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British Slang 3 Flashcards

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jelly

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jam

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Jell-O

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jelly

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USA

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the states

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never say….

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awesome

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thank you

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cheers!

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hello to a close friend

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hey babes

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custom made

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bespoke

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two weeks

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fortnight

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vacuum

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hoover

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sleep or nap

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kip

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knowledgeable

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know your onions

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Whine

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Whinge

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10

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tenner

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5

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fiver

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15
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lazy or avoid doing something

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skive

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16
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upper Class Person

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toff

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customer/prostitute’s client, john

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punter

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someone from Liverpool

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scouser

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19
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stolen (2)

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nicked, burgled

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church of england

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c of e

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z

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zed

22
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Yes!

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Absobloodylootely

23
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looking for sex

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on the pull

24
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one time only

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one off

25
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fired from a job

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made redundant

26
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easy

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easy peasy

27
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Do a deal or take a dump

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See a man about a dog

28
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genitalia (2)

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meat and two veg, twigs & berries

29
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flirt

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chat up

30
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poser

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ponce

31
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television

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the telly

32
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going to bed

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I’m Off to Bedfordshire

33
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to be in prison

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Her Majesty’s Pleasure

34
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sausage

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bangers

35
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dickhead

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knobhead

36
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party

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do

37
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college/university

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uni

38
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bachelor party

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stag night

39
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Britain

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Blighty

40
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disembark

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alight
Many American tourists are confronted with this word quite rapidly after reaching the U.K., because on the London Underground the pre-recorded message says such things as: “This is Baker Street. Alight here for Madame Tussauds.”

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stake a claim for something in the same way that Americans would claim “dibbs” on or “call” some item or privilege

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bagsie

I bagsie the front seat or Bagsie first shot on the dodgems!

42
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very cold (2)

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Baltic, it’s monkeys outside
I’m not going outside without a coat, it’s bloody Baltic! Presumably named for the Baltic states, which aren’t all that cold.

43
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press on regardless, to keep struggling in the face of adversity

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bash on

44
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that’s done

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bingo bango bongo

Popularised by T.V. chef Jamie Oliver, and now used by people who are young enough to think it sounds nice.

45
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make a bit of a haphazard job of something, something cobbled together

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bodge
A “bodger” was originally a craftsman who worked on a green-wood lathe, but this information is of almost no help at all because the word “bodger” still rather implies that such a person was “bodging” something.

46
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no frills, the basic version

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bog standard
So your “bog standard” Volkswagen Golf would be one that doesn’t have electric windows, power steering or opposable thumbs. Well, nowadays a bog-standard Golf probably does have two thirds of those things. There’s no particular reason to believe that the term has anything to do with a toilet (see “bog”).

47
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Scottish beautiful

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bonny
A little antiquated — you’d be much more likely to hear: Deirdre’s new granddaughter is awfully bonny! than you would: Bobby’s stolen a bonny new shooter — we’re going to go out this evening and do the chip shop over.

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died

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bought it
Generally refers to someone who died doing something somewhat dangerous: D’you know Jochen Rindt was the first posthumous Formula One champion? Bought it four races from the end of the 1970 season and still won the bloody thing.

49
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scared (2)

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bricking it, startled

He didn’t do very well in the interview – we felt a bit sorry for him as he was clearly bricking it.

50
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copious amounts of paperwork or literature

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bumf
You would not believe the bloody stack of bumf that came with my new video recorder. Possibly derived from the army and a contraction of the phrase “bum fodder,” i.e., toilet paper.

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stick; wedge
Push something into something, often something that was not intended for that purpose
Stopper, often rubber, the type of thing you use to block fluid from coming out of things
A bribe intended to buy silence. A monetary reward given to someone in order to buy their tacit agreement, often associated with the fixing of sports games,
Up full of cold, congested

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bung
“Eventually we discovered that it wasn’t working because our son had bunged a Polish sausage into the video recorder.”
“Everyone knows that their manager’s taking bungs to throw the matches anyway.”
“I can’t come into work today, one of the kids is bunged up.”

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