British Slang vs Australian Slang | Colloquial English Words and Phrases

hello and welcome back to english with

Lucy I got a very special guest today

this is Emma (Hello Emma) hi I'm Emma from the YouTube

channel mmmEnglish English English I'm

so glad to be here today. It's so nice to

have you I was so excited when Emma got in

contact with me because i actually saw

your channel a while ago and I thought mmmm. Good that's what I wanted you to think!

No I really liked it, she does really really fun

and pretty videos that are really really lovely. You might have noticed

that Emma I have quite different accents

this is because obviously I'm English and

I'm Australian

yeah so which part are you from? I'm from Melbourne

So right down the southern end of Australia

about as far away from London as you can

possibly get. Yeah it's the other side of the world isn't it?

It literally is!

But very exciting, Emma's visiting

England and it's a lovely rainy day

very English day

yeah but, you know, this is the true England

this is what I came for!

exactly! Welcome to my country!

In this video I'm going to give Emma five

british slang phrases words phrases and

she has to guess what they mean and

they're a little bit obscure so I think

it'll be quite fun. Uuh you've picked some really hard one for me then

yeah and after that you can check out

the video on my channel where I'll be

testing Lucy on some Australian slang ok

so I've got my list of british slang

words and phrases on my phone

no cheating so what does it mean if i

say Gordon Bennett? as soon as you said

Gordon Bennett i think of Pride and

Prejudice and I think of Elizabeth Bennett

and so I have no idea. Go on you have to

guess you have to guess when would you use Gordon

Bennett? Is it like like golly OH, oooh she's quite

close yeah so it means like 'blimey' or crikey', it's to show surprise or shock so in context

it's like something surprising

happened you'd say oh Gordon Bennett I can't believe

that all right now the next one

is codswallop and I do actually use this one

a bit i think that means something like

I don't believe you

ok so give me a, give me a situation so if

you told me that all British people are

hilarious

I'd say codswallop. Codswallop means

nonsense or rubbish

so if you don't believe what someone's saying you could say

codswallop, absolute codswallop. The next one

then, dishy. Oooh dishy.

Can I ask for clues? Yeah within

reason

is it an adjective? Adjective! Dishy

I was hoping for the other one

Dishy, dishy, like fishy strange? No

if I said that someone is dishy

oh likegood-looking oh yes well done

yeah so if I say ooh he's a bit dishy it

means he's quite good looking delicious

yeah like I feel likesomewhere along the line that

comes from a saying that was like he's a

bit of a dish. Oooh can you say that? Can you say that in Austalian? He's a

bit of a dish. He's a total dish

I don't even know if anyone really says

that but i'm going to start

something you guys can all start saying it too

yeah, total dish!

I'm expecting that in the comments Lucy

and Emma you are dishes! Dishes! Yeah!

okay what about this one this one is a

phrasal verb and it is to blow off to

blow off something means to like, like if you were....mmmm

There are a couple of meanings actually there are a couple of

meanings

ok so the one that I think it is if you

can i describe it? If you blow off someone it

means that you you make a plan to meet

them and they ...uh hang on. No you are right.

or one meaning there's one

definition to blow someone off is to

make a plan and then let them down just cancel it

that's the one! But I'm talking about a real slang

meaning

ok to blow off someone we..theres no

there's no object actually. Oh. You just

blow off

Oh to get angry? Nope! No, that's blow up isn't it.

you might have me here so I'm going to

ask you: Emma, did you just blow off? really that's what

you say blow off. Yeah, to fart! to

pass gas out of your nether regions. To blow off means to pass wind.

it's a very proper way it's saying it

could you definitely also just say fart. Fart? Yeah fart you can use.

when i was a child with my mom always

said Lucy it's not a fart

it's a blow off so you can use it as a

noun and also as a verb. I used to get Emma, it's

not a fart it's a fluff we can also say

pop off as well

okay you've got lots of options there

for someone who releases gas

blahh

ok last one then ok this one's an noun

and it's nosh, nosh, nosh, nosh so it's a nice

one to say. It is! nosh!

posh, mosh. You can have posh nosh. Can you?

mmm! oh so is it like food or drink?

yes! Food! It's just food! Food, if I say shall we

go and grab some nosh it is quite a posh way of saying

it. And if i'm talking about posh nosh we're

going to get some expensive food.

okay yeah all right! Cheap nosh, cheap food.

Yeah nosh is a good one, very colloquial

But quite posh colloquial so yeah use it

...poshly! Poshly. So like it's quite

common, people use it all the time. If you use it

people will understand it, absolutely but it's

it's not common common. It kind of sounds

like...do you have dosh? Dosh as well yeah

money

yeah money so posh nosh costs

lot of dosh. What a team! Right so

That was the end of my video now you need to

go and check Emma's video on her mmmEnglish

channel. The link is gonna be in

the description just down there and you

can see Emma testing me on my

Australian slang knowledge

so yes, I hope you enjoy the video don't

forget to connect with me on all my

social media which is all over Emma's face.

yeah I know embrace it, all over your face

and we'll both see you back for another

video very very soon! Mwah!