Hello I'm taking over
I'm Gabby from Go Natural English and today you're in for a special treat
because I've taken over Joel & Lia's channel to be their guests to be a very
polite guest yes of course I'll be polite and I'm here because we're doing
an American British English exchange I don't know what I'm doing with my hands
but we're going to take over each other's channel to guess some slang from
well me being an American I'm going to be guessing British English slang and
I'm really nervous because I have no idea what any of it means and on my
channel Go Natural English with Gabby (that's me) you can see Joel & Lia
trying to guess some American slang that I challenged them with so let's get
started I have a list of challenging words from Mr Joel and Ms Lia. Number
one is budge up okay budge up okay this kind of sounds like fudge up which in
American English means to mess up or to make a mistake so budge up I'm guessing
this is the British English way of saying to make a mistake but budge also
means to kind of move over so budge up might mean to move over or maybe it's
something completely different like a dance move like yeah let's budge up I
don't know hopefully they'll tell us. Yep so the second part that was right Gabby
it's all about moving up to make space for someone else yeah it doesn't mean
making mistakes so don't get those confused fudge up and budge up they sound
similar but they mean different things number two moving on dishy okay to dish
in American English means to spill the beans to gossip to say some information
like dish how would I use this in a sentence? dish out the details? I haven't
used this word in such a long time in American English but I think dishy would mean
someone who gossips a lot? No, so dishy means good-looking or just attractive so
lots of people describe us as dishy
What's it from? looking at a dish of food that you love and you're like 'mmm dishy' to be honest it's quite an older
English term so I think our parents would use that be like "Oh he's dishy isn't he?". Exactly, that's exactly how our mums would say it.
I think it normally is to describe a male rather than a female yeah, never heard it used for a woman.
oh he's dishy! it kind of sounds like fishy fishy in American English at least means
something that's a bit sketchy. Gabby I'm loving how you're just guessing what
words mean by seeing what they rhyme with
You're like "dishy rhymes with fishy, and fishy means suspicious, so it must mean this..." It's really a great technique! Loving it.
I haven't looked up these words, they are new to
me. So number three dodgy in American English would mean something as I said
that's sketchy or not very trustworthy or dubious doubtful so I'm guessing it
might mean the same in British English I don't know so these are all out of
context usually I would just guess what these words mean hearing them in a full
sentence but hearing just the single individual words alone is quite
difficult yes that's right dodgy means exactly that it means sort of doubtful dubious
like little bit sketchy obviously means the same in America as
it does here nice work nice work Gabby! Tick! A1! A1? I don't know.
moving on number four faff
or faffing. Faffing the first thing that comes to mind is... is this slang
for farting? *laughter* Faffing? this sounds like something that's really inappropriate I
don't know why but all I can think of our bodily noises oh stop faffing
that's disgusting faffing, you're such a faff I
don't know what does this mean help me! So faffing is basically just doing
everything except what you're meant to be doing
yeah like procrastinating what comes to mind if someone's faffing is they're going
oh I just need to do oh hang on no... a bit all over the place. They're just faffing. It's like stop
flapping your arms about stop faffing. Stop faffing about. Big faffer! especially when we're about
to leave the house you're like "oh my keys, oh my phone"
haha, "oh my keys... oh my phone". I wish it meant farting. I might use it for that now!
"oh did you just faff?!" "I'm sorry I just faffed!" so good, yeah that's good. The final word
and they had to tell me how to pronounce this I had no idea that it was a hard G sound Lurgy
lurgy to me sounds like someone who's creepy like Oh Tom's so lurgy he's
always staring at the girls or like something that's dodgy like something
you wouldn't trust I don't know if I would eat that seafood from the salad
bar it's been sitting out for hours that's pretty lurgy
that seems lurgy to me I wouldn't want to get sick. Very close you'd say, "I don't wanna get the lurgy"
Yeah, that's how you'd say it. It actually means ill if you've got like an illness, a cold or a
flu you might say you've got the lurgy and often children use it, it's very
much sort of playground chat yeah, like "you've got the lurgy" Do you think? I think so! I think it's also quite cockney people are like
"oh I got the lurgy mate" Really? I used to use it a lot as a kid to run away
from boys but also, that's the thing, lurgy could be anything though oh yeah it
could be anything. But it could just be a common cold
"I don't like Joel, he's got the lurgy". So I can't wait to learn the meanings of these words maybe
you guys know what they mean even more than I do so leave a comment let us
know what you think of these words if you know what they mean if you have a
guess Joel & Lia are actually taking over my channel if you would like to see
their video talking about American English slang then click on the link
right down below in the description and you can check that out it's going to be
a lot of fun so as always make sure to comment subscribe like all those fun
things share and I'll see you all again soon bye for now
Thank you so much Gabby that was an absolute pleasure to have you on our channel yeah
it's so great she's so lovely and so hilarious yeah without meaning to be oh my gosh
If you enjoyed that guys, be sure to go check out Gabby's channel if you're
not already a subscriber yeah as she said we do a video on her channel where
we guess American slang. I think it's slightly easier for us though because
we're inundated with lots of American culture whereas over there I think they're
only just starting to get lots of British things, thrown at them! In their faces! yeah like we grew up with
American television yeah so and did you grow up with Strictly? No no of course
you didn't so that was the last installment of collabmas so we hope
you guys enjoyed and thanks Gabby for being our last guest it's been a
pleasure and it's been an exhausting month oh my gosh so much work we've got
three more videos for you this month and then it's back to normal in January
Thank you so much for your support and see you next time see you next time, bye!