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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 03:08 AM
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Do you American types say "cheeky?"
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 03:17 AM
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1. No
We do occasionally say "fresh", but it is archaic
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 03:22 AM
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2. serious?
I found another slang term that's different.
It should be spelled "cheaky"
Anyway, it's all my mom said while I was growin up
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 03:25 AM
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4. The admonishment that one is cheeky is conferred differently here.
Maybe your mom used cheeky, but here one would either be grunted at or swatted at for behavior that would be cheeky. Cheekiness is corrected non-verbally
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Kathleen04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 03:24 AM
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3. British say cheeky
Us American types don't really...
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 03:26 AM
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5. Canadians say it too
Probably one of our last british sayings
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Kathleen04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 03:27 AM
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6. Ever seen..
Edited on Sat Apr-10-04 03:28 AM by Kathleen04
The Beatles' movie "A Hard Days Night"?..that's the only time I've ever heard anyone say it.. :)
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 03:28 AM
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7. Wow
It's so common up here. I have learned alot by this.
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 06:59 AM
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8. American anglophiles do
Especially those of us with fond memories of Mrs. Slocombe calling Mr. Lucas a cheeky monkey!
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 07:16 AM
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9. No, but it's one of the reasons
I love British humor. :D

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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 07:18 AM
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10. Only When We Bend Over
To give someone something to kiss....
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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 07:46 AM
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11. Mostly when we're trying to impress British girls
But somehow they always see right through us. Damn.

:freak:
dbt
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 08:47 AM
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12. We are the Cheeky girls who like this cheeky thread
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 08:50 AM
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13. No, we're above that kind of tasteless wordage.
We are, although as for our President...
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