- Do the brits say innit?
- Innit?
- Would you like a cup of tea, sweetie?
- How do you use innit in that sentence?
- I'm trying!
I didn't get there!
(upbeat rock)
- Hi I'm Aishwarya and I'm from Buzzfeed India.
- Hi I'm Vishal and I'm from Buzzfeed India.
- Hi I'm Aniket from Buzzfeed India
and today we are guessing some British slang.
Let's see how they are.
- Let's see how they are!
- I'm actually quite excited, I feel
like a lot of British slang would be
something that probably exists here as well
because a lot of our culture is taken
from the British culture because of colonization.
- Yeah I feel like British slang is so specific
that sometimes with the accent,
I'm like, oh maybe these are just normal words,
like I wouldn't even hear it's slang.
(laughing)
- Some cookies would be great, innit?
Cookies would be great, innit?
- Are you just having a conversation with yourself now?
(laughing)
- All right, let's get started.
- Yep, let's do it.
(popping)
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- Is it wagwan?
- Wagwan, wagwan, wagwan.
- That sounds like an Indian accent but I'm trying
to go a little British and say wagwan.
- Bhagavan means God in Hindi.
(laughing)
- All right and that is wagwan also.
- It does sound like a vehicle to me,
I mean, I'm drawing from the wagon-R.
(laughing)
- Yeah.
- I think wagwan is like a wagon but like, make it 2020.
- What?
That makes no sense!
- Wagwan, wag-wan, is it a dog?
Wag?
- Ooh.
- I feel like wagwan just means like bull (bleep),
you know, like how we're like, I don't know,
like oh my God, like, stop wagwanning.
- I think I'm gonna go with a mode of transportation.
- I'll go with a dog.
(popping)
- Oh, wagwan, what's going on.
I get it.
- Vishal, wagwan?
- Wagwan, Aishwarya?
- Ooh I like that but I don't think I'll use it.
- Not into wagwan.
(popping)
(upbeat pop)
Okay I have two theories, I feel clapped could be
like hitched, like when you get married.
Like, oh he's clapped on to someone else
or it could mean you got an STD.
(laughing)
- I think I know what clapped means.
- Same!
But I think they're trying to trick us, Vishal.
It can't be that, it is a trick question, innit?
(laughing)
- I like how we're like, assimilating into this.
- I think it's like, if you're bitchy to somebody
and then you're like, oh she totally clapped on to that
or somebody says something and you have
a very snarky, very sassy answer.
- Oh like clap back?
Like you clapped back?
- Yeah like clap back, yeah.
- I clap at him, that means I did some trash talking
about the other person.
- That is such a good guess.
(popping)
- [Aniket] Oh.
- What?
Clap sounds so cheerful, you know,
like you're gonna applaud somebody.
- Yeah!
- Oop, no.
- That's why I've never heard it,
because no one's said it to me.
(laughing)
(popping)
- It can't be mint like the mint that you eat
but it still has like some--
- Like, refreshing vibes.
- Like that new song was so fresh, so that was so mint.
- People say this a lot when they say
it's in mint condition, that means it's in good condition.
So I think mint either means perfect or good,
like it's in good condition.
(popping)
Oh yay!
This video is mint then.
(popping)
Wasteman?
Is this like someone who picks up trash?
Ooh that's me, that's my dating life.
- I think a wasteman is somebody
who's just whiling away their time
and not doing anything productive,
not having their lives together.
- Oh like you're wasting away your life, man, wasteman.
(popping)
- Okay that's interesting, wasteman.
It is like a summary of my life.
- Not bad.
- It's like, weirdly literal.
(popping)
Pish.
- Pish.
- Pish, this is such a short word.
- Pish.
- Is it like, ooh!
Pish is like when they say pish posh, you know?
Like, pish posh but I don't know what that means.
(laughing)
- Wagwan, pish?
(laughing)
- Okay, pish is a really poor fish.
That's why it's pish, I don't know.
(popping)
it's similar to what I said.
- No it's not!
- It's a poor fish, so oh that fish is so poor, it's pish.
- Vishal, I don't think that works that way.
No one's looking at a fish and saying that.
(popping)
It's a sound, peng cannot be a slang, peng is a sound!
Like, it makes, like if you drop a ball, a bouncy ball,
it's like peng!
That's the sound it makes.
- Is this a euphemism for penis?
(laughing)
- I think it could be like,
a pint or a round of drinks or something?
Like next peng's on me.
- Can you imagine anyone going to a bar
and going "hey, next peng's on me!"
(laughing)
- I think peng is short for penguin.
- Aw, that's cute!
I hope it's that!
Can it be that?
(popping)
- [Vishal] What?
Peng means hot?
- Oh I like that, that guy's peng.
- You're so peng?
Ew, like, I would just be like no.
(popping)
(upbeat rock)
- Minging, minge-ing?
- Minging.
Minging.
- I think minge-ing.
- Do you think maybe India got mingling from minging
and we just added an extra L just because we could?
- Mingling could just be at a party and platonic mingling
but minging or minge-ing is like, slightly sexual.
Like, mmm minging.
- If somebody is flirting with someone.
- Dammit, I don't know.
I'm drawing a blank.
(popping)
- Oh it's an adjective.
Look at me, going into the technicalities.
(laughing)
Ing, oh it sounded like a verb, continuous sense.
- So most things are negative,
there's not really like,
cheerful wholesome slang in Britain.
Wow, what a surprise.
(popping)
- [Aishwarya] Mandem?
- Mandem.
- Did you want to say madame and just put an N in it?
Oh is it like madame but for a man?
- That's exactly what I thought.
- Is that like kingdom but for men?
Like, a bachelor pad?
I don't know like...
Yeah let's go with kingdom for men.
(popping)
- [Aishwarya] Oh!
- [Vishal] Oh!
- I got that vibe, you know.
Like, look at those dudebros, like that vibe.
(popping)
- [Vishal] Ooh galdem.
- That's so cute, I love this!
I'm gonna use galdem.
- It should be a podcast.
Like, girls discuss things, galdem.
(popping)
The literal meaning is naked.
- Yeah I feel like it's a bit much to just assume
that the slang word is also naked.
- Oh my God, it's like someone who's basic.
- Who is so bare?
He is so bare.
- I think it's like sick, like that night was so sick.
- Oh so the opposite?
- Yeah like, lit.
(popping)
That's the opposite of barely.
- That's not what bare means at all!
- If someone says there were bare people at that party,
I'll be like, "oh I'm so sorry no one came to your party."
I won't be like, "there was too many people at the party,"
that makes no sense!
- It's misleading!
- This is click bait.
(popping)
Hey we know this!
Fam, fam is just like your, yeah your homies,
it's family basically but like, your homies, you know?
- Fam.
- What's up, fam?
Sup, fam?
It's all good, fam.
- Yeah like what's up, fam?
- I'm assuming it's the same one, right?
(popping)
- [Vishal] We use this all the time though.
- Yes we do.
- I don't think they know that it's a UK slang though.
- For once, we are correct.
- Yes!
We got this, Aniket!
(popping)
- [Aishwarya] Fit?
- Fit.
I know this, I know this.
- Yeah like he's really fit, that is like he's really hot.
- I think it's clothes, it's new clothes.
Oh he's got a great fit, he's got some new fit.
- Like are you set for the party?
And you'll be like, yeah I have,
yeah I have ordered all the booze so yeah, I'm fit.
(laughing)
- I'm frankly, I'm just copying you, I have no idea.
(popping)
- [Aishwarya] I got it right!
- No!
- It's like peng.
- Like peng!
So fit peng.
- I would take fit over peng though.
- Not that anyone's counting but Vishal, I'm winning.
(upbeat pop)
- I don't think I was really bad, I mean, I didn't expect
to perform anyway, so.
- My performance in this video was quite pish.
- Buzzfeed India's gonna be a different place
in the next two weeks.
- That is true.
(laughing)
Now we're just force fitting words everywhere.
- Go hang out with your mandem, Aniket.
- Vishal, you're peng and never forget.
- I'm peng.
What if people think that I'm pish?
- So you don't need to worry about them
because you're peng and that's all you need to remember.
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