Dictionary of Karl Pilkington
Karl has a unique way of speaking. Karl's idiolect is made up of old-fashioned sayings, Mancunian slang, and correct English that has been misspoken. Below are examples of Karl's one-of-a-kind speech.
B
- Baba - Babylon: so Babylonians are from Baba.
- Boswell - Roswell (New Mexico)
- bungled in - bundled in: I don't wanna be bungled in
- boo-boo - poo-poo: You've boo-boo'd the idea of..
- bum tube - colonic irrigation: No bum tubes though.
C
- crop/croppage - crops: too much fruit about, so just crop
- cropping - ploughing fields: who's gonna do the cropping?
D
- demmicky - not proper: the thing is, right, if you have a lot of something, you also have a lot of demick ones, don't you...
E
- effin' 'n' jeffin' - swearing: me brother was effin' 'n' jeffin' all the time
F
- foodage - food
- Forrest Gump - disabled person: me dad put a Forrest Gump in a wheelie bin
- frightenedness - fear: he had a look of frightendness on his face
G
- gozzin' - spitting: the octopus was gozzin' about everywhere
- grippage - grip: there's a lot of grippage on the side of the building
H
- havin' it away - sexual intercourse: we were on holiday, and we were havin' it away an' that...
K
- knockin' about - around, in the area: turned out.. a monkey was knockin' about
- kusabi - wasabi: I'm serving some right rubbish tonight, give 'em some of that kusabi
L
- learned - taught: I'll learn you something there
- little fella - see Forrest Gump
- little gay fella - homosexual male: there was this little gay fella...
M
- miminalistic - minimalistic: A coupla years back, people went miminalistic
- moped over - slumped, slouched: moped over in a wheelchair
- mongs - mongoose (plural)
O
P
- palaco - alpaca: It doesn't want to be somewhere else. It's where it was. And that's the same with this palaco, or whatever.
- Papa People - natives of Papua New Guinea: these Papa People, right...
- probleming - troubling, causing problems: Whilst I'm sat here [my legs] are not probleming me
R
- remembered - reminded: now that you've remembered me that...
- replemishing - replenishing: I needed to replemish 'cos I was so tired
- rum 'un - rough, ne'er-d'well: she was a rum 'un
- rummanging - rummaging: he started rummanging
S
- squoze - (to squeeze) past tense: he came in at one o'clock and squoze it then!
- scruffily - in a scruffy, disorganized manner
- stylish way - new style of writing in which the pages are all out of order
T
- tenseness - intensity: you've got a lot of tenseness there
- tink - to knock glasses together
U
- uppered - promoted: they get sort of... what's the word... sort of uppered too early
W
- webbage - web: "...floating around on a bit of webbage"
- wewe - an old female ghost with drooping breasts: I said she might end up becoming a wewe.
- whop - (to whop), to remove from covering: she whopped 'em out and he started suckin' on 'em an' that
- willy-nillily - carefree: but you just said it willy-nillily
- worry hole - the part of the brain that casts doubt: Everyone's got to fill that worry hole with worried.
- wroted - written: someone had wroted - uh!