AMERICAN TAKES BRITISH SLANG QUIZ | Evan Edinger
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2017
- You heard it here. It's time I test my British slang knowledge! Do I come out like an unknowing American or a true Brit? LET'S GO!
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As a British person, how the fuck haven't you heard of stroppy
edit: it’s been four years and this sounds rude as hell sorry about my 14 y/o self’s rage
CAUSE IM NEVER STROPPY
You've got a strop on now!
Yeah, it's one of those that's used to describe someone else; ie throwing a strop (throwing a tantrum).
I don't think you'd ever say "I'm feeling stroppy" but you could say to someone "You're looking a bit stroppy, what's up?". Similar to mardy
As a Danish person, I actually did better than Evan on this quiz. Stroppy was literally the only word, I'd never heard of.
19 I know right like what the actual hell
I was well chuffed in a café, until this barmy yobbo in a jumper called me a naff gormless dogsbody, just because he reckoned I look skint in my off brand trainers. I asked "Why so stroppy, mate?" Turns out he was denied a snog last night because his friend smelled like he had chundered.
Mugmellow well then.
Mugmellow it would be "denied a snog" if anything
Abbie Wilson thank you, fixed
Mugmellow well done
Mugmellow this must have took SO much detection
I swear every English mum has used the word stroppy
I had NO idea that gormless and stroppy were slang
+Drinking By My Shelf ye m8
Drinking By My Shelf same
I mean- I thought stroppy was an actual word???
I’ve always been British but I had NO idea that gormless was even a word
Bloody hell you're so fricken gormless
I got 100% can't quite believe you've lived in London for years and haven't heard someone say stroppy, as in "they're throwing a strop"
Keeley-Anne Fairie gosh even I've heard that one and I'm an Aussie !
Keeley-Anne Fairie ive heard both
Daisy Hedges ano
Yeah I know !
I can't believe you don't use gormless and stroppy and barmy and chunder in your every day life, I thought they were universal 😂
I say "throw up" as a noun rather than chunder but stroppy and gormless sound so foreign!
BARMY ARMY !!!
Stroppy is quite common in reference to teenage girls
as in "stop being such a stroppy little mare"
or alternatively as another word for tantrum in a child
"they're throwing a strop"
Gabriella ♡ I'm in Scotland and thought that chuffed was most used here.
can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but I actually use these on a daily basis ahaha
It's so weird to hear an American accent say these words
I NEVER KNEW THAT STROPPY WAS BRITISH
SAME
Stroppy, chuffed, jumper and trainers are words that I thought were universal
I can't believe you have lived in England for 5 years and never came across the word stroppy!!
Lilly-may Lainchbury I haven't.
I think Stroppy is like Gormless. Common up North xx
Lilly-may Lainchbury really? I thought it was just really common word? Used for people who are in a mood and tend to just snap. I.e. In a strop
Ethan Quirk I use it all the time! it blows my mind at how common I thought it was, evidently not
Helen Louise I cant get my head around how people don't use it! it's a daily occurrence for me. wow
I thought stroppy was a universal word? like a child was having a strop, so they were stroppy?
never heard it m8
grace mason nope. In America we say having a fit or a tantrum
Only a yob would spell "mate" with an 8.
We say that too. But strop would probably be the usual go to for that, or it could be just from where I am from within England.
same!!! i was so confused when he didn't know it hahah
They use barmy in Harry Potter too!!! Like talking about Hermione and a few other times
I genuinely got annoyed when he didn't get stroppy , I was like HE IS HAVING A STROP ! 😂
Is it bad that I didn't even realise these were slang words? Thought they were just normal English words aha
Millie Bicknelle same
Millie Bicknelle same
Millie Bicknelle same
Millie Bicknelle same
Same
Im actually british but i've never heard of dogsbody 😂 the rest i'm rly confused how he got them wrong after living in the uk for five years loool wasn't even aware they were british slang just thought they were normal words
Victoria Wallace i think dogsbody originated on ships, like the dogsbody would be the kid who does everything???¿??¿¿¿?
A dogsbody is like a drudge. Don't say you don't know what a drudge is. A drudge is like a dogsbody.
Victoria Wallace same 😂😂
Same, never heard of dogsbody but all the rest are just every day words
If it helps - a dogsbody is a jack of all trades.
I think the only time I've used the word chuffed is when I got my gcse results and said "Am well chuffed me"
That sounded Scottish
@@FlamboyantInsomniac Definitely Yorkshire too
This was horrendous. I want to scream. Literally everyone uses like 90% of those words in the uk
@Lily Machlab...you're missing the point. This is an American trying to fathom what we regard as common idioms. Try to understand, try to be nice.
@@2eleven48 I'm British and I was trying to figure out wtf yobbo and dogsbody meant
Macho Supremo how do you not know when I as a australian even know what they mean !
Pretty much every English parent uses stroppy lol
Izzie McWilliam Unless you live in the Midlands we use the word Mardy.
Stephanie Blunt I live in Kent lol
Izzie McWilliam same
Stephanie Blunt I live in the midlands and say both
Stephanie Blunt good point
I'm from England and I got all 12 on this. What I think was quite funny is with the words Evan guessed or got wrong, even once he knew the technical definitions, he didn't use them in quite the right context e.g. no one would ever call themselves stroppy
Yeah, it's used for saying someone is being grumpy or mardy... ie "throwing a strop" is equivalent to saying "throwing a tantrum"
He used it right when he said "I'm chuffed that I got that right"
Yeah that was right. I just think it's interesting how - even if you know the definition of a word - the cultural context of its existance is important to how it's used
Sasha Baker same
Sasha Baker Yeah I think this needs a British person to collab and explain them properly!
stroppy and gormless?? I suddenly don't believe that you live in the uk
Up in the North East of England we use both words. Chunder is the only one i didn't know.
How can someone not know stroppy!
It's generally used about teenagers by their parents. So I reckon if you skipped that stage you'd miss out on it.
Luna0rbit_ in
Stroppy is the best where do you live
Your energy lately is so infectious 😂😂
I didn't even realise most of these words were UK specific or even that uncommon (apart from I've heard and used "yob" a lot more commonly than "yobbo"). Try coming to Yorkshire, Evan - then you'll have a real challenge!
Rachel Ripley i feel like he would just walk around, lost and confused, unable to understand anyone 😂😂😂
Aha I’m from Yorkshire , full of chavs
'shnogging'
German accent coming through starts with an s soz
Shnogging sounds like an old-timey actor talking about making out, and I appreciate it XD
in my head i was like "stroppy is like being mardy" then realised id explained one slang with another
I didn't know half of these where slang tbh😂 especially stroppy and chuffed
Yh I was so shocked that Americans don't have snogging!
Ok I kind of get stroppy but chuffed is just obvious
I'm British and I use them all except from yabbo and dogsbody which I haven't heard of
I feel like 'chav' has pretty much usurped yobbo in modern English. I used 'yob' when I was a kid, but from secondary school on it was 'chav' all the way. (Dogsbody was the only one I didn't really know, though I must have heard it once, because I made the right guess because it was the only one that sounded right)
Hayden Cooper V literally same
Same! 😂
Hayden Cooper V same
Agreed
Where the British squad at?!
Half English half welsh !
An Average Fangirl same
AwEsOmE BuNnY RaBbIt PeNgUiN Northern English gal right here!
I just love that you’re learning german, that’s so awesome 👏
I'm British and chunder is the only one I use instead of it's alternatives. It derives from pirates and how if someone was about to throw up on deck, someone else would shout 'watch under' to alert people below deck that someone was gonna throw up. This developed into chunder as it's faster to say.
That explanation seemed extremely unlikely to me so I looked it up. Its first recorded in print from Australian troops in the 1950s. So probably not that old. People seem to think it might have derived as riming slang from the name of a Ozzie cigarette cart cartoon character called Chunder Loo, hence spew. Although with such little evidence no one knows for sure.
In addition, yobbo is usually shortened to "yob". "There's some yobs hangin araaand the shop mate"
Matt Eldridge I thought yob came first considering its origin (boy backwards)
or a bus stop !
I use the term "chav" which is practically the same thing, anyone else use chav?
macaroni I used the term 'Ned' but don't know if that's just us in Scotland that use that
that makes so much more sense - never heard yobbo but i have heard yob
I find it so impressive that Evan replies to so many comments, such a humble lovely guy
+Jennifer Durrant THANK YOU I REALLY TRY
Evan Edinger You don't get paid enough for this. You ought to through a strop and be a yabbo.
Шймин that would be pretty gormless
probablythebestconspiracytheoryyouwilleversee I see we're copy-pasting each other's unusual usernames? Quite the time -saver, is it not?
Same.
this is so funny to hear you speak about very British things as an American, and getting everything you talk about 90% right but just not quite there yet it's brilliant. like listening to your mum trying to talk about a meme or something
You're probably gonna be really freaked out when you go out and suddenly hear all these words and don't know why you haven't heard them after living in the uk for so long...
Me: Sat here in the North- 'As if you've never heard stroppy!'
Evan: 'Where is this used, the North?'
Me: ...
jazzyrobot I think stroppy is kinda nationally used tho bc I live in the south east and we use it all the time
Good! I thought it was a pretty general word!
jazzyrobot it's used everywhere isn't it? It's used in Scotland for definite
It's national, I live in London and I use all of these words, all the time
Gormless is a very common word for us brits? Well it definitely is up north
Mad to think you've never heard of these words I use everyday
They're all used in the south too... I'm pretty sure that they're all used all over the Uk...
yeah and in wales
I've never heard it in Liverpool lol
I'm from Manchester and they're all very common
I live in New Zealand and these are all commonplace words for me (even dogs body because Blackadder)
When you said "I'll just say "youth" is the moment I hit the like button. For some reason I found that super funny
I use stroppy all the time haha, if I'm angry my mum will tell people I'm 'in a strop'
there was a lot of shouting at the screen. stroppy is a real word
matthew walker me XD
I got them all right! I think you did pretty great too!
omg! naff is used like everyday where i live, like you hear it everyday
Only one I wasn't sure about was chunder, dogsbody would be more like;
"What do you do as a job?"
"I'm the assistant to the boss, getting his coffee, doing the paperwork....basically a dogsbody."
Like Smithers to Mr Burns, especially in that episode where he got stung by a bee and had to pedal himself to hospital.
chunder's a fun word tho
It reminds me of Spongebob for some reason, like something Plankton would offer at the Chum Bucket.
Kate's Adventures i though barmy did mean the same as butty tho
You're maybe thinking of a barm roll? It's a Northern England word for a soft bread roll. I can see the logic :)
Kate's Adventures I wouldn't use the word butty for just the bread- it has to have something in it like sausages, egg, bacon, or chips. You'd usually have it for breakfast or maybe lunch if you woke up late
Hotel? Tri-Yobbo
#IfYouKnowYouKnow
Eleanor Taylor 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
*bows* why thankyou Lottie
I live in canada and i knew all of these except for dogsbody and yobbo! evan, really, how had you never heard the word "stroppy"? it's such a good word!
I had them all right!! WOOP WOOP! they use stroppy everywhere in the UK Evan especially here in wales 👌👌😂😂
Haha people always used to call others stroppy when I was in year 3 they would be like "OMG she is in such a strop" or "She has gone off in a strop AGAIN" 😂😂😂 We never really said stroppy that much
THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
Never call a cab driver a yobbo...that is not going to end well for you
Absolutely love the way he destroys the word "Butty" loved this!
I love the way he's saying all this slang in his American accent and it does sound right AT ALL
AND LOL WHO USES THE TERM 'TENNIS SHOES'
I think he meant US, not UK, because we do. That's the most common name for sports-type shoes.
That's practically the only word I use for them, that and sneakers sometimes.
tennis shoes aren't trainers, they're like the flat white shoes that are popular from adidas
We say that in the US and that's just what we call any sports running or walking shoe.
i'm lazy and i say "tennies"
I'm from Manchester and I barely knew any of these
"id be like youth, my youth is yours and then they would be like 'troye? ' and I'll be like yeah "
I’m British and I have been bin watching these types of videos
'My youth is yours'
'...Troye?'
😂❤👍
Was a bit worried when i clicked on this vid because most of the time when it says 'British slang' what it really means is 'London slang' but was pleasantly surprised. Plus Evan i dont think you quite understood what dogsbody means, i suppose best way of explaining it would be they do the boring undesirable jobs noone else wants to within the workplace, for example making cups of tea, emptying rubbish, etc.
I got all of these right and I use all these 😂👌 I'm proper chuffed mate
Stroppy is like mardy! :) It's /kind of/ like angry, but it has more connotations of a childish tantrum.
Also the reason they gave 'sausage sandwich' as a possible answer for 'barmy' is because 'barm' is what they call bread rolls in the North West. :P
He won't understand mardy either, as that's a regional term (mostly Midlands) so he'll have no idea.
JoneseyBanana Americans don't have mardy either! :)
I didn't know what mardy was. I might say they're a squinny.
Yeah, I couldn't think of a way to describe it before he read out the options and the best I could do was 'tantrum-y'
makes me so happy to see someone using the word mardy
legends say that if you comment early evan will notice you
(this is overused but i'm giving it a shot)
boo
you actually gave me a heart attack that was scary
The legend is true...
I'm a teen from USA and I got all right. I would like to thank Dan and Phil love u boos they so influenced me. I actually use many of the words in the quiz in general lol
When you were going through them, I was saying the answers in my head (I'm English), and then when you got to stroppy, I though of a stoppy toddler, then you said it might be drunk and then I just though of a drunk toddler XD
I'm scottish... visiting family in England and said "ach I wis such a ned". I then had to explain what the noise I made when I said 'ach', and then what ned meant. that's one sentence... nearly every sentence I have strange looks so I just keep my mouth shut more saves everyone 😂
ned? isn't that like idiot ? idgit
I see what you mean a ned is a non educated delinquent basically a chav
I love you Evannn😭😍
Izzy Isabella same
same
me
I always use "stroppy". I'm from yorkshire, mind.
decent job Evan. I laughed at 'sausage sandwich' being an option for 'barmy'. I'm from the north, where for many places a bread roll is called a barmcake, hence why sausage sandwich was an option there
just add "ed" at the end of a random word and it means getting wasted.
"lets get rocked"
"lets get pissed"
"lets get fucking guinea pigged"
"Where is this used, the North?" Offended Evan, the North have the best words. (Especially the further North ya go... Scotland 💁🏽💁🏽)
Caitlyn Murphy ummmmmm
Madeline Keep it's true tho 🤷🏽♀️
Caitlyn Murphy Aye it's true 😂
M N I mean regionally we say wain more than bairn and I've never once heard a fellow Scot say och aye 😉
It was a wee bit offensive. I use it all the time. Aye I live like, as far North as you can go in Scots. I'm used tae it. Most folks think we have shite words I swear. See tryin to talk to a English person in heavy Scots? Is so fuckin stressful. I could pull me hair out cos ay it. But yea they do hae the best words. Me accent is what I guess you could call a "stereotypical" one. Most folks thought I was pullin there finger over it. But na I ain't. I canny help it.
Omg when he gets so excited when he gets it right😂😂
I use all of these apart from dogsbody and yabbo (i have never heard of them in my life) and they are all pretty much used around the whole of england, like stroppy, i use it and im in the south.
Your hair looks really good in this video ^.^
aww thanks! It was a good hair cut :)
S-senpai noticed me
No it looks naff!
*insert punny comment here
*distant laughter
What money do they use in space??? Starbucks!!!
BlackVeilKilljoy 😂😂
*Citizen Kane/Shia Labeouf applause gif*
TitoRag 😂👏
Very funny...I didn't know some of these words were slang! Lol
11/12, we use some of them in Northern Ireland too but I have never heard chunder in my life
EVAN stop uploading when I'm trying to revise I have 2 exams tomorrow and it'll be my birthday so I want to do well. (I'm going to watch it anyway tho)
Relatable
Geography and English Lit?
Mollsauce good luck for tomorrow have a good luck cookie 🍪
Yo me too good luck and happy birthday!!!
Mollsauce lol
'my youth is yours' - Evan nice troye Sivan reference
I sometimes use stroppy. 'Stop being so stroppy'.. we always use the term mardy though. That is when someone is grumpy and in a bad mood. 'Why are you so mardy' or 'Stop being in a mard'
Other terms we say up in the Midlands are cob which is another term for bread roll/bap.
Nesh - someone who always feels the cold. I'm such a nesh person.
Okay I'm British and I've never ever heard of Dogsbody. But can't believe you've never heard of stroppy! Thought that one was universal lol. This made me laugh dude good vid :D
I am British and I got 10/12 never heard Dogsbody or yobbo
idk holly same
I hadn't heard but I guessed them right
idk holly I hadn't heard yobbo but I've heard and used yob
I've heard both, so maybe they're more southern phrases?
I've heard dogsbody, not yobbo.
Surprised how many people don't know "dogsbody". I guess millennials know it as "entry level graduate position"
XD so much truth!
I got them all right but I'm from the north so don't know if we use more slang. Can't believe you've never heard stroppy before 😂 my mum uses it all the time. Dogsbody isn't everyday talk but it's still used sometimes. It's kind of used the same way as lapdog I think in America. (I don't know if that's actually used but American novels use it) if you have a dogsbody you have someone you can order about and do things x
Oh my gosh, i got 11/12! I didn't understand the first question! But the other questions were spot on! 😁😁😁 I'm also from the North! I'm feeling bloody chuffed! My mum always says 'Get off your high horse' or 'Stop being a stroppy mare!' Lol
'Yobbo' is hardly used but I definitely hear 'yob' often enough
Dogsbody - (no clue)
Naff - (easy) bad
Gormless - (hard one, but it means) silly, or foolish
Jumper - (easy) sweater
Barmy - (easy) bonkers, mad, away with the fairies
Skint - (easy) lacking funds
Trainers - (I was hoping for a challenge) sneakers
Yobbo - (finally something harder) basically a chav, or a hick of sorts
Chuffed - (another easy one) very pleased
Stroppy - (easy) to throw a tantrum, or to be cantankerous
Snogging - (easy) kissing
Chunder - (easy) to vomit
As an Englishman, I'm pleased I only got dogsbody wrong, because that's a weird, rare one.
"Knock Up" (To wake somebody up in the morning). LOL
"Yar-bow" 😂😂 his accent is adorable, some words he says sound British but others are just strange
everyone uses stroppy wtf evan
tamsinserena not true. I’ve never heard that word in my life. I recognized close to none of these. I’m American. Stroppy still doesn’t make sense to me. Also my phone autocorrected stroppy to stripy which is usually a tell-tell sign that it’s slang right?
Abbie Lane think they were saying everyone who lives in the UK
11/12. In fairness I am a Brit...
Riley Banks which one did you get wrong?
I got the same, I got gormless wrong pppfft
Dogsbody. Who the fuck uses that?
Riley Banks I know alot of people who use it
Riley Banks shame on you , lol
Evan you should come to South Yorkshire, my southern house mates had no idea what I was talking about when I said they were mardy.
I was so shocked when you'd never heard of stroppy. I use it all the time
Im from Texas in the US so I've never actually hear a British person speak in person soooo the only English slang I've learned is from Harry Potter and UA-cam lol THANKS EVAN I only knew snogging lol
You don't encounter Brits in Texas?
I would make some joke about last time I was this early there was still a Danisnotonfire, but I would feel unoriginal so...
I've never used most of them but I knew 11/12 😂 step up your game Evan
"I'm a stroppy guy"
*Clicks drunk*
Finds out it means angry
"ANGRY! IM STROPPY THAT I GOT THAT WRONG!"
I'm dead 😂😂😂
Who has actually ever used the word dogsbody?😂
I've heard several people use it.
Not recently, but *waves*
@@debbielough7754 I've heard people say that persons getting a dogsbodys abuse.
It was part of a chapter title of a book I read.
NOTIF SQUAAD ❤
FIRST
AAAAA ily
here's some south london slang for anyone to try to figure out:
1. peng/piff
2. gassed
3. chirpse
4. peak
5. clapped
6. bare
7. man lyk
8. fam
9. bookie (pronounced boo - key)
10. cro
Lackey sounds like the Americanism related to dogsbody, and hooligan for Yabbo. This is so funny
Is it weird that I'm British and I have never heard the word Yabbo or yobbo or whatever it was
Emily :D I'm used to hearing "yob" instead of yobbo :')
Amber Clare Hawley )O( same
Yes, it's a little strange that you haven't heard of "yobbo". The one I didn't know was "chunder"
I hear yob more than yobbo tbh
12/12 - though I must say the first one was a guess!
These words are not uncommon in Australia - in fact I thought many of them were universal! Guess not!
same here! I was surprised how many I knew from Australians saying them :D
I've never most of these, and I live in Australia as well. Must be an eastern states thing.
haha I'm from rural VIC
Yeah!! I'm not Australian I'm from New Zealand so it's close but yeah I hear these things
"Ya want some chunder?!" You are great! Btw, I'm British and I was unsure of the first one but I got the rest right. If someone is looking a bit stupid and completely expressionless in the face, people would say he looks a bit "gormless".
The yobbo strap on incident really threw me 😂😂 couldn’t stop laughing
how didn't you know stroppy? like when you're in a strop? surely
like wat
it's like sulking