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
you want that too so this video is
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right let’s get on with the vocab lesson
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out-of-date milk things like that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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