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5 Colloquial British English Words

Hi everyone, welcome back to English with Lucy.

I’ve got a short little video for you today. It’s been highly requested. It’s all about British slang. so, today, I’m going to talk to you about five slang words and phrases that we use here in England.

The first slang word is the tube. And any of you that have visited London will know this quite well. The tube for us is the underground. But we would never call it a metro or the underground. We normally call it the tube and that’s because it’s in the shape of a tube.

So, if you visit London, make sure you ask for the nearest tube station. Now, people will understand you if you say metro station or underground station. But if you want to sound like a native, which you.

Okay, the next word is local. So, if I say I’m just popping down to my local. What would I be saying? What do I mean? Well, I mean I’m copping down. just quickly visiting my local pub. Now a big part of British culture is going to the pub. So, it’s very fitting that we have a slang word for it. The local and this is a slang word that I use quite a lot I’d say, oh, yes, we just met in my local and everyone knows I’m referring to my local pub.

The next word is thrash and this is a verb. To thrash now what would I be saying if I said I absolutely thrashed him? Well, we would be saying I beat him not in a physical sense. It means in a game it means, I won over someone. So, say, I was playing cards with my dad and I won by a long way. I would say, yeah, I absolutely thrashed him.

The next British slang word is iffy. So, if I say, oh, no, that sounds a bit iffy. What would I be saying if he refers to something incorrect or not quite right? So, if my mum says to me Lucy have just received an email and a really rich Prince wants to give me 200 million pounds. I would say: Oh, mum that sounds a bit iffy. I don’t think that’s quite right.

And the final word skint. Skint. so, if I said I bought all this new camera equipment and now I’m totally skint. What would I be saying, it means I have no money or I think Americans would say broke in this case. but for us we would say skint. If someone invites me out but I can’t go, because I’ve not got enough money, I just say nah I’m skint.

Okay those were my five British slang words and phrases I hope you enjoyed them.