kettle
To be stressed out
Originates from the household appliance creating steam that builds up pressure inside the kettle.
Originates from the household appliance creating steam that builds up pressure inside the kettle.
kettle
Rural drudges, no class, slovenly, aversive to hard work, dim as a used up bulb. The Kettles were originally a family portrayed in American comic films in the 1940s and '50s (the first was "The Egg And I", portraying life on a chicken / egg farm, the last "The Kettles on Old Macdonald's Farm".) In the first movie, the slow-thinking and lazy Pa and Ma Kettle, with their fifteen children, win a tobacco slogan writing contest and get a modern house with electronic gadgetry they can not fathom. Today, the term is occasionally used to describe an uncouth dufus, a rude lout, someone who completely ignores politeness and common knowledge, someone who might act like an unschooled, ignorant rural clod.
Example:
These kettles boarded the plane and proceeded to place their infant in the overhead baggage bin, as he spit tobacco juice on the aisle carpet.
These kettles boarded the plane and proceeded to place their infant in the overhead baggage bin, as he spit tobacco juice on the aisle carpet.
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Example:
Did you see those folks Trainspotting at the station? They were waiting to photograph a kettle
Did you see those folks Trainspotting at the station? They were waiting to photograph a kettle
kettle
Example:
'Did you bang her last night then?'
'Yeahh...Her kettle was getting all steamy, if you know what I mean'
'Did you bang her last night then?'
'Yeahh...Her kettle was getting all steamy, if you know what I mean'
Kettle
Kettled
When one is confused or, through some other reason, cannot think clearly.
Often used in conjunction with other scouse dialect to form phrases which may be confusing to outsiders
Often used in conjunction with other scouse dialect to form phrases which may be confusing to outsiders
Kettled
A term well known in South West England for best describing a young male and female having anal sex.
kettling
Oh for Christ Sake, does every word need to be a sexual inuendo? For that small audience even the most modest of social consciousness- Kettling is a tactic used by police to try to suppress peaceful demonstrations by corralling protesters and refusing to let them go.
Example:
At the 24 November student demonstration in London, police were kettling students, some as young as 14, keeping them in the cold until midnight. Shame the American media didn't have time to cover it....
At the 24 November student demonstration in London, police were kettling students, some as young as 14, keeping them in the cold until midnight. Shame the American media didn't have time to cover it....