10 Very British Adjectives

Here we go again Eat Sleep Dreamers with ten very British adjectives.

If you haven't met me before my name is Tom and I teach fresh modern British English so that you can take

your English to the next level and achieve your life goals. Today we're looking at ten

very British adjectives, if you are ready let's get going. Number one peckish. This

means a little bit hungry, you are not starving, you are just a little bit hungry. So you are

peckish. Let's put that into an example sentence 'I'm feeling a bit peckish, so I'm going to

grab a snack. Do you want something?' Alright, so I'm feeling a bit peckish, Peckish.

Number two is rough. Now the gh there that is the /f/ sound. So it's rough. Rough has

a couple of different meanings. We're going to just look at two today. The first one is

to feel a bit ill, to be a bit sick. So 'I'm feeling a bit rough.' It means I feel ill

or I feel sick. Now kind of connected to that is that when we are hungover after a night

out we could also describe ourselves as feeling a bit rough 'I'm feeling really rough today.'

Now that is, probably you feel a bit ill, you have a headache or whatever, but it's

because of alcohol that's the main reason why you feel rough. So it could be genuinely

that you feel sick or it could be that because of alcohol you feel sick. Rough, it's a nice

informal adjective. Rough. Let's look at an example sentence 'Ah mate, I'm feeling really

rough this morning.' Now it's important to mention right now that all these words are

very informal. So they are used commonly in spoken English, but they are all pretty informal

so think about the situation that you are using your English in and then decide if these

words are appropriate for that situation. So again like a formal business meeting I

wouldn't be using these words, ok? But, yeah, ok, let's move on to number three. I love

this one, it's great 'gutted'. The -ed there is /id/ so gutted. This means very disappointed.

'She's gutted that she didn't get the job.' Number four pissed off. This is quite rude,

ok? So be careful about where you use this one. If you are pissed off, you are angry,

ok? So for example 'My flat mate is really pissed off that I forgot his birthday.' So

he's really angry that I forgot his birthday. If you want to add an object into that sentence

you could say 'He's really pissed off with me that I forgot his birthday.' So you are

pissed off with someone. Number five, knackered. Let's try that one again, knackered. Alright,

this is very tired. If you are really tired, you have had a long day at work, you get home

and you are like 'I'm knackered.' It means you are very tired. I'm knackered. Now in

British English we have so many words to describe being drunk, I guess it's a cultural thing,

but we use a lot of different words, loads of slang words that we could look at. In fact

I'll do a vlog on that at some point. But the one I want to look at right now is 'pissed'

it's similar to pissed off but you take the off away and it means to be drunk. 'I am feeling

a bit rough today, I got quite pissed last night.' Alright so pissed there means drunk.

Now as I said we've got lots of different words, a couple of other ones. Plastered,

that's quite a nice one, plastered. Wasted, 'I got absolutely wasted last night.' Hammered,

as well, means very drunk. 'You were hammered last night!' It means very drunk. And one

other one I quite like, it's got a rude word so I'm not going to say it but 'sh*tfaced.

'You were sh*tfaced last night!' yeah, alright so this one is very rude, be careful where

you use that, probably just with your very close friends but yeah it's a good one. Very

drunk is what it means. Number seven is hard. Now this of corse has many different meanings,

the meaning that I want to focus on is the informal adjective that means kind of tough

or doesn't like to show any weakness. We usually describe people like this so if you are quite

hard you are not scared, you cold probably fight pretty well. Yeah you are a bit of a

tough person. 'You have to be pretty hard to get into the special armed forces.' Now

hard might sometimes be a part of a phrase so 'hard as nails'. 'Look at that security

guard, he looks hard as nails.' Number eight, chuffed. That's a nice one, chuffed. Now the

-ed there is a /t/ sound 'chuffed'. Ok, what does this mean? Well, it means very pleased

or very happy about something. 'I'm really chuffed that you can come to my party.' So

I'm really pleased that you can come to my party. Chuffed, I like that one. Number nine

is great, it has three different meanings. So the word is 'dodgy', let's try and say

that again 'dodgy', ok. Now three different meanings. Well one meaning is to be potentially

dangerous. So we describe maybe an area or a neighbourhood as being a bit dodgy. 'Don't

go to that area, it's a bit dodgy.' Ok, so potentially dangerous, that's the first meaning.

Second meaning could be dishonest or untrustworthy. So you might describe a person as being a

bit dodgy. 'I really don't like my landlord, he's really dodgy.' So he's a bit untrustworthy,

unreliable, dishonest yeah that kind of thing. And the third meaning could be of low quality.

The example sentence 'I've had a lot of dodgy haircuts in my time.' True story! That is

a true story. So a lot of bad quality haircuts. Alright, so the three meanings again were

so potentially dangerous, dishonest or untrustworthy or bad quality. It's a great word, three different

meanings the same word, dodgy. And the last one, I've saved the best for last, I love

this one. Jammy. This means lucky, ok? If you are jammy you are lucky. For example 'Many

united scored such a jammy goal at the end.' So yeah maybe it was a very lucky goal. We

might describe a person as being jammy and in fact I think in very informal English you

might use a kind of a bit of a rude word after so 'you jammy____' 'You are such a jammy___'

Maybe your friend has just won a small amount on the lottery, you go 'you jammy b$st$rd'

and it just means you lucky so and so. So yeah, it's used in an affectionate way, I'm

not saying it in a rude way but I am using slightly rude words there so yeah 'you jammy

____' just means you lucky person. Alright those were ten very British adjectives. I'm

sure you know many many more so what I'd love you to do is to write any British adjectives

that you know in the comments below to share them with the rest of the Eat Sleep Dreamers

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me guys, I hope you have enjoyed it. Until next time, this is Tom, the Chief Dreamer,

saying goodbye.