REAL American Guesses BRITISH Slang/Words! (Funny) // What Does OBNOXIOUS Mean to Brits?
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Would it be obnoxious of me to say that Emily reminds me a bit of Monica Lewinsky?
Obnoxious in the UK is someone or something that is rude, offensive or arrogant.
Unpleasant is the definition.
@@yeahmyrealnameright5967 I think Tony Smith.defined it better. Your reply was quite 'obnoxious' lol.
I'd put it as descriptive of behaviour which is downright offensive or approaching poisonous
@@yeahmyrealnameright5967 It is a bit stronger than just 12unpeaseant. Odious, abhorrent, loathsome would be better.
To me it’s someone who is self-centred and irritating. Like people playing loud music through a speaker in public.
If told to bog off it means go away. also a Bogoff means Buy one, get one for free. Bogged down means overloaded with work or unable to progress. Bog a very versatile word.
Good reply ...!
You can also say something is bog standard, meaning without any extras.
Or going on the bog or anyone got any bog roll.
I would say BOGOF (Buy one get one free) since the term "for free" is incorrect UK English, although many people do use the term.
@@chriswilson1853 Depends entirely on the area of Britain one spent one's formative years.
A paper towel is what you dry your hands on in public bogs if they don't have a hand dryer.
You have kitchen roll - for kitchens and
Bog roll for bogs
"Nicked" is also slang for getting arrested by the police, such as "You're nicked sunshine" or "he got nicked for speeding"
Nick can also mean to put a small cut into something
Nick is also whee you might be taken if you are nicked (police station).
@@itsmephil2255 as in getting caught on barbed wire
Or I’ve just nicked some lead off the church roof ….. or ….. who’s nicked my sandwiches ….
If you think of "nicked" in the sense of taking something, then you could see the police "nicking" you as being that they've taken you away - arrested you and taken you to the police station.
But, yeah, it's different enough that it's probably worth mentioning the usage.
Pram is a short version of the full (Victorian era) name - perambulator. That name comes from the verb ‘perambulate’ which means ‘to walk around’.
A "pram", which is short for "perambulator", is basically a cot (US: "crib") on wheels, used for wheeling around a baby outdoors but not the British equivalent of the US "stroller", which we would call a "pushchair".
We refer to the pushchair as a buggy. A pram would be more for a newborn.
@@teenybabs I remember right up until the 1970s in England when there were only prams and then around the late 1970s early 1980s when pushcairs became the in thing. So, yes, prams (perambulator aka walking cot were huge things) were used for babies of all age, not just newborns. Also, the prams had straps attached to the sides that could be used to strap the baby in so that it could sit up in it.
@@adinas6516 Yip
Prams are the best!!
We also use the word stroller for a 'lightweight' pushchair. One that is easily foldable, small and can fits in your car however I appreciate the new pushchair are much more user friendly than the ones I used 20 odd years ago for my children
Legging it comes from people that worked on canal barges. When the barge came to a tunnel they world detach the horse and take it to the other side of the tunnel, then some of the crew, the leggers would leg it through the tunnel, whereby they move the barge by laying on top of it and walking along the side of the tunnel.
In the UK, "pants" also means "rubbish/terrible", as in "I watched a new programme on TV last night and it was pants".
Depending where you are in the UK, it also means trousers, which makes perfect sense, as pants go over your underpants
@@monkeysputum Very true. I'm from the North and always call my trousers "pants".
We don't use pants for trousers in the south. It's either underwear or means it's rubbish
@@steveray2529 I'm from the South and I would say trousers or strides.
@@steveray2529 nah what are you on about? I don't know a single person who calls trousers pants. We ain't Americans lol
Leg it is usually a bit more specific than that. It's normally used to mean running away, rather than just running generally.
"Leg it, there's a copper coming!"
@@fredneecher1746 For example! 👍🏻
I've always taken it as absolutely pacing it. So I need to leg it to catch the train, rather than run. Hence why you leg it from the police
@@andrewcharlton4053 Makes sense. Maybe there are regional variations?
“Quid” for a £ comes from the latin “quid pro quo” which means “this for that”.
Yes, or 'measure for measure'...
A quick note as well that we do have paper towels, but they are usually ones that come out singularly from a dispenser or the like. Kitchen roll is kitchen roll because we keep it in the kitchen and its a continuous roll you rip sheets from.
Yep paper towel is what you get in a public toilet or at school to dry your hands, kitchen towel is softer and more absorbent, for mopping up spills in the home.
Yep defo always called kitchen roll on my house not kitchen paper
I would use obnoxious in respect of a person's behaviour, e.g. they are rude, arrogant, offensive. One step below being vile.
Yes I'd define it as arrogant plus another expletive! Us Brits (the majority) hate arrogance in people
@@keneke5162 as a Brit, I'm fine with arrogance. Arrogance is just highly confident in your abilities/knowledge. I hate cockiness & I feel there's a major difference between the 2.
@@kevoconnor145 I agree 👍 Especially on social multimedia platforms, I feel whenever you highlight your own opinions everyone is eager to swiftly jump on the 'arrogant arse' bandwagon 😑
@@luckytri9716 Agreed, but not just social media. I'm willing to say, I believe few are as good at my job as me & I'm not afraid to admit that. Many would call that arrogant but I have no issues with that. However, if I was obnoxious about it & lauding it over people, or I was chatting big without being able to follow it up, that would be cocky & that's what I hate.
The best distinction I’ve heard for arrogance vs confidence is that arrogance is confidence (and usually over confidence) without generosity. James Potter trying to hold off Lord Voldemort and immediately dying could be considered overconfident but never arrogant because he was trying to be helpful/supportive. Lord Voldemort expecting to be able to easily kill Harry in the graveyard would be arrogant though, because it is not just overconfident, he is also behaving selfishly and making fun of Harry’s relative weakness.
To an extent, I would describe being arrogant as being obnoxiously self-assured rather than arrogance in itself being part of being obnoxious.
Your friend did very well. I think ‘obnoxious’ has the same meaning on both sides of the Pond - objectionable and/or offensive. ‘Gobby’ comes from ‘gob’, which is a slang word for the mouth. “Shut your gob”, is a rude way of demanding someone stop talking. ‘Gob’ gives rise to other slang words, like ‘gobshite’, used as an insult (probably originally someone talking nonsense, but now a general term of abuse), and my favourite, ‘gobsmacked’, meaning astounded.
So America mustn't have gobstoppers
@@redf7209 They are called jawbreakers in the US
Gobsmacked means rendered speachless, probably but not exclusively as a result of being astounded by something
@@andrewdking kind of like the look on someone's face when they are literally smacked in the mouth
And not to forget gobby or gobbie is also slang for oral sex.
"Pants" is also used to say something is rubbish "That's a bit pants"
You've actually brought up another one there with rubbish :) I don't think Americans use the word rubbish (Please correct me if I'm wrong).
Rubbish means trash, but it is also used to describe something being bad :D
That use of the word 'pants' is a modern idiom. If you had said that in the Uk when I was young no one would have understood what you meant.
@@c2757 True but we are not talking about when you were young we are talking about slang as used today.
I knew an American who went looking in the bread aisle of the supermarket when his English girlfriend asked him to buy some bog rolls.
You're pal is a lovely person as are you. Both lovely folk who are so endearing.
It’s amazing how many differences there are between UK English and US English, my son lives in Chicago and he sent a photo of his dog to his other half and said “look at his face, butter wouldn’t melt” she was well confused. 🤣
(Don't know where you're from in the UK so it might not make much sense) My boyfriend is half American, half British. He came back from the US today and apparently got a large amount of strange looks from people due to the variations of phrases he's picked up from me. I'm a Northerner, and phrases like "Bloody Nora", "Gordon Bennett", "Christ on a bike", and "Bloody Hell" are well cemented in my vocabulary. Some have ended up in his which, strangely enough, people thought were a bit weird.
Flaming Norah is I think Australian.
Well done that woman! It might be kitchen roll in a kitchen, but it's definitely going to be a paper towel in a lavatory. To my mind, paper towels are usually individual sheets and don't generally come on a roll unless in an industrial setting,
Yeah, I distinguish it this way:
A toilet roll is what I buy and store for later use, toilet paper is when it's actually being used in sheets.
We use the word roll when referring to toilet paper and kitchen paper towels because they come on a roll. Nothing odd about that. In my kitchen I use kitchen roll to mop up small spills or drain greasy food and a Terry towelling kitchen towel to dry my hands. To dry dishes I use a tea towel.
Pants meaning underwear is a southern thing. In the north it just means trousers . - originating from 'pantaloons'. Chuffed comes from pigeon keeping, a happy bird chuffs its feathers up.
Though donkeys years ago when visiting Wallasey I was advised that the scouse term at the time was kecks...confusingly I've also more recently heard the term as referring to underwear too...
@@cogidubnus1953 some say kegs and kecks to refer alternatively to underwearr and pants. Wondering if it derives from a mix of knicker and legging. SInce women were not known for wearing trousers in days of yore it makes sense that any leg clothing they referred to would have been about underwear and not pants.
I’m in north east and pants means underwear. Specifically ladies ‘non fancy’ underwear. Men wear underpants never just pants. 👍🤣
'Leg it' is what canal boat people used to do in the UK when they came to a tunnel. They untied the horse that had been pulling their boat and one person takes the horse around the hill to the other end of the tunnel. (no foot paths in a tunnel). The other people lie on their backs on top of the boat and with their feet on the top of the tunnel they propel the boat through the tunnel. This is called legging it.
Nick also means slight damage. "I nicked the edge of it." Obnoxious would be best described, for Brits, as "intensely irritating". "Bog off" means "go away".
Nick is also somewhere you go if you get nicked by the police, nicking stuff.
You should try her on Bristolian 😂
Pants generally refers to mens' underwear, as in underpants. Womens' versions are usually called panties, or knickers.
Also 'Its Pants' means something is awful,
Pants also means trousers in the north
Pants are trousers 👖
Panties is an American term for knickers. I have never heard anyone use that term here
@@claredawson9531 My wife is from Newcastle and she calls trousers pants. Proper gives me the 'ump, I tell thee!
I live in the UK and i've always called them paper towels, i know the word leg it refers to people pushing a canal boat threw a small tunnel lying on your back while pushing on the tunnel roof using your legs.
Tunnels were expensive, difficult and dangerous to construct and ventilate. It was often cheaper to make it without, or maybe no room for a towpath for the horse to use..
If you said “paper towel” I would think of the sort of paper towel that you find in the public bogs to dry your hands after you’ve washed them.
“Kitchen roll” is what you use for mopping up spills, mainly in the kitchen, but also elsewhere.
How do you think Emily did?!
She did ok.
Obnoxious appears to have the same meaning, checking with Merriam Webster and Cambridge dictionaries.
Definitely better than most Americans who try this kind of thing. A lot better. 👏🏻
Very good…great reaction to bog.
But you missed so many good ones.
Have a butchers
Tell porkies
Bairn
ginnel
Point percy
But Emily did well :)
* 7:58 we mostly say "kitchen roll", so you threw away a good example to back up the point you had just made :)
Pants (the noun) is "below the waist MALE underwear" (usually "Y-Fronts" or "Boxer Shorts), it will NOT include a vest or similar garment used for the upper torso...so check out the differences in the meaning of "vest" on both sides of the pond. Oh and bear in mind the female versions of the same where we use "knickers" to mean "panties" BUT:
Pants (the adjective) means "useless", "bad" "rubbish" etc e.g "The Marlins played pants". or "that was a pants result".
underpants go under the pants. hence pants = trousers. i'm english and have always used pants to mean trousers. different areas seem to use it differently.
Hmm I don't have the gender distinction for pants the noun. For me it is the umbrella term for everyone's underwear on their lower half, and they can be described as boxers, briefs, knickers, etc depending on shape and style.
*Pants* is a colloquial term for trousers/slacks/jeans. What you wear on the outside.
*Underpants* are underwear for men. *Knickers* are underwear for women.
Depends on where in the UK you are. Yorkshire when I was growing up was underwear.
I must live in a different part of Yorkshire.
In 70s Salford i wore pants over underpants....in Devon my wife thinks I'm weird👖😁
07:10 Leg it - more commonly refers to escaping / running away from
Law enforcement ( the correct grammatical legal word is absconding )
Just watched this entertaining episode tonight at home in Melbourne Australia. Many of the British slang terms you featured are in use in many parts of Australia. I do enjoy watching two friends having real fun.
That's a new spelling of "brolly", to me.
"At the picnic, Nick got nicked for nicking knickers," etc....
Leg it is usually used when running away from someone in authority (police/teacher/ticket collector) by people who are doing something they are not supposed to. i.e. The rozzers are coming we'd better leg it. Past tense 'He had it away on his toes'.
Gobby is somebody who is verbally loud and overbearing from 'gob' which is another word for mouth in the North of England. i.e. 'Will yer shut yer big gob', often followed in this context by an offer to punch said orifice.
Bog is an area of muddy ground so using the word to describe the toilet makes sense, at least to Brits
The term also originated from before we had indoor toilets. When outhouses were wooden structures over a pit. The job of the “night soil remover” was to dig out the waste and remove it.
Excellent news that your allowed on a plane and get to visit family and friends. How exciting. Must be nice to start feeling normal again :) Thanks for another entertaining video
Yeah, you can use kitchen towels for those other jobs too.
Paper towels are what you find in some public toilets in the UK. It’s blue paper that you take out of a dispenser to dry your hands after washing them.
You don’t see them much now as they’ve been replaced with electric hand dryers.
Although they have become slightly more popular again since the COVID pandemic, because they don’t blow viruses around.
07:37 a bog is a marshy area --
However the word has a secondary slang usage for Toilet
The peasants of olden days resided in a shack as they could not
afford what we would recognize and accept as decent housing.
In addition - The two smelliest rooms - The Kitchen and Toilette
were separate to the residential quarters --
For the peasant classes the marshy land ( Bog ) was used as a Toilette.
and the term persists to this day as a slang word.
Big regional differences too across the UK. Some areas can't even understand some regional accents never mind sayings. Great channel
The term “Blighty” comes from WW1, from the Indian word Vilatyi - which apparently sounded like Blighty when the troops stationed in India heard the word being said … 🤯👀😵💫 a “Blighty One” was a war wound considered serious enough for the soldier to have to return to England for it to be treated. Although no soldier wanted to get hurt, if they did, they wanted it to be a “Blighty One”
Good explanation. I suspect it dates to the "Raj" (19th century) though, rather than WWI, since India was not a theatre of war in WWI. That war focused almost exclusively on Europe and was known as the European War until WWII came along. It counts as a world war because soldiers from all over the British Empire, Francophone Africa, Italian Abyssinia and, latterly, the USA served in it.
@@grapeman63
Indian troops fought in Flanders in the Great War. It wasn’t just a European war, there was fighting in Africa between German and British Empire troops, and there was a lot of fighting in the Middle East between troops of the British and Ottoman Empires. Of course, there was also the Arab revolt (Lawrence of Arabia etc.) which was encouraged by the British.
@@jerry2357 I didn't say that Indian troops didn't fight, only that they didn't fight in India. If you read my post again you'll see that I said troops from all over the British Empire fought in Europe, which was the major theatre of the war. Between the wars the war was known as the "European War". The British Encyclopedia of 1933 devotes over 100 pages to the war under this title. It has zero pages under the title "World War I" as it wasn't called this until after WWII.
@@grapeman63 I never said that the Great War was called World War 1 at the time. It was known as the Great War, as you will find if you look at war memorials or books written before WWII.
@@jerry2357 I've tried to reply to this with references but TH-cam seems to block these posts. I have found a number of references published between the wars that call it "The European War". However, I have also found just as many calling it "The Great War".
There is a piece on the 100th anniversary of the war that discusses the naming of the war. This piece notes that during the conflict the war was known by both names and that both names have their problems. "The European War", of course, soon escalated to include Africa and the Middle East and so that moniker was no longer really relevant. The "Great War" seemed to glorify the conflict which many found to be obscene. Nevertheless, both terms persisted until the late 1930s when "The First World War" gained ground as the threat of a second increased. The problem that using "The First World War" had was that the term had previously been applied to what we now call "The Seven Years' War", 1756 - 1763.
'Leg it' comes from the method to get a canal boat through a tunnel in the 18th century. Normally pulled by a horse, which cannot get through the tunnel without the tow path, the boat men had to lie on the roof of the boat with their legs outboard to push against the sides of the tunnel. Thus 'legging it.
7:57 Kitchen Roll. You literally just said that we use Roll for everything, then said Kitchen towel.
Also, we do have Paper towels, as used in a public bathroom for drying your hands, where they don't have an electric blow hand drier, but there's also paper roll (where I worked, they called it blue roll, because it was blue) that is a more general purpose paper towel. When I worked at college, in engineering they used it to clean oily machinery, or car parts.
Paper Towels are used for drying your hands after washing them in a school or public wash room / restroom (that doesn't have hot air hand dryers)
As others have said, the verb "to nick" has more than one meaning and also a related noun. To nick also means to be caught by the police and the nick is also a slang term for a police station. So, it would be possible to say "She nicked some stuff from the shop but the police nicked her for shoplifting and they took her down to the nick". Although I don't think anyone would actually use the word in all three senses within one sentence.
Totally useless bit of trivia, a common name for police stations (that had cells) in different parts of the UK was "Bridewell". Cities like Leeds, Bradford, Nottingham, Liverpool, Bristol etc still have police stations called "Bridewell". The name comes from the time of Henry VIII when Cardinal Wolsey built a palace at St Brides Well in London. It was later turned into a prison and Bridewell became a common name for jails in England at that time.
You're allowed to use a kitchen towel anywhere but it is mainly used in the kitchen hence the term kitchen towel (or roll if you prefer)!!!
the bog thing made me crack up!! we also use it for an actual bog as in a muddy area of land
Pants isn't underwear all over the UK. Where I'm from pants are trousers. What you wear underneath is underpants or boxers, etc.
Same here in Lancashire
Some alternatives to bog could be Khazi, crapper, shitter common in Australia, loo, cludgie (more a northern term), lav, lavvy, privvy, W C or Water Closet, head usually naval or boating term, throne.
Love the channel, subscribed to see more! xx
Also old term for an outside loo was "Thunder box" 😊.
Crapper is an American term which originated with US soldiers in Britain during WW1 when they saw toilets with the brand Thomas Crapper.
Lovely to see two old friends together x
I'll never forget saying "He's smart" in front of my gran. Never heard the end of it. He's clever not smart... he can dress smart but he cannot be smart.
I like this channel. You Tube recommended it yesterday altho I'm not sure why cos it's not like any stuff I usually watch. But its light hearted and a bit of fun. Emily looks like someone I've seen in a movie or two but I cant think which ones? The word 'obnoxious' contains the word 'noxious' with a bit added on to it. So that's a bit of a clue and works with me if I have to guess at the meaning of a word I dont know. Thanks girls! x
Kitchen roll is the preferable sort of paper towels - back when I was a kid the school had paper towels instead of a hand drier. They were awful, and inevitably was something else for a school toilet to run out of.
Another great one is “suspenders”: I know of an American guy who wore them, and went to buy some in the UK. The shopkeeper looked at him funny, since in UK “suspenders” specifically means the things ladies use to hold up stockings in fancy or old-fashioned lingerie. The type men wear are called “braces”.
Gobby is an extension of Gob, meaning mouth. So someone that is gobby means that are talking to much. Usually offensively.
Too much.
I was chuffed looking at you two ..nice video 🇬🇧🌹
Enjoyed your show by the way.
Enjoyed this. Perhaps to let you know though, if you don't already, is that one of the great things about the English language is how 'fluid' it is. Words change constantly and Brits use words in random ways. So for example - I liked your 'plastered' example. BUT most Brits would understand what you meant if you put the letters 'ed' on almost any word, if you intimated it meaning you had got very drunk. I tried this one day with my daughter and her boyfriend; first we went A to Z of common words for 'very drunk'. So arse-oled, bladdered etc etc. But we then invented ones, but between us we knew if someone said it, you would know what they meant. My favourite (looking out the train window) was scaffolded, closely followed by radiatored. Any Brit who said "I was out in town last night - got absolutely scaffolded" would instantly now what you mean! Try it.
Pants also means rubbish in the UK like, “that show that I went to was really pants”
Chuffed is actually “ one feeling happy or
Please with your self about good news news, or something you have done”
How about 'suspenders'? Or 'vest'? I think 'chuffed' is being pleased with oneself, for having inadvertently or unexpectedly gained some advantage.
Kitchen Roll is probably used to describe it because it is stored in the kitchen (in most cases I'd assume). Paper towels are individual sheets that are generally found in public toilets and work places.
minted can also be used to describe something that is very good.
"did you have a good time at the concert?" "yeah it was minted"
OMG your friend is an absolute stunner ❤
Nicked is also slang for being arrested or being summoned for court. Well done Emily it is obvious you have visited the UK. Hope you enjoyed your stay here.
Oh, beware - I called a female colleague "fit" once - that is, she looked healthy and athletic. But I was working with people from northern England, where to describe someone as "fit" means you think they are attractive...I mean, she was attractive...because she was fit. Er...
Quid doesn't only mean British Pound(s). If you took a bite of a piece of chewing tobacco for example, that mouthful you bit off is also called a quid. The plural is"quids" in this case, whereas it never has an S at the end when referring to money.
We say paper towels too. Kitchen towels are just thicker and used to wipe up big spillages, which tend to be in the kitchen.
The title should be southern English because up north we don’t use some of these terms
A roll of paper to some one British, would think of paper you write/draw on. And a paper roll is something that is put in to a till so shopping receipt can be printed on to. Whereas a Kitchen roll is quilted and used to wipe up spillages, which mainly happens in the kitchen.
Fabulous video looking forward to seeing another one where you take her to a village
Obnoxious is generally only applied to peoples attitude and behaviour rather than an object. If you were trying to describe the loudness of the car alarm you would probably describe it along the lines of "that loud it's about to blow the windows out" or describe it as being something far louder than it is eg foghorn, air raid siren.
On 'plastered', essentially adding -ed to the end of almost any word or item would mean drunk. Carparked, hammered, etc
trolly'd, bladdered, slaughtered -you're so right!
Very amusing. Btw, we usually say "you did well", rather than "you did good". I dont know why, though.
"Fortnight" obviously comes from the abbreviation of "fourteen nights". While "Fortnight" is still used by everyone in Britain, they don't use the now archaic "sennight" (derived from seven nights, ie one week), though it can be found in literature from the Middle Ages.
Pram is not a stroller. Stroller is a pushchair. Different things
Good one lady's, your welcome in the UK anytime.👍
‘Leg it’ means to run fast in pursuit of or away from something/someone. ‘I was late for my train i had to leg it’ or ‘its the police! Leg it!!’
I'm British and I do sometimes use the word obnoxious as a noun to describe a thing that is brash and arrogant. But I do think British people mainly use it as a verb.
American in the UK for 15 years here. 👋🏼 I enjoyed that, and also thought the result was impressive. That is a point about 'roll' being everywhere! I would add 'bread roll' and 'sausage roll'.
Just so you know fortnight is a contraction of fourteen nights hence 2 weeks. Obvious once you know that right.
If I said something was 'obnoxious', it would mean behaviour I found absolutely disgusting.
Also “nicked” can also mean arrested/ in the nick = in prison
Thank god they didn’t ask about the Aussie slang word “GOBBY”!!!
I copped a Blighty when I was in France...
For Emily's next UK visit (not sure if you mentioned her visiting before) take her to either Newcastle, Liverpool or Glasgow. Find a local and see what happens :-)
Try getting her to translate this one, it was something from when I was a kid but can't remember the exact source. It was from a song, it was killing me not remembering, but it was wor Geordie not kid.
Wor kids lost a liggy doon the netty.
or
My brother has lost a marble down the toilet.
And yes that is still current, though not sure how many would know that a liggy is a marble these days. But used that expression because of the toilet link :-)
Not sure what difference there is between US/UK obnoxious, seems like we use it the same way. Might be a southern (uk) thing.
Hmm, English is a bit more nuanced than it first appears. For example: 'Chuffed' by itself does mean really happy, but 'Chuffed off' means really angry, while 'chuffing nora' is a mild expletive, and 'chuff off' means vaguely the same as 'p!ss off'.
'Up the chuff' can mean something that has gone really badly wrong, or 'sodomy' depending on context. 'A chuff' would be an anus in that context.
You could have a 'chuff of smoke', which is the noise and smoke a steam engine makes, or 'smoke a chuff' meaning smoke weed.
Like most English words these all depend on context (what you are talking about), county (where you're from, local dialects) and company (who you are talking to.)
In Britain Pissed is drunk, but pissed off means annoyed.
Chuffed has an element of self-satisfaction.
Chuffed= pleased with yourself (May be like a bird displaying its plumage (as the Chough or Chuff)) 400 year old expression so no-one is sure where it came from.
Pissed up is something we use when we've drank too much
Yeah, if I am pissed I am drunk. If a Yank is pissed it usually means they are annoyed or upset at something or someone. Strange how we just add the word "off" to mean the same.
"Obnoxious", to me, as a Brit, means "highly unpleasant", and I think I've only ever used it to refer to either a person or a smell ("nox" is to do with smells).
You're right. The word originally meant "to smell bad".
The wonder of the YT algorithm. I don't even really know why I enjoyed this so much, but I so did. Well chuffed.
You did very well well done!
A bog is a marshy area in the UK, too. It’s a British word.
We just ALSO use it as slang for toilet.
Same with John for you, John also has the real meaning (a name) as well as the slang meaning (toilet).
@Martin Cregan Yes, you are correct. I meant it's not an American-English word.
Being in the racing industry, I am totally familiar with the term 'yielding'. Basically, it is what Irish courses call "good to soft", is it a word that is used outside of racing in Ireland (with this definition)?
Bog is the Irish word for “soft”.
Kitchen roll is called that because paper towels are the ultra low quality paper you'd get in schools to dry your hands with so no one says it after you leave because you never see them again...
'Fortnight' is the shortened version of an Old English word meaning 'fourteen nights'. (I didn't know that until I just Googled it!)
Also we do say paper towel, its a different material to kitchen roll
Totally brilliant guys
Bog Snorkeling - y'all must have that in sunny Fl ??
I have never heard anyone in Britain call a "kitchen roll" a "kitchen towel". As far as I am concerned a towel is something you dry your hands or face on and nothing else.
Also were you're from alters the words and slang you use when speaking. For instance I'm from the North-east of England. Netty=Toilet, Pagga:Fight, Gadgie:Man, Canny:Good, Clamming:Hungry.