrasse just dying to be constituency's Conservative as- man. • Nothing... nothing makes laid. It's a fact. They all come sociation. (Daily Telegraph) you so attractive to the opposite over here to get laid... I had a diddle • She suspects that your de- sex as getting your rocks off on married woman the other day crepit alcoholic father is diddling a regular basis. (David Mamet) who told me she hadn't had a lay the maid. (Cruel Intentions) goose Sometimes denoting spe- for six months. (Henry Miller) dip one's wick Used of a man, cifically anal intercourse. • W.H. • The Way to Get Laid is to Treat from the notion of inserting the Auden says that it is more mor- 'Em like Shit. (David Mamet) penis. • None of your barmaids ally confusing to be goosed by a make it • We were legally sepa- or local peasant wenches for bishop than by a traveling sales- rated. I made it with a lotta Pete. He's very calculating man. (Erica Jong) chicks, you're entitled to make it where he dips his wick. (Robert have it off, have it away (UK) with a lotta guys. (Lenny Bruce) www.FreeLibros.org38 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY • How could you make it with that he stops poking and starts read their Bibles over you while him? That fat, disgusting piece of lusting. (E.A. Whitehead) they screw you in the ass. (Joseph — you cunt! (Lenny Bruce) ride • She mounted him and rode Wambaugh) • 'Roscoe'd screw the make out (US) Often, as in him until they climaxed to- crack of dawn,' said Father Willie. these examples, stressing suc- gether. (S. Allen) • She was the (Joseph Wambaugh) cess in achieving sexual inter- college bike, everybody had rid- shag • — Did you have to beat course, but it also means simply den her. (James Laffan) • — Do her up? —- I never beat her up. kissing and cuddling. See 4.a you mind if I take my new — You shagged her, though? above. • 'You want to know how Porsche for a ride? — Kathryn, (Naked) • 'I've got to meet truck drivers make out with the only thing you're going to be someone,' I whispered desper- women, right?' the driver said. riding is me. (Cruel Intentions) ately. 'Shame,' he said softly. 'See 'You have this idea that every • Can't get a bird: no chance you Monday,' and gave me a look driver is fucking up a storm from of a ride. Got a bird: too much so dirty I felt like throwing my- coast to coast, right?' (Kurt hassle. (Trainspotting) self after him shouting 'Shag me! Vonnegut Jr.) root • I don't eat pork... I don't Shag me!' (Helen Fielding) • Those fucking firemen make eat filthy animals. Pigs sleep and • Feeling a bewildering mixture out like bandits. (David Mamet) root in shit. That's a filthy ani- of smugness and pride over my • Here I am pushing thirty years mal. (Pulp Fiction) perfect new boyfriend whom the old. I fall crazy in love with a score Stressing success in girls clearly wished to have a go Polish shiksa and she keeps her achieving sexual intercourse. at shagging. (Helen Fielding) sweet treasure all locked up as • — This is where you take shtup (US) Yiddish, to push, to tightly as little Shirly Mirmelstein straight chicks on dates? — shove. • With those legs — why, I tried to make out with for five This'11 probably be the first time of course he was shtupping her whole years. (William Styron) I don't score afterwards. — I don't ... Wasn't he? (Philip Roth) nail • Name me one chick in our know. I'm starting to get a tingle slip it to somebody • Could he senior class that Rick Derris in my bottom. (Chasing Amy) have been slipping it to her? didn't nail, for Christ's sake! screw • Sergeant Yanov's only Could my father have been slip- (Chasing Amy) • I'm also learned immediate passion in life ... was ping it to this lady on the side? in the ways of the heart, and can some night to drag officer Reba (Philip Roth) offer you this advice: nail her, get Hadley away from the nightwatch stuff Used of a male. • He was it out of your system, and move desk and into the basement and sacked from Eton for stuffing the on. (Chasing Amy) • — How did rip her tight blue uniform blouse boys' maids. (Sunday Times) it go with Mrs. Jesus? — If you're and skirt from her tantalizing • — I love her, but she has a past. asking if I nailed her, the answer young body and literally screw the — I'll say. Stuffing two guys, eat- is no. (Cruel Intentions) badge right off her. Which was ing chicks out. (Chasing Amy) poke • Working-class morality... perhaps symbolically linked with tear it off a bit Used of a man It's a stallion-style morality. The Yanov's avowed belief that supe- having sex with a woman. • Ital- principle is very simple: the rior officers had been screwing ian wives must sit and suffer if male pokes everything he can get him mercilessly for the past the men tear off a bit on the sly. until one day he inadvertently eleven years. (Joseph Wambaugh) (Custom Car) pokes himself into wedlock; after • Those maggots like to

4. c nooky, nookie -polvos

. Dustin Hoffman also nailed huge numbers • Dustin Hoffman, en su momento cumbre, of nookie in his prime, notes a Nov. 15 article tambien en grandes cantidades, indica in the Evening Standard of London. 'If anyone un articulo del 15 de noviembre en el Evening thinks Jack Nicholson and I got laid less than Standard de Londres. 'Si alguien cree que Jack when we were single, they're Nicholson y yo follamos menos que Warren wrong.' (Salon) Beatty cuando eramos solteros, se equivoca.' www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 39 • If one of my friends discovered that my wife • Si uno de mis amigos descubriera que mi had been having a quick bit of nooky, I esposa se estaba tirando a otro, no quisiera wouldn't want them to tell me. If she decides que me lo contara. Si ella decide contarmelo to tell me — that's different. (Guardian) — eso es distinto. • You might even have enough free time to get • Puede que incluso tengas suficiente tiempo you a little nooky. A growin' Southern boy's para ligarte a alguna. Un joven sureno tiene got to have his poontang, don't he. (William que pillar un poco de cono, seguro que si. Styron)

RELATED TERMS: quickie, having a little knee- sional trust. (Guardian) trembler before we do the dishes. the other Euphemistic. Usually hanky-panky Surreptitious Instead, we're having work-re- in phrase a bit of the other. • I've sexual activity. • Parish council- lated sex. (Salon) got to be noticed by any guy lors in Kinver, Staffordshire, are one-night stand An extremely who's on the prowl away from considering putting prickly brief sexual liaison. • Katie will home and looking for a bit of the plants in a local park to deter always insist on going back to other. (Spectator) youngsters going behind the her intended's home for sex. 'It's tumble • It just so happened bushes at night for a bit of a more empowering thing to do that as he was concluding his hanky-panky. (Guardian) because you can leave when you speech a whore gave us the eye. how's your father (UK) Euphe- want... I don't want to taint my Without the slightest transition mistic. Sexual intercourse. • The own flat with the messiness of a he says to me abruptly: 'Would Princess and the Pea Brain' as one one-night stand.' (Guardian) you like to give her a tumble? It paper dubbed them... Naturally poontang (US) Sexual inter- won't cost much... she'll take both parties strenuously denied course. Probably from French the two of us on.' (Henry Miller) any how's-your-father. (Q) putain, whore. • You think we wham, bam, thank you ma'am knee-trembler Describes an act waste for freedom? This Denotes sexual intercourse done of sexual intercourse between is a slaughter. If I'm gonna get quickly and generally without people standing up. • They my balls blown off for a word ... tenderness. • — What a flop! — would be going to the pub for a my word is 'poontang'. (Full If you hadn't touched me... — pint and afterwards Nelson Metal Jacket) Ha! If I hadn't touched you... would get her against our back rumpy-pumpy (UK) Surrepti- What did you expect after that wall for a knee-trembler... He tious sexual intercourse. • So build up? After all that licking claimed that knee-tremblers why don't Mulder and Scully get and biting and kissing and roll- were the most exhausting way of together? Fans of the show have ing around the sandhill. I was having sex. (B.W. Aldiss) always insisted that any hint of aching. So I touch you... and • We're not taking each other on rumpy-pumpy would undermine WHAM BAM THANK YOU MA'AM! the couch, grabbing a noon a relationship based on profes- (E.A. Whitehead)

4. d gangbang -violation colectiva, sexo tribal

These two terms refer to sex involving several people. Gangbang applies to an act of multiple intercourse, especially one in which several men in succession have sex with the same woman. A daisy chain is sex involving three or more people, often male homosexuals, simultaneously.

» I ever tell you about that slopehead we used • Alguna vez te conte lo de la asiatica que nos to gangbang in Nam, partner? This little gook tirabamos ente todos en Vietnam, colega? Esta was about fourteen, but retarded. Had the brain asiatiquilla tenia unos catorce anos, pero era re- of a chicken and nearsighted to boot. We got trasada. Tenia el cerebro de una gallina y era a translator to tell her that fucking was good miope para colmo. Conseguimos un traductor www.FreeLibros.org40 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY for her eyes. (Joseph Wambaugh) para decirla que foliar era bueno para sus ojos. * Carolina Moon and Ora Lee Tingle are just • Carolina Moon y Ora Lee Tingle son, prac- about the only broads you ever ball lately and ticamente, las unicas tias que te tiras ultima- I think you only do that to be a respectable mente y creo que solo lo haces por ser member of an unrespectable group that gets miembro respetable de un grupo nada respe- drunk once a week and gangbangs two fat coc- table que se emborracha una vez a la semana ktail waitresses. (Joseph Wambaugh) y juntos se tiran a dos gordas camareras. • I'm fucked if I'm going to spend the rest of • Estaria jodido si me fuera a quedar el resto my life in an Arab gaol for the sake of that de mi vida en una carcel arabe por culpa de little cow! Look at her. Sitting there. All esa vaquilla! Mirala. Ahi sentada. Toda innocent. She marched out of here half-naked inocente. Salio de aqui medio desnuda y se la ti and got gang-banged... and she tells it straight raron entre varios... y lo cuenta sin rodeos como like a story out of True Romances! (E.A. un cuento sacado de Romances veridicosl Whitehead)

RELATED TERMS: with a soldier, who sleeps with have to do more than take a a chambermaid, who sleeps little gas, or slash the wrists. daisy chain • Schnitzler's with her young employer, who Pot? Zero! Daisy chains? play lays out a sexual daisy sleeps with a married woman, Nothing! Debauchery? A mu- chain of five men and five and so on, ending up with the seum word. (Saul Bellow) women: A prostitute sleeps prostitute again. (Salon) • You

4. e go down on someone -chupar, mamar

* Here is a honey of a girl, with the softest, • Aquf hay un encanto de chica, con los pezo- pinkest, most touching nipples I have ever nes mas suaves, rosados y deliciosos que he drawn between my lips, only she won't go tenido jamas entre los labios, solo que no quie- down on me. (Philip Roth) re chuparmela. * I do not want her body. Do not want to see • No quiero su cuerpo. No lo quiero ver, ni it, caress it, go down on it. (Kate Millett) acariciar, ni comermelo. If you think 37 dicks is a lot, then you just • Si crees que 37 pollas son muchas, sientate wait and see, Mister. I'm going to put the y espera, tio. Voy a dejar a la altura del barro hookers in Times Square to shame with all the a las prostitutas de Times Square con todos guys I go down on now. (Clerks) los tios que me como ahora. * Chicks never help you out. They never tell • Las tias nunca te ayudan. Nunca te dicen you what to do. And most of them are self- que hacer. Y a la mayorfa les da corte el conscious about that smell factor, and so factor tufo, asi que la mayoria del tiempo most of the time they just lay there, frozen se quedan ahi, congeladas como un ciervo like a deer in the headlights, right? But atrapado por los faros, verdad? Pero cuan- when a chick goes down on me, I let her do una tia me la come, yo le digo adonde ir know where to go and what the status is. y como va la cosa. Tienes que tomartelo You gotta handle it like CNN and the como si fueran las noticias o el tiempo — Weather Channel — constant updates. actualizandote constantemente. (Chasing Amy) www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 41 RELATED TERMS:

The following words relate to oral sex, both fellatio and cunnilingus. With the exception of blowjob, sixty-nine and soixante-neuf, all the terms are verbs.

blow • How would I like Bub- ing eaten out. But by the time I suck somebody's cock bles Giraldi to come to my own got to college, that all changed. • Mandel the next day tells me house in the afternoon and blow I loosened up. (Chasing Amy) that within half an hour after my me, as she did Smolka, on his french • Honest, honey, I didn't frenetic departure, Bubbles was own bed? (Philip Roth) • A do nothing to that guy. Only down on her fucking dago knees woman blowing a man's natural. fooled around with him a little. sucking his cock. (Philip Roth) A woman blowing a dog's dis- I wasn't frenching him. I • After an interval I noticed that gusting. (David Mamet) wouldn't go down there and kiss the sixth man was kneeling blowjob • You're so fucking that rich man's cock and suck his down beside the youngish man verbal. Who else could have balls like I'm gonna do to you with fair hair and sucking his talked me into giving him a right now. You know I wouldn't cock... As I was about to leave I blowjob at my father's funeral? do that to no other man, don't heard the bearded man hissing (Deconstructing Harry) • I'm you, honey? (Joseph Wambaugh) quietly, 'I suck people off! Who thinking Hugh Grant... How give head / give a headjob wants his cock sucked?' (Joe does a man with a girlfriend with • You give good dialogue. I won- Orton) looks like Elizabeth Hurley have der if you give good head. (Erica suck, suck off • Look, do you a blowjob from a prostitute on a Jong) • My mother brought me just suck, or do you fuck, too? public highway and get away up to believe that if I can't do (Philip Roth) • She puts ice cubes with it? What happened to hell something right, I shouldn't do in her mouth until her tongue and hath no fury? (Helen Fielding) it at all. Of course, my father lips are freezing, then sucks me • We work long hours in The Busi- told me she gave lousy head, but off — then switches to hot tea! ness, I can tell you. It ain't all bou- that's beside the point. (Chasing (Philip Roth) • It's like this per- quets and blowjobs, like you prob- Amy) • Some fruit picks up a guy missive society they talk about: ably think. (Joseph Wambaugh) in the restroom couple weeks never permitted me anything as eat • What Sally couldn't do was ago and offers him ten bucks to far as I recall. I mean like watch- eat me. To shoot a gun at a little let him give the guy a headjob, ing schoolgirls suck each other off quack-quack is fine, to suck my which is okay except he don't while you whip them... (Philip cock is beyond her. (Philip have no money after he does it. Larkin) Roth) • Yes sir, if I were some (Joseph Wambaugh) teabag Fellatio, performed so big blond goy in a pink riding muff-dive To perform cunnilin- that the woman takes the man's suit and hundred-dollar hunt- gus. • I thought you were sup- testicles or both penis and testi- ing boots, don't worry, she'd posed to be a superior person, you cles into her mouth. • Veteran be down there eating me, of muff-diving, mother-fucking son fashion photographer David Bai- that I am sure! (Philip Roth) of a bitch! (Philip Roth) ley is taking a break from snap- eat pussy • For a man to interest sixty-nine, soixante-neuf De- ping supermodels to focus on a me, he has to eat my pussy. Have notes mutual oral stimulation of teabag. A British tea company you ever eaten pussy? (Charles the genitals. The French term is has commissioned Bailey to Bukowski) • Bearded men often considered more sophisticated snap a whopping photo of its have cuntlike mouths; perhaps than the English. • A quite nice prize bag. 'Teabag and glamor- that is why they so love to eat boy of about seventeen ap- ous are not words you'd expect pussy: it is like kissing themselves proached me. I do the soixante- to find in the same sentence,' in a mirror. (Erica Jong) neuf,' he said and added with a Bailey told the U.K. Mirror. Of eat somebody out • That's how beam, I suck you.' This is some- course, anyone who saw John I was in high school — I was thing I'd never heard a Moroc- Waters' Pecker might take issue nervous and inhibited about be- can offer before. (Joe Orton) with that. (Salon) www.FreeLibros.org42 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY 4. f rubber -condon, goma, globo

• — What's a collapsible container? — A es un recipiente plegable? — Un rabbet. That's what we called them when we conddn. Asi los llamabamos cuando traba- worked vice. In any police report when you jabamos en anti-vicio. En cualquier infor- refer to a collapsible container, it's a rubber. me policial, cuando mencionas un (Joseph Wambaugh) recipiente plegable, se trata de un condon. • Josh didn't wear a rubber and now has a Te- • Josh no se puso un conddn y ahora tiene una rrible Disease. (Salon) Enfermedad Terrible. • I've had it with whiners who complain • Estoy harta de llorones que se quejan de los about condoms! They're just mad they're condones! S61o estan cabreados porque follan not getting laid more often. Guys who know con mayor frecuencia. Los tios que saben lo que what they're doing with rubbers are a hacen con los condones son el sueno hecho rea- lover's dream come true. When you aren't lidad de cualquier amante. Cuando no te estas worried about getting knocked up or sick, preocupando de quedarte embarazada ni de pi- you can thoroughly enjoy being horny. End llar algo, puedes disfrutar a tope de estar cachon- of story. (Susie Bright) da. Fin de la historia. • — Will you fuck me if I wear a rubber? — • — Me follaras si me pongo un cond6n? — No. — If I don't? — Maybe. (Erica Jong) No. — i,Y si no me lo pongo? — Quizas.

SYNONYMS: doms, I was struck by the chau- Trojan (US) A trademark, the vinism with which frenchies best known condom in the US. Durex (UK) A trademark, the were advertised. 'British Manu- • Now I have absolutely nothing UK's best known condom, now facture Throughout,' Durex used to worry about except the Tro- a generic word. • — Hey, Andy... proudly to proclaim. (Guardian) jan I have been carrying around Have you got any Durex? — johnny (UK) • What is the so long in my wallet that inside Never use them. I prefer it in the mark? Well, the mark, Brian, is its tinfoil wrapper it has prob- raw. (E.A. Whitehead) the bar code — the ubiquitous ably been half eaten away by French letter, frenchy (UK) bar code that you'll find on mold. One spurt and the whole • For most of the 19th and 20th every bog-roll, on every packet thing will go flying in pieces all centuries, the folk term was of johnnies, on every poxy pork over the inside of Bubbles 'French letter' (because con- pie. (Naked) Giraldi's box. (Philip Roth) • I doms came in discreet enve- skin (US) • 'You got those rub- gazed at her prettiness, thinking lopes), irreverently abbreviated bers you use?' he asked sud- about the Trojan Extra-Lube I to 'frenchie'. In the days when I denly. 'I want those skins.' (Tom always carry in my wallet. was, as you might say, into con- Sharpe) (Hank Hyena)

4. g jerk off -hacerse una paja, pelarsela

This is the most common American term meaning to masturbate; the most common British term is to wank.

* His sex life consisted of getting into bed with • Su vida sexual consistia en meterse en la his young and beautiful bride and jerking off cama con su joven y bella esposa y mastur- into a copy of a magazine called Garter Belt. barse sobre un ejemplar de una revista llama- (Philip Roth) da Garter Belt. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 43 • — I remember once, on an exercise in • — Recuerdo una vez, de maniobras por Germany, I caught one of my own men, a Alemania, que le pile a uno de mis hom- private soldier, jerking off into half a pound bres masturbandose con media libra de hi- of lamb's liver. — Thank God it wasn't an gado de cordero. — Gracias a Dios que no officer. (E.A. Whitehead) era un oficial. • Walter didn't teach you to make love, you • Walter no te enseno a hacer el amor, idiota lying creepy little idiot! I'll bet you've metiroso de mierda! jApostaria a que no te never had a good fuck in your life! All han follado bien en la vida! Lo unico que te Walter taught you was how to jerk off the enseno Walter fue como masturbar a los po- poor slobs who want to get into your pants! bres idiotas que se quieren meter en tus pan- (William Styron) talones! • — And if I win? — I'll give you something • — Y si gano yo? — Te dare algo por lo que you've been jerking off about ever since our te has estado haciendo pajas desde que se ca- parents got married. I'll fuck your brains out. saron nuestros padres. Te follare hasta que cai- (Cruel Intentions) gas rendido. • A woman, preferably black, would be • Una mujer, preferiblemente negra, era engaged for a very high sum to squat naked contratada por una elevada suma de dinero upon a glass coffee table and take a crap while para que se pusiera desnuda en cuclillas the tycoon lay flat on his back, directly sobre una mesa de cristal e hiciera de vien- beneath the table, and jerked his dong off. tre mientras el magnate permanecfa tendi- (Philip Roth) do de espaldas, directamente debajo de la mesa, y se hacia una paja.

SYNONYMS: to the wall. Featherstone says qui- being a nice Jewish boy, publicly etly: 'Here, he's having a crafty pleasing my parents while pri- beat one's meat (US) • Why, J. Arthur.' (John McGrath) vately pulling my putz! Enough! alone on my bed in New York, jack off • —You ever make it with (Philip Roth) why am I still hopelessly beat- an Oriental? — No. I spent eight- pull one's wire • Remember ing my meat? Doctor, what do een months in Korea jacking off. what I said about sex. Keep away you call this sickness I have? (David Mamet) • So you're gonna from the maids and pretty boys. (Philip Roth) go out there, drink your drink, say As for pulling your wire, that's give oneself a hand-job • The 'Goodnight, I've had a very lovely no occupation for a gentleman. three-finger hand-job is what I evening,' go home, and jack off. (John Osborne) have devised for jerking off in And that's all you're gonna do. toss off • The reasons for this public places. (Philip Roth) (Pulp Fiction) • Oh, sure, we gloom are several, laying aside • 'Who the fuck is she that she could do other things to make minor matters like lack of exer- won't even give a guy a hand-job? him come — jack him off, go cise, tossing off, etc., which are A measly hand-job. Is that the down on him, the usual. in themselves products of gloom world to ask of her? I ain't leav- (Courtney Weaver) as much as producers. (Philip ing till she either sucks it or pull one's peter (US) • Why are Larkin) • I tossed him off. He pulls it — one or the other! you chained to a toilet? I'll tell came only a small amount. (Philip Roth) you why: poetic justice! So you They're pulling their cocks J. Arthur (UK) Rhyming slang can pull your peter till the end of twenty-four hours a day, I sup- of J. Arthur Rank and wank. time! (Philip Roth) pose. (Joe Orton) • Rowe is lying on his bed, his face pull one's putz (US) • Enough wank • Afterwards it took me www.FreeLibros.org44 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY ages to toss him off. Finally I gave of different kinds and mastur- up to while Josef had been writh- up, allowing him to wank himself, bate with them until you find a ing in Warsaw's unspeakable and only at the last minute did he kind you like. Great wankers Gehenna? Listening to Glenn force his prick into my hand. (Joe make great condom artistes. Miller, swilling beer, horsing Orton) • — You got a bint at (Susie Bright) around in bars, whacking off. home? — Girl I write to. — Me whack off (US) • It takes the se- (William Styron) • — What are too. Mine's at school. All love and riousness out of everything if you you doing? — What does it look kisses and current affairs but I can imagine the President in back like I'm doing? I'm whacking off. have the odd wank over her photo. of the bathroom door whacking it Spanking the monkey. Flogging (Peter Nichols) • I can tell any to Miss July. I stroke it once in a the bishop. Choking the chicken. man in 10 seconds how to use while, I assume he does. (Lenny Jerking the gherkin. (American condoms with ease: Buy a bunch Bruce) • What had old Stingo been Beauty)

4. h cherry -virginidad

A cherry is a virgin of either sex, or virginity in general. The usage derives from the supposed resemblance between the hymen and a cherry. The word is used in verbal expressions like to still have one's cherry, to lose one's cherry, to pop or bust someone's cherry, etc. It is sometimes used figuratively, as in the final example.

• The day I lost my cherry didn't amount to • El dia que perdi mi virginidad no fue para much anyway. (R.H. Rimmer) tan to de todas formas. • You wanted Tyrone to lose his cherry, but • Tu querias que Tyrone perdiese su virgi- things got out of hand. Isn't that right? nidad, pero las cosas se te fueron de la (James Ellroy) mano. No es asi? * Call Cecile and get her to come over. I'll • Llama a Cecile y dile que se pase. Me hare bust that cherry in a heartbeat. (Cruel con su virginidad en un abrir y cerrar de ojos. Intentions) * — I have never been called that in my life. • — Nunca me han llamado eso en la vida. — Well, you just lost your cherry. (David — Bueno, pues acabas de perder tu virginidad. Mamet)

4. i bugger -sodomizar, sodomita

The word is both a verb, meaning to sodomize, and a noun, one who sodomizes. The activity is buggery.

* Did you know Auden got a rectal fissure from que a Auden le sali6 una fisura rec- being buggered by a sailor and had to have an tal por haber sido sodomizado por un marine- operation? (Philip Larkin) ro y tuvo que ser operado? • For all of its supposedly 'shocking' gay sex, • A pesar de todo su supuestamente 'escanda- there's a Cliff's Notes feeling to Total Eclip- loso' sexo gay, hay una sensaci6n de analitica se, a did-you-know-Rimbaud-buggered- en Eclipse total, una calidad informativa, tipo Verlaine quality. (Salon) sabfas-que-Rimbaud-se-foll6-a-Verlaine. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 45 • All the animals come out at night. Whores, • Todos los animales salen de noche. Putas, skunkpussies, buggers, queens, fairies, busca-chochos, chaperos, putos, maricones, dopers, junkies... Someday a real rain'II colgados, yonkis... Algtin dia una autenti- come and wash all this scum off the streets. ca lluvia vendra y lavard toda esta mierda (Taxi Driver) de la calle. • He went to Prairie Military Academy for • Fue a la Academia Militar Prairie y en ella eight years of uninterrupted sports, buggery practico todos los deportes durante ocho anos and Fascism. Buggery consisted of sticking ininterrumpidamente, asi como la sodomfa y one's penis in somebody else's asshole or el fascismo. Lo de la sodomfa consistfa en me- mouth, or having it done to one by somebody ter el pene en el agujero del culo o en la boca else. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) de otro o que otro se lo hiciera a uno.

RELATED TERMS: usually but not necessarily ho- fisting scene. (Salon) mosexual, in which the hand is ream, rim To stimulate the butt-fuck • I hear when Caro- inserted into the partner's anus. anus, either orally or with the lina was living with that Greek • As the evening's entertain- penis, or to have anal sex with bartender he used to butt-fuck ment unreeled in samples from someone. • But you said we were her all the time. (Joseph 21 big-budget films, the audi- going to get laid! You said we Wambaugh) ence munched on were going to get blowed! • Two excellent books on the while feasting their eyes on Reamed, steamed, and dry- subject of anal sex both inspire everything from public mastur- cleaned, that's what you said! and reflect current trends in the bation and urination, 'epic (Philip Roth) acceptance of butt-fucking. sofa fucks' and the mile-high • The man reams him so hard the (Susie Bright) club, to lesbian shower sex, male pain brings him to his knees. fist, fist-fuck Anal intercourse, anal penetration and a protracted (Tom Wolfe)

www.FreeLibros.org46 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY EXERCISE 4.1 In each of the following lists, all the words are synonymous except one. Spot the odd man out and explain why the word in question is misplaced. 1. (a) eat pussy (b) give head (c) muff-dive (d) wank (e) suck off (f) blow 2. (a) nail (b) ball (c) hump (d) jump (e) snog (f) bang 3. (a) frenchy (b) Durex (c) cherry (d) skin (e) Trojan (f) johnny 4. (a) dryfuck (b) shag (c) neck (d) smooch (e) touch up (f) fingerbang 5. (a) toss off (b) whack off (c) pull one's wire (d)beat one's meat (e) have a J. Arthur (f) get one's rocks off

EXERCISE 4.2

Here are some less common idiomatic and slang terms for body functions, nine of which have been dealt with in this chapter. Try to identify the subject to which each group of synonyms and related terms refers.

1. balloon, cheater, close combat 5. board, blow off the loose, boff, 8. bunch punch, chain jerk, sock, diving suit, eelskin, fear- bottle, bump fur, bury one's choo-choo, circle jerk, club not, gasket, joy bag, one-piece wick, bury the bone, change sandwich, crew screw, overcoat, raincoat, safe, one's luck, come across, do a fuckathon, group grope, scumbag, sheath, shower cap dive in the dark, do a flop, do mazola party, mob job, Mon- 2. a bit of jam, bananas and the nasty, ease nature, get a golian cluster fuck, pull party, cream, blanket drill, bush pa- piece, get a little, get lucky, get ring jerk, round pound, team trol, crawl, dicky dunk, flop in one's greens, get some, go to cream the hay, horizontal refresh- town, grind one's tool, hide the 9. barking at the ape, box lunch, ment, hot roll with cream, Irish ferret, hide the salami, introduce canyon yodeling, eating at the whist, jazz, jink, pile-driving, Charley, lay some pipe, pocket Y, eating out, going south, go- roll in the hay, short arm prac- the red, post a letter, sink the ing under the house, mumbling tice, tail-work, vitamin F, what soldier, thread the needle in the moss, pearl diving, talk- Mother did, the other, tumble, 6. bake potatoes, bend some ing to the boat people, whis- zig-zig, oats, jelly roll, yum- ham, cornhole, dig a ditch, do tling in the dark yum, zatch, how's your father, a brown, dip in the fudge pot, 10. bash the candle, beat the rumpy-pumpy, four-legged dot the 'i', fish for brown bishop, bleed the weed, bop frolic, fun and games trout, fluff the duff, go down the baloney, buff the banana, 3. bill and coo, lallygag, Hershey Highway, make butter the corn, choke the clinch, slap and tickle, mush, poundcake, go over the bridge chicken, crank the shank, lumber, reef to Plimpton, pack fudge, paint crown the king, five against 4. blow the whistle, chew it, cop a the bucket, powder someone's one, flog the dog, play a doodle, drop on it, get a facial, cheeks, push shit uphill, rec- flute solo, give it a tug, give pearls, gobble the goop, tify, saddle up, stir fudge grease the pipe, make the gum a root, hum a tune, inhale 7. beat the beaver, get it wet, bald man puke, manipulate the oyster, do a knob job, lay grease the gash, hide the hot the mango, milk the lizard, some lip, munch, play a tune, dog, hit the slit, juice one's paint the ceiling, pump the polish the chrome, slob the sluice, let the beaver swim, python, rope the pony, shake knob, smoke a dick, smoke the make some soup, pet the poo- hands with the unemployed, white owl, swallow a sword, dle, she-bop, slam the clam, stroke the dog, varnish the worship at the altar, wring it dry tickle the taco flagpole, walk the dog www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 47 EXERCISE 4.3 Translate the following sentences into English. 1. Aqui hay un encanto de chica, solo que no quiere chuparmela. 2. Me masturbaba regularmente pero la idea de tener una relacion con una mujer estaba mas alla de mi imaginacion. 3. Si uno de mis amigos descubriera que mi esposa se estaba tirando a otro, no querria que me lo contara. 4. No fue por casualidad, sino porque te estabas tirando a su mujer. Por eso te disparo. 5. Tenia una voz dulce y triste. Me gustaria follarte, pense. 6. Yo tenia mis propias ideas sobre el sexo. Estaba constantemente cachondo y me masturbaba continuamente. 7. Habia sido sodomizado por un marinero y tuvo que ser operado 8. Este hijo puta se la esta tirando desde que salio de la carcel! 9. Se sentia disgustada y humilla- da, supuestamente porque el presidente le habia metido mano. 10. Durante esa noche te follaria sin parar, hasta partirte por la mitad... Te haria gozar mas de lo que habias sonado en toda tu vida. 11. Alguna vez te conte lo de la asiatica que nos tirabamos entre todos en Vietnam? 12. Victor entra en una farmacia y compra una caja de profilacticos. 13. Cuando fue la ultima vez que follaste? 14. Me fui a la cama, me hice una paja y me dorm. 15. No quiero ver su cuerpo, ni acariciarlo, ni comermelo. 16. Los hombres estan achuchandote. Sus manos estan por todo tu cuerpo, apretujandose contra ti y metiendote mano. 17. Cuan- do una tia me la come, la digo por donde ir y como va la cosa. 18. Lo que mas me dolio fue cuando me dijiste que 'no tenia ni puta idea de foliar'. 19. Antes era completamente frigida. Ahora, lo unico que hago es pensar en foliar. 20. — Nunca me han llamado eso en la vida. — Bueno, pues acabas de perder tu virginidad.

EXERCISE 4.4

((The shy and heavily complexed narrator, Assistant Commissioner to the mayor of New York, works up the courage to engage a conversation with an attractive woman. When his first approach fails, he immediately tries another, with greater success.) Go ahead, you shackled and fettered son of a bitch, speak to her. She has an ass on her with the swell and the cleft of the world's most perfect nectarine! Speak! 'Hi' — softly, and with a little surprise, as though I might have met her somewhere before... 'What do you want?' To buy you a drink,' I said. 'A real swinger,' she said, sneering. Sneering! Two seconds — and two insults! To the Assistant Commissioner of Human Opportunity for this whole city! 'To eat your pussy, baby, how's that?' My God! She's going to call a cop! Who'll turn me in to the Mayor! 'That's better,' she replied. And so a cab pulled up, and we went to her apartment, where she took off her clothes and said, 'Go ahead.' My incredulity! That such a thing was happening to me! Did I eat! It was suddenly as though my life were taking place in the middle of a wet dream. There I was, going down at last on the star of all those pornographic films that I had been producing in my head since I first laid a hand upon my own joint... 'Now me you,' she said, '— one good turn deserves another,' and, Doctor, this stranger then proceeded to suck me off with a mouth that might have gone to a special college to learn all the wonderful things it knew. From the novel Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth www.FreeLibros.org48 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY Using what you have learned in this chapter and in the preceding exercises and what you can guess from the context, find words or phrases in the above passage corresponding to these descriptions: 1. A deprecatory term which can be used of any male. 2. The usual American term for the buttocks. 3. A word often used to described a person who engages in group sex, partner-swapping, etc. 4. An expression meaning to perform cunnilingus. 5. A term describing an erotic dream. 6. An expression meaning to perform oral sex, either fellatio or cunnilingus. 7. A synonym for penis. 8. A term meaning to perform fellatio.

www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 49 5: SEXUAL TASTES

5.a homo -manca, mancon With the exception of gay, no longer considered slang, all terms describing male homosexuals are derogatory.

• I shan't see much of the ceiling, I expect. • Supongo que no vere mucho techo. Tanger Tangier is certainly the place for the homos. es ciertamente el lugar para los maricones. (Joe Orton) • In Cardiff I found a newsagent with a good • En Cardiff encontre un kiosko que vendia line in Yank homo porn, in quite a classy una buena Iinea de porno gay americano, y district too. Didn't dare touch it. (Philip por cierto en un barrio de clase alta. No me Larkin) atrevi a tocarlo. • Very amusing article in the Daily Telegraph • Hay un articulo muy gracioso en el Daily today saying that the thing about homos is that Telegraph de hoy que dice que lo curioso acerca they don't have children and so don't bother de los maricones es que no tienen hijos y por lo about the future. (Philip Larkin) tanto no se preocupan por el futuro. • Is he a homo then? I'm not sure I've ever • Es maricon entonces? No Se si he conocido met any homos before, not to speak to. (Peter alguno antes, no como para hablar de ello. Nichols) • Sartre has shown what a superb figure of • Sartre ha demostrado que tipo mas genial comedy a homo can be. (Percy Wyndham para la comedia puede ser un maricon. Lewis)

RELATED TERMS: mouth, eh? Who asked your lit- name Lawrence! Only faggots tle opinion, eh? (John McGrath) and sailors are called Lawrence! arse-bandit (UK) • His nick- • He struck me as a bit of a (Full Metal Jacket) • Because name was Wendy. Wendy was ho- pseudo-intellectual. Not to men- only one thing counts in this life: mosexual, he was an arse-bandit, tion a bum-boy. (Peter Nichols) get them to sign on the line a turd burglar, a shirtlifter, a dirty • Five fucking hours to do five which is dotted! You hear me, fucking queer, a stinking poof, a clicks. It might take you and the you fucking faggots? (Glengarry fucking homo. He was also a good rest of your bum-boy buddy ma- Glen Ross) • You always hear man. (Ken Lukowiak) rines five hours. Not us, mate. those stories, you know, of guys bent Adjective. • 'Great thing We're fucking paratroopers, being fooled by faggots dressed about gay people...' 'Gay?' Tessa haven't you heard? (Ken up as ladies. (Lenny Bruce) • He said. 'Bent, queer, you know. Ho- Lukowiak) said that instead of turning the mosexual.' (Frederick Raphael) fag • There ain't no rules out other cheek you should sap the bum-bandit (UK) •I'm not a here, you cocksucker! The Mar- motherfuckers to their knees... bum-bandit, you know. You've quis of Queensberry's just some And if Jesus Christ didn't have the nothing to fear on that account. fag over on Eighth Street. balls to treat his enemies like that (Jonathan Coe) (Joseph Wambaugh) • You fag! he was just another faggot Jew. bum boy (UK) • Look, you You insolent fucking sissy! (Joseph Wambaugh) • He was a philosophised Irish bum boy, (Joseph Wambaugh) rubber wristed, lisping, mincing who asked you to open your faggot (US) • I don't like the faggot. (Joseph Wambaugh) www.FreeLibros.org50 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY fairy • He saw two nearly nude one of those • I don't know if never hip. (Lenny Bruce) • Old men by the gardening shack and it's true or not, but I heard your ladies, old queens, theatrical im- figured it was a pair of park fair- Cary Grant was one of those. presarios, actors and male pros- ies. He belched and shouted, 'All You know, bent. (John Godfrey) titutes make their entrances and you faggy bastards in this park pansy • Did you get a good look their exits. (Peter Ackroyd) better keep the noise down.' at that janitor's face, Lieutenant? • Went to a press conference at (Joseph Wambaugh) • That puking Because that boogie might live in twelve. A fat, queeny man wel- little bastard! If there's anything Watts. And you'll need some comed me into the room. He had worse than being a fairy, it's be- friends there. Because that's a brown suit and a jolly queeny ing a miser. (Henry Miller) where I'm sending you on the next face. 'I do admire your work,' he fruit • They got a fucking fruit transfer, you incompetent fucking said. 'How do you think of all at the games counter. I can't be- pansy! (Joseph Wambaugh) those witty remarks?' (Joe lieve this. In the midst of the toy pogue A youthful homosexual Orton) department. At the games coun- male. • The kid was a pogue. It queer • Holy dogshit! Texas! ter, talking to the kids all day seemed to Hicks that if he got Only steers and queers come long ... a fairy. (David Mamet) any drunker and his place any from Texas, Private Cowboy! • Hey, kid, go get the key to this lonelier and more savage he And you don't look much like a shithouse. You might have a cou- might actually have some sort of steer to me, so that kinda nar- ple fruits locked themselves in a shot at him. (Robert Stone) rows it down. Do you suck there. (Joseph Wambaugh) ponce (UK) A noun, but also dicks? Are you a peter-puffer? fudgepacker (US) • What about used as a verb meaning to move (Full Metal Jacket) • All that your family? Can you imagine in an exaggeratedly effeminate typically queer talk, I've heard the humiliation your father's go- manner. • Mods thought that it all before. He's just a go-get- ing to feel when he finds out his Rockers were yobs, Rockers ting queen. (Joe Orton) pride and joy is a fudgepacker? thought that Mods were ponces. sod (UK) Abbreviation of sodo- (Cruel Intentions) • Or, if it's (Nick Cohn) • Frankly, as Brad mite, although the word is election night, and you're ex- ponces about the place with his hardly ever used in that sense cited and you wanna celebrate trousers hitched down to his now. • — You aren't half a dopey because some fudgepacker that hips, to show off as much pert sod. How d'you stand him, Char- you date has been elected the musculature as possible, he lotte? — I love him, so it's easy. first queer president of the looks like he couldn't fight his (Peter Nichols) United States... even then, don't way out of a pair of Calvin Klein swish (US) • You wanna be a knock. (As Good as it Gets) boxer briefs. (Guardian) goddamn swish — a goddamn Jessie • Darling, you really don't poof, pouf, poove • Do you faggot-queer — GO! Suckin' have to convince me that you're know something: I think that cocks and takin' it in the ass, the not a Jessie. (Kingsley Amis) bloke's a pouf. (John McGrath) thing of which you dream, GO! • Come on, you big Jessie: off • In Piccadilly a rather slant- (David Rabe) • Here I sit, a re- with your kecks. Two fine, full- eyed and pissed (or drugged) viled gay man, and to top that grown men, naked beneath the poove sidled past me and said in off, I'm a gay black man — no- moonlight: wouldn't that be a low, hot tone, 'I say, how toriously the most swishy of the something for the heavens to look camp.' (Joe Orton) bunch. (Chasing Amy) down on tonight? (Jonathan Coe) poofter • — You pommy poofter. that way (US) • The masked nancy-boy, nance • I can't — What's a poofter? — What man's a fag! Dja hear that? Well, stand that Toto fellow. He's an you'd call a pansy. (Ian Fleming) goddamn, masked man, I never open nancy-boy. (Lawrence queen • Old Jewish mothers knew you were that way. (Lenny Durrell) • We're looking for a never know when their sons are Bruce) fellow who screwed the arse off faggots. They just miss it some- trade A person picked up for a Baroness, not a couple of rav- how. Out-and-out screaming homosexual activity, or such ing nances. (Frederick Forsyth) queens — but their mothers are people collectively. Rough trade www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 51 applies to someone from the ing people back, haven't you? ing for a bit of young trade. lower class engaging in homo- It's got to stop. You're not to (Joe Orton) • You can't always sexual prostitution. • He was bring any more men back judge a sausage by its foreskin. staying in Bristol in terrible here.' (Joe Orton) • 'Come Half the rough trade walking digs. He'd been having the when you like,' I said, 'and about you'd never tell were trade back and finally his land- we'll go round the Hammer- queens. (Peter Nichols) lady said, 'You've been bring- smith Bridge afterwards look-

5. b dyke, dike -manmacho

* Dike is vernacular for lesbian... Now the • Lesbiana en jerga es marimacho... Ahora, la reason I do a lot of faggot jokes — as opposed razon por la cual hago muchos chistes de ma- to dike jokes — is cause dikes'11 really punch ricones — en vez de chistes de marimachos the shit out of you. (Lenny Bruce) — es porque las marimachos realmente te pue- den dar de hostias. » You know the dyke stuff in the Penthouse • Sabes que lo de las marimachos en la seccion letters section is written by guys. (Chasing Amy) de cartas de Penthouse esta escrito por tios. « We live in a more tolerant age now. You refer • Vivimos en una era mas tolerante ahora. Te to yourself as a dyke. Hooper calls himself a refieres a ti misma como una marimacho. faggot all the time. (Chasing Amy) Hooper siempre se llama maricon a si mismo. « Everyone needs dick. See, I can buy fags. • Todo el mundo necesita una polla. Ves, pue- Bunch of guys that need dick — just plain do entender a los maricones. Un monton de need it. That I get. Dykes? Bullshit posturing. tios que necesitan pollas - simplemente lo ne- But — live and let live, I guess. (Chasing Amy) cesitan. Eso lo entiendo. Marimachos? Una postura de mierda. Pero, supongo que habra" que vivir y dejar vivir.

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All the following terms are derogatory or offensive. bulldyke A lesbian with was young, Bannon's books let young women pose at a sperm strongly masculine tendencies. me imagine myself into her New bank. (Salon) • High ranking members of the York City neighborhoods of fag-hag (US) A woman, not Los Angeles Police Department short-haired, dark-eyed butch necessarily homosexual, who believed that women had some women and stubborn, tight- habitually consorts with male value in rape cases, juvenile in- lipped secretaries with hearts homosexuals. • His examination vestigations and public rela- ready to be broken. (Salon) of the 'fag hag' as personified tions. But otherwise ... they were diesel A lesbian with aggres- by Dorothy Dean — a New York probably bull dykes at heart and sively masculine tendencies. writer, pundit, and all-around were out to steal men's jobs. Now the name of a well-known bad girl in the '60s and '70s — (Joseph Wambaugh) • Only ... lesbian magazine. • Hinton rat- is fascinating. 'The fag hag's from the mouth of a Southern tled his chains. 'Fuck you, fuck marriage to her constant gay bulldyke asshole ingrate of a that Irish guy and fuck that male companion is a marriage vicious nowhere cunt can this fucking diesel dyke.' (James sanctified not by physical love trash come. (David Mamet) Ellroy) • As a current Diesel ad but by Humor and Verbal Pun- butch A lesbian with strongly puts it: 'Men. Who needs 'em?' ishment,' he writes. (Salon) masculine tendencies. • When I Above the caption, three comely femme A lesbian who adopts www.FreeLibros.org52 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY a passive, feminine role. • I tennis shorts and a T-shirt and 'a sister of Lesbos.' Terry had no will venture to say that I am was obviously a jock. (Joseph idea whether this euphemism versatile. In bed, to borrow Wambaugh) was in common usage, or from the gay lexicon, I am nei- les • I reckon she's a les, you whether Dr Dudden had just ther a top nor a bottom, but a know. (New Society) made it up. 'You mean she's a 'side'. As an aesthetic, I alter- lesbo, lesbie • — Relationships friend of Dorothy?' 'Precisely. nately confess to being femme seem too distracting. I'd rather She's a fucking muff-diver. Or, with an inner soft butch, or concentrate on my studies. — more accurately, a non-fucking perhaps a femme top. (Salon) You a lesbo? (Cruel Intentions) muff-diver.' (Jonathan Coe) jock (US) A lesbian with mas- • — One was a man, a good- rug-muncher (US) • I wanted culine tendencies. • Lorna looking man at that. — Man my to watch some TV. Hard to do Dillon was not butch, but her ass, they were lesbos. (Chester when your best friend's wrapped voice was deep and her arms Himes) around a naked rug-muncher on and legs were nearly twice the muff-diver See l.g and 4.e your couch. (Chasing Amy) size of Al Mackey's. She wore above. • 'She is,' said Dr Dudden,

5. c I cottage -lavabo publico para citas homosexuales

The term is British slang. It denotes a public lavatory or urinal used by male homosexuals for assignations. Tearoom is the equivalent American term.

* He talks a lot about a friend who committed • Habla mucho de una amiga que se suicidio. suicide. 'Found in a cottage, she was,' he said. 'Fue encontrada en un lavabo publico* dijo. "They gave her the choice of gaol or a mental 'Le dieron a escoger entre la carcel o un cen- home.' (Joe Orton) tro psiquiairico.* • One lonely night you'll say a few flattering • Una noche solitaria diras unas palabras words to some nice chap in a cottage and next aduladoras a un tipo majo en un lavabo publi- you know a cow of a magistrate's giving you co y acto seguido tendras a una zorra de juez three months. (Peter Nichols) eondenandote a tres meses.

RELATED TERMS: in the Washington Square tea- These guys did not have a shy room in . This toi- bone in their bodies. Tougher tearoom (US) It all reminds me let was so filthy and so full of than shit, too. (Greg Nott) of a pissing/cruising scene I saw activity, it took my breath away.

5. d ambisextrous -bisexual

• Her privacy is invaded by Nikki — an • Su privacidad es invadida por Nikki — una ambisextrous hustler, hussy, hedonist, needle- prostituta bisexual, puta, hedonista, engan- user, fibber and people-surfer ... and having, chada a la aguja, mentirosa y surfista de gen- you know, a fine pair of jugs. When not te... que tiene, sabes, un buen par de melones. flogging off poor Rosa's belongings, Nikki is Cuando no se esti haciendo con las cosas de servicing all comers, even the chap who has la pobre Rosa, Nikki esta dando servicio a come to service the washing machine, (David cualquiera, incluso al tipo que vino a arreglar Profumo) la lavadora. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 53 » Who is copying the grisly murders outlined esta copiando los espantosos asesi- in the best selling novel Tenebrael Find out natos de la novela de exito Tenebmel Entera- in Dario Argento's audacious psycho thriller, te en el psyco-thriller audaz de Dario Argento, an ambisextrous Freudian nightmare una pesadilla Freudiana bisexual que destaca highlighting designer slaughter, futuristic la matanza de diseno, la demencia futuristica, dementia and icy suspense. (Bradford Film y el suspenso gelido. Festival publicity)

RELATED TERMS: sons). (Gay Universe) eral former boy and girl friends, gender-bender Used of a per- Robin having been found to swing AC-DC Euphemistic. • You can son, especially a pop-singer, both ways. (J.G. Vermandel) also tell Time Magazine you're who deliberately affects an an- switch-hitter (US) • Austin bisexual, be AC-DC in the inter- drogynous appearance. • While Powers began to look like a national edition. (Kate Millet) it wouldn't be long before the switch-hitter in the final scene bi Abbreviation of bisexual. term 'gender bender' would of 'The Spy Who Shagged Me', • Some were gay, many apparently come to mean cuddly camp or when he got into bed with his bi, and a few so hard that they flinty androgyny, Prince wore look-alike clone and the lovely would have been given a wide eyeliner and bikinis with an in- Felicity Shagwell. (Salon) berth in a Gorbals pub. (Listener) your-face masculine swagger • Switch hitter: How slick 'Jerry bi-guy I'm looking for a kinky that clearly stemmed neither Maguire' ads sell Tom Cruise to bi-guy to wank with, and maybe from sexual confusion nor fash- both sexes. (Salon headline) more. I get off on almost any- ionable artifice. (Salon) versatile Euphemistic. thing bizarre, extreme, kinky swing both ways • As for the • — Dougal was probably pansy. or depraved (however I am NOT mystery that still surrounded — I don't think so, he's got a interested in anything involv- Robin Aseltine's death, the police girl somewhere. — Might be ing children or under-age per- had picked up and questioned sev- versatile. (Muriel Spark)

5. e drag queen -travesti

* Like Valerie, I too was once a young drag • Como Valerie, yo tambien fui una joven drag queen in love with Audrey Hepburn. I was queen enamorada de Audrey Hepburn. Me drawn to her more than to any other figure in senti atraido por ella mas que por ningtin otro Hollywood. 'Funny Face', where she plays a personaje de Hollywood. 'Funny face', don- drab, boyish creature who's transformed into de hace el papel de una criatura del tipo nina a supermodel, was the only film for me. apagada que se transforma en una super mo- (Salon) delo, era mi pelicula preferida. • It may seem a stretch to imagine a 6-foot-7 • Puede parecer increible el imaginar a una drag queen as the celebrity spokesperson for drag queen de 205 centimetros como porta- an Internet software company, but hey, this is voz de una empresa de internet de software, 1999, (Janelle Brown) pero, oye, estamos en 1999. » President Clinton mixes with drag queens • El Presidente Clinton se mezcla con drag and Matthew Shepard's mom at a big New queens y con la madre de Matthew Shepard York gay pride bash. (New York Times) en una gran fiesta en Nueva York para cele- brar el orgullo gay. www.FreeLibros.org54 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY SYNONYMS: feminine beauty and allure cov- the British army in non-combat ered — to answer questions from positions. (Salon) trannie • Almodovar gathered the audience. (Guardian) • Brit- TV Abbreviation of transves- with his ensemble of actors — ish judges ruled in July that the tite. • We get a lot of TVs in and three women and one trannie, National Health will cover hor- a few of the leather boys of who, between the four of them, mone treatments for transsexuals course. (The Magazine) had just about every angle of and also that trannies can stay in

5. f kinky -pervertido

• King Farouk was a bit kinky. Right? They're • El Rey Farouk era un poco retorcido, ver- there humping and bumping... the chick's about dad? Ahi estan, dale que te pego, la tia esta a to come... he whacks her on the forehead with a punto de correrse... el la da en la frente con ball-peen hammer. (David Mamet) un martillo pequeno. • I kept my socks on, nothing else. 'I've drawn • Me quede con los calcetines puestos, nada mas. you looking like a beautiful teenager,' P. 'Te he descrito como si fueras una adolescente Procktor said. 'You'll get a lot of kinky letters preciosa,' dijo P. Procktor. 'Recibiras muchas after this, I'm sure.' (Joe Orton) cartas cachondas despues de esto, sin duda.' • *Are you ever going to wash that tee-shirt of • ' Alguna vez vas a lavar esa camiseta tuya?' yours?' Willes said. 'You've been wearing it dijo Willes. 'La llevas puesta desde hace si- for ages.' 'I let the sweat collect,' I said, 'and glos.' 'Dejo que se acumule el sudor,' dije, 'asi then when I pick someone up it gives them a cuando liguo con alguien les pone cachondas.' kinky thrill.' (Joe Orton) • She tells me the show in Mexico isn't gonna • Me dice que el espectaculo de Mexico no va be some ordinary fuck movie between me and a ser la tipica pelicula donde folio con algun some boy. She said it was gonna be something chico. Ella dice que va a ser algo muy retorci- real kinky where I could get hurt. (Joseph do donde me podrian hacer dano. Wambaugh)

RELATED TERMS: have. Once or twice men have the nonces on their wing had exposed themselves to me... done sickened him... Jack Lynn fladge, flage Flagellation as a you know, flashing... and I had no notion that this tremen- means of sexual gratification. know it's nothing but it's made dous anger related to the fear • It's not that de Sade was more me feel sick for days after- deep inside him that he might be violent than other libertine aris- wards. (E.A. Whitehead) no different basically from the tocrats, for fladge and sodomy • Come to think of it, he was a sex offender, or child molester. were common tastes. (Whip) • I bit of a flasher... used to sit (G.F. Newman) have some damned odd fantasies around the house with his flies perv, perve Corruption of per- when it comes to quiet half- open and if he caught you vert. • Why don't you go and hours with sex. Flage, and all looking, it gave him a big kick. watch some other place die? that. (J.I.M. Stewart) (E.A. Whitehead) They've got corpses by the river- flash To expose one's genitals nonce (UK) Prison slang for a full in Bangla Desh. Why not go for sexual gratification. • You person convicted of a sexual of- there? You're a pack of perves. wonder what kind of perverted, fence, especially child-molest- (Robert Stone) diseased minds these men ing. • Just to think what some of scarfing (UK) Auto-asphyxia- www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 55 tion for sexual stimulation. stances which not unnaturally accidentally, while engaging • He was found only partially led to suspicion of foul play. The in the practice known as clothed, bound, and with a plas- autopsy, however, established scarfing. (Ballymena Times) tic bag over his head, circum- beyond doubt that he had died

Abbreviation of both prostitute and professional.

• — And was she a pro? — At this point, • — Era una profesional? — En este mo- we don't know. Pro, semi-pro, Betty Coed mento, no tenemos ni idea. Profesional, from College, regular young broad, it's medio-profesional, tia cachonda de colegio anybody's ballgame, (David Mamet) mayor, una joven eualquiera, quien sabe a estas alturas. • 'She was rubbing her thighs up and down • Se estaba frotando los muslos de una for- in a very bold way. What d'you suppose ma muy descarada. Que crees que hubiera would've happened if I'd followed her off pasado si la hubiese seguido al bajarse del the bus?' 'She'd've charged you three quid, autobus?' 'Te hubria cobrado tres libras, me I expect,' Kenneth said. 'I've never seen a imagino,' dijo Kenneth. 'Jamas he visto a more obvious pro on a number 19 bus una profesional mas descarada en un auto- before.' (Joe Orton) bus mumero 19.' • Hey, Hank! Man, I really caught a head • Eh, Hank! Vaya mamada que me han he- job today! Jesus Christ, she really ate me cho hoy! Dios, se me ha comido entero! up! And young too! But she was really a i Y era joven! Pero era realmente una pro- pro! (Charles Bukowski) fesional !

RELATED TERMS: to the little woman and his bank tart • — Like anything else? — examiners. (Casino) Aye, I'd like a nice fat tart with hooker (US) • The Aios-stricken on the game (UK) • I knew he a wobbly jelly-roll and a mind hooker, knowing that she's never thought I was on the game. Some- like a Cairo sewer. That'd be fa- had a chance in the world, wants how that thought turned me right vourite. (John McGrath) • I've to take her clients down with her off. (E.A. Whitehead) • Betty's on slept with every class of tart by giving them her disease. the game, isn't she? Has she got from Siberians to Polynesians, (New York Times) • Every you at it too? (Tony Parker) had them all, no bother at all. I hooker I ever speak to tells me professional girl (US) • It's not don't need a wife — I hire one it beats the hell out of cheating. She's a hooker. It's not by the hour. (John McGrath) waitressing. Waitressing's got to like I'm having a love affair. See, working girl (US) • I went into be the worst fucking job in the you don't feel for a professional this with my eyes open, you world. (Deconstructing Harry) girl the way you do for your wife. know. I knew the bottom could hustler • Who didn't want Gin- (Deconstructing Harry) drop out at any time. I'm a ger? She was one of the best- prosty • The best relationship I working girl, right? You don't known, best-liked and most re- ever had with a woman was with think I'm gonna go into a situ- spected hustlers in town. Smart a prosty I met in Hamburg. I ation like this if I don't think hustlers like her could keep a couldn't speak a word of German I'm gonna get covered on the guy awake for two or three days and she couldn't speak a word of back end. (Casino) before sending him home broke English. (E.A. Whitehead) www.FreeLibros.org56 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY 5. h trick -putero, putanero

Both a noun and a verb, i.e. either a prostitute's client or (of a prostitute) to have sexual intercourse with a client.

* Her skirt was the only piece of clothing on • Su falda era la unica prenda sobre su cuer- her body. The only reason it was still on her po. La unicaarazo n por la cual aun la llevaba body was that the trick had said he liked it puesta era porcpe el tipo dijo que le gustaba better when they 'hiked them up'. It reminded mas caando 'se las subian'. Le recordaba him of when he was a kid in the drive-in cuando era un crio en las cines al aire libre de movies during the '50s. (Joseph Wambaugh) los anos 50. » The whore was leafing through her trick book • La puta estaba hojeando su agenda mientras with quivering lip and shaking hands. There su labio se estremecfa y le temblaban las ma- were numbers of good tricks to look for, bad nos. Estaban los numeros de los tipos buenos tricks to avoid. (Joseph Wambaugh) a quien buscar, y los de los tipos malos a quie- • — And you only saw him twice? — Twice. nes evitar. And I never tricked with him. He never asked • — Y solo le vistes dos veces? — Dos ve- for it. (Joseph Wambaugh) ces. Y nunea me lo tire. Nunca lo pidi6.

SYNONYMS: always thought I was, but I'm short-timer (US) Originally a not. And I'm not a sucker. (Ca- person due to leave military serv- John • You're teary-eyed, huh? sino) • Two male prostitutes were ice shortly. • Bangkok. Girlie bars You're upset? You're a good ac- duking it out over the favors of a galore, packed with strippers and tress, you know that? Good customer in a white Jaguar... The pimps and whores and the short- fuckin' actress. You can fuckin' John in the Jag noticed the black- timers who made it all possible. get that pity out of people. I'm and-white and said adios, roaring (James Laffan) not a John, you understand? You away. (Joseph Wambaugh)

5. i whorehouse -burdel, casa de putas

• You don't know what the fuck you're talking • No sabes de que cono estas hablando, Scoop. about, Scoop. The fucking Communists don't Los jodidos comunistas no creen en Dios, y believe in God, and wherever they come to dondequiera que llegan al poder, £que es la power, what's the first thing they do? Kill the primera cosa que hacen? Matar a los curas, priests, rape the nuns, and turn the churches violar a las monjas, y convertir las iglesias en into whorehouses. (Charley Rosen) prostibulos. • The city has become famous for its • La ciudad se ha hecho famosa por su liberti- licentiousness, as a gambling den, a naje, como un centro del juego, un burdel, un whorehouse, a place of bawdy songs and wild, lugar de canciones obscenas y musica alta y loud music. (Salman Rushdie) salvaje. • Ricky! You're an international businessman. . Ricky! Tu eres un empresario internacio- Tell us, in your opinion, where are the best nal. Dinos, en tu opinion, donde estan los me- whorehouses in the world? Other than San jores burdeles en el mundo? Aparte de San Francisco? (Hank Hyena) Francisco? www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 57 « And your father would go down to a tavern • Y tu padre se iba a una taberna donde se em- where he would get drunk with some other borrachaba junto con otras maquinas bebedo- drinking machines. Then all the drinking ras. Y despues, todas las maquinas bebedoras machines would go to a whorehouse and rent se iban a un prostibulo y alquilaban maquinas some fucking machines. And then you father folladoras. Y despues, tu padre volvia arras- would drag himself home to become an trandose a casa para convertirse en una mi- apologizing machine. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) quina de pedir perdon.

SYNONYMS: named Norm whose uniform had same as a knocking shop, but all big collars and more fringe than this 'refained' gentility sits cat house • Let's do it tonight... all the curtains in a Nevada strangely with the actual busi- Get us some chippies. You know cathouse. (Mary Elizabeth ness of getting bodies together. we can. And if we don't, he Williams) Perhaps it would be easier to knows a cat house, it fulla cats. knocking-shop • I do under- control if a knocking shop were (David Rabe) • Instead of a man stand that an introduction — or all it was, but what everyone of the cloth, we'd pledged our dating, or whatever the term of wants these days is not sex, but devotion in the presence of a guy the day is — agency is not the relationships. (Guardian)

15. j pimp -chulo

* A small number of women told us they had . Un numero redueido de mujeres nos dijeron several 'boyfriends' who would 'help them que tenfan varies 'novios' que les 'ayudaban' out with a bill in exchange for 'going out'. con un billete a cambio de 'salir', Otras ad- Others admitted to 'selling sex* or 'selling mitieron que 'vendian sexo' o 'vendian su ass'. When we pressed them, we found that eulo'. Cuando insistimos, nos enteramos que the women used these terms to distinguish las mujeres usaban estos terminos para dis- their activities froan those of 'professionals* tinguir sus actividades de las de las 'profe- — women who worked for a pimp and sionales' — mujeres que trabajaban para un solicited on a daily basis, (Kathryn Edtn) chulo y que hacian la calle a diario.

www.FreeLibros.org58 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY EXERCISE 5.1

In each of the following lists, all the words are synonymous except one. Spot the odd man out and explain why the word in question is misplaced. 1. (a) on the game (b) trick (c) pimp (d) cat house (e) John (f) tearoom 2. (a) butch (b) jock (c) gender-bender (d) rug-muncher (e) diesel (f) lesbo 3. (a) be ambisextrous (b) be a switch-hitter (c) flash (d) be versatile (e) swing both ways (f) be AC-DC 4. (a) bum boy (b) poof (c) queen (d) fudgepacker (e) fag-hag (f) ponce 5. (a) bulldyke (b) working girl (c) pro (d) tart (e) hustler (f) hooker 6. (a) nonce (b) swish (c) perve (d) fladge (e) scarf (f) flash

EXERCISE 5.2

Here are some less common idiomatic and slang terms related to sexual proclivities. Try to identify the subject to which each group of terms refers.

1. an academy, bag-shanty, 3. an apron squire, ass peddler, 5. an Alice, angel, auntie, blow band box, beauty parlour, button broker, crack sales- boy, bun duster, buttercup, beaver base, birdcage, cake man, fishmonger, honey man, broken wrist, brown-hatter, shop, cat flat, fish market, missionary, prosser, runner, cream puff, daffodil, ducky, fuckery, garden house, la- stable boss, tout Ethel, flit, gobbler, himmer, dies' college, leaping house, 4. a bachelor's wife, bimmy, lisper, lily, Mary Ann, meat nunnery, riding academy, bobtail, business girl, butt- hound, mince, mattress sporting house peddler, common sewer, com- muncher, pink pants, panty pany girl, crack salesperson, waist, powder puff, punk, 2. an Amy-John, boon dagger, cruiser, guinea hen, hat-rack, pillow biter, quince, rear ad- beaver eater, carpet muncher, hay-bag, lease-piece, live- fairy lady, fem, fluff, Jasper, stock, mattress, merry-legs, miral, rear gunner, lesbyterian, Margie, ruffle, moonlighter, overnight bag, rimadonna, receiver, sissy, Sappho, sergeant, tribadist, piece of trade, raspberry tart, three-dollar bill, undercover tootsie, wolf sales lady, zook man

EXERCISE 5.3

Translate the following sentences into English. 1. Quieres utilizarme para cada toda cosa estrafalaria y cachonda que se te ocurra. 2. Otras mujeres trabajaban para un chulo y hacian la calle a diario. 3. Las mujeres se desmayaban cuando le veian en la pantalla, pero en realidad Hudson era marica. 4. Voy a dejar en vergiienza las putas de Times Square con todos los tios que me como ahora. 5. Patricia era una ninfomana, nunca tenia suficiente. 6. Hay que tener mucho cuidado con las marimachos, si no, te daran de hostias. 7. La ciudad se ha hecho famosa por sus burdeles. 8. El tipo era bisexual... quiero decir que jodia con hombres y mujeres y le jodian hombres y mujeres. 9. El analisis me ha convertido en una ninfomana, con sexo en el seso. 10. Se sentia tan cachondo que decidio tomarse el resto del dia libre y quizas encontrar una puta de treinta dolares. 11. Danny habia salido del armario y habia proclamado que era maricon. 12. La mayoria de los chulos procuran no espachurrar la cara. Pegan en la mejilla, junto a la mandibula, evitando www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 59 los ojos y la boca. 13. La puta esta echando un vistazo a su agenda. 14. Por que te refieres a ti misma como una marimacho? 15. Que es la primera cosa que hacen? Matar a los curas, violar a las monjas, y convertir las iglesias en prostibulos. 16. Sally tenia una casita y alli lo pasabamos bien, jodiendo y comiendo. Me alimentaba bien y me debilitaba al mismo tiempo. Nunca tenia suficiente. Sally era una ninfomana. 17. Jack se lo hace con travestis. Algunos de ellos tienen mejor aspecto que muchas mujeres. 18. Dice que quiere hacer algo muy retorcido. 19. Es maricon entonces? No se si he cono- cido algun maricon antes. 20. Dicen que lo de las marimachos en la seccion de cartas de Penthouse esta escritopor tios.

EXERCISE 5.4

(A New York cabby, Travis, describes his working routine. Later he converses with a child prostitute, Iris.) I work the whole city, up, down, don't make no difference to me — does to some. Some won't take spooks — hell, don't make no difference to me... They're all animals anyway. All the animals come out at night: whores, skunkpussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. Each night when I return the cab to the garage I have to clean the come off the back seat. Some nights I clean off the blood.

IRIS: God, you are so square. TRAVIS: Hey, I'm not square, you're the one's square. You're full of shit, man. What are you talking about? You walk out with those fucking creeps and low-lifes and degenerates out on the streets and you sell your little pussy for nothing, man? For some low-life pimp who stands in the hall? And I'm square? You're the one's square, man. I don't go screwing with a bunch of killers and junkies like you do. You call that hip? What world are you from? From the film Taxi Driver, written by Paul Schrader

Using what you have learned in this chapter and in the preceding exercises and what you can guess from the context, find words or phrases in the above passage corresponding to these descriptions: 1. An offensive term for a black person. 2. A word which means prostitute. 3. A familiar term for a sodomite. 4. Two words used to refer derogatorily to male homosexuals. 5. A word for semen. 6. An expression which means: mistaken, seriously ill-informed. 7. An adjective which has no precise meaning but is used simply for emphasis. 8. A word which means vagina. 9. A word which refers to a man who lives off the earnings of a prostitute. 10. A verb meaning to have sexual intercourse. www.FreeLibros.org60 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY 6. UNPLEASANT PEOPLE, THINGS, PLACES, ETC. 6. a bastard -cabron, hijo puta

• I want you to remember that no bastard ever • Quiero que recuerdes que ningtin bastardo won a war by dying for his country. He won it gand una guerra al morir por su pais. La gano by making the other poor dumb bastard die consiguiendo que otro bastardo imbecil mu- for his country. (Pattori) riese por su pals. • Sharon was on top form. 'Bastards!' she was • Sharon estaba en forma. Ya estaba gritando already yelling by 8.35, pouring three-quarters 'jbastardos!' a las 8.35, mientras bebia de un of a glass of Kir Roy ale straight down her trago un vaso casi lleno de Kir Royale. 'Bas- throat. 'Stupid, smug, arrogant, manipulative, tardos estupidos, petulantes, arrogantes, ma- self-indulgent bastards.' (Helen Fielding) nipuladores y autoindulgentes.' • Al Mackey had to hit the brakes as the • Al Mackey tuvo que frenar en seco cuando freeway motorists slowed to ogle some poor la patrulla de la autopista redujo para poner bastard getting a speeding ticket. Better him una multa por exceso de velocidad a un pobre than me! (Joseph Wambaugh) bastardo. Mejor el que yo! • That bastard Moss had the ear of the chief • Ese eabrdn de Moss tenia al jefe de policfa of police and every other idiot who didn't y a cualquier otro idiota que no le conociera know him well! (Joseph Wambaugh) bien metidos en el bote!

SYNONYMS: We can use any number of terms of abuse to describe people we find unpleasant or contemptible. The following words can all be applied to men. Used derogatorily, most of them have no particular significance. In a few cases, however, there may be reference to specific kinds of behaviour. When this is so, it is indicated in the text. arsehole, asshole • Both of you you've all gone. Perhaps, in the tion to the record company ex- assholes knock it the fuck off and Dean's eyes, I shall 'quieten ecutives whose names he calm down! (Reservoir Dogs) down'. Fuck the bleeder. (Philip dropped with annoying regular- • Half of them are nasty skanks Larkin) ity was in his capacity as their who wouldn't be shit if they bugger • A timid, quaking little weekly supplier of weed. But I weren't surrounded by a bunch of bugger who lived in constant fear didn't dare tell Big K that Bunny drunken horny assholes. I'm not of going broke some day — the was a bullshit artist. I assumed gonna be one of those assholes. 18th of March perhaps, or the 25th he would learn the truth in his (Swingers) of May precisely. (Henry Miller) own time. (Douglas Century) • 'Lerner,' Madge said, 'is a se- • When I said that Oxford people chickenshit • When the two po- nile Viennese asshole And he's were clever but mediocre, I meant licemen got to the wounded sus- a lech.' (Robert Stone) • To the dons, dear boy, not the under- pect and stood over him, he Hicks' utter astonishment, Eddie graduates. The dons are the yelled in panic and shock, 'You slapped him twice across the dreariest set of buggers it's ever shot me in the back, you face. 'You nickel and dime been my lot to meet. (Philip chickenshit!' (Joseph Wambaugh) asshole — don't you dare Larkin) • You crafty bugger. Fancy cock-knocker • He started it! threaten me with violence.' not letting on. (John McGrath) Fucking cock-knocker! He's (Robert Stone) bullshit artist • I had known lucky I didn't put my pen through bleeder (UK) • I don't know Bunny for several years now, his thorax! (Chasing Amy) what in the world I shall do when and I knew that his only connec- cocksucker • He insulted Billy. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 61 And then I walked over to him aside. 'What the fuck are those fuckwit • Tell him to bugger off politely and he tells me to go dipshits doing out there?' from me. Emotional fuckwit. fuck myself. Then he called me (William Gibson) (Helen Fielding) a faggot. So what do you think I dork •—You guys look like... get, git (UK) • Where's that do? I threw that cocksucker out. what do they look like, Jimmie? Flynn? He's gone as well, has (Casino) • Who said that? Who — Dorks. They look like a cou- he? Cheeky twit. I'll thump that the fuck said that? Who's the ple of dorks. (Pulp Fiction) get one of these days. Thinks he slimy little Communist shit douche bag • That mother- can get away with poxy murder twinkle-toed cocksucker down fucker, he's every kind of — well he poxy can't. (John here who just signed his own douche bag from full to empty. McGrath) • Whilst I fucked death warrant? (Full Metal (Joseph Wambaugh) Dave, Tills pulled himself off. Jacket) • He had his pockets full fink • Why do I have to shtup Also, and I remember thinking, of human finger bones. He ate her, O.K.? Why am I the one to 'Kinky Irish Catholic get', he his victims, the cocksucker. shtup her all the time? I can do kept smacking my buttocks. (Joe (Robert Stone) to her no more, you fink! My Orton) cunt • There was a sympathetic legs are chapped. (Lenny Bruce) gobshite • And who the hell do article about Kingsley in the lat- fuck • You're one sick fuck, you reckon to be your mates? If est 'Cambridge Review', which Fink. (Barton Fink) • 'You stu- you imagine for one minute that surprised me as I normally re- pid fuck,' Danskin said, 'people either of those two rotten gard them as a pack of Cam- always say that to writers. Now gobshites will think any the bet- bridge cunts obsessed with Ted he thinks you're an asshole.' ter of you, you're dreaming. and Pound and so forth. (Philip (Robert Stone) • Now, don't get (John McGrath) Larkin) • Apparently the anthol- smart with me, Bob, don't get jagoff • Why don't you take that ogy is the right length, which is smart with me, you young fuck, fuckin' pen and shove it up your good, but there are howls at the we've been sweating blood all ass, you fuckin' jagoff? (Casino) omission of certain parties, prin- day on this. (David Mamet) • 'Ya • I come into the fuckin' office cipally McDiarmid or however fuck, ya!' yelled Father Willie. today, I get humiliated by some the cunt spells his name. (Philip 'Ya dirty slant-eyed heathen jagoff cop. (David Mamet) Larkin) • 'They're a right parcel godless little fuck, ya!' (Joseph jerk, jerk-off (US) • You fuckin' of fuckin' cunts, thon boys.' He Wambaugh) moron, I'll be filling out paper looked uneasily at the officer. 'If fucker • I'm comin' outta here, work for the next two months be- you'll excuse that class of talk, and any fucker I see out there, cause of you, you fuckin' jerk-off. sir.' (Shaun Herron) • 'Well,' I I'm gonna kill him ... and any (Casino) said, 'I think all Americans are fucker takes a shot at me, I ain't mother (US) Short for mother- cunts.' (Joe Orton) • You stupid just gonna kill him, but I'm fucker. • — I wish he was a fucking cunt. You, Williamson... gonna kill his wife and all his broad. It's so much easier to tail I'm talking to you, shithead... friends and burn his fuckin' a broad. — Broad or not, he's one You just cost me six thousand house, you hear? (Unforgiven) tough mother to tail. (Joseph dollars. (David Mamet) • I couldn't think of a fuckin' Wambaugh) • You're on my list, dickhead • If there is one thing thing to say. I froze. The little mother! I'm going to get you, you in this world that I hate, it is an fucker looked at me like I was a dirty mother! You rotten bastard! unlocked footlocker ... If it dummy. (Robert Stone) • When Cocksucker! (Charles Bukowski) wasn't for dickheads like you, he kissed her neck, she shifted motherfucker (US) • Get this there wouldn't be any thievery to give him a wasted smile. through you head, you Jew in this world. (Full Metal Jacket) 'You're a funny little fucker,' she motherfucker, you. You only ex- • Each one of these counts hold said. (Robert Stone) ist out here because of me! That's twenty-five-to-life... Twenty- fuckface • Her favourite line of the only reason! ... You're fuckin' five fucking years, pal. Bye-bye, English prose is a masterpiece: warned! Don't ever go over my dickhead. See you in Attica. 'Fuck my pussy, Fuckface, till I fuckin' head again! You (GoodFellas) faint.' (Philip Roth) motherfucker, you! (Casino) dipshit • He got up from his fuckhead • What was he? Some • AK-47, the very best there is. chair, walked to the door, and back-country fuckhead with a When you absolutely, positively, gently edged one of the curtains stethoscope. (Stephen King) gotta kill every motherfucker in www.FreeLibros.org62 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY the room, accept no substitute. nasty little putz' the voice said, of a good fuckin' guy he is. (Res- (Jackie Brown) full of contempt and revulsion, ervoir Dogs) numbnuts (US) • What is your 'you're enough to make anyone shagbag • John Heath-Stubbs is major malfunction, numbnuts?!! puke!' (William Styron) reading some of my poems at a Didn't Mommy and Daddy S.O.B., s.o.b. (US) Short for meeting of shagbags in London show you enough attention son of a bitch. • I couldn't have next Friday. (Philip Larkin) when you were a child?!! (Full called him an s.o.b. — I didn't shit • Much of the play's lack Metal Jacket) know he was one. At the time. of success must be put down to pissant (US) A despicable or in- (John F. Kennedy) • The S.O.B., the theme and to the undoubted significant person. • Yeah, I was he hates my father... You want fact that the general public are, the Kid. It got so that every to know why the S.O.B. hates my where plays are concerned, ig- pissant prairie punk who thought father? You want me to tell you? norant shits. (Joe Orton) 'You're he could shoot a gun would ride All right... I will now tell you too young to remember a bloody into town to try out the Waco why the S.O.B. hates my father. old fool and by the bye frightful Kid. I must've killed more men (Edward Albee) shit called Bevan Hopkin who than Cecil B. De Mille. (Blaz- schmuck • Look, I'm not ask- called the police in at a Renoir ing Saddles) • Even if I did ing for the world — I just don't exhibition at the Trevor Knudsen know, I wouldn't tell a pissant see why I should get any less out — in 1953, not 1903. (Kingsley like you. (Good Will Hunting) of life than some schmuck like Amis) piss artist A loud-mouthed fool. Oogie Pringle or Henry Aldrich. shitbag • When will these • Things are so bad in the Eng- (Philip Roth) • Did you think sodding loudmouthed cunting lish soccer squad that several you were a second Irvine Vibert, shitstuffed pisswashed sons of commentators are, apparently you schmuck? (Robert Stone) poxed-up bitches learn that there without irony, recommending • Danskin, what a schmuck you is something greater than litera- the recall of the Piss Artist For- are, what a contemptible idiot, turel A bastard who can bastard merly Known As Gazza for the what a fucking fool. (Robert well write bastard shit like that Poland match. (Guardian) Stone) bastard well ought to be bastard • I imagine decades of piss-- scrote • Scrotes! That's what all well stuffed with broken glass, istry can't help leaving their mark people are: ignorant filthy dis- the bastard. 'For he taught as one on the character. (Kingsley Amis) gusting ugly worthless scrotes! having authority, not like the prat (UK) • 'I mean, it's noth- Scrotes! (Joseph Wambaugh) shitbags and tossbottles'. (Philip ing. It's just some girl who's stu- • He believed implicitly that if Larkin) pid enough to let me shag her for you ever backed down even for shithead • You know what is free a couple of weeks.' 'What?' ex- a moment in dealing with enterprise? ... The freedom of the ploded Sharon, beginning to turn assholes and scrotes the entire Individual to embark on Any pink. 'That's the most repulsive structure of American law en- Fucking Course that he sees fit in thing I've ever heard anyone say forcement would crash to the order to secure his honest chance about a woman. Arrogant little ground. (Joseph Wambaugh) to make a profit ... The country's prat!' (Helen Fielding) scumbag • Captain Woofer said founded on this ... Without this prick • How dare you try to lay a to send him a pair of grungy, we're just savage shitheads in the guilt trip on me about it! Who the ugly, filthy, hairy, disgusting, wilderness. (David Mamet) • You fuck do you think you are, you creepy scumbags who would fit shithead, you don't fuck with us, judgmental prick! (Chasing Amy) in with the run-of-the-mill Hol- I'll kick your fuckin' head in. • Then you're going to go off to lywood street folks. (Joseph (David Mamet) Stanford, you're going to marry Wambaugh) • Were you born a slag (UK) • As sentence was an- some rich prick who your par- fat slimy scumbag, you piece of nounced, the dead boy's father ents will approve of. (Good Will shit, Private Pyle? Or did you shouted: 'I hope you rot in it, Hunting) have to work on it? (Full Metal you slag.' (Daily Telegraph) putz • I can't really believe that Jacket) sod (UK) • How kind of you to Leila would do this. After all, • Long Beach Mike isn't your send me (your book about) she's an artist, a heroine, a femi- amigo, he's a fuckin' scumbag. Arthur Wellard, and what a sod nist. Why would she let this putz The piece of shit is selling out I am not to have written earlier. abuse her? (Erica Jong) • 'You his real amigos, that's how much (Philip Larkin) www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 63 son of a bitch • I had to admire are odious little turds indistin- wanker (UK) • I went to Zim- this fuckin' guy. He was one of guishable from Harris. (Philip babwe with my wanker boy- the toughest Irishmen I ever met. Larkin) • I can drop the little friend. (Naked) • As I lay I tried This son of a bitch was tough. turd off the Capitol Records to block out the screams. I had (Casino) Building, you want me to. enough problems without having tosser (UK) • — Which living (Joseph Wambaugh) • It's all to listen to that whinig wanker. person do you most admire? — right when little turds and His screams were beginning to No one really — they're all turdettes, especially the latter, annoy me. They were interrupt- tossers. (Guardian) • I've really go on about exciting break- ing my thoughts. They were in- enjoyed the people we've throughs in advertisements and creasing my fear. (Ken Lukowiak) worked with on the whole, and arts pages. (Kingsley Amis) • Well, fuck me. If it isn't one that's rare. You normally come twat • When I got back home, of our glorious leaders. I won- out of a production saying 'I'm Kenneth H. was in a rage. He'd der what the fuck this mentally glad to see the back of that bunch written in large letters on the retarded wanker wants. (Ken of tossers', but this wasn't like wall, 'JOE ORTON is A SPINELESS Lukowiak) that at all. (Guardian) TWAT'. (Joe Orton) • The editor whoresmelt, hoor's melt (Irish) turd • Cutthroats and scumbags liked them, but the paper's • But it was of Parnell that he were coming out of the wood- coolly scathing stars had de- spoke most: 'A king,' he called work ... these guys were world cided the band were a bunch of him, 'A hero who would have class turds. And I'm sorry, but public-school twats flirting freed Ireland,' but for the opposi- they got what they deserved. touristically with black Ameri- tion of the black-hearted 'hoors' (Desperado) • All the freshmen canisms. (Guardian) melts'. (Sean O'Callaghan)

6. b arselicker -lameculos

• The feuds do not end with his political • Las disputas no acaban con su oposici6n po- opponents. Many have been with former litica. Muchos han sido antiguos amigos. friends. 'Kusturica is the greatest traitor to 'Kusturica es el mayor traidor de Bosnia,' me Bosnia,' one told me. Another said he was a dijo uno. Otro dijo que era 'un criminal de gue- 'war criminal, a Chetnik arselicker, a puppet rra, un lameculos de Chetniks, una marioneta of Milosevic... It makes me puke to think of de Milosevic... Me dan ganas de vomitar al him.' (Guardian) pensar en e1.' • Cracking good news about the election, • Noticias cojonudas acerca de las elecciones, what? I can hardly believe we've got that little verdad? Casi no me puedo creer que haya- shit and his team of arselicking crooks out of mos conseguido quitar del medio a ese mier- the way. (Philip Larkin) da y a su equipo de chorizos lameculos. • I lose touch instantaneously with that ass- • Pierdo contacto momentaneamente con ese licking little boy who runs home after school chiquillo lameculos que corre a casa a la sali- with his A's in his hand, the over-earnest da de la escuela con la cartilla en la mano, el innocent endlessly in search of... his mother's pequeno inocente excesivamente serio, inter- approbation. (Philip Roth) minablemente consagrado a la btisqueda de,.. la aprobacion de su madre.

RELATED TERMS: Exude confidence. Never wrong boss to toady around. brown-nose, though. Suckers- (Guardian) • We could argue brown-nose • Nobody promotes up inevitably end up being an about whether a Supreme Court an invisible employee. Start to embarrassment to all con- clerkship is evidence of bril- attend meetings. Sound positive. cerned and you may pick the liance or just consummate www.FreeLibros.org64 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY brown-nosing. (Salon) reality... you're not going to get do here — I managed to land kiss somebody's ass • — He did your ass kissed here, because both Peckover's job. (Henry Miller) that to me once. He tried to starve me and Walt think you suck. suck up to somebody • You me. — I don't care. I'm not kiss- (Chasing Amy) shouldn't suck up to that woman. ing his ass. I'll quit or starve, any- suck somebody's ass • How he She's got a dirty mind. Half thing. (Charles Bukowski) • Now would have hated being a lieu- the mothers in America, with and then I made some bad blun- tenant and sitting at a desk and their precious big pussies and ders, and if it weren't that I had sucking some captain's ass. their precious little daughters, learned how to kiss the boss's ass, (Joseph Wambaugh) • After half the mothers in America have I would have been fired, that's cer- sucking the boss's ass for a dirty minds. Tell her to shove it. tain. (Henry Miller) • This is the whole week — it's the thing to (Charles Bukowski) 6. c bitch -zorra, lagarta

• There is not one loyal bone in that bitch's • un solo hueso del que te puedas fiar body. (David Mamet) en el cuerpo de esa zorra. • You haven't been straight with me ever since • jNo has sido honesta conmigo desde que te I met you! You never loved me in the first pla- conoci! Jamis me quisistes! Contigo, nece- ce! I need eyes in the back of my fuckin' head sito ojos en la nuca, jputa zorra! with you, you fuckin* bitch! (Casino) • He thinks we are the Bitch Queens from Hell • Cree que somos las Putas Reinas del Infierno; — which is a misapprehension because, lo cual es un malentendido porque, pese a que although we have discovered our Inner ya hemos descubierto a la puta que llevamos Bitches, we have not yet unlocked them. dentro, todavia no las hemos liberado. (Helen Fielding) • Wouldn't she often have to go to the John, • No tenia que ir con frecuencia al bano y se and start unzipping her jeans in front of Al as empezaba a bajarse la cremallera de los va- she walked out of the room? She was just that queros delante de Al al salir de la habitacidn? kind of bitch, all right? (Joseph Wambaugh) Era ese tipo de zorra, de acuerdo? • That last bitch he married never even saw to • La ultima zorra con la que se caso ni siquie- it that he had decent underwear. (Joseph ra se preoeupd de que tuviera calzoncillos de- Wambaugh) centes. • If that loudmouth bitch was my old lady I'd • Si esa puta bocazas fuera mi vieja, le daria kick her in the cunt. (Joseph Wambaugh) una patada en el cono.

SYNONYMS: These are some of the more common abusive terms applied to women. As with the deprecatory terms used of men, these only rarely have a specific meaning over and above their value as insults.

bag • 'And you do realise lar fuck machine. I'm talking, That Peggy Ramsay? Silly cow.' Middlemarch was originally a morning, day, night, afternoon, (Joe Orton) • Jean's a right little book, Bridget, don't you, not a dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, cow, isn't she? (E.A. Whitehead) soap?' I hate Perpetua when she dick, dick, dick, dick, dick. cunt • Beth Kramer's an aggres- gets like this. Stupid old fartarse (Reservoir Dogs) sive, tight-assed, busybody cunt, bag. (Helen Fielding) cow (UK) • Kenneth sniffed and and it's none of her fucking busi- cooze (US) • Let me tell you his nose appeared to be about a ness how I speak to my son. what 'Like a Virgin' is about. It's foot long. ' Silly cow your agent, (Deconstructing Harry) • I just about some cooze who's a regu- isn't she? Don't you think so? had to kill Linda, Mr Vale, that www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 65 — that cunt just got what she de- could tell you that a sense of prick! You bastard! You served. (Primal Fear) • Some- insignificance might just be sonofabitch! You think you're how I feel sorry as hell for her linked to suicidal tendencies. dealing with some old slut? and yet I don't give a damn. A (Guardian) Look at me: thirty-one! You cunt who can play as she does skank (US) • I spend half the think 'cause you're hung you can ought to have better sense than night trying to talk to some girl get away with this crap? (James be tripped up by every guy whose eyes are darting around Leo Herlihy) • You remember the with a big putz who happens to see if there's someone more slut roamed into Sears and had to come along. (Henry Miller) important she should be talking the baby in the rest room? She • And your friend, Joan... that to... Some fuckin' skank who is cut the cord with her finger- cunt was born in a car crash. half the woman my girlfriend is. nails and just dumped the lit- (David Mamet) (Swingers) tle toad in the trash and left it moo (UK) • The receptionist slag (UK) • You tell people — for the janitor to find next day. said, 'Well, I've nothing on my well, men — your story and it's (Joseph Wambaugh) conscience.' She went into the stored away and used against twat • I can't even give you the dispensary with the coffee. you. One said to me in a row: 'You time of day without getting the 'Silly moo,' Leonie said. (Joe are nothing but a slag and an easy look: oh shit, here comes another Orton) • Some specced-up babe lay and not even a good one for dumb and stupid remark out of asked me if I didn't feel insig- all the practice you've had.' that brainless twat. I say, 'It's nificant alongside those writers (Guardian) five to seven,' and you think, who've had illness and death in- slut • If you didn't want to go 'How fucking dumb can she be!' flicted upon them. Of course, I out with me anymore, why didn't Well, I'm not brainless, and I'm feel insignificant, you fucking you just say so? Instead you pus- not a twat either, just because I moo. Even a crashing dung syfoot around and see that slut be- didn't go to fucking Harvard! brain like Jeremy Clarkson hind my back! (Clerks) • You (Philip Roth) 6. d bummer -conazo, latazo

Slang, but neither obscene nor offensive. The word may be used of any bad experience, occasion, situation or place. Originally an unpleasant or depressing experience with LSD or other narcotic.

• — As you can see, it is a ransom note. Sent • — Como puedes ver, es una nota de rescate. by cowards. Men who are unable to achieve Enviada por cobardes. Hombres incapaces de on a level field of play. Men who will not sign tener exito en un campo de juego igualado. their names. Weaklings. — Bummer. (The Big Hombres que no firmarian con sus nombres, Lebowski) Debiles. — Que rollo. We read of Saul that 'when he stood among • Leimos acerca de Saul que 'cuando estaba the people, he was higher than any of the entre los suyos, era mas alto que cualquiera, people from his shoulders and upward.' As a les sacaba la cabeza.' Como rey, Saul resulto king, Saul turned out to be a bummer; but ser un enano; pero es igual, si que era alto. never mind, he sure was tall. (Tom Ferrell) • For Deadheads, the death of Jerry Garcia last • Para los seguidores del grupo musical Los week was one big bummer, man. (New York Deadheads, la muerte de Jerry Garcia la se- Times) mana pasada fue un mazazo, colega. • The adolescent does away with the • El adolescente se deshace de lo especifico y concreteness and complexity of his complejo de su experieneia, y lo sustituye por experience, and substitutes instead his own sus propias abstracciones primitivas. Todo es primitive abstractions. Everything is 'groovy' 'dabuten' o 'un cofiazo'. or 'a bummer.' (Anatole Broyard) www.FreeLibros.org66 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY SYNONYMS: The following words, which we have already seen applied to people, can also be used to describe or address the unpleasantly non-human: objects, events, experiences, concepts, problems, etc. bastard • The only thing wrong bitch • It was rough terrain and comin' back again, we were with the present is the bastard the going was hard. From the earnin' more fucking money doesn't exist. Because the map it was obvious that the last than when we were on the Is- present is the future ... It's a few miles were going to be a lands running around and constant process of coming bitch. (James Laffan) blowin' away the fuckin' Argies. into being and passing away. bugger • I think I could've prob- I mean, you know, how the fuck (Naked) ably managed to convince them do they work that fucker out? • I poked the aching tooth. if I hadn't had this bugger of a (Ken Lukowiak) 'Bastard.' It made it worse. toothache. I had to clench my motherfucker • He shows Ma- The pain made me fall to my jaws every time it throbbed. rino a long, ugly scratch on his knees. I pulled my mouth to a (John Ogilby) arm. He says: 'Can you fucking tap and swilled it with cold fucker • Here's the really men- believe that? Look at this water. 'You fucking bastard.' tal fuckin' thing, when we were motherfucker'. (Casino) (Ken Lukowiak) on the boat goin' down and 66.e clap -gonorrea From Old French clapoir, a venereal bubo or swelling.

• Do you know he has a drippy faucet?... I • Sabes que ha pillado una infeccion vene- happen to know that in Hollywood patrol right rea?... Se, de hecho, que ahora mismo en la now the clap's as common as a head cold. patrulla de Hollywood la infeccion venerea es (Joseph Wambaugh) tan conun como el catarro. • Barbers — cutters of beards — were a • Los barberos — los que cortaban las barbas traditional male enclave. And, going back to — eran tradicionalmente hombres. Y, regre- the Norman barber-surgeon, they specialised sando a los barberos-cirujanos normandos, se in male requirements and ailments: especializaban en los requisites y las dolen- prophylactics and clap. "Will there be anything cias masculinas; profilacticos e infecciones else, sir?' the hairdresser would delicately venereas. 'Alguna cosa mas, senor?' solia pre- inquire, as he brushed the clippings off your guntar el peluquero con delicadeza, mientras shoulders. (Guardian) te cepillaba el pelo de los hombros. * Mrs Schekner, you got the clap. Little • Seflora Schekner, tiene usted una enferme- discharge, dear. Tell you what, we're gonna dad venerea. No hay duda, querida. Mire, le give you a little, ah, vitamin-booster, a little vamos a dar una pequena... ayuda vitaminica, penicillin. (Lenny Bruce) un poco de penicilina. * I can say this now, hand on heart, honest to • Esto lo puedo deck ahora, con el corazdn en la God and hope to catch the clap if I'm lying. mano, lo juro por Dios y que contraiga una in- (Ken Lukowiak) feccion venerea si miento.

RELATED TERMS: four blokes who've copped a Daily News) dose from her. (Bill Turner) crabs An infestation of crab lice a dose • Any venereal infection. • Don't Give A Dose To The One in the pubic area. • — I haven't • She's riddled with pox. I know You Love Most. (New York fucked anybody else! I got it www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 67 from YOU! You're a carrier, a dis- pox (UK) • No clap, no chan- all right. As for the sixties, ease ridden slut! — What? — cres, no syphilis: I have never well, 'Yer can't get pox, Inside The crabs, the crabs, you gave suffered from pox of any de- a wooden box.' (Philip Larkin) me the CRABS! (Charles scription. I always take ex- syph, siph, siff Abbreviation Bukowski) • I happen to know treme care not to. (John of syphilis, but sometimes, as he's practically raising crabs. McGrath) in the first example, used in a A steno works Hollywood • Hey, your gums are rotting. wider sense. • Being a full man nightwatch told me. He has Bloody hell, he's got syphilitic in macho white Atlanta in- them in his armpits even. teeth. Look at that. Look, it's cludes making fun of the AIDS (Joseph Wambaugh) true, isn't it? Here — how do Ball. 'Let's Riff for Syph!' jack (Austr.) Rhyming slang of you manage to catch pox there Wolfe writes. (Salon) • Why jack in the box and pox. • Got then — you dirty bastard (John don't you tell us about that time malaria, beriberi, malnutrition McGrath) • How're you liking you got siff from your nigger and probably a dose of jack. being fifty? Rotten decade for maid? (Charles Willingham) (Martin Medcalf) me... Thirties and forties were

6. f crud -porquena

In Middle English the word meant 'coagulated milk', later it was used to describe dried semen. Now it denotes any substance perceived as loathsome — vomit, pus, slime, etc. — or, figuratively, anything which is markedly inferior.

• Let's clean him up. Featherstone, do • Vamos a limpiarle. Featherstone, haz algo, something, will you? Get some of the crud off quieres? Limpiale esa mierda, antes de que him, before it hardens. (John McGrath) se endurezca. . Mr. Le Coze said the non-stick cookware • El senor Le Coze dijo que las sartenes de was wonderful for cooking fish. So I bought teflon eran maravillosas para cocinar pesca- my first pan. And it was good, for a very do. Asi que compr6 mi primera sarten. Y short while. Then it started to accumulate estuvo bien, durante un tiempo muy corto. blackened crud.(Guardian) Despues empez6 a acumular mierda enne- grecida. • Trashy tourist attractions ('acres of modern • Atracciones deplorables para turistas crud', as Horwitz puts it) are a blot on the ('acres de mierda moderna', segun Horwitz) contemporary South's landscape. (New York son un manchon sobre el paisaje contem- Times) pordneo del sur. » — What if she's carrying a disease?—You're • — Que pasa si esta in fectada? — Eres un such a fucking asshole. — What? Oh, it's not gilipollas. — Que Ah, no es posible possible that she's all crudded up? ... That bitch que este llena de mierda? ... Esa zorra podria could be a bigger fucking germ farm than that ser una puta granja de germenes may ores que monkey in Outbreak! (Chasing Amy) el mono ese en Estallidol • I burst into a fit of coughing. Half strangling • Empece a toser violentamente. Medio aho- on the goo and crud of threescore daily gandome con toda la mierda de treinta y tan- Camels, I was surprised that I was coherent at tos Camels diarios, me sorprendid que fuera all. (William Styron) en lo mas minimo coherente. www.FreeLibros.org68 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY SYNONYMS: gook • The old woman wiped a living in grot, and surrounded by string of gook off her arm and, evidence of greed and massive dreck • Underworld is among grabbing the doctor's surgical social disparity, don't care for other things a witty and dramatic scissors, clipped the umbilical statistics much. (Guardian) meditation on excreta, voidance, cord herself. (Aimee Bender) gunge (UK) • Ventilation ducts leavings, garbage, junk, slag, • We are ankle-deep in Mr. are not cleaned. There is all sorts dreck. (Martin Amis) • He is be- Clinton's own character-gook. of gunge in them, including dead ing pestered by an aspiring au- We are trapped in his own sick pigeons, which affects people's thor of science fiction dreck decision to risk the Presidency circulation rates. (Guardian) named Milo Levi-Nathan. (Mar- for back-office sex with a sub- gunk • Defaced by time, pigeon tin Amis) ordinate. (New York Times) gunk and insensitive landlords glop (US) • Plates, floors, even the grot • Ministers reel off trium- eager to remove potential liabili- pockets of our corduroy jackets phant statistics about employ- ties, New York's once abundant were soon encrusted with a white ment, hospital lists, the mini- crop of architectural stonework glop that could have afforded ar- mum wage and family benefits. has suffered countless indigni- chaeologists a lifetime of explo- But voters who are out of work ties. (Andrew Jacobs) ration. (Pico Iyer) or in low-paid exploitative jobs, 6. g cruddy -asqueroso

The adjective from crud, meaning nasty, disgusting, loathsome, repellent.

• Prostitution, pornography, drugs —Dublin's • La prostitucion, la pornografia, las dro- fair city is looking pretty cruddy in 'The Good gas — la bella ciudad de Dublin se ve bastante Life', John Brady's latest novel. The polluted llena de mierda en 'La buena vida', la ultima canal where a prostitute's beaten body is novela de John Brady. El canal contaminado washed up bears witness to the city's donde aparece el cuerpo machacado de una pros- degradation. (New York Times) tituta es testigo de la degradacidn de la ciudad. •* I can sit in a diner or a cruddy little restau- • Puedo estar sentada en un cafe o en un res- rant halfway across the country, and there will taurante de mierda a medio camino del otro be people in the booth next to me, and because lado del pais, y habra gente en la mesa a mi I'm a woman of a certain age they'll say lado, y porque soy una mujer de una cierta anything as if no one were there. People will edad dirain cualquier cosa como si no estuvie- say absolutely outrageous, incredible things. ra. La gente dira cosas ultrajantes, cosas in- (E. Annie Proulx) crefbles.

SYNONYMS: okay. (Cruel Intentions') padding around in a little latte- scuzzy • With more and more coloured cashmere sweater and grotty • He used to live on acid people working from home or fleece drawstring trousers. and Mars bars in a grotty squat. buying books and clothes on the (Guardian) Now he sips bubbly with Ma- internet rather than schlepping yucky • And kids have a natu- donna (Guardian) to the high street, we are becom- ral reluctance to think about icky • — He ate you out? Did ing increasingly home-based. their parents' sex lives. Any you like it? — Well... I don't But this doesn't mean we're question you answer will prob- know — it was weird. At first it hanging out in scuzzy old track- ably conjure up images of you felt icky, then it felt kind of suits. We're more likely to be nude and passionate — yuck. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 69 (Salon) • He came bounding into yucky trick of finding an enthu- 'Hi!', thus exuding a warmth the room and straight away did siastic stranger in the audience that does not, in cold fact, exist. a Barry Manilow, that ever-so- and pointing a finger and saying (Guardian)

6. h arsehole of the earth, etc -el culo del mundo

The terms in this section refer to places perceived as disagreeable or of markedly inferior quality.

• Well, sir, I'm 8,000 miles from home, in a • Bueno, senor, estoy a 8.000 millas de casa, place that has already proved itself to be the en un lugar que ya ha demostrado ser el culo arsehole of the earth. Four of my friends are del mundo. Cuatro de mis amigos estan muer- dead, I'm up to my neck in shit, mud and tos, estoy hasta el cuello de mierda, barro y water... How the fuck do you think I feel, shit agua... Como cono crees que me siento, for brains? (Ken Lukowiak) gilipollas? • Just the thing for a bloody rainy chilly • Justo lo que hace falta en una jodida tarde afternoon in this arsehole of East Riding. fria y mojada en este culo del mundo de East (Philip Larkin) Riding. • 'Why would anybody in his right mind go to • ' A quien, en su sano juicio, se le puede Midland City?' the driver wanted to know. ocurrir ir a Midland City?' — quiso saber 'Midland City is the asshole of the universe'. el camionero. 'Midland City es el culo del (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) mundo.'

SYNONYMS: verhampton. It's a shithole.' fighting again, but it's quiet (Guardian) today. I'm ready to go back, shithole • Which one of you dump • She's a housewife... And bombs and all. It's better than fuckers owns this shithole? You she comes in, and she looks this hole. (Guardian) there, fat man, speak up. around, and she puts her grocer- pisshole • Come on, Billy. She (Unforgiveh) • 'This place? The ies down, and she says, 'What a isn't going to come. Let's get out cleanest?' said John Young, 62, dump!' (Edward Albee) • — Get of this pisshole and back down who runs a flower stall outside your clothes on and let's blow to the boozer. (John Ogilby) the Mander Shopping Centre. this dump. — Where to? — Any- sewer • I hate it! I hate New 'No, you got on the wrong where. Nell's. The garbage York! I don't ever want to go train, mate. You want Winches- scow. Connecticut. (Erica Jong) back to that sewer! (Philip Roth) ter or Warminster. This is Wol- hole • Yesterday they were

it sucks -es una mierda

(US) The verb suck is used intransitively to denote anything unpleasant, distasteful, rebarbative or worthless. The expression is sometimes expanded to it sucks like an Electrolux, referring to an early vacuum cleaner.

• We're going to spend half the night driving • Vamos a pasarnos la mitad de la noche con- around the hills looking for one party and then duciendo por las colinas buscando una fiesta leaving 'cause it sucks. Then we're going to y luego marchandonos porque es una mierda. look for this other party you heard about. But, Entonces vamos a ir a buscar esta otra fiesta Trent, all the parties and bars, they all suck. que te han comentado. Pero, Trent, todas las (Swingers) fiestas y los bares, son una mierda. www.FreeLibros.org70 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY « Just remember one thing: it can't get any • Solo acuerdate de una cosa; no puede em- worse, it can only get better. I mean, high peorar, solo puede mejorar. Es decir, el insti- school is the bottom. Being a teenager sucks. tuto es lo peor. Ser un adolescente es una But that's the point, surviving it is the whole mierda. Pero de eso se trata, de sobrevivir, eso point. (Pump Up the Volume) es preeisamente de lo que se trata. * Emmie, I hate my life. My life sucks. I am • Emmie, odio mi vida. Mi vida es una mier- totally fucked. Or not fucked. I am in such da. Estoy completamente jodida. Bueno, pain. (Erica Jong) jodida no. Estoy dolorida.

RELATED TERMS: see that stuff before I could You are so grossing me out. make them come off. I almost (American Beauty) gross, gross out (US) Gross grossed out. I never take a trick be the pits (US) To be the is the adjective and means dis- a second time if he makes me most loathsome place or situ- gusting. The verb to gross out watch kiddy porn. (Joseph ation imaginable. • Asked what means to disgust or to be dis- Wambaugh) • -I'm serious, he new Davis Cup captain John gusted. • I ain't in favor of just yanked it out and showed it McEnroe might have been say- kiddy porn, you understand. to me. You know, like the Presi- ing after a performance like Makes me wanna barf. Some dent did to that woman. — his first two sets today, of those little girls and boys, Gross. — It wasn't gross. It was Sampras replied: 'You're play- eight, nine years old. I had kind of cool. (American Beauty) ing like the pits of the world.' some tricks once, they had to • — I bet he's got a big dick. — (New York Times)

www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 71 EXERCISE 6.1

In each of the following lists, all the words are synonymous except one. Spot the odd man out and explain why the word in question is misplaced.

1. (a) cow (b) cunt (c) bummer (d) bag (e) slut (f) slag 2. (a) asshole (b) cocksucker (c) dipshit (d) brown-nose (e) fuckhead (f) fucker 3. (a) bastard (b) bitch (c) fucker (d) motherfucker (e) bugger (f) slut 4. (a) piss artist (b) prick (c) shithole (d) gobshite (e) jerk-off (f) schmuck 5. (a) scumbag (b) shit (c) tosser (d) scrote (e) bitch (f) twat 6. (a) pox (b) pisshole (c) jack (d) clap (e) a dose (f) syph 7. (a) slag (b) grot (c) gook (d) grunge (e) dreck (f) crud

EXERCISE 6.2

Here are some less common idiomatic and slang terms related to unpleasantness. Try to identify the subject to which each group of terms refers. 1. active citizens, crotch crickets, gentlemen's companions, neighbours to the south, pants rabbits, seam squirrels 2. yuck, schmutz, ook, scunge, scuzz 3. coachman on the box, French gout, Irish mutton, Ladies' fever, lifelong friend, Neapolitan bone ache, Old Joe, Spanish needle, the old dog 4. eurner, gleet, glim, haircut, Lulu, morning drop, stank cock, strain

EXERCISE 6.3 Translate the following sentences into English. 1. Que...? Reconoces que lo hiciste a proposito, cacho cabron? 2. Limpiar este homo es muy jodido. 3. Lo siento, tienes una infeccion venerea. 4. No hay un solo hueso del que te puedas fiar en el cuerpo de esa zorra. 5. Estuvo bien, durante algun tiempo. Despues empezo a acumular mierda ennegrecida. 6. jEstas en mi lista, cabron! Te voy a romper el culo! 7. A quien se le puede ocurrir ir alli? Es el culo del mundo. 8. Mi idea era la de vagar por ahi sin hacer nada, esquivando siempre al patron y evitando a los lameculos que podian chivarse. 9. Quiero que recuerdes que ningun bastardo gano una guerra al morir por su pais. 10. Que pasa si esta infectada? Es posible que este llena de mierda. 11. Esta mierda de pintura no hay quien la quite. 12. El instituto es lo peor. Ser un adolescente es una mierda. 13. La ultima zorra con la que se caso ni siquiera se preocupo de que tuviera calzoncillos decentes. 14. Se especializaban en los requisitos y las dolencias masculinas: profilacticos e infecciones venereas. 15. ;Tu no me mereces, zorra! jBueno, se acabo! Fuera! 16. Es un lameculos, nada mas. Me dan ganas de vomitar al pensar en el. 17. La prostitucion, la pornografia, las drogas — la ciudad se ve llena de mierda. 18. Maldicion! No podia volver sin el recibo firmado! Los cabrones siempre pedian firmas para todo. 19. Odio la vida que llevo. Mi vida es una mierda. Estoy completa- mente jodida. 20. Una botella de whisky — justo lo que hace falta en una jodida tarde Ma y mojada en este culo del mundo. www.FreeLibros.org72 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY EXERCISE 6.4

Scandinavian Splatch gives a whole new meaning to the expression 'dirty movie'. The opening scene sets the tone. It shows a couple of Swedish nurses in immaculate uniforms pouring buckets of fudge-coloured gook over each other's heads. This means they have to go and get cleaned up, so, big surprise, soon we find them frolicking naked in the tub together. Only thing is, the tub isn't full of water but of some nameless yellow gunk, possibly semi- melted butter. There's an outdoor mud scene too. Whatever happens, the characters, if they can be called that, always get wet and messy in their dressy clothes first, then proceed to nudity while being gunged at every stage. Blue goo is poured over their bodies, pink goo is poured over their bodies, diesel oil is poured over their bodies, and on and on. Whenever the pace seems to be slacking, yucky viscous dreck descends from on high. Meanwhile female masturbation provides an important thematic counterpoint. A redheaded model gets messy in her clothes with a large bowl of multi-coloured, pudding-consistency glop, rubbing it into her outfit, then into herself. She gets cleaned up, changes into lingerie, then creams herself off all over again, this time with the aid of some tan-coloured cake-mix and a dildo. Another scene involves two girls, one of whom spoons white gunge into the other's wide-open beaver and then licks it out. Male characters likewise pour variegated syrups and creams and globs of unidentifiable glop over their standing schlongs, a measure that proves irresistible to the hungry nurses, models and museum tour guides. Perhaps it all has some kind of ecological significance. In short, if you like to see nice clothes being ruined, good food being wasted, and well-endowed bodies being licked and sucked and fondled and fucked, Scandinavian Splatch is the one for you. From a review in Tenedor by Gabriella T. Oldfield Using what you have learned in this chapter and in the preceding exercises and what you can guess from the context, find words or phrases in the above passage corresponding to these descriptions: 1. Six synonyms for disgusting semi-liquid substances. 2. One term for a disgusting semi-liquid substance used (unusually) as a verb. 3. An adjective meaning disgusting. 4. A phrasal verb meaning to masturbate, used especially of a woman. 5. A noun meaning an object shaped like an erect penis used for sexual stimulation. 6. A slang word for vagina. 7. A slang word for penis. 8. A verb meaning to do the sex act with someone.

www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 73 7: INCOMPETENCE, INFERIOR QUALITY

7. a fuck up -cagar, cagada, capullo

As a verb, it means to make a serious mistake; to spoil or to ruin. As a noun, it means the mistake itself, the situation resulting from the mistake, or a totally incompetent person.

• I fucked up, Frankie. I fucked up good this • La jodf, Frankie. La jodf de verdad esta vez. time. Should never have started with this Nunca debf de empezar con esta puta zorra. fuckin* broad. I'm in a bad fuckin' spot here. Estoy francamente jodido. Lo sabes? Fran- You know that? Bad fuckin' spot. (Casino) camente jodido. » What you're hired for is to help us — does • Se te contratd para ayudarnos - esti claro? that seem clear to you? To help us. Not to fuck Para ayudarnos. No para jodernos... para ayu- us up...to help men who are going out there to dar a hombres que van a salir a intentar try to earn a living. You fairy. You company ganarse la vida. Maricdn, Funcionario... man... (David Mamet) • They fuck you up, your mum and dad; They Te joden, tu madre y tu padre; Puede que no may not mean to, but they do. (Philip Larkin) sea su intencidn, pero lo hacen. • What are rockets? I mean, they're just big • Que son los cohetes? Digo yo que, jsdlo metal pricks! You know, I mean, the bastards son grandes penes metalicos! Ya sabes, esos aren't satisfied with fuckin' the earth up — bastardos no se contentan con joder la tierra - they gotta fuck space and all. (Naked) tienen que joder el espacio. • Spud had done well. I was proud of him. He • Spud habia hecho bien. Estaba orgulloso de fucked up good and proper. (Trainspotting) e1. La jodi6 como Dios manda. • I hate doing the dishes. It fucks up my nails. • Odio lavar los platos. Me jode las unas. (GoodFellas) • This was his nightmare. The dodgiest scam • Esto era su pesadilla. La movida mas jodida in a lifetime of dodgy scams being perpetrated en toda una vida de movidas jodidas iba a ser with three of the most useless and unreliable perpetrada por tres de los colgados mas intiti- fuck-ups in town. (Trainspotting) les y menos de fiar de todo el pueblo, • That was about as fucked up a come-on as I • 'Eso es el intento de ligar mas jodido que ever sat still for,' she told him. (Robert Stone) jam£s he visto,' le dijo. » They say the world is coming to an end. They • Dicen que el mundo va llegando a su fin. say that's why it's so fucked up. (Robert Stone) Dicen que por eso estd tan jodido.

SYNONYMS: action against by boast to anyone, off the record or playwrights not, about being a model for balls up Both a verb and a noun. and Anthony McCarten was at Oliver in Love Story. A Tennes- • This evening I painted the sight least partially banjaxed by de- see newspaper first noted the Love of the garden from the dining fence attorney Bert Fields de- Story connection, which the New room window in water colours. claring 'it's a shame to try to York Times proceeded to bollix This started all right in a vicar's- hurt a wonderful film like this, up. (Salon) • But the trouble with daughter way but finished as even if you think it was stolen'. traveling like a backpacker is that rather a balls up. (Philip Larkin) (Guardian) you've got to make difficult banjax A verb only. • Last bollix, bollox A verb, sometimes choices about lodgings, sightsee- year's copyright infringement followed by up. • Gore did not ing and transportation at every www.FreeLibros.org74 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY step along the way — which daffodils and fresh-mown grass and professional men are the would bollix me up. Once I've and the prospect of cricket; it is most arrogant and incompetent cobbled my trip together and set what I endure for hours on end witnesses at any criminal pro- off, I try to cut loose and enjoy. when there has been yet another ceedings and that they'll screw (New York Times) cock-up over my mobile phone up your case for sure. (Joseph bugger up • If you take your account. (Guardian) Wambaugh) • Cecile attempts eyes off the ball for even a frac- make a balls of something the A minor scale, fucking up tion of a second, you'll bugger • Mrs Thatcher made a terrible badly. Kathryn enters and shud- up the approach shot, and then balls of trying to bring the gov- ders in silence. Cecile tries again you have absolutely no chance ernment down, but I still think and once again screws up. of making the volley you want. she's all right. (Philip Larkin) (Cruel Intentions) (Roy Logan) make a hen's arse of something sod up • The last four months cock up A verb and a noun. (Irish) • With a useless wanker have been fucked up by poor • He is a piece of slimy refuse, like that it hardly matters what Monica getting shingles... It is incapable of carrying out the job you give him. You just know a particularly nasty sort — her- simplest murder without cock- he's going to make a hen's arse pes ophthalmicus — has sodded ing it up. (Peter Cook) • I no of it. (James Laffan) up her left eye so that she sees longer associate Spring with screw up • I mean that doctors double. (Philip Larkin)

7. b | fuck about (around) -perder el tiempo, joder

To behave foolishly, especially in a time-wasting or distracting way.

• Look, will you stop fuckin' about? If you're • Mira, deja de joderla por ahi. Si vas a darme gonna stick the boot in, will you get on with de hostias, hazlo de una vez. it? (Naked) « Will you stop fuckin' about and fidgetin' in • Podrias dejar de joder por ahi y estarte quie- my peripherals — I'm trying to concentrate. to en mis cercanfas — estoy intentando con- centrarme. . thought, 'Wow! Clearly this is the result of • Pensd, ' lncrefble! Claramente, este es el re- some fantastic thinking.' But sadly it wasn't sultado de algun proceso de pensamiento fan- so. Called upon to explain or defend tlstico.' Pero, por desgracia, no fue asi. Al themselves, they couldn't. They were just pedirles una explicacion o que se defendie- fucking around, basically — which I thought sen, no pudieron. S61o estaban haciendo el was a waste of time. (Guardian) gilipollas, basicamente — lo cual, pense que era una perdida de tiempo,

SYNONYMS: bugger about (UK) • Just pack lem we're trying to solve. it in! Stop it! Stop buggering Now, would you like to sit arse about • I remember with about! Will you keep still?! (Na- down and help us solve it, or envy the evenings we used to ked) • Let's not bugger around do you two want to piss fart have about a year ago: certain being polite. (John Wainwright) around? (Reservoir Dogs) • I percentage of creative arsing- fart about • A man, he walks fart about at College, drink lit- about. (Philip Larkin) • Why in here, well-dressed ... comes tle, read rather too much... Mrs Thatcher is arsing round into a junkshop looking for (Philip Larkin) China now I can't imagine, ex- coins. He farts around, he piddle about • Where on earth cept that it's a well to keep an picks up this, he farts around, does the time go? I seem to just eye on all these foreigners. he picks up that. (David piss it away, piddling about do- (Philip Larkin) Mamet) • We got a big prob- ing everything and nothing. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 75 (Arnold Littledale) Awful Blaring Jazz Things. to our privacy. It was our God- piss about • I piss about spend- (Philip Larkin) given right to play silly bug- ing money, doing housework, play silly buggers (UK) •I'm gers that was threatened, and the tossing myself off (to put it sure none of this had anything nation responded magnificently. crudely), and listening to Those to do with the supposed threat (Keith Waterhouse)

7. c I snafu -metedura de pata, cagada

Originally a US services' term, formed from the first letters of 'situation normal, all fucked up' (or, in a politer version 'all fouled up'), the word can be used as either noun or verb. Related, less common terms are: fubar ('fucked up beyond all recognition'), fubb ('fucked up beyond belief), fumtu ('fucked up more than usual'), janfu ('joint army-navy fuck-up'), sapfu ('surpassing all previous fuck-ups'), and tarfu ('things are really fucked up'). As the examples demonstrate, snafu is now a completely respectable word. It is usually employed as a noun but also increasingly as a verb.

• Bill Gates said that small businesses and any • Bill Gates dijo que las pequenas empresas y organisation using older computer systems cualquier organizacion que este usando un sis- could still face bug-related problems in the tema de ordenador viejo podria tener proble- weeks ahead. 'There are lots of snafus that we mas con virus en las pr6ximas semanas. 'Hay haven't seen yet. There is still a little bit of a muchas meteduras de pata que aun no hernos mess there that will have to be cleaned up.' visto. Aum hay un pequeno desmadre que ha- (Guardian) brfi que arreglar.' • Every now and then something snafus and • De vez en cuando, alguien la caga y hay un there is one hell of a mess. (John Grady) jodido desmadre. • My arrangements seemed snafued. I guess • Han metido la pata con mis planes. Supon- the lines got crossed. (G. Markstein) go que hubo un cruce de lineas • The Turkish barbed wire was hard to cut. • El alambre de puas turco era diffcil de cor- Watches had not been synchronized. And the tar. Los relojes no habian sido sincronizados. Turks were up above the beach, firing down Y los turcos estaban en la playa, disparando a at anything that moved. Snafu is what we todo el que se moviera. 'Una cagada' asi es nowadays call such a shambles. (New York como hoy en dia llamamos a semejante de- Times) sastre. • Yesterday's events appeared to be a large- • Los acontecimientos de ayer parece que fue- scale public relations snafu. (New York Times) ron una cagada de relaciones ptiblicas a gran escala. • What was it about the Second World War • Que es lo que durante la segunda guerra that moved the troops to constant verbal mundial llevo a las tropas a la constante subversion and contempt... devising SNAFU, subversi6n verbal y al desprecio... creando with its offspring TARFU, FUBAR, and the la palabra "cagada", con su prole TARFU, perhaps less satisfying FUBB? It was not just FUBAR y quizas el menos satisfactorio the danger and fear... It was the conviction that FUBB? Era la conviccidn de que la publi- optimistic publicity and euphemism had cidad optimista y el eufemismo habian dado rendered their experience so falsely that it una imagen tan falsa de su experiencia que would never be readily communicable. nunca se podrfa comunicar con facilidad. (Atlantic Monthly) www.FreeLibros.org76 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY 7. d half-arsed, half-assed -muy poco brillante

The word has three basic meanings: of low quality, bad, inferior, unsatisfactory; ineffectual, incompetent; foolish, stupid.

• Do you mean to tell me that while you have • Me quieres decir que mientras que no te im- zero problem with me sleeping with half the porta que me haya acostado con la mitad de women in New York city, you have some sort las mujeres de Nueva York, tienes algiin tipo of half-assed mealy-mouthed objection to de objecidn mal expuesta y patetica a trave- pubescent antics that took place almost ten suras propias de adolescentes que ocurrieron years ago? What the fuck is your problem? hace casi diez anos? Cual es tu jodido pro- (Chasing Amy) blema? • I've got no reason to believe that if he found • No tengo motivos para creer que si se en- himself in the mayor's chair he wouldn't con- contrara en la silla del alcalde, no continuaria tinue to extrude half-arsed ideas. (Guardian) patrocinando ideas de mierda. • We were just an ordinary vanful of people • S61o eramos un grupo ordinario de gente que pressed together tightly in the darkness, viajaba en una furgoneta, apretujados en la os- laughing at some half-assed joke, rumbling curidad, riendonos de chistes idiotas, camino home from a party on a steamy summer night. de casa despues de una fiesta en una calida (Douglas Century) noche de verano.

7. e shitty -de mierda

Depending on the context, the word can have a wide range of meanings: insignificant; of poor quality; tedious and unpleasant; futile; malicious, nasty; unwell.

• Another thing he will make sure of, he says, • De otra cosa que se asegurara, dice, es de is that his kids know how privileged they are. que sus hijos sepan lo privilegiados que son. 'They won't grow up in a shitty council house 'No se criaran en una mierda de vivienda with no money, but they'll have a pretty good de proteccion oficial sin dinero pero ten- idea what it's like, because I've been there.' dran una idea de lo que es eso, porque ya (Guardian) me toc6 a mi.' • I didn't say I wasn't gonna do it, I just • No dije que no lo iba a hacer. S61o mencio- remarked on how shitty the situation is! ne lo jodida que esta situacion! (Reservoir Dogs) • You want to go back to your shitty little • Quieres regresar a tu pequena jodida exis- existence? Go ahead, leave. There's the door. tencia? Adelante, marchate. Ahi tienes la puer- No one's stopping you. (Swimming With ta. Nadie te lo impide. Sharks) • You're so obsessed with making everything • Estas tan obsesionado con hacer que todo seem so much more epic, so much more parezca mucho mas epico, mucho mas impor- important than it really is. Christ, you work tante de lo que es. !Jesus!, trabajas en una in a convenience store, Dante. And badly, I tienducha, Dante. Y de mala manera, anadi- might add. I work in a shitty video store, badly rfa. Yo trabajo en un video club de mierda, y as well. (Clerks) tambien de rnala manera. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 77 SYNONYMS: word, like lousy, has come to guy won't go into a raggedy-ass mean: bad, of inferior quality, temple: 'I live in a shithouse — chickenshit Cowardly; petty, shoddy; insignificant, trifling, whadda I gotta go in one faw?' insignificant. • The choice was paltry. • — What does that get (Lenny Bruce) • She think she be made and there was nothing to me? — Maybe it gets you put to gittin the house and the car be- be had from chickenshit specu- sleep. Or maybe you get to live cause this old man wif a brain like lation. The roshis were right: the your crummy little life. (Robert pigfeet made some kind of rag- mind is a monkey. (Robert Stone) • I pass my life in gedy ass agreement she think is a Stone) • Please can I go home crummy, totally pointless infi- legal will. (Joseph Wambaugh) now? Craven, chickenshit, and delities... would-be infidelities. shit, shite • I hate being Scot- bourgeois. (Robert Stone) • We (Edward Albee) tish. We're the lowest of the ain't got much these days. Cou- lousy • Life here is still lousy, fucking low, the scum of the ple chickenshit domestic shoot- due to my inability to live it. earth, the most wretched, ser- ings. Want some help? (Joseph (Philip Larkin) • Watched various vile, miserable, pathetic trash Wambaugh) lousy programmes on the TV un- that was ever shat into civiliza- crap • Man will cease to exist. til 7:30. (Joe Orton) • — Do you tion. Some people hate the Eng- Just like the dinosaurs passed dig karate, Al? — Can't say as I lish, but I don't. They're just into extinction, the same thing'll do, Herman. Actually, I'm in wankers. We, on the other hand, happen to us. We're not fuckin' lousy shape. (Joseph Wambaugh) are colonized by wankers. We important. We're just a crap piss-poor, piss poor • You've can't even pick a decent culture idea. (Naked) all heard about the Law of the to be colonized by. We are ruled crappy • Did George Hartley Six Ps: proper preparation pre- by effete arseholes. It's a shite read a crappy little poem I was vents piss-poor performance. state of affairs. (Trainspotting) silly enough to let him have Well, it applies in every field. • He worked for a while at years ago? I bet it fell as flat as (Gus Blackburn) • I have gone Milliron's, and in various small a flounder. (Philip Larkin) through all that stuff to find sto- factories in the garment district, • When I was in my teens I used ries for my books and a lot of it 'shit jobs' where he connived to to read all those crappy maga- is poorly written, just piss poor. waste as much time as possible. zines about how to find Mr Right (Howard Sounes) • Europe is a (Howard Sounes) and how to make him yours for piss-poor place for music. shit-eating • What kind of ques- life. Shit! Every penny I had (Rolling Stone) tion is that! What kind of shit- went on clothes and make-up. I pissy • Dull non-day today, fol- eating remark is that supposed really swallowed all that crap. lowing a pissy evening attend- to be! Are you another heartless (E.A. Whitehead) • He didn't ing the annual dinner of the Hull bastard too? (Philip Roth) • And seem to reali/e the sheer Magic Circle. (Philip Larkin) that shit-eating grin of yours day crappiness of his argument. raggedy-ass • I realized the rea- after day cool as a cucumber, (Jonathan Coe) son for the baroque church, the butter wouldn't melt in your crummy Originally, infested grand church in the poverty mouth, would it... (William with body lice, lousy. Now the neighborhood. A raggedy-ass Styron)

7.a bullshit -sandeces, gilipolleces

The word can be used as a verb, a noun, or an adjective. As a noun, it means; nonsense, pretentious talk, deceitful absurdities, baloney. As a verb: to talk foolishly or pretentiously, or with a view to deceiving the listener.

. Banky's not known for believing • A Banky no se le conoce por aceptar infor- misinformation. He's got a pretty good bullshit macion falsa. Tiene un estupendo detector de detector. (Chasing Amy) chorradas.

EDITORIAL STANLEY www.FreeLibros.org78 El Ingles Prohibido • — But, Your Honor, she is of age, after all, a • — Pero, Senoria, ella es mayor de edad, consenting adult... — Don't bullshit me with despues de todo, una adulta que consien- legalisms, Portnoy. You knew right from te... — No me vengas con gilipolleces lega- wrong. (Philip Roth) les, Portnoy. Ya sabes distinguir lo que esta bien de lo que esta mal. • Please, let us not bullshit one another about • Por favor, no nos andemos con tonterias so- 'love' and its duration. (Philip Roth) bre el 'amor' y su duracion. • Put yourself in our place. Would you kiss a • Ponte en nuestro lugar. Besarias a un le- leper? What the hell are you gonna get outta proso? Que' cono vas a conseguir con eso? that? Awright? That's a lotta bullshit — you De acuerdo? Es un montdn de mierda — in- try to kiss them and they fall apart. (Lenny tentas besarles y se caen a cachos. Bruce) • Rehabilitated? That's just a bullshit word. • Rehabilitado? Eso es s61o una jodida pala- So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and bra, Asi que adelante y pon el sello en tu for- stop wasting my time. Because, to tell you the mulario, ninato, y deja de hacerme perder el truth, I don't give a shit. (The Shawshank tiempo. Porque, a decir verdad, me importa Redemption) una mierda. • Tiffany Charles was a sucker for young- • A Tiffany Charles le perdian los tipos mayo- looking older guys like this, or else for big res como este que aparentaban ser mas jove- sweaty animals that socked it to you and no nes, o sino los animales grandes y sudorosos bullshitting around. (Joseph Wambaugh) que te la pegaban y no de cona.

SYNONYMS:

The following terms are synonyms for bullshit used as a noun and as an interjection. Only shit can be used in this context as a verb.

ballocks, bollocks • — 'Resolve plot'. This is a lot of anti-Se- dung • Don't ever go to see any is never stronger than in the mitic balls is what this is. film Myriam recommends. morning after the night it was (Alan Beretta) You'll wind up wasting an never weaker.' What do you cobblers (UK) • All the guff evening watching a load of arty- think of that? — It's a load of about mutual respect between farty dung. (John Ogilby) bollocks. (Naked) • Had a fear- police and criminals was just a horsedung • Men, the stuff we ful weekend judging the Arvon load of old cobblers. (G.F. heard about America not want- Poetry Competition... To think Newman) ing to fight, wanting to stay out that someone is going to get FIVE crap • — What do you believe of the war, was a lot of THOUSAND POUNDS for some utter in then? — Well, I believe in the horsedung. Americans tradition- ballocks makes me want to do soul. The cock. The pussy ... ally love to fight. All real Ameri- damage. (Philip Larkin) • For High fiber. Good Scotch. That cans love the sting of battle. God's sake, don't talk ballocks, the novels of "Susan Sontag are (Patton) Johnson. (Joyce Cary) self-indulgent, overrated crap. horseshit • — We're going to balls • Ah, beauty, beauty! What (Bull Durham) • An army is a get respect by any means neces- is truth? Balls. What is love? team. It lives, sleeps, eats, fights sary. — Ah, c'mon, that's a Shite. What is God? Bugger. as a team. This individuality bunch of horseshit! (Chasing (Philip Larkin) • Have you read stuff is a lot of crap. (Patton) Amy) • — I think that's very this stuff? 'The Zionist con- • What a bunch of crap, huh? interesting how they use the spiracy, the worldwide Jewish (David Mamet) Dufy Blue with so many other www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 79 pastels. — That sounds like a first two of which were horseshit. neck out and says it straight lotta Commie horseshit to me. (Philip Larkin) • You are now deal- from the heart. Sure there's a lot (Lenny Bruce) • How'd I ever get ing in the cheapest kind of New of different music you can get mixed up in this happy York-liberal, hypocritical horse- off on but soul is more than that. horseshit? (Robert Stone) • Have shit! (William Styron) It grabs you by the bollocks just started the third of three shit, shite • Soul is the music and lifts you above the shite. Agatha Christie paperbacks, the people understand ... it sticks its (The Commitments)

www.FreeLibros.org80 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY EXERCISE 7.1

In each of the following lists, all the words are synonymous except one. Spot the odd man out and explain why the word in question is misplaced. 1. (a) piss about (b) fart about (c) shit about (d) bugger about (e) arse about (f) fuck about 2. (a) crappy (b) crummy (c) lousy (d) piss-poor (e) horseshit (f) raggedy-ass 3. (a) chickenshit (b) cobblers (c) bullshit (d) crap (e) balls (f) horsedung 4. (a) fuck up (b) bugger up (c) cock up (d) balls up (e) screw up (f) piss-up

EXERCISE 7.2 Complete the following sentences by choosing the appropriate words in a, b, c, d, or e. In each case, only one answer is possible.

1. The script was stupid, the acting was terrible, and the direction was non-existent. In short, it was one of the films I've ever seen. (a) crappiest (b) fartiest (c) fuckedest (d) most buggered (e) most piddled 2. They have some kind of plan to go to China during the summer, but they still haven't the least idea of how they're going to finance the trip. (a) shit-kicking (b) shit-stirring (c) horsedung (d) pissed-off (e) half-assed 3. Harry is totally incompetent. It doesn't matter what you ask him to do, you can be sure he'll

(a) fuck it out (b) fuck it off (c) fuck it over (d) fuck it up (e) fuck it in 4. Listen, all I want you to do is to tell me the facts. Don't me, just tell me the truth. (a) ballocks (b) cobblers (c) dung (d) crap (e) bullshit 5. You'll never pass this exam if you go on and wasting time. Sooner or later, you have to get down to work. (a) ballsing up (b) fucking about (c) cocking away (d) farting over (e) snafuing

EXERCISE 7,3

Translate the following sentences into English. 1. Trato de pegarmela con no se que excusas. 2. De vez en cuando, alguien la caga y hay un jodido desmadre. 3. Mira, deja de joder por ahi. Si vas a hacerlo, hazlo de una vez. 4. Mis hijos no se criaran en una mierda de vivienda de proteccion oficial. 5. La cago con la organizacion. 6. Trabaja en un video club de mierda. 7. Los acontecimientos de ayer parecieron ser un desastre de relaciones publi- cas a gran escala. 8. — Dice que es rico. —jQue cono a a ser rico ese! 9. Los numeros estan todos mal. 10. Trato de pegarmela con no se que excusas. 11. Tiene algun tipo de objecion patetica a las travesuras de adolescentes que ocurrieron hace casi diez anos. 12. Por favor, no nos andemos con tonterias sobre este asunto. 13. [Esta vez intenta no cagarla! 14. No me vengas con sandeces! 15. No dije que no lo iba a hacer. Solo mencionaba lo jodida que esta la situacion! 16. Dicen que el mundo va llegando a su fin. Dicen que por eso esta tan jodido. 17. Era una pelicula de mierda. 18. Su decision nos jodio las vacaciones. 19. Quieres regresar a tu pequena jodida existencia? Adelante. Ahf tienes la puerta. Nadie te lo impide. 20. No era el resultado de algun proceso de pensamiento fantastico. Solo estaban haciendo el gilipollas, basicamente. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 81 EXERCISE 7.4

(Joe tells a joke involving several national stereotypes. In modern American jokes people of Polish descent are remarkable for their stupidity.)

JOE: So they're talkin' about how they get their wives off, and the French guys says: (in a bad French accent) 'All I gotta do is take my pinky and tickle my Fifi's little oo-la-la and she rises a foot off the bed.' So the dago says: (in a good Brooklyn accent) That's nothin'. When I take the tip of my tongue and wiggle it against my Mary Louise's little fun pimple, she rises two feet off da bed.' Then our friend from Poland says: (in dumb voice) 'You guys ain't no cocksmen. When I get through fuckin' my Sophie, I wipe my dick on the curtains and you know what? She hits the roof!' Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Ain't that a masterpiece? Stupid fuckin' Polack, wipes his dick on the drapes. From the screenplay of Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino

Using what you have learned in this chapter and in the preceding exercises and what you can guess from the context, find words or phrases in the above passage corresponding to these descriptions: 1. A phrasal verb meaning: to bring someone to orgasm. 2. An offensive term for a Spaniard or Latin- American. 3. A slang term for the clitoris. 4. A word designating a man regarded and evaluated as a sex partner. 5. A verb meaning to have sexual intercourse with someone. 6. A slang term for the penis. 7. An adjective with no precise meaning, used strictly for emphasis. 8. An offensive term for a person of Polish descent.

www.FreeLibros.org82 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY 8: EMPHASIS

8.a fuck - a la mierda!

This is by far the strongest of the swearwords listed in this section, words which, if taken literally, include wishing a person or thing to eternal damnation (damn, goddamn, to hell with) and mentally subjecting the person or thing to an act of rape (fuck, screw, shag) or sodomy (sod, bugger). In practice, of course, such words are not primarily intended as vehicles of precise meaning but rather as expressions of emphatic annoyance, indignation, rejection, surprise, etc.

•Hove the F-word. I never tire of it. Fve been • Me encanta la palabra 'joder'. Nunca me can- told it's unladylike, and I'm sure that's true, so de ella. Me ban dicho que no est5 bien que but what the heck — nothing says it better. lo diga una senorita, y seguro que es cierto, Maybe the best thing about it is its manifold pero que mas da - nada lo expresa tan bien. use: Front the essential 'Fuck you!' to the Quizas lo mejor de todo sean sus multiples relatively genteel 'Well, fuck me!' You don't usos: Desde el esencial' Joclete!' hasta el rela- have to be a sailor to revel in this word. (Amy tivamente suave 'Pues, jddeme!' No hace falta Wallace) ser un marinero para disfrutar de esta palabra. If I walk away from this, he thought, I'll be • Si me alejo de esto, penso, me sentire viejo an old man — all ghosts and hangovers and — todo serin fantasmas y resacas y recuer- mellow recollections. Fuck it, he thought, this dos dulces. Que se joda, pensd, este es el que is the one. This is the one to ride till it crashes. cuenta, Este es el que hay que montar hasta (Robert Stone) que se estrelle. — Ah fuck it. — Sure! Fuck it! That's your • — Ah, que se joda. — Bien! Que se joda. answer! Tattoo it on your forehead! Your EJsa es tu respuesta! Tattialo en tu frente! Tu answer to everything! (The Big Lebowski) respuesta a todo! Fuck me, who cares if we're not nice — • jQue se odanS, a quien le importa si no so- we're necessary. That's more important. mos amables — somos necesarios. Eso es m£s (Robert McLiam Wilson) importante. « — Suppose any of the neighbours were to • — Suponte que algunos de los vecinos se look out and see them. — Oh, fuck the asomaran y les vieran. — {Que se jodan los neighbours! (Francis King) vecinos! At eleven o'clock it was all settled; they were A las once, ya estaba todo decidido; se iban going to run away, to Borneo. Fuck the a escapar a Borneo. jQue se joda el marido! husband! She never loved him anyway. (Henry De todos modos, nunca le habia amado. Mller) Business bad? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, you El negocio va mal? ddete, pagame. had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. The place got Tuviestes un incendio? Jodete, pagame. hit by lightning, huh? Fuck you, pay me. Cayo un rayo sobre el local, eh? Jodete, (GoodFellas) pagame.

SYNONYMS: meeting of radicals... Michael (Katherine Anne Porter) • The Gold made a speech and kept re- voice was a man's, and it was damn, God damn, goddamn peating: 'Stick to your class, laced with authority. 'Get back • During that time I went to a damn it, stick to your class.' here, God damn it!' (James www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 83 Carrol) • You unspeakable creep! this. I put my books in my locker (John Wain) You wretched swine! God damn and went home. (David Obst) to hell with • I spend long you to hell forever for betraying • 'Don't shout, there might be hours slumped in front of the me behind my back, you whom keepers.' 'Screw the keepers,' he TV... watching sport and old I trusted like the best friend I cried. (Roald Dahl) films. Nothing else: to hell ever had! (William Styron) shag • —Well, smart arse, in lieu with news or politics. (Philip bugger (UK) • Oh, bugger it. of money what are we going to Larkin) • Being a fiery young I'm going to give up. Had pay the rent with? — Shag the woman, a feminist who be- enough. (Kingsley Amis) • I'll rent, I have other things to worry lieved she was within her be buggered if I can understand about. (Tony Carlin) rights to dance with whoever how it could have been anything sod (UK) • Oh, sod it, I am she liked, however she wanted, else. (Samuel Beckett) going to go shopping. (Helen Linda told him to fuck off. screw • I stood in the hallway Fielding) • 'I'd rather be at They were finished. To hell for a beat, the familiar feeling home,' said the chief camera- with Bukowski! (Howard of dread washing over me. Screw man, 'and sod the overtime.' Sounes)

8. b fucking -de mierda, punetero

The word is used adjectivally or adverbially, intensifying an adjective. In many cases it has no parti- cular significance and is used simply for emphasis or to balance the rhythm of a phrase. Otherwise, the adjective means wretched, rotten, accursed; the adverb means extremely, very.

• Now this kid, this kid was great. They used • Este crio, este crfo era genial. Le llamaban to call him Spitshine Tommy. I swear to God. limpia-escupitajos Tommy. Lo juro por Dios. Oh, he'd make your shoes look like fucking Oh, hacia que tus zapatos parecieran jodidos mirrors. Excuse my language. (GoodFellas) espejos. Disculpa mi lenguaje. • — You shot him in the foot, Tommy. — He's • — Le disparaste en el pie, Tommy. — Joder, fucking fine. All right, so he got shot in the estd bien. Vale, jle dispararon en el pie! <,Y foot! What is it, a big fucking deal? — He que cono importa? — Necesita un jodido me- needs a fucking doctor. (GoodFellas) dico. • 'If I beat up on you... I'd be within my rights', • 'Si te fuera a pegar... estaria dentro de mi he told her. 'You can't deal with people in this derecho,' le dijo, 'No puedes tratar a la gente outrageous fucking manner.' (Robert Stone) de esta manera tan increfblemente jodida.' • He comes in here like I'm his fucking • Entra aqui como si yo fuera su jodido por- doorman. (David Mamet) tero. • You listen carefully! You ever fuckin' touch • Esciichame con atenci6n! Si la vuelves a her again, you ever do anything like that again, tocar, si vuelves a hacer algo por el estilo, I'll fuckin' kill you. Pure and simple. Do you te matare, joder. Puro y sencillo. Me oyes? hear me? Pure and fuckin' simple, I'll fuckin' Puro y jodidamente sencillo, te matare, kill you, you bitch. (Casino) jodida zorra.

SYNONYMS: I don't think I should have the a right bloody racket — woke courage myself. (Philip Larkin) me up. (Naked) • Now then, bleeding (UK) • I should like bloody (UK) • I had this dream who's for the canteen? I think to say how much I admire your the other night, about these two we've had enough of this bloody fight against the bleeding army. skeletons having a fuck. It was shed. (John McGrath) • That was www.FreeLibros.org84 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY pretty bloody stupid, O'Rourke, to. Tell him to take his fuckin' pudding. What a fucking carry- and unnecessary. (John McGrath) feet off the table. What's he on there was. This dirty, shitty, damn, damned • Stop that think this is, a goddamn sawdust Welsh fucker searching in the damned ringing: How tinnitus joint? (Casino) • Come down ice-cream for this rotten, filthy can drive you crazy, and how it here and talk to me, goddamn it! glass thing that'd slipped from can be cured. (Salon) • — A guy Fuck you! Goddamn you, come his poxy head. I had to refuse the busts his damned ass and you out here! (Casino) • Well, I'll ex- pudding after that. The dirty don't appreciate it. —You plain —if you'll get your shit. (Joe Orton) haven't been busting your ass, goddam hands off me. (Lenny ruddy (UK) Euphemistic al- Chinaski. (Charles Bukowski) Bruce) • I don't want you to teration of bloody. • I'm sitting effing A euphemistic substitute worry about a goddamned thing. here writing with a ruddy great for fucking. • Fortunately, in (David Mamet) damp patch. No, it's not my ad- spite of increasing public usage, hellish • Life is hellish busy at vancing old age, but a brown, the F-word hasn't entirely lost present. (Philip Larkin) mouldy ceiling-cyst, directly its pizazz — the New York motherfucking • 'Cause me, above my head. (Guardian) Times still refuses to print it, once I decide I want some- sodding (UK) • Fuck this and people still say, 'Oh, fudge!' thing, there ain't a goddam arseholing typewriter. What's or 'I'm so effing mad!' (Amy motherfuckin' thing gonna the matter with the sodding Wallace) stop me from gittin' it. (Jackie thing? (Philip Larkin) • Have frigging • Shoot the hump! Blow Brown) • Black rage! Black rage! I read 'The Groves of Aca- his friggin' head off! (Sea of Love) I kill all white folks I lay my deme' — of course I have: • Your whacking great book on motherfuckin' eyes on!! (Chas- sodding good too. (Philip Stalin's purges came this after- ing Amy) • — You hit a bump or Larkin) • Life in the centres of noon; I began putting my nose something and the gun went off. excellence is sodding hell at the in it as a change from writing —The car didn't hit no mother- moment, just work and squabble my frigging annual report. fuckin' bump! (Pulp Fiction) and worry. (Philip Larkin) • I (Philip Larkin) • Minnie's a poxy • He had a glass eye... I wear two hearing aids now, funny friggin' name for a guy. remember once I was having permanently. Can't hear a (Ethan Coen) dinner with him and he took it sodding word otherwise, and goddamn, goddamned • I don't out and wiped it. It slipped from not much if I do. (Philip Larkin) give a shit who he's connected his hand and fell straight into the

•8. c fucking well -icono! carajo!

Words added parenthetically for emphasis. Sometimes they mean: certainly, definitely.

• I resolved that I would draw the line as to • Decidi que trazaria una linea hasta donde how far Nathan would proceed in his podrfa llegar Nathan con su acoso. No harassment. He would bully Sophie no more, intimidaria m&s a Sophie, decidi, y m£s le va- I decided, and he had fucking well better lia tener cuidado con lo que hacia. watch his step with me. (William Styron) • — You can't protect a kid from something • — No se puede proteger a un crio de una like that. — Yes, you fucking-well can. But cosa asi. — Si que puedes, joder. jPero tienes you have to make an effort! (James Laffan) que hacer un esfuerzo! • How do I know what he said? I know what • Como Se lo que dijo? se lo que dijo porque he said because I was fucking well there. I estaba alli, cono. Yo era el hijo de puta a quien was the craphead he fucking well said it to. se lo dijo, joder. (John Ogilby) www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 85 YNONYMS: tard's cost me thirty grand al- voice!' Becca called back, en- ready. (Naked) joying the drama. 'Then she can bleeding well (UK) • He has no damn well • You're going to be goddam well find it.' (Sara chance of getting off with her, the best damn President our coun- Paretsky) and he bleeding well knows it try has ever seen. You damn well sodding well (UK) • They say too. (Alan Beretta) are! (Louis Fradin) • I asked an they'll pay before the end of the bloody well (UK) • 'You're infantry colonel whether he gave month, that's fine by me. But I'll drunk. You're just trying to es- his battalion a pre-battle lecture. tell you this, they'd better cape from your yawning emo- The colonel replied approxi- sodding well pay. 'Cause if they tional hole into drink.' 'Well, so's mately as follows: — 'You can don't, our friend Razors is go- bloody well Shazzer,' I said sulk- damn well bet I do.' (Atlantic ing down there to have a friendly ily. (Helen Fielding) • Where the Monthly) word. (Alan Beretta) bloody hell's Dorfman? The bas- goddam well • 'She's lost her

8. d a hell of a -sensacional, de padre y senor mw

The phrase is used adjectivally, as in the first example, or adverbially, as in the second. Two variations are exemplified below, a helluva and one hell of a.

• She seemed like a hell of a girl, huh? The • Parecia una chica estupenda, verdad? Lo little I saw of her. (David Mamet) poco que vi de ella. • To Mike Woo, a real neat Marxist Leninist • Para Mike Woo, un marxista leninista muy and a helluva nice guy. Always a pal, Chair- majo y un tipo cojonudo. Siempre tu colega, man Mao. (Robert Stone) Presidente Mao. • 'Excuse me for staring,' he said in a New • 'Disculpame por quedarme mirando,' dijo York accent. 'I was just admirin' that colossal con acento neoyorkino. 'Solo estaba admiran- shirt. Yeah, that is one hell of a shirt. I'll bet do esa camisa tan flipante. Si, es una camisa you paid a pretty penny for it, am I right?' cojonuda. Apostaria que te cost6 un ojo de la (James Leo Herlihy) cara, verdad?'

8. e ... as hell -sumamente

The following phrases are added after an adjective, with the meaning: extremely, very.

• I know this sounds pretentious as hell, but I • Se que esto suena la hostia de pretencioso, like to think of us as artists. (Chasing Amy) pero pienso en nosotros como artistas.

SYNONYMS: amusing. Sometimes it's just have a man-hating, angry-as- fucking annoying as piss! fuck, agenda-of-rage, bitter as piss • Sometimes your para- (Chasing Amy) dyke. (Chasing Amy) noia and suspicious bullshit is as fuck • Now down here we www.FreeLibros.org86 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY 8. f for fuck's sake -iputamadrel icarajo!

An expression of strong emotion, exasperation, anger, surprise, despair, etc., in which fuck is substituted for God, Jesus, Christ, etc

• Despite herself, she laughed loudly — her * A pesar de si misma, se rio en voz alta — su signature laugh, a cross between a bark and a risa era, un cruce entre un ladrido y un neigh. He clapped a hand over her mouth. 'For relincho. Le puso la mano sobre la boca. ' Jo- fuck's sake. People are right outside.' der. Hay gente ahi fuera.' (Courtney Weaver) • Would you for fuck's sake try and keep the Te importaria bajar ese jodido ruido? Solo noise down? Just because you shower of shites porque vosotros, cabrones, no tengais que don't have to get up in the morning doesn't levantaros por la manana no significa que los mean nobody else does. (John Ogilby) demas no tengamos que hacerlo. • Ah for fuck's sake, what's that meddling Carajo!, en que ha ido a meter sus narices bastard gone and stuck his nose into now? ese bastardo entrometido ahora? (James Laffan)

RELATED TERMS: These expressions are all used as expletives. for Christ's sake, for chrissakes armed, I'm unguarded. For sider my ass retired. — Jesus • Yes, Holden, that's all it was: God's sake, I'm naked.' (Neil Christ! — Don't blaspheme! — some sex! Most of it stupid high Gordon) Goddammit, Jules... — I said school sex, for Christ's sake! for the love of Christ • The don't do that. (Pulp Fiction) (Chasing Amy) • You're a grown broad jumps back on the bed and • 'Oh, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ,' woman, behave like it for yells 'Now, give it to me now for I kept hearing myself mutter, chrissakes. (David Mamet) • I the love of Christ.' (David half aware of the questioning heard my own voice now. Mamet) look on the face of the old man, 'Nathan, for Christ's sake, lay off for the love of God • 'For the who as a member of the Second her!' I had gotten to my feet. love of God, get a hold on your- Baptist Church of Washington (William Styron) • Those who self, McManus,' Powers said was doubtless unprepared for have actually listened to the un- contemptuously. (Shaun Herron) such impiety from a preacher. expurgated tapes know that Nixon holy Jesus • The sky was full (William Styron) went in for Sunday-school swear- of what looked like huge bats, fucking hell • — 'What time ing and precious little else. His all swooping and screeching and does she get back?' — 'Dunno. deleted expletives overwhelm- diving around the car, and a About seven or something.' — ingly consisted of 'Goddamn', voice was screaming: 'Holy Je- 'Fuckin' hell!' (Naked) • Fuckin' 'hell', 'damn', 'Christ', 'for sus! What are these goddamn hell! I've seen more life in an Christ's sake', 'what in the name animals?' (Fear and Loathing in open grave. I mean, you don't of Christ' and 'oh, God'. The dirti- Las Vegas) seem very pleased to see me. est words in the president's ver- Jesus Christ • Jesus Christ, I (Naked) nacular were 'crap', 'shit', and get home from work, all I want • Fuckin' hell! Stupid fuckin' 'asshole'. (Jonathan Aitken) to do is put my feet up and cunt's gone and got lost. (Naked) for God's sake • Dripping with watch the telly, not get in- bloody hell, bleeding hell (UK) water, he had a strange dignity volved in one of your orgies. • 'Bloody hell,' he said at last. 'I as he tried to calm his frightened (Naked) • — That's it for me. hate these European art movies, captors. 'Listen to me. I'm un- From here on in, you can con- don't you?' (Jonathan Coe) www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 87 8. g I the fuck -cono, caraio

An adverbial phrase mainly used for rhythmic fullness in hostile questions or to intensify the emotional charge of hostile commands and assertions.

• Jesus Christ, why don't you just shut the fuck • Jesus, £por que cono no te callas? Estds que up. You're yap, yap, yapping all the time. Give no callas en.todo el dia. Me das un puto dolor me a fucking headache. (Chasing Amy) de cabeza. • — How am I supposed to feel about all of • — Como se supone que me tengo que this? — How are you supposed to feel about sentir acerca de esto? — Como se supone it? Feel whatever the fuck you want about it! que te tienes que sentir? Siente lo que te The only thing that really matters is how you de la puta gana! Lo Snico que importa es feel about me. (Chasing Amy) que sientes por mi. • 'What the fuck!' Converse exclaimed. Quite • Que cono!' exclamo Converse. Del todo involuntarily. (Robert Stone) involuntario. •You ain't gonna do a goddam thing, now hang • No vas a hacer ni hostias, quedate atras y back and shut the fuck up. (Pulp Fiction) cierra la puta boca. • They had so much fuckin' money in there, • Tenian tanto puto dinero ahi dentro, que se you could build a house out of stacks of $100 podrfa construir una casa con los montones bills. And the best part was that upstairs, the de billetes de $100. Y lo mejor de todo era board of directors didn't know what the fuck que la junta directiva no sabia que cono esta- was going on. (Casino) ba pasando. • 'Get out,' I shouted again. 'Get your • 'Sal de aqui' grite otra vez. ' Saca tu puto goddamned foot out of that door and leave me pie de la puerta y dejame en paz de una jodida the fuck alone!' (William Styron) vez!' • Everyone was happy. Everyone was smiling. • Todos eran felices. Todos estaban sonrien- And why the fuck not? We were alive and more do. Y por que cono no? Estibamos vivos y to the point it was looking like we had a chance adema's, parecfa que tenfamos posibilidades to stay that way. (Ken Lukowiak) de seguir asi.

SYNONYMS: hell out of here, away to blazes have you been? Have you someplace.' (James Leo Herlihy) any idea what time it is? the hell • 'The thing to do,' he the blazes A euphemistic sub- (Rodney Forsythe) thought at length, 'is to get the stitute for hell. • Where the

8. h I the shit out of... -severamente

To beat the shit out of someone is to beat or thrash that person thoroughly (moler a alguien a palos). Any verb denoting assault or punishment may replace beat: kick, knock, hammer, slap, scare, etc.

• Well, I got mad and it felt terrific! I felt like « Pues, me enfade" y me sentf estupendamen- I could beat the shit outta all those punks! Ex- te! Me sentf como si pudiese dar de hostias a cuse my language, just beat them to a pulp! esos pringaos! Perdona mi lenguaje, solo dar- (Fried Green Tomatoes) les de tortas! www.FreeLibros.org88 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY And then he counts to three and she doesn't • Entonces 61 cuenta hasta tres y ella no se move and then he gets down on his knees and mueve y entonces se arrodilla y empieza a begins to slap the livin' shit out of her. darle de hostias. (William Styron) * Our war had so far consisted of watching • Nuestra guerra hasta ahora habia consistido the Argentine Air Force bomb the shit out of en contemplar como la fuerza aerea argentina our Navy. (Ken Lukowiak) bombadeaba a nuestra marina. * Listen, I know I'm boring the shit out of you, • Oye, se que te estoy aburriendo mortalmente, but I've got to talk to somebody. I can't talk pero tengo que hablar con alguien. No puedo to those guys upstairs. (Henry Miller) hablar con esos tipos del piso de arriba.

SYNONYMS: fucking job in the world. hell out of me. (Guardian) • We're (Deconstructing Harry) • The going to take the enemy by the the hell out of... • Every hooker poster said 'More chilling than nose and kick him in the ass. We'll I ever speak to tells me it beats The Exorcist... More haunting kick the hell out of him. We'll go the hell out of waitressing. than The Sixth Sensel It will scare through them like crap through a Waitressing's got to be the worst the hell out of you.' It bored the goose. (patton)

www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 89 EXERCISE 8.1 In each of the following lists, all the words are synonymous except one. Spot the odd man out and explain why the word in question is misplaced. 1. (a) bloody (b) poxy (c) goddam (d) half-assed (e) motherfucking (f) sodding 2. (a) damn it (b) shit it (c) sod it (d) to hell with it (e) screw it (f) bugger it 3. (a) for the love of Christ (b) for fuck's sake (c) for Christ's sake (d) Jesus H. Christ (e) the fuck (f) fucking hell 4. (a) bleeding well (b) fucking well (c) cunting well (d) damn well (e) sodding well (f) bloody well

EXERCISE 8.2 Complete the following sentences by choosing the appropriate words in a, b, c, d, or e. In each case, only one answer is possible. 1. Quitting that job was the stupidest thing I ever did in my life. Apart from getting mar- ried, that is. (a) bastard (b) whoring (c) fucking (d) pissing (e) shitty 2. You're in a lot of trouble, pal. I advise you to get _ out of here before the cops arrive, (a) the fuck (b) the crap (c) the shit (d) the cunt (e) the crud 3. She was nice-looking woman, I mean really beautiful. (a) a fuck of a (b) a shag of a (c) a shit of a (d) a hell of a (e) a bastard of a 4. Turn that goddamned radio off .! It's driving me crazy. (a) for crap's sake(b) for fuck's sake (c) in Christ's sake (d) in fuck's sake (e) in fuck's name

EXERCISE 8.3

Translate the following sentences into English. 1. j Y a ti que cono te importa, imbecil! j Largo de aqui! 2. jQue cacho chuleta te estas comiendo! 3. jQue se jodan los vecinos! A quien le importa lo que piensen? Nunca antes nos han preocupado. 4. No entendi un carajo. 5. Le puso la mano sobre la boca. 'Joder. Hay gente ahi fuera.' 6. Que cono hacias el otro dia espiando a mi mujer? 7. Jesus, £por que cono no te callas? Me das un puto dolor de cabeza. 8. Luisa juega de puta madre! 9. Es una camisa cojonuda. Apostaria que te costo un ojo de la cara. 10. CIA mi que cono me importa lo que diga Lou Reed! 11. Se que esto suena la hostia de pretencioso, pero pienso en nosotros como artistas. 12. Apaga esa television, cono! 13. Saca tu puto pie de la puerta y dejame en paz de una jodida vez! 14. Esta mierda de miercoles es un conazo. 15. Como se lo que dijo? Se lo que dijo porque estaba alli, cono. 16. Oye, se que te estoy aburriendo mortalmente, pero tengo que hablar con alguien. 17. No se como cono aprobo! 18. Nuestra guerra habia consistido en contemplar como la fuerza aerea argentina bombadeaba a nuestra marina. 19. Entra aqui como si yo fuera su jodido portero. 20. No vas a hacer ni hostias. Cierra la puta boca. www.FreeLibros.org90 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY EXERCISE 8.4

(Nicky, a brash and assertive hoodlum, chastises Al, one of his employees and a compulsive gambler. Al is lying about what happened to some money Nicky gave him.) AL: When I left here with the money... NICKY: Mm. AL: ...I got muscled on the street. NICKY: Mm. AL: A couple of guys, I owe them. So, that's what I did. I gave 'em the money. That's what I did. NICKY: Yeah? AL: Yeah. NICKY: You call yourself a man? You know you're a lyin', low-life, motherfuckin' gambling degenerate prick? You know that's what you are? Two small kids at home. I gave you money to pay the fuckin' rent and buy groceries, put the heat on. You know your wife called Frankie and told him the fuckin' heat's off? Huh? And you didn't gamble that fuckin' money? You're gonna stand here and tell me that? (AL shakes his head 'no'.) No, no? You didn't? AL: I didn't give 'em the m- NICKY: Don't fuck with me, Al! Don't make a fuck out of me! You want to embarrass me and make a fool out of me?! You didn't gamble?! Tell me you gambled the fuckin' money, I'll give you the fuckin' money to put the fuckin' heat on! Did you gamble?! Huh?! (AL nods 'yes', bowing his head in shame.) Fuckin' degenerate, you. (NiCKY takes some money from his coat pocket and starts counting out some bills.) Fuckin' kids at home! Here. (Giving him the money.) Get the fuck out of here. AL: Thanks, Nick. NICKY: Yeah, thanks. (AL walks out.) Let me find out you fucked up, I'll leave you wherever I find you.

From Casino, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese

Using what you have learned in this chapter and in the preceding exercises and what you can guess from the context, find words or phrases in the above passage corresponding to these descriptions: 1. Two all-purpose adjectives with no precise meaning, used exclusively for emphasis. 2. A term of abuse applied to a man. 3. A phrasal verb meaning to cause someone difficulty or trouble. 4. A verbal expression meaning to make a fool of someone. 5. A two-word adverbial expression with no precise meaning, added to any utterance for greater emphasis. 6. A phrasal verb meaning to make a serious mistake, to fail by blundering, to ruin one's prospects. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 91 9: RACIAL INSULTS

9. a Whitey - el hombre bianco!

Black English word, intended contemptuously or dismissively, for a white person.

• The average whitey out here got everything, El tipico bianco ahi fuera lo tiene todo, you dig? And the nigger ain't got shit, y'know? entiendes? Y el negro no tiene una mier- (Atlantic Monthly) da, sabes? • Trying to fail the physical examination, he • Intentando suspender su examen fisico, tom6 took a drug to make his heart sound defective. una droga para intentar que su corazdn sona- Shorty felt about the war the same way I and ra defectuoso. Shorty opinaba sobre la guerra most ghetto Negroes did; 'Whitey owns igual que yo y la mayoria de los del everything. He wants us to go and bleed for ghetto: 'El hombre bianco es dueno de todo. him? Let him fight.' (Ronald Takaki) El quiere que vayamos y sangremos por 61? jQue luche el!'

RELATED TERMS: Spanish Americans to refer to borhoods,' said Easy. 'Most a or Anglo-Ameri- these young jitterbug social Boss Charley (US) Black Eng- cans. From Mexican gringo, gib- workers don't look like they got lish. • He said, 'It doesn't matter, berish. • The old gringo referred all their shit in one bag anyhow.' the end result, as long as we trick to by the title of Carlos (Joseph Wambaugh) Whitey, as long as we fuck up Fuentes's latest book happens to ofay (US) Black English. • — I Boss Charley.' (Lenny Bruce) be Ambrose Bierce, the Ameri- never truck with no sissies. — I (US) A southern rustic can journalist and short-story know that, son. — I ain't your or poor white. • I was broke in on writer who left for Mexico in son, you ofay fuck. (James Ellroy) the job by a cracker named Dixie 1913 and who mysteriously dis- • Only an ignorant ofay could Sugg who hated . He appeared. (New York Times) call Sigourney Weaver the first taught me you gotta practically , honkey (US) Black Eng- female action hero. Hey, baby, cut off their heads and shrink 'em lish. • She was twenty years old, ain't you never heard of Pam to kill the motherfuckers. (Joseph and almost honky white. She had Grier? Check out Coffy and Foxy Wambaugh) a medium Afro, very frazzled at Brown. (Salon) • Then Tyrone and Leroy sleep the moment. (Joseph Wambaugh) the Man (US) Black English. through you getting beat up by • 'You honky motherfucker!' the • Rus is not Uncle Tomming it some cracker shitbird. I thought black hod carrier yelled when he around Harlem with the Man. He you guys stuck together. finally exploded. (Joseph has brought a foreign visitor. (James Ellroy) Wambaugh) • 'Oughtta keep the (Guardian) gringo Used contemptuously by jiveass outta our neigh-

9. b I Brit -bntamco Short for Briton or Britisher. Generally inoffensive.

• Over the last 10 years the Brit has entered Durante los ultimos 10 anos el britaeico ha the mythology of New York City. He is usually entrado en la mitologia de la ciudad de Nueva - depicted as a member of the London bon ton York. Normalmente es presentado como who comes to America as an indefatigable miembro del bon ton de Londres que viene a www.FreeLibros.org92 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY leech, deadbeat and sponger. (Tom Wolfe) America como una sanguijuela infatigable, un muerto de hambre y un aprovechado. • Beaton went higher and further, on sponged • Beaton subid mas y mas alto, con cenas, fi- dinners, weekends, yacht trips and hotel nes de semana, viajes en yate y habitaciones suites, than any Brit of his time, and he de hotel por el morro, mas que cualquier otro mocked the Yanks more openly. (Tom Wolfe) brit&nico de su tiempo, y se pitorreaba de los americanos mas descaradamente. • To me, as a Brit, the sense of power is • Para mi, como britanico, la sensacion de po- amazing. The sense that decisions have der es alucinante. La sensaci6n de que las de- consequences, which they don't seem to in cisiones tienen consecuencias, al parecer al Britain, is very strong and beguiling. I can contrario que en Gran Bretana, es muy fuerte always understand why the Brits come and y seductora. Siempre puedo entender por que colonize American newspapers, American los britanicos vienen y colonizan los perid- media, or try to, because this is the real thing. dicos americanos, los medios de comuni- It's played with live ammunition here. (John caeion americanos, o lo intentan, porque Le Carre") eso es lo autentico. Aqui se juega con mu- niciones reales.

RELATED TERMS: reader willing to put up with Mr. Tony Booth, on television play- Card's digressions, his intrusive ing the 'Scouse git' in Till Death Brummy, Brummie A person asides, his lack of chronology, Do Us Part. (Guardian) from Birmingham. • One in- his occasionally infelicitous Taff, Taffy A person from mate, known as Brummie Bob, choice of words (he calls the ac- Wales. • The Welsh are still seen threatened to instigate a full- tor George K. Arthur 'the in- as fair game (for racist denigra- blown food strike if he wasn't genuous ') may be won tion). The rhyme that begins provided with 'proper scran, over by his obvious love of his 'Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy right fookin' now'. (Guardian) subject. (New York Times) was a thief was included in a Jock A Scot. • I need not have pommy, pommie (Austr) An treasury my daughter was given worried. The first person I English immigrant. • The pommy recently. (Guardian) • Reports of bumped into in Glasgow was bird woke up and chucked all over the violence were posted on the Ulrika Johnson, who greeted me the multi-coloured woolen blan- net during the fighting. One up- with a big kiss. I made straight ket. (Swag) date read: 'Get ready Taffies, we for the pub and was treated like Scouse A person from Liver- are coming to wreck your coun- an honorary Jock. (Guardian) pool. • While she was growing try. We are also flying the flag limey An English person. • A up, Cherie would see her father, of St George.' (Guardian)

9. c I Mick -irlandes

Derogatory term for Irish people. From the commonness of the male personal name Michael in Ireland.

• Hell's Kitchen was dominated by the Irish, • El barrio de Hell's Kitchen era dominado por and it was said there used to be signs on the los irlandeses, y se dice que habla carteles en piers there that read NO ; in Brooklyn the los muelles que ponia PROHIBIDO HALIANOS; en Italians were in charge, and they put up signs Brooklyn, los italianos estaban al mando, y on the piers there that said NO MICKS. (Malachy ponfan carteles en los muelles que decian PRO- McCourt) HIBIDO IRLANDESES. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 93 • The Irishman used to be characterized by the • Antes el irlandes era denominado por los Americans as a 'Mick' or 'Paddy'. Any such americanos como 'Mick' o 'Paddy'. Seinejante social distinctions constitute serious distinci6n social constituye un serio obstacu- handicaps in the matrimonial race; but on the lo en la carrera matrimonial; pero por otra other hand, as they are in consequence largely parte, como son muy artificiales, tienden a artificial, they tend to disappear with the desaparecer con la demostracion de la efiea- demonstration of economic and social cia economica y social. efficiency. (Atlantic Monthly)

SYNONYMS: you call me Paddy? (George felt like his old man must have Bernard Shaw) felt as a bogtrotter at Ellis Is- paddy Often derogatory. From bog-trotter • He vowed to get land. (Joseph Wambaugh) the diminutive of Patrick. a suntan and have his teeth • Paddy yourself! How dare capped. Jesus, around here he

9. d Yank, Yankee -yanqui, g]in A US citizen from either the northern or southern states. The term is generally inoffensive.

• Each soldier lies on his back with his jungle • Cada soldado se tumba de espaldas con su knife unsheathed in his clenched fist. The Yank cuchillo de jungla desenfundado en su puno sleeps, but his killer instinct is wide awake. cerrado. El americano duerme, pero su instin- (Stanley A. Frankel) to asesino esta completamente despierto. » Mr. Edelman did not consider England • El senor Edelman no considero a Inglaterra foreign when he was hired to bring Yankee como pais extanjero cuando fue contratado business know-how to a firm founded in 1899 para traer conocimientos empresariales ame- by another Yank, Albert Curtis Brown. (New ricanos a una empresa fundada en 1899 por York Times) otro americano, Albert Curtis Brown. They wrestled the Americans toward the shed • Condujeron a los americanos hacia la puerta door affectionately... They called them 'Yank', del cobertizo afectuosamente... Les llamaban promised them that 'Jerry was on the run', and 'Yank', les prometian que 'Jerry estaba hu- so on. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) yendo', etc. • Why do Yanks say blow when they mean • Por que los americanos dicen soplar cuando suck? And arse when they mean cunt? Talk quieren decir chupar? Y culo cuando quieren about separated by a common language... decir cono? Ya ves, separados por un idioma (Philip Larkin) cormin...

9. e frog -franchute, gabacho Applied derogatorily to a French person and to the French language. From their supposed fondness for eating frog-legs.

• One night the telephone rang and a foreign- • Una noche el tele fono sono y un tipo con sounding fellow introduced himself as Barbet acento extranjero se present6 como Barbet Schroeder, a film director. Bukowski's number Schroeder, un director de cine. El numero de www.FreeLibros.org94 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY was unlisted and he did not take kindly to the Bukowski no aparecla en el listin y no le hizo intrusion. 'Fuck off, you French frog,' he said. gracia la intrusion. 'Jodete, gabacho,' le dijo. (Howard Sounes) • France, yeah sure, beautiful country, beautiful • Francia, si, claro, un pais hermoso, mujeres women, great food, great wine. Full of your hermosas, comida maravillosa, vino maravi- fucking frogs, though, innit? (Alan Beretta) lloso. Pero esta lleno de gabachos, no? » There are photographs showing specimens • Hay fotograffas que muestran especfmenes de of manhood 'before and after'. All frogs... A virilidad 'antes y despueY. Todos franchutes... frog should have just a wee bit of a paunch, Un franchute deberia tener simplemente un po- like the Baron de Charlus. (Henry Miller) quito de barriga, como el bardn de Charlus.

9. f kraut -alemdn

Applied derogatorily to a German. From the prevalence of sauerkraut in the German diet.

• Who's in charge of scheduling? Burkhalter. • Quien esta al mando de la planificacidn? I told that Kraut a fucking thousand times I Burkhalter. Le dije a ese alemdn mil putas ve- don't roll on shabbas. (The Big Lebowski) ces que no juego a los bolos en el shabbas. • I'm trying to cheer her up, you stupid Kraut! • Estoy intentando animarla, jestupido ale- (John Cleese) man! • Slang words, like curses, are notoriously • Las palabras en jerga, como los tacos, son difficult to translate without losing their spice. notoriamente dificiles de traducir sin que pier- In this case, nicknames like Kraut, Jerry or dan su picardia. En este caso, apodos como Hun (Churchill's favorite) reflect American Kraut, Jerry o Hun (el favorito de Churchill) and British experience with Germany, while reflejan la experiencia americana y britanica 'le Boche' refers to a nation that invaded con Alemania, mientras que 'le Boche' se re- France three times in a century. (New York fiere a una nacidn que invadi6 a Francia tres Times) veces en un siglo.

SYNONYMS: many races; so many creeds and Hun Audi. (Philip Larkin) sects all huddled together in an Jerry (UK) • — You were air Boche • We'll put Ipswich round area not more than a mile square. crew, weren't you? — Naviga- there. We'll put Lyme Regis The people called each other tor bomber-aimer. I joined un- where Ipswich was. And we'll put names: Mick, Heinie, Guinea, der-age to get a crack at Jerry. Great Yarmouth where Lyme Hunky, Polack, Wop, Sheeny, Soon as I passed out flight-ser- Regis was. There now, that should Squarehead, Bohunk, Chick and geant, ready to go on ops, old fool the Boche. (Peter Cook) Greaseball. (Robert Cornfield) Adolf packs it in. (Peter Nichols) Fritz From German Fritz, nick- Hun • We won't just shoot the squarehead • There was a bul- name for Friedrich. • Ah rot off, bastards. We're going to cut out let-head priest in the German Fritz. You know what German their living guts and use them to Catholic church on the Northside house painters grow up into, don't grease the treads of our tanks. and one day he and his mother you, Fritz? (John McGrath) We're going to murder those lousy went there to beg. The squarehead Heinle (US) From the German Hun bastards by the bushel. slammed a fifty-cent piece down name Heinrich. • There were so (Patton) • I have a new car, filthy on the table. (Robert Stone) mm www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 95 9.g kike -judio Derogatory or offensive. Sometimes used by of other Jews they regard with contempt, as in the third example.

• The word 'nigger' — along with '', • La palabra 'nigger' ('negro') — al igual 'kike' and the rest of our questionable que 'chink' (chino), 'kike' (judio) y el resto linguistic heritage — once was a 'legitimate' de nuestra dudosa herencia linguistica — una word in American society. We need to vez fue una palabra 'legitima' en la socie- understand at what point our culture dad americana. Necesitamos entender en recognized that the insult was taboo. (Salon) quee momento nuestra cultura reconocid que el insulto era tabu. • My father was a social worker who cru- • Mi padre era un trabajador social que Iucho saded for birth control and fought housing por el derecho a los anti-conceptivos y peleo discrimination against Jews. Yet I once en contra de la discriminacion en la venta de heard him describe an objectionable Jew as inmuebles a los judfos. Aun asi, una vez le oi a 'kike'. All this, it must be remembered, describir a un judio reprobable como 'kike'. occurred before the Holocaust revealed to Todo esto, hay que acordarse, ocurrio antes the world where such ugliness ultimately de que el Holocausto revelara al mundo hasta led. (New York Times) donde llegaba finalmente esta fealdad. • You're a kike, Weiss, a kike, the kind of mean • Eres un 'kike', Weiss, un 'kike', el tipo de little creep that gives Jews a bad name. cabron con mala leche que da mala fama a los (William Styron) judios.

SYNONYMS: Jew boy • Kid, you have got J- mocky, mockie (US) • Love thy E-W written right across the neighbor... if he's not a mockie Heeb, Heebie, Hebe (US) • A middle of that face — look at or a slicked-up greaseball from million times I wanted to yell in the shnoz on him, for God's the Argentine. (Isaac Wolfert) his fuckin' ear: 'This is Las sakes! That ain't a nose, it's a • Who do you think they're Vegas! We're supposed to be out hose! Screw off, Jewboy! always giggling about as it is? here robbing, you dumb fuckin' (Philip Roth) • The Cossacks You! The skinny Yid and his Heeb'. (Casino) • Moses Man- are coming! Here's one Jew-boy shnoz following them around... kowitz? Redbeard Mahoney? who's going to make tracks for (Philip Roth) • Someone calls The Irish son of a bitch was a the countryside!' (William me a Sheeney, I'll knock 'em fucking hebe! (Joseph Wam- Styron) right on their ass... I wanna tell baugh) • I found myself brood- sheeny, sheenie • 'Sheeny!' she you sometin. I don't care what ing blackly on my recent rob- is screaming. 'Hebe! You can't the hell a guy is so long as they bery. And Morris Fink. Fink! even come off unless you pull keep their place, you know. That fucking little hebe. your own pudding, cheap bastard (Lenny Bruce) (William Styron) fairy Jew!' (Philip Roth) www.FreeLibros.org96 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY 9. h I Polack -polaco

Mainly derogatory. As the English tell jokes belittling the Irish for their stupidity, so Americans tell Polack jokes. Curiously, although the word is pejorative in English, it comes from the Polish word Polak, a Pole.

• Then our friend from Poland says: 'When I • Entonces nuestro amigo de Polonia dice: get through fucking my Sophie, I wipe ray dick 'Cuando termino de foliar a mi Sophie, me on the curtains, and you know what? She hits limpio la polla con las cortinas, y sabes que? the roof!' Ain't that a masterpiece? Stupid jSe pone histerica!' jVaya obra de arte! Puto fuckin' Polack, wipes his dick on the drapes. estupido polaco, se limpia la polla con las cor- (Reservoir Dogs) tinas. • You and I know what a Jew is — One Who • Tu y yo sabemos lo que es un judio — Uno Killed Our Lord. We did this about two Que Mato A Nuestro Senor. Hicimos esto hace thousand years ago — two thousand years of dos mil anos — dos mil anos de aguantar a Polack kids whacking the shit out of us crios polacos dandonos de hostias al ir a casa coming home from school. (Lenny Bruce) de la escuela. » The other important reason for his rejection • La otra razon importante de su rechazo era was the fact that he was a Polack, a German el hecho de que era 'polak', una palabra ale- word which has the same sneeringly mana que tiene el mismo significado de des- contemptuous meaning in German as it has in precio y desden en alemdn como en ingles. English. (William Styron) • You're a dirty Polack and are thieves. • Eres una asquerosa polaca y los polacos son My mother says that Polacks are worse thieves ladrones. Mi madre dice que los polacos son than Gypsies and dirtier too. You smell! peores ladrones que los gitanos, ;y mas su- (William Styron) cios tambien! Apestas!

9. i Russkie -ruso

• There will never be another Conservative • No volvera a haber otro gobierno conserva- government. What there will be is a series of dor. Lo que habra sera una serie de gobiernos Labour governments that will bankrupt the liberales que llevardn al pais a la bancarrota country so that we are all starving, at which para que estemos todos muriendonos de ham- point the Russkies will step in. (Philip Larkin) bre, momento en el que entrardn los rusos.

j raghead -drabe

Derogatory or offensive term for an Arab. From the fact that Arabs often cover their heads with a white or red-and-white checked gutrah.

* Could he speak Arabic? Are you joking? He si sabia hablar drabe? Bromeas? Vi- lived in the desert with them for nearly twenty vio en el desierto con ellos durante casi vein- years. He could speak it like a raghead. (W.C. te anos. Lo hablaba como un 'raghead' Doughty) ('cabeza de trapo', rabe). www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 97 * Every Friday morning, just after the prayer, • Cada viernes por la manana, justo despues the more blood-thirsty ragheads would crowd del rezo, los arabes mis sanguinarios se so- into Chop Square to see some poor bugger get lian concentrar en Chop Square para ver como his hand or his head lopped off. (W.C. le cortaban la mano o la cabeza a algto pobre Doughty) desgraciado.

SYNONYMS; alleged use of the camel for fig-eater (US) Derogatory. • I sexual gratification in the Mid- mean 'Nam was a foot soldier's camelfucker (US) Derogatory. dle East. war... Just me and Charlie, man, • Look at our current situation • The British papers quickly fol- eyeball to eyeball... Worthy with that camelfucker in Iraq. lowed the American lead. Al- fuckin' adversary... Not a bunch Pacifism is not something to though none quite sank to the of fig-eaters with towels on their hide behind. (The Big Lebowski) level of 'Camel jockeys killed heads tryin' to find reverse on a camel jockey (US) Derogatory. your kids', the British tabloids Soviet tank. (The Big Lebowski} Like the previous term, from the were not far behind. (Observer)

9. k wop -italiano

Applied derogatorily to an Italian or to a person of Italian descent and to the Italian language.

• Presumably because they were unable to * Al parecer, al no ser capaces de superar los overcome some slight vestigial embarrassment leves vestigios de verguenza que les quedaba about doing business with the greasy por hacer negocios con el italiano grasiento y beperfumed wop who has cuckolded one of perfumado que le habia puesto cuernos a uno their oldest friends they omitted to mention de sus mas antiguos amigos, se olvidaron de the whole business to me. (Helen Fielding) comentarme todo el negocio, • Apparently some sort of deal has been done Parecer ser que se estla llevando a cabo un with... with the filthy wop... and they've trato con... con ese sucio latino... y han recii- recovered some of the money. (Helen Fielding) perado parte del dinero. • In a democratic, catholic, real American * En un deporte democratico, catolico y ge- game like baseball, there has been no nuinamente americano como es el beisbol, no distinction. The Mick, the Sheeny, the Wop, ha habido distinciones. El irlandes, el judio, the Chink, the Cuban, the Indian, the or el italiano, el chino, el cubano, el indio, el japo- the so-called Anglo-Saxon — his 'nationality' nes o el supuesto anglo-saj6n — su 'nacionali- is never a matter of moment if he can pitch, dad' nunca es tema de debate si puede lanzar, hit, or field. (Sporting News) batear o recibir.

SYNONYMS: spent hundreds of thousands of here, to those of Italian extrac- dollars on her, I was gonna make tion. • There was nothing we Eyetie Derogatory. • Kingsley her a big star! ... And then Johnny could do about it... we had to sit is summering on some southern Fontane comes along with his ol- still and take it. It was among isle: just for a handful of Eyetie ive oil voice and his guinea charm, the Italians. It was real tit he left us. (Philip Larkin) and she runs off. (The Godfather) greaseball shit. They even shot guinea (US) Derogatory. Applied greaseball (US) Derogatory. Usu- Tommy in the face so his mother to an immigrant of Italian (or ally refers to a person of Latin couldn't give him an open coffin sometimes Spanish) origin. • I American descent, but also, as at the funeral. (GoodFellas) www.FreeLibros.org98 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY 9. I dago -espanol, sudaca

Derogatory. A person of Spanish (or, as the examples make clear, sometimes Italian) extraction.

• Harry Truman was a man of many pre- • Harry Truman era un hombre de muchos judices. His letters are peppered with the prejuicios. Sus cartas estfin repletas de los standard-issue epithets of the world in tipicos epitetos del mundo en el que se cri6 which he grew up — dago, nigger, bohunk. — dago (espanol), nigger (negrata), bohunk (New York Times) (hungaro). • Of course, it didn't hurt La Guardia that • Claro, que no le hizo ningun dano a La he had an Italian-American father and a Guardia el que tuviera un padre america- Jewish mother and was a practicing Protes- no-italiano y una madre judia y que fuera tant. Robert Moses, who sometimes called protestante practicante. Robert Moses, que him a dago, came to envy his political a veces le llamaba 'dago, llego a envidiar touch. (New York Times) su toque politico. • Billy wants to know if you can get him a • Billy quiere saber si le puedes conseguir un deal on one of those dago sports cars. chollo con uno de esos coches deportivos ita- (Lenny Bruce) lianos.

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The following terms referring to people of Latin American origin are all derogatory. greaseball (US) • I figured I this little turd and grind him up (US) Applied to an could be doing better things with in the cement mixer until he's illegal immigrant from Mexico my life than taking knives away taco meat! And put him in a ma- to the US. From the practice from greaseballs in zoot suits. nure bag and send him to those of swimming the Rio Grande. (Raymond Chandler) wetback farmworkers to spread • Now the bartender was a (US) • I am hard but I on all that boycotted lettuce. I wetback, he was a friend of mine, am fair. There is no racial big- wonder how that prick his name was Carlos. (Reservoir otry here. I do not look down on Cesar Chavez would like that? Dogs) • You write half the time , , wops or greasers. (Joseph Wambaugh) • What like some ignorant wetback. You Here you are all equally worth- about the filthy spick fucker that didn't learn no English in those less! (Full Metal Jacket) the sarge blew away? (Ken Chicano East L.A. schools. spic, spick (US) • I wanna take Lukowiak) (Joseph Wambaugh)

9. m gook -asiatico, chino, amanllo Mainly US. An offensive term for any East Asian or Polynesian or immigrant of East Asian origin.

* Too many foreigners own liquor stores. • Demasiados extranjeros son duenos de tien- Vietnamese, Koreans, they can't fuckin' speak das de licores. Los vietnamitas, los coreanos, English. You tell them: 'Empty out the no pueden hablar el jodido ingles. Les dices: register', and they don't know what it fuckin* 'Vacia la caja registradora', y no saben que means. We keep on, one of those gook cono les est£s diciendo. Si seguimos asi, uno motherfuckers' gonna make us kill 'em. (Pulp de esos jodidos asiaticos va a conseguir que Fiction) le matemos. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 99 • Cokes got the silver star for rollin' a barrel • Cokes recibio la estrella de plata por hacer of oil down a hill in Korea into forty-seven rodar por una colina un barril de aceite en dinky Chinese gooks who were Corea hacia cuarenta y siete jodidos chinos climbin' up the hill and when he shot into it que lo estaban subiendo y cuando disparo con- with his machine gun, it blew them all to grape tra ellos con su ametralladora, les volo por los jelly. (David Rabe) aires, convirtiendoles en mermelada de uva.

RELATED TERMS: mouth shut and watch how peo- • — What did the slope look ple do it. Watch how the do, like? — I don't know. Stringy chink, chinkey A Chinese per- they're the coolest people in the Oriental guy, is all. I remember son. • There was an American flag world. (Robert Stone) • Juicy one thing. He smiled when he on the front and Chinese charac- Lucy's a Jap ... knows all those brought me a martini and he ters painted on the back of the massage tricks from Japan. had a mean smile. (Joseph box. The message on the back, That'll be an extra twenty. Juicy Wambaugh) roughly translated, read: 'Uncle Lucy don't give nothing but the slopehead (US) An East Asian Sam's taxes suck. It's every Chink Aphrodite Special.' (Joseph or person of Asian extraction. for himself.' (Joseph Wambaugh) Wambaugh) • Buckmore Phipps hated all • The and all see the A Japanese. • You're a Nip. niggers. He also hated greas- day approaching when the British You all look alike. (Joseph ers, slopeheads, kikes, judges, go for good. (Peter Nichols) • Did Wambaugh) • Knock off that Jap lawyers, fags, dopers, report- you eat today? No? Come on, stuff, goddamnit. That fucking ers, politicians... (Joseph we're going to swing by the Lieutenant Finque made me go Wambaugh) Chinks, we got to talk. (David to another Nip luncheon today. Tojo A Japanese. Sometimes, Mamet) (Joseph Wambaugh) • If anybody as here, a form of address. dink A Vietnamese. • I keep knows the strength of be- • It's a photo! It's a picture of thinkin' there was maybe hind our lines, it's Tojo there. a Nippo bint! Who's this then, somethin' I coulda done differ- (Willis Hall) eh? You got wife? Your missis? ent. Maybe not drunk so much. slope (US) Originally any East Japanese girl very good, eh? Or if I'd killed more gooks, or Asian (from Asians' stereo- Good old Tojo! She's a bit more , or more dinks. typically slanting eyes), but sub- short in the pins, that's all. But (David Rabe) sequently applied specifically to very nice. (Willis Hall) Jap A Japanese. • Keep your the Vietnamese.

19. n nigger -negro

A coloured person. The term is generally derogatory or offensive when used by a white person, but neutral or even approving in Black English. From French negre, black.

* If there was one thing Roscoe Rules wished, • Si habia una cosa que Roscoe Rules desea- after having seen all of the world he cared to ba, tras haber visto todo lo que deseaba ver, see, it was that there was a word as dirty as era que hubiera una palabra tan sucia como 'nigger' to apply to all mankind. Since he had 'negrata' para aplicarla a toda la humanidad. little imagination he had to settle for 'asshole'. Como tenfa poca imaginacion tuvo que con- (Joseph Wambaugh) formarse con 'gilipollas'. www.FreeLibros.org100 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY * I'm the only one acting like a professional. • Soy el unico que se esta comportando como You guys act like a bunch of fucking niggers. un profesional. Os comportais como una pan- You ever work a job with a bunch of niggers? dilla de jodidos negratas. Alguna vez habees They're just like you two, always fighting, currado con una pandilla de negros? Son exac- always saying they're gonna kill one another. tamente como vosotros dos, siempre pelean- (Reservoir Dogs) do, siempre diciendo que se van a matar el uno al otro. * Ain't that a sad sight, daddy. He walks into • Eso es una perspectiva triste, papa. Entra en jail a white man, walks out talkin' like a la carcel un hombre bianco y sale hablando nigger. It's all that black semen been shooting como un negrata. Es todo ese semen negro que up his butt. It's backed up into his brain and le han estado metiendo por el culo. Se le ha comes out of his mouth. (Reservoir Dogs) ido al cerebro y le sale por la boca. You see the fight last night? What a fuckin' • Vistes la pelea anoche? Vaya puta masacre! slaughter, right? I tell you the only way to get Te digo que la unica forma de conseguir que a nigger to bleed is put a razor in your glove. un negrata sangre es poniendo una cuchilla (Robert Stone) en el guante. * Know why niggers survive serious wounds, • Sabes por que los negratas sobreviven a las partner? They're too dumb to go into shock. heridas serias, colega? Son demasiado estti- (Joseph Wambaugh) pidos para entrar en estado de shock. * He'd have loved to have gone to Africa and • Le hubiese encantado ir a Africa y ser con- hired out as a mercenary. 'Imagine getting tratado como mercenario. 'Imagfnate que te paid to kill niggers,' he mused. (Joseph paguen por matar negratas,' pens6. Wambaugh)

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Unless otherwise stated, the following terms are offensive. All refer to black people.

boogie (US) • Lots of boogies term. • Those movies are about ter. (Lenny Bruce) • Thanks for comin' in now, since the war. how the white man keeps the the card from coonland — scum Williamsburg. Brownsville. brother man down — even in a you are for slinking off to avoid Bedford-Stuyvesant, that's galaxy far, far away. Check this the rigours of the English win- where they're movin' into. shit. You got cracker farm-boy ter. (Philip Larkin) Fuckin' apes, I call 'em. Boy, do Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy darky, darkle • It's Nigger I hate those boogies. Apes! — blond hair, blue eyes. And then Hunting time. Any Nigger. They (William Styron) you've got DarthVader: the wouldn't give up until they blood (US) • They had picked blackest brother in the galaxy. would find one. From then on, him up two blocks from the (Chasing Amy) Lord have mercy on the poor Montalvo in front of twenty citi- coon • We could have talked darkie... they would shoot him zens. He had ridden to the ho- about sports. I mean Southern down like a dog. (Laurence tel with a pistol pressed sports, like lynching niggers — or Bergreen) against his scrotum. 'Nobody coons, I think you call them jigaboo (US) • 'The Man' who out there but bloods, bubi,' down there. (William Styron) had gained the loathing of 'right- Danskin had told him. 'They • Look, nobody wants a Sheeney thinking' people everywhere, in- don't care.' (Robert Stone) plowing their sister, and I don't cluding the South, by his straight- brother (US) An inoffensive want no coon doing it to my sis- forward promiscuous public use www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 101 of words like 'nigger', 'coon', trap. The sign was expensive tims... 'Course you ain't a spook. 'jigaboo'... (William Styron) so the shines just went on us- They might not let you in these • Political infighting, lad. The ing it when they took over. programs so easy, you turned pinko Democrats have taken (Raymond Chandler) crooked.' (Joseph Wambaugh) the tack of jigaboos wrongly smoke (US) • One time there • Maybe it was some other accused, intend to press the was five smokes carved Harlem spooks... Do you care? Those issue during the primary elec- sunsets on each other down on niggers raped your woman, so tions. (James Ellroy) East Eighty-Four. There was what you did was right. (James jungle bunny (US) • Never blood on the furniture, blood on Ellroy) • Some won't take spooks ceases to amaze me. Fuckin' jun- the walls, blood even on the ceil- — Hell, don't make no difference gle bunny goes out there, slits ing. (James Ellroy) to me. (Taxi Driver) some old woman's throat for spade • Suddenly I knew — some Specifically, a ser- twenty-five cents. Fuckin' nig- big spade was going to leap out vile black man. • The film's one ger gets Doris Day as a parole of the bedroom closet and spring sympathetic black character, a officer. But a good fella like you for my heart with his knife. lovable Uncle Tom who served gets stuck with a ball-busting (Philip Roth) • 'I understand,' as a sidekick to the eponymous prick. (Reservoir Dogs) the receptionist said. 'I know heroes, was cheerfully assassi- Paki (UK) Applies specifi- what kind of massage you need. nated to supply a few seconds' cally to an immigrant from Now, Laverne's a spade. You worth of pathos. (Jonathan Coe) Pakistan. • Well, gin and tonic ain't prejudiced, are ya?' • Hospital staffed entirely time: I feel I've earned it, hav- (Joseph Wambaugh) • This by wogs, cheerful and incompe- ing mown a lawn, hoed and spade's the troublemaker. I think tent. (Philip Larkin) • One might snipped and dealt death with he's got a leaky seabag. visit Hollywood proper to have the Weedol. I just about keep Dingaling. Psycho. (Joseph lunch, what with Beverly Hills it down. More than the bloody Wambaugh) overrun by Arabs, Iranians, Tex- Paki next door does... Kick spook (US) • He'd heard about ans, and other wogs with 'em out. (Philip Larkin) the latest do-gooder scheme on megabucks. (Joseph Wambaugh) shine (US) • This place called the six o'clock news, the idea be- • I've had enough of him — he Florian's was under the same ing to compel criminal offenders stinks of garlic and wog grub. name when it was a white night to make restitution to their vic- (Willis Hall)

9. o I Aussie -austrahano

The term is completely inoffensive.

* Arrogant Aussie, David Leapman's new • Australiano arrogante, la nueva biograffa de biography of Mr. Murdoch, describes his David Leapman sobre el senor Murdoch, des- New York Post as 'a force for evil'. (New cribe a su peri6dico New York Post como 'una York Times) fuerza maligna'. • We bought one or two of every shellfish, most • Compramos uno o dos de cada clase de ma- of them new to an American and a few of them risco, la mayoria de ellos desconocidos para repulsive, boiled them up and served them un americano y algunos otros repulsivos, los with beer on a table spread with newspapers. hervimos, y los servimos con cerveza en una I was an Aussie that night, tossing back mesa cubierta con periodicos. Era una austra- Foster's lager and as happy as I'd ever been. liana esa noche, tragando cerveza Foster y tan (Mary Cantwell) contenta como nunca. www.FreeLibros.org102 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY EXERCISE 9.1

In each of the following lists, all the words are synonymous except one. Spot the odd man out and explain why the word in question is misplaced.

1. (a) kraut (b) kike (c) sheeny (d) mocky (e) Yid (f) Heebie 2. (a) wetback (b) spic (c) greaser (d) frog (e) greaseball (f) dago 3. (a) slopehead (b) slope (c) Nip (d) Chink (e) gook (f) wop 4. (a) Whitey (b) paddy (c) Boss Charley (d) honky (e) ofay (f) the Man 5. (a) Boche (b) squarehead (c) raghead (d) Fritz (e) Hun (f) Jerry 6. (a) jigaboo (b) jungle bunny (c) boogie (d) dink (e) coon (f) spade

EXERCISE 9.2 What national or ethnic groups are referred to in the following typical racist complaints? Explain the offensive and derogatory terms shown in italics.

1. How would you feel about it if your sister was dating some greasy spiel 2. You can never trust the Micks. Sooner or later they'll stab you in the back. 3. What I can't stand about the/rags is that they're such self-satisfied, arrogant bastards. 4. All those kikes are interested in is getting their hands on your money. 5. If the jigaboos start moving into this neighborhood, our property won't be worth shit. 6. I have nothing against the ragheads, except that they're dirty, smelly, thieving, lying bastards. 7. Who do the Krauts think they are, dictating to the rest of us? You'd think they were the ones who won the war. 8. Your typical wop is nothing more than a ponced-up fruit.

EXERCISE 9.3 Translate the following sentences into English. 1. Eres un asqueroso polaco y todos los polacos son unos ladrones. 2. Francia es un pais hermoso, con mujeres hermosas, comida maravillosa y vino maravilloso, pero desgraciadamente esta lleno de gabachos. 3. Quiere saber si le puedes conseguir un chollo con uno de esos coches deportivos italianos. 4. El tipico bianco lo tiene todo y el negro no tiene una mierda. 5. Los irlandeses ponian carteles en los muelles en los que ponia PROHIBIDO ITALIANOS. 6. Le hubiese encantado ir a Africa y ser contratado como mercenario. 'Imagmate que te paguen por matar a negratas,' penso. 7. Estoy intentando animar- la, jestupido aleman! 8. jPuto estupido polaco!, se limpia la polla con las cortinas. 9. Por que los americanos dicen 'soplar' cuando quieren decir 'chupar'? 10. Tu y yo sabemos lo que es un judfo — Uno Que Mato A Nuestro Senor. 11. Parecer ser que se esta llevando a cabo un trato con un sucio latino y que han recuperado parte del dinero. 12. Si habia una cosa que deseaba, era que hubiera una palabra tan sucia como 'negrata' para aplicarla a toda la humanidad. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 103 EXERCISE 9.4 (New recruits to the US Marine Corps, destined to serve in Vietnam, are greeted by their Senior Drill Instructor on the first day of training.) HARTMAN: I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your Senior Drill Instructor. If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon, you will be a minister of death, praying for war. But until that day you are pukes! You're the lowest form of life on earth. You are not even human fucking beings! You are nothing but unorganized grabasstic pieces of amphibian shit! Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard, but I am fair! There is no racial bigotry here! I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless! Do you maggots understand that? RECRUITS: [in unison] Sir, yes, sir! HARTMAN: Bullshit! I can't hear you! RECRUITS: [louder] Sir, yes, sir! HARTMAN: What's your name, scumbag? SNOWBALL: [shouting] Sir, Private Brown, sir! HARTMAN: Bullshit! From now on you're Private Snowball! Do you like that name? SNOWBALL: [shouting] Sir, yes, sir! HARTMAN: Well, there's one thing that you won't like, Private Snowball! They don't serve fried chicken and watermelon on a daily basis in my mess hall! SNOWBALL: Sir, yes, sir! JOKER: [whispering] Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me? HARTMAN: Who said that? Who the fuck said that? Who's the slimy little Communist shit twinkle-toed cocksucker down here, who just signed his own death warrant? Nobody, huh?! The fairy fucking godmother said it! Out-fucking-standing! I will P.T. you all until you fucking die! I'll P.T. you until your assholes are sucking buttermilk. Was it you, you scroungy little fuck, huh?! COWBOY: Sir, no, sir! HARTMAN: You little piece of shit! You look like a fucking worm! I'll bet it was you! COWBOY: Sir, no, sir! From the screenplay Full Metal Jacket by G. Hasford, M. Herr and S. Kubrick

Using what you have learned in this chapter and in the preceding exercises and what you can guess from the context, find words or phrases in the above passage corresponding to these descriptions: 1. A term of insult, deriving from the slang word for vomit. 2. An adjective and adverb with no precise meaning, used purely for emphasis. 3. An insulting neologistic adjective, with no precise meaning in this context. 4. A word meaning excrement. 5. An offensive term for a black person. 6. An offensive term for a Jew. 7. An offensive term for an Italian or person of Italian descent. 8. An offensive term for a Mexican or person of Mexican descent. 9. An interjection meaning 'Nonsense!' 10. Three insulting terms which can be applied to men. 11. A word meaning rectum. 12. An adverbial expression used purely for emphasis. www.FreeLibros.org104 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY 10: IDIOMATIC USAGES 10. a I Expressions with "fuck"

Fuck is used in a large number of phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions, many of which have already been encountered in the preceding pages. Here are some others, all common. give a fuck A basic expression Comparable expressions are now?' He dismissed me with a meaning to care. It is often used damn all, bugger all and sod all. wave. 'Yeah, fuck off. And don't in the negative, meaning not to Euphemistic variants are sweet do this again.' (Robert McLiam care one whit, to be utterly in- f.a. and sweet fanny adams. Wilson) different; and sometimes en- • Dear Jim, I'm beginning a let- go and fuck yourself An ex- hanced with the adjective flying. ter to you because there's fuck pression of refusal. Inasmuch as Expressions with the same all to do and I'm tired of doing it has any precise meaning, it meaning are not give a damn and it. (Philip Larkin) • Never accept may be translated as: may you not give a rat's ass. • You made what you don't want. Keep re- be accursed, confounded, re- no attempt to disguise anything. fusing, and in time you may get jected, humiliated, etc. • Hey, You didn't give a fuck! what you do want. On the other man, if my fucking ex-wife (Deconstructing Harry) • Imag- hand you may end up with fuck asked me to take care of her ine you're a deer. You're pranc- all. (Philip Larkin) • He said: 'If fucking dog while she and her ing around. BAM! A fuckin' bul- you want to have the baby, have boyfriend went to Honolulu, I'd let rips off part of your head! it. It's your decision,' as if it was tell her to go fuck herself. (The Your brains are lying on the fuck all to do with him. In prac- Big Lebowski) • Suddenly hate ground in little bloody pieces. tice it was fuck all to do with the guests. Have had to slave for Now I ask you, do you give a fuck him. He never took any notice two days, and now they will all what kind of pants the son of a of the baby when it arrived. swan in, demanding food like bitch who shot you was wearing?/ (E.A. Whitehead) • If you ask me, cuckoos. Feel like opening door (My Cousin Vinny) • When grilled we're heterosexual by default, not and shouting, 'Oh, go fuck your- about her increasingly controver- be decision. It's just a question of selves.' (Helen Fielding) sial appearance, Cher remarked: who you fancy. It's all about aes- what the fuck Often it is short 'Am I obsessed with the way I thetics and it's fuck all to do with for 'what the fuck does it mat- look? Ooh ... Do you know what morality. (Trainspotting) ter?' Or, it can simply mean I'd like to say to that? I don't give fuck off To leave, depart, go 'what' with 'the fuck' added for a flying fuck.' (Salon) away. Often an injunction. • — emphasis: see 8.f above. • Well, take a flying fuck Similar in I thought you said you never what the fuck, it didn't cost you meaning to go to hell or go and wanted to see me again. — I anything. (David Mamet) • They fuck yourself. Sometimes en- don't ever want to see you again, have the right idea. Armed to the hanced with humorous expres- so will you fuck off back upstairs? hilt. Sticks, Mace, knives ... who sions like at a rolling doughnut, (Naked) • — He's gonna have a knows what the fuck they got. at the moon, or at a rubber duck. word with his old lady. You're (David Mamet) • She seemed like • — Oh God, oh God, what'll I going to arrange a reunion. — a hell of a nice girl, huh? The lit- tell Rosie, what'll I tell her? — She'll tell him to fuck off. tle I saw of her ... Well, what the Tell her to take a flying fuck, (Robert Stone) fuck, I only saw her for a minute. pal. This concerns you and me, • Amazing how quickly the bloom I mean first impressions of this and nobody else. (David Mairs) fades on 'fuck off', you know. Say kind are often misleading, huh? • As gently as I could, I would it a couple of times running and (David Mamet) • You're seeing a tell him to take a flying fuck at you've got out of it nearly all of lot of this broad. You getting seri- the moon. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) what you're going to get. ous? But what the fuck, that's fuck all (UK) Nothing at all. (Kingsley Amis) • 'Can I go home your business. Right? (David www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 105 Mamet) • Well, what the fuck, I prise, disbelief or angry rebuttal. stars and rock stars. But we was only a kid. A kid laughs these • — How old do you think I won't. And we're just learning things off. You forget, you go on am? — About forty. — I'm this fact. So don't fuck with us. living ... what the fuck, huh? twenty-seven. — Oh, get to (Fight Club) • Look, they abso- (David Mamet) fuck! (Naked) lutely will not bother you... they thank fuck Substitution of fuck fucked if I know Equivalent of will not fuck with you if you de- for God, Christ, etc. • Thank I'm damned if I know: I don't liver. (Robert Stone) • — Jesus. fuck for that. Just for a moment know at all, I have no idea. Are you fucking with me here? there, I thought we were in trou- • — What's the matter? What's — I'm not fucking with you, ble. (James Laffan) going on? — Fucked if I know. Donny. (David Mamet) fuck knows Substitution of fuck (Naked) fuck around with something for God, Christ, etc. • That's all sure as fuck Certainly. Cf. sure To tamper, play, toy or meddle Sandra's collection. She's in as hell. • You better start think- with something, to treat some- Zimbabwe at the moment. And ing about it. 'Cause I sure as thing in an irresponsible way. fuck knows what she's gonna fuck am thinking about it. In • This is your life you're fuckin' bring back from there. (Naked) fact, that's all I'm thinking around with, which you • When the uniform had moved about. (Reservoir Dogs) shouldn't be doin', 'cause you on, Pyle said, 'Fuck knows what am I fuck? A construction only got one. (Pulp Fiction) they wanted us for with him which can be employed with any • Quit fucking around with that around.' (G.F. Newman) tense, rather like a question tag, switch and pay attention. What fucking A (US) An exclamation signifying: by no means, cer- I tell you now may just keep of pleasure, joy, triumph, etc. tainly not. • — It's my good-luck your ass out of jail. (Lew Cole) meaning: absolutely, definitely. charm. — Has it brought you fuck somebody over To victim- Usually the word right can be much? — Has it fuck? (Naked) ize and maltreat, sexually or oth- substituted for A. • They're all • — I've been looking all over erwise. • — 'Your boyfriend hugging and kissing and happy for you! —Aye, well, I was with Broadway Joe has a bayonet. with each other, and Ice comes him. — Were you fuck. (Naked) He's gonna do you some nasti- up to Maverick and he says, • — I'll bring it back next week. ness with it tonight. He's on his 'Man, you can ride my tail — Will you fuck? You'll bring way right now to fuck you over.' anytime!' And what does Mav- it back this very day, otherwise — 'Fuck me over?' — 'It won't erick say? 'You can ride mine!' it stays right here. (James be as nice as it sounds', Hicks Fuckin'-A, man! (Sleep With Laffan) said. (Robert Stone) • You eat Me) • — This is theft. You're fuck around with somebody To shit all your life and you hate gonna pay for this. — You're cause someone trouble. • Being every fucking minute of it and fucking A he's gonna pay for it, made a wiseguy ... means you you'd like to fuck over half the man. He's gonna burn for it. belong to a family. It means that country but you have to swallow (Robert Stone) • — They love it. nobody can fuck around with it because you've got no guts. — You're fuckin' A. They love you. It also means that you could (Robert Stone) • God, that's it. The more ghastly, the more fuck around with anybody just who. He's been fucking us over horrible, the more they love it. as long as they aren't also a since way back in Genesis. (Robert Stone) • — He's a real member. It's like a licence to (Salon) good card player. — You're steal. It's a licence to do any- • They were so accustomed to fucking A he is. The fucker won thing. (GoodFellas) being used and fucked over that four hundred bucks last night. .fuck with somebody Identical they probably would do nothing. (David Mamet) • —You're prob- in meaning to fuck around with (Howard S. Becker) ably just upset. —You're fuckin' somebody. • We are the middle fuck somebody in the ass Meta- A I'm upset. I am very upset, children of history, raised by tel- phorically, to cause someone se- Don. (David Mamet) evision to believe that someday rious difficulties or problems. get to fuck Expression of sur- we'll be millionaires and movie • What is this 'day of rest' shit, www.FreeLibros.org106 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY man? What is this bullshit, man? instead! (The Big Lebowski) dollars and his goddam bonus I don't fucking care! It don't fuck somebody out of some- cause you didn't know the matter to Jesus! But you're not thing To deprive someone of shot. (David Mamet) fooling me! You might fool the something, often by dishonest or fuck a duck! An expression of fucks in the league office, but underhand means, or to cause surprise and incredulity. • I wish you don't fool Jesus! It's bush somebody to be deprived of to Christ I had had brains enough league psych-out stuff! Laugh- something, e.g. through incom- to think of a title like that... able, man! I would've fucked petence. • You be as cold as you Well, fuck a duck! I congratu- you in the ass Saturday, I'll fuck want, but you just fucked a late him just the same. (Henry you in the ass next Wednesday good man out of six thousand Miller)

10. b Expressions with "shit'

shit, jackshit Very little or Stone) • Me and Rick Derris used give a shit Identical in mean- nothing. • There's a gulf in this to hang out with her for awhile... ing to give a fuck in 10.a above. country, an ever-widening abyss 'cuz her parents were like never • You're so self-engrossed, you between the people who have home, and shit. (Chasing Amy) don't give a shit who you de- stuff, and the people who don't • And one day, Rick just whips stroy. (Deconstructing Harry) have shit. (Grand Canyon) • You it out, and starts rubbing it on • Has the whole world gone think you know it all, don't you? her leg and shit. (Chasing Amy) crazy? Am I the only one here You're 25 years old. You're a She's all wet and shit, and I just who gives a shit about the rules? baby. You don't know shit. went to work. (Chasing Amy) (The Big Lebowski) (Swimming With Sharks) • You full of shit Wrong, mistaken, a crock of shit Nonsense; lies and guys don't say shit about who ill-informed, not to be credited. exaggerations; mendacious cant. you are, where you been or what • I was young, too. I felt just like • — This is such a crock of shit. you've done. (Reservoir Dogs) you. Hated authority. Hated all — Mr Slade, will you watch your • Finally I said, 'Fuck this shit.' my bosses, thought they were language. (Scent of a Woman) I'm making this bitch rich. She full of shit. (Swimming With • My sane mind seems more and didn't have to do jack shit, she Sharks) • 'John,' she said, 'you more in charge. What a crock of never even had to meet all these are so full of shit. Honestly — shit sobriety is! It makes every- people. I was doin' all the work. you're a bad guy.' (Robert Stone) thing that used to be so easy sud- (Reservoir Dogs) • You sit on a barstool next to a denly so hard. (Erica Jong) ... and shit Words often tagged man who's full of shit and pretty tough shit An ironical and on to the end of statements, soon you'll know it. (Ethan Coen) mocking expression, meaning: meaning (when they mean any- • If everybody here says you are that's too bad, that's a terrible thing): and so on, etcetera. • My full of shit, and you don't ac- shame. • Your girlfriend doesn't book, 'White-Hating Coon', knowledge it or see how that as- love you? Tough shit, that's the don't have any of that bullshit. sessment serves you, you are way it goes. (Swimming With The hero's name is Maleequa doomed. (Business Week) Sharks) • That's tough shit, and he's descended from the a shitload of... A great deal of, man, my heart really bleeds. black tribe that established the a lot of. • Oh wow, she doesn't (W.T. Tyler) first society on the planet while know you're here. Jesus, you (all) to shit An expression used all you European motherfuckers could get in a shitload of trou- as an intensifier, equivalent in were all hiding out in caves and ble for this. (Cruel Intentions) meaning to (all) to fuck, (all) to shit, terrified of the sun. (Chas- • These little gadgets here are hell, (all) to pieces, etc. • 'Hue ing Amy) • I thought you had this real popular. We're moving a City,' Hicks said. 'We had guys place cased, man. You said you shitload of them right now. who were dead the day they hit had maps and shit. (Robert (Stanley Home) that place. I had six buddies shot www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 107 to shit in Hue City in one morn- — If the price of that favor is I shit, guys,' Grattarola said. ing.' (Robert Stone) • The car gotta take shit, he can stick his 'These are the dumbest bastards starts rolling down the hill, and favor straight up his ass. (Pulp I've ever run into. We've got my right knee is cut up all to shit. Fiction) • 'He's a tough guy. He managers who don't understand, (Chasing Amy) doesn't take any shit from any- and are a bunch of hustlers. shoot the shit To chat amiably. body.' A good quality when a We've got brokers who are stu- • Too bad I won't be around for salesperson is wrangling with pid, and not well trained.' a lively conversation, but I'm competitors; bad when he or she (Business Week) getting out of here. It would have is dealing with customers and be up shit creek (without a been nice to talk with you. We'd colleagues. (Peter Carbonara) paddle) To be in serious diffi- have had great fun shootin' the be on someone's shit list To be culty; ruined. • If the cops see shit, you and I. (William Styron) on an imaginary list of people you, you'll be up shit creek for • Listen, I'm gonna come over, who are hated, not trusted, to be sure. (Robert L. Chapman) we'll shoot the shit, OK? See ya. avoided, etc. • You are definitely • Where does all this leave Japan, (Lenny Bruce) top of my shit list, man. I don't in Simpey's view? Up shit creek. shit somebody To lie, exagger- care how long it takes. Sooner Simpey is bearish about Japanese ate, try to deceive someone. or later I'll get you for this. multinationals. (Fortune) • Carl looks at me in despair. 'Is (Bring Me the Head of Alfredo shit a brick To have an emo- he shitting me, that bastard?' he Garcia) tional crisis, usually to become murmurs in my ear. (Henry to pull shit To behave dishon- upset or angry. • 'None of you Miller) • What are you smiling estly or outrageously. • You see came to me, I approached all of for? Was he shitting me about that slut behind my back. You've you. I know you. I know your that? (Henry Miller) • The sky's been talking to her on the phone work, I know your reputation. I the limit, Wilson, I shit you not. for weeks! Then you pull that know you as men. Except for (W.T. Tyler) shit this morning, freaking out this guy.' Joe points a finger at cut the shit To stop talking non- because I've gone down on a Freddy. Freddy shits a brick. sense. Similarly, cut the crap. couple of guys. (Clerks) • You (Reservoir Dogs) • — Cut the shit! I don't think ain't Lennie Fleming. I don't that shit A phrase used to refer you called anybody except some know what kind of shit you're back to a previously stated sub- cooze you once fucked... And I trying to pull here, pal, but I in- ject. • What you don't know about don't think that's good enough. tend to find out. (Lew Cole) me I could just about squeeze into — Yeah, well I don't give a fly- when the shit hits the fan the Grand fucking Canyon. Did ing fuck what you think! (Res- When trouble breaks out; when you know I always wanted to be a ervoir Dogs) things turn nasty; when the cri- dancer in Vegas? Bet you didn't talk shit To talk nonsensically sis erupts. • You're tight as a even know that shit, did you? or pretentiously. See 7.f above. drum... you're like the most (Chasing Amy) • — She worked • 'Please stop talking shit', she wired guy I ever been with... for a theater in the city. Before begged him. (Robert Stone) but I bet you're a good man that she worked in the Anthropol- look like shit To look terrible. when the shit hits the fan. (Sea ogy Department at U.C. She stud- • — What are you doing here? of Love) ied acting in New York a long time You look like shit. — Just try- a shit storm A very confused ago. — I know all that shit, man. ing to blend in with the sur- situation or affair; a crazy, dan- (Robert Stone) roundings. (Naked) gerous jumble. • You know I this shit Refers to the present take shit from somebody In have a kid, he's twelve now. Last unpleasant or annoying situa- this expression, shit signifies summer I sent him to survival tion. • 'Why does this shit hap- disrespect, insults, offensive or school. Toughen him up for the pen to me?' he asked Marge. contemptuous treatment which big shit storm. (Robert Stone) 'Do I like it?' (Robert Stone). one refuses to accept. • — Don't be in deep shit To be in serious • Don't tell nobody about this. forget who's doing who a favor. trouble. • 'I think we're in deep This shit's between me and www.FreeLibros.org108 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY you... It ain't nobody else's little lad, who wants to run home apeshit over some hooker snuff, business. (Pulp Fiction) to his mammy. (John McGrath) 'cause White had that tendency scared shitless Terrified. A • When art lies, it becomes worth- where young stuff was con- variant is shit-scared. From less. So I gotta keep telling the cerned. (James Ellroy) the verbal expression to scare truth, even if it scares the shit out holy shit An expression of sur- the shit out of someone; see 8.g of me, like it scares the shit out prise, incredulity, etc., in which above. of you. (Grand Canyon) shit is substituted for Moses, Je- • Well, what aren't you scared go batshit (US) To become sus, God, etc. • Holy shit, is that of? You live in a safe little world crazy, uncontrollable. • Some the time? We've gotta beat traf- where no one challenges you and guys couldn't take it, they went fic. (Chasing Amy) • Holy dogshit! you're scared shitless to do any- batshit. It would drive you nuts. Texas! Only steers and queers thing but defend yourself be- (Robert Stone) come from Texas, Private Cow- cause that would mean you'd go apeshit (US) To become ir- boy! And you don't look much have to change. (Good Will rational and destructive; run ber- like a steer to me, so that kinda Hunting) • You're just shit- serk. • Okay, so I tailed Bud narrows it down. (Full Metal scared, you're like a frightened White. Dud was afraid he'd go Jacket)

10. c Expressions with "ass", "arse

somebody's ass (US) The word down to work; become opera- kiss my ass To kiss someone's ass is often used for emphasis tional; stop loafing and wasting ass is to flatter one's superiors; and euphony to signify the time. • Go on home, get a nice see 6.b above. The imperative whole person, i.e. the person hot bath. Rest up... 15 minutes. kiss my ass is unrelated and being addressed or talked about. Then get your asses back in gear. means the same as go and fuck Thus, your ass means you, her We're under a lot of pressure, yourself. • What the fuck hap- ass means her, etc. • You're not you know. (All the President's pened to the Delta I used to lying, are you, John? You're not Men) know? Where's the spirit? lying to protect her ass? (Lew haul ass (US) To leave, de- Where's the guts, huh? 'Ooh, Cole) • I will never forgive your part, clear out; to act promptly, we're afraid to go with you, ass for this shit. This is some especially in response to a Bluto, we might get in trouble.' fucked-up repugnant shit. (Pulp command. • Now come on, Well, just kiss my ass from now Fiction) • God was here before haul ass. Just get the hell outta on! Not me! I'm not gonna take the Marine Corps! So you can here! (Lenny Bruce) this. (Animal House) • You ever give your heart to Jesus, but your kick ass To assert power, be heard of 'marshalling your sales ass belongs to the Corps! (Full rough, take revenge, punish. • So force'...what are you, you're a Metal Jacket) revolution is in — boots and car- secretary, John. Fuck you. bust one's ass (US) To work or tridge belts and Chinese shit. All That's my message to you. Fuck perform to one's utmost; to ex- the rich suburban kids — their you and kiss my ass. (David ert oneself considerably. parents never bought them cap Mamet) • You don't have any idea what pistols, now they want to kick my arse An expression of utter you're talking about. These peo- ass. (Robert Stone) • Don, I talk scepticism, disbelief or defi- ple bust their ass. This is a hard straight to you 'cause I respect ance. • — What's up? — Noth- job. (Reservoir Dogs) • —A guy you. It's kickass or kissass, Don, ing. — Nothing my fuckin arse. busts his damned ass and you and I'd be lying if I told you any (Shaun Herron) • — One was a don't appreciate it. — You different. (David Mamet) • You man, a good-looking man at that. haven't been busting your ass, made me bleed, motherfucker! — Man my ass, they were Chinaski. (Charles Bukowski) You gonna pay. I'm gonna kick lesbos. (Chester Himes) get one's ass in gear To get ass for this! (Joseph Wambaugh) in a pig's arse An expression www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 109 of vehement denial, meaning: phone all the fuckin' time. I of who we are. It's tragic that not at all, never. • — Look, if couldn't rent a fuckin' tape with- our entrepreneurs — the people it'll make you happy, I'll go and out six fuckin' phone calls inter- who put their asses on the line apologize. — In a pig's arse you rupting me. (Reservoir Dogs) every day, the people who have will. You've done enough dam- • You can see immediately what the intelligence, drive, ambition, age already. (John Ogilby) a pain in the ass the Borowskis commitment, and courage — not know one's arse from one's are. (Henry Miller) • 'I can see should wake up one morning and elbow To be ignorant, hope- where you could be a pain in the realize that they've created a mon- lessly ill-informed or stupid. ass,' he told her. (Robert Stone) ster that's devouring their life. • As for foreign policy, it's clear • I thought he'd never shut the (Lanny Goodman) • The reason I to everyone that Mr Gore doesn't fuck up. What a pain in the ass. make the decisions and you know his ass from his elbow. (GoodFellas) don't, sweetheart, is because it's (Village Voice) • Can I show you tight-assed A tense or morally my ass that's on the line, not something, pal? You see that at rigid person. • Beth Kramer's an yours. (Lew Cole) the top of your legs? That's your aggressive, tight-assed, busy- a horse's ass A persistent and arse, and that there's your body cunt, and it's none of her obnoxious fool; a contemptible fuckin' elbow. Do you wanna fucking business how I speak to person. • Baxter, you sound like write it down? (Naked) my son. (Deconstructing Harry) a silly pseudointellectual horse's have one's head up one's ass • He sucked my cock. After- ass. You're gettin' embarrassin'. (US) To behave stupidly, blindly, wards I fucked him. It was dif- (Joseph Wambaugh) without a proper regard for the ficult to get in. He had a very laugh one's ass off To laugh consequences. • What are you tight arse. A Catholic upbring- heartily, unrestrainedly. Substi- asking that guy for? What's he ing, I expect. (Joe Orton) • Out- tution of ass for head in laugh gonna tell you? What's he know, side the main building was a one's head off. • I'll bet you ten for Christ's sake? He has his group of stuffy, tight-arsed Eng- thousand dollars he laughs his head up his ass 'on a permanent lish and American businessmen. ass off. (Pulp Fiction) basis. (William Bennet) (Joe Orton) assways Incorrectly, awkwardly. a pain in the arse An annoying someone's ass is on the line • He stands there with one arm or obnoxious person or thing. Someone is at risk; the subject in his coat sleeve and his hat on • Then that got to be a pain in has taken a dangerous responsi- assways and he begins to dream the ass. People called me on the bility. • We lose the perspective aloud. (Henry Miller)

10. d I Expressions with "balls" "ballocks'

a lot of balls Balls signify cour- bust one's balls To take a great didn't treat her right. She age, nerve, guts. • I got respect deal of trouble with something; walked. You want to kick some- for this kid. He's got a lotta to exert oneself to the utmost. body's ass about it, kick your fuckin' balls, this kid. Good for • Give me the fucking money! own. You want to break balls? you. Don't take no shit off no- You hear me? I got to come here Break your own. (Sea of Love) body. (GoodFellas) • My second and bust my balls! Give me the • I'm hearing things from secu- ex-wife. I liked her best in some fucking money! (GoodFellas) rity. They're all ex-cops. The ways. She had the most balls. bust (break) somebody's balls Sheriff's lookin' to bust your Took every dime I had. I like to To cause someone a great deal balls. (Casino) • — I swear to see her once in a while and visit of trouble, or to punish harshly. God I've never known a ball- my ex-dog and my ex-car. • People remember. They'll re- buster like you in my whole life. (Joseph Wambaugh) • Eddie had member specific people who — Hey, who loves you more than balls and audacity and he was not broke their balls. (Lenny Bruce) I do? I'll do anything for you. basically rash. (Robert Stone) • She's a good woman. You — Yeah, except to stop busting www.FreeLibros.org110 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY my balls. (GoodFellas) and stay out. (Robert Stone) mattress earlier. (Ken Lukowiak) • Mackey was just finishing up • You take him and you put him • Sir John French, CIGS, came the second oh-so-quick mar- down in some strange town with down for open day, gave every- riage to that cunt who not only just a nickel in his pocket, and one a bollocking for slackness busted his balls but jumped up by nightfall he'll have that town and indiscipline, and shortly af- and down on them with cleats, by the balls. This is not talk, terwards retired the Commandant. leaving him as bankrupt as Bob, this is action. (David (Times Literary Supplement) Chrysler Corporation. (Joseph Mamet) • You're in no position to not get one's balls in an uproar Wambaugh) dictate terms, Jacky. We have you (US) To avoid becoming excited have somebody by the balls To by the balls. (William Bennet) or upset, to remain calm. (The have someone in a helpless situ- give someone a ballocking British equivalent of this expres- ation; to have absolute control (UK) To reprimand someone. sion is not get one's knickers in over someone. • They have me • I explained to them that Kathy a twist.) • Okay, okay, okay, I'm by the balls. On account of the was due at any moment and I sorry. I put that rather badly. I bust they can put me back in the needed a mattress for her to expressed myself clumsily. No madhouse for life. If I do what sleep on. Frank gave me a need to get your balls in an up- they want, I'll get maintenance ballocking for not drawing the roar. (Robert Morrison)

10. e Expressions with "hell'

not give a hoot in hell To be ut- I'd just like to know, for the hell suppose, and then we'd end up terly indifferent to; to have no re- of it. Did you make it with a lot getting rather angry with each spect for. • Americans love a win- of guys? (Lenny Bruce) other. (Gabriella T. Oldfield) ner and do not tolerate a loser. a snowball's chance in hell Not play hell with something To Americans play to win all the even the remotest possibility, no damage, destroy; to thwart. time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell chance whatever. • Can he beat • This is a holiday resort, we live for a man who lost and laughed. Wilkenson? Can he beat a former for the summer months. If peo- (Pattori) world champion? Are you kid- ple watch t.v. all winter long and for the hell of it For no definite ding me? He doesn't have a see the oil washing up on the or useful reason; for fun; casually. snowball's chance in hell. (John beaches and the birds covered • What the hell, good for the Ogilby) with slime and whatnot, believe goose, good for the gander. We give someone hell To reprimand me, that's the kind of public- were legally separated. I made it or punish severely. • If Itor sus- ity that plays hell with our with a lotta chicks, you're enti- pected I was doing stuff behind bookings. (Guardian) tled to make it with a lotta guys. his back, he'd give me hell, I

10. f I Expressions with "bitch'

bitch about something To light hours having to listen to dulity, identical in meaning to complain, to gripe. • It started Frank bitching about Yank and /'// be damned. • Austin? They over Sam's bitching about Yank bitching about Frank. I promoted Austin? They chose Kimberly's cooking which like swear, the way they were go- the most dishonest, incompe- everything else in their mar- ing on you would have thought tent, useless nincompoop in riage had deteriorated to the they were married. (Ken the group? Well, I'll be a son of point that even she could hardly Lukowiak) a bitch! Now I know they're ca- eat it. (Joseph Wambaugh) • We I'll be a son of a bitch! An pable of anything. (aE.R. Lever) then spent the rest of the day- expression of surprise or incre- www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 111 10. g I Expressions with "bugger'

bugger somebody about (UK) for the sake of it.' (Guardian) nothing. Cf. fuck all, damn all, To cause difficulties for someone. bugger off (UK) To leave, de- sod all, etc. • Admittedly I know • Well, if your New Year resolu- part, go away. Cf. fuck off, etc. bugger all about politics. (Philip tion is not to let any bugger bug- • Tell him to bugger off from me. Larkin) • I have got a first in my ger you about, mine is not to Emotional fuckwit. (Helen Schools... It is all the more re- give a bugger for any bugger. Fielding) • There was no sign of markable because I made nu- (Philip Larkin) • Police interven- life. Either he had buggered off merous blunders and knew sweet tion is common. 'They bugger us home already or he was sleep- bugger all about my subject. about for no reason,' said ing on the job. (Roy Logan) (Philip Larkin) Rainey. 'They move us on just bugger all (UK) Absolutely

10. h Expressions with "piss'

piss with rain • It was pissing ful. 'Imagine how Job felt,' I when you get loose. (David with rain when we left the house. said, 'and you'll forget your Mamet) • Everybody was pissed Mud all over the place. (Joe trouble.' 'Piss off,' he said. (Joe off when I was a kid. I was pretty Orton) • You may think that ac- Orton) pissed off myself. (Robert quiring water on a place like the • He leaned round the door and Stone) • This guy's a fucking Falkland Islands would not fall shouted something in Arabic. It psycho. And if you think Joe's into the category of one of the sounded like some phrase like, pissed at us, that ain't nothing world's most difficult things to 'You won't be needed tonight.' compared to how pissed off I am do; after all, it does piss with The boy pissed off. (Joe Orton) at him, for putting me in the rain all day almost every day. • We were going to get there, do same room as this bastard. (Res- (Ken Lukowiak) a bit of sabre rattling, the Argies ervoir Dogs) get pissed, be pissed (UK) In would piss off back to Argentina piss something away To British usage, pissed means and we'd all sail home disap- waste, squander. • I mean, we drunk. Related expressions are pointed. (Ken Lukowiak) • I piss away a million dollars on to go on the piss (to go drink- would be able to get the job done Radio Free Europe, and don't ing) and a piss-up (a drinking in half the time if they would all know anything about the coun- session). • I've got a great idea, just piss off and leave me alone. try within the country — don't Alexander. I think I'm going to (Ken Lukowiak) know anything about Missis- get pissed and jump off the wa- piss somebody off In both Brit- sippi. We got to stop pissing ter-tower. (John McGrath) • ish and American English, this away all the money on Radio Three months before that, out on means to make somebody angry Free Europe. (Lenny Bruce) an exercise, he climbed up a py- or indignant. Only in the US, take the piss (out of somebody) lon, pissed as a fart, and swung however, does pissed used with- (UK) To tease, make fun of or hand over hand along the wire; out off mean angry. • Well, what- mock someone. • Oh, don't then he dropped off. (John ever he said pissed off the bar- fuckin' take the piss out of me, McGrath) • I used to have fanta- tender plenty. And those you bastard! (Naked) • — Are sies about him getting pissed and unsavory characters I was tell- you taking the piss? — You're wrapping his car around a lamp- ing you about? They got pissed fuckin' giving it away, aren't post. That would have made me too. Started pulling guns and yer? (Naked) • — Why do you happy. (E.A. Whitehead) knives and what have you. (Des- feel the need to take the piss? perado) • I don't mind that piss off Go away, depart. Cf. — I'm not taking the piss. It's you're careful. This doesn't piss fuck off, sod off, etc. • His boils nice that. (Naked) • I had the me off. What gets me mad is are slightly better but still pain- feeling he was taking the piss www.FreeLibros.org112 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY out of me. Bloody cheek. (Helen extremely easy to do. Humorous brand. Mmmmm... this is damn Fielding) alteration of a piece of cake. good. (Desperado) piss against the wind To waste • So what's hard about teaching full of piss and (US) one's time and effort. • This will in a school like this? Compared Brimming with energy; peppy never work. Don't you see, to your inner cities, it's a piece and assertive. • I hate that bas- we're just pissing against the of piss. (David Bellis) tard. How does he manage to wind. We don't have a hope in pisswarm As warm as fresh be so bright-eyed and bushy hell of convincing them with urine. • — What do you want? tailed and full of piss and vin- this. (Daniel Ogg) — Beer. — All I have is piss- egar at this hour of the morn- a piece of piss (UK) Something warm Chongo. — That's my ing? (Bert Garigan)

10. i Expressions with "tits

get on somebody's tits (UK) To bosoms and bottoms. • Tits and Come on, give the little baby a annoy or irritate someone, espe- ass, tits and ass, that's what the squirt. (Loudon Wainwright) cially repeatedly. • — And what attraction is. (Lenny Bruce) cold as a witch's tit Extremely about Andrew? Why are you al- a tit man A man whose favourite cold. • For the love of Jesus, get ways needling him? — Oh, he part of the female body is the a fire going quick! It's colder gets on my tits. (E.A. Whitehead) breasts. • Rufus is a tit man / Suck- than a witch's tit in here. (Ian tits and ass A display of female ing on his momma's gland... / Cochrane)

10. j I Expressions with "finger'

stand around with one's finger caused a stir by telling British ing two fingers; hence one is said up one ass To be idle and unpro- workers it was time to get their to give somebody the V-sign. ductive; to be helpless. • Why are finger out. (Daily Mirror) • What amazes me is that you you here then? If all you're going give somebody the finger (US) have decided not just to disagree to do's stand around with your fin- To make a lewd, insulting ges- with the U.S. government but to ger up your arse, you're fuck all ture by brandishing the middle give it the finger in public, to use to me. You might as well fuck finger while the other fingers re- embarrass and demean the in- off right now. (John Ogilby) main folded down. Another ex- dividuals leading the govern- get one's finger out To be- pression with the same meaning ment's efforts. (Fortune) • — Can come serious, to get down to is to flip somebody the bird. The you sum up your reaction to the work. • Strong language in the meaning of the gesture is fuck government's proposal in a few mouth of royalty still surprises. you or up yours! In Britain the words? — I can sum it up in two Back in the sixties Prince Philip equivalent gesture involves rais- fingers. (Ballymena Times) MM

10. k Expressions with "farr

an old fart Any middle-aged cially Daniel — in any doubt that completely indifferent to; not to or older male. • — So why did you've thrown him over and sud- care at all. Cf: not give a fuck, ya marry her? — I love her. denly discovered how marvellous etc. • What happens next has Pretty silly, an old fart like me, life is without that pompous, dis- nothing to do with me anymore. huh? (Reservoir Dogs) • Go solute old fart bossing you around. I'm out of it. I don't give a fid- into work looking drop-dead (Helen Fielding) dler's fart what happens. (Shaun gorgeous. Leave no one — espe- not give a fiddler's fart To be Herron) www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 113 10. 1 I Expressions with "pussy

to pussy out on somebody To pussy whipped (US) The term want my opinion, however, you cancel an action or withdraw is used of a man henpecked or are pussy-whipped. (David from it because of fear; to get dominated by a woman. • Dan, I Mamet) • Some men are pussy cold feet. • Don't pussy out on can advise, I can counsel, I can whipped from the day they are me now. They don't know. They speak to you out of my experi- born, some have it happen to don't know shit. You're not ence ... But in the final analy- them later in life, some never. gonna get hurt. (Reservoir Dogs) sis, you are on your own. If you (Judith Krantz)

10. m Expressions with "up'

up yours A vigorous exclamation Foundation by Mrs Ralph. 'Up yours, Weasel, you're firing a man of defiance, contempt, rejection, yours' the note said. Mrs Ralph who's going to be as famous as etc. Short for shove it up your ass did not appreciate rejection. (John Thomas Wolfe.' (William Styron) or stick it up your hole or stuff it Irving) • 'You're dismissed as of get it up To achieve and retain up your bum and similar expres- this day,' he said in a strained an erection. • It was no good. I sions. • Roberta was quite sur- voice. 'You may pick up your fi- couldn't get it up in the state of prised by the note sent the Fields nal paycheck at five o'clock.' 'Up Israel. (Philip Roth)

10. n Expressions with "get

get stuffed (UK) Equivalent of mean where do you fucking get get a little on the side To be go and fuck oneself. • Discuss, off with this shit? (David sexually unfaithful. • How compare, contrast, illustrate. Do Mamet) • It is led by trendy bi- would I feel if I learned my not write on both sides of the pa- sexual types, who love to get off husband was getting some on per at once. Candidates prefer- amidst the chic accoutrements of the side? Disappointed, of ring to be ranked by continuous a big smack-and-coke party. course, hurt — but not neces- assessment can get stuffed. (Albert Goldman) sarily surprised. (Salon) (Philip Larkin) get somebody off To bring some- get it on To perform the sex act. get off with something To get body to sexual climax. • Sixteen • The guy's working for me for relief or pleasure from some- years in the slammer without so years and all the while, unbe- thing; to have an orgasm. • So much as a whiff of pussy. I got knownst to me, he's getting it on just who the fuck do you think him off in four seconds flat. with my old lady. (Leonard you are, God's gift to Women? I (Gabriella T. Oldfield) Warin)

www.FreeLibros.org114 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY EXERCISE 10.1 Complete the following sentences by choosing the appropriate words in a, b, c, d, or e. In each case, only one answer is possible. 1. I don't give a fuck what he thinks. He can go and take at the moon for all I care. (a) a rat's ass (b) sweet fanny adams (c) a rubber duck (d) a flying fuck (e) a fiddler's fart 2. If he wants to keep his job, he'd better get his . in gear and stop fucking about. (a) ass (b) arse (c) backside (d) bottom (e) butt 3. Those bastards didn't pay me what they owed me. They fucked three months' salary. (a) me over (b) me around (c) me out of (d) me away from (e) with 4. Listen, I have a lot of work to do. Why don't you stop and let me get on with it? (a) cutting my crap (b) cutting the cheese (c) hauling ass (d) buggering my backside (e) busting my balls

EXERCISE 10.2 Translate the following sentences into English. 1. No podia comprender por que no la mandaba a la mierda de una punetera vez. 2. No tiene ni puta idea. 3. Vete a la mierda! 4. —,;,Que gilipolleces estas haciendo, tio? — Yo no hago gilipolleces! 5. jA la mierda con esto! Me voy a casa. 6. Bueno, hazlo como quieras; ;Que mierda importa! 7. No hizo un carajo! 8. Voy a dejar este trabajo y me voy al cono de una vez. 9. Que cono pasa contigo? Donde cono vas? 10. — No es esto peligroso? — Carajo si lo se. 11. Estoy mas jodido que el cono. 12. Me cago en la mar! Como has logrado hacerlo? 13. jQue examen ni que cono! Tu te vienes conmigo. 14. ;Se jodio el invento! 15. No me importa un carajo lo que digas. 16. i,Que le pida yo disculpas? jUn carajo! 17. Entonces me dijo: 'Dame solo un besito.' ';Vete a tomar por culo!' le dije. 18. Repetir la escena? Me cago en la mar! 19. Lo mas probable es que hicieras alguna de tus gilipolleces como de costumbre. 20. — Te gustan mis piernas todavia? — Cono, si.

EXERCISE 10.3

Translate the following sentences into English. 1. Ya es hora de que espabile. 2. Lo que me jode es tener que hacer el trabajo de ella. 3. Francamente, es un pesado de mierda. 4. Deja de darme el conazo, ya te he dicho que no lo tengo. 5. — Se casaron en Japon. — No jodas! 6. jQue conazo eres! 7. No le hagas caso, es un mentiroso de mierda. 8. Es como la polvora. Francamente, le odio. 9. El ruido le dio un susto de muerte. Estaba cagada de miedo. 10. Deja de refunfunar! La situacion ya es lo suficientemente mala sin necesidad de que tu te quejes. 11. Se pone muy nervioso cuando hay dificultades, cuando la mierda empieza a salpicar. 12. Estoy harto de que me jodan. 13. No lo quiero. Que se lo metapor el culo! 14. Dejade burlarte de mi! 15. Le importa una mierda lo que piensen los demas. 16. Si hay algo peor que un conazo es una zorra conazo. 17. Su mujer le armo una buena por llegar tarde. 18. Ahora si que estamos jodidos. 19. Me esta cabreando. 20. El contable se marcho con todo el dinero y les dejo con el culo al aire. www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 115 EXERCISE 10.4

(A magazine columnist pays tribute to the most frequently used swearword in the English language.) I love the F-word. I never tire of it. I've been told its unladylike, and I'm sure that's true, but what the heck — nothing says it better. Maybe the best thing about it is its manifold use: From the essential 'Fuck you!' to the relatively genteel 'Well, fuck me!' You don't have to be a sailor to revel in this word. Here is a sample of its infinite variety: 'Fucking A! That motherfucker totally fucked me, it was un-fucking-believable! So I said, 'Go fuck yourself, you fuck.' That fucked him up. But you know what? I really don't give a fuck.' Where did this word come from? Could Quentin Tarantino have had a career without it? The first question we can approach. The term first appeared at the start of the 16th century, and its initial dictionary appearance is in John Florio's World of Wordes (1598): 'Fottere, to iape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupy.' Some say the word derives from Germanic roots that have to do with thrusting, or with the Latin pungare, which means to strike. One appealing but inaccurate theory is that during the time of the plague — when it was necessary to increase the population — a royal injunction was issued telling the common folk to 'Fornicate Under Command of the King.' The fact is, no one really knows for sure where it started, not even the OED. Fortunately, in spite of increasing public usage, it hasn't entirely lost its pizazz — the New York Times still refuses to print it, and people still say, 'Oh, fudge!' or 'I'm so effing mad!' The most famous story of an F-word euphemism concerns Norman Mailer. When The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948, he was forced to render it as fug. When Dorothy Parker met Mailer at a party, she said, 'So you're the young man who can't spell fuck?' From an article in Salon by Amy Wallace

Using what you have learned in this chapter and in the preceding exercises and what you can guess from the context, find words or phrases in the above passage corresponding to these descriptions: 1. A euphemism commonly used when referring to the word 'fuck'. 2. Two expressions which mean approximately: go to hell, be accursed, etc. 3. An expression of surprise or incredulity. 4. An exclamation of pleasure, joy, triumph, etc. meaning: absolutely, definitely. 5. Two terms of abuse used of a man. 6. A figurative use of the word 'fuck', meaning to cheat, swindle, maltreat or take advantage of. 7. A phrasal verb which means to injure or maltreat someone. 8. An expression which means not to care at all about something. 9. A euphemistic substitute for 'fuck' used as an interjection. 10. A euphemistic substitute for 'fucking' used as an adjective or adverb. www.FreeLibros.org KEY TO EXERCISES

www.FreeLibros.org EXERCISE 1.1 put harmful chemical sub- nyms for come (semen) except stances up their asses. 11. fart which is an emission of in- l.(b) All the words are syno- The girls didn't have any tits testinal gas from the arsehole nyms for cunt (vagina) except and their asses were tiny. 12. (anus), especially an audible putz, which is a synonym for Her pubes were long and one. 4.(f) All the words are cock (penis). twisted and tangled. 13. She synonyms for the verb to piss 2.(e) All the words are synonyms sat on my lap and kissed me. (to urinate) except spew, which for cock except beaver, which My cock stiffened against her is a synonym for puke (vomit). is a synonym for cunt. firm backside. 14. He needs 5.(c) All the words are syno- 3.(c) All the words are synonyms a kick up the arse before he'll nyms for shithouse (toilet) ex- for balls (testicles) except pu- do anything. 15. I rubbed a cept roaster, which is a cat- bes, which is now a vulgar finger along her cunt, which egory of fart. term for pubic hair. quickly got wet and began to 4.(a) All the words are synonyms open. I put my finger inside. EXERCISE 2,2 for tits (female breasts) except 16. My foot slipped and I fell 1, menstruation 2. semen 3. privates, which is a common on my arse. 17. She was afraid excrement 4. vomit 5. flatu- term for genitals. of diseases of the skin, the lence 6. the toilet 7. urine 5.(d) All the words are syno- scalp and the asshole. 18. He 8. to defecate 9. pregnant 10. nyms for ass or arse (but- was still sucking Clare's tits. to urinate tocks) except bush, which is Her nipples were erect. 19. She a synonym for pubes. had her hand on Tom's balls, EXERCISE 2.3 then she moved it up and 1. I undressed, sprawled out in EXERCISE 1.2 grabbed his cock. 20. It was a the middle of the bed and 1. the female breasts 2. the pe- question of courage. I won- farted. 2. It was the worst nis 3. the vagina 4. the tes- dered if I had the balls. blowjob I had ever had. She ticles 5. the buttocks took out her handkerchief and EXERCISE 1.4 gobbed into it as if she were EXERCISE 1.3 1. Fucking: an adverb meaning hawking something up. 3. I 1.1 began to rub my cock against extremely in 'fucking in- stretched out next to her. We her belly. She pushed me sane'; an adjective added for kissed. Her mouth smelled of away. 2. I began to play with negative emphasis in 'Madi- puke. 4. The nearest bar was her cunt. Her clit emerged son fucking Avenue' and 'a at least fifty years old. You and I caressed it gently. 3. fucking weave' (wig). 2. Tits, could smell the stench of piss My husband didn't have any niddlers, boobs. Niddlers are and shit and puke built up personality, only an enor- specifically very small over half a century rising up mous cock. 4. Don't just sit breasts. 3. Ass. The British through the floor from the on your arse, do something. equivalent is arse. 4. To fuck toilets in the basement. 5. I'm 5.1 had an itchy arsehole but around (with someone or going to come, Christ, I'm there were too many people something). 5. Pubes, bush. going to come! 6. He opened and I couldn't scratch it. 6. 6. Bullshit. 7. Fucker. the shithouse door and went Tits and ass. The only thing in. The place stank. He got that matters to you is tits and EXERCISE 2.1 out his cock and began to ass. 7. We got under the l.(c) All the words are terms re- piss. 7. She told him she was sheets and I began to play lated to shit (excrement) ex- on the rag but that didn't cool with her private parts. 8. With cept bogey which is a syno- his passion in the least. 8. The one movement of its jaws, the nym for snot (nasal mucus). dog began to piss. The dog dog could rip my balls off. 9. 2.(a) All the words are verbs was full of piss. It ran in long, My scrotum was itchy. The meaning to puke (to vomit) ex- yellow rivulets across the itch was getting unbearable. cept bumf which is a common kitchen floor. 9. 'Listen,' she I kept on going, scratching slang term for toilet paper. told me, 'when you've put my balls. 10. Sometimes they 3.(b) All the words are syno- that thing inside me, take it www.FreeLibros.org118 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY out just before you come, ok nyms for horny (sexually nocent! She was the best ?' 10. After that dinner, I had aroused) except dolly which piece of ass I've ever had! 10. the shits for a month. 11. You is a term referring to a sexu- I haven't had a hard-on for had to put up with the farts ally attractive girl or young ages. 11. Some fucker tried of those fat-assed nurses. 12. woman. 3.(f) All the words to chat me up! He was really At last I came. Then I rested are more or less derogatory crude! I really hate those on top of her. Both of us were terms for women considered guys! They're repulsive. 12. soaked with sweat. 13. He purely as sexual objects, ex- There are dirty movies like felt sick and went to the bogs cept stunner which is an Deep Throat, which are like (crapper / shithouse / etc.). admirative term for an excep- wet dreams. 13. It was excit- When he threw up, some of tionally attractive woman. ing. I felt as if I was being the puke got on his shoes and 4.(a) All the words usually re- raped. I started to get a hard- his socks. 14. I'm going to fer to men considered as on. 14. Who in his right mind tell her the truth. I'm going sexual objects, except for would have thought that she to put an end to this shit! 15. crumpet which denotes a had the hots for him? 15. Don't forget to buy some sexually desirable woman. Sexual relations means sexual bumf (or asswipe). We're 5.(b) All the words refer to intercourse. We were only nearly out. 16. I ran to the states of sexual desire and fooling around. 16. — Clara's bathroom and puked. I tried arousal except jailbait, which cheating on me. — What do to brush my teeth but the only refers specifically to a girl you mean? — That my wife's thing I managed to do was to who is under the legal age of screwing around. 17. It was puke again. 17. The door was consent. suddenly as if my life were near the bathroom. There was taking place in the middle of always somebody coming and EXERCISE 3.2 a wet dream. 18. I could see going to have a piss (take a leak 1. an easy woman 2. an erec- those long legs, the knees, the / etc.). 18. From one of his nos- tion 3. sexually aroused 4. a delicate ankles. I began to get trils a nearly invisible thread lecher horny. 19. 'He said I was a of snot was running and gath- great piece of ass,' Laura an- ering, finally, into a little EXERCISE 3.3 nounced nostalgically. 20. I gleaming ball. 19.1 got up and 1. Ron Jeremy isn't exactly the listened to her breathe deeply, went to the crapper. I had the typical stud. 2. Often I've then whimper. It excited me shits / the trots / the runs / etc. thought how nice it would be and I got a hard-on. Then I got up and wiped my if a guy came into my home, ass and looked at what I'd fucked me and just left, with- EXERCISE 3.4 done: what a mess! 20. I had out chatting me up or saying 1. Fucking: 'a fucking house- to go for a piss. The shithouse anything. 3. I took off my wife', 'a fucking leper', 'a was at the end of the corridor. trousers and began to kiss her. fucking hypocrite'. 2. To I soon got a hard-on. 4. He's fuck. The verb can be used in- EXERCISE 2.4 got the hots for my girlfriend, transitively ('if I wouldn't 1. John, restroom, shithouse 2. it's disgusting. 5. Look how fuck'), transitively (to fuck dong, dick, cock 3. balls 4. nice the science-fiction babes someone), and in passive to take a leak 5. fruit 6. to are in their tight jumpsuits. constructions ('to get fucked blow somebody 6. We went out a few times. by the first man I could'). 3. We never had sex, but we To chat someone up: 'I chat- EXERCISE 3.1 fooled around. 7. She crossed ted him up and then took him l.(d) All the words are syno- her legs and her dress moved back to the house. 4. To snog: nyms for a hard-on (an erec- up even higher. Damned 'we sat on the couch and tion) except stud, which re- cockteaser! 8. Don't talk like started snogging'. The term is fers to a male of great sexual that, you're making me horny British. The American prowess, or reputedly so. / randy. 9. She was beautiful! equivalent is to neck. 5. On 2.(e) All the words are syno- She was young! She was in- the game. 6. To bang some- www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 119 one: 'if he banged me on the the idea of having a relation- idea of how to screw'. 19. I spot'. 7. To bugger off: 'I ship with a woman was be- used to be completely frigid. told him to bugger off. 8. yond my imagination. 3. If Now all I do is think about To lick someone out. 9. To one of my friends found out fucking / screwing / getting wank oneself off. Usually this that my wife was having a bit laid / etc. 20. — I've never verb is not used phrasally and of nooky with (was fucking / been called that in my life. is simply to wank. 10. Bas- screwing /etc.) someone else, — Well, you've just lost tard. 11. Dick. 12. Come: I wouldn't want him to tell your cherry. 'there was come all over the me. 4. It wasn't an accident, couch'. it was because you were EXERCISE 4.4 fucking his wife. That's why EXERCISE 4.1 he shot you. 5. Her voice was 1. son of a bitch 2. ass 3. l.(d) All the terms relate to acts soft and sad. I'd like to fuck swinger 4. to eat someone's of oral sex except wank, you, I thought. 6. I had my pussy 5. a wet dream 6. to which means to masturbate. own ideas about sex. I was go down on somebody 7. 2.(e) All the words are syno- constantly horny and jerked joint 8. to suck somebody off nyms for the verb fuck, used off continuously. 7. He had transitively (to engage in the been buggered by a sailor and EXERCISE 5.1 sex act with someone) except had to be operated. 8. This l.(f) All the words relate to the snog, which means simply to bastard has been banging / world of 'straight' prostitu- kiss and caress. 3.(c) All the fucking / screwing / etc. her tion except tearoom, which, words are synonyms for a since he got out of jail! 9. She in American English, refers rubber (a condom) except felt upset and humiliated, al- specifically to a public lava- cherry which is a synonym legedly because the president tory or urinal frequented by for virginity. 4.(b) All the had groped her. 10. All that male homosexuals. 2.(c) All words relate to different de- night I would screw you re- the words refer to dykes (fe- grees of amorous engagement lentlessly, until I split you male homosexuals) except short of actual intercourse ex- down the middle... I'd make gender-bender, a synonym cept shag which is a synonym you come more than you'd for a bisexual person or per- for fuck. 5.(f) All the terms ever dreamed of in all your son who deliberately affects mean to jerk off (to mastur- life. 11. Did I ever tell you an androgynous appearance. bate) except get one's rocks about the Asian girl we used 3.(c) All these terms relate to off, which means to fuck. to gangbang in Vietnam? 12. bi-sexuality except flash, Victor goes into a chemist's which refers specifically to EXERCISE 4.2 and buys a packet of the practice of exposing one's 1. a condom 2. sexual inter- frenchies (rubbers, etc.) 13. genitals for sexual gratifica- course 3. caressing, foreplay When was the last time you tion. 4.(e) All the words are 4. to perform fellatio 5. to had a fuck? 14.1 went to bed, synonyms for a homo (a male have sex, copulate 6. to have had a wank / jerked off / etc. homosexual) except fag-hag anal intercourse 7. female and fell asleep. 15. I don't which describes a woman, not masturbation 8. group sex 9. want to see her body, or ca- necessarily homosexual, who (performing) cunnilingus 10. ress it, or go down on it. 16. habitually consorts with male male masturbation The men are pressing against homosexuals. 5.(a) All the you. Their hands are all over words are synonyms for pros- EXERCISE 4.3 your body, squeezing against titute except bulldyke, which 1. Here's a lovely girl, only she you and groping you. 17. denotes a lesbian with doesn't want to. go down on When a chick goes down on strong masculine tenden- me / blow me / give me a me, I tell her where to go and cies. 6.(b) All the words blowjob / suck me off / etc. how it feels. 18. What hurt relate in different ways to 2.1 jerked off / wanked / beat me most was when you told sexual perversion except my meat / etc. regularly, but me I hadn't 'the least fucking swish, which is a term for a www.FreeLibros.org120 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY male homosexual of mark- do? Kill the priests, rape the meaning that she is of loose edly feminine tendencies. nuns, and turn the churches morals or disreputable con- into whorehouses / cat houses duct. 4.(c) All the words are EXERCISE 5.2 / knocking shops / etc. 16. insulting terms for men ex- 1. a brothel 2. a female homo- Sally had a little cottage and cept shithole, which refers to sexual 3. a pimp 4. a prosti- there we had a good time, an unpleasant or insalubrious tute 5. a male homosexual fucking and eating. She fed place. 5.(e) All the words can me well and drained my be insulting terms for men EXERCISE 5.3 strength at the same time. She except bitch which (except in 1. You want to use me for every could never get enough. Sally a homosexual context) can weird, kinky thing you can was a nympho. 17. Jack does only be used of a woman. think of. 2. Other women it with trannies. Some of 6.(b) All the words refer to worked for a pimp and solic- them look better than a lot of venereal disease with the ex- ited on a daily basis. 3. women do. 18. He says he ception of pisshole, which Women fainted when they wants to do something really refers to an unpleasant, back- saw him on the screen, but in kinky. 19. Is he a homo then? ward or insalubrious place. reality Hudson was a fruit / I don't know that I've ever 7.(a) All the words refer to homo / etc. 4. I'm going to met any homos before. 20. loathsome substances except put the hookers on Times They say that the dyke stuff slag, an insulting term used Square to shame with all the in the letters section in Pent- of either a man or a woman. house is written by guys. guys I go down on now. 5. EXERCISE 6.2 Patricia was a nympho, she EXERCISE 5.4 could never get enough. 6. 1. crab lice 2. disgusting filth You have to be really careful 1. a spook 2. a whore 3. a bug- 3. syphilis 4. gonorrhoea with dykes, if not they'll beat ger 4. a fairy, a queen 5. you up. 7. The city has be- come 7. full of shit 8. EXERCISE 6.3 come famous for its whore- fucking ('those fucking 1. What...? You admit that you houses / cat houses / etc. 8. creeps') 9. a pimp 10. to did it on purpose, you fucking The guy was ambisextrous... screw bastard? 2. This oven's a bas- I mean that he fucked men as tard / bitch / motherfucker / well as women and that men EXERCISE 6.1 etc. to clean. 3. I'm sorry, and women fucked him. 9. l.(c) All the words are insulting you've got the clap. 4. There Analysis has turned me into terms for women except isn't one loyal bone in that a nympho, with sex on the bummer, which denotes any bitch's body. 5. It was good brain. 10. He was feeling so bad experience, occasion, for a short while. Then it be- horny he decided to take the situation or place. 2.(d) All gan to accumulate blackened rest of the day off and maybe are insulting terms applied to crud. 6. You're on my shit list, find a thirty-dollar whore / men but none has any particu- you bastard / motherfucker / hooker / pro / etc. 11. Danny lar meaning in this context cocksucker / etc! I'm going had come out of the closet beyond its value as an insult to bust your ass! 7. Who and had declared that he was except brown-nose, which re- would want to go there? It's queer / bent / homo / etc. 12. fers specifically to a syco- the arsehole of the earth. 8. Most good pimps try not to phantic employee seeking to My idea was to wander about mash up the face. They hit on curry favour with his superi- doing nothing, always dodg- the cheek, next to the jaw, ors. 3.(f) All the words can ing the boss and avoiding the avoiding the eyes and the be applied to the unpleasantly arselickers who could rat to mouth. 13. The hooker was non-human: objects, experi- the boss. 9. I want you to re- having a look at her trick ences, concepts, problems, member that no bastard ever book. 14. Why do you refer etc. All, that is, with the ex- won a war by dying for his to yourself as a dyke? 15. ception of slut, which can country. 10. What happens if What's the first thing they only be applied to a woman, she's infected? It's possible www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 121 that she's all crudded up. 11. words can mean nonsense, that the world is coming to an This paint's a real bugger / pretentious or deceitful talk, end. They say that's why it's bastard / bitch / motherfucker except chickenshit, an adjec- so fucked up. 17. It was a / etc. to get off. 12. High tive which means cowardly, lousy / crummy / shitty / school is the pits. Being an petty, insignificant. 4.(f) All crappy / etc. film. 18. His teenager sucks. 13. The last the terms are phrasal verbs decision fucked up / buggered bitch he married never even meaning to make a mess of up / cocked up / etc. our holi- saw to it that he had clean un- something (to mess up, foul days. 19. You want to go back derwear. 14. They specialized up, spoil or ruin) with the ex- to your shitty little existence? in male requirements and ail- ception of piss-up, which is Go ahead. There's the door. ments: rubbers and clap. 15. a noun denoting, in British Nobody's stopping you. 20. It You don't deserve me, you English, a serious drinking wasn't the result of some fan- bitch! Well, it's over! Get out! session (see Chapter 10). tastic thought process. They 16. He's only an arselicker. It were just fucking about, ba- makes me puke just to think of EXERCISE 7.2 sically. him! 17. Prostitution, pornog- l.(a) 2.(e) 3.(d) 4.(e) 5.(b) raphy, drugs — the city looks EXERCISE 7.4 pretty cruddy. 18. Damn! You EXERCISE 7.3 1. to get someone off 2. a dago couldn't go back without a 1. He tried to bullshit me with 3. fun pimple 4. a cocksman signed receipt! The bastards some excuse. 2. From time to 5. to fuck 6. dick 7. fucking always asked for signatures time something snafus and ('stupid fucking Polack') 8. for everything. 19. I hate my there is one hell of a mess. 3. a Polack life. My life sucks / is the Look, stop fucking about. If pits. I'm completely fucked. you're going to do it, just do EXERCISE 8.1 20. A bottle of whisky - just it, ok ? 4. My children won't l.(d) All the words are syno- what's needed for a bloody grow up in a shitty council nyms for fucking, used as rainy cold afternoon in this house. 5. He fucked-up the ar- an expletive, except half- arsehole of the earth. rangements, (or He made a assed, which means ineffec- complete balls-up / cock up / tual, incompetent or stupid EXERCISE 6.4 etc. of the arrangements.) 6. (See Chapter 7). 2.(b) All 1. gook, gunk, goo, dreck, glop, He works in a shitty video the phrases are expressions gunge 2. gunge ('gunged at club. 7. Yesterday's events ap- of emphatic annoyance, in- every stage') 3. yucky 4. to peared to be a large-scale pub- dignation, rejection, sur- cream oneself off 5. dildo 6. lic relations snafu. 8. — She prise, etc, with the excep- beaver 7. schlong 8. to fuck says he's rich. — Bullshit! 9. tion of shit it, which means The numbers are all screwed nothing. 3.(e) All the EXERCISE 7.1 / fucked / cocked / bollixed / phrases can be used as ex- l.(c) All the terms are phrasal etc. up. 10. He tried to clamations, expressing ex- verbs meaning to behave bullshit me with some ex- asperation, anger, surprise, foolishly, especially in a cuse. 11. He has some kind despair, etc., with the ex- time-wasting or distracting of half-assed objection to pu- ception of the fuck, which is way, except shit about, which bescent antics that took place also used as an intensifier means nothing. 2.(e) All the almost ten years ago. 12. but not as an exclamation. words are adjectives meaning Please, let's not bullshit our- 4.(c) All are expletive insignificant, of poor quality, selves about this business. 13. phrases which can be added tedious, unpleasant, mali- Try not to fuck / cock / parenthetically to a sen- cious, or unwell, depending ballocks / etc. it up this time. tence, except for cunting on the context; all, that is, ex- 14. Don't bullshit me! 15. I well, which means nothing. cept horseshit, a noun mean- didn't say I wasn't going to ing nonsense, pretentious do it. I only said how shitty EXERCISE 8.2 talk, baloney. 3.(a) All the the situation is! 16. They say . (c) 2.(a) 3.(d) 4.(b) www.FreeLibros.org122 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY EXERCISE 8.3 like I'm his fucking doorman. EXERCISE 9.3 20. You're not going to do a 1. What the fuck has it got to do fucking thing. Shut your 1. You're a dirty Polack, and all with you, you idiot. Fuck off fucking mouth / shut the fuck Polacks are thieves! 2. France out of here! 2. That's one hell up / etc. is a lovely country, with of a chop you're eating! 3. lovely women, great food and Fuck the neighbours! Who EXERCISE 8.4 great wine, but unfortunately gives a fuck what they think? it's full of frogs. 3. He wants 1. motherfucking, fucking ('pay They never worried us before. to know if you can get him a the fucking rent', 'the fucking 4.1 didn't understand a bloody deal on one of those wop heat', 'that fucking money', / fucking / etc. word. 5. He (dago / Eyetie) sports cars. 4. etc.) 2. prick 3. to fuck with put his hand over her mouth. The typical Whitey has eve- someone 4. to make a fuck 'For fuck's sake, there are rything, the nigger doesn't out of someone 5. the fuck people out there!' 6. What the have shit. 5. The Micks put ('get the fuck out of here') 6. fuck were you doing the other up signs on the piers which to fuck up day spying on my wife? 7. said no wops. 6. He'd have Jesus Christ, why don't you EXERCISE 9.1 loved to have gone to Africa just shut the fuck up! You're and been hired as a merce- giving me a fucking head- l.(a) All the words are insulting nary. 'Imagine getting paid to ache. 8. Luisa is a bloody / terms for Jew, except kraut, kill niggers,' he thought. 7. fucking / goddamned / etc. which is a derogatory term I'm trying to cheer her up, fantastic player! 9. It's a hell for a German. 2.(d) All the you stupid Kraut! 8. Stupid of a shirt. I bet it cost you a terms can be derogatorily ap- fucking Polack, he wipes his bomb. 10. What the fuck do I plied to people of Latin Ameri- cock on the drapes. 9. Why care what Lou Reed says! 11. can origin, except frog, a per- do Yanks say 'blow' when they I know that this sounds as son from France. 3.(f) All the mean 'suck'? 10. You and I pretentious as hell, but I think words are insulting terms for know what a kike (sheeny / of us as artists. 12. Turn off that people of Oriental origin ex- heebie / Yid / etc.) is — One bloody / damned / goddamned cept wop, which is a deroga- Who Killed Our Lord. 11. /fucking/etc. television! 13. tory word for an Italian. 4.(b) Apparently some sort of deal Get your fucking (goddam / All the words are derogatory has been done with the filthy bloody / etc.) foot out of the terms used by blacks to de- wop and they've recovered door and leave me the fuck scribe , except some of the money. 12. If alone (and fucking leave me for paddy which is refers to a there was one thing he alone / etc.)! 14. This effing person from Ireland. 5.(c) All wanted, it was that there was dog is an effing nuisance (a the words are synonyms for a word as dirty as 'nigger' to pain in the arse / a pain in the kraut (a German) except apply to all mankind. balls / etc.). 15. How do I raghead, which is a deroga- know what he said? I know tory term for an Arab. 6.(d) EXERCISE 9.4 All the words are insulting what he said because I was 1. pukes 2. fucking ('human terms for blacks with the ex- fucking well there. 16. Lis- fucking beings', 'the fairy ception of dink, a Vietnamese. ten, I know I'm boring the fucking godmother', 'out- hell / the shit / the fuck out EXERCISE 9.2 fucking-standing', 'until you of you, but I've got to talk to fucking die', 'a fucking somebody. 17. I don't know 1. a Spaniard, a person of Span- worm') 3. grabasstic 4. shit how the fuck / the hell / in ish descent, or a Latin Ameri- 5. nigger 6. kike 7. wop 8. hell / etc. he passed. 18. Our can 2. the Irish 3. the French greaser 9. bullshit 10. war had consisted of watch- 4. the Jews 5. Black people scumbag, cocksucker, fuck ing the Argentine Air Force 6. the Arabs 7. the Germans ('you scroungy little fuck') bomb the shit out of our 8. Italians 11. asshole 12. the fuck Navy. 19. He comes in here ('Who the fuck said that?') www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 123 EXERCISE 10.1 cocked / etc.) things up! 15. grumbling! The situation is I don't give a fuck / a damn / bad enough as it is without 2.(a) 3.(c) 4.(e) a shit / a bugger / etc. what your bitching. 11. He be- EXERCISE 10.2 you say. 16. Me apologize to comes really nervous when him? Like hell I will! (Like things go wrong, when the 1. I couldn't understand why I fuck I will! / Will I fuck! / shit hits the fan. 12. I'm fed didn't tell her to go and fuck Will I hell! / etc.) 17. Then up with being pissed about. herself (get fucked / take a he said to me: 'Just give me 13. I don't want it. He can flying fuck / etc.) once and a little kiss'. 'Go and fuck shove it / stick it up his for all. 2. He knows fuck all / yourself!' I told him. 18. Do arse! 14. Stop taking the bugger all / damn all / sod all the scene again? What the piss out of me! 15. She / etc. (about it). 3. Go and fuck! 19. Most probably you doesn't give a shit what fuck yourself / fuck off / go were fucking around as usual. anybody thinks. 16. If and get fucked / etc. 4. - What 20. — Do you still like my there's anything worse than are you fucking around with legs? — Fuck, yes. a pain in the arse, it's a fe- now, man? — I'm not fucking male pain in the arse. 17. His around! 5. Fuck this / fuck EXERCISE 10.3 wife gave him hell for arriv- this shit! I'm going home. 6. ing late. 18. Now we're really Okay, do it your way. What 1. It's about time he pulled his in the shit / up shit creek the fuck! 7. She did fuck all / finger out. 2. What pisses (without a paddle). 19. I'm damn all / bugger all / etc. 8. me off is having to do her getting really pissed off with To hell with it / fuck it all / work. 3. Frankly, he's a bor- him. 20. The accountant left etc., I'm leaving this job. 9. ing old fart. 4. Stop busting with all the money and left What the fuck's wrong with my balls, I've already told them up shit creek. you? Where the fuck are you you I haven't got it. 5. — going? 10. — Isn't this dan- They got married in Japan. EXERCISE 10.4 gerous? — Fucked (damned — No shit! 6. What a pain / buggered / etc.) if I know. in the ass you are! 7. Don't 1. the f-word 2. fuck you, go 11. I'm totally fucked / pay any attention to him, fuck yourself 3. fuck me 4. fucked out / knackered. 12. he's full of shit. 8. He's full fucking A 5. motherfucker, Fuck me! How did you man- of piss and vinegar. Quite fuck ('you fuck') 6. to fuck age to do it? 13. Fuck the frankly, I hate him. 9. The someone ('the motherfucker exam! You're coming with noise frightened the life out totally fucked me') 7. to fuck me. 14. Now we've really of her. She was shit scared someone up 8. to not give a fucked (screwed / buggered / / scared shitless. 10. Stop fuck 9. fudge 10. effing

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Aussie 9o bimbo 3h B rummy, Brummie A Aztec revenge 2d bit of all right, a 3g 9b AC-DC 5d bitch (term of abuse) bugger (to sodomize) all to shit l0b B 6c; (difficult situa- 4i; (unpleasant expe- am I fuck l0a tion) 6d; (complain) rience) 6d; (empha- babe 3g ambisextrous 5d bitch about some- sis) 8a; bugger up backside la and shit 10b thing l0f; (expres- 7a; bugger about bag 6c arse la; arse about sion of surprise) I'll 7b; play silly bug- 7b; arse-bandit 5a; ball 4b be a son of a bitch gers 7b; bugger arse-licker 6b; a ballocks, bollocks l0f somebody about pain in the arse l0c; (testicles) Id; (non- bitch about some- l0g; bugger off l0g; half-arsed 7d; in a sense) 7f; (repri- thing l0f bugger all l0g pig's arse l0c; my mand) lOd blazes, the 8f bugger about 7b arse l0c; not know balls (testicles) Id; bleeder 6a bugger all l0g one's arse from (nonsense) 7f; a lot bleeding 8b; bleeding bugger off l0g one's elbow l0c; of balls lOd; balls well 8e; bleeding bugger somebody arse about 7b up 7a; bust one's hell 8e about l0g arse-bandit 5 a balls lOd; bust blood 9n bugger up 7a (break) somebody's arsehole, asshole 1b; bloody 8b; bloody bulldyke 5b 6a; arsehole of the balls lOd well 8e; bloody hell bullshit 7f earth 6g balls up 7a 8e bum boy 5 a bang 4b arse-licker 6b blow 4e; blowjob 4e bum-bandit 5a as fuck 8e banjax 7a blow beets 2g bumf 2f as hell 8e barf 2g blowjob 4e bummer 6c as piss 8e bastard (term of blue veiner 3f buns la ass la; a horse's ass abuse) 6a; (unpleas- Boche 9f bush Ig l0c; a piece of ass ant thing or experi- bog, bogs 2e; bog-roll bust (break) some- 3h; assways l0c; ence) 6d 2f; bog-trotter 9c body's balls l0Od ass-wipe 2f; bust bazooms li bogey 2i bust one's ass lOc one's ass l0c; get be all over 3c bog-roll 2f bust one's balls l0d one's ass in gear be in deep shit lOb bog-trotter 9c butch 5b l0c; half-assed 7d; be on someone's shit haul ass 10 c; have boke 2g butt la list lOb one's head up one's bollix, bollox 7a butt-fuck 4i be pissed lOh ass l0c; kick ass bone, boner 3f be the pits 6i lOc; kiss my ass bonk 4b be up shit creek c lOc; kiss some- boobs li (without a paddle) body's ass 6b; laugh booger 2i camel jockey 9j lOb camelfucker 9j one's ass off lOc; boogie 9n beam la raggedy-ass 7e; boozer 2g can la; 2e somebody's ass lOc; beat one's meat 4g Boss Charley 9a canoodle 4a someone's ass is on behind la breezer 2c cat house 5i the line lOc; tight- bent 5a bristols li chat up 3c assed lOc; tits and bi5d cheeks la Brit 9b ass 101 bi-guy 5d cherry 4h assways lOc brother 9n bike 3n chickenshit 6a; 7e ass-wipe 2f brown-nose 6b www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 127 chink, chinkey 9m sis) 8b; damn well fart (body function) 8e; fuck about, chippy 3h 8c 2c; 10k; fart about around 7b; fuck all chopper Ic darkie, darky 9n 7b; an old fart 10k; lOa; fuck around chuck up 2g dick Ic not give a fiddler's with somebody lOa; chunder 2g dickhead 6a fart 10k fuck around with clap 6e diddle 4b fart about 7b something l0a; fuck clit If diesel 5b feel up 4a a duck l0a; cobblers Id; 7f dingleberry 2b femme 5b fuckface 6a; fuckhead 6a; fuck cock Ic; cocksucker dink 9m fig-eater 9j knows l0a; fuck up 3b; cockteaser 3i; dip one's wick 4b finger 10j; stand 7a; fuckwit 6a; fuck cock-knocker 6a; dipshit 6a around with one's somebody in the ass cock up 7 a; suck dipstick Ic finger up one ass l0a; fuck somebody somebody's cock 4e dolly, dollybird 3g l0j; get one's finger out of something cock up 7a out l0j; give some- dong Ic lOa; fuck somebody cock-knocker 6a body the finger l0j doodley-squat 2b over lOa; fuck with cocksucker 3b; 6a dork Ic; 6a fingerfuck, fingerbang 4a somebody lOa; cockteaser 3i dose, a 6e fink 6a fucked if I know cold as a witch's tit douche bag 6a fist, fist-fuck 4i lOa; fuck off lOa; 10i drag queen 5e get to fuck lOa; go fladge, flage 5f come, cum 2j dreck 6f and fuck yourself flag 5 a coon 9n dryhump, dryfuck 4a lOa; give a fuck lOa; flash 5f cooze 6c dump 2b; 6h sure as fuck lOa; floozie, floozy 3h cottage 5c dung 7f; horsedung take a flying fuck cow 6c 7f fool around 3d lOa; thank fuck lOa; crabs 6e dunny 2e footsie 4a the fuck 8f; what cracker 9a Durex 4f for Christ's sake, for the fuck lOa Chrissakes 8e crap (body waste) 2b; dyke, dike 5 a fucker 6a; 6d (poor quality) 7e; for fuck's sake 8e fuckface 6a (nonsense) 7f E for God's sake 8e fuckhead 6a crapper 2e for the hell of it l0e fucking 8b; fucking crappy 7e eat 4e; eat pussy 4e; for the love of Christ well 8c; fucking hell crock of shit, a l0b eat somebody out 4e 8e 8e; fucking A lOa crud 6f eat pussy 4e for the love of God 8e fucking hell 8e crummy 7e eat somebody out 4e fox 3g fucking well 8c crumpet 3h effing 8b french 4e; french let- fuckwit 6a cunt (vagina) le; eye (the), the glad ter; frenchie 4f fudge packer 5 a (term of abuse) 6a eye 3 a french letter, frenchy full of piss and vin- and 6c; cunt-struck eye, glad eye 3 a 4f egar l0h 3b Eyetie 9h frig 4b full of shit l0b curse, the 2k frigging 8b fun pimple le cut the shit l0b F Fritz 9f frog 9e fag 5 a G D fruit 5 a faggot 5 a fuck (sexual activity) gangbang 4d dago 91 fag-hag 5b 4b; (unpleasant thing gender-bender 5d daisy chain 4d fairy 5a or person) 6a; (em- get a little on the side damn well 8c fanny (US buttocks) phasis) 8a; am I l0n damn, damned (ex- la; (GB female geni- fuck? lOa; as fuck get a rise 3f pletive) 8a; (empha- tals) le 8d; for fuck's sake get it on l0n www.FreeLibros.org128 El Ingles Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY get it up 10m goose 4b hot pants 3 a la get off with greaseball 9k; 91 hots 3 a kick ass lOc get off with some- greaser 91 hots, the 3a kike 9g thing lOn gringo 9a how's your father 4c kinky 5f get on somebody's grope 4a hummer 2c kiss my ass lOc tits 10i gross, gross out 6i hump 4b kiss somebody's ass get one's ass in gear grot 6f Hun 9f 6b lOc grotty 6g hunk 3e knackers Id get one's end away 4b guinea 9k hustler 5g knee-trembler 4c get one's finger out gunge 6f knock off 4b 10i gunk 6f I knockers li get one's hole 4b knocking-shop 5i icky 6g get one's leg over 4b H kraut 9f get one's oats 4b in a pig's arse lOc get one's rocks off 4b half-arsed, half-assed it sucks 6i L get pissed l0h 7d get somebody off lOn hanky-panky 4c J laugh one's ass off hard-on 3f lOc get stuffed lOn J. Arthur 4g get to fuck lOa haul ass lOc lav, lavo 2e have one's stand up jack 6e lay 3h; 4b get, git 6a jack off 4g gissum 2j one's ass lOc leak 2a have somebody by jackshit l0b lech, letch 3 a give a fuck lOa jag off 6a give a shit l0b the balls l0d Ies5b head 2e jailbait 3h lesbo, lesbie 5b give head, give a Jap 9m headjob 4g Heinie 9f limey 9b hell: a hell of a 8d; a jerk 6a loo 2e give oneself a hand- jerk off 4g; 6a job 4e snowball's chance look like shit lOb Jerry 9f give somebody the in hell l0e; ...as hell lot of balls, a l0d Jessie 5a finger l0i 8e; for the hell of it lousy 7e l0e; give someone Jesus Christ 8e give someone a hell l0e; the hell 8f; jigaboo 9n ballocking l0d the hell out of 8g; jism 2j M give someone hell l0e not give a hoot in jizz 2j make a balls of some go and fuck yourself hell l0e; play hell jock 5b thing 7 a lOa with something l0e; Jock 9b make a hen's arse of go apeshit l0b to hell with 8 a John 2e; 5h something 7a go batshit l0b hellish 8b John Thomas Id make a pass 3c go down on someone hole 6h make it 4b 4e johnny 4f holy Jesus 8e make out 4a go for a piss 2e Johnson Ic holy shit l0b make out 4b go for the big spit 2g joint Ic homo 5a man eater 3h gob 2h jugs li honky, honkey 9a jump 4b Man, the 9a gobshite 6a hooker 5g jungle bunny 9n marbles Id god damn, goddamn, horn 3f melons li goddamned 8a; 8b horny 3b Mick 9c goddam well 8c K horse's ass, a lOc monthly flowers 2k gook (disgusting sub- horsedung 7f karzy 2e moo 6c stance) 6f; (East horseshit 7f keister la mother 6a Asian) 9m hot 3b Khyber, Khyber pass motherfucker 6a; 6d goolies Id www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 129 motherfucking 8b peter Ic; pull one's private parts Ih muff Ig peter 4g privates Ih s muff-dive 4e pick up 3c pro 5g S.O.B., s.o.b. 6a muff-diver 5b piddle 2a professional girl 5g scared shitless l0b my arse lOc piddle about 7b prosty 5g scarfing 5f piece of ass 3h pubes Ig schlong, shlong Ic N pimp 5j puke 2g schmuck 6a pish 2a pull one's peter 4g score 4b nail 4b piss 2a; as piss 8d; a pull one's putz 4g scouse 9b nancy-boy, nance 5a piece of piss l0h; pull one's wire 4g screw (sexual activity) neck 4a full of piss and vin- pull shit 10 b 3h; (emphasis) 8a; nigger 9n egar l0h; get pissed, pussy 3h; to pussy screw around 3d; Nip 9m be pissed l0h; go out on somebody screw up 7a nonce 5f for a piss 2e; piss 101; pussy whipped scrote 6a about 7b; piss nooky 4c 101 scum 2j against the wind not get one's balls in pussy out on some- scumbag 6a l0h; piss artist 6a; an uproar l0d body 101 scuzzy 6g pisshole 6h; piss off not give a fiddler's put the make on 3c shag 4b; 8a; shagbag l0h; piss-poor 7e; fart 10k putz (penis) Ic; (un- 6a piss somebody off not give a hoot in hell pleasant person) 6a; shagbag 6a l0e l0h; piss something pull one's putz 4g shine 9n not know one's arse away l0h; pisswarm shit bag 6a from one's elbow l0h; piss with rain shit out of, the 8g lOa lOh; take a piss 2a; Q shit somebody l0b numbnuts 6a take the piss (out of queen 5a shit storm, a l0b nuts Id somebody) lOh queer 5a shite, shite 6a; 7e; If; nympho 3h piss artist 6a pissant 6a all to shit l0b; pissy 7e R ...and shit l0b; be in O play footsie 4a rag, the 2k deep shit l0b; be on someone's shit list ofay 9a play hell with some- raggedy-ass 7e l0b; be up shit old fart, an 10k thing l0e raghead 9j creek without a on the game Sg play silly buggers 7b ralph 2g paddle l0b; a shit pogue 5 a one of those 5 a ramrod 3f storm l0b; crock of poke 4b one-night stand 4c randy 3b shit l0b; cut the pommie, pommy 9b other, the 4c randy-arsed 3b shit l0b; full of shit ponce 5 a ream, rim 4i l0h; give a shit l0b; poof, pouf, poove 5 a P rear la go apeshit l0b; go poofter 5 a ride 4b batshit l0b; holy paddy 9c pooh, poo, poo-poo rise 3f shit lOb; horseshit pain in the arse, a 2b roaster 2c 7f; look like shit lOc poontang 4c root 3h; 4b lOb; pull shit lOb; Paki 9n poop, poopy 2b rubber 4f scared shitless lOb; pansy 5 a pox 6e ruddy 8b shit; jackshit lOb; parts 1h poxy 8b rug-muncher 5b shit a brick lOb; pecker Ic prat 6a rumpy-pumpy 4c shitbag 6a; shit-eat- pee 2a prick (anatomy) Ic; runs 2d ing 7e; shithead 6a; perve (to ogle) 3a; (term of abuse) 6a runs, the 2d shithole 6h; shit- (abbreviation) 5f prickteaser 3h Russkie 91 house, shite-house www.FreeLibros.org130 El Ingl6s Prohibido EDITORIAL STANLEY 2e; shitload of lOb; sodding 8b; sodding take the piss (out of shit somebody lOb; well 8c somebody) lOh vT shitty 7e; shoot the sodding well 8c talk shit lOb versatile 5d shit lOb; take shit somebody's ass lOc tart 3h; 5g from somebody lOb; someone's ass is on tear it off a bit 4b talk shit lOb; that the line lOc tearoom 5c W shit lOb; the shit son of a bitch 6a thank fuck lOa wang Ic out of 8g; this shit spade 9n that shit lOb wank 4g lOb; the shits 2d; spew 2g that way 5 a wanker 6a tough shit lOb; spic, spick 91 thatch Ig when the shit hits wee-wee 2a spook 9n this shit lOb the fan lOb; wet dream 3e; 3j spunk 2j throw up 2j shit-eating 7e wetback 91 squarehead 9f tight-assed lOc shithead 6a whack off 4g squelcher 2c tinkle 2a shithole 6h wham, bam, thank squits 2d tit man, a 101 shit-house, shite- you ma'am 4c squits, the 2d tits li; get on some- house 2e whang, whanger Ic stand 3f body's tits 101; tits shitload of, a lOb what the fuck lOa stand around with and ass 10 i; tit shits, the 2d when the shit hits the one's finger up one man; a 10 i; cold as fan lOb shitty 7e ass l0j a witch's tit 101 shoot 2j whitey 9a stones Id to hell with 8a whorehouse 5i shoot the shit lOb stud 3e Tojo 9m short-timer 5h whoresmelt, boor's stuff 4b tool Ic melt 6a shouse 2c stunner 3g toss off 4g widdle 2a shtup 4b suck somebody's tosser 6a willy Ic sixty-nine, soixante- cock 4e touch up 4a neuf 4e wog 9n suck up to somebody tough shit lOb wop 9k skank 6c 6b toy boy 3e skin 4f working girl 5g suck, suck off 4e; 6b; trade 5 a slap and tickle 4a suck somebody's tramp 3h slash 2a v ass 6b; suck up to trannie 5e J. sleep around 3d somebody 6b trick 5h Yank, Yankee 9d slip it to somebody sure as fuck lOa trim 3h 4b yucky 6g swing 3d; swing both Trojan 4f slope 9m ways 5d tumble 4c slopehead 9m swing both ways 5d turd (body waste) 2b; slut 6c swish 5 a (unpleasant person) smoke 9n syph, siph, siff 6e 6a smooch 4a turned on 3b snafu 7c T TV5e snatch-hair Ig twat (female genitals) snog 4a Taff, Taffy 9b 6a; (term of abuse) snot 2i tail la 6c snowball's chance in take a flying fuck lOa hell, a l0e take a leak 2a sod (homosexual) 5a; take a pee 2a u (unpleasant person) take a piss 2a Uncle Tom 9n 6a; (emphasis) 8a; take shit from some- up yours 10m sod up 7b body lOb www.FreeLibros.orgEDITORIAL STANLEY El Ingles Prohibido 131 This page intentionally left blank

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