Britain has THE BEST SLANG (American reaction)

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  • Thank you for watching me, a humble American, learn some British slang! I hope I can use some of these in my day to day. Thanks for subscribing!

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  • @mral8145
    @mral8145 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    That guy explained builders tea badly. It’s not a blend, it’s the style and how it’s made- usually strong, in a big mug, with a dash of milk and probably 12 sugars.

    • @martinscott-reed5379
      @martinscott-reed5379 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And builders in the UK spend more time drinking tea than working...............allegedly

    • @thatsthat2612
      @thatsthat2612 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      You can stand the spoon up in it

    • @marionpetford7374
      @marionpetford7374 ปีที่แล้ว

      You could stand a spoon in it

    • @s9cvx
      @s9cvx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@martinscott-reed5379nah that's highway maintenance, it takes 4 ppl to watch 1 person do the job 😂

    • @s9cvx
      @s9cvx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nah whenever I had to make a builders tea the only thing I put in was the tea bag and boiling water 😂

  • @jodiewhiteside4194
    @jodiewhiteside4194 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    We have so many ways of calling someone an idiot with so many subtle differences and levels of insult its great

    • @s9cvx
      @s9cvx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      And I love how we all, without being told, know the difference between each insult and the multitude of ways to use them

  • @joanweightman2275
    @joanweightman2275 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Builders tea isn't a blend of leaves, it's extremely strong tea that's almost stewed and served in a big mug

    • @nataliestafford6231
      @nataliestafford6231 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have my builders tea so strong a lot of people think it's coffee I'm drinking. If I don't have my usual teabags I sometimes use 2 at once ☕

    • @paulj5080
      @paulj5080 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's like NATO standard tea, hot, strong and 2 sugars.

    • @darrenhopgood9348
      @darrenhopgood9348 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@paulj5080 also, Naffy Tea as well as NATO

    • @raythomas4812
      @raythomas4812 ปีที่แล้ว

      My dad was a builder - and he made a smashing cup - used to have the power to put hairs on your chest !

    • @layla1385
      @layla1385 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Likely a Sports Direct mug lol

  • @heathercampbell2686
    @heathercampbell2686 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I'm born and bred British and have never heard of the slang Pent teng, never heard anyone ever say it here in UK.

    • @stewedfishproductions7959
      @stewedfishproductions7959 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Peng ting (not teng)!

    • @LK-px6eo
      @LK-px6eo ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No all the mandem say in london ur lying

    • @carolinequirk6136
      @carolinequirk6136 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s said to be microwave in Welsh, but it’s not.

    • @LK-px6eo
      @LK-px6eo ปีที่แล้ว

      @@carolinequirk6136 old people 😂

    • @stewedfishproductions7959
      @stewedfishproductions7959 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@carolinequirk6136- I think you are confused!? I believe you mean "popty ping", and you are right, it's NOT Welsh for a microwave (although many people are trying to promote another urban myth). But 'peng ting' IS a (quite new) London based phrase being used.

  • @ZombieATAT
    @ZombieATAT ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I probably knew half of these and I've lived my entire 5 decade long life in England.
    I can proudly say I recognised only 3 people in the entire video :)

  • @BardOfAndromeda
    @BardOfAndromeda ปีที่แล้ว +45

    "Peng Ting"?
    48 year old Brit here. *Nobody* over the age of 35 would say that - it's baby talk! :P

    • @the98themperoroftheholybri33
      @the98themperoroftheholybri33 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      32 year old here, nobody outside London would ever say that

    • @grunge_surf_witch_uk9130
      @grunge_surf_witch_uk9130 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I’m 46 never heard of it?? My daughter never said it either?

    • @batman51
      @batman51 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm well over 35 and from London and never heard of it.

    • @LK-px6eo
      @LK-px6eo ปีที่แล้ว

      Trust me all the mandem say that ur chatting

    • @LK-px6eo
      @LK-px6eo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@batman51 cap

  • @jinxvrs
    @jinxvrs ปีที่แล้ว +25

    You queried why "Cwtch", Welsh for hug or cuddle, doesn't have a vowel (although you said noun). It does have a vowel - the letter "w", which can be either a consonant or a vowel in the Welsh language. For instance as a consonant "wedi" (has/have) or as a vowel "dwr" (water). Much like the letter "y" in English - a consonant in "yet", or used as a vowel in "sky".

    • @jerry2357
      @jerry2357 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I’ve always though the Welsh word “Bwffe” is brilliant, since I first saw it at Llandudno Junction station in 1979.

    • @johngardiner6800
      @johngardiner6800 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My late grandmother had Welsh connections and used the word Cwtch for the space under the stairs.

    • @frankhooper7871
      @frankhooper7871 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was taught (California - 1960s) that the vowels in English are: A E I O U and sometimes Y & W.

    • @jerry2357
      @jerry2357 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@frankhooper7871
      I can’t think of an English word where “w” is used as a vowel, other than “cwm” (a geographical term, which I remember from my Geography O level “cirque, corrie or cwm” meaning the basin at the top of a glaciated valley), borrowed from Welsh.

    • @auldfouter8661
      @auldfouter8661 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jerry2357 Aw ,ew and ow are representative of vowels though.

  • @jonathangoll2918
    @jonathangoll2918 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Some of these were Scots and Welsh, so I didn't know them. 'At Her Majesty's Pleasure is an old legal term. It used to be used when a teenager had committed a serious crime, or if someone was insane; you could then be detained 'at her Majesty's pleasure, giving you an indeterminate sentence.

    • @PanglossDr
      @PanglossDr ปีที่แล้ว

      Wrong. It has always applied to any sentence without limit.

    • @0utcastAussie
      @0utcastAussie ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@PanglossDr
      Hence "Indeterminate" !

    • @MrBonners
      @MrBonners ปีที่แล้ว

      In Canada you might hear " Guest of the Queen" Not heard much but everybody knows it means in prison.

    • @PanglossDr
      @PanglossDr ปีที่แล้ว

      @@0utcastAussieThat was not the point. It had nothing to do with teenagers or the seriousness of the crime.

  • @the98themperoroftheholybri33
    @the98themperoroftheholybri33 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Most of these are slang used in the south.
    So some of these words aren't used in the majority of places around Britain

  • @clairedavison5607
    @clairedavison5607 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    What the heck is penguin ting? Lived my whole life in the UK and never heard this before.

    • @beccaboo3040
      @beccaboo3040 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've only heard of peng it means beautiful, nice around here

    • @Kwekwe
      @Kwekwe ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Much more of a London, Jamaican influenced expression rather than UK

    • @mattus3157
      @mattus3157 ปีที่แล้ว

      peng ting*

    • @benjames9158
      @benjames9158 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jamaican slang

  • @stuartfaulds1580
    @stuartfaulds1580 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We also have a plethora of words for being drunk & the various stages of drunk. To give some as an example:- Merry, happy, guttered sozzled, wasted, blootered, hammered, pie faced, bladdered, stoatered, plastered, shit faced, blotto to mention a few off the top of my head.

  • @StormhavenGaming
    @StormhavenGaming ปีที่แล้ว +12

    There is a suggestion about the dog's bollocks expression. In the 1930s (I think), Meccano released two versions of its engineering toy set. These were called Box Standard and Box Deluxe. A little Spoonerism and minor mangling of the consonant sounds turned Box Deluxe into dog's bollocks, meaning the best version of something. A similar mangling turned Box Standard into Bog Standard, meaning the simplest, most baseline versiojn of something.
    However, Susie Dent (the lexicographer) stated that dog's bollocks was originally printers slang for a colon followed by a dash, "for obvious reasons :- "

  • @innercircle341
    @innercircle341 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    It would help if the people actually knew the definotions.
    Her Majesry's Pleasure describes a custodial sentence with no end date. You are held for as long as the authorities decide.The Crown is the highest authority so you are being held by them.

    • @grunions9648
      @grunions9648 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's just not true. It's any jail time.

    • @iaindavidson2363
      @iaindavidson2363 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@grunions9648 no its not its a sentence with no end date

    • @wessexdruid7598
      @wessexdruid7598 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@iaindavidson2363 It's come to mean both.

    • @iaindavidson2363
      @iaindavidson2363 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @wessexdruid7598 if u r using it to mean any jail time then u r just wrong

  • @wonhung
    @wonhung ปีที่แล้ว +4

    On the Raz is the shorter version of On The Razzle Dazzle, which essentially mean enjoying the towns Nightlife, clubs, bars etc.

  • @amyw6808
    @amyw6808 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    People don’t really say builder’s tea, they say builder’s brew. On the raz isn’t just going out to town but getting drunk - think bar hopping.

  • @auldfouter8661
    @auldfouter8661 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Minging is Scottish originally , where it still means stinking ( bowfing ) . For some reason it has spread south with a new meaning in the last 30 years.

    • @stephenlee5929
      @stephenlee5929 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think Billy Connolly had something to do with it.

    • @peterdenyer3002
      @peterdenyer3002 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@stephenlee5929 They got it wrong, here in the south we use it the same as the Scot does. These middle class people don't really understand slang, and totally get it wrong, it's laughable.

  • @SwillMith16
    @SwillMith16 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Her Majesty’s Pleasure is just any jail sentence because all the prisons have ‘HMP’ in the name, meaning ‘Her Majesty’s Prison’ such as HMP Belmarsh. So people say ‘Her Majesty’s Pleasure’ as a sort of sarcasm/irony because it’s obviously not pleasurable

  • @lo1079
    @lo1079 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I never realised bins was from binoculars, but it makes sense. Although we would use it for glasses, or specatacles. And yes, bins are also what you would call trash cans, or rubbish bins, but that's the proper word. Bins for glasses is slang.

    • @thatsthat2612
      @thatsthat2612 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We call them gigs aswell but I don't know why

    • @lo1079
      @lo1079 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thatsthat2612 same, I say gigs and don't get it either 😄 but have heard bins used.

    • @thatsthat2612
      @thatsthat2612 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lo1079 I've heard bins but I dunno, gigs is funnier for some reason

    • @0utcastAussie
      @0utcastAussie ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bins is actually a pisstake for spectacles.. "Where's me fekkin Bins" (Binoculars) means without them your as blind as Mr Magoo

    • @lo1079
      @lo1079 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@0utcastAussie I sometimes look for me feckin' bins and they're on me feckin' face 🥸

  • @johngardiner6800
    @johngardiner6800 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Bins refers to eye glasses

    • @stewedfishproductions7959
      @stewedfishproductions7959 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, but it originated from the Hooray Henry 'types' out fox hunting, hare coursing, watching polo etc. and 'bins' was short for binoculars... which then began to be used for just eye glasses of any sort (as in "pass me my bins...").

    • @peterjf7723
      @peterjf7723 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bins is only for binoculars not any glasses.

  • @robertofraser101
    @robertofraser101 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wasn't expecting brilliant Ryan thanks have a nice day now 😀🇺🇸

  • @andybrown4284
    @andybrown4284 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Prisons in the UK used to be all state run by HMP, or her majestys prisons, so rather than being sent upstate we get to stay at her majestys pleasure. There are private security firms that run some but they are contracted by HMP so term would still apply

  • @markthomas2577
    @markthomas2577 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In prison 'at her majesty's pleasure' means you're serving an indeterminate sentence ... until it pleases Her Majesty to let you out ! Our prisons are known as HMPs ..... so Wandsworth prison in London is called HMP Wandsworth ..... Her Majesty's Prison Wandsworth

  • @joanmatthews2570
    @joanmatthews2570 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love your reaction to British slang!! React to some comedians like Peter Kay,

  • @hayzee4429
    @hayzee4429 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Got to be the Scottish word Jobby, my mates in London love it.

  • @thyop89
    @thyop89 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    His explanation of builder tea was wrong, it just means very strong tea.

  • @BackToNature123
    @BackToNature123 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Builders tea means strong tea and if I remember rightly, with one sugar. In some workplaces people take it in turns to make the brews/wets (hot drinks) so theres names for different options of tea

    • @frglee
      @frglee ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As a kid I can remember watching builders make tea on a bonfire outdoors. A metal topless barrel (old oildrum?) with water in it was placed on the fire. A pack of leaf tea was dumped in the water. A tin of sterilised milk and a 2lb pack of sugar added. Stirred with a wooden stick, left to boil and stew, served up by the workers dipping their metal mugs in it at regular intervals through the day.

    • @the98themperoroftheholybri33
      @the98themperoroftheholybri33 ปีที่แล้ว

      Builders tea is a mug of strong tea, often with as many sugars as you can fit in there, but the sugar Isn't the main point of it

  • @robertjackson3552
    @robertjackson3552 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    scouser comes from the dish scouse a type of stew made with potatoes, carrots, swede/turnip (optional), onions and meat frequently lamb,

  • @suetatlock8328
    @suetatlock8328 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the way you stopped the Vids to try and guess. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @cockneycharm3970
    @cockneycharm3970 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Some of these slang words are what some kids use today. I'm a Brit, so I use the old slang.

  • @jockkardashian.9407
    @jockkardashian.9407 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There's a professional football player called Tyrone Mings, and I sometimes childishly think "oh does he, that's a shame" when I see his name (Tyrone Stinks).

  • @frombrum
    @frombrum ปีที่แล้ว +2

    raz = razzle dazzle the lights of the town

  • @richardcook9794
    @richardcook9794 ปีที่แล้ว

    Builders tea is strong and loads of sugar so can be drunk cold, depending on when you can get to it

  • @dogwithwigwamz.7320
    @dogwithwigwamz.7320 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember walking into an Off - Licence on Hessle Road, East Yorkshire, a few years back - having seen a a four pack of the Dog`s Bollocks Ale for sale.
    There is, of course, a peculiar kind of slang over here called `Cockney Rhyming Slang," which is a whole other ball of fun.

  • @Ad-gy7gn
    @Ad-gy7gn ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm from the midlands and only ever heard of "bins" used to refer to glasses!

  • @innercircle341
    @innercircle341 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The dogs is the usual contraction of the dogs bollocks as in
    'We went out for a dinner and the syeak was the dogs'

  • @matthewboshoff8043
    @matthewboshoff8043 ปีที่แล้ว

    8:24 it's called builders tea because it got very popular with builders

  • @jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering
    @jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Builders tea is STRONG eye wateringly strong tea, rudimentarily made with imprecise amounts of milk and sugar … 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @sbrykeddie
    @sbrykeddie 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Builders tea refers to the colour of your tea,builders being very dark and strong.

  • @annicecooper8105
    @annicecooper8105 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bollocks is multi-functional and can mean good OR bad depending on the context.
    Use carefully 🤣

  • @joyridgway6398
    @joyridgway6398 ปีที่แล้ว

    Builders brew is a very strong cup on the tea.

  • @jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering
    @jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Never heard of Peng Ting tbh 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @frombrum
    @frombrum ปีที่แล้ว +1

    builders tea is a very strong brew in a big mug

  • @daveofyorkshire301
    @daveofyorkshire301 ปีที่แล้ว

    Builders tea is thick, black, strong tea that you can stand your spoon up in (figuratively not literally)....

  • @innercircle341
    @innercircle341 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Never heard of bahooky

  • @kevinpugh3291
    @kevinpugh3291 ปีที่แล้ว

    minging - a gerund, which it is continuous action. I would say smelling as synonym
    Her Majesty's Pleasure: Every prison is named HMP Holloway - Her Majesty's Prison.

  • @KevinPugh-hq8rc
    @KevinPugh-hq8rc ปีที่แล้ว

    Her majesty's pleasure - all the prisons are called HMP Redditch, for instance, where HMP is Her Majesty's Prison. So, that's where your staying ... like a hotel :)

  • @nickgrazier3373
    @nickgrazier3373 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Her majesty’s please used to be a formal saying almost in prison for life. As in “you will be held in prison at Her Majesty’s Pleasure”
    Cheers Aah Kid!

  • @Broadercasting
    @Broadercasting ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Welsh has more vowels than English. For one, W, the clue is in the letter - double u. Peng teng and Dench is used only by middle teens.
    I've never used bins for binoculars; 'bynoe's', perhaps. Builders tea is really strong tea, usually with the added formula of milk and two sugars.
    Peas, pure barry, Baggamans, gallus. I've NEVER heard of these in my life! Well, peas obviously, as veg, but never as loose change, or 'shrapnel'.
    Technically minging isn't used as a verb, but a gerund and can be used as a participle/adjective. To ming is the verb form

    • @PanglossDr
      @PanglossDr ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nice to see some precision here.

    • @bradleybrown8428
      @bradleybrown8428 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's ting not teng, ting/thing, peng/good looking, I think people would say that's peng as in really good, but I'm old and propper posh so I'm not sure if it's still used like that.

  • @paulbromley6687
    @paulbromley6687 ปีที่แล้ว

    At her majesty’s pleasure meant you are in prison until the monarch says okay you can leave now.

  • @stephenlee5929
    @stephenlee5929 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi, A barney, is cockney rhyming slang for trouble, Its missing word is rubble (as in mate of Fred Flintstone). And yes its is generally used for an argument or fight.

  • @Jbatley1
    @Jbatley1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Her Majesties Pleasure is because all prisons are called HMP (Her Majesties Prison) followed by the area the prison is in. So they change the last word to make light of it

  • @bobbybigboyyes
    @bobbybigboyyes ปีที่แล้ว

    At Her Majesties Pleasure is because the prisons are H.M Prison Service. A lot of things are run by The Crown, which is the monarchy. Same as our Royal Mail.

  • @MoReeceJTV
    @MoReeceJTV ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Blotto was replaced with wasted years ago

  • @user-ii5pl2ek3v
    @user-ii5pl2ek3v หลายเดือนก่อน

    Builders tea is strong tea with very little milk!

  • @bazmoules
    @bazmoules ปีที่แล้ว

    Her/His Majesty’s Prison is abbreviated to HMP, so a UK prison is a HMP (insert location) HMP then restyled to Her/His Majesty’s Pleasure

  • @robertelliott2026
    @robertelliott2026 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bins in Glasgow is spectacles. And Her Majesty's Pleasure is also held in prison until she or the Home Secretary says you can get out, sometimes a (nonce)!

  • @tamasmarcuis4455
    @tamasmarcuis4455 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A lot of these words are just Scots language words not slang.
    Minging comes from Ming or Meng which can mean just mixed up or muddled. But it is often used to describe trash in a pile and consquently the smell of trash. As in smelling like a pile of trash.
    Numpty comes from Nump which mean a small jump or hop. The kind of hopping around associated with the mentally disabled. So calling someone a Numpty means someone who hops around in a silly manner associated with the mentally disabled. it's like calling someone silly or moronic.
    bahootie, bahoochie, bahookie, behooky = buttocks, though only in a joking way. The formal word is Doup which also means the larger of blunter end of an egg. It is also used for the end of a smoked cigarette called doup-end. I have also read it used to refer to a blunt blade.
    Gallus = formal meaning is Gallows as in hang a criminal. Saying someone is Gallus means they are overdressed, overconfident, wild and mischievous. In a more negative way as it was originally used it mean suspect or untrustworthy as in " that person looks like they are heading to the gallows one day". In American slang it would be saying someone looks like or behaves a gangster.
    Barry = a whisky toddy or mix of whisky, hot honey and cinnamon given to raise the spirits of an ill person. It can also mean to be of high spirits, cheery and good nature. Pure is often used to raise of empathize the meaning of other words. Most often used sarcastically when said Pure Barry. As in saying Pure Dead because you can't be more dead than dead.

  • @davewatson309
    @davewatson309 ปีที่แล้ว

    Scousers are named after scouse, a tasty baltic stew popularised by seamen in the 19th century

  • @bobbybigboyyes
    @bobbybigboyyes ปีที่แล้ว

    On the raz is short for On The Razzle. Out on the town having a good time.

  • @cockneyse
    @cockneyse ปีที่แล้ว

    Scouser is from a fish soup consumed in the area called scouse

  • @jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering
    @jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Barney Rubble =Trouble

  • @P5YcHoKiLLa
    @P5YcHoKiLLa ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You should check out a video for Cockney Rhyming Slang, that will totally confuse you
    9:36 The full phrase is "You're serving at Her Majesty's pleasure" meaning you've been locked up cos hundreds of years ago, since there was no parliament or that kind of structure, it would've been the royals or lords who would have you locked up.

  • @Jbatley1
    @Jbatley1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nahh a builders tea is just a really strong tea. You might have a couple tea bags and you don’t bother with sugar or milk really. Just stick some tea in a mug and make it strong and it’s a builders tea or builders brew

  • @lLurchernut
    @lLurchernut ปีที่แล้ว

    On the raz - on the razzle, from razzle dazzle originally

  • @simonround2439
    @simonround2439 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm from London and I hardly knew any of the Scottish ones.

  • @redjelly8321
    @redjelly8321 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👍💕

  • @joebloggs8422
    @joebloggs8422 ปีที่แล้ว

    I commented on an American aircraft carrier once, I described it as the dogs bollocks, one of our American friends thought it was an insult.

  • @dongillan5287
    @dongillan5287 ปีที่แล้ว

    Builders Tea - very strong tea because it is often left to brew a long time before they get chance to drink it, and also because they like it that way.
    Scouser - someone raised eating 'lobscouse,' a type of stew particular to the city of Liverpool. Often used as an insult with zero effect since true scousers see it as a mark of pride.
    Her Majesty's Pleasure - The prison service operates in the name of the Queen and British prisons are named HMP Bellmarsh, HMP Wormwood Scrubs etc. where HMP is an abbreviation of Her Majesty's Prison. Hence to be sent to one of Her Majesty's establishments for a period of time is to be detained at Her Majesties Pleasure.
    To ming - to be ugly. Minging - being ugly. Minger someone who is ugly. Simples!
    Simples! (plural) - obvious, a response popularised by a British TV advertising campaign.

  • @pyejammiesfanfic640
    @pyejammiesfanfic640 ปีที่แล้ว

    We call money, spondulicks and moolah in my family. Cwtch is Welsh and means to cuddle up so you can cwtch up in a blanket or cwtch your duvet up around you as well as cwtching up to a person. In Welsh both, w and y are vowels. Scouser comes from lobscouse which is a type of meat and veg stew often eaten in Liverpool. Their dialect is called, Scouse. Now you need get into Cockney rhyming slang so you’ll know that someone is calling you a wanker if they call you a merchant banker. My favourite American word is, copacetic. We don’t use that here.

  • @mouse9727
    @mouse9727 ปีที่แล้ว

    You said noun when you meant vowel. That struck me funny

  • @enemde3025
    @enemde3025 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Peng ting, Dench, Peas, Baggamanz. Must be London sayings ? Never heard of these !
    Bollocks = bad ( That's bollocks/rubbish)
    Dogs bollocks= good ( that's the dogs bollocks/great)
    Bollocks= your testicles.
    Builders tea = strong tea with milk and 2 sugars.
    All UK prison names are prefixed by the letters HMP , HER MAJESTY'S PRISON .

  • @lumpyfishgravy
    @lumpyfishgravy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:37 Barney Rubble. Rhyming slang: trouble.

  • @AndyMmusic
    @AndyMmusic ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I moved to California from England in 2001. Most of this slang I knew, but some of it seems to have developed since I left.
    I do know that Take the Mickey comes from Cockney rhyming slang. The full rhyme is Mickey Blisss.

    • @the98themperoroftheholybri33
      @the98themperoroftheholybri33 ปีที่แล้ว

      Whereas take the piss is a Scouse expression which comes from when they would ship literal urine which was used in the dyeing process of linens

    • @eh-i1841
      @eh-i1841 ปีที่แล้ว

      Micky Bliss…piss.Take the mick,or mickey is an old slang term.

  • @stewthorne
    @stewthorne ปีที่แล้ว +1

    where the bloody hell did they get these words from never heard of half of them !!!!

  • @a.m11558
    @a.m11558 ปีที่แล้ว

    A lot of these are also Australian, such as blotto and jammy

  • @steveroberts728
    @steveroberts728 ปีที่แล้ว

    “Her Majesty’s Pleasure” means to be detained in prison because its used during sentencing by a Judge.

  • @tinaosborne6837
    @tinaosborne6837 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My brother and I can speak fluent backslang no-one has a clue what we're saying

  • @lorrainehuddart1402
    @lorrainehuddart1402 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Peng ting? Never, ever heard that one.

  • @robbpatterson6796
    @robbpatterson6796 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've never heard anyone call them "Bins" XD maybe Binos

  • @Trueo9re
    @Trueo9re ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cwtch, pretty sure that isn't slang and it's Welsh for hug. On the raz mean razzle dazzle. Going out and having fun.

  • @MoReeceJTV
    @MoReeceJTV ปีที่แล้ว

    Also I'm not sure how that dude won sexiest man of the year either 😂

  • @donmaddox8898
    @donmaddox8898 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That's the thing about slang

  • @LoganOracle
    @LoganOracle 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Never used the word innit in my life.

  • @jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering
    @jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering ปีที่แล้ว

    On the raz is short fir Razzle Dazzle.. out for a great night out

  • @darrenhopgood9348
    @darrenhopgood9348 ปีที่แล้ว

    on the Raz... Razzle Dazzle...

  • @gabbymcclymont3563
    @gabbymcclymont3563 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I loved you said "theres no noune," , its Welsh, they do what they want.. its a gimic, yes it was and is, done on purpouse to adverise the place.

  • @williebauld1007
    @williebauld1007 ปีที่แล้ว

    Her Majesty’s Pleasure comes from all prisons beginning with HMP… Like HMP Durham or HMP Edinburgh the HMP stands for Her Majesty’s Prison

  • @doriantallbody1045
    @doriantallbody1045 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    10:02 - ON THE RAZ = NIGHT OUT ON THE TOWN. (ON THE RAZZLE DAZZLE).

  • @sharonlloyd6617
    @sharonlloyd6617 ปีที่แล้ว

    i have never even heard of half of these words and i am from uk

  • @MrBonners
    @MrBonners ปีที่แล้ว

    Guest of the Queen=prison. In the Nick=in prison. Crowbar Hotel= jail, holding, drunk tank and other minor stuff

  • @scorpionformula
    @scorpionformula ปีที่แล้ว

    My dad hates me saying innit

  • @thatsthat2612
    @thatsthat2612 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Idris elba is fit tho

  • @stewthorne
    @stewthorne ปีที่แล้ว

    her Majesty s pleasure means if the Queen dies you are released straight away

    • @eh-i1841
      @eh-i1841 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s not making light of being in prison.It means that a sentence has not been set,finally,or that something is yet to be decided,by another person.

  • @RJE48
    @RJE48 ปีที่แล้ว

    They forgot:
    "Butters" meaning "Ugly" (Modern version of Minging!)
    "Score" - Is an old slang term for a £20 note, although sometimes used as a quantity of illegal drugs on the street costing £20

  • @rachelbirchall4630
    @rachelbirchall4630 ปีที่แล้ว

    Two I know as a Brit are
    A screw (means a prison officer)
    Doing Porridge (means your in prison)

  • @auldfouter8661
    @auldfouter8661 ปีที่แล้ว

    Making light of being in prison would be the expression " a guest of her majesty " . At her majesty's pleasure is explained in the comments below.

  • @lorrainehall157
    @lorrainehall157 ปีที่แล้ว

    The longest place name in Wales is real and is known as Llanfair for short.

  • @FozzyZ28
    @FozzyZ28 ปีที่แล้ว

    Builders tea..... strong, milk an 2sugars. 😁

  • @nickmitchell6443
    @nickmitchell6443 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm English and I've never heard of Peng Ting, no idea what it means.

  • @benjames9158
    @benjames9158 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Peng ting
    Peng = beautiful
    Ting= thing
    Beautiful thing