Weekly Blog No 33 – British Slang

I have been in Canada 6 years, yet I haven’t lost my British slang. In fact I have given a few Canadians a whole new dictionary of words. Being a Brit in Canada, it took a while just getting around the Canadian vocabulary so I can only imagine how Canadians seem to be confused with our slang words.

I thought I would provide a list of words and there meanings.

1. Shambles – Plan gone wrong
2. Loo – Toilet
3. Do – Party
4. Plastered – Drunk
5. Her’s majesty pleasure – Prison
6. Up the duff – Pregnant
7. Nosh – Food
8. Bees and Knees – Awesome
9. Kip – Sleep
10. Gutted – Devastated
11. Starkers – Completely naked
12. Bottle – Courage
13. Doddle – Easy
14. Ta – Thanks
15. Off your trolley – Nuts, crazy or mad
16. Posh – High class
17. Full of beans – Lots of energy
18. Dodgy – Not to be trusted
19. Give us a bell – Call me
20. A flick – A movie 
21. Pins – Legs 
22. Afters – Dessert
23. Moggy – Cat
24. Mucker – Pal
25. Parky – Chilly 
26. Telly – Television
27. Tea – Dinner
28. Pint – Beer
29. Fit – Hot looking person
30. Dogs breakfast – A mess 

There is hundreds of words, far to many to list, however I would love to know your thoughts. 

 

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