Two-step

The two-step is a step found in various dances, including many folk dance.

A two-step consists of two steps in approximately the same direction onto the same foot, separated by a closing step  with the other foot. For example, a right two-step forward is a forward step onto the right foot, a closing step with the left foot, and a forward step onto the right foot. The closing step may be done directly beside the other foot, or obliquely beside, or even crossed, as long as the closing foot does not go past the other foot.

Mumming play

Mumming play, also called mummers’ play,  traditional dramatic entertainment, still performed in a few villages in England and Northern Ireland, in which a champion is killed in a fight and is then brought to life by a doctor. It is thought likely that the play has links with primitive ceremonies held to mark important stages in the agricultural year. The name has been connected with words such as mumble and mute; with the German mumme (“mask,” “masker”); and with the Greek mommo (denoting a child’s bugbear, or a frightening mask).
Mumming is best described as early pantomime. The plays are based loosely on the legend of St. George and the dragon. The plays are intended to show the struggle between good and evil.

A chip shop

in the UK, a shop where you can buy fish and chips and other hotfoods to take away and eat.

Chav
Picture this: a young lad about 12 years of age and 4 ½ feet high baseball cap at ninety degrees in a imitation addidas tracksuit, with trouser legs tucked into his socks (of course, is definitely the height of fashion). This lad is strutting around, fag in one hand jewellery al over the over, outside McDonalds acting as if he is 8 foot tall and built like a rugby player, when some poor unsuspecting adult (about 17/18) walks round the corner wanting to go to mcdonalds for his dinner glances at the young lad, the young lad jumps up in complete disgust and says “Whats your problem? Wanna make sommin of it? Bling Bling” when the adult starts to walk towards the young lad, the young lad pisses himself and runs off to either his pregnant 14-year-old girlfriend or his brother in the army crying his eyes out.
A chav - is someone, especially a working-class person, who is not well educated, who dresses in designer clothes and wears a lot of gold jewellery but whose appearance shows bad taste.

Lovespoons

The giving and receiving of lovespoons between lovers, friends and family is a Welsh custom that dates back to the 17th century. 

Traditionally a lovespoon was a wooden spoon carved by a young man and presented to the woman he loved as a token of his affection.

Today lovespoons are very popular and used to mark and celebrate many occasions such as births, christenings, weddings, anniversaries and retirement. 

A lovespoon is usually decorated with certain symbols, with each symbol having certain significance and meaning,

Symbols and meanings

Bell – weddings, anniversaries
Ball(s) in cage – number of children
Cross – faith
Diamond – wealth, good fortune
Heart – Love
Horseshoe – good luck
Key/Keyhole – security, home
Knot/Celtic knotwork – everlasting, together forever
Dragon – Protection  (symbol of Wales)

Moreover, it can be a good present for Valentine's Day!

Thatcherism
A shorthand for the economic principles underlying the policies of the Thatcher government in the UK from 1979 to 1990. These included strengthening economic incentives by promoting competition, reduction of the role of government by deregulation and privatization, reliance on monetary policy to eliminate inflation, increasing individual choice, for example through the sale of council houses to their tenants, and a reduction in the powers of trade unions.


A mortar board is a stiff black cap which has a flat square top with a bunch of threads attached to it. In Britain, mortar boards are sometimes worn on formal occasions by university students and teachers.

Holmesian (n) is a fan of the character Sherlock Holmes; one who studies or enjoys the detective in stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Holmesian (adj) - characteristic of or pertaining to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes or his investigations, methods, or sayings.

Pork barrel (noun, Informal)

:a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.