luckily for us all after 10 years in the uk i have just about cracked the code i can kind of
understand people now and that is why i've put together this video of 23 british words
americans and other foreigners just don't seem to get by the end of this instructional manual you
will be able to understand most if not all of the following sentences this is professor sharp who is
going to be reading two of our example sentences ow professor sharp please approach me thank you
okay example number one hello i don't want to be cheeky but do you mind if i nick a fiver
i can't show up to that bird's leaving do empty-handed she'd be gutted fantastic and
example number two please let's splash out and get another round i'm on a pool tonight i need to get
bloody pissed our first word is the word bird this word may conjure up images of magnificent
winged creatures flying through the sky and yes it does mean that in the uk but it also has another
meaning similar to the american word chick it can be used to mean young woman or girl and it is used
like so oh check out that bird over there or um oi that's my bird you were chatting up our next
word is bloody no not that it essentially means very until the mid-20th century it was considered
a strong profanity but now you'll find it in all kinds of films including harry potter bloody hell
well americans like to think that brits use it all the time i will be honest none of my friends use
it that often but it's just because they're bloody stupid our next word is the word cheeky the word
cheeky made some big waves on the internet when it hit different forums especially as part of the
phrase cheeky nandos americans and loads of other foreigners were just completely baffled by the
term in fact i might need some backup on this one cheeky nandos yeah what is that i just i i already
i'm uncomfortable having said that i would never say that it means like quick i guess or casual or
just a quick casual nandos maybe yeah cheeky in general means like mischievous or playful is that
how you say that word that's how i say that word i don't know if it's how you should say that word
have i've been saying it wrong this whole time what do you say mischievous mischievous yeah but
next word is chips and this one is very simple but slightly confusing essentially brits called french
rice chips and they call chips crisps so you get a bag of salted crisps but a plate of fish and chips
that's it next up we've got do now the verb is used in exactly the same way that anyone would
use it but brits also used the word do as a noun and it just means an event you can go to a work do
a birthday do or a hen do or a stag dude and those tend to be pretty rowdy and most of them
happen in prague and the city suffers for it but that's that's the topic for another time
moving on to our next word which is dim now sure yes a british person might describe a light bulb
as dim meaning it doesn't shine very bright but they might also say the same of a person whose
intellect doesn't shine that brightly either so if someone describes you as dim don't thank them
it's not compliments next up we've got the word dishy i don't know why i actually really don't
like this word but i do like what it means which is sexy or attractive person and uh for an example
it's just randomly and anyone i hope you're ready for this next one because i've come up with three
different definitions for it and that might not even be all of them and the word is fancy
now the first definition is fancy as a verb and it means to um like someone to be sexually
attracted to them like yes like milo ventimiglia or whoever yeah um the next definition is to fancy
doing something meaning to want to do it for example do you fancy going on a date with me um
milo ventimiglia or again whoever um and number three is fancy dress now when i say fancy dress
you might think of something like this a fancy dress but um that would be completely
stupid and incorrect because fancy dress obviously just um means this fancy dress means to go in a
costume and it has led to some awkward moments for me when i first moved here but i'm better now
next up we've got fit the adjective now it can mean somebody who is athletically accomplished
like the rock but it can also mean someone who's sexually attractive like and i know what you think
i'm going to say but i'm not going to i'm just going to say yes the rock is actually both go
the rock our next word objectively speaking sounds a little bit scary and that word is gutted now it
doesn't mean to be disemboweled although you would probably be quite gutted if that did happen to you
because to be gutted mainly just means to be disappointed uh with an outcome of a situation
in this case disembowelment not not that pleasant i presume before we move on let's have an example
of what being gutted may look like it might look like an english football fan sitting at the euro
2016 watching england get crushed by iceland yes i did just google that thank you for asking our next
word is long and it actually took me quite a long time ironically to grasp the meaning of this word
now on the one hand yes it can mean long like a sausage dog or whatever but it can also mean
an action that takes a lot of effort but the effort isn't ultimately worth it like
ironing your socks the next word is lush and like fancy it has three different definitions in this
video very exciting the first one is the one you may already know which is just drunk tipsy number
two though is lush as in attractive like hayback and this is primarily used in wales but people all
over the uk will recognize this term and number three lush is also a very very popular cosmetics
company they do everything from bath bombs which they're primarily known for to make up our next
word is minted now this isn't a word i like to use i don't know why i just don't think it sounds nice
but here's the definition anyway if you want to go be your own person and use this word and that
definition is rich you know how money can be newly minted well a minted person has a lot of that
and an example of a minted person is this man to my right his name is james dyson and believe it
or not this man is actually the richest person in the uk next we've got the word nick and yes it is
a popular male name but it can also mean to steal something and it can also mean the place that you
go after you've stolen something if you get caught which is jail an example sentence here would be oh
nick don't nick those crisps because you will be put away in the nick now this next one you
might want to remember because using it wrong can lead to some pretty awkward conversations and the
word is pants now in the u.s of course pants just means trousers jeans or anything you wear on your
bottom half in the uk you do wear your pants on your bottom half as well but they're just
knickers they're your underwear oh and there's a second definition of this word and that is
when something is bad and something is rubbish you might say oh sabine this video is pants but i hope
you don't say that i hope instead you click the thumbs up icon and uh stroke my ego a little bit
thank you the next word or phrase is one i really like and it is pear-shaped now it doesn't in this
case refer to that stupid obsolete system whereby women's bodies were compared to pieces of fruit i
mean hello no thank you stop policing us and shut up um but in this case it refers to things going
wrong so you can say something's gone pear-shaped when the situation just turns out to yeah just not
go very well the phrase is reportedly old slang from the royal air force where it was used to
describe expeditions and flights gone awry our next word is the word pissed now in the
u.s this typically means to be really angry and riled up but in the uk it means to be drunk and
similarly the term after that is plastered and it also is another word for being really drunk
and doesn't mean this i mean i suppose you could do some plastering while plastered but i wouldn't
recommend it we're in the final five now and our next word is pull now pull can obviously be the
thing you do with a door especially the kind of door that says push because i mean water you like
but pull can also mean to try and find um a sexual partner so for example if you go to a club and you
say i'm on the pool it means you're looking to meet someone and if you do meet someone and you
end up hooking up with them or snogging them as a brit might say you can say oh i pulled last night
so there you go our next term is round and this is less of a word and more of a british life
philosophy basically when you go to the pub with your mates what you usually end up doing is buying
a round of beers for everybody so that means you buy everybody's beers but then it's somebody
else's turn and they buy beers for everybody and so on and so on until you're completely
pissed or plastered the next word is shag and i will give you two hints here number
one it is not a type of rug and number two it is something milo ventamilia and i will
never ever ever do it's something you do after you've pulled someone it's you know what it
is our next word or phrase is to splash out it doesn't have anything to do with water it just
means you take a bunch of money and you spend it on something really expensive for example
there must be an example here i must have splashed out on something
okay i found something i really splashed out on these perfumes because they're incredible
look at that i'm just casually showing off and passing it off as being educational
this is great and now ladies and gentlemen for our final word of the day the word is waffle and no it
doesn't mean that really nice sweet snack that i'm pointing at hopefully over here it means to talk a
load of nonsense it means basically it's the kind of thing a politician will do when they're trying
to skirt around a subject like boris johnson literally every time he talks about covid
he just waffles he doesn't really say anything but he fills the time kind of like what i have
been doing in this entire video would you like me to do more videos about living in the uk if
so drop me a comment otherwise subscribe and see you next friday this is meant to be like a natural
conversation but clearly because you keep looking at yourself you're supposed to look in the lens
it's very hard not to it's very often what is your face well yeah the photo's staring right back at
you i meant to look at lens okay i don't know what cheeky nando's means really i think we got that