Can American Teens Understand British Slang? | React
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- We put American teens to the test to decode popular British slang like 'Gobsmacked' and 'Skint'! How well do you know British slang?
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American Teens vs British Slang! | React
0:00 Intro
0:34 Round 1
1:33 Round 2
2:49 Round 3
3:43 Round 4
4:43 Round 5
5:32 Round 6
6:39 Round 7
7:33 Round 8
8:24 Round 9
10:15 Round 10
11:33 Round 11
12:37 Round 12
13:23 Round 13
14:26 Round 14
15:14 Round 15
15:55 Round 16
16:30 Round 17
17:34 Winners!
18:05 Outro - Розваги
Love Island is a disgrace to British Slang. All of the terms in this video were around long before Love Island was even a thing 😅
Came here to say this. 'Grafting' for example, has been around for a very long time and refers to 'working 'hard'. Nothing to do with pursuing romantic interests.
Of course there will be colloquial differences to slang all across the UK, but using Love Island to teach these American teens about British slang is both a disservice to these teens and us British.
Completely agree with this comment!
Right? Like do bits just means do well like to crush it where I’m from
@@kylet4140yeh it does just means do very good
dont deep it mate
Neither "Crack On" nor "Grafting" have specifically romantic connotations.
i thought grafting just meant to work hard(at a task or a job)
@@chibifirestorm It does. Yes you can graft at getting to someone's attention or getting to know them, But in general it just means working hard.
A lot of these were wrong.
I always used grafting as a term for working hard.
Same here
To be fair, anything can be used to describe being drunk. Eg, Traffic coned, park benched, zebra crossinged, Tesco expressed...etc
Wankered
yeah... I'm assuming the only "research" done here was the so called Brit's own knowledge, cos a lot of these are either wrong or just really bad examples. then again, if he's getting his examples from love island, that explains a lot
Some of these are new meanings brought about by shows like Love Island. For example, 'done bits' can also generally mean to do something well. 'Peng Sort' are actually two separate terms for attractive. Some people say 'peng', some say 'sort'. 'Grafting' just means working hard in general. But if you call something 'graft', it means an overly-difficult task - "building this shed is graft".
What?! Grafting means to work hard, and has nothing to do with love interests. In fact over half of these phrases and words are unknown by either me, or my sons currently at uni in the UK. 🙄
ik there were a few words in there were his definitions were way too specific and thus inaccurate. i swear he's not even British ha ha.
Grafting is both working hard and also for a love interest
Trick question on the Trollied one, you can use ANY noun to describe drunk in Britain and it works 😂😂
Don't recall ever hearing "crack on" or "grafting" used in any romantic context. Maybe don't use Love Island as your main source for understanding British slang.
Yeah you’re more likely to crack on with the housework..
The same could apply to "grafting". I've always known it to just mean "working hard on something" in general, not necessarily "to pursue romantic interest".
@@scmtuk3662 If you were building a house you would think there would be some graft involved.
The vast majority of these appear to be London used slang, but I don't think any are cockney rhyming slang, which is still used for quite a few words.
I really wish I hadn't watched this one. The kids were great but the questions were bloody awful 😂
I'm a Brit & in my late 30 & I've not heard of some of these
I'm a brit in my mid 30s and I've heard of all of these except the factor 50 one
I'm 32 n English n know none these either maybe they're a Southern thing cos I'm northern
@@charlienerd agree I'm northern too
@@charlienerdI think you're right
“Done bits” never heard of that in my life. I’m going to assume most of these are London slang because I’m from the north and haven’t heard of some of these. “Peng” is London.
Passport revoked from whoever wrote these questions.
Go live with James Corden and dont come back
Lol, yall really hate Corden, 😂
James Corden and his family moved back to England last year.
@@marydavis5234 First the queen dies now this D:
@@marydavis5234 Put another way. The Americans, finally,gave him the boot..
@@Isleofskye no, he decided he needed to be closer to his parents as his mother is very sick.
I love that they are watching clips of a SNL spoof of Love Island and they think its really people from Love Island. lol
I've consumed too much British media to the point that I know some of these have more than one meaning than the host is stating 😂
You're right. But give an example of one that has more than one meaning...🤔
@@jaimsie”grafting” means working… if someone says they “did some hard graft” they were doing hard work. I guess it can be used romantically, like “I was grafting to pull her” or something but I’ve lived my whole life in the uk and not heard it in that context. I don’t like/watch love island… (because they all seem a bit divvy 😜)
@@melzymoomin888 yep. I've just added my own reply explaining this.
Pretty much every word in the English dictionary has atleast 8 different meanings. Its a heavy context based language.
I’m a Brit and never once heard Butters as a slang word🤣 Also grafting means just working hard
Butters is an older slang word so I don’t think it’s used as much now
I thought it was a character in South Park
Butters was more 80's/90's.
@@Isleofskye explains it, I was born in 93
@@MultiAsh93 I was born, next to Brixton and Peckham in South East London in 1954. lol
11 is a trick question. Any noun repurposed as a verb, which doesn't already exist as a verb, can be used to refer to being drunk. "I was absolutely gazebo'd last night" still works and people know what you mean. So all 4 could theoretically be correct.
Absolutely car parked!
Grafting just means working hard.
yup, some were just wrong
To be fair, on question 11 the answer could have been all of them... considering the UK has so many words for being drunk. 😂
Yeah 11 is a trick question
Yeah I thought it was gonna be a trick question. We come up with new words by the day I swear
None of those 4 were what done bits means 😂
I was literally looking for this comment. Wtf are they on about ahaha
Round 11 is misleading; anything can be a euphemism for drunk if ended with -ed and said with enough conviction.
Mate I’m absolutely collywobbled
Apart from "Mugged" either way some chav is coming up tome with a knife...
My favourite thing to use is I was absolutely sloshed or plastered
Very true, although trollied is a more commonly said one, but pissed is the main one most use.
A grafter is someone that works hard not no simp! wtf is this video?
Exacty, graft is work or a task, a grafter works hard, for example if Abdhi actually bothered to do the graft on this vid, half of it wouldn't be so stupidly wrong xD
grafting doesn't have any any specific implication to romance. It is to work hard at something. You could be grafting to try and be romantic if you are putting in a lot of effort for a date.
Do not use “Love Island” as way to learn British slang… if you really want to learn it come to London!!!
I´ll get right on it chief, just need the 1k pounds the plane ticket cost.
Tru Say,Mi Bredda. Preach Those Words,Mi Bredrin.zeenn
dont deep it
As someone who loves British slang (since a lot of it is Caribbean tones) I find it hilarious when other people are trying to figure out things that were said
That love island preview was not an accurate representation of todays love island 😂
As a British person, some seem wrong?
Also ‘pull’ in the context of ‘how did he pull her’ etc is old English slang but I hear Americans use it a lot these days. I’d say a melt is more of just a general idiot 😂
TBF, anything can mean being drunk in English. I was absolutely ganached last night would still make sense
"I was so sober last night, fam."
"You didn't drink anything?"
"Bruv, I drank *everyting.* That's why I got sobered."
My favourite is that I was absolutely sloshed or plastered
I’d like to thank Monty Python, Harry Potter, the Inbetweeners, and TOWIE (The Only Way is Essex) for how well I did 😄
Never heard of any of these slang words used by newer generations and barely anyone uses them.
This doesn’t reflect modern British skang fully. This is more Essex/Cockney with a few exceptions and some that are just flat out wrong
I don't think the point went to the right person on the gobsmacked one with Claudia in it...I agree with 'In awe of something' (as a british person myself.) I hardly ever (tbh never) hear someone use it when they're pissed off or fed up. Even when you search it up it says 'astounded' another word for shocked/ speechless, not pissed or fed up.
Chav was originally an acronym, it stood for Council Houses And Violence and was used to describe a teenager that grew up on a council estate, dressed a particular way and was percieved as basically a lout or troublemaker.
Love Island is another planet. Very little of this is British slang.
I’ve watched a couple of episode and I swear they just make stuff up
Grafting means working hard nowt to do with romantic thing
Means robbing too where I’m from. Like to go grafting
Chav doesn’t mean someone who’s street. It’s code for council house and violent. Same as Ned. Non educated delinquent. Offensive words with big assumptions too based on the way some people used to or still do dress.
@@sarahkb7 Chavi "MAY" have been one of the origins but it has never been proven. The modern use of the term Chav does indeed come from "Council Housed and Violent" however
Thats just not what melt means, some answers were questionable but that one really got me
As a Welshman, some of the questions have multiple correct answers, so please do make the teens aware of this, for example "chuffed" can mean both pleased and excited based on the context of the sentence, in wales atleast
I'm Scottish but must be too old as many of them confused me and never heard them before.
Grafting - Working hard ....was right, But it's not just for pursuing a romantic interest.! So, if i was hard grafting at work,does that mean i'm looking to chat up my boss or mates..? Nutter!
I knew gobsmacked, chuffed, dodgy, chinwag, skint. Guessed thd last 2.
I thought pissed meant drunk.
Watching HP, British reactors and the Great British Baking Show paid off some. 😂
pissed does mean drunk, you aren't wrong. It also means angry as well, just short for pissed off
As a Brit who lived in the east midlands/east Anglia, I have never heard of:
Done bits(though I'd guess that), butters, Blanking(though I'd guess that), factor 50
It must be some Gen Z thing (I'm getting old as a millennial):
I hadn't heard of any of those ones either. But I'm 46, I must be old now 😂
Never heard of any of them apart from blanking and his description of blanking is terrible. Blanking is just not acknowledging someone.
I’m a London Millennial. I knew all except “done bits”, “pied off” and “factor 50”. This is definitely regional and generational.
Between growing up with older Britcoms (Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Chef!, Vicar of Dibley, Al Fresco, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, French and Saunders, ManStrokeWoman, etc.), dipping my toes in British music (specifically Lady Sovereign), and watching a lot of Outside XBox/Outside Xtra, this was kinda sad to watch...especially since Love Island was used as a source.
Lmao tbh as a British person it could be all 4 or just 1 sometimes 2. Depends on context
The world "trollied" for being drunk actually annoyed me, who says that, yeah fair do's you can use alot of words to describe being drunk but most british people use the word "Smashed or "pissed".
Everything is used as drunk. Like wankered
You can't relate british slang to love island that's a disgrace 😂 all these terms of slang was out WELL before love island.
Some of these are not correct, why would you use love island as your example
As a British person, there are some inaccuracies in this
Imagine if they realised that accents can change every 10 miles and there are over 50 Accents in England alone which is the size of OHIO !!!!!!!
These Guys or any American would have little chance with "Cockney(London) Rhyming Slang" like "Trouble" for Wife" or "Saucepans" for children or " You're Having a Giraffe" which means
"You're Joking"..
Exactly! Many Brits have no concept of how absolutely HUGE America is in relation to their small island nation. We're literally, like, a whole dang continent across. But though we also have regional accents, those areas are also MUCH bigger, and *usually* more or less intelligible. Some hard-core slang might be very regional and weird, but most people speaking normally would be able to understand each other- from Boston to Chicago to New York to Charleston to LosAngeles, etc.
But England is just one small island nation, and though "English" is the shared language, regional accents are of small very concentrated areas, and can be quite strong and distinct! There's a reason why "My Fair Lady" is so true: British accents are highly regional. And slang is even a more fluid, ephemeral version of accent, changing with each generation, or even micro-generation.
Trouble and strife rhymes with wife.
Saucepan lids rhymes with kids.
Giraffe rhymes with laugh.
Did I get 'em right?
@@TSIRKLAND Excellent analysis and 100% correct, my friend. I have seen many changes in London as I enter my 8th decade later this month.:)
Anyway,I'm off to play The old joanna at the Rub-A-Dub and have a few Britneys and an Andy Cole with a China Plate and afterwards ,we will have a Ruby together.***
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“I watched enough mumbo for this” killed me lol
Absolutely THIS
"Chuffed to bits with this one"
I had to stop. Jesus. I've either never heard of these or it's wrong.
If it wasn’t for soaps.. I wouldn’t know my slang. I’m Scottish (yes that means British) but we don’t use a lot of the words mentioned although we understand them. We have our own accent, dialect etc. although I like the Dales/Leeds/Yorkshire slang the best.
I'm british & didn't know grafting. Thought it meant working hard.
You're right.
To be fair, part of the answer was "working hard"...Abhi even said that it was the definition (he just threw on that "romantic interest" part).
It does
Teens react to incorrect British slang...
as a 30yr old Northern British guy. Some of these were new to me. the ones i didn't know must be southern things.
I'm 26 and from the West Country and I'm also just as confused. Think a good chunk of these are exclusive to the south east
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 I'm from the south east, and everything i knew I consider relatively common across the country (Used to live in the north west) Some of them like "pied-off" I've never heard.
I'm not British, but I have to question the answer for "done bits" - there's a Welsh artist I listen to (shoutout Ren) - who has lines in some of his songs such as "And my music's been kinda doing bits too, like I actually might do something great" -- I don't think that's sex related o.O So could it also mean something else?
in that context it means it’s doing good
Yoooo “shattered” should be “knackered” for British slang
They’re interchangeable.
We use both.
I use knackered for when I'm tired (27%~35% energy left) but shattered when my energy reserves are flirting with 0% aka. exhausted; but yes, they're generally interchangeable.
That goochy-goo moment between Sofia and Angel.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Priceless!
I came here looking for this comment! Lol Angel is adorable I love watching her reactions 😊
Are there any other British people watching this and laughing their heads off😂
Yep me lmao 🤣
Tbf even I didn’t know some of these 😂
I have never watched Love island but come from an English family and know most of these. I also watched a lot of English tv shows growing up. Some of the slang words mean different things in different areas and the meanings have changed slightly over the years
Im Native American but knew majority of these words from watching UK youtubers like sidemen
i moved from the north west of england to north east for uni and even though its not that far theres still some words i dont understand lmao also most slang from the south is alien to me as well atp most of these words also have different meanings depending on context but most of these meanings are wrong anyways lol
The explanation of Factor 50 is sooo British! It's like the weirdest, most random line of thoughts to get you there and you're just like... What?
Pied off..."Fo you like pie?...Apple pie is my favorite" Ryker
I play the love island games on my phone so I knew what grafting was and also snog which is now one of my favorites words
I’m British and have never heard of some of these 💀 it really depends on what area of the uk you’re in, I’m from Surrey and some of these are definitely words or phrases we use but others I’ve never heard of
That is because in the case of "Butters" and a few others, they originated from The Black Community in London. Now that's called "Jafafrican" and I enter my EIGHTH decade,as a Londoner in 3 weeks...lol
I’ve never heard of “done bits” in my 48 years!!!
Probably because you're 48...
@@mdot3119 ….and speak English!!
I knew the right answer for "what is a chinwag" immediately. The things you can deduce from a video game.... Thanks, G-OLM.
We were using that in London 60 years ago in The 1960's. lol
Looove when Ryker does the subtle accent impersonations. He's just so adorkable ahhh!!
He is lovable
Angel and Sofia are always a good pairing.
old British slang is what I think of, not this new what ever to change whats been around for donkeys
Yessss 👆
Does this bloke get paid just to make shit up ??
Thanks for this. These do not come FROM "Love Island" but Love Islanders use them. Some have been here 50 years..lol
dont deep it
when he talked about mumbo, i was so chuffed.
I;m English and i never even heard of some of these never mind used em. what a a load of old codswallop.
Now codswallop I've heard of 😅
@@Jamie_Pritchard to be honest, i don't think anybody much uses it anymore.
Grift is to work hard. Graft is to attach, grafting may be related to relationships related but not the way he described it. He may have to re-sit his Brit test lol
Grafting reminds of crafting so I said build a house
graft is work
Grifting is avoiding work or a wanderer without a home, like a hitchhiker. Grafting is working hard.
Is Gobsmacked the same as Flabbergasterred?
yes
Never did I think MumboJumbo would come in handy in a React video 😂
Chuffed to bits about this video.
As I brit I have no clue what number 8 was 😂
Barmy army, guess you don't watch much cricket.
@@cr9153 never watch cricket a day in my life 😂😂
@HA-jq1mu the barmy army, is an England fan group, but Barmy is more of a southern term. I'm from the north, so we don't really say it up here, but I know what it means.
@@cr9153You're barmy if you think we don't use it up North 😅
@@Jamie_Pritchard I definitely don't and don't know anyone that does.
I feel like most of these are london street slang, cos im from england (not london) and havent heard of most of them.
Done bits means none of those lol!
done bits is to do a great job with a task or job is it not?
@@chibifirestorm yeah so say like a UA-camr starts doing really well, after a while you'd say 'They've done bits them'
Abdhi, you need to do regional slang, as you can tell your from the greater london region, different regions have different slang, so for pissed aka drunk, in Newcastle they say Mortal, Baby from where i am in Manchester i say bambino or baba, yet in Newcastle are Bern = Baby, still can't get me head around that, so my lil bro his wife calls the littlens Berns, my bro is a East Manc, Manc or Mancunian = Manchester, but his wife is either Mackem = Sunderland or Geordie = Newcastle, 1 thing you should never do is call a Mackem a Geordie or a Geordie a Mackem, the Accents may sound the same but there is actually a slight difference in how they pronounce words, if you call a Geordie a Mackem it is offensive or if you call a Mackem a Geordie it is also offensive, i found that out when 1st meeting my sister-in-laws friends and family, getting them wrong will cause a Riot or receiving a Blank eye and busted lip, so Abdhi you should do a British Regional slang reaction
he doesn't even know the London based Slang tbh, he got all this from frikkin love island and half of it is wrong anyway
@@xiz0808 i can tell that, he need's to do a regional slang 1, as different regions/ Area's have there own meanings
I thought the word bairn was Scottish, like a “wee bairn”.
@@melzymoomin888 it is, im from north England we use it here too
Like Barmy would/could be classed as Birmingham, UK slang
its a good thing yinz didn't use the slang for a cigarette. i learned it when i was 13 and went to england
Should be English slang, no one in the uk outside of England uses this
Nobody outside of London you mean
@@alanhenwood5315 in the big cities they do, I live in southampton and the kids use this
@@sultanofsomaliland9332 People do say some of these things, but the definitions he gave were 100% incorrect for most of them
@@TheRealSealStudios i agree, hes just making them up
Pied off... Now I just want some pie. Apple's not bad, but I like berry pies myself.
9:23 one thing about Britain…that literally happens EVERYWHERE.
Not Claudia spending the whole video excited that they wrote the same answer 🥺
honestly - all of them could be used for 'Drunk'
It's mostly modern London slang or old slang
Gobsmacked means amazed or speechless
Round 17 was just process of elimiination for me, so I guessed the right answer, but I wasn't expecting the kind of explanation Abhi gave for it. I figured "Factor 50" is a ranking of how high a person's charm is. My maternal grandfather was a charmer when he was young man, so to try to apply that thinking to him I'm actually not sure how high of a ranking it would be. Maybe it was all the way up to 50, or maybe it was fairly close. I don't know. That's now an interesting thing to think about.
Round 17 was my favourite round.
These r proper English words I only use a few of these (I’m Scottish)
It's not British though is it? It's London or even England.
p.s. if you REALLY want to annoy British people here, show them a picture of a bread roll to pick from at least 10 of the accepted names.
It's a BAP!😂😂
@@bengarrionphoenix4207 no, it's a cob.
FFS people, it's a bun!
It's a breadcake.
Ryker is my favorite. I have the biggest crush on him he’s so cute 🥰🥹
Not British slang. Love Island slang maybe. This guy needs to do better research.
Chuffed can actually mean both pleased and excited!
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