candy floss: n cotton candy. The revolting foodstuff one can buy at fairgrounds which resembles a giant blob of fibreglass wrapped around a stick.
skint: adj broke. The position of having no money: Dave refused to give me any petrol money - was moaning on the whole time about how skint he was.
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