This page gathers the 5,895 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “UK” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 27 of 59: from “Irish pennant” to “kerby”.
- Irish pennant noun A loose or untidy end of a line or other part of the rigging of a sailing ship
- ironmonger noun A retailer of hardware, tools, and household goods.
- ironmongery noun Tools and hardware that can be bought in an ironmonger's shop.
- it noun A game of tag.
- it's grim up north phrase A phrase suggesting that the standard of life in the north of England is poor compared to that in the south.
- j noun Abbreviation of junction.
- jab noun A medical hypodermic injection (vaccination or inoculation).
- jack noun A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint.
- jack in verb To stop doing a regular activity, such as a job or studying.
- jack rafter noun One of the shorter rafters used in constructing a hip roof.
- Jack the lad noun An irresponsible young man, seeking personal pleasure and gratification without any regard to responsibilities; a rogue.
- jacketing noun A thrashing; a beating.
- jacks noun Heroin tablets (from "jacks and jills" = pills)
- jacksy noun Backside
- jacky noun English gin.
- Jacob noun A ladder.
- Jacob's ladder noun A serving of short ribs.
- Jaffa cake noun A small, biscuit-like cake with a base of firm sponge, a layer of orange jelly, and a chocolate covering.
- jaffle verb To talk foolishly.
- jam noun A household that is only barely able to meet its financial obligations.
- jam roll noun A kind of pudding, a roly-poly with jam filling.
- jam sandwich noun (from the common UK colour scheme of white with a red reflective horizontal band) A police car.
- jam-spreading noun The practice of spreading resources or costs evenly, and thus thinly (rather than concentrating them in one area).
- Jamaica ginger cake noun A soft treacle cake, shaped like a loaf and flavoured with the syrup from containers of Jamaica ginger.
- jammy adj Lucky; especially undeservedly so.
- jankers noun A form of military punishment which involves being confined to barracks, performing tedious and often pointless tasks, and being subjected…
- Janner noun Someone from Plymouth.
- japan verb To ordain (someone).
- jar noun A pint glass
- jargoon noun A fake ring or other jewellery sold as genuine.
- jark verb To modify (weaponry) to disadvantage; especially, to attach a tracking device to and covertly monitor the location of (a weapon).
- jasper noun A wasp.
- JCB noun An earthmoving machine made by the J. C. Bamford (JCB) company.
- jemmy noun A sheep's head used as food.
- jenny noun A Wren (a member of the WRNS).
- Jenny Greenteeth noun pondweed or duckweed, which forms a mat-like surface on water and makes it look treacherously like dry land
- jenny wren noun The wren, Troglodytes troglodytes, especially as considered (in nursery-rhymes, etc.) as the wife or sweetheart of robin redbreast.
- Jeremiah intj Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration, etc.
- jerry noun A chamber pot.
- jiffy noun Ellipsis of jiffy bag, a padded envelope.
- jigger noun A bicycle.
- jiggered adj Damned.
- job noun The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- job and knock noun The situation where a worker completes an assigned job and is then able to leave ("knock off"), regardless of the time taken.
- job's a good 'un phrase Expresses satisfaction that a task has been or will be carried out successfully, often suggesting that the task is simple, or ironically…
- jobber noun A promoter or broker of stocks for investment.
- jobbie noun A job, normally a task rather than a form of employment for which one is paid.
- jobseeker noun An unemployed person who must demonstrate active jobseeking efforts to qualify for government assistance.
- jobsworth noun A person who upholds trivial rules unnecessarily and obstructively in order to exercise their (typically minor) authority.
- jock noun A Scotsman.
- jockey noun A prostitute's client.
- joe noun A spy, especially a double agent.
- joey noun A parcel smuggled in to an inmate.
- jog on intj go away
- john noun A new recruit at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
- johnny noun A condom.
- Johnsonian adj Of or pertaining to Boris Johnson (born 1964), English politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022.
- Johnsonism noun The ideology, doctrine and practice of former United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
- Johnsonite noun A political supporter of Boris Johnson (born 1964), British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister from 2019 to 2022.
- join issue verb Of two people, to argue with one another.
- joint-stock company noun A company with transferable ownership interests and limited shareholder liability.
- jokes adj Really good.
- joking verb Kidding, trying to fool.
- jol noun A barren limestone plateau on the southern Arabian peninsula.
- joll verb To walk clumsily; stagger; lurch.
- jolly noun A pleasure trip or excursion; especially, an expenses-paid or unnecessary one.
- jolly boy noun A kind of pancake.
- jolly-hockey-sticks adj Wholesomely athletic and enthusiastic, in a manner stereotypically associated with traditional British public schools for girls.
- jonnock adj Honest.
- josser noun A man, especially one who seems foolish or simpleminded.
- jow verb To knock, strike, bump.
- jowter verb To grumble, growl, snarl.
- Judy noun A girl or woman.
- jug noun A traditional dimpled glass with a handle, for serving a pint of beer.
- juggernaut noun A large, cumbersome truck or lorry, especially an articulated lorry.
- jumble noun Items for a rummage sale.
- jumble sale noun A sale of used goods by individuals operating tables or stalls, usually held indoors and open to the public.
- jumper noun A woollen sweater or pullover.
- jumpers for goalposts phrase Informal association football as played by children, especially as a romantic or old-fashioned ideal contrasted against the commercialism…
- junior adj Of or pertaining to the latter half of primary school education.
- junior school noun A school providing education to children in Key Stage 2, i.e. for four academic years from September after a child's 7th birthday.
- juniors noun The section of a primary school for the education of older children, typically the years (grades) three to six.
- juniper noun Gin.
- juwaub noun A formal refusal.
- k noun Abbreviation of Knighthood.
- katsu noun Japanese curry, which may or may not contain a panko breaded and deep-fried food.
- kebab noun A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
- Keeling schedule noun In a bill or enactment, a schedule that shows how provisions of existing enactments would be amended.
- keen adj Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.
- keep verb To have rooms at college, at the University of Cambridge.
- keep term verb To reside during a term.
- keeve verb To heave; to tilt, as a cart.
- keg verb The pulling down of someone's trousers or kegs, oftentimes as a kind of bullying or prank.
- kelk verb To beat.
- kelter noun Rubbish; trifle; hodgepodge.
- ken noun A house, especially a den of thieves.
- kennel noun The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
- kerb verb To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb.
- kerb drill noun A series of instructions informing pedestrians on crossing the road safely, a forerunner of the Green Cross Code.
- kerby noun A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the ball against the opposite kerb and catch it on the rebound.