Name: British English Slang: What does it mean???
Uploaded: 2025-07-19T20:15:38.000Z
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Today, I'm going to do a lesson on British slang.

We have students from both parts of the world that are in England, and students that are in America learning English.

I specifically said England and America because the other day, I had a student walk up to me, and I forgot their name, and I'm so sorry, and they were saying I was watching British television and it was like learning English all over.

So, this is for those people who enjoy learning English and want to branch out, because, to be honest, if you've learned American English and you watch British English, it's going to actually help you with American English.

British English is very different in its slang and whatnot, so you're going to have to learn to pay attention, and that attention or concentration will help you when you can use it learning

If you learn British English and you start hearing Americans talk, sorry, like, I'm from

You'll learn to pay attention and you will be able to expand your English, because although they're on different parts of the world, they share the same language, most of it, but the slang is unique and different, and this lesson should start helping you learn how to learn words that are in movies and television, British shows, and you'll be able to understand them so you can actually get more out of the show.

So, the first thing I want to show you, okay, British flag, American flag.

So, here's the British slang, and on this side we have the American translation.

Die and do is, like, a slang in American, anyway, American English, but I will tell you what the word means in English, and then we'll go over there and see what the translation would be.

In America, we would say guy or dude, so in England you might say, who's that bloke over there?

And in America, you'd say, who's that guy?

I mean, no, but you can think closer to guy, but dude is an equivalent to it.

Now, here we don't use it that way, but, you know, mate here means to a male and a female or what have you, come together and have relations.

Now, this is an old word, so don't shoot me and go to England and go, there's a pretty bird.

It's an older use of the word for female, bird.

Sometimes they say lass or lassie, but that's more Scottish and Irish.

If you hear someone in England goes, that's for birds or that's for the birds, they may be saying that's for women or girls.

In Canada, for instance, you say, that's for the birds.

It's for a child or it's for the less intelligent person.

So just learning this alone, you're like, what?

Careful, because what they mean in one country, that's for the birds, it means it's for women.

So that's just why we want to learn this.

If you've watched any American television, you've got guys like Tom Cruise or Chris Helmsworth or The Rock, and they're all fit.

It's an adjective and it means good looking.

Now, they might mean also she is athletic, she's in good shape, but they will commonly say that's a fit jacket.

In the US right now, people are talking about their fits.

So they go, my fit looks pretty good today.

In the US, they're saying my outfit looks good.

So you better watch and listen carefully to who is speaking.

They shorten the word, and being athletic.

See, that's why you come here for the good stuff.

You know, Josh looks rather chuffed when he got that goal, right?

It means pleased, or when you're happy with yourself.

Don't you look rather chuffed, that guy there, right?

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