Test your English (British)

[tocqueville]

Do chuggers bother you when you want to rock up to a restaurant with your cockapoo to hoover a supersized ruby murray?

[TlalocW]

1. I'd answer but

I need to park the lorry and then push the pram into the lift to go up to my flat to watch telly and eat some spotted dick that I got at the corner sweetshop.

TlalocW

[Beaver Tail]

2. Definitions for thos on the west of the Atlantic

Chugger = 'Charity Mugger' - They want to part you with your cash for
a "good cause"

Rock up = To arrive somewhere unannounced or uninvited.

Cockapoo = A Type of Dog (My Parents had a Cockapoo named Alex)

Ruby Murray = curry. For those who don't know, Ruby Murray was a famous singer in the 1950s and early 60s. The expression is now generally contracted to just "ruby".

Google is your friend

[July]

3. Ruby Murray = Cockney rhyming slang for "curry." nt

[tjwmason]

4. This isn't real English

It's just a pretty random collection of neologisms. The vast majority of the English wouldn't really know what's going on here either.

[miss_kitty]

5. My English friends all would

Eastend rabble.

:P

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. I've never heard of a cockapoo

and net references seem to say it's American. And who takes their dog to a restaurant? There must be some very obscure meaning for it.

[FuzzySlippers]

7. I'm pretty sure it is American.

I've heard it used for years. It's a cross between a cocker spaniel and a poodle.