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  • (gentle music)

  • - Hello everyone and welcome back to "English with Lucy."

  • 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 (speaks in foreign language) 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 to 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 perfect for improving your vocabulary,

  • but if you want to improve your pronunciation

  • and your listening skills even further,

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  • with listening to their audiobook counterparts on Audible.

  • It sounds a bit weird but let me explain

  • because it really does work.

  • Take a book that you have already read in English

  • or a book that you would like to read in English,

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  • and read that book whilst listening

  • to the audiobook version.

  • Reading alone will not help you with your pronunciation.

  • English is not a strictly phonetic language.

  • The way that a word is spelled

  • is probably not going to give you much indication

  • as to how it's pronounced.

  • If you listen to a word as you read it,

  • your brain will start making connections.

  • And the next time you see that word,

  • you'll know how it's pronounced.

  • And the next time that you hear that word,

  • you'll know how it's spelled or written.

  • It is such an effective method,

  • and the best part is you can get one free audiobook

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  • Then you can download one of my recommendations.

  • Give it a try 'cause it really does work.

  • 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, (laughs)

  • I don't blame you if you find it difficult.

  • What we say is yuck,

  • or eughh in British English as well,

  • or eughh, eughh. (laughs)

  • In American English,

  • they are also really inclined to say ew, ew,

  • sometimes followed by gross. (laughs)

  • And because we have a lot of American movies and TV shows

  • in the UK,

  • now our children are starting to say ew, gross, and gross.

  • In fact, I remember saying it as a child

  • and my mom 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 disgusting. (laugh)

  • It sounds quite formal.

  • So we'd 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 mouldy food

  • or out-of-date milk, things like that.

  • Repulsive.

  • Repulsive.

  • Repugnant.

  • Repugnant.

  • So those last two, repulsive and repugnant,

  • are often used to describe

  • very unattractive, offensive things.

  • Gruesome.

  • Gruesome.

  • Gruesome, you'll often hear it 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 something is loathsome, it is odious.

  • I hate it. (laughs)

  • Vile and vulgar, this means very unpleasant.

  • It's 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 to use is ghastly, ghastly.

  • This just means awful, terrible.

  • If somebody is wearing a terrible outfit, you might say,

  • "Ah she looks ghastly."

  • Don't ever say that to someone's face because

  • that's mean. (laughs)

  • A couple of slang words now that you can use,

  • and the first one is rank, rank. (laughs)

  • 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 rank,

  • it's just really unpleasant and disgusting.

  • Ugh, your salad looks rank. (laughs)

  • It's very slang.

  • Another one is very childish, it's icky.

  • Ugh, 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 is deserving of vomit, vom-worthy.

  • 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.

  • Brr, 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. (laughs)

  • It's so sad that we've all had creepy teacher experiences.

  • I've had far too many. (laughs)

  • 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 would 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,