55 Words ONLY British People Know
Added 2025-10-09 18:47:46 +0000 UTCComments
He would come under... "Proper diamond geezer"
Tass
2025-10-16 15:32:48 +0000 UTCAmericans also use 'Purse', you just don't realise it. The phrase 'tighten the pursestrings' came from when purses used to literally be bags of money opened/closed by loosening/tightening string
Stu T
2025-10-13 22:13:20 +0000 UTCI'm 40, lived here my whole life and I've never heard anyone use the word 'knackered' in a sexual way
I-Love-My-Brick
2025-10-12 03:21:33 +0000 UTCIt’s perfect that you are watching Only Fools and Horses as Del is the absolute definition of Geezer.
Rob Brown
2025-10-10 19:58:26 +0000 UTCLove Adventures & Naps, such a great channel. She’s pretty awesome!
MarkCity10
2025-10-10 11:17:13 +0000 UTCTrinkets an 'Baubles'
Daz Parker
2025-10-10 10:52:01 +0000 UTCWe all used to call everyone 'Geez' as in, 'alright geez' as a greeting
Mark Griffin
2025-10-10 08:55:49 +0000 UTCAnyone else know 'Bang dots' 🤔😂
Adam G
2025-10-10 08:44:24 +0000 UTCYorkshire puddings you say...
Adam G
2025-10-10 07:23:27 +0000 UTCOnly ever thought it meant tired 'shattered' Never after sex specific.
Adam G
2025-10-10 07:16:39 +0000 UTCNever heard 'wagging it' myself, Emma
Adam G
2025-10-10 07:13:20 +0000 UTCI love these type of one's ❤️👌 Great reaction guy's 🇬🇧🇺🇲
Adam G
2025-10-10 07:09:56 +0000 UTCIt's like 'Party' - 'Pardy' 😂
Adam G
2025-10-10 07:05:41 +0000 UTCI would only say 'butty' for chip butty. But 'Sarnie' for any other sandwich. Like 'l'm having a bacon sarnie'
Adam G
2025-10-10 07:04:32 +0000 UTCButty - Buddy 😂
Adam G
2025-10-10 07:02:01 +0000 UTCI feel like 'mobile' has largely gone now. I guess it was originally used to differentiate between your 'cellphone' and your landline. Now landlines have largely gone, it's kind of an obsolete term. I think most people just use 'phone' now.
David Gatecliff
2025-10-10 06:57:50 +0000 UTCTo me a purse is bigger and is what a woman would have because she can store it in her hand bag, a wallet is something smaller and compact that would usually be more assoiated with a guy having, where there's just room for a few cards and a few notes, no coins (hense coin purse=purse)
Jamie Derry
2025-10-10 04:17:30 +0000 UTCBobble is different to bauble although can sound the same in some accents, and baubles aren't treasure, thy're specific styles of christmas tree decoration.
Jamie Derry
2025-10-10 04:09:39 +0000 UTCOooohh fun, let me give it a go. I’m a really dodgy dude. (We use dodgy as well) I stole a lady’s wallet from her fanny pack cuz I was broke and needed a few bucks, but I (assuming daint means didn’t) realize an off duty cop saw it all. He called it in and a few minutes later the cops (assuming that’s basically what rozzeds is) got me and threw me in…. Jail? Not sure about the jam sarnie part. I did 5 years in jail. When I got out I had no home, friends, or job. My only choice was to go back to being a thief? (Guessing Cockney rhyming slang for tea leaf.) it was that or be homeless, wasting? the ways away, living on the few bucks people will give you. How close did I get?
Killermcknight
2025-10-10 03:37:35 +0000 UTCI wonder how much of this you understand: "I'm a proper dodgy geezer. I knicked some birds purse from her bum bag 'cause I was skint and needed a few quid, but I daint realise an off duty Bobby saw it all. He called it in, and minutes later the rozzers had copped me and chucked me in the old jam sarnie. "Fair cop , Plod", I said to the main bloke. I ended up doing 5 years in the slammer. When I got let out I was over the moon, 'til I realised I had no gaff, no mates, and no job. Even the old man wanted nout to do with me. Me only choice was to go back to being a tea leaf. It was that or be a tramp eating out of bins, dossing the days away, living on the few bob folk'll chuck your way. Instead, I've became something of a dab hand at pilfering lorries."
Relyx
2025-10-10 02:57:19 +0000 UTCI believe keen as mustard comes from pepping racing horses up with the smell of mustard so they are raring to go.
Relyx
2025-10-10 02:38:35 +0000 UTCNot quite. I've heard from older folks that knackered specifically means to be tired after sex. I think its just an old fashioned thing. Maybe it is because of knackers meaning bollocks that it had that sexual side?
Relyx
2025-10-10 02:31:52 +0000 UTCYeah its baubles. Great choice of game though. I've got 100s of hours in it. We also use bobble to mean an awkward ball bounce in football, often due to wear and tear on the pitch (the shot missed because of an unlucky bobble). We also use it to mean pilling on clothes. So an old jumper/sweater might have a lot of bobbles on it.
Relyx
2025-10-10 02:00:54 +0000 UTCI have been a patron for Alanna since 2019.. great stuff she does, check out her Yorkshire puddings....
Tim Covill
2025-10-10 00:13:10 +0000 UTCCursive and joined-up writing are not exactly the same thing - cursive is a particular style of joined-up writing. You can write joined-up writing without it being cursive.
Moody Marco
2025-10-09 22:52:49 +0000 UTCI'm not sure how old that video is but Alana has now lived in Kent for 10 years
Moody Marco
2025-10-09 22:42:19 +0000 UTCYou must be over 30. I'm Glaswegian and my kids are 28 and 19 and that's the word they and all their friends use for when going to someone's house party after the pub - "went to a gaff", "going to someone's gaff". In my day that was called "an empty" (i.e. their parents were away, the house was empty)
Moody Marco
2025-10-09 22:37:41 +0000 UTC10/10
Killermcknight
2025-10-09 21:40:32 +0000 UTCI’ve always known ‘knackered’ to just mean tired, but I have heard other people say that it specifically means tired after sex 🤷🏻♀️
Emma Edwards
2025-10-09 21:03:52 +0000 UTCWe have a few words for ‘skipping school’. ‘Bunking off’ or ‘wagging it’ or skiving is what I hear most around here.
Emma Edwards
2025-10-09 20:53:19 +0000 UTCI agree with Taylor. I think if you live in another place for long enough, you pick up the vocabulary and it’s probably not a conscious decision.
Emma Edwards
2025-10-09 20:50:20 +0000 UTCOh Stephen, not quite on the baubles/bobbles 😂 Baubles is probably what you heard in your game, bobbles is fuzzy balls
Emily
2025-10-09 20:02:15 +0000 UTCChuffed to see a proper great reaction. I'm well chuffed 😂😂😂
Nicholas Ferguson
2025-10-09 19:58:42 +0000 UTCOn Only Fools and Horses, they referred to the police as 'the old bill'. They are also known as 'the filth'.
Jules
2025-10-09 19:51:33 +0000 UTCMy profile photo is of a ginger and white kitten. His name is Popsicle. He is a resident cat at The Friends of Felines Rescue Center in Defiance, Ohio.
Jules
2025-10-09 19:40:03 +0000 UTCI was well ‘chuffed’ to see a new video pop up on here. It was a ‘proper’ good reaction with no ‘faff’ whilst eating my bag of ‘crisps’ and ‘sarnie’ with ‘rocket’, because I was feeling pretty ‘peckish’ earlier. Absolutely ‘knackered’ after work though. 🤣 Always love your reactions. Cheers! 😂
Ryan
2025-10-09 19:32:40 +0000 UTCWhen she was talking about "knackered" having a sexual meaning, she's thinking of "knackers", bollocks, testicles - "I kicked him in the knackers" 🤣
Jason White
2025-10-09 19:30:29 +0000 UTCI had a friend and her mum stay with us for a few years. They used to swear/curse a lot. But because I didn't do it, they gradually stopped. I didn't ask them to stop, they just did. I think if you live in a new country for a while, you start saying the words they say so they know what you mean. But after a while, it becomes a habit and you don't realise you are doing it automatically.
Jules
2025-10-09 19:28:08 +0000 UTCPeople in the U.K. might wear a bumbag/fanny pack if they worked on the market stalls. But when I had one, I wore it over the shoulder and across the body.
Jules
2025-10-09 19:21:47 +0000 UTC@25:00 Knackered: knackers, like bollocks, could be used to describe testicles, but no, I think it's mostly used to describe exhaustion. The people who were complaining about it, are the sort who complain about anything.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-10-09 19:19:28 +0000 UTCA lot of these would also be south England region specific. As a Scot, I'd never call my home a "gaff", unless I was trying to sound like I was a Londoner or something. She lives at the other end of Britain to me.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-10-09 19:02:33 +0000 UTCA wallet in the US is only what a man would call it in the UK. A woman would usually say her purse, never a wallet. But both are basically the same. The thing you put cards, and change in. Not the big bag (US purse). That's just a handbag, here.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-10-09 18:56:47 +0000 UTC
