(UK, dialect, obsolete) Used as an unspecified threat.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) Used as an unspecified threat.
I'll give you jack-up-the-orchard if I catch you!
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(colloquial) To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for fuck up.
A mildly vulgar slang phrase meaning absolutely nothing — a more emphatic version of 'nothing at all,' used to express frustration or dismissiveness. Functionally parallel to 'bugger all' or 'sod all' in British registers. Typically deployed when someone has received nothing, achieved nothing, or been left with nothing after an effort.
(informal) To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates.
(transitive, idiomatic, British) To stop doing a regular activity, such as a job or studying.