I will never forget being away with my family in France and our waitress was not particularly good looking, to be kind. We were talking about the olympics or something and my uncle turned to us and said “She mings for France”. Something so funny about the idea that someone is so ugly that they do it competitively for their country. We still use it today - “Franck Ribéry mings for France” etc.
The Oxford English Dictionary says that the BLIGHTY is a distortion of a distortion: the Urdu word vilayati either means foreign, British, English or European, and it became a common term for European visitors to India during the 1800s. A mishearing changed the v to a b, and then bilayati became Blighty, as a term to describe British imports from home, such as soda water.
Blighty is a Hindi word I believe brought back by British soldiers stationed in India. It means 'foreign parts' so the locals would say 'you come from bligthy'.
Yes, you had to put the penny (the big old penny) into a slot on the door and the penny had to drop before the handle could be turned to open the door of the toilet, That's also where the expression "the penny dropped" comes from.
Its Cool Seeing the 4 of you all together. Alex teach Josh to Eat a Grease Burger and DRINK and Cuss Proper. You guys are Living your Lives Right!!! I worked mine away. Keep Cheering me up Ya Nutz!!!!!!
Try them with some Cockney rhyming slang like , going for a Gipsy's, you're having a Turkish, you're having a bubble, wind your neck in, Ruby Murray, dog and bone, rub a dub dub. Etc 😉
Blighty is an interesting word. It really came to the fore in World War One. Soldiers would like to get a wound which would necessitate their repatriation to the UK; to get a blighty.
'Spend(ing) a Penny' relates back to the days when the cubicles in public toilets were accessed via a coin operated lock, which needed an old pre-decimal pennies to be deposited in the slot before the lock could be operated to open the door of the cubicle to gain access. I'm old enough to remember having to use this type of lock to use a public toilet. You can find some info here: www.bobthebrit.net/phrases-and-sayings/spend-a-penny/
@@TravelBeans To take a Slash means to go and urinate. In Public Toilets the Men would use a Urinal (Point Percy at the Porcelain) and so not Pay. Women would pay a Penny (Old Money) to unlock a Toilet as they sit for both Urinating and No 2's, Men would Spend a Penny normally only if they are doing a No 2? Staying with the urinating theme to be "Piss Poor" refers to the olden day of people having Chamber Pots under the Beds. If you lived near a Leather Tanning place the Poor would take their urine and sell it to the Tanning company and they would use it in the Tanning process. To Poo also known as to Poop or Number 2 as apposed to urinate.
6:43 "Pear shaped". One mustn't forget the other alternative "tits up", which is equally as common, but depends whereabouts in the the UK that you live.
Does pecking my head mean going out of your head meaning something is challenging you or driving you crazy? Does 'ding dang do' mean got that done without a problem?
A bodge job is really an unfinished job. Bodgers would make legs for chairs using a pole lathe but would not be capable of making the whole chair hence a "bodge" job.
British Slang contains quite awesome words actually, you could have given them a very hard time if you had liked. Bait: when a person is just a pretender, trying to look in a certain way with no sense of subtlety. Mancunian: I don't think they heard it anywhere before and would not guessed that. It's a person from Manchester. Taking a Richard: I never knew this, but saw Tom Hardy explaining it, it's taking a shit.
A Richard or King Richard, from Richard the Third, (a very unpopular and cruel King ) a turd also as in stop being a Richard, stop being a turd so stop being a shit. Same as stop being a dick, I just feel sorry for anyone called Richard or Dick. I feel really sorry for anyone called Dick whose surname is Head, what were their parents thinking or did they just have a perverse sense of humour.
Ok I have a nugget of info learned from one of the British farm shows. Someone who works with green wood is a Bodger. It is famously hard to do. For instance to make a rake, or a chair. So most likely it comes from people getting rakes that the tines were not in a row. A bodge job. :/ I watch way to many british documentaries. My favorite is chuffed. Im a huge Time team fan, HUGE Mick Aston fan. RIP. Any words he used on the regular I figured out.
@@Josh-yl8zo no wrong. They're focussing on rhyming slang, within which 'butchers' is short for butcher's hook. It means having a look at. The example given is likely non-native: having 'a butchers' is widely adopted, the others not so much. British slang is a load of cobbled together bits and pieces, by no means all ex-cockney rhyming slang.
Taking the piss. Storey I heard, to make gunpowder, urine was collected in barrels in cities and shipped to Yorkshire where potash was available. The ships crew didn’t like to admiit to the cargo, so would make up a story. The smell would give them away. So. “Your taking the piss”.
Spend a penny: Boomers had to pay 1 old penny to unlock a cubicle door - the lock mechanism actually collected the coins and opened when they were inserted.
I'v lived in good old Blighty for 61 years and never heard of the expression out on the lash. must be a north south, regional or generational thing, expressions I have heard of are out on the piss or out on a bender.
@@kerried7533 Yeah, a lot of them have travelled over to the ex-penal colony of Australia, showing we're still tied by the apron strings of Mother England...
So this is From What Year?? I Went to their You Tube channel and was SHOCKED- their Channel Was NO LONGER.. It Shows as of 2016 this American couple were No Longer together- this husband transitioned to be a woman THAT shows as 2016.. Why are these dates 2019 Emma and Alex? This is from at least 4-5 years ago..
the american couple broke up about 4-5 years ago. the husband transitioned to be a woman. not sure why this is dated 2019. if you go to their channel you see this man-- dated 2016 as a woman..
You guys missed soooooo many fun ones, rhyming slang would also have tested J&A... (complete) Berk...? Foolish Person Brass Tacks...? Facts Porker, Porky (short for pork pie)...? Lie (untruth) Barney Rubble...? Trouble (It's All Gone) Pete Tong...? Wrong Have (or take) a Butcher's (hook)...? Have a look... Butcher's Horse...? Red Sauce FYI: "Gobby" has another meaning... ;)
I'm with Ashley on "plonker." That's what I thought it was too, LOL!
I thoroughly enjoyed that. Beans, you do great collabs. The Way Away guesses were way more accurate than my thoughts. Nicely done all 4 of you. 👏☺
There was a popular First World War song called “Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty”
I will never forget being away with my family in France and our waitress was not particularly good looking, to be kind. We were talking about the olympics or something and my uncle turned to us and said “She mings for France”.
Something so funny about the idea that someone is so ugly that they do it competitively for their country. We still use it today - “Franck Ribéry mings for France” etc.
Loving your collaborations and really enjoyed this slang testing video 'series'.
The Oxford English Dictionary says that the BLIGHTY is a distortion of a distortion: the Urdu word vilayati either means foreign, British, English or European, and it became a common term for European visitors to India during the 1800s. A mishearing changed the v to a b, and then bilayati became Blighty, as a term to describe British imports from home, such as soda water.
Blighty is a Hindi word I believe brought back by British soldiers stationed in India. It means 'foreign parts' so the locals would say 'you come from bligthy'.
"belaiti"
It used to cost a penny to use a public toilet... hence "Spend a penny"
Yes, you had to put the penny (the big old penny) into a slot on the door and the penny had to drop before the handle could be turned to open the door of the toilet, That's also where the expression "the penny dropped" comes from.
Its Cool Seeing the 4 of you all together. Alex teach Josh to Eat a Grease Burger and DRINK and Cuss Proper. You guys are Living your Lives Right!!! I worked mine away. Keep Cheering me up Ya Nutz!!!!!!
Well put sir. I agree and can relate.
Try them with some Cockney rhyming slang like , going for a Gipsy's, you're having a Turkish, you're having a bubble, wind your neck in, Ruby Murray, dog and bone, rub a dub dub. Etc 😉
Cowboy is an interesting word with distinctly separate meanings in the UK and US
Try it out on them.
My grandfather was from Birmingham UK. When I told an English person that , she said " Oh, he's a Brummie". I thought that was cute.
Blighty is an interesting word. It really came to the fore in World War One. Soldiers would like to get a wound which would necessitate their repatriation to the UK; to get a blighty.
I like , “Wind-up merchant.” A lot of those on the internet,eh? 😆
Yeah, kinda synonymous with troll...
'Spend(ing) a Penny' relates back to the days when the cubicles in public toilets were accessed via a coin operated lock, which needed an old pre-decimal pennies to be deposited in the slot before the lock could be operated to open the door of the cubicle to gain access. I'm old enough to remember having to use this type of lock to use a public toilet. You can find some info here: www.bobthebrit.net/phrases-and-sayings/spend-a-penny/
And often written on the wall inside the cubicle were the words " Here I sat broken hearted, paid a penny and only farted"
I once told my sister at 10pm I was on the log flume and would call her back after. She actually thought I was at a theme park.
I wonder what shape Josh would describe himself as now 😂
BEANNNSSS! Love you always anyway!... But to hear Ashley say “You Plonker”....So cute you Americans! :)
We say in Dutch: I am going to rinse the potatoes.. (going to the loo)
Haha not heard that one before but I like it!
splash mi Boots!!!
IMO the proper translation is 'to go drain the potatoes'
@@10wanderer - that's for people who are pissing in the wind
@@TravelBeans To take a Slash means to go and urinate. In Public Toilets the Men would use a Urinal (Point Percy at the Porcelain) and so not Pay. Women would pay a Penny (Old Money) to unlock a Toilet as they sit for both Urinating and No 2's, Men would Spend a Penny normally only if they are doing a No 2? Staying with the urinating theme to be "Piss Poor" refers to the olden day of people having Chamber Pots under the Beds. If you lived near a Leather Tanning place the Poor would take their urine and sell it to the Tanning company and they would use it in the Tanning process. To Poo also known as to Poop or Number 2 as apposed to urinate.
Bell end, explain that one 😂
Stops your hand slipping off! 😉
*Bellend, one word 😁
Paul Murray 😂
My favourite insult while driving. 2nd is nob-cheese👍
Half of these aussies use as well
6:43 "Pear shaped". One mustn't forget the other alternative "tits up", which is equally as common, but depends whereabouts in the the UK that you live.
Haha love this british , american comparison.
Americans say 'botched' instead of 'bodge', but really close!
Blimey you must have a lot of patience if you were going to try and teach Americans about cricket.😄
American's don't say bodged, we say botched job.
Few of my favourites, "pecking my head" and "ding dang do"
What do those mean?
Does pecking my head mean going out of your head meaning something is challenging you or driving you crazy? Does 'ding dang do' mean got that done without a problem?
Pecking my head - annoying me
Ding dang do - something amazing
A bodge job is really an unfinished job. Bodgers would make legs for chairs using a pole lathe but would not be capable of making the whole chair hence a "bodge" job.
I really thought I would know English a bit... obviously I was wrong! Thanks for the fun lesson!
Blighty was derived from an Urdu word for foreign.
'You pulled, get your coat....'
Plonker! Absolutely love that word! Popularised in the UK by Only Fools And Horses. Josh and Ashley did pretty well!
Bland mustard coloured clothing, oops that's Emma's fave..
British Slang contains quite awesome words actually, you could have given them a very hard time if you had liked.
Bait: when a person is just a pretender, trying to look in a certain way with no sense of subtlety.
Mancunian: I don't think they heard it anywhere before and would not guessed that. It's a person from Manchester.
Taking a Richard: I never knew this, but saw Tom Hardy explaining it, it's taking a shit.
Mate this is no way slang well not in London from where I’m from. If your having a shit your taking a Tom Tit.
A Richard or King Richard, from Richard the Third, (a very unpopular and cruel King ) a turd also as in stop being a Richard, stop being a turd so stop being a shit. Same as stop being a dick, I just feel sorry for anyone called Richard or Dick. I feel really sorry for anyone called Dick whose surname is Head, what were their parents thinking or did they just have a perverse sense of humour.
Soo funny, great vid guys x
Ok I have a nugget of info learned from one of the British farm shows. Someone who works with green wood is a Bodger. It is famously hard to do. For instance to make a rake, or a chair. So most likely it comes from people getting rakes that the tines were not in a row. A bodge job. :/ I watch way to many british documentaries. My favorite is chuffed. Im a huge Time team fan, HUGE Mick Aston fan. RIP. Any words he used on the regular I figured out.
Love you four try some rhyming slang on them
I was having a butchers at this while having a Richard the third up the apples & pears
You laid a cable on the stairs!? 😂
Having a laugh whilst taking a turd up the stairs
@@Josh-yl8zo no wrong. They're focussing on rhyming slang, within which 'butchers' is short for butcher's hook. It means having a look at.
The example given is likely non-native: having 'a butchers' is widely adopted, the others not so much. British slang is a load of cobbled together bits and pieces, by no means all ex-cockney rhyming slang.
And Bob's your uncle
Taking the piss. Storey I heard, to make gunpowder, urine was collected in barrels in cities and shipped to Yorkshire where potash was available. The ships crew didn’t like to admiit to the cargo, so would make up a story. The smell would give them away. So. “Your taking the piss”.
Spend a penny: Boomers had to pay 1 old penny to unlock a cubicle door - the lock mechanism actually collected the coins and opened when they were inserted.
Fake silly laugh, oh look it's a chair - how hilarious, oops that Emma...
I'll just take the dog out to do his plonker! Yes!
Should try Josh and Ashley with Cockney rhyming slang, would be fun!
I'v lived in good old Blighty for 61 years and never heard of the expression out on the lash. must be
a north south, regional or generational thing, expressions I have heard of are out on the piss or out on a bender.
Part 3 Is Best 😆🎶
Hahaha
Most of these sayings used in Australia too.
Not sure maybe someone from these countries can answer that!
@@kerried7533 Yeah, a lot of them have travelled over to the ex-penal colony of Australia, showing we're still tied by the apron strings of Mother England...
Old blighty? Iv never heard that in my life but I am from the north east so I'm not a posh twat
Going for plonker. Brilliant.
You are
I had no idea that these words would be so mysterious to our friends across the pond! Awesome video guys 😊
The pond?
@@rodddacuag9008 it's a saying. "Friends across the pond"
@@rodddacuag9008 Sarcastic reference to The Atlantic Ocean.
Oh okay hahaha
Thanks
So this is From What Year?? I Went to their You Tube channel and was SHOCKED- their Channel Was NO LONGER.. It Shows as of 2016 this American couple were No Longer together- this husband transitioned to be a woman THAT shows as 2016.. Why are these dates 2019 Emma and Alex? This is from at least 4-5 years ago..
how about"Fuck i never"instead of "well i never"
the american couple broke up about 4-5 years ago. the husband transitioned to be a woman. not sure why this is dated 2019. if you go to their channel you see this man-- dated 2016 as a woman..
You guys missed soooooo many fun ones, rhyming slang would also have tested J&A...
(complete) Berk...? Foolish Person
Brass Tacks...? Facts
Porker, Porky (short for pork pie)...? Lie (untruth)
Barney Rubble...? Trouble
(It's All Gone) Pete Tong...? Wrong
Have (or take) a Butcher's (hook)...? Have a look...
Butcher's Horse...? Red Sauce
FYI: "Gobby" has another meaning... ;)
Pick beautiful days
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Sorry
It's a bodged job, not bodge job.
How's your father?
I follow Way Away, hello👍😁 love Josh and Ashley
1st one on comment again 👍😁
Diddly squat.
the Americans arent doing very well
Wish UK would outlaw "movies". See a film or picture at the cinema or " the pictures ". Too many Yankerisms.
Time to start calling them "Talkies" again
Stephen Williamson Who was it that saved your butts in WWII? 🤔
That's not how language works though.
nice people but i can hardly understand her ;-) sounds like "wrawrawrawra...".
Wow now hes transexuel.I cant believe.
going for a slash = having intimate time with a woman? haha
If you're into water sports!
Josh is clearly a make-up wearing gay man pretending to be a straight married ‘man’... we love you josh don’t be a Ming just come clean :)
The rich tea voting should have been a red flag! 🚩 😂
I believe that he has come out. He is now called Alexis and is transitioning to female. True story.
This is more middle class posh slang. Very cringe 😬