limey

[ UK /lˈa‍ɪmi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a man of English descent
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How To Use limey In A Sentence

  • You know you're back in London when you're on the phone and the person you're talking to says, without irony, ‘Oh, blimey.’
  • Blimey, that's Erik Satie, innit?
  • Some used lime juice which explains why English sailors are called Limeys.
  • Frankie Gambino was quick to point out that we saved the 'limey's homeland in WWII.' Doghouse Boxing News
  • ‘Oh, god, blimey, no,’ is Ben's enthusiastic response to my inquiry as to whether it's a little early for him.
  • It has a rich and varied flora due to a combination of limestone ledges and limey soils, and separate areas of non-limy glacial deposits.
  • DVD Focus 'The Limey' (1999) Steven Soderbergh directed and Lem Dobbs wrote this slyly funny, spasmodically violent film noir in which the title character, a white-haired obsessive named Wilson (Terence Stamp), shows up in Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Soderbergh Goes 'Haywire' With a Fast, Stylish Thriller
  • It seems to me that "limey" is more affectionate than pejorative. Is "Magic Negro" CD Helping Saltsman In RNC Race?
  • Yes, there's a feeling of ‘Oh, blimey, this is my last official ‘night out’ in the city centre’ kind of thing, but I don't do that all that often anyway.
  • Well done especially to the Limeys, whose robot sub cut the Russian submersible free from the wires that had trapped it.
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