hello love english viewers now something
you might not know about me is that i
was born in
liverpool liverpool is a city in the
north of england
of course famous for the beatles elvis
costello the famous reds and the blues
it's a fantastic city despite its rather
cold weather
it's a popular destination for tourists
and as well as that's because of its
good universities it attracts a lot of
foreign students
so some of you may in fact be coming to
study in liverpool
now if you were going to liverpool for
work study or for a holiday
these are the words that you will need
to know
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liverpudlians or scousers as we're more
commonly known
have their own dialect so own words that
are just common
in liverpool and generally to outsiders
these words are not really understood or
not
known so it's a really good idea to know
them as when you go to liverpool you'll
hear them a lot
it could get rather confusing now you're
probably thinking that she doesn't have
a scoused accent
well that's because i moved from
liverpool when i was five
and so i lost my accent because i moved
to the south however
most of my family are from there and i
visit often so i'm familiar with this
vocabulary
so number one word that you need to know
in liverpool if you can't remember
any other of the words from this video
this is the one you need to remember
it's boss in liverpool everything is
boss
meaning it's great it's amazing it's
awesome
so you can say that night out was boss
did you see the new bomb maybe it was
boss the food there was boss that's
grandma's bus
she's got a new job it's boss boss boss
boss
number two is scran and scran just means
food you can also use this as a verb so
you can say
i'm going to scram this meaning i'm
going to eat this quickly i'm going to
scoff
i'm going to scram this or what scram
are we having later
meaning what food are we having later
what scram are we having later
the next one is bevy and bevide
now a bevy is a drink so if someone says
to you let's go for a bevy
it means let's go for a drink however if
someone is described as being
bevied that means they're drunk so you
might hear
our sonia was bubbied or you might hear
it's going to be a great night we're
going to get bevvies
a cob on to have a cob on for you
non-natives out there it is a cob on
sounds like two words but they're
actually separate to have a cob on
if you've got a cob on then you're in a
bad mood you might hear things like
she's got a right cub on don't talk to
the boss he's got a right cub on
number five is a yarg a yarg means a
fake
so a copy of designer items like
sunglasses
bags wallets belts any of those things
so you might say
those bags look like yours or he was
really flexing his new sunglasses
but i think they were yog number six is
trabs and trabs means trainers
so you might hear people saying you've
got those traps in a size five please
i got these new traps from me man for
christmas number seven
is chocka choker and oh my goodness is
this one used a lot
choco means full that you've got a lot
on so it can also be used for things
like busy
but you can also replace crowded with
choco i'm not going to town it's
absolutely chocker yeah sorry larkon
come out tonight and chucker
now you might have noticed there that i
used the word la i'm sorry la i can't
come out tonight i'm shocker
now la is short for lad and in liverpool
the word lad
means mate so friend but also it means
guy kind of like how we would use guys
or mate in the rest of the uk
so it's a term for a male but it's very
commonly used in liverpool
just to mean mate or friend and you will
often put it at the end of sentences
like how's it going la number nine is a
bifter
a bifter and a bifter is just a
cigarette hey girl you got a bifter
so if you're a bit confused when you
hear the sentence have you got a bifter
it actually means
have you got a cigarette um devos would
run out of lifters
next one is clobber which means clothes
and i would say that this is used
throughout the uk
plumber so you might hear someone saying
really need to get some new clubber
number 11 is fella and i generally think
this is used
when people are talking about their
boyfriend or their husband
so me fella my fellow's getting the
bevies or what are you looking at me
fellas race here
or it can also be used to replace guys
so we can replace guys
with fellas now fellas is understood
throughout the uk so it's not
too much of a different one so you'll
definitely hear this one in liverpool
as well so fala or la was the slang for
a man
but the slang for women is a bird or a
judy
so you'll probably hear quite a lot a
guy saying me birds and that means
my girlfriend so a judy is perhaps a
little bit more old-fashioned and
perhaps used for older women
and used by generally the older
generation i would say so my dad would
use that
but bird is used by the younger
generation and you can use it about a
group of girls
so you could say those beards but
usually it's used by men to talk about
women
usually women don't use it about
themselves or refer to groups of women
as birds that's more what men do the
next one is you know what i mean
i can't even say this in a southern
accent because you need a scouse accent
to say it correctly
so it would be you know what i mean you
know what i mean
and you're actually eating those words
it's you know what i mean that's
actually how you would say you know what
i mean but in liverpool it's you know
what i mean
do you know what i mean the next one is
getting in
and this is basically interrupting
butting in we might say butting in is
what we would use
in the rest of the uk so it means
pushing into the conversation
talking over other people and perhaps
putting your nose in business that isn't
yours
so you might hear can you stop gagging
in mind your own beeswax
next one this is an important one this
is a wool or a woolly back
now people from outside liverpool so the
wirral
runcorn saint helens they can be
referred to
as wolves and this is a bit of a
derogatory term a little puddley and
sometimes aren't too keen on
people from outside liverpool and this
is because during the docker strike
people from outside liverpool would
bring in trade so they might bring in
wool and things like that
so they'd often be carrying bales of
wool on their back
into the city and so they would do the
work of the dockers for them so they
became
unpopular because of that um it can just
be used just to mean that they're from
outside but there's a negative
connotation the next one is a meth a
meth
seeing that guy what a math and
basically this means
a person who maybe doesn't look clean or
um doesn't have very good clothes on
maybe his clothes are a bit
shabby something like that um perhaps
people who look like they might have a
drug problem
or homeless people it isn't nice to talk
about them that way
but in the rest of the uk we might say
something like a skank so somebody who
doesn't look very nice in their
appearance
it's a derogatory term it's not nice i
personally don't like
saying anything like that but you might
hear people say oh she's such a meth
number 18 again this is a very common
one this is baltic
it's baltic and that means it's very
cold which often it is in liverpool and
it does rain
a lot so when you go outside and it's
freezing instead of saying freezing you
can say
it's baltic next one is devoted
so basically this means that you're
devastated liverpudlians like to shorten
words so a very obvious one of these
would be brekkie instead of breakfast
and there's um parks in liverpool that
their names can be shortened for example
crocstath park
is known as the crocky things like that
so
devote is another example is about that
someday holiday got cancelled quick
extra point there the offi
means an off license now an off licence
is somewhere that sells
alcohol newspapers cigarettes
confectionary
the basics really so the off license so
you'll often hear people saying
just going to go down the offi and get a
paper last one is
the aussie this is another example of
shortening words to make it easier so
i'm going down the aussie
means i'm going to the hospital the
aussie is the hospital
i don't know what happened on saturday
night but the aussie was choker
right guys those were the main
liverpudlian slang words you need to
know
if you're coming to liverpool enjoy
these guys and try using any of them in
a sentence below
and if you're from liverpool tell me
which ones have i missed