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Do you understand me? ("Know what I mean?") Used in the sense of "Do you agree with my viewpoint?" or "Catch my drift?"; "Grasp my implication?" A coinage by humorist Alan Coren mocking British un-educated pronunciation.…

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  1. Do you understand me? ("Know what I mean?") Used in the sense of "Do you agree with my viewpoint?" or "Catch my drift?"; "Grasp my implication?" A coinage by humorist Alan Coren mocking British un-educated pronunciation. Coren also made much use of [wossname] and may even have invented that spelling. > Andy Capp had a fairly low profile on the job-market, narmean?