- Is it a sexual term?
Clamming, it just sounds like something.
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- Hi, I'm Ashley, and today,
we're gonna be guessing Northern slang.
- The North?
I don't know Northern at all.
- Ain't that some Game of Thrones type thing?
The North? (laughing)
- [Man] City in London. City in London.
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- Wait, no, a city in England?
(both laughing)
- Manchester, Liverpool?
- And the Spice Girls, aren't they from Birmingham?
I don't know how to say it.
- Wales?
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Oh, my bad! (laughter)
- [Woman] I'm taking my bins to the beach.
(laughter)
- I'm taking my bins.
What would you take to the beach, your friends?
Your drinks, I don't know, your stuff?
- Bins, I took my bins with me.
Homies!
- Shorts?
- Oh, that could be it.
- I'm gonna say friends on that one.
- It doesn't feel like friends to me.
I feel like it's drinks or something.
- You know what, I trust that, let's do drinks.
- Interesting! (laughter)
- I'm gonna start saying that.
- [Man] That football match was beltas.
- Like it was crazy?
- Yeah, crazy, like insane.
- It was wild, beltas.
- Energetic, lit, turnt.
- That's a point, yeah, that's one. (laughter)
- [Woman] I got my test results back,
and I was absolutely devoed.
- Tell me that's not short for devastated, bro.
- It has to be, right?
- Devastated?
- Yeah, I'm gonna go with that.
- Devastated? - Devastated.
- With the quick mind, Jo.
- [Man] I was on the phone to Sue and she started to blart.
- She's going off, like, she's yelling, maybe.
Or maybe she was crying.
- I'm gonna say talk a lot.
- Sounds like chatting to me.
- Yeah, exactly, I think it is chatting.
- Chatting, like you're speaking too much.
You're speaking nonsense.
- That means she began to get emotional.
- All right, we'll go with emotional, let's say that.
- I could see that, I could see that.
- [Woman] Oh, I got lost down a ginnel last night.
- Ginnel, ginnel, ginnel.
I got lost down a ginnel last night.
- Like, where would you get lost?
That's what I'm trying to think.
- You can really get lost anywhere.
- Like in an alley?
- Yeah, let's go alley.
Yeah, let's go, Vi.
- All right, we got three.
- Yo, I'm thinking tunnel, alley.
Dang, yo.
- Oh, my god, why were you in the alley to begin with?
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- [Woman] I'm so clamming right now.
- Getting nervous?
- Yeah, I think that makes sense.
When you're nervous, your hands get clammy.
- Clammy, yeah.
- That feels like I'm tight, like, I'm so mad.
- Nah, it sounds like...
Is it a sexual term?
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Clamming, it just sounds like something.
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- I'm either gonna go with sweating or high.
- How? (laughter)
- They just say anything.
- Like, how?
- I'm clamming right now, too, I ain't gonna hold you.
- [Woman] You're being such a mither, you are.
- I'm trying to think of people who we work with.
I'll be like, is this person a mither? (laughter)
- An idiot?
- Yeah, yeah, idiot might be.
Yeah, she's kinda dumb.
- Or someone who's in your business a lot.
- Or gossips.
- Okay, a gossip, yeah.
- A brat.
- Yeah, I'm gonna go with Jo, a brat.
- Oh my god.
- We're getting any of these right?
- I would consider a brat annoying.
- [Man] Just had a chat with a random gadgie on the bus.
- I think it might be an insult, in some way.
Someone who's just acting out, that gadgie over there.
Someone I don't wanna bother with, I don't know.
- That's a freak. (laughter)
- I would say like a random teen, like a joint.
That what I would think it is.
- Ugh! (laughter)
- I really wanna know, who comes up with this,
and how does it stick?
- [Woman] Bought some new trabs from the shops.
- Pants, I wanna say pants.
- Okay, I'll go with pants.
- Knickers.
- Nah, that's trainers, bro, tennis shoes.
- Yes, but trainers are in the UK.
We're talking 'bout the North right now.
What if they call them trabs?
- Get it, Shyanne.
- Thank you, good answer.
- Shoes?
- Oh my god, okay.
- [Woman] Steve is a right slummock, he is.
- I wanna say either a bum or a stoner.
- Slum, bum.
Come on.
- Maybe someone who's lazy.
- I'm gonna go with you and say lazy as well.
- Wow.
- Oh, we won.
- Oh, right there.
- [Woman] I was stuck on the netty all day.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Stuck on the netty, internet.
- It's either online or on a bus or something.
- I'd either say phone or toilet. (laughter)
- What? - Wow.
- Who'd agree, like "oh yeah, that makes sense.
"I'm gonna say that too."
- Right, let's just keep it going.
What?
- [Woman] Don't be a bloody pillock.
- Pillock.
- My brain's like, well, pillagers rob and steal,
so what are you, a thief?
- An asshole?
- We already had annoying.
- An idiot, or I don't know.
- I mean, you might be right with that.
- Ah, yeah. (laughter)
- So that's not like a wasteman.
My mom calls me a wasteman sometimes.
- Without the sentences,
I don't feel like I would have gotten much of them.
- Yeah, without the sentences, I would have been zero.
- I did better than we expected, man.
- I would definitely be lost in translation in the North.
- Yep.
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