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Some other slang phrases:
The hood of a U.S. car is equal to the bonnet of a British car. The trunk of a U.S. car is equal to that of the boot of a British car. In America, we offer a lady a ride in a car whilst in the U.K. I would offer her a lift, lest I get slapped! I once paid 10P to pee in a Scottish water closet in Montrose. Here in America, they would be referred to as public restrooms, and it would be free to pee. Of course, soccer in America is known as football in the U.K. and the rest of the world - oh how "colonial" we Americans can be! There's so many, I really don't know how Americans and British can understand each other..... |
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Before we get asked, a sanger is a sausage
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Buckley and Nunn was a Melbourne store. "You've got two chances: Buckley's and none." Yasser Crackafat Last edited by Tmee2020; December 10th, 2010 at 10:55 AM.. |
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In English the word bog can be used to refer to the toilet.
eg I'm going to the bog The Australian term is the dunny The American equivalent is I think the John Last edited by jokerman; December 10th, 2010 at 11:09 AM.. Reason: Added American definition |
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Its also called a snorker by Stanley Baker in the film "The Cruel Sea" and a Saveloy which is really confusing because when does a sausage become a Saveloy?.
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We call it a 'vest'; in the UK it's a 'waistcoat'.
We call it an 'undershirt'; in the UK you call it a vest, sometimes referred to as a singlet. In my Father's day you might call a lady or a "bird" a "broad", a "cute tomato", a "swell chick", a "frail" or a "nice dish". Your wife was "my better half", "the old battle axe" or "ball and chain". In the '70s and '80s a woman may have been "fine", a "fox" or a "foxy lady", or your girlfriend was your "squeeze". Today she'd be a "shortie (alt: shorty)", a "babe", or a "cutie". Going to prison used to be "being sent up river". Now you're "in the joint" or "on lock-down". The various and sundry products of the cannabis plant for smoking are referred to as "pot", "smoke", "grass", "tree", "lettuce", "ganja", "dope", "chronic", "chiba", "splits", or "joints"; there are probably a dozen more terms. Drug dealers are "pushers", "dealers", or are said to be "in pharmaceuticals". Getting intoxicated or "drunk" is sometimes referred to as getting "smashed", "wasted", "crushed", "bombed", "loaded", "torn up", "shit faced", "ripped", "skunked", "lit up", "trashed", "stoned", or "high". Oh, "Mary and her Four Daughters" refers to your thumb and four fingers. It's who you visit when there's no lady to do the honors.......... if you "get my drift" (understand my meaning) ................ |
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Here's something we can all agree on............
It doesn't take long on VEF to understand that there is a legion of fans for those splendid examples of English womanhood Marina Baker, Joanne Latham, and Maria Whittaker. Yes, we can all snap to attention and salute the Union Jack when those busty Brits come walking down the pike.............
With a sense of envy, I'd like to honor these fabulous ladies by presenting a compendium of American slang for that most wonderful part of the female anatomy (if you have anymore to add, please feel free to join in): air bags, balcony, balloons, bangers, biggums, boobs, boobies, bottles, boys, bra busters, breasts, bust, cans, chest, chest meat, cleavage, csaba melons, decolletage, floppers, fun bags, gazongas, hangers, headlights, hills, hooters, jello bowls, jigglers, knockers, meat puppies, melons, milk bottles, milk cans, milk sacks, mounds, mountains, peaks, rack, tetons, tits, titties, torpedos, whoppers, yabows. |
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It's true that in the US almost all public restrooms have gotten rid of pay toilets. However, in small stores or restaurants usage of the restrooms by non-customers is often frowned on; in other words you have to "pay to play" ! Last edited by Rick Danger; December 10th, 2010 at 12:07 PM.. |
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British wear their pants under their trousers.
American trousers are pants.
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One popular Irish slang is culchie. It means anyone from the country, i.e outside of Dublin, Belfast & Cork. culchie's often refer to Dubliners as Jackeens. Hiberno English is full of Irish slang. In Belfast, American tourists are often refered to as Septics, i.e Septic Tank-Yank. "where are these two pints for?" "those two septics in the corner".
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