![]() ![]() Strong, but much less offensive than in the US. Cunt – n., vagina an unpleasant or stupid person. As a verb, means to screw up drastically. Chav – n., working-class person with an urban sporty style. A cack-handed execution will often lead to a cock-up. Cad – n., untrustworthy person to be regarded with contempt/envy. Also used as an exclamation of annoyance ("bugger!") as a milder variant of "fuck" in the phrases "bugger off" and "bugger all" and, in the phrase, "playing silly buggers", to act the fool. As a verb, can mean to sodomise to ruin ("You've buggered that up!") or to tire. someone who practises buggery) jerk silly fool. Used to mean rubbish or nonsense, as in the exclamation of disbelief "Bollocks!" and the album title Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols in phrases such as "the dog's bollocks" to mean something definitive and perfect and, in the related word bollocking, a dressing-down ("I gave the useless fool a bollocking"). Blooming – adj., basically a very mild, somewhat archaic form of "bloody". Bloody – adv., intensifier, popularly used in the phrase "Bloody hell!" Very common, medium strength.ĩ. Blighter – n., person or thing to be regarded with contempt/envy. Thought to derive from the phrase "God blind me!" Terribly mild. Blimey, blimey O'Reilly, cor blimey, gorblimey – n., expression of astonishment. Bint – n., derogatory synonym for woman appropriated from the Arabic word for daughter or girl. Very mild, yet apparently originated as rhyming slang for "Berkeley hunt".ĥ. (Only write as "bell end" if referring to the end of an actual bell.) Medium strength. Bell, bellend – n., head of a penis fool. Bastard – n., illegitimate child or mongrel objectionable fellow, probably one who has won one over on you unpleasant situation ("I'm having a bastard of a morning!"). Can also be used to mean bothered ("Can't be arsed") or acting the fool ("Stop arsing about!"). Arse, arsehole – n., variants of ass and asshole. Females nurse their young for three to four months until the babies can swim on their own.1. The eggs hatch in about ten days, but platypus infants are the size of lima beans and totally helpless. A mother typically produces one or two eggs and keeps them warm by holding them between her body and her tail. It is one of only two mammals (the echidna is the other) that lay eggs.įemales seal themselves inside one of the burrow's chambers to lay their eggs. ![]() Platypuses use their nails and feet to construct dirt burrows at the water's edge. However, the webbing on their feet retracts to expose individual nails and allow the creatures to run. On land, platypuses move a bit more awkwardly. Platypuses do not have teeth, so the bits of gravel help them to “chew” their meal. All this material is stored in cheek pouches and, at the surface, mashed for consumption. They scoop up insects and larvae, shellfish, and worms in their bill along with bits of gravel and mud from the bottom. These Australian mammals are bottom feeders. In this posture, a platypus can remain submerged for a minute or two and employ its sensitive bill to find food. Folds of skin cover their eyes and ears to prevent water from entering, and the nostrils close with a watertight seal. Platypuses hunt underwater, where they swim gracefully by paddling with their front webbed feet and steering with their hind feet and beaverlike tail. They have sharp stingers on the heels of their rear feet and can use them to deliver a strong toxic blow to any foe. The animal is best described as a hodgepodge of more familiar species: the duck (bill and webbed feet), beaver (tail), and otter (body and fur). In fact, the first scientists to examine a specimen believed they were the victims of a hoax. The platypus is among nature's most unlikely animals. ![]()
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