(UK, Ireland, negative polarity) In control of one's mental faculties; sane; all there.
(UK, Ireland, negative polarity) In control of one's mental faculties; sane; all there.
It served her well, as her husband Bill, a small, quiet man, sustained shell-shock in the war and although pleasant, was not the full shilling. Whenever he wandered over to me to start a conversation I would always feel very uncomfortable.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(UK, Irish, Commonwealth, slang, vulgar) nothing at all or very little.
(slang, vulgar) The state, quality, of condition of being full of shit.
(stative, US, vulgar, usually used in the negative) To have the most basic level of intelligence or common sense.
A British and Irish slang term used as both a noun and an exclamation, meaning excrement, rubbish, or something of very low quality. It functions as a softer-sounding regional variant of its more familiar four-letter cousin and is heard across Scotland, Northern England, and the whole of Ireland in everyday speech, in pubs, on TV, and in comedy writing. As an exclamation it expresses annoyance, frustration, or disappointment; as a noun it dismisses an object, performance, or situation as worthless. The word carries casual rather than formal vulgarity, and is so embedded in regional speech that it often appears in news copy and signage without raising eyebrows.
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