British
People from Great Britain or the United Kingdom, including England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
| Term | Origin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Bloke | Used by french canadians to identify english speaking people | |
| Brit | Short for British. Used as in "Brits Out!": graffiti from Ireland. | |
| Chinless Wonder | Reference to inbreeding and a weak gene pool resulting in poor bone structure. | |
| Cocks | Short for "cockneys" | |
| Crumpet-Stuffer | They eat crumpets with their tea. | |
| Crumpet-Sucker | They eat crumpets. | |
| Fog Horn | A loud/annoying British person. | |
| Fog-Breather | Englands weather is often extremely foggy | |
| Jeeves | A supposedly common name of British butlers. | |
| Limey | The British Royal Navy supplied a daily ration of lime or lemon juice to their sailors to prevent scurvy. | |
| Lobsterback | Redcoats in Revolutionary War. | |
| Pohm | Australian slur for British people. Acronym theories vary: Prisoner of Her Majesty, Prisoner of His Majesty, or Pommie from pomegranate rhyming slang for immigrant. | |
| Pome | 'Prisoners/Property Of Mother England' Used in Australia, New Zealand, etc. Probably related to and/or another version of Pom. | |
| Red Coat | Used during the Revolutionary War, because of the Red coats the British army wore. | |
| Rooineck | South African version of redneck. | |
| Rooinek | This derogatory name was used by the Boers to describe the British primarily after the Anglo-Boer war which lasted from 1899-1902. | |
| Rosbif | French term meaning roast beef, used against the British who are stereotyped as eating large amounts of roast beef. Similar to how the British call the French frogs. | |
| Tans | References the Black and Tans, the British paramilitary force deployed in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence known for brutal treatment of Irish civilians. Used as a slur against British people in Ireland. | |
| Tea-wop | Tea-drinking immigrants. | |
| Teabag | British are said to drink a good deal of tea. | |
| Tommy | Tommy Atkins was a fictional soldier used to represent all British soldiers for morale purposes during WWI. http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Anecdotes/TommyAtkins.htm - Origin in dispute. | |
| Wanker | Implies that the addresser is accusing the addressee of self-gratification. |