Bequiffed

Feb. 12th, 2007 09:37 pm
chicken: (66. Vicky Pollard No But Yeah But No But)
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British slang help please?

On imdb.co,uk, I saw the word "bequiffed" and don't know what it means. I've tried several British slang dictionaries, to no avail. Anyone?

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Date: 2007-02-13 03:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zandra-x.livejournal.com
I could ask at [livejournal.com profile] drop_the_u, a Brit/Amer comm.

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Date: 2007-02-13 03:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chicken-cem.livejournal.com
That would be swell! Thank you.

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Date: 2007-02-13 05:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zandra-x.livejournal.com
Ha, ha, my question got deleted because I didn't realized it was a one-way street. Only questions about American usage, nobody in Britain is allowed to answer any questions.

But before I got 86'd somebody did post that the word describes a hair style, like the little pompadour of the tenth Dr. Who.

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Date: 2007-02-14 01:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chicken-cem.livejournal.com
Thanks! David Tennant does have a hairdo kind of like that!

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Date: 2007-02-13 03:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chicken-cem.livejournal.com
Thank you! It must have to do with the combing-up effect.

That's not the guy I saw on "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" though. This all started because I was trying to find out the name of the host of the episode in which John Barrowman appears. I think I must have meant to click on Simon Amstell.

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Date: 2007-02-13 03:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jenoofer.livejournal.com
Thank you! It must have to do with the combing-up effect

Specifically, the bit at the front. Is the word 'quiff' not in common usage on your side of the pond? If so, I had no idea.

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Date: 2007-02-13 03:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chicken-cem.livejournal.com
It isn't as far as I know. I may be deficient in the vocabulary department, however. I think "quaff" is a word in use here, to do with hair, but not "quiff".

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Date: 2007-02-13 01:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com
"quaff" has to do with drinking.

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Date: 2007-02-13 05:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaydee23.livejournal.com
Oops. I thought quiff meant something else. I thought, "Come now, chicken, you must know what a quiff is." Hee.

Or am I thinking of some other word entirely? :wonders:

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Date: 2007-02-13 06:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chicken-cem.livejournal.com
I did think of that, but it seemed unlikely given the context (I don't think IMDB would use the other meaning). :-)

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Date: 2007-02-13 06:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaydee23.livejournal.com
Hee hee. Aren't we naughty? Or maybe I'm naughtier because I always think the naughty possibility every time. Every time.

At book club, at school today, this boy was telling about a book he'd read, and he got all excited about this part where the boy in the book lost his balls, and I started snickering. Both the librarians had to glare at me. Then, we couldn't look at each other anymore because they wanted to laugh because of naughty me. :hangs head, but not very guiltily, just pretend-like:

I love your icon. Who is that and what is the context?

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Date: 2007-02-13 04:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chicken-cem.livejournal.com
It's Vicky Pollard from Little Britain.

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