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  • - You did say I had to tell you the derivation,

  • come on, I've told you.

  • This is getting a bit academic, innit?

  • Hi, I'm Ricky Gervais

  • and today I'll be teaching you some British slang.

  • [melodic orchestral music]

  • Bevvy, short for beverage,

  • usually means a beer, we say let's have a bevvy,

  • they usually mean go to the pub and have a few beers,

  • but it can be used as a hot beverage,

  • you can say let's have a bevvy and they mean a cup of tea.

  • I've got a little beer on the go at the moment,

  • it's not my favorite, it's a German wheat beer,

  • 'cause I ran out of IPA, I'm not complaining,

  • but after this I'll probably start on the wine.

  • Cheesed off, fed up, he's cheesed off.

  • What's up, oh, you've upset him, he's cheesed off.

  • What am I cheesed off about?

  • Oh, well, I had to postpone some gigs,

  • I'm getting fat and old and tired, so yeah.

  • One's sort of transient, specific and one's just in general,

  • it's getting worse.

  • I'm not cheesed off about anything,

  • although anything can cheese me off quick,

  • I can go into a restaurant

  • and it'll be a lovely restaurant and quiet

  • and then they sit people too near me,

  • that's cheesed me off, yeah, okay, I'm annoyed now.

  • So in life, nothing really, nothing really,

  • nothing really upsets me too much,

  • but in reality any tiny thing

  • can just make things not perfect.

  • Grim.

  • You don't have the word, grim in America?

  • Oh, grim,

  • oh, it's perfect,

  • it can be anything from distasteful to really boring,

  • you know, like you'd say it about a really old,

  • broken, industrial town or something,

  • oh, mate, it's grim up there, it's grim.

  • You could say it about something's disgusting,

  • like oh, God, don't go near him, he's grim,

  • it's like ugh, horrible!

  • Grimy, I suppose it's from grimy.

  • Bog standard just means absolutely generic, normal,

  • it could apply to anything, bog standard car,

  • just a normal, off the production line,

  • everyone's got one, bog standard,

  • it does the job, it's nothing flash,

  • because bog here is also slang for toilet.

  • Barmy, you can't, you're finished,

  • he's barmy, he's [whistling], cuckoo [whistling].

  • Pants.

  • Well, two, there's two slang really,

  • pants is short for underwear, underpants,

  • you use it to mean trousers, we don't,

  • but pants in the slang sense strictly would mean rubbish,

  • that is absolute pants, that is awful,

  • it's not worth the trouble,

  • don't go and see that film, it's pants, rubbish.

  • Dishy, you'd say attractive,

  • a woman watching telly would say, oh, I like George Clooney,

  • he's dishy, it's not aggressive or seedy.

  • It would probably come from cuisine, wouldn't it?

  • Oh, what a lovely, yeah, it probably does mean

  • what a beautiful dish, what a lovely presentation,

  • it's basically equating George Clooney

  • to a big plate of pasta.

  • Chin wag, chat, talking, let's have a good old chin wag.

  • It's like an old sort of quaint term,

  • two middle aged women talking over the garden gate,

  • they're having a right old chin wag, look at them,

  • ooh, they're having a right old chin wag.

  • So yeah, it's that sort of thing.

  • Off-license.

  • You don't have off-licenses?

  • Oh, course you do, yeah, you'd call them liquor stores.

  • You couldn't drink there, but you could take away,

  • so it was to do with old sort of pub licensing laws

  • and sort of consuming things on the premises.

  • It's a liquor store as opposed to a licensed, a pub, yeah,

  • you can only get take away,

  • well, nowadays it's all delivered, innit?

  • I don't have to go out of the house at all.

  • Tosser.

  • Derogatory term for someone you don't respect is a tosser,

  • also it's probably the same derivation as wankers,

  • absolute, absolute wanker.

  • It's a slang word for masturbate,

  • so he's an absolute wanker, an absolute tosser,

  • but it doesn't mean that literally,

  • it just means you don't like him, you can't trust him,

  • he's a twat, he's an idiot, absolute [bleep] tosser.

  • I can't stand him, he's an absolute tosser.

  • Geezer.

  • He's a geezer, he's a bloke, he's a good lad,

  • it's a sort of a male sort of term,

  • there's a sliding scale of how much respect there is,

  • 'cause he's an absolute geezer

  • could mean he's a sound bloke, he's a geezer,

  • he's a good laugh, he likes his beer and his football,

  • geezer, he's a right geezer, he's a right geezer, right,

  • oh, yeah, yeah, he likes to gamble, he likes to smoke,

  • he's a right geezer, right.

  • Or careful, he's a bit of a geezer, what do you mean?

  • He'll rip you off, he's a bit of a geezer,

  • it depends how you say it, yeah.

  • Shambolic.

  • Well, it's all over the place, there's no structure to it,

  • it's random, it's rubbish, it's shambolic, you know.

  • You'd go into a restaurant, who's running this restaurant?

  • It's absolutely shambolic!

  • The waiter over there, he didn't take my,

  • the table's wobbly, your maitre d's chewing,

  • this is [bleep] shambolic!

  • Anywhere where there's company,

  • anywhere there's the general public, you should know better.

  • Waz.

  • Well, short for wazzock, can be like idiot

  • or he's an absolute waz or it could be like oh, what a waz,

  • like things have gone wrong

  • or it could mean a piss, I'm just gonna have a quick waz,

  • I'm gonna have a waz.

  • I don't use that word, 'cause I'm educated.

  • Todger.

  • Affectionate term for a penis,

  • it's todger, that's his todger.

  • [gasping] He's got his todger caught in his zip!

  • You wouldn't get the Sopranos saying todger,

  • it's not a cool, it's not,

  • it's a quaint, acceptable euphemism for penis, I'd say.

  • Well, that was British slang with me, Ricky Gervais,

  • I hope you learned something, I did.

  • Thanks for watching, cheers,

  • that's slang, cheers, innit, cheers?

  • [light melodic music]

  • I don't know what that means, cheers!

  • Why is that cheers?

  • Cheers?

  • Does it mean cheer, cheer, cheers?

  • What does it mean?

  • We say cheers like thank you

  • and cheers, sort of touch glasses,

  • I don't know, anyway cheers.

- You did say I had to tell you the derivation,

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