Slang from the United Kingdom, unsurprisingly very different
from slang here in the United States.
But I'll also say that their slang, in my opinion, is a lot more fun.
So we're going to talk about the all time weirdest British colloquialisms,
which I just pronounced correctly, and I'm very proud of myself for doing so.
- Nice job! - Gasp thank you.
Now, if you're wondering just how strange these phrases could possibly get,
keep in mind that they're all from the same part of the world
that calls street lights lollipops.
- Did you know that? - I did not know that.
That's already super fun. That is fun.
Yeah.
I wonder if you can see the lollipops from your garage or your flat.
- With your aluminum roof. - Oh, yeah.
We're not even going to get into the colorful curses, but.
Or at least. Well, some of them.
Some of them. We got it.
We got it.
Okay, so we'll start with a kind of bizarre and with a kind of bizarre
and then work our way up to the truly outrageous.
So did you read it like, did you read the article?
Okay, good, good. That's a good thing.
That's a good thing.
Because I'm going to ask you what you think Bagsy means.
- What does bagsy. - Mean?
Okay.
I knew we were going to do this pop quiz. someone who wears garbage bags from that
fancy place that used to work with Kanye West, thinking that, it's high fashion.
- But in reality, it looks like a clown. - So you think Bagsy is a noun?
Yeah, I don't know. Obviously, I don't know.
Bagsy is the equivalent of calling shotgun or dibs when something
like the front seat of a car or food is offered up to a group.
Here is an example of it being used in a sentence.
- Does anyone want this? - Bagsy.
Nice, nice.
Good job quick I. Am okay, I think I'm not ready for pop quizzes.
- Go. So we say. - Shotgun.
You know Americans with their gun culture, right?
And they say bagsy in the UK. All right, here's another one.
Poppycock. Do you know what poppycock is?
I think poppycock is something that's not true.
Like BS. That's some poppycock.
Poppycock means something that is nonsense, rubbish, or simply untrue.
What a load of poppycock. Boom!
It sounds like something Joe Biden would say, to be honest with you.
Yeah.
That's true. do they have malarkey on there?
No, I didn't see malarkey. That's.
Yeah.
All right. Doodle doodle doodle.
To, like, fool around, and waste time. He's doodling.
No. So a doddle is an easy task. This will be a doddle.
I'd like to say I was close enough, but I wasn't.
No. I'm incorrect.
Okay. Yeah.
- Apparently. - This quiz is not a doddle.
Not a doddle, not a doddle.
I'm using it right away. Right away.
I'm practically British by now.
By the way, like, imagine making a move from the United States to the UK
and hearing this kind of terminology and just having.
No. I remember when I traveled to Europe with a group of people
from all over the world, right.
We did a month long tour of Europe, staying in hostels and stuff.
It was really fun, but there were some communication breakdowns,
so double fisting means something entirely different here in the United States.
For all you Europeans out there who like to use that terminology or that phrase.
Okay. Yeah.
Like they're very innocent.
For them, double fisting means having two drinks, right?
Right.
And of course, cigaret is a word we don't use here.
The equivalent of that in the British slang.
So imagine, going from America to UK. Yeah.
If Trump wins London, we might be headed your direction as we do time in exile.
And that's no poppycock.
I remember I realized that there was a communication breakdown when one
of the one of the people on our tour, unfortunately, a woman who was on the tour
said something along the lines of, it was so much fun.
I was double fisting all night, and I was like, no, don't do it.
No, don't do it. Okay.
So me and my best friend looked at each other like, I don't I don't
think they know what that means.
Yeah, and the British use of the C-word, that's what I was referring.
To earlier I love it. Yeah, it's it's awesome.
But we here in America, we can't ever use it.
And again, on imagining being in Britain.
Oh, my God, I would use every British slang word and I would often
use them wrong, and I would be unbearable and it'd be a ton of fun.
So one of the words that sounds real dirty, it's a slang word.
Faff. What is faff?
Oof!
Well, I, I'm not sure it's done in the privacy of your own home.
Okay. Oh, not okay.
- No, we have a. - Slightly fap faff.
- No, I don't know. - Okay.
So faff or faff about is to waste time doing very little.
- Well, that's very. - Close to our.
Fab. Oh, God.
- What did you do on your day off from work? - Yeah, it's very close.
We were just faffing about. Yeah.
Very close, very close. Okay.
This word is fascinating. Chinwag.
Chinwag. One word.
Yeah. This one.
- I know Snoop had a song about it. - Really?
Oh, okay.
A chinwag is a chat or conversation. I just say chat.
I don't know why this is a slang word, but anyway, those who are having a proper
chinwag, I haven't been able to get a word in Edgeways for half an hour.
Interesting.
Yeah, there's there's quite a bit of chin wagging.
- This show's got a lot of chin wagging. - Yeah, that's the story.
Has chin wagging. We're chin wagging right now.
We certainly are. And then my personal favorite.
I know you know what this word means, because it was used in a story
that Jenk and I covered ages ago.
Wanker.
Yeah. Wanker.
Wanker is one of my favorites.
And and especially after watching Ted Lasso, and I. Yeah.
No, that's.
I almost want to go to exile because I want to call everybody wankers.
It's an offensive word for a very stupid or unpleasant person.
Usually a man or an offensive word for a person who masturbates.
Get away from me, you bloody wanker!
Yeah, but the use of it is so, like,
colorful and fun and and omnipresent.
Yes. And that's what I enjoy.
- About it in the. - Story that we had covered.
And I don't remember the details of the story at this point, but I
remember the statement that was made.
Someone referred to someone else as a pervy wanker.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, yeah, that's a perfect way of describing it.
- Yes. - All right.
There's codswallop, which is also one word codswallop.
- Do you want to take a. - Shot at it?
Yeah.
When a fish wallops you up across the head.
Exactly. How did you know?
No, I'm just kidding. Codswallop means something untrue.
Often made up for dramatic effect. Oh, what a load of codswallop.
Oh, that's. I'm using this from now on.
Okay, because those are both kind of not the exactly the same, but poppycock.
Poppycock and codswallop.
- Okay, I would take. - Codswallop over malarkey.
Yeah, yeah.
I remember when my 10th grade English teacher.
Sorry. I'm going to chinwag a little bit here.
You, told us, he would always say, like, when somebody made a faux
surprising comment, he'd be like, egads!
Gadzooks! Okay.
And those are apparently ways of saying you're surprised.
I use it for decades. So poppycock.
Poppycock. I'm headed in your direction.
That instantly sounded dirty.
- You know, it also sounds dirty. - Cream Crackered cream crackered.
Why does every British slang word sound like the dirtiest thing in the world?
- No, they get down. - That's what I think.
- I think that's what's going on here. - What is it?
So cream Crackered is Cockney rhyming slang for knackered or incredibly tired.
This week's done me in already and it's only Tuesday.
I'm cream crackered. Wow, that really resonates with me.
I was going to say. And I've seen you well, all right.
Full of beans. Full of beans.
- That's another one. - Does that mean, full of baloney, like, BS?
- No, exactly the opposite. - Oh, energy.
Yes. Energy.
Exactly.
So full of beans can be used to describe someone
who's energetic, lively or enthusiastic.
Goodness, you're full of beans this morning.
In America that like. So I want to use that one.
Yeah, exactly.
I want to use that one because I'm often energetic.
I want to say instead I'm full of beans, but everyone in America is going
to assume that means I'm farting.
- Yeah, they're. - Gonna leave the room.
Yeah.
So a lot of fun. I'm into it.
I want to go to England.
Yeah. For sure.
And that's no codswallop. It's not.
- She really means. - It. No, I really want to go.
- And if you go. - I want to.
I want to go to the greater UK. Like I want to go to other parts.
- Oh for sure. - If you go bagsy.
- What was Baggsy. - Again?
Shotgun. Oh, yeah.
Shotgun.
Okay. Wanna come?
We gotta have to do an important trip to London.
By the way, I have gone to greater UK. I've gone to Ireland,
and I'm unbearable because by the third day I can't help myself.
- I'm slightly doing the accent. - Okay.
All right.
I actually want to address that because I remember when Madonna
had moved to the UK for quite some time, and then she was doing interviews
and she had like a British accent.
Yeah.
And at the time, I think you and I talked about it on the show,
we thought she was just making it up.
But now I think, no, you start taking on the accent
when you're in that environment.
No. Yeah you do and I especially do I can't help myself
and I know it's goofy, so.
But if I was Madonna, I would try really
hard not to have the accent when I'm on TV because it'll sound inauthentic.
It did sound inauthentic.
Imagine if I lived in, Mumbai for a long time and I came
out on TV with an Indian accent.
People would be like, come on, brother, come on.
Right.
So that's why you got to dial it back, even if you did wind up having the accent.
But yes, I yeah, I've told this story a couple of times, but when I was in Dublin
on the third day, I get into the cab and I'm like top of the morning.
No, no, wrong.
- Wrong. - Wrong.
I didn't say top of the morning to you, to be fair to me, but my accent was
so noticeable that my wife was like.
Stop doing it. Yeah, no.
I felt a little bit of that because man, I've been talking about that tour group.
I went to Europe with.
Most of the people in it were from Australia.
The company that put it all together is called Contiki, so I think
it's an Australian based company.
- You mean. - Kentucky?
- No, Kentucky. - Okay.
Yeah.
And so since we were, we spent a month with a ton of Australians,
I started taking on the Australian accent and it was really interesting.
I'm like, this is happening, right? This is happening right now.
That's so funny.
But I shed it immediately once I went back to the States.
So yeah, I don't want to go to Europe.
So, I ran into some Scottish folks the other day and I,
told him I want to live in Pitlochry.
It's obviously.
Yeah, it's a little town in Scotland and it's beautiful.
It's kind of remote. It's so green.
And these cute little, like, houses
and pubs and restaurants and hotels and.
Yeah. And I went, we went up to the Highlands.
I love the Highlands. I love those little towns.
And Edinburgh and Glasgow were beautiful.
If you go to UK, you should go to bath. Wait, have you ever gone to UK?
- I've been to London and that's it. - Oh, okay.
- Yeah. - Yeah, it was cool.
It was kind of gloomy.
- I love food. - There was amazing.
- But that's about it. - Yeah.
No, I love London, but I. But it's not fair because I love every
place I go or almost every place I go.
- I did really. - You didn't like Baltimore?
Baltimore was. Yeah.
I have some fond memories, but only some.
No. Look, keeping it real. There's some great parts of Baltimore.
I didn't live in that part. I had no money.
I was, staying on the couch of, of my friend.
And it was a rough place, where we lived.
And, and so, like, what am I supposed to be like?
Oh, yeah.
I loved it when we were walking by the drug dealers
and we were afraid for our lives.
No. Yeah.
- And so. - But, are you afraid.
Of drug dealers? What's wrong with you?
- Yeah. - Are you a right wing?
Yeah, it sounds like it.
I should have just gone in and be, like, going into the house.
Hey, guys. How are you doing?
Right. Totally.
Anyways.
But, yeah, I, I mean, name a place that I've been and I don't,
I, I, I think I love them all. I'm too easy to please in that regard.
So, we had a great time in London.
But bath is an old Roman city in England, and it feels so out of place
because you're in the UK, but you're in a Roman city and it's kind of badass.
It's it's actually really badass.
And it's not like as you go there, I don't want to hype it up so much.
And you're like, where's the Colosseum? There's no Colosseum.
Okay. But, that's why Madonna lived in bath.
Johnny Depp lived in bath.
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