You Wally! The roads were chocka!
It was a shambles. Bob's your uncle! Are you taking the Mickey? It's a doddle! Hhello and welcome back to another
English lesson with me Greg from English with Greg. Today we're looking at British
English slang vocabulary and I'm going to teach you 21 amazingly British English
words that we use all the time in informal spoken English. So let's go... Right if you're new here and Greg I
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vocabulary starting with number one... it's a good place to start...
Bagsy! Bagsy! If you've heard the expression shotgun then it's a similar
thing. In English you say bagsy plus the gerund, for example bagsy driving if you
want to drive. Imagine you just bought a new computer game and you are with three friends but there's only room for two people to play, you might say "Bagsy
playing first!" Because bagsy playing first, it means that you reserve the
right to play first. "Bagsy not going" means that you reserve
the right to not go. It's something that kids say all the time but hey adults
say it too sometimes. I still say it with my parents or best
friends ā bagsy ā it's a real British tradition. Bagsy. Bob's your uncle. Bob
is your uncle. This is an expression which simply means "and that's it, it's as
easy as that". So if you are giving an explanation of how to do something you
could say "first you do this, then you do that, and then you do the other thing
and Bob's your uncle!" It means it as easy as that. Bob's your uncle. Another
expression including Bob ā Bob is actually a man's name which is a short version of
Robert, anyway that's unrelated ā the next expression is
bits and bobs. Bits and Bobs. This just means little things, nothing really big
and important, just bits and bobs. What are you going to the shops for? What are you
going to buy? Nothing, just bits and bobs. I need to go to the city centre
today because I've got some bits and bobs to do. Yeah,
little jobs little things to do. I'm sure somewhere in your house you have a
drawer with bits and bobs inside. Bits and bobs. The next one is budge up. Budge up. If you're on a bench and you say budge up, it means "could you please
move a little bit up?" Budge up! Budge up. it means could you move that way to
leave me some space to sit down. It's not super polite, you wouldn't say it to a
stranger but you would say to somebody you know. Budge up! Or "could you budge up, please? Could you budge up, please? The next one is chock-a-block,
chock-a-block, means absolutely full, very very, very, very full. It could be full of
people, you could go to this shopping centre the day before Christmas and oh
my word it was chock-a-block. Or the road going into the city centre at the exact
time that there is a football match on, you could say that the roads were
chock-a-block and we can actually shorten this word to say chocka. Chocka.
Hey how was the journey in? The roads were chocka! Chocka! Number six is chuffed. Chuffed means very, very happy, chuffed. I was so chuffed to hear from her I
hadn't heard from her in three years and then out of the blue she wrote to me. I
was so chuffed. Instead of saying very chuffed we say
chuffed to bits. I was chuffed to bits. I was chuffed to bits. Exceptionally happy. If something is very expensive we say that it costs a bomb. It
costs a bomb. Hey, how was your holiday? It cost a bomb but I've always wanted to
go to the Maldives so I was chuffed to be there. It's a doddle ā if something is
very, very easy we can say it's a doddle. It's really easy. You what? You can't
change the battery in your watch? Come here, give it to me... it's a doddle! There you go, Bob's your
uncle! Bloke.Bloke is a word which means man. Bloke. You might often hear the word guy being used, I guess this is much more common because we watch so much American TV and films but in British English a bloke is a man. A bloke. Number 10 is
gutted. Gutted means really, really disappointed. This is a word you will use
often if you talk about football in English if your team loses, the other
team scores in the last minute, if your team gets to a final and you lose the
final. Oh, you had such high hopes and you didn't win. You're so disappointed, you
are gutted. Miffed is another nice word, miffed means a little bit annoyed. Not
very annoyed, just a little bit annoyed. You OK? Not really. I'm a little bit
miffed with my colleague to be honest with you. She went on holiday and now I
have to do all of her work for a week and I don't know what I'm doing. It's
OK, but I'm a bit miffed. Because miffed only means a little bit annoyed, we often
put the word a bit before it. A bit miffed. Pull. you know the word pull, right? But it also means to kind of flirt with someone. You go to a nightclub
or you go to a pub and you try to pull someone, it means you kiss them or just
yeah... did you have a good time? Did you pull? OK, did you get together with a
girl or with a boy? Did you pull? Alright, pop your clogs is the next one.
Clogs are the famous wooden shoes from Holland and if you pop your clogs it
means you die. Nobody likes talking about death, nobody
likes the word die or died so if we can use a different word we will, a word
that's less direct and this word is not direct. It takes all the seriousness away
from dying, you may agree with this or not but it's a very British thing is to
hide our emotions and just make things a little bit more humorous. Instead of
getting deep with our feelings in public so yeah my neighbour popped his clogs
when it was 95 years old. A shambles! A shambles is an absolute disorganizational disaster, something that's completely disorganized is a shambles. You might be
talking about a job interview you went to. How was it? It was a shambles: I
arrived late, then I couldn't find the office and then I called the boss a
different name... it was a shambles! In other words, you were completely
disorganized so the situation was a shambles. Maybe you're talking about a
wedding or an event, a party for example. How was it, did you have a good time? Yeah, I had a good time... it was a shambles but I had a good time! This could mean just
it was completely disorganized, nobody knew what they were doing, nobody knew
where anybody was, nobody knew who anybody was, where was the host, where was the food, there was not enough food for everybody... just it was shambles!! This
next one is super, super common: I'm off! I'm off! It means I'm going, I'm leaving
in British English, I'm off! You could also say I'm off to - I'm off
Benidorm next week for my holidays! Are you after the game tomorrow? No I'm
off to the cinema with my girlfriend. I'm going to the cinema with my girlfriend.
Take the Mickey. Are you taking the Mickey? It means are you joking? Are you
joking? Are you taking the Mickey? Like, you're not serious, right? Are you taking
the Mickey? Hey, I won the lottery yesterday! Come on... are you taking the
Mickey? You Wally! Wally is an insult which is kind of like idiot,
but it's not offensive, it's just a gentle word to call somebody stupid. You
Wally! My dad always calls me a Wally. It's not
offensive, it's just a nice way to say you sill thing, you silly thing, you wally!
Dodgy. It means a bit suspect so maybe we're talking about a bar or a pub or an
area of town that you don't really want to go to because it's a little bit
suspicious, a little bit, I don't want to go there because I might get beaten up, I
might get attacked, if I order a drink it might have rat poison in it... I don't know
really what its gonna be like but I'm afraid that it's not gonna be good
so I'm not gonna go there because it's a bit dodgy! The next one is proper and
proper is a synonym of very. I'm from the north of England, maybe this is more
common in the north of England but I'm pretty sure you will hear this. Proper
good means very good, don't go to that bar, its proper dodgy. Its proper dodgy!
Number 20 is bog roll. Oh my word is there a more British expression than bog
roll? Basically bog roll is toilet paper. Bog is another word for the toilet and a
roll of paper. Toilet roll, bog roll. And where do you keep bog roll? Well, you
keep it in the loo. Another beautifully British English word for toilet: loo! I'm
off to the loo= I'm going to the toilet. The next time you're speaking to a
British person use this British English slang vocabulary I'm sure they will
appreciate it and I guarantee it will bring a smile to their face. Give this
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it you will be chuffed. Oh and if you don't download it and if you don't
subscribe I might be a bit miffed. No, I'm just being a wally! Right I'm off! I
proper need the loo. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next lesson. Bye
for now!
