British Slang vs Australian Slang Colloquial English Words and Phrases
hello and welcome back to english with
Lucy I got a very special guest today
this is Emma (Hello Emma) hi I’m Emma from the YouTube
channel mmmEnglish English English I’m
so glad to be here today. It’s so nice to
have you I was so excited when Emma got in
contact with me because i actually saw
your channel a while ago and I thought mmmm. Good that’s what I wanted you to think!
No I really liked it, she does really really fun
and pretty videos that are really really lovely. You might have noticed
that Emma I have quite different accents
this is because obviously I’m English and
I’m Australian
yeah so which part are you from? I’m from Melbourne
So right down the southern end of Australia
about as far away from London as you can
possibly get. Yeah it’s the other side of the world isn’t it?
It literally is!
But very exciting, Emma’s visiting
England and it’s a lovely rainy day
very English day
yeah but, you know, this is the true England
this is what I came for!
exactly! Welcome to my country!
In this video I’m going to give Emma five
british slang phrases words phrases and
she has to guess what they mean and
they’re a little bit obscure so I think
it’ll be quite fun. Uuh you’ve picked some really hard one for me then
yeah and after that you can check out
the video on my channel where I’ll be
testing Lucy on some Australian slang ok
so I’ve got my list of british slang
words and phrases on my phone
no cheating so what does it mean if i
say Gordon Bennett? as soon as you said
Gordon Bennett i think of Pride and
Prejudice and I think of Elizabeth Bennett
and so I have no idea. Go on you have to
guess you have to guess when would you use Gordon
Bennett? Is it like like golly OH, oooh she’s quite
close yeah so it means like ‘blimey’ or crikey', it’s to show surprise or shock so in context
it’s like something surprising
happened you’d say oh Gordon Bennett I can’t believe
that all right now the next one
is codswallop and I do actually use this one
a bit i think that means something like
I don’t believe you
ok so give me a, give me a situation so if
you told me that all British people are
hilarious
I’d say codswallop. Codswallop means
nonsense or rubbish
so if you don’t believe what someone’s saying you could say
codswallop, absolute codswallop. The next one
then, dishy. Oooh dishy.
Can I ask for clues? Yeah within
reason
is it an adjective? Adjective! Dishy
I was hoping for the other one
Dishy, dishy, like fishy strange? No
if I said that someone is dishy
oh likegood-looking oh yes well done
yeah so if I say ooh he’s a bit dishy it
means he’s quite good looking delicious
yeah like I feel likesomewhere along the line that
comes from a saying that was like he’s a
bit of a dish. Oooh can you say that? Can you say that in Austalian? He’s a
bit of a dish. He’s a total dish
I don’t even know if anyone really says
that but i’m going to start
something you guys can all start saying it too
yeah, total dish!
I’m expecting that in the comments Lucy
and Emma you are dishes! Dishes! Yeah!
okay what about this one this one is a
phrasal verb and it is to blow off to
blow off something means to like, like if you were….mmmm
There are a couple of meanings actually there are a couple of
meanings
ok so the one that I think it is if you
can i describe it? If you blow off someone it
means that you you make a plan to meet
them and they …uh hang on. No you are right.
or one meaning there’s one
definition to blow someone off is to
make a plan and then let them down just cancel it
that’s the one! But I’m talking about a real slang
meaning
ok to blow off someone we..theres no
there’s no object actually. Oh. You just
blow off
Oh to get angry? Nope! No, that’s blow up isn’t it.
you might have me here so I’m going to
ask you: Emma, did you just blow off? really that’s what
you say blow off. Yeah, to fart! to
pass gas out of your nether regions. To blow off means to pass wind.
it’s a very proper way it’s saying it
could you definitely also just say fart. Fart? Yeah fart you can use.
when i was a child with my mom always
said Lucy it’s not a fart
it’s a blow off so you can use it as a
noun and also as a verb. I used to get Emma, it’s
not a fart it’s a fluff we can also say
pop off as well
okay you’ve got lots of options there
for someone who releases gas
blahh
ok last one then ok this one’s an noun
and it’s nosh, nosh, nosh, nosh so it’s a nice
one to say. It is! nosh!
posh, mosh. You can have posh nosh. Can you?
mmm! oh so is it like food or drink?
yes! Food! It’s just food! Food, if I say shall we
go and grab some nosh it is quite a posh way of saying
it. And if i’m talking about posh nosh we’re
going to get some expensive food.
okay yeah all right! Cheap nosh, cheap food.
Yeah nosh is a good one, very colloquial
But quite posh colloquial so yeah use it
…poshly! Poshly. So like it’s quite
common, people use it all the time. If you use it
people will understand it, absolutely but it’s
it’s not common common. It kind of sounds
like…do you have dosh? Dosh as well yeah
money
yeah money so posh nosh costs
lot of dosh. What a team! Right so
That was the end of my video now you need to
go and check Emma’s video on her mmmEnglish
channel. The link is gonna be in
the description just down there and you
can see Emma testing me on my
Australian slang knowledge
so yes, I hope you enjoy the video don’t
forget to connect with me on all my
social media which is all over Emma’s face.
yeah I know embrace it, all over your face
and we’ll both see you back for another
video very very soon! Mwah!