Yeah you're right 😂 I couldn't stop laughing when he was thinking about that word...good job he looked it up because he went out side and said"hello there you look like a nonce" 🚑 🏥
Its funny when Americans learn the difference between "pissed", "taking the piss", "being pissed" and "pissed off". All of them having very different meanings
I agree im from west midlands and admittedly 80% of these words are used here but mostly by younger generation (roadman talk) is what I call it and most of which its normally kids who smoke weed or people in there 20s who say these things im 30 and I didnt even no 20% of them myself ! For example I knew bare means loads like I got bare weed etc if you was roadman thats what they would say but for me I dont say it like that I say for example "my cupbaords are bare meaning nothing in them! So yeah your right ! I also thought that squiffy means like "oh you smell a little squiffy " I have used that term myself before but I've never heard it as being for getting squiffy like or feeling squiffy I thought it meant like squiffy as in dirty smelly etc.... other than that the rest wasn't really English slang per say most people know these including American and canadians ! I've heard Americans say quite a few of them myself, they must have come from younger subscribers as my kind of English slang is much different "black country" and its one of the worst in the uk lol but also one of the most historic and best in my opinion my English is very very broken and I'm not a brummie I hate being called that im a yam yam we have completly different ways of talking im a early 90s kid 91 lol so I was brought up in black country so were all my parents because of this my black country accent is very prominent lol 😆 👌 😂. Love it or hate it like marmite lol 😆 ❤ ♥
@@spookyncutey4577 a few of my mates were "roadmen" wanna be ones...it was so bizarre hearing their speech change over a short period of time. I'm more of a indie/punk/alt but somehow we all melded well. I felt like the odd one out never being in trackies/trainers but I learnt alot. They might look like bad people, but loads of them were fun, friendly and welcoming. But there is loads of people who give anything a bad name.
@@RxDg9496 I'm actually a tesco bag AKA the 3rd worst and 3rd best club in the West Midlands 😂 but still nice to see a yam yam even if a dog head and same I've never heard of squiffy
The way you described 'nonce' was the funniest thing ever. Some of the terms unless your under 20 you wouldn't know them anyway. Some I've never heard of.
Squiffy is actually Victorian slang for drunk….so, not been in general use since early 20th century, unless like me you like to use old slang every now and again! 😁
@@MrSiBrum I think the problem with squiffy is not that you're too old but too young. I'm mid 30s and never used it but I've heard the boomer generation use it. Not sure how common it is. Also heard it used in the same context as skew whiff, like askew.
Nearly pissed myself laughing when you looked up nonce. Interesting fact, back before nonces had their own wings in prison, they would have this written next to their cell door. It stood for not on normal communal/courtyard exercise. This let the guards know that these cells were to be kept locked when the other prisoners were out of their cells. Otherwise, well you can guess what the other prisoners would do to them.
The word originally meant 'for one purpose' an old English word Didnt know thats what it stood for in the context you mentioned though, everyday is a school day I guess, lol
@@stevemoppett2759 a simple Google search would have found it for you, its very worrying you know how to put people down but can't figure out how to seek information out for yourself when you have Google in your pocket
“Peng” and “Dead Ting” is very modern slang and London centric. I’m from the north of England, and I’d never heard it before until a couple of years ago :P
Peng isn't super modern. I briefly went to a boarding school (for naughty kids) roughly around 15yrs ago and there was a lot of kids from London that used to go. They'd use that word a lot & coming from Buckinghamshire I hadn't heard half the words they used to use.
I'm from the south, but not London, and old, so I knew some, nonce is old, but bare in that context is new, so London-centric is just that, a lot of slang used in London, is not known elsewhere.
Peng is not English slang. Of Caribbean origin. I have never heard it before and I have always lived close to London. And Dead Ting not English either. Innit is used incorrectly by minority groups it just means ‘is’nt it’. Like “it,s really cold today innit” mainly London East End slang.
The "nonce" bit was priceless, good instincts there Anna. And, full marks for your restraint when JT said he was "leaning towards penis." Not a thing a girlfriend wants to hear from her fella. 😁
I’m not a Brit but I have been living here for a decade and I love it a lot. I’m a huge fan of your videos and your obsession with Britain. And I cracked up when you found out what nonce means! 😂
To be fair, a lot of those (peng, dead ting, bare in particular) are very London centric, most of us outside of the capital wouldn't use them unless you are an urban youth who is trying to pretend you are from London. We DO have an awful lot of slang words for penis though..... You could pretty much use any of those in the right context and it would refer to your "old chap". Also used are "Percy, dick, prick, schlong, dong, wang, knob, willy, trouser snake, " and many more.....
there was an old computer in our computer studies room at upper school branded 'Wang', that not surprisingly cause a bit of giggling when we first saw it 😁
This is a bit of an ignorant take since they're mostly derived from Jamaican patois so will be used be Jamaican descendents across the country and has nothing to do with "pretending" to be from London
@@MrJoeshipley and the vast majority of Jamaican immigrants live in and around London. Both now and when the Windrush generation from the west indies began to arrive. So much so that the slang derived from patois became almost synonymous with inner city urban youth.
@@Bridgercraft this needs a longer form conversation than I can be arsed to type on my phone but the tldr is that there are many reasons why people would use what is called MLE outside of London. And yes I'm aware of what the L stands for.
@@MrJoeshipley you're right, there are other reasons, mostly when they have roots within or upbringing around people of afro Caribbean descent. But there are also a LOT of kids who use MLE slang just because they are influenced by Musicians, actors and celebrities who use it natively.
"Peng" is stetching it in terms of what is considered British slang. It's not even widely used, basically you're only using it if you're black or a confused chav.
This is pretty interesting, seeing what makes sense to me as a Brit. I'd never heard the first one, squiffy to me means just kind of... messy and out of order, not drunk, dead ting I'd heard on TV but didn't know the meaning of. The UK might be relatively small, but with the amount of dialects and accents we have it's no wonder we have such varied slang.
I have to agree with you on that, I have never ever heard anyone say they were squiffy when drunk, queasy, or tipsy maybe amongst other terminology lol. squiffy all over the place and a mess, I can understand the logic to tye it to being drunk, but it's in the wrong context. I would say for example, when your eyes go askew and everything is all over the place they have gone squiffy.
" I'm feeling a wee bit squiffy " when you feel you've had a few too many but you're not blind drunk. ( I'm 66 yrs old but really only heard it in 1940 - 60's films)
Yeah I always knew "squiffy" as being like "a bit 'off'", or being skewiff, I assumed that squiffy and skewiff were linguistically connected. So maybe would use it if feeling a little unwell, not full blown poorly, just a bit nauseous, under the weather, queasy, squiffy. Yes, I think best definition for how I know it, is "a bit off". For things, objects, generally being a bit off, skewiff might fit better. e.g: "what happened in here?! The pictures are wonky and all the furnitures a bit skewiff"
Please do more videos with you both your both hilarious.... I nearly pissed my pants. By far the best US learning UK. Your definitely my favourite American ❤
This is brilliant as a Brit and hearing you pronouncing the words was something else, I was talking down my phone like no you say it like this and that hahaha, and you both guessing what they all meant was hilarious!! But you both gave it a go, well done. 🤣🤣
Many slang words and sayings in the UK will also be regional. I am from the North East of England and have never heard of 'peng' to describe something that is good. I have also never heard of 'dead ting' - it sounds like it could have origins in black British culture, specifically African Carrabin British where 'thing' is pronounced 'ting' and picked up by young white kids.
I've heard some of these words on telly and stuff, but I'm a 45 year old Scottish woman, I'd just sound like an idiot if I started busting out slang like this, I think my family would section me tbh 🤣
@@Kazza_8240 I am a 61 year old lady working in health care in the South East of England . I regularly bust out modern phrases just for the hilarity of it 😅 I am also Scottish so that adds to the amusement 😅 I am fortunate to be good friends with a co-worker who is mixed race with teenage sons ! I learn this stuff from her boys , add to the mix my actual name is Karen 🤔 An old white lady called Karen busting out this stuff 😅😅👍👋💕
Nonce is a prison term. Child abusers weren't allowed outside at the same time as the rest of the prisoner as they would be attacked. So the guards used to write "not on normal courtyard exercise" on the child abusers doors. They would just write the acronym NONCE.
“We do say y’all a lot” that was made clear when you said y’all multiple times in one minute lol. Also when he thought nonce might be a compliment when he said “He’s a kinda nonce gentleman”.
The acronym N.O.N.C.E. comes from HMP Wakefield at the turn of the century and was marked on the cell card of any prisoner who may have been in danger of violence from other prisoners - it means 'Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise'.
Interesting about squiffy, I use the word squiff as like wonky, like if you’re putting a picture on a wall and it’s not straight I’d say “that’s on a squiff” or “it’s a bit squiff”… maybe that’s a Welsh thing!
I sometimes use " scew wiff" to mean the same thing, something is off course or out of line. That picture's a bit " scew wiff" I'm from North West England
That was funny , a lot of them I only know because I have a young sister and she tells me some of the roadman slang ,at first I thought roadmen were council workers working on the roads 😂..
Lmao, was lovely to see you both riffing off eachother 😂 The faces you pulled at "Nonce" killed me! Also the "Bare" one is from the weird trend of inverting negatives "wicked" is good "sick" is good "the bomb" is best so "bare" is plenty.
Bare is actually a slang which was created wrongly by London black youth who were influenced by West Indian/Jamaican culture and mistook the pure which in a strong West Indian accent sounds like pare.
I am a Brit and haven't heard half of the slang words on here except for old chap, nonce and nits. Nits made me think of Nitty Nora who was the Nit Nurse that would visit us in school to peer into our hair.
When I was at infant school we used to have the Nit Nurse in every few months to check our heads - I hated it as I had really thick long hair, and our Nit Nurse wasn't gentle.
Ey up marra! Being an aging northerner I did know some of these, which isn't surprising because like our accents our slang can be regional before we get to how different generations have different slang. Surprised you did not get 'nonce' because I'm sure you reacted to the Newcastle fans singing the Adam Johnson songs in an offensive football chants video.
Agree, never heard Squiffy in my life. Unless referring to something that's "askew" like a version of skeewiff but nah... nae cunts calling their dick "old chap"
Many years ago ( I work in health care ) I had a lovely Malaysian co-worker ask me ( very seriously 😶) This ' what do you call the sticky things in your nose ?' I replied ' bogies ' He was so relieved to learn this . God bless you Amala wherever you are now 👍❤️💕
Because of the various accents, intenations and classes of people here in the UK, our slang is different all over the place! So half of these I have never heard! I, however, was born a Cockney (Part of London) and we have Cockney Rhyming Slang! This is something that has been around for a long time and was used to hide things being discussed from the police or other authority figures originally. Although now it has crept into more everyday language! You should watch some videos on it and see how you can do it!! Just a thought! (Also nice to see your 'better half' or 'missus' she seems really nice and Merry Christmas to you both!)
I'm a Brit and I'm fairly sure that "gagging" comes from when a dog is really excited and eager to get somewhere and it pulls so hard on the leash that it makes that gagging sound.
This is such an amazing video, especially the guessing around the word “nonce” 😂 I’m from Yorkshire and have heard all of these terms, although we don’t necessarily use a lot of these up North. I’m not sure if anyone else from the U.K. can vouch for this, but to me the term “squiffy” would be used to describe something that doesn’t make complete sense/something that isn’t accurate, rather than to describe a drunk person
I'm from Yorkshire too, some of the words I've never heard of before this video, ie, dead ting & peng, to me bare means empty or naked, it must be the younger generations that use them, not oldies like me. Squiffy definitely means tipsy though, plus I've never heard scone pronounced as scon locally or anywhere northern really,
Your whole discussion on the word nonce before you found out what it actually meant was hilarious! 😂 but, I’m 36 and there’s loads of these that I don’t even freakin’ know! Slang words differ all over the UK so someone in London might call something completely different to someone like me who lives in the north east of the uk 😂
This is sooo funny! I don’t think I’ve laughed this hard in a long time! Figuring out nonce was so cringe to watch. I fell off my chair laughing 🤣🤣🏴
React to UK Christmas adverts - they're a big deal (mainly in England I think) - all the biggest companies make high production value adverts every Christmas and they all try to outcompete each other. My favorite is Sainsburys 1914 WW2 advert, but they're great every year!
Nits 'hanging loose or partying' was so funny, I can imagine head lice 'partying' in your hair and 'hanging loose' ready to 'party' in someone else's hair too! May be best not to call anyone a nonce gentleman as he really wont take it as a compliment ever! :-)
When i was at school we had occasional visits from the nurse who examined everyone’s heads for head-lice. She was known as Nitty Nora the bug explorer 😆
Thanks guys for the videos, I love the differences in expression between us! I have to say though that most of those words (scrap that, most of the MEANINGS of those words) are new to me and I am a true blue, born and raised white British citizen with my ancestry going b@ck at least 300 years and I did not know most of the slang meanings of those words. I think maybe it’s cockney Ryman? Or 21st century “street talk” originating from the London area. For the record, the U.K. has a lot more history outside of London. Everybody gravitates toward London for U.K. history, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg! We have soooooo much history outside of London. My ancestors were from the Midlands - Peaky Blinders area.
Always fun, keep up the good work! Though this was all over the place (hilariously in part). You can be gagging for anything. Personally, I was gagging for a cup of tea while watching - though the most common use is saying someone's 'gagging for it' i.e. looking to get laid... I mean, the nonces may be gagging for it and the kids that are avoiding 'em are liable to get nits at a party; also the adults there are liable to get squiffy. Going to see the ol' family doctor: "Hello, Old Chap, could you take a look at my Old Chap it's old & chapped."
I'm an Eastender from London, thought you might be interested in traditional cockney rhyming slang. A couple of examples are - trouble and strife = wife, brass tacks = facts, bakers dozen= cousin , Berkshire Hunt =c**t and mince pies = eyes. There are many more, it originated in the Eastend of London by the ordinary people so that they could speak freely without the police understanding all the conversations.
This creased me...made me laugh 😃 I live in Cornwall and we have our own slang...dreckly, cornish men do it dreckly...at some point in the future. Giton mi booty...hi, how are you? Propa job...Nice one! It's our differences that make us interesting 😆👍💕
Just found your vids and am hooked. As for slang words, they are regional, i hadn't heard some of them. Right, on to the next vid. Lot to catch up on....
"Peng" stems from the word "penging" which is an alternative word to "stinking" and was commonly first used to describe good cannabis for example "that bud is puka peng'a'leng famalam". It from there became an adjective to describe anything that is 10 out of 10 in the domain of looks, smell and taste. it can also be used to describe any stench good or bad
@jimmy hughes I'm sorry, im 45 and scottish, I shouldn't have attempted talking about something I dont know about 🙇🏼♀️ I always thought that type of slang was specifically London based ✌🏻
You guys are hilarious! Loved this video. 😂 I guess as we’d say here in the UK, it was a stonkingly good video! You could probably do a 30 minute video on British slang just on words for penis.
Several of these I haven't heard at all - there may be regional, generational or age variations. Certainly never heard of PENG or DEAD TING, and not heard BARE used in the context you said - it can be used in a literal sense suggesting hard to find, lone etc, but can also be used figuratively to mean naked/nude. GAGGING can be used both literally - close to throwing up - and figuratively, meaning eager to do something, and this is often used in a sexual way - GAGGING FOR IT is synonymous with horny for example. NITS is well known in any primary school here. I do remember Sesame Street saying "if it wasn't for the letter U, Units would be Nits" SQUIFFY is another that can be used both figuratively and literally - literally, it's synonymous with (and derived from) skew whiff, if you hang a picture, and it's not level, you might describe it as skew whiff, or mayby squiffy, though squiffy tends to be used more in the figurative sense meaning drunk. OLD MAN/OLD CHAP can again be used both literally - an aged gentleman - or figuratively. You saw what OLD CHAP meant, MY OLD MAN is often used to refer to my father. Entertaining as ever, you should do more videos with the two of you.
The look on your face when you were checking 'nonce' is priceless.
I'm pissing myself laughing at this exact point.. he's just guessing now... I'm crying with laugher... this is awesome...
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Yeah you're right 😂 I couldn't stop laughing when he was thinking about that word...good job he looked it up because he went out side and said"hello there you look like a nonce" 🚑 🏥
Lmao safe to say it's DEFINITELY NOT a compliment 🤣🤣🤣
Nonce is a acronym for Not Of Normal Criminal Element. (prison slang) that was hilarious !
I always thought Nonce was a prat 🤣 learn something new every day 😂😂🇬🇧
Watching an American say "he's a nonce gentleman" is the funniest thing I've ever heard 🤣 😆 😂
Same I was dying when he said that, the innocence 🤣🤣
Same
Its funny when Americans learn the difference between "pissed", "taking the piss", "being pissed" and "pissed off".
All of them having very different meanings
You missed pished, pish and talking it.
Taking a piss is also every different too taking the piss
Oh and I'll add "on the piss up" haha
or "a load of bollocks" and "the dog's bollocks"
What about pissing the night away?
“He’s a nonce gentleman” is the greatest thing I’ve heard this year 😂😂
The nit nurse used to come to our school to check our hair for lice. We called her nitty nora the bug explorer.
Yeah, we used to call the nit nurse the same name at our school! Except we said head explorer instead of bug.
We used to call her ‘nitty Nora the bug explorer’ too
We said the same
I remember there being the nit nurse in the first year and possibly second year of primary school so for me like 1991-1992
American footnote: _Nora_ and _explorer_ rhyme when Brits pronounce them.
Also worth mentioning slang changes drastically up and down the country, I’ve lived all over the uk and not everyone recognises the same slang.
I agree im from west midlands and admittedly 80% of these words are used here but mostly by younger generation (roadman talk) is what I call it and most of which its normally kids who smoke weed or people in there 20s who say these things im 30 and I didnt even no 20% of them myself ! For example I knew bare means loads like I got bare weed etc if you was roadman thats what they would say but for me I dont say it like that I say for example "my cupbaords are bare meaning nothing in them! So yeah your right ! I also thought that squiffy means like "oh you smell a little squiffy " I have used that term myself before but I've never heard it as being for getting squiffy like or feeling squiffy I thought it meant like squiffy as in dirty smelly etc.... other than that the rest wasn't really English slang per say most people know these including American and canadians ! I've heard Americans say quite a few of them myself, they must have come from younger subscribers as my kind of English slang is much different "black country" and its one of the worst in the uk lol but also one of the most historic and best in my opinion my English is very very broken and I'm not a brummie I hate being called that im a yam yam we have completly different ways of talking im a early 90s kid 91 lol so I was brought up in black country so were all my parents because of this my black country accent is very prominent lol 😆 👌 😂. Love it or hate it like marmite lol 😆 ❤ ♥
@@spookyncutey4577 a few of my mates were "roadmen" wanna be ones...it was so bizarre hearing their speech change over a short period of time. I'm more of a indie/punk/alt but somehow we all melded well. I felt like the odd one out never being in trackies/trainers but I learnt alot.
They might look like bad people, but loads of them were fun, friendly and welcoming. But there is loads of people who give anything a bad name.
@@spookyncutey4577 it feels wierd to know that other yam yams exist on the Internet 😂
@@kianisherwood9355 wolves ay we?! 😂 I had never heard of squiffy before in my life so I was as surprised as they were
@@RxDg9496 I'm actually a tesco bag AKA the 3rd worst and 3rd best club in the West Midlands 😂 but still nice to see a yam yam even if a dog head and same I've never heard of squiffy
I laughed so hard watching you guys figuring out “nonce” I started choking, this is great 😭
Same, I couldn’t stop laughing
Yeah that was funny 😂
lol! :)
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We're you choking or gagging 🤣🤣
Whoever sent you 'Nonce' deserves a medal for this, it was literally epic! 😂😂😂
When this word came up I thought "Oh OH! This is going to be interesting"
I was laughing so much at the guesses for what nonce was. "He's a nonce young gentleman" 😂😂😂
hehe :D
Im curious to know where that comes from tbh here in the states we keep it simple our prison term is just "chomo"
@@JustinJurazick also I’ve heard them to be called bacons. With bacon bonce being the rhyming slang for nonce
That cracked me up too
Minging is also a word. Half of these depend on the area and age you are. Also love the pronunciation attempts
Yeah, means disgusting
The way you described 'nonce' was the funniest thing ever. Some of the terms unless your under 20 you wouldn't know them anyway. Some I've never heard of.
Yeah squiffy never heard it used in that context of someone's a bit squiffy I'd assume they were unwell
I've heard & used all of these, minus squiffy. Wish I was under 20, nope, I'm 32. I used to use "peng" a lot through my mid & late 20s.
@@MrSiBrum I never heard of peng but asked my younger niece who says it's from a reality program.
Squiffy is actually Victorian slang for drunk….so, not been in general use since early 20th century, unless like me you like to use old slang every now and again! 😁
@@MrSiBrum I think the problem with squiffy is not that you're too old but too young. I'm mid 30s and never used it but I've heard the boomer generation use it. Not sure how common it is. Also heard it used in the same context as skew whiff, like askew.
I don't think it helped that 3 of the entries were Jamaican slang (that came across to the UK quite recently), rather than truly British slang.
Tru dat
Brrrrappp yes blud
Nearly pissed myself laughing when you looked up nonce. Interesting fact, back before nonces had their own wings in prison, they would have this written next to their cell door. It stood for not on normal communal/courtyard exercise.
This let the guards know that these cells were to be kept locked when the other prisoners were out of their cells. Otherwise, well you can guess what the other prisoners would do to them.
You learn something new every day, great fact
The word originally meant 'for one purpose' an old English word
Didnt know thats what it stood for in the context you mentioned though, everyday is a school day I guess, lol
That's a backronym, so it's complete bollocks.
Darren, have you a source for your info, cheers?
@@stevemoppett2759 a simple Google search would have found it for you, its very worrying you know how to put people down but can't figure out how to seek information out for yourself when you have Google in your pocket
“Peng” and “Dead Ting” is very modern slang and London centric.
I’m from the north of England, and I’d never heard it before until a couple of years ago :P
Peng isn't super modern. I briefly went to a boarding school (for naughty kids) roughly around 15yrs ago and there was a lot of kids from London that used to go. They'd use that word a lot & coming from Buckinghamshire I hadn't heard half the words they used to use.
You’re just old
I'm from the south, but not London, and old, so I knew some, nonce is old, but bare in that context is new, so London-centric is just that, a lot of slang used in London, is not known elsewhere.
Peng is not English slang. Of Caribbean origin. I have never heard it before and I have always lived close to London. And Dead Ting not English either. Innit is used incorrectly by minority groups it just means ‘is’nt it’. Like “it,s really cold today innit” mainly London East End slang.
They are pretty much just black working class London slang.
When you pulled 'nonce' I died...😭👀
So did Adam Johnson xD
How many nonces you pulled ehh🤣
Example....."he was gagging for another beer" - perfectly acceptable speech, meaning he needed another beer badly.
... he drank too much and was over the toilet gagging. His bird didn't mind though, she was still gagging for it, then she was gagging 🤨🤣🤣🤣
The "nonce" bit was priceless, good instincts there Anna. And, full marks for your restraint when JT said he was "leaning towards penis." Not a thing a girlfriend wants to hear from her fella. 😁
I was dying when you pulled out “old chap”, Knowing exactly what it meant and how many times you guessed penis 🤣🤣
The shock on JT's face when he discovered what 'nonce' means
I’m not a Brit but I have been living here for a decade and I love it a lot.
I’m a huge fan of your videos and your obsession with Britain.
And I cracked up when you found out what nonce means! 😂
As soon as she said the word “nonce” I spit my food out lmao, this was an amazing video, JT!
As a Brit (Londoner) this was absolutely hilarious, I was constantly nodding no whilst tears ran down my cheeks.
Good try! 🤣🤣🤣
You was nodding no? 😂
You don't nod 'no'.
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@@73kevdoc Thanks. It were a simple slip of thought.
Londoner, say no more.@@whatwhatyep
The nonce slang word was so funny seeing your reaction. Gave me a good giggle. Have a great weekend both 😊
"That's a nonce gentleman" 🤣 that got me 😂🩷
Maybe next time you do something like this you could hook up with a British reaction channel and exchange words with each other.
To be fair, a lot of those (peng, dead ting, bare in particular) are very London centric, most of us outside of the capital wouldn't use them unless you are an urban youth who is trying to pretend you are from London.
We DO have an awful lot of slang words for penis though..... You could pretty much use any of those in the right context and it would refer to your "old chap".
Also used are "Percy, dick, prick, schlong, dong, wang, knob, willy, trouser snake, " and many more.....
there was an old computer in our computer studies room at upper school branded 'Wang', that not surprisingly cause a bit of giggling when we first saw it 😁
This is a bit of an ignorant take since they're mostly derived from Jamaican patois so will be used be Jamaican descendents across the country and has nothing to do with "pretending" to be from London
@@MrJoeshipley and the vast majority of Jamaican immigrants live in and around London. Both now and when the Windrush generation from the west indies began to arrive.
So much so that the slang derived from patois became almost synonymous with inner city urban youth.
@@Bridgercraft this needs a longer form conversation than I can be arsed to type on my phone but the tldr is that there are many reasons why people would use what is called MLE outside of London.
And yes I'm aware of what the L stands for.
@@MrJoeshipley you're right, there are other reasons, mostly when they have roots within or upbringing around people of afro Caribbean descent.
But there are also a LOT of kids who use MLE slang just because they are influenced by Musicians, actors and celebrities who use it natively.
Was funny when JT was saying penis for all the words, but then when old chap came out, he didn't guess penis.... Very funny 😂😂😂
"Peng" is stetching it in terms of what is considered British slang. It's not even widely used, basically you're only using it if you're black or a confused chav.
Actually its used commonly where i am lol
never heard it once
@@cooldude4643 I've been called it.... But by my cousin so it doesn't really count 😂 Thats the one and only time I've ever been peng 😂
Used to refer to good coke
@@CyanideSunshines It's not British slang.
Dead Ting is really Jamaican slang. That got into the streets.
Or black British youths who think they are Jamaican
@@dmxdex black brits who think their Jamaican? 😂 make it make sense
@@dmxdex where do you think these black brits parents/Grandparents come from?
This is pretty interesting, seeing what makes sense to me as a Brit. I'd never heard the first one, squiffy to me means just kind of... messy and out of order, not drunk, dead ting I'd heard on TV but didn't know the meaning of.
The UK might be relatively small, but with the amount of dialects and accents we have it's no wonder we have such varied slang.
I have to agree with you on that, I have never ever heard anyone say they were squiffy when drunk, queasy, or tipsy maybe amongst other terminology lol.
squiffy all over the place and a mess, I can understand the logic to tye it to being drunk, but it's in the wrong context. I would say for example, when your eyes go askew and everything is all over the place they have gone squiffy.
i think of squiffy as more a posh term for a drunk, something like 'ok, yah, tarquin was a bit squiffy after the soiree last night' 😜
" I'm feeling a wee bit squiffy " when you feel you've had a few too many but you're not blind drunk. ( I'm 66 yrs old but really only heard it in 1940 - 60's films)
Yeah I always knew "squiffy" as being like "a bit 'off'", or being skewiff, I assumed that squiffy and skewiff were linguistically connected. So maybe would use it if feeling a little unwell, not full blown poorly, just a bit nauseous, under the weather, queasy, squiffy.
Yes, I think best definition for how I know it, is "a bit off". For things, objects, generally being a bit off, skewiff might fit better. e.g: "what happened in here?! The pictures are wonky and all the furnitures a bit skewiff"
@@seeyouanon2931 to me that would be skew whiff/whiffy. Squiffy is definitely drunk.
Gagging mostly used when eager to have sex example "shes gagging for it"
Please do more videos with you both your both hilarious.... I nearly pissed my pants. By far the best US learning UK. Your definitely my favourite American ❤
Never heard of many of these and i'm English although i'm middle aged. We also have slang words specific to our region, town, city etc.
I like to think I'm middle aged as well so I keep extending the middle :)
Agree! 😃
Yeah peng for instance.
You’re just old
This is brilliant as a Brit and hearing you pronouncing the words was something else, I was talking down my phone like no you say it like this and that hahaha, and you both guessing what they all meant was hilarious!! But you both gave it a go, well done. 🤣🤣
Many slang words and sayings in the UK will also be regional. I am from the North East of England and have never heard of 'peng' to describe something that is good. I have also never heard of 'dead ting' - it sounds like it could have origins in black British culture, specifically African Carrabin British where 'thing' is pronounced 'ting' and picked up by young white kids.
I have to agree, not summat we'd hear up north.
I've heard some of these words on telly and stuff, but I'm a 45 year old Scottish woman, I'd just sound like an idiot if I started busting out slang like this, I think my family would section me tbh 🤣
@@Kazza_8240 I am a 61 year old lady working in health care in the South East of England . I regularly bust out modern phrases just for the hilarity of it 😅 I am also Scottish so that adds to the amusement 😅 I am fortunate to be good friends with a co-worker who is mixed race with teenage sons ! I learn this stuff from her boys , add to the mix my actual name is Karen 🤔 An old white lady called Karen busting out this stuff 😅😅👍👋💕
@@99fruitbat94 no way! My name's Karen too! That does sound funny tbh 😂
Very much a London thing.
Nonce is a prison term. Child abusers weren't allowed outside at the same time as the rest of the prisoner as they would be attacked. So the guards used to write "not on normal courtyard exercise" on the child abusers doors. They would just write the acronym NONCE.
That’s a myth!
The way he said peng 😂😂😂Omfg
Peeeing
“We do say y’all a lot” that was made clear when you said y’all multiple times in one minute lol. Also when he thought nonce might be a compliment when he said “He’s a kinda nonce gentleman”.
😂 old chap reaction 👌 😂 was waiting to see JT’s face when he looked up the definition 😂 classic 😂
Gagging can also mean feeling sick, a really bad smell can have you gagging. Depends on the conversation as to its meaning.
I think the original meaning word gagging has increased in use since covid test as people complain that it makes them gag.
The acronym N.O.N.C.E. comes from HMP Wakefield at the turn of the century and was marked on the cell card of any prisoner who may have been in danger of violence from other prisoners - it means 'Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise'.
I've heard - Not Of Normal Criminal Element, but i can believe your's to be true
Hi Whisper proof do you have a source for this definition, cheers?
I’ve heard “Not Of Normal Criminal Exercise” when I was on Jury service but I could be mistaken, yours does sound right also
Omg I laughed so hard lol 😂😂😂😂 the 2nd word and your definition KILLED. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 thank u for making me laugh so hard lol so mind your old chap 😂😂😂😂😂
You are both crazy, great video 😂🇬🇧🇬🇧
Interesting about squiffy, I use the word squiff as like wonky, like if you’re putting a picture on a wall and it’s not straight I’d say “that’s on a squiff” or “it’s a bit squiff”… maybe that’s a Welsh thing!
I sometimes use " scew wiff" to mean the same thing, something is off course or out of line. That picture's a bit " scew wiff" I'm from North West England
I use squiffy for dodgy, ie I feel a bit squiffy today.
We use it in East anglia. And 'on the huh' aswell.
That was funny , a lot of them I only know because I have a young sister and she tells me some of the roadman slang ,at first I thought roadmen were council workers working on the roads 😂..
Council workers 😂
I'm still in blissful ignorance 🤗🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
No sweat, bruv, it ain't that deep, u get me?
Aren't road men just that?
Lmao, was lovely to see you both riffing off eachother 😂
The faces you pulled at "Nonce" killed me!
Also the "Bare" one is from the weird trend of inverting negatives "wicked" is good "sick" is good "the bomb" is best so "bare" is plenty.
Bad means good.
Fire means good.
Cold means good.
Etc etc.
@@danielgardecki1046 nithered and brass monkeys means cold.
Bare is actually a slang which was created wrongly by London black youth who were influenced by West Indian/Jamaican culture and mistook the pure which in a strong West Indian accent sounds like pare.
@@enosger erm no its part of antonymic slang
"Wicked" = "Good"
"Sick" = "Pleasant"
"Raw" = "Fresh"
"Baaaad" = "Niiice"
"Bare" = "Plenty"
I tried saying 'That's fire' but in my British accent I cannot pull it off like you, JT. lol, Merry Christmas to you both.
I am a Brit and haven't heard half of the slang words on here except for old chap, nonce and nits.
Nits made me think of Nitty Nora who was the Nit Nurse that would visit us in school to peer into our hair.
Anna I love watching the expressions on your face, priceless !!
Brilliant video, loved the chemistry between the 2 of you. More videos of you together please
When I was at infant school we used to have the Nit Nurse in every few months to check our heads - I hated it as I had really thick long hair, and our Nit Nurse wasn't gentle.
These quiz type videos are my favourites! I hope to see more of these in the future :)
Ey up marra! Being an aging northerner I did know some of these, which isn't surprising because like our accents our slang can be regional before we get to how different generations have different slang. Surprised you did not get 'nonce' because I'm sure you reacted to the Newcastle fans singing the Adam Johnson songs in an offensive football chants video.
I laughed so hard when you got old chap. I literally thought he is gonna be so pissed off in a minute! Haha that was golden!
As a Scot there were actually some here I didn’t know you should definitely do a Scottish slang version of this video
Don't hurt the poor boy lol 🤣🏴🏴
Would a Welsh one work too
Agree, never heard Squiffy in my life. Unless referring to something that's "askew" like a version of skeewiff but nah... nae cunts calling their dick "old chap"
squiffy just reminded me of An Inspector Calls 😂
Loved to see you both together. More videos with both of you please. Adorable.
This reaction is priceless 😂 JT & Anna sending love to you 2 from Somerset, England, UK 🇬🇧.
Listening to JT describing what he thinks "nonce" means knowing the actual definition is on the way... 😬
This was absolutely priceless, had me literally laughing out loud. Please do more of these 😂
I would imagine Dead Ting comes from Afro Caribbean slang rather than English slang
or Irish😀
I died when you said “he is a nonce gentleman” 😂
😆 the nonce reaction is hilarious 😂 A very entertaining video! Thank you, old chap. Love to you both ☺️
Many years ago ( I work in health care ) I had a lovely Malaysian co-worker ask me ( very seriously 😶) This ' what do you call the sticky things in your nose ?' I replied ' bogies ' He was so relieved to learn this . God bless you Amala wherever you are now 👍❤️💕
Because of the various accents, intenations and classes of people here in the UK, our slang is different all over the place! So half of these I have never heard! I, however, was born a Cockney (Part of London) and we have Cockney Rhyming Slang! This is something that has been around for a long time and was used to hide things being discussed from the police or other authority figures originally. Although now it has crept into more everyday language! You should watch some videos on it and see how you can do it!! Just a thought! (Also nice to see your 'better half' or 'missus' she seems really nice and Merry Christmas to you both!)
His trouble and strife you mean? 🤣
Nice to see y'all gorra canny cap off big Geoff, County Durham.
You might like to check out some Scottish words 🤔🏴❤️ Wean , scunnerred , peely wally , it's a whole new vocabulary 👍❤️🏴
It can even baffle your English neighbours...
Totally baffle your English neighbours lol
Wean=Baby. Scunnerred=Bored. Peely Wally=Pale
Maybe you could show them.what a Glasgow kiss😄
@@youser1093 I don't want to frighten them 😬
I'm a Brit and I'm fairly sure that "gagging" comes from when a dog is really excited and eager to get somewhere and it pulls so hard on the leash that it makes that gagging sound.
A gagging for a brew is just one example for gagging keep the videos coming mate
This is such an amazing video, especially the guessing around the word “nonce” 😂 I’m from Yorkshire and have heard all of these terms, although we don’t necessarily use a lot of these up North. I’m not sure if anyone else from the U.K. can vouch for this, but to me the term “squiffy” would be used to describe something that doesn’t make complete sense/something that isn’t accurate, rather than to describe a drunk person
From London now live in Kent and for me squiffy does mean starting to get drunk.
Or food has gone bad, its gone squiffy. Lol
I'm from Yorkshire too, some of the words I've never heard of before this video, ie, dead ting & peng, to me bare means empty or naked, it must be the younger generations that use them, not oldies like me. Squiffy definitely means tipsy though, plus I've never heard scone pronounced as scon locally or anywhere northern really,
You are killing me man, i could not stop laughing 🤣 im from the uk and this has made my day.🤣🤣🤣
Plssss I died when he said 'he's a nonce gentleman' lmaaaoooo 🤣
Your whole discussion on the word nonce before you found out what it actually meant was hilarious! 😂 but, I’m 36 and there’s loads of these that I don’t even freakin’ know! Slang words differ all over the UK so someone in London might call something completely different to someone like me who lives in the north east of the uk 😂
And kids always find new slang on social media. Haha
Loved this vid. More like that please. Your accent makes them sound even more funny.
This is sooo funny! I don’t think I’ve laughed this hard in a long time! Figuring out nonce was so cringe to watch. I fell off my chair laughing 🤣🤣🏴
That’s a funny one for me, because I live (& was born) in Bradford England and bare to me, means naked!
React to UK Christmas adverts - they're a big deal (mainly in England I think) - all the biggest companies make high production value adverts every Christmas and they all try to outcompete each other. My favorite is Sainsburys 1914 WW2 advert, but they're great every year!
So cool watching your subs climb buddy, I remember when it was pretty impressive but not like this, mate soooooo many people have love for you!
"That's a nonce young gentleman"
That nonce one killed me “his a nonce gentleman “ hahahhaha
Nits 'hanging loose or partying' was so funny, I can imagine head lice 'partying' in your hair and 'hanging loose' ready to 'party' in someone else's hair too! May be best not to call anyone a nonce gentleman as he really wont take it as a compliment ever! :-)
Unless you're talking to prince Andrew, in which case it might be accurate
@@asaturner4097 no, I don't think he would take that as a compliment
When you said "like, that's a nice nonce young gentlemen right there" i lold. I can see myself using that sentence at some point.
When i was at school we had occasional visits from the nurse who examined everyone’s heads for head-lice. She was known as Nitty Nora the bug explorer 😆
We just called her nit nurse
Love this mostly for the banter and repore between the two of you. Keep spreading the love.
‘He’s a nonce gentleman’ has sent me I can’t lie 😂😭
Thanks guys for the videos, I love the differences in expression between us! I have to say though that most of those words (scrap that, most of the MEANINGS of those words) are new to me and I am a true blue, born and raised white British citizen with my ancestry going b@ck at least 300 years and I did not know most of the slang meanings of those words. I think maybe it’s cockney Ryman? Or 21st century “street talk” originating from the London area. For the record, the U.K. has a lot more history outside of London. Everybody gravitates toward London for U.K. history, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg! We have soooooo much history outside of London. My ancestors were from the Midlands - Peaky Blinders area.
The unfortunate word JT picked out was originally an acronym " Not Of Normal Criminal Element"... love your videos, keep em rolling...
Also prison rhyming slang: "Bacon bonce - nonce."
Yay Anna! Missed seeing you hun!
Always fun, keep up the good work! Though this was all over the place (hilariously in part). You can be gagging for anything. Personally, I was gagging for a cup of tea while watching - though the most common use is saying someone's 'gagging for it' i.e. looking to get laid... I mean, the nonces may be gagging for it and the kids that are avoiding 'em are liable to get nits at a party; also the adults there are liable to get squiffy. Going to see the ol' family doctor: "Hello, Old Chap, could you take a look at my Old Chap it's old & chapped."
I'm an Eastender from London, thought you might be interested in traditional cockney rhyming slang. A couple of examples are - trouble and strife = wife, brass tacks = facts, bakers dozen= cousin , Berkshire Hunt =c**t and mince pies = eyes. There are many more, it originated in the Eastend of London by the ordinary people so that they could speak freely without the police understanding all the conversations.
Berkshire hunt is also the origin of berk apparently, meaning similar: C**t -> Berkshire Hunt -> Berk
This creased me...made me laugh 😃
I live in Cornwall and we have our own slang...dreckly, cornish men do it dreckly...at some point in the future.
Giton mi booty...hi, how are you?
Propa job...Nice one!
It's our differences that make us interesting 😆👍💕
I grew up in a farming area in Devon, we would also say those slang words as well.
Best wishes
Just found your vids and am hooked. As for slang words, they are regional, i hadn't heard some of them. Right, on to the next vid. Lot to catch up on....
"Peng" stems from the word "penging" which is an alternative word to "stinking" and was commonly first used to describe good cannabis for example "that bud is puka peng'a'leng famalam". It from there became an adjective to describe anything that is 10 out of 10 in the domain of looks, smell and taste. it can also be used to describe any stench good or bad
No one says " famalam" tho let's be honest. Only an undercover fed would say that
@@syhletipakhghor85 JME - Famalam
Sounds like London slang, I think a few of these are local from the London area and probably wouldn't be used anywhere else
@@Kazza_8240 i'm a Mancunian, it's slang from the early to late 2000's originating around the grime music culture and not just specific to London
@jimmy hughes I'm sorry, im 45 and scottish, I shouldn't have attempted talking about something I dont know about 🙇🏼♀️ I always thought that type of slang was specifically London based ✌🏻
What did they call Nitty Nora the bug explorer in America? (School nurse who checked the kid's for flees and head lice)
You guys are hilarious! Loved this video. 😂 I guess as we’d say here in the UK, it was a stonkingly good video!
You could probably do a 30 minute video on British slang just on words for penis.
"he's a nonce gentleman" ahahahahahahahaha
You should try more northern slang some time. Alot of those were more London way
I am a Brit and never heard of Peng or Dead Ting. Must be regional. I laughed so hard at how wrong you where with "Nonce".
"I'm leaning towards penis..."
I think you two need to have a serious conversation.
Heh!
Maybe he was just bending forward? 🤔🤣
Several of these I haven't heard at all - there may be regional, generational or age variations. Certainly never heard of PENG or DEAD TING, and not heard BARE used in the context you said - it can be used in a literal sense suggesting hard to find, lone etc, but can also be used figuratively to mean naked/nude.
GAGGING can be used both literally - close to throwing up - and figuratively, meaning eager to do something, and this is often used in a sexual way - GAGGING FOR IT is synonymous with horny for example.
NITS is well known in any primary school here. I do remember Sesame Street saying "if it wasn't for the letter U, Units would be Nits"
SQUIFFY is another that can be used both figuratively and literally - literally, it's synonymous with (and derived from) skew whiff, if you hang a picture, and it's not level, you might describe it as skew whiff, or mayby squiffy, though squiffy tends to be used more in the figurative sense meaning drunk.
OLD MAN/OLD CHAP can again be used both literally - an aged gentleman - or figuratively. You saw what OLD CHAP meant, MY OLD MAN is often used to refer to my father.
Entertaining as ever, you should do more videos with the two of you.