- Environmentalist, you're such herbs.
- You're such a herb.
Love it, absolute herb, he is.
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- Hi, I'm Ada.
- Hi, I'm Mui.
- And today we are gonna be guessing New York slang.
- I love New York, I've been three times now.
Hopefully I should do okay, but famous last words.
- Yeah, I've been to New York quite a few times actually,
but I don't think I'm gonna be good at this,
'cause I don't think I was mixing with the locals like that.
- Let's find out.
- [Voiceover] Wocky.
- What's that thing from Star Wars?
- That's a Wookiee.
- Maybe it's somebody who's like mad hairy,
'cause I have no idea, I'm just making it up,
'cause I honestly don't have a clue.
- Do you wanna take a crack at that one?
(laughing)
- Like, you're drunk?
- Wocky, it does sound like a drunk word.
- Like you're wocky.
- You're wocky-ing.
- It was a bit odd. - A bit strange.
- [Voiceover] Wocky is when someone is moving too crazy.
- We need Dema Collins to read out all of these.
(laughing)
- Just a bit wocky. (laughing)
- Definitely gonna say it. - He's on a wocky one!
- [Voiceover] Herb.
- Someone's boring, they're dull, they're just a herb.
They're just a herb.
Do they say herb or do they 'erb?
- Herbs are usually dry, right?
So that person's a bit dry?
- Like you're a green person.
- Or you've got a green finger.
- You've got a green,
you like herbs. - Environmentalist.
You're such herbs.
- You're such a herb.
Love it, absolute herb, he is.
- [Voiceover] Herb is a weirdo,
or someone who's some kind of a deeb.
- What do they have against herbs?
Which herb treated them wrong?
- [Voiceover] Gassin' it.
- I feel like we have this in the UK.
- Yeah, you're over hyping it, you're hyping it.
- Yeah, you're gassin' the thing man, calm down.
- [Voiceover] If someone is gassin' it,
they are exaggerating.
- It wasn't like that.
Kanye, you're not gonna run for President,
you're gassin' it.
- [Voiceover] Deadass.
- Oh, I knew this would be there.
This is like, classic, cut the cameras, deadass.
- I think this one's like pretty common,
if you have Twitter, if you're on black twitter.
- Yeah.
- Like, I mean it, I'm serious.
- Deadass.
- I just think it means like, for serious,
we're not messing about.
- I used to say, bible, as in like,
are you swear on the bible?
Or is it not that serious?
- I dunno, I think it's quite light-hearted,
it's a bit funny, isn't it?
Deadass. (laughing)
- I'm doing like a call.
I swear on the bible, is this it?
(laughing)
- [Voiceover] Deadass can be a question or a statement.
So are you deadass, like are you serious?
Or, I'm deadass, which means yes.
- If you say it with an English accent, it sounds awful,
'cause if anybody said deadass to me,
like ugh! (laughing)
The worst!
- [Voiceover] Kicks.
- As in like, shoes?
- Yeah, that's what I thought, like trainers.
- Yeah, I think yeah. - Kickin' about.
- 'Cause what else would you be kicking with?
(laughing)
- Trainers, right? - Trainers.
- Nice trainers, right?
Some kicks, you don't describe sketchers as kicks.
- Maybe sketchers could be kicks, depending on your taste.
- [Voiceover] Kicks are sneakers.
- But sneakers.
- Sneakers, trainers, footwear.
- 'Cause they're always sneakin'.
- [Voiceover] Joint.
- Is that marijuana?
- Why did you whisper it?
- I don't know. (laughing)
- Marijuana.
- Joint has many, Americans like to use words
for lots of different things, and it's very confusing.
- I think joint might be like,
not a party, but a place, right?
- Oh like, what's going on in this joint?
- But a joint can also be like your boot,
like ooh, I've got a new joint,
or tell me about your new joint.
- [Voiceover] Joint is someone you talk to.
- Oh, like a link?
Oh, that makes sense!
'Cause a link is joint.
Their mind.
- Oh, I'm not sure about that one.
- [Voiceover] Dub.
- I'm thinking, usually they're like, play on words,
or they'll shorten the word or sort of,
so I'm thinking a dub is like, it's a 'w'.
- Ooh, that's smart.
- I think in New York, they say a dub is a lost,
but in other places, they say dub is short for a 'w',
which is a win, or it's the other way round,
but I can't remember which way New York are.
- [Voiceover] Dub is when something is no good,
or it just means, no.
- That party is a dub, let's go to the next.
I dunno. (laughing)
- You sound like, if 'Duolingo' was trying to teach you
how to do an American, that party was a dub,
let's go to the next. (laughing)
- [Voiceover] Yerrr.
- This is just, yeah.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, it sounds very self-explanatory, like yeah.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Yeah.
I don't think we can say more about that,
unless we're wrong, which I feel like we are.
- Probably 'cause I saw Hamilton last night,
I'm like, yes to yerrr.
(laughing)
I don't know.
- [Voiceover] Yerrr is a greeting.
- Yerrr, Mui.
(laughing) - Yerrr!
- Yerrr!
- No, that was so stupid, oh my god, that is not it.
- [Voiceover] Wavy.
- Mm, 'cause we have wavy here,
but wavy can mean a few things.
- Yeah.
- This is wavy.
- This is sick, this is good. - Yeah.
- If you're like, that's wavy, then it's cool.
Well. - I'm just not very cool.
(laughing)
- [Voiceover] Wavy can mean that something is cool,
or if you're super lit.
- They don't do theirs with an 'e', they just have w-a-v-y.
But-- (laughing)
- I feel like wavvy
would have a completely different meaning.
- [Voiceover] Blowin' mine.
- The only suggestion I have
is not suitable for Buzzfeed UK.
(laughing)
- It does sound a bit naughty, but I mean,
I dunno, blowin' mine, like your food's too hot,
so you're blowin' it.
- I dunno, maybe they're just really pissin' me off,
like, you're blowin' mine, like, get lost.
- Yeah, for real, yeah, I feel like, I'm gonna defer,
I'm gonna defer by.
- I don't know, I feel confident.
- [Voiceover] Blowin' mine is when someone
is pissing you off.
- No, really?
Oh, I'm sick.
- Kinda like when your mum's like, pack it in!
(laughing)
You're doing my head in now!
- [Voiceover] Bridge and Tunnel.
- Bridge and tunnel, what?
- Blouse and skirt?
I don't know. (laughing)
- If this was UK slang, I would assume that it's like
cockney rhyming slang, like it rhymes with something,
but I don't know if they have that.
- Maybe it's like it's sort of a long way away,
gonna have to bridge and tunnel it, my friend.
- Oh, Scotland is a bridge and tunnel away.
(laughing)
I think that's great.
- I don't wanna be disrespectful, but maybe it's somebody
who gets around a lot, like there's a lot of traffic.
- Oh, yeah, ah, right.
Yeah, I think you got it.
- [Voiceover] Bridge and tunnel is when people commute
from outside of New York into New York for work.
- That's a really good one, because yeah,
I usually say, oh, you live on the wrong side of the M25.
- But I don't think that counts as slang,
because if somebody is far away,
they probably are a bridge and a tunnel away,
so, we're just saying things literally.
- [Voiceover] Brick.
- Bricks are heavy, right?
They're rectangular.
- Hench?
- You know, like back in the day,
they used to say, built like a brick (beeping).
- I have never heard that in my life.
- I would just think, cold, right?
That's cold?
- Yeah, I think it's, yeah,
what's the British word for that?
- I would say, it's nippy.
It's nippy out here.
- [Voiceover] Brick is very cold,
like the coldest it could possibly get in New York.
- I feel like I would just say, it's cold.
Brick. - Right?
- Are bricks cold?
- [Voiceover] Sus.
- Obviously, suspect.
Like, that is suspicious. - Yeah.
- Suspicious action's happening.
- Someone's a bit shady, we don't trust them.
- That's a bit sus.
- [Voiceover] Sus is when someone is movin' shady.
- I know a few sus people, you know who you are.
(laughing)
- I think we did great!
Like, you've never been to New York.
- Nope. - I don't know New Yorkers.
- I feel like I knew sus before.
- On a cold day, I might just start saying,
it's a bit brick.
- I think I'm gonna take wocky.
Like, you're moving a bit wocky, mate.
- Tunnel and a bridge, as well.
- I think it was bridge and tunnel, but.
(laughing)
You can make it your own.
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