Do you ever wonder what bloke, knackered, and nutter mean?

Ard: Tough,take no nonsense from anyone...ard is simply hard pronounced without the h.

Bangers & Mash: sausages & creamed potato (okay, now that is just nasty!)

Bloke: Man/Boyfriend
Depends on context. He's a bloke (man), but he's not a bloke (boyfriend).

Bomb: great

Bum: butt

Butty/Buttie: sandwich
A butty is typically a sandwich made quickly and containing a filling not usually considered as normal - bacon, chips (french fries for the Americans), crisps (potato chips etc... Usually, you'd either take a couple of slices of bread, or a bun cut in half, slap on some butter or margarine, then pile up the bacon, chips etc. and slap the second bit of bread on top to keep it all more or less together... For a deluxe butty, you could then pour some sauce (brown sauce is particularly good in this case though tomato ketchup will do as well) over the filling before adding the second slice of bread. With bacon or chip butties,you could also go one stage further and add something like a fried egg on top and make a real meal out of it.

Cheeky: sassy

Chuffed: pleased/happy
Best explained by an example of usage: "I was dead chuffed at winning that award" = "I was really pleased/happy at winning that award."

Corr: wow

Courted: dated/dating.

Crisps: french fries

Daunting: nerve-wracking, intimidating

Dishy: cute, cool, bit of a hunk
As in "I met a rather dishy guy called Andy..." A bit like being a babe, but applied to blokes.

Dodgy: suspicious, weird, strange...

Dole: unemployment benefit

Dosh: money

Fancy: Like, crush, attracted to

Football: That is, football to a Brit (and indeed most nationalities), means just that. Football, a game with two teams of 11 players, a round ball, rectangular goals, and no body armour. However, Americans use the word to refer to their particular version of football, which the rest of the world refers to as American Football - the one with the oval ball, Y shaped goals, zebra striped referees, and body armour. Toan American, football is soccer.

Gutted: feeling of serious disappointment

Homely: pleasant

Ickle: small and cute

Indie: style of music as demonstrated by Blur & Oasis

Jumpers: sweater

Kip: sleep
"Having a kip" means going to sleep. Often used to describe a quick nap, as opposed to a full night's rest.

Knackered: tired/worn out, broken
Context dependent - "I'm really knackered after that run" would imply the tired/worn out translation, whereas "this TV doesn't work, it's knackered" refers to the broken one.

Knickers: panties

Lift: elevator

Lad: boy

Loo: toilet

Mate: friend

Manky: gross

Minging: somewhat unpleasant

Naff: tacky

Nutter: lunatic

Pleb: person of lower class
Officially anyway... In school kid terms (as in "I was a bit of a pleb at school..."), it's more a description of someone who isn't part of the "in crowd", someone who isn't cool, isn't happening, doesn't get with the program

Saddo: loser

Sarnie: sandwich
E.g. Those infamous fish paste sarnies from Spiceworld: The Movie.

Scally: someone who's a bit naughty, but essentially good

Scouser: someone born in Liverpool
Just about every town and city in the UK has it's own name for people born there.

Snog: kiss

Sod it: forget it

Specs: glasses

Spotty: zit-faced

Stroppy: having a bit of an attitude
Could describe someone who's being uncooperative, or who's demanding attention ahead of everyone else.

Take the piss out of: to make fun of

Taking the mickey: light-heartedly making fun of someone.
Making fun of someone for whatever reason is often not pleasant. Taking the mickey (or the mick), on the other hand, would never be classed as offensive by anyone with normal levels of tolerance and a working sense of humour.

Ta: thank you

Telly: television (TV)

Thick: not very intelligent.

Tory: conservative
There are several political parties in Britain, but the main two are Labour and the Conservatives (or Tories). A Tory is either someone who belongs to the Conservative Party, or someone who supports them. To describe someone from Liverpool, which has always been a pro Labour city, as a Tory is worse, much worse, than calling them a Manchester United supporter.

Touch wood: wish for luck

Wally: idiot/saddo
Depends on the situation. It's a slightly friendlier way of saying "you idiot!", if someone's just done something stupid, like spill coffee all over your brand new carpet... or alternatively, it can be used to describe someone who's a bit of a saddo perhaps our transatlantic friends might use "dweeb" in this situation.