Can I Guess the Meaning of These British Slang Words? 

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Thank you, never mind the length, feel the width!

got a lovely choad on your head there ^^ i was in bits

She wasn't missing she was found dead on the same day she went missing, brutally had her intestines cut out, eyes removed, etc etc the mother had spoken to the guy who committed it, but she initially believed his story. Sweet Fanny Adams refered to the fully chopped corn beef, hence why it was dark humour, over time it came to mean nothing.

@@djlads Fanny Adams (30 April 1859 - 24 August 1867) was an eight-year-old English girl who was murdered by a solicitor's clerk, Frederick Baker, in Alton, Hampshire, in 1867. Her murder was extraordinarily brutal and caused a national outcry in the United Kingdom. Baker abducted Adams and took her into a hop garden near her home, where he killed and dismembered her; some parts of her body were never found. An investigation suggested that two small knives were used for the murder, but it was later ruled they would have been insufficient to carry out the crime and that another weapon must have been used.

@@clairemarkham3485 Yes, I know I read about it in a book, didn't need to wiki it

I know sweet FA, but for me, it’s just always just been sweet f**k all, never heard of Fanny Adams

@@djlads I read about Fanny Adams in a True Crime magazine

Murdered as a word doesn't do justice for what that monster did to her. He literally tore her apart. One of the most horrifying killings I've ever read about.

@@b8nnytez I know, it’s beyond horrific.

​@@b8nnytez heartbreaking story.

The killer received a mandatory death sentence and was executed on Christmas Eve.

😂😂😂Quite an old fashioned one used as swear word now.

Buggerlugs

Yeah, "well I'll be buggered" or "Bugger me" not something you'd say in a prison! 😂

We would had our mouth washed out with soapy water if our parents heard us using that word when I was a child in the early 1960’s. The meaning given in the video isn’t the legal meaning of the act of buggery……………

I call my dog luggerbugs 😅

It’s just apples we don’t say the rest

We say apples and pears when we talk to the kids.

Where in London, London does not = Cockney, I'm an East Ender by definition but I sound way more like what most associate with cockney than my wife who actually is a cockney by definition.

My mums dad (my grandad) worked for Myers beds in London and they moved them down to Huntingdon to open up a new Myers Beds there but my dads dad (also grandad) worked for one of the mine collieries in Durham and then worked at Consett Steel but when that closed he moved the family down to Huntingdon too to start work at a steel company here and that’s where they met, it’s fascinating for me when I visit both areas often that they grew up and see how different lives were from London to Newcastle.

@@joeypriestman6783 To be a Cockney, you MUST be born within the sound of the Bow Bells, which my Wife was, I was born in Leytonstone hence being an Eastender myself.

The Flintstones character is a popular explanation for the origin of Barney for an argument or fight, but it’s wrong. That use of “Barney” is way older than TV, let alone kids cartoons, and nobody seems to know the origins anymore. But it’s fair to say that enough people believe the Barney Rubble story that it’s become a legit slang term for trouble.

battle cruisers my favourite rhyming slang Vera Lynn's close second

​@@adeptusmagiboozer and shins, right?

@@Dasyurid You seem to be confusing two things there, at least in your closing sentence. Yes, the "having a barney" usage is pre-TV, but "Barney Rubble" meaning "trouble" is separately derived: It's definitely cockney rhyming slang based on the name of the TV character. ("The Flintstones" was very popular in the UK. A favourite after-school treat for our family. =:o} )

@@therealpbristowBasically what I said, mate. “Barney” is old and of unknown origin, and the modern use, possibly Mockney but I’m not certain, for trouble comes from The Flintstones.

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Why tho?

Why would people say sweet fuck all about a toddler who died

@@Efc1980 Fanny Adams was a small child who was kidnapped in 1867 at 8yo and her body dismembered so she was in pieces when found but not all of her body was found, so due to the dismemberment sweet Fanny Adams was henceforth referred to canned meat, sooooo wrong 🙈 and I guess later became sweet nothing as there was pretty much almost nothing left of her 🤦🏽‍♀️

@@laurenC91. Ye I've just seen, vile that is.

same never heard either of those two

@@womenwotreads Same, never heard of either ... maybe we're too posh? :D

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I have heard of choad but not cludgie. Cludgie to me sounds like it might have derived from closet, as in water closet, but a pet name form like ciggy.

I’m about as far north as you can get in England , where we do share a lot of words which dictionary says is from northern England or Scotland , but never heard of cudgie before . Is it a modern or old word ?

​@julieb737 It's an old word, only people I ever heard saying it was my grans generation. Although the Independence folk have all started using old words and sayings like this for stuff now. Makes them more William Wallace like, I suppose 😂

Sorry guys, but not exclusively Scottish. If you watch episodes of Coronation Street from the 60s and 70s you will find cludgie used quite frequently.

Scran is also used in the part of Scotland I'm from (Glasgow and Lanarkshire) 😁

@@jaydee_83 I’m a Geordie and thought it was northern not Scouse . That surprised me .

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I apologise for obviously sounding (being?!) a tad dim, but as a now 71 yo English woman who has mainly always lived here in London (plus Kent and E.Sussex) I confess I have _never_ heard of the word "choad" before now!! Um... Can you explain it to this dim old lady please?

@@brigidsingleton1596I think they mean a thick one, nung, nung, wink, wink!!🤭

@@beastoned8596 Oops... I just watched the video... Um... 🤭 Thanks for your...response. 👍

All about context....depends on the type of convo your having

Or it means Damn or or messed up something.

Yeah Ive never known it to mean silly or annoying maybe he mixed it up with pain in the a***, that would be a lot closer to the meaning lmao

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A bugger is definitely a pain in the arse...... ​@@museven5086

Yes, I've heard the term fa*got used in the UK for a bundle of sticks and I mean nowadays, not historically. And RU-vid wouldn't let me actually spell this legit word without asterisks!!

@@mattgardner1969 it's also a lump of metal that is formed from rods of iron

@@gigsnsht i thought that was slag

on no that is the left over deposit after a weld sorry

It's a Feg in Northern Ireland 😂 "Here mate, give us a feg"

Choad rhymes with Toad, unless you're JT, then it's Toe Add.

​@@gaynor1721 Is that like a 'fraw-ag'?!? 😂

Route 66 is a very long roe-add

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Also never heard of Cludgie before neither lol

Cludgie is Scots slang for a toilet bowl

Choad is pronounced rhyming with toad.

This is the only word of Welsh my father remembered from when he was evacuated in WW2

Concerned? Why when its just like saying git, sod, prat or something like that

@@Benson...1 google to bugger someone....

@@neil_st6073 it has a number of meanings in the uk....not just that one

@@neil_st6073 it has a few meanings in the uk not just that one

​@@Benson...1that's what the word means originally. Same as calling someone a sod doesn't mean an overly soggy patch of grassy mud.

... choked on your Ruby?

Or a person acting the eejit as well, don't forget that.

I was going to mention it, but you beat me to it

Yes, in Welsh, but some use it in English speech as slang for cuddle. Like saying "Hola bruv, how are yer?" Would be using Hola as slang derived from Spanish.

@@RollerbazAndCoasterDad yes but the title was British slang words. Welsh is a British language it’s not slang in that language. Had the title been English slang that might be different.

English is made up of 1/3 French and 1/3 Latin only 1/3 is original English (Anglish) so is every English sentence slang?

@@RollerbazAndCoasterDad Yes. My family of Welsh/English origins comes from the Black country, and they used the word to mean cuddle.

I first heard scran being used to describe food in the early 1980s. The British forces in the Falklands used it for their emergency field rations - sultanas, currants, raisins and nuts - SCRAN. I saw it on telly, I was not there.

I live outside Glasgow and knew cludgie and Scran immediately. I also knew apples and pears for stairs. Have never heard anyone saying Barney Rubble for trouble but guessed it. I do use Scooby Doo all the time and it's pretty funny in a West Scots accent. I huvnae got a scooby.

No I think it's worse than the F word!

My Granddad just said "bugger up the back". I don't think he was trying to hide the meaning.

Quite shocking to see JT shouting it like that.

So you would say "let's have a cuppa Rosie". You don't always use the part of the phrase that actually is the rhyming part. Let's have a Ruby = Ruby Murray = Curry. Let's have a curry. Go up the apples = Apples and Pears = Stairs = Let's go upstairs. Look at your Barnet = Barnet Fair = hair = Look at your hair. He half inched it= Half Inch = Pinch/steal = He pinched it. I need a Jimmy = Jimmy Riddle = Piddle/pee = I need a pee. Use ya loaf, son = Loaf Of Bread = Head = Use your head = Think about it, mate. Him decked out in his new whistle = Whistle and Flute = Suit = Him dressed fancy in his new suit. Gotta meet the old trouble = Trouble and Strife = Wife = Gotta meet my wife. He was in a right two 'n' eight = Two 'n' Eight = State= He was in a mess/worrying/upset. Gone for a Jodrell = Jodrell Bank = W... = work this one out yourself lol It later became having a Thomas = Thomas The Tank (engine) The old fella's Brown Bread = Brown Bread = Dead = The old fella is dead.

it's a roundabout route to avoid swearing. and a good one. it's used a lot where I live.

It is used, just not where you are 😊

Sweet FA derivative descriptive for something that has no real value, that would be thrown away by most people. The term stems from a number of historical accounts, the earliest that I know of is that a young child was found on a church or hospital doorstep wrapped in old rags and already deceased. She was examined and was declared dead from starvation, having no food remaining in her entire body. There was no evidence of her name or where she had last being seen alive. It was estimated that she had been 3-4 years old at the time of death and despite extensive inquiries there was no further information forthcoming so her remains were placed in a pauper’s grave, but when the coroner was making the entry in his registration book he had to record a name so his assistant out of nowhere named the small corpse as Fanny(at the time a common first name for girls) and when he pushed for a family name someone said that she was from the same family as the first person named in the bible Adam so the name on the register of deaths and the death certificate was recorded as Fanny Adam’s in the way that an unidentified female body in America is given the name of Jane Doe. And because she had nothing and came from nowhere it was determined that she was not worth anything, later giving her a value of nothing , somebody else had mentioned that once her body and hair had been washed and clothed, then she had a sweet appearance, hence she became known as Sweet Fanny Adam’s, who had no value in life or death. The name and meaning became popular among military personnel as the name given to anything that was in scant supply and in the manner of the time it began to be used as a euphemism for something that no longer was available and it became a swear word and to give it some kind of meaning that then had the words changed to something more vulgar but with the same initial letters ( F**k A**). Eventually the name was applied to the totally terrible tinned meat that was supplied to the armed forces and the roomer that the anonymous tinned meat was actually the flesh of corpses that had been dug up from the battlefields.

I’ve never heard of it either and I’ve lived around a bit of the UK - south west, west wales, East Midlands

@@andrewcoates6641 I'm pretty sure you've got the entire chain of derivations backwards... but I should probably bother to check Wikipedia before saying that. =;o} (Guess who can't be arsed... [POINTS TO SELF] )

Being Welsh I find it necessary to have it on my mug and I don’t mean my face😂

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Considering 2 were Cockney, 1 was Welsh and another Scottish, I’m not sure he could get less localised.

They're localised, but not just to one locality. =:o}

​@@alasdaircampbell9301 2 were Scottish. Scran is a Scottish word, not Scouse

@@BuinidhMoChridheDoAlba yeah, I’m seeing that from the other comments now. My mistake, it was just another of the errors in the video.

​@@BuinidhMoChridheDoAlba scran is used all over the uk , we say it in Yorkshire too

Now you've got a the name for your downstairs mixup 😂

Me neither

Yea, me neither. I thought it was guna be slang for a fat/greedy person, cos we use chod for that in the North East

Also I think there was a mistake in the explanation, the sentence used was "snaaky way of saying trouble" perhaps they misspelled snarky therefore it's a sarcastic way of saying trouble. Snarky can mean moody or sarcastic.

I just had a barney with me bird. She threw a massive wobbly 'cause I blew a monkey at the bookies. So now I'm having to kip in the jam jar. 😜

"Barney" meaning "fight" has a different derivation, much older than the modern (1970s, maybe even '60s?) "Barney Rubble" = Trouble.

Actually Welsh is much easier than English. English has tricksy words like rough, cough and bough where the 'ough' is pronounced completely differently. Maybe you just need a cwtch cariad❤

If you learned the Welsh alphabet you would find it easier than English. Once you know the sounds each letter makes you can sound out any word.

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@@ticketyboo2456 yes, there are quite a few examples like that. Welsh looks like someone had a bowl of alphabet spaghetti and just lined up whatever came out of the bowl. I was in Wales on holiday this summer and it fried my brain lol Was so lovely to see the language being spoken as it wasn't noticeable when I was a kid.

Welsh at least follows its own rules, so once you know them it’s straightforward. English is like fifteen different languages in a big trench coat…

Almost like the word f#€k!

Add "bugger all", which means "virtually nothing", or if you really want to emphasise the insignificance of something, "the square root of bugger all".

And “bugger off” - aka get lost, scram, vamoose, skedaddle.

A lot of them are regional, like Cludgie for toilet is a Scottish word. I think it shows the different regional ways English has evolved

Lol... I am 71 and some of those words are completely unknown by me!! I'm a Londoner but have also lived and worked in Kent and E.Sussex, but still some of those words sound odd to me!

I used to say "Scottish Football Association" to mean the same thing. For some reason it never caught on 🤣🤣🤣

I always thought it meant eff all.

@@andrewvalentine6977 - It does- that's the "FA"

'Nah, it means nothing!'. Reminds me of a debate I once watched, from South African parliament. Someone was making a speech that included the term 'Fokol' (literally fuck all, but with an accent). The whole parliament went off, and the dude was just standing there like 'serious, it means nothing!', while the speaker is all like 'no, it is not meaningless! Withdraw it at once!'

As is Cludgie... 😂

Scran was a military term for food back in the day.

@@WeAreThePeople1690 Yeah, it's said all over the north. Scousers always claim it's theirs if they say it.

I lived in Scotland but had never heard it. I also lived in Nuneaton where food was often called "snap".

​@@mana3735😂😂 , we use it in Yorkshire , I think you are right most of the North uses the word x

For most of my life I've known of the word "Berk" as a light-insult, like wally or numpty. Only found out in recent years it's Cockney for Berkeley Hunt...!

Cludgie is a Scottish word for toilet

Round my way, people say 'I'm Hank' to indicate wanting to eat. Because Hank Marvin -> Starvin. Not quite Cockney though, because west (not west end) rather than east end.

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Why do they speak that way? Seems so confusing!

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@@Sparx632 thx for that 🙏🇨🇦

Me too!

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yes, as stated on the video ... 🤨

It takes longer to say apples and pears than to say stairs. Cockneys use too many words

Specifically Cockney Rhyming Slang

Barney Rubble is Fred Flintstone's friend. Cockney rhyming slang again.

Let's have a Ruby = Ruby Murray = Curry. Let's have a curry. Go up the apples = Apples and Pears = Stairs = Let's go upstairs. Look at your Barnet = Barnet Fair = hair = Look at your hair. He half inched it= Half Inch = Pinch/steal = He pinched it. I need a Jimmy = Jimmy Riddle = Piddle/pee = I need a pee. Use ya loaf, son = Loaf Of Bread = Head = Use your head = Think about it, mate. Him decked out in his new whistle = Whistle and Flute = Suit = Him dressed fancy in his new suit. Gotta meet the old trouble = Trouble and Strife = Wife = Gotta meet my wife. He was in a right two 'n' eight = Two 'n' Eight = State= He was in a mess/worrying/upset. Gone for a Jodrell = Jodrell Bank = W... = work this one out yourself lol It later became having a Thomas = Thomas The Tank (engine) The old fella's Brown Bread = Brown Bread = Dead = The old fella is dead.