British Slang 3

Question 1

jelly

Answer 1

jam

Question 2

Jell-O

Answer 2

jelly

Question 3

USA

Answer 3

the states

Question 4

never say….

Answer 4

awesome

Question 5

thank you

Answer 5

cheers!

Question 6

hello to a close friend

Answer 6

hey babes

Question 7

custom made

Answer 7

bespoke

Question 8

two weeks

Answer 8

fortnight

Question 9

vacuum

Answer 9

hoover

Question 10

sleep or nap

Answer 10

kip

Question 11

knowledgeable

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know your onions

Question 12

Whine

Answer 12

Whinge

Question 13

10

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tenner

Question 14

5

Answer 14

fiver

Question 15

lazy or avoid doing something

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skive

Question 16

upper Class Person

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toff

Question 17

customer/prostitute’s client, john

Answer 17

punter

Question 18

someone from Liverpool

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scouser

Question 19

stolen (2)

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nicked, burgled

Question 20

church of england

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c of e

Question 21

z

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zed

Question 22

Yes!

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Absobloodylootely

Question 23

looking for sex

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on the pull

Question 24

one time only

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one off

Question 25

fired from a job

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made redundant

Question 26

easy

Answer 26

easy peasy

Question 27

Do a deal or take a dump

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See a man about a dog

Question 28

genitalia (2)

Answer 28

meat and two veg, twigs & berries

Question 29

flirt

Answer 29

chat up

Question 30

poser

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ponce

Question 31

television

Answer 31

the telly

Question 32

going to bed

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I’m Off to Bedfordshire

Question 33

to be in prison

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Her Majesty’s Pleasure

Question 34

sausage

Answer 34

bangers

Question 35

dickhead

Answer 35

knobhead

Question 36

party

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do

Question 37

college/university

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uni

Question 38

bachelor party

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stag night

Question 39

Britain

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Blighty

Question 40

disembark

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alight Many American tourists are confronted with this word quite rapidly after reaching the U.K., because on the London Underground the pre-recorded message says such things as: “This is Baker Street. Alight here for Madame Tussauds.”

Question 41

stake a claim for something in the same way that Americans would claim “dibbs” on or “call” some item or privilege

Answer 41

bagsie | I bagsie the front seat or Bagsie first shot on the dodgems!

Question 42

very cold (2)

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Baltic, it's monkeys outside I’m not going outside without a coat, it’s bloody Baltic! Presumably named for the Baltic states, which aren’t all that cold.

Question 43

press on regardless, to keep struggling in the face of adversity

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bash on

Question 44

that’s done

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bingo bango bongo | Popularised by T.V. chef Jamie Oliver, and now used by people who are young enough to think it sounds nice.

Question 45

make a bit of a haphazard job of something, something cobbled together

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bodge A “bodger” was originally a craftsman who worked on a green-wood lathe, but this information is of almost no help at all because the word “bodger” still rather implies that such a person was “bodging” something.

Question 46

no frills, the basic version

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bog standard So your “bog standard” Volkswagen Golf would be one that doesn’t have electric windows, power steering or opposable thumbs. Well, nowadays a bog-standard Golf probably does have two thirds of those things. There’s no particular reason to believe that the term has anything to do with a toilet (see “bog”).

Question 47

Scottish beautiful

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bonny A little antiquated — you’d be much more likely to hear: Deirdre’s new granddaughter is awfully bonny! than you would: Bobby’s stolen a bonny new shooter — we’re going to go out this evening and do the chip shop over.

Question 48

died

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bought it Generally refers to someone who died doing something somewhat dangerous: D’you know Jochen Rindt was the first posthumous Formula One champion? Bought it four races from the end of the 1970 season and still won the bloody thing.

Question 49

scared (2)

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bricking it, startled | He didn’t do very well in the interview – we felt a bit sorry for him as he was clearly bricking it.

Question 50

copious amounts of paperwork or literature

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bumf You would not believe the bloody stack of bumf that came with my new video recorder. Possibly derived from the army and a contraction of the phrase “bum fodder,” i.e., toilet paper.

Question 51

stick; wedge Push something into something, often something that was not intended for that purpose Stopper, often rubber, the type of thing you use to block fluid from coming out of things A bribe intended to buy silence. A monetary reward given to someone in order to buy their tacit agreement, often associated with the fixing of sports games, Up full of cold, congested

Answer 51

bung "Eventually we discovered that it wasn’t working because our son had bunged a Polish sausage into the video recorder." "Everyone knows that their manager’s taking bungs to throw the matches anyway." "I can’t come into work today, one of the kids is bunged up."