Words that seem to have the wrong meaning

axisus

Rebuttal - should be the word for plastic surgery to replace your arse.
Any others spring to mind?

Chalky

Torque - how much you can really bend someone's ear?

fob

There's a Mancunian slang word that means something's bad: Bobbins!

To me it sounds like it describes something as being delightful.

TTony

axisus said:

Any others spring to mind?

I'm sorry, I haven't a clue.

Gassage

I agree.

Someone called me a total cunt the other day and it was only my linguistic skills that allowed me to realise that he really meant I'm a swell chap.

Axe_meister

Yep I find it odd that people use cunt/twat/pussy to describe somebody. In my view female genitalia are very very very nice things 

DiscoStu

Happy meal.

lloyd

Razed to the ground always seems silly

Gassage

Legal highs.

lloyd

Inflammable

cj73

unloosen

  

axisus

Axe_meister said:

Yep I find it odd that people use cunt/twat/pussy to describe somebody. In my view female genitalia are very very very nice things 

And then you get a mental picture of Barbara Cartland

HAL9000

Coffee - someone who is coughed upon

Irony - a bit like iron

Twig - what a bald Yorkshireman might wear

Seriously though, I agree with @Lloyd about 'inflammable' - ridiculous that it means the same as 'flammable'.

TheBlueWolf

The phrase 'lessons will be learned', which roughly translates as 'Oops, we'd better be careful to not get caught making exactly the same fuck ups in future'.

chillidoggy

'Sick'.

'Bad'.

'Bad boy'.

english_bob

"Outspoken"

I always thought it meant someone who held an unpopular opinion. Like "outnumbered", only with opinions. 

Ro_S

fob said:

There's a Mancunian slang word that means something's bad: Bobbins!

To me it sounds like it describes something as being delightful.

I thought bobbins meant crazy/mad?

Ro_S

Axe_meister said:

Yep I find it odd that people use cunt/twat/pussy to describe somebody. In my view female genitalia are very very very nice things 

cunt used to be a perfectly acceptable word.

Phil_aka_Pip

"transparent"
"sustainable"

= political-speak for "we've covered up our skulduggery sufficiently so that the public can't call us out on anything"

Corvus

Dentist. Naff all to do with dents. Mainly to do with moaning about the cost of Porsche servicing.

lloyd

Corvus said:

Dentist. Naff all to do with dents. Mainly to do with moaning about the cost of Porsche servicing.

Welsh for teeth is daint so I've never thought this. Also the rising price in PRS deserves a mention.