| bins | glasses, spectacles |
| bizzies | the Police |
| bevvy | drink (alcoholic) |
| bevvied | drunk |
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| coggers | Catholics |
| deadbeat | person of no bloody use at a particular task |
| divvy | stupid person |
| (the) J. Arthur | the bank (i.e. Barclays etc) |
| in bulk | laughing fit to burst |
| Jesus boots | sandals |
| nomark | someone of little importance |
| ossy | hospital |
| sagging | playing truant |
| shoot | leave, go somewhere else |
| slumming | coins that have collected in your pocket and you want to get rid of |
| th'saffy | this afternoon |
| twirlies | bus-pass holders |
| US | useless |
| wozza - wasp
Arlarse (often shortened to arlee) or Owlarse or Auld-arse
Kecks (Trousers)
Divvy (Stupid person)
Bevvy (Beverage, drink)
- Ciggy
- Giz ("Give us")
- Boss! ("Very good stuff!")
- Kidda (Good friend)
- Two Dogs Fightin' (Huyton)
- Skint (To have no money - Also 'brassic", from the rhyming slang 'brassic lint')
- Baltic - Extremely cold weather
- Flim (£5 - see below)
- Slummy (loose change)
- The Bizzies (The police)
- Meff
- Tracky
- Ozzy - Hospital
- Devo'd ("Devestated")
- Trainies (AKA Trabs)
- Minty (meaning dirty)
- Rotter - A most dislikeable person.
- Jarg - Not fully authentic. Fake. Usually used when referring to knock-off clothing.
- Mogger (ride on a bike)
- Togger (a football match - see below for more football related Scouse)
- Woolybacks (anyone from the east of Liverpool - Widnes or St Helens)
- Plazzy Scousers (anyone from the Wirral peninsular)
- Raar instead of right
- Abar instead of about
- Auld - "Old" (pronounced "Arld")
- Gowed instead of go ahead
- Gerroff instead of 'Get off'
- Yewoh? instead of 'You what?'
- Cum-ed instead of 'Come on'
- Grace instead of 'Great'
- Or-ice instead of 'Alright'
- Bifter - A cigarette. Also in the phrase "Giving it the bifters", meaning 'To do something really well'.
- Like - Every sentence can end in this word (even though it's probably better not to like).
- Goz - To take a look at something. As used in the phrase "Giz a Goz".
- Scran - Food. "I'm dying for some scran, let's go and see if me ma's made our tea yet."
- Skrag - For one woman to pull another woman around by the hair. Fighting. Short for "Skull rag".
- Bronzey - A suntan. "What do yer reckon of me bronzee then? I've just got back from a day in Sevvy Park and it was pure sunny all day!"
- In a bit - See yer later!
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Phrases
| getting a cob on | getting angry |
| going to town | going to the city center |
| there's nothing down for you | you're a bastard! |
| over the water | The Wirral |
| That's when Jesus Christ was playing full back for Israel | That was a long time ago |
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