BRITISH SLANG | 5 Colloquial British English Words

[@alex-eucmad.7133]

I've got some more that I learned when I was in London: - To feel peckish = To be a bit hungry - To fancy someone = To like someone (it can also be used Tu suggest someone to go out for a drink or sth: Do you fancy a beer? Would you like to grab a beer? (We've got a corresponding sentence in Spanish: Te hace una cerveza? - To be gutted = To be annoyed, disappointed with sth - To be knackered = To be more that tired, exhausted (highly used when you go back home from a long night of partying haha) - To be/look posh = To be/look cool, in a "luxurious" way Please correct me if I'm wrong 😊😁 Cheers Lucy!

[@roisine4625]

they are all good, although i personally would not refer to posh as cool, it's rather if you look well off or fancy

[@tombelanovic7686]

"Fancy" & "posh" are commonly used. Good point.

[@krishnacoirs]

I know some slang phrases and expressions ; they are as follows : 1. to be knackered = to be really really tired. 2. Rightly so = quite rightly ; correctly . 3 .to be quids in = to (suddenly ) be in good financial condition ; mostly used to say people if they won some money in the competition.. 4. You have got to be kidding me ! = You must be joking ( can be used in funny ,anger, disbelief situations )...etc... And don't think that I have heard these phrases and expressions in Britain , because I didn't. I have recently learnt it from Lucy's other video !!😜

[@EnglishwithLucy]

I'm using my new ring light and Blue yeti Microphone! What do you think? i'd love your feedback!

[@nazozgenustunkaya-tamm8494]

English with Lucy sounds perfect and I really enjoy ur slang videos it is very useful for me indeed thx

[@spydestroyer]

Blue mics are really good and it sounded good too though the microphone has got a bit of the room sound since it's a condenser . ( I know what I'm talking about since I am a sound engineer ) I think though the best mic for you would be a dynamic mic such as a SM7 to get less room sound and more direct sound from your voice . also tame a bit of the high end ( meaning hi frequencies because it sounds a bit harsh ) .

[@TheCreative1798]

hmn... I think, the new microphone is... I don't know... too loud, previous videos were much quieter and probably there is some echo in background. I'm really keen on that previous mic. PS: up there, in my main comment might be some incorrect forms or mistakes, sorry for that but I'm not native English speaker.

English with Lucy I learn with your videos that you can have a smooth, clean, very white and bright face.

[@safaermili1495]

English with Lucy good job lucy thanks for ur efforts can u add more slangs plz

[@edgardoalexandergarciahern1959]

Thank you for your dedication and your classes, day by day I improve my learning of this language more. God bless you always. Greetings from🇻🇪🇻🇪

[@itsgorani9133]

You asked for slang words and those came to mind right away 1.bollocks (as a curse word, probably something an American would not use) 2. dodgy (as something shady and not quite right; close to "iffy" I guess) 3. a fortnight (as a period of two weeks, although I am pretty sure it is more old fashioned "Shakespearian" than slang) PS: We call a pub "Lokal" in German, too.

[@andrewsmith74]

Bollocks also means testicles as well as nonsense. Dodgy, shady and iffy mean the same thing. Fortnight isn't slang - it's in mainstream use.

[@hetalraiththa1127]

well today in India we take the word 'fortnight' in regular use

[@Blast-Forward]

Hmm, a "Lokal" can even be an expensive restaurant.

[@joaopedrog.dasilva327]

Two number 4s in the list? Sounds a bit iffy haha nice video, Lucy, I always learn with you :)

[@عيدروسالحاج]

I t is very good English Accent. Thank you

[@joaopmatos7791]

I love the idiom: "and Bob's your uncle", it's absolutely hilarious

[@patricianorton3908]

joão paulo sobis In the U.S. You might hear " and there you go "

[@jebuschrist3958]

but bobs not my uncle... :(

[@ArginArgin]

I believe it's more common in New Zealand. And there's fanny's your aunt... Lovely.

[@gregoryvincke]

Dear Lucy. Thank you for helping me to modify my French accent towards a British one, which is something that I'm striving for. Listening to you is a great source of linguistic benefit. And for having taught for only three years, what a great teacher you are! Best wishes to you.

[@EnglishwithLucy]

What a lovely comment!!! Thanks so much! Glad you find my lessons useful :)

[@RonaldLAbbey]

Iffy is popular here in the States, it might be getting a bit dated though. We use it as you do, but it's mostly used in reference to the weather. "The weather is a bit iffy". When you can't tell what the weather is going to do, for example "is it going to rain or will the sun shine?" (it's always about polar opposite's, never minor differences like rain & showers). We also use it to denote doubt whether someone will or wont attend a social function, "My brother is iffy about coming to Sunday dinner".

[@piterpiter265]

I am quite familiar with all the stuff Lucy talks about in her videos but i still watch them because she's georgeous!!!

[@LostConviction]

yup i deadly love the British slang

[@EnglishwithLucy]

+Ilean i'm so glad!

[@thutranghoang1503]

can you give me your email! we can talk to each other!

[@creativepicker540]

same goes to me

[@pro369]

Simplicity is key, you did so well in your video. Fabulous

[@arjungautam2309]

Hi Lucy. I am a fan of yours. I used to speak fluent English but know I speak more fluently. Thank you from all my heart

[@didrikuser]

Thank you! This really helped for informal agony aunt letters! Appreciate English homework is perfect.

[@dilrubaminel6491]

I really want to know some more British Slangs! I'd be happy if you make more videos like this! btw I love you so much Lucy! Thank you for everything you did! You helped me a lot while I improving my accent ^^

[@yashsaxena8629]

HI! Lucy, thank you so much for your lessons. I have learned a lot and keep learning to become more fluent in English. You are so good in teaching English and in looks too. A cute thank you to a so beautiful teacher :)

[@JoaoLucas-lh7gb]

Hey Lucy, great work! I am from Brazil and I've been learning english over one years and you accent is so fun, I like so much. Keeping going with your videos. I love you hermanita.

[@jovanleon7]

I'm on my way to the tube now because I have to pop up down my local asap since a dude just challenge me in a game of dart there and I absolutely have to thrash him for some squid because I'm totally skint right now.

[@EnglishwithLucy]

+Jovan Tumuju that doesn't sound iffy at all Jovan!

[@jovanleon7]

+English with Lucy Thanks Lucy... O, darn it! I totally forgot that one! :D Glad I got your attention though. You even mentioned my name. My heart's melting. Help! ^_^

[@captainamerica1851]

Jovan Leon this is awesome man!!

[@vlad013]

Probably instead of dude ( which is actually is a Yankee slang), a bloke would have been rather a fitting one, wouldn't it ? :)

[@ПавелКылысов-ю5э]

Thanks for the inredible lesson, Lucy! You help us to increase our knowledges of British English, and it's absolutely great! I'm really inspired by your hardest and so useful work!

[@fatimkin159]

I'm absolutely in love with this channel! Ma fave😍 Well done, Lucy! Keep it up!👏👏👏

[@mohammadismailhkr2385]

english with lucy is absolutely amazing with much pretty good accent and making fun during the lessons

[@EnglishwithDanielX]

Cool video Lucy. You are full of great ideas 💡 keep it up!

[@eezyla1185]

Perfect light, perfect sound :) Thanks for this short but useful video Lucy :) May I tell you there's a mistake for the last slang word? You wrote 4 on top of skint while it's the 5th word. But still, you're a great teacher :) I'm learning cultural English - which is the one thing I miss ;)

[@DarkDennis1961]

I have used 'skint' in scrabble. it was in the dictionary. I know you hear it all the time: I love your accent

[@lasluin]

Hey Lucy! Thanks for all the tips! Just wanted to let you know, in case you don't know this yet, that in Spain we have the exact same slang word for "skint", which is "pelado" (lit. "peeled", comes from "piel", "pelar", "pelado"). To make it sound even more Spanish (from central Spain at least) you would say "pelao". Thanks again and keep up the good work!

[@madalinpana2169]

I love you Lucy, thank you so much...

[@ritikamathur6256]

Lucy I always learn something from your video

[@MohamedAli-zy4cf]

Miss Lusy, you're the best teacher, and I wish to meet you in the future.

[@ignatiusyan4394]

thanks so much for Lucy, great lesson

[@katieellen9853]

I like the phrases "it's not that deep" or "allow it" or the slang "extra"

[@saahasyraajaa4228]

That's what i'm very agog to learn colloquial british words😍 thank u so much

[@EnglishwithLucy]

GREAT :D

[@rohanichhaporia6580]

I've also heard 'telly', referring to the television. Sounds quite fascinating! 'The telly isn't working'.

[@henrylondon1416]

Thanks for a new incredibly video!! Ti penso sempre.

[@atheerabdullah5815]

Thank miss Lucy for this lesson I have learned a lot from this video ❤️love you 💖

[@fillymorenikky]

can you make a video with more slang words? 🙏🏻 thank you lucy

[@lutffysaeed7353]

Nice to see u again cute, cool Native speaker lucy !! 😻

[@willchen2616]

Thank u, Lucy. I've learned a lot from your videos,really like your videos.BTW,I'm Chinese,love British culture,and last year I had visited England ,really love RP.Again ,thanks for keep doing this.

[@AzrentheLanguageNerd]

Will Chen Where in China are you from?

[@eden447]

wow you speak very clearly, I could understand every word that came out of your mouth. this video is great. thank you so much 💗

[@tombelanovic7686]

"to go down the pub" is an interesting phrase. You hear it every now and then. It really should be; "to go down TO the pub", but this is a commonly used phrase.

[@isafouqueray6766]

Your videos are so useful! Thank you so much!😘

[@matildemanca1025]

Hi Lucy! I have started watching your videos something like two months ago and now you're my favourite one for what you teach and the way you do it! You know, I'm Italian and I'm still learning and studying hard to sound like a native and you are sort of an inspiration because after have watched one of your videos I usually practice my pronunciation skills for hours! I also have kind of obsession for London so whether you would like to tell something about the city I'd be very pleased! I wish I could visit Uk someday! If there's something incorrect just let me know, I will slap me in the face instantly ahah! Bye, thank you xx

[@mohonakhan4907]

Plz,make more videos like this Plz plz plz! I had become your fan when I started watching your videos !

[@NoHealerJustPain]

Gorgeous wallpapers! ;) As for slang words, I've never heard 3 of your 5 before. So it's always wonderful to get to know things. And I have to admit what you give can be useful in an ordinary life's conversation, not that strange slang of narrow close group, you know.

[@EnglishwithLucy]

OH my mum will be so pleased! She kept asking if anyone had mentioned them yet!

[@NoHealerJustPain]

They are hard not to be mentioned, I just couldn't help to ) though I try to pay more attention what people do than how they look and where they're around. But they really shed some light on my face to make me smile in a good way of reasoning of cause, very positive.

[@marilynvidal4200]

I am a big fan Lucy even though I have been living in London for 30 odd years, I still enjoy your videos. Has anyone told you that you sound and look very much like Amanda Holden, that woman judge of Britain's got talent. Keep up the good work. ❤️👌👍

[@RussianwithAnastasia]

Thank you for a very useful video, Lucy! I learnt at least 4 new words!

[@ahmedalsadialsadi8118]

Anastasia Semina Hi . could we be friends please? on Facebook or whatsapp.

[@RussianwithAnastasia]

Ahmed Al sadi Alsadi sure, facebook.com/RussianFinnishEnglish

[@gambitgambitgambit]

wow wondered what you were going to come up with, good list! Im a Londoner, use all of these all the time!

[@xGomezMarine]

Yayyy!!!! I knew most of them off the top of my head without thinking about it. The others seemed familiar but after you explained them they clicked and I had my yeah, that's right moment.😁

[@cansamiozyurt2635]

Your sound is very clearly.thank you Lucy

[@lucianotavares4953]

I never heard before about the tips you gave on this video. Very nice! Thank you!

[@عيدروسالحاج]

I am very happy to practice listening with you

[@allzoommood]

Lucy, could you do me a big favour? Could you do a video lesson on words such as: 1) b*tch, beech, beach 2) floor, flour, flower And others

[@pazuzupazuzu377]

I like 'IFFY' I'd definitely use it from now on. Thanks dear Lucy XoXo

[@EnglishwithLucy]

Great!!!

[@boualemimedjdouben2171]

Hi, our teacher Lucy ,I want to thank you for all the best lessons So " thanks ,thanks and thanks until the your heart laugh "

[@MrLykkilainen]

Slang terms rule! 💪🏻 Perfect presentation yet again! 😊 I just spent 10 days with an Irish bloke in Portugal. Everything he spoke was slang to me. 😂

[@andrewsmith74]

Ireland has a lot of slang that Britain doesn't have - and vice versa.

[@MrLykkilainen]

Yes I know. As I said, slang rulez! :D

[@NorbilEducation]

Many thanks dear Lucy , we're enjoying your videos keep going. We're all by your side.

[@EnglishwithLucy]

Thanks so much

[@NorbilEducation]

Thanks a lot for your sweety reply.

[@robertoa.paradar.1306]

That was nice of you Lucy, but I´m afraid you missed out one! you´re so cute.. Thanks Lucy.

[@jonathanleona7043]

this is great. im working in a customer service here in Philippines catering UK account and i think this is gonna help a lot in understanding customers using slang words or phrases.

[@jonathanleona7043]

more of this Lucy ❤❤

[@LanaABA]

Very useful video) thanks a lot!!

[@DrakEagleYT]

"our kid", used in my fav city: Manchester

[@konullondon3796]

thank you so much for preparing such a nice video to us!. I'm learning some things new that I have never known or heard about it. especially you speak correctly like British people and teach us how to spell or saying words that. I'm trying to attend my thoughts to pronounciation and spelling well. please creat new videos with pronounciation and smilliar voices. Thank youuu lovely💖

[@sylvie91tud]

that's a great video Lucy! Thank you so much! Love you and your British accent!

[@james-oc9sb]

Thanks Lucy for such a great and mesmerising lesson

[@dom1161]

We also use "iffy" in Midwestern America! I'm not sure if it's used everywhere here, but I use it :)

[@rachelandnick]

These are awesome! Thank you! I will use them straight away!

[@Hidd3nAudio]

Up north nobody says "local" its "boozer" :D or "brassic" for being skint, I love the slang! :)

[@JamesAlliott]

HiddenArtTV I disagree, I'm from up north, and loads of people say local

[@nahidislamz]

need more slang like this. thank you

[@aliyaaify]

Oh lovely Lucy learning a lots with you especially the pronunciation and I get it very well Thanks a lots and you are a Darling Dear...

[@ch3rry_dream]

Gosh, I loved it! I just knew the word 'tube' but I really like to learn words, phrases and expressions to sound like an original British :) pls make more videos like this

[@sakura-kl9no]

*YOR* *ARE* *THE* *BEST* *TEACHER* *EVER* 😣❤❤

[@NeverStopLearningEnglish]

I love you. Thanks so much!

[@noraya8150]

Nice video Lucy! You help me a lot with your lessons : )

[@EnglishwithLucy]

I'm so glad :)

[@ninarose724]

A bit of slang that's new to me: "They look terribly SWISH together," i.e., they look fabulous. "The cat skedaddled rather sharpish." Both of these come from Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett It's totally brill.

[@araadzira2188]

I am ffrom Malaysia and I so in love with your teaching here... Hope can be meet you there as my teacher.. 😊

[@pingyi8881]

i love British accent, but i don't have much more experience to familiar with this accent, still try it.

[@maude9191]

"5" : skint. Just wrong number. Thank you anyway Lucy x Love your useful videos x

[@italosantana3621]

The sounds is great, Lucy!

[@EnglishwithLucy]

Thanks Italo!!!!

[@NoHealerJustPain]

Agreed, much better than in last previous videos.

[@maniac_4829]

thank you....and especially for the last word.👍👍

[@isabelaminucio]

I feel awesome to understand all she´s saying aaaaaaaa (brazil here, olá)

[@marcob4630]

Nice and useful. Thank you Lucy!

[@yousifsamer5477]

Thank you so much locy, you look enlightent

[@captainamerica1851]

make a video on difference between noun and verb. I will be very much keen to watch this video. thanks in advance

[@RalfWeyer]

Another fun and helpful lesson, thanks Lucy

[@EnglishwithLucy]

Thanks Ralf!

[@EnglishwithLucy]

Gracias hermanitoooo

[@maripaura4945]

I absolutely love all your videos!😊 They are quite useful... 😉 P.S. : Your accent is so cute!

[@AzrentheLanguageNerd]

Iffy and to thrash are also used in Canada. To thrash isn't as common, but iffy is common :-)

[@tonycha4819]

We have an angel teacher.

[@lucacarafa2686]

You'd look amazing with anything

[@drowranger6654]

wow i love that British Dialect

[@youpgreen9424]

i wanna learn the British accent .. it's difficult :/ but thanks u help me with these videos

[@EnglishwithLucy]

I'm glad I can help :)

[@chunlige7416]

love you Lucy, thank you so much

[@liviaasmr]

You are amazing :) Thank You !

[@NOname1-q4p]

Thank you ,teacher

[@opentechnicletarget7732]

Thank you so much mam 😘😍😘😍😘😍😘💗💖💗💖💗your all video's very useful

[@kailakurash8838]

Where I am from in north east USA we say Jeet? which would be "did you eat?" and a common reply would be "djew?" which would be "did you?"

[@jock364]

It may be "Tube" in London, but it is "Subway" in Glasgow.

[@EnglishwithLucy]

Oh really! I'm dying to visit Glasgow, I've never been!

[@ib9rt]

I think it's not that unusual to use Underground in London to refer to the Tube, especially since not all the tunnels are tube shaped. And of course now we have the Overground too...

[@claritarodrigues8192]

ib9rt the

[@Master_Trip_BR]

Great!!! Let's to the next one...

[@alexcasian9916]

Wow, nice one. I knew before about IFFY but SKINT sounds new to me. Keep them coming. Best regards.

[@AzrentheLanguageNerd]

Casian Alexander Iffy is also used in North America too, I think that is a more common slang term than just in England.

[@alexcasian9916]

Interesting. Thank you for clarifying! 👍🏻

[@AzrentheLanguageNerd]

Casian Alexander not a problem!

[@Haramimam89]

I wanna see your video. Now I am gonna use these slangs.

[@esraametwally2294]

please lucy do more British slang videos 😍

[@anonymousbohemian4419]

please, give more daily life colloquial words and phrases.

[@andriiklymenko6322]

Lucy, you are astonishing! Do people in England often use an idioma "wool-gathering"? Can you comment upon this next time.