How do we REALLY express DISGUST in English ADVANCED VOCABULARY LESSON

hello everyone and welcome back to

english with you see today i’ve got a

disgusting video no I’m joking

I haven’t got a disgusting video

hopefully we are going to talk about how

to express disgust in English now I had

an idea for this video recently because

I was talking to a friend and she felt

like the English equivalent for kiosk Oh

in Spanish it wasn’t strong enough it

wasn’t good enough she wanted better

ways of expressing that she hated

something that she finds it repulsive

and it’s true I do find the Spanish

phrase for how disgusting to be much

more expressive so today I’m going to

talk you through everything I’m going to

talk you through the noise that we make

when we find something disgusting in

British culture and American culture the

word that we use to say that something’s

really awful and also all of the other

synonyms and other words that can be

used that are slightly less common and

we’re also going to talk about the

idioms that we can use to say that

something is disgusting that we really

dislike something and I’ve also included

a little bit of slang as well in case

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okay

firstly let’s talk about the sound that

we make when we are disgusted I have

noticed that different cultures and

different languages make different

sounds so I do invite you to write the

sound or at least attempt to write the

sound that you make in your culture when

something is disgusting

that’s quite a hard challenge so I don’t

blame you if you find it difficult what

we say is yuck or Oh in British English

as well or Oh Oh in American English

they are also really inclined to say ill

ill sometimes followed by gross and

because we have a lot of American movies

and TV shows in the UK now our children

are starting to say ill grouse and gross

in fact I think I remember saying it as

a child and my mum was saying don’t say

that say yuck

you’re British when we in the UK see

something disgusting we’re likely to say

if we don’t make the noise we could say

how disgusting but it does seem like a

lot of syllables to say something in a

short space of time

how discussed if it sounds quite formal

so we would also say that’s horrible or

oh that’s awful

Americans would just say gross some

other vocabulary we have rancid rancid

rancid is often used for moldy food or

out-of-date milk things like that

repulsive repulsive

repugnant repugnant so those last year

repulsive and repugnant are often used

to describe very unattractive offensive

things gruesome gruesome gruesome you’ll

often hear to describe lots of blood

maybe a murder scene or a gruesome

horror movie nauseating nauseating to

feel nauseous means that you want to be

sick to vomit you might not want to

physically vomit but you feel the

inclination to vomit nauseating is the

adjective to describe this a nauseating

film a film that made me want to be sick

loathsome to loathe something is quite

an emphatic way of saying to hate

something so if something is loathsome

it is odious I hate it vile and vulgar

this means very unpleasant is often used

to describe bad language if somebody is

swearing a lot you might say stop using

such vile language stop being so vulgar

one that my grandmother loves use is

ghastly ghastly this just means awful

terrible if somebody’s wearing a

terrible outfit you might say oh she

looks ghastly don’t ever say that turn

someone’s face because that’s me a

couple of slang words now that you can

use the first one is rank rank I have a

feeling that this is a very British one

I remember it becoming popular in middle

school so 15 years ago if something is

ranked it’s just really unpleasant and

disgusting oh your salad looks rank

it’s very slang another one is very

childish it’s icky oh that’s icky yucky

icky they’re both very childish words

and the last one the last slang word is

vom worthy vom is obviously short for

vomit and worthy

means it’s deserving of vomit vomit that

film was vom worthy I just wanted to

throw up right now we’re going to talk

about eight idioms that express disgust

they can also touch on fear and kind of

mistrust as well often those emotions

are quite closely linked so number one

is to make one’s skin crawl to make your

skin crawl

you all know the feeling don’t you it’s

usually used to describe a person that

makes you feel disgusted frightened or

unnerved

for example that PE teacher who used to

watch us get changed really made my skin

crawl

it’s so sad that we’ve all had creepy

teacher experiences I’ve had far too

many and it wasn’t just to me it was

just to all the girls in the school

there were really some people that

shouldn’t have been teaching but that’s

a story for another day

number two is to make one’s stomach turn

if something makes your stomach turn it

makes you want to be sick it’s that

instant feeling where your whole stomach

shifts when you see something disgusting

I can’t eat mushrooms they make my

stomach turn that’s totally not true I

love mushrooms but my brother-in-law to

be hates mushrooms and he will actually

be sick they make his stomach turn

number three is to give someone the

heebie-jeebies I love this I think it’s

also referred to as the creeps as well

that’s maybe more American oh he gives

me the heebie-jeebies he makes me feel

frightened unnerved and scared and

disgusted it’s very very similar to make

my skin crawl as they say it was

describing that same feeling it doesn’t

necessarily have to be used to describe

people though

for example this abandoned warehouse

gives me the heebie-jeebies it gives me

the creeps

number four is to make someone shudder

to make someone shudder to shudder is to

shake and shiver out of disgust well for

example the thought of eating that moldy

chicken makes me shudder well

number five is to be unable to stand the

sight of to be unable to stand the sight

of commonly said as oh I can’t stand the

sight of it means you can’t bear to look

at something even looking at it is too

disgusting for you for example I can’t

stand the sight of spiders it’s all

those little spindly legs jerking I love

spiders I was just thinking of something

that people are commonly disgusted by

because I don’t think people are as

scared of spiders as they are disgusted

correct me if I’m wrong are you scared

of a little tiny spider or are you

disgusted by it

because I can understand disgust but

fear fear for a little tiny spider

unless you live in Australia then then

that’s fine you can be scared number six

is to have no stomach for to have no

stomach for or to not be able to stomach

to not be able to stomach I can’t

stomach X if I eat X then I will be sick

for example again not true I love this

food I can’t stomach blue cheese I’ve

got no stomach for blue cheese it’s the

mould I swear the blue bits in it I’m

old number seven is to break out in a

cold sweat or to break someone out in a

cold sweat again this can refer to

making someone feel scared or to making

someone feel disgust it for example

ah the thought of staying in a 2-star

hotel makes me break out in a cold sweat

make me feel so disgusted that I sweat

and the last one number eight is to make

one’s blood run cold to make one’s blood

run cold this again is maybe leaning

slightly more to feeling frightened I

just think to feel scared and feel

disgusted can be so close you would use

this phrase to describe someone that you

really don’t trust you’re scared of them

disgusted by them and you don’t trust

them for example that weird lady down

the road makes my blood run cold I don’t

trust her I don’t think she’s up to any

good right that’s it for today his

disgusting video your homework for today

apart from describing the noise

you make in your culture and language

when something is disgusting is to write

something that disgusts you using some

of the vocabulary that we’ve discussed

in this lesson disgust disgust yes they

they sound the same they are homophones

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