clarification of british slang

marl2580 marley2580 at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Aug 8 09:25:43 UTC 2003


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "phoebesophia" <
phoebesophia at y...> wrote:
> what, please, is a jammy cow?

A cow is a derogatory term used against women, it implies that 
they have the characteristics of a cow eg. stupid, slow, passive 
etc. it can be combined with many other words eg. stupid cow. 
The word jammy probably comes from jam (known as jelly in the 
US) and is used when someone has done something and got 
away with it, eg. said/done something which resulted in getting a 
promotion at work, sneaked in and stole the man you fancied. 
The only time the word jammy is not used in this context is when 
it is a Jammy Dodger which is in actual fact, a biscuit.

marley





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