Name: Stupid English Words that are Totally Real 😜 (+ Easy to Learn)
Uploaded: 2025-10-25T18:08:43.000Z
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Adverbs of degree

There are these words in English that, oh, they're cute and they're hilarious, and

just let me explain it like this, you know, you guys all know this thing.

And I don't know why this one is so popular, but

we can take words and make them funny and cute, and

You just have to take a word, and I'll teach you about that later.

Now, these words are near and dear to my heart for specific reasons, which I will go through.

Let's do some pronunciation first, and then I'll explain the meaning.

This one is near and dear to my heart because my mom would always say, ronnie, your room is so higglety pigglety.

So there's candy bars and sweets called roly polies.

There's little bugs in Canada that we call roly polies because they're all up into a ball.

You could describe someone affectionately, which means in a nice way, as a roly poly.

When my dog rolls around in the grass, I always say, roly polly.

So people will say, ooh, that gives me the heebie jeebies.

Usually with people like, ooh, that dude's creepy, or that dude gives me the heebie jeebies, like bad feeling, bad vibe.

I feel like this is from, like, the 1950s and the 1960s.

Like, what's Mary doing over there in the corner with Jim?

Hanky panky means fooling around, which is funny, too.

Not actually, like, having sex, not doing this, but, you know, hanky panky, fooling around in the corner.

Everything's above the pants, above the shirt.

If something's mumbo jumbo, it's confusing, Meaningless language.

Sometimes maybe people are, like, drinking too much.

Or a lot of times people that are crazy will, like, wander around the streets.

This is a rhyme from my childhood, and I'm trying to decipher the meaning of hasn't happened yet.

These are things that people spend a lot of money on.

You can get knickknacks from different places.

You can get knickknacks that are Jabba the Hutt and his buddy, who's a monkey, not a teddy bear.

Knickknacks are basically anything you like that's small and decorative.

So, Ronnie, how did you come up with this lesson?

There's a band called the Butthole Surfers, and they have a song called the Hurdy Gurdy Man.

And I was like, what does that even mean?

The hurdy gurdy is a string instrument, like a violin or a viola, and

it's played in a very particular way that unfortunately, I can't explain to you.

And the people that play it are called Hurdy Gurdy Men.

I encourage you to listen to it or learn it.

Dilly dally in the alley ran into a spoker named Sally.

Dilly dally means to waste time or look at this word.

Did you know that when I was a little Ronnie, I would dilly dally on the regular?

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Stupid English Words that are Totally Real 😜 (+ Easy to Learn)

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