English Slang: fresh from the bakery!

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Hey, guys. Ready to learn some more slang?
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Do you like bread? Mm-hmm. We eat a lot of
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bread in Canada, and sometimes when we eat bread, bread actually means money. I'm going
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to teach you about slang. "Going To The Bakery". For some strange weason... Weason. Reason,
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we have a lot of slang words about toast. I guess we love toast.
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I'd like to share with you the magic of toast. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a lovely piece
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of bread. However, there is a magic machine called a toaster, and you put the bread into
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the toaster, and doo-doo-doo-doo, it becomes toast. So, toast and bread are very different.
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Toast is heated. Bread that's delicious, and bread is just bread. So, let's go on and learn
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some slang, slang, slang about bread and toast.
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The first one is "bread" means "money". Also, the word "dough". Now, this pronunciation
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is strange, it looks like "douhug-ha", but it's actually just "dough". So, you will hear
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in movies: "Hey, you got the dough?" And you're like:
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"Are they making a pizza? Why are these bad guys making a pizza?"
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They're not actually making a pizza. They're talking about money.
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This actual part of the bread that I have... Bread is sold in a "loaf". I'll teach you
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about loaf after, but actually, this part of the bread that I have is called the "heel"
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of the bread, h-e-e-l. This means it's the last piece of the bread or the end of the
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bread. So, the heel of the bread is the last piece. Usually... Or the first piece. Usually
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people don't eat this one. I don't know. Poor heel of the bread. "Heel" also has a slang
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meaning, it means a bad person. So, if you say: "He's a heel", or: "She's a heel", it
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generally means they're bad people. So, "heel" means a bad person.
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As I told you before, we have the word "loaf". "Loaf" means the quantity of bread, but English
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slang is so crazy, we've made it dirty for you. "Loaf", you will hear people say:
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"Pinch a loaf".
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So maybe you're watching TV or watching a movie, or your Canadian friend says:
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"Hey, guys, I got to pinch a loaf."
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Pinch, pinch a loaf? Why are you touching my bread?
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"Pinch a loaf" actually means go to the toilet and go poo.
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Yay, or take a shit.
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So: "Pinch a loaf" means you actually have to poo, not
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anything to do with pinching my piece of bread, here.
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Another word: "roll". "Roll" is like a piece of bread that's rolled up. It looks like this
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a lot. This, in slang, means "go" or "leave". So you will hear people say: "Let's roll."
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You'll be like: "Rolling, rollercoaster". "Roll" just means a piece of bread, but it
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means: "Let's go! Come on, now, let's go."
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And "bun" is a hair style where all the hair is on the top of your head or near the back
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of your head. It's really popular for women, but it's becoming popular for men if they
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have long hair. It looks like a bun, too. Would you like this bread? It's delicious.
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"Buns" in the plural mean your bum or your rear end. So, if you're walking down the street
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and someone says: "Hey, nice buns." It means your rear end, your buttocks, or your bum.
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So it's a compliment. -"Nice buns." -"Why, thank you." "Bun in the oven" means that the
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person is pregnant, so they have a bun in the oven. The oven would be the uterus, I
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guess, and the bun would be the baby. Again, I'm not too sure how these words came about
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in slang, but they did.
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The next one when you're going to the bakery store... A bun is like a roll. Buns and rolls
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are very quite similar. If you have a hamburger, it's the bread that you put between the meat.
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So a bun and a roll, almost the same thing, but a muffin's different. So, "bun", really,
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is the bread of a hamburger, but it can be a hairstyle or your rear end.
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Now, "bun in the oven".
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A "muffin top". Muffins are like cupcakes or sweet bread, but they don't have any icing
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on top. So, a "muffin top", this is crazy, this is funny, is a person who wears their
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pants too tight, and their midsection fat... So all the fat from the side hangs over their
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pants. So, "muffin top" is something that we would try to avoid, but it actually looks
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like you have a muffin on the top of your buns. Do you have muffin top? It's... It's...
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You know what, ladies, gentlemen? It's... It's not really sexy to have a muffin top.
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Of course, you're going to have some body fat, but try and tuck it in, maybe buy your
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pants a bit bigger. Get rid of your muffin top.
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And, oh, Ronnie, got to have a nice one. "Sweetie pie". "Sweetie pie" generally means that the
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person is nice. Aww. So you can say: "Ronnie's such a sweetie pie." Th-... What? Ronnie?
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Th-, this one? Yeah, I know.
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And let's move on to the enormous task of the toast. You probably know this definition
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of "toast", it's very common. You'll see in movies,
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the people will be at a wedding in Brazil, and they'll be like:
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"Raise a toast to the bride and groom",
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and they drink. So,
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"toast" means like saying: "Cheers", and usually the person has a wee, which means small, speech
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to talk about the people. So at a wedding: "Raise a toast to the bride and groom", and
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someone usually talks incessantly about the bride and the groom.
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This is where we get into the lowdown of the slang. "Toast" as an adjective means it's
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broken. So you might hear someone say:
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"My car is toast."
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You drive toast? That's insane!
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Oh, it means it's broken.
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"My computer is toast." Or:
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"My marker is toast."
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It basically just means it's broken. English is weird.
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When we talk about people, people cannot be broken. You can't say:
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"I am broken."
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You can say you're hurt badly, but we never say people are broken. Things can be broken, but
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not people. To be hurt badly. So, someone might say:
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"If you mess with him, you're toast."
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I'm bread in the toaster all of a sudden? Again, it means that you are going to get
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hurt very badly. This is like a warning or a threat.
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"Toasted", this means drunk or stoned. "Stoned" means you've done some kind of drugs. The
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exact same definition for "toasted" would be "baked", which has to do with the bakery.
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"Baked" means you're high on drugs, so does "stoned". So, "baked", "stoned", and "toasted"
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means that you're high on drugs, but "toasted" can mean drunk or stoned. Mm-hmm. Slang gets
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difficult. So you might hear someone say:
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"Wah, I was toasted last night."
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That means they're drunk. If you hear your friends or people you know, or on TV, people say:
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"Let's get... Let's get toasted, man."
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It probably means they're smoking some drugs.
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There's a DJ phenomenal called "toasting". If you're familiar with Dancehall or Reggae
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music, or one my favorite 1960's Jamaican Ska music, there's something called "toasting",
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and this is basically lyrical chanting over riddim. Yeah, man, bring the riddim one time,
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slowly. "Riddim" basically means music, it's like a Jamaican word for music. And we would
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know it as DJing. So, maybe you go to the club and a song is playing, and the guy or
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the girl on the mic, the microphone is yapping incessantly:
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"Coming up next, blah, blah, yap, yap, yap. Yeah, yeah, guys! Welcome to the club. We're having a great time."
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This, but if you actually say words and almost sing is called toasting. There's famous... A really
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famous Ska band called "The Toasters", that's how they get their name.
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"Toast" is also apparently New York City slang for a gun. Now, reaching out there, ladies
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and gentlemen, do you know Fitty Cent? Also 50 Cent. He's a rap... A rap... Rap guy, rap
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star, rapper. Rap, rap, rapper. And from New York City. In his song "Wanksta", he talks
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about never leaving home without toast. He's not eating bread. He doesn't like bread. It
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actually means a gun. That's something I had to look up.
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If you have questions about delicious toast,
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please go and ask a baker.
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Maybe they can help you. Or ask me.
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Catch you later.
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