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CATEGORIES:
American English
Animals:
Bug Insect
Fishes Fish (pl.)
Hog Pig
House Fly (Large) Blow Fly
Rooster Cockerel
Shedding (fur) Moulting
Small crow Jack-daw
Spiney fish Stickleback *
Water surface insect Waterboatman
Appliances:
vacuum cleaner Hoover
TV Telly or TV
Frigidaire, ice box, fridge Refrigerator, fridge
Babies:
Baby, infant Nipper, Little 'un (slangs)
Baby carriage or Baby buggy Perambulator or "Pram"
Diaper Nappy
Formula Bottle of baby milk
Pacifier, fooler Dummy
Stroller Push chair
Body parts:
Ass Arse
Belly, stomach Tummy (occasionally belly/stomach)
Bod * Body, as in gorgeous
Booty * Bottom, buttocks
Butt, tush, fanny Bum
Ear Ear, lug-hole, Lug (slangs)
Fanny * Bottom, buttocks
Gams Legs, usu. a woman's
Hand Mitt (slang)
Head Bonce (slang), nut.
Hooters * breasts
Jaw or chin Bracket (slang)
Kisser mouth
Lap knee or lap
Mouth mouth, "gob, trap, cake-hole" (slangs)
Nose "hooter"
Pinky little finger
Testicles Goolies, knackers, pillochs, bollocks
Vagina Fanny *
Zit Spot
(Okay, enough of that! I could go on, but...)
Buildings:
Backyard Garden (small)
Building site Building plot
Platte Map (of land)
Precinct station Constabulary
Realty, property Property
Realtor, real estate agent Estate agent
Shack Shed
Snack shop Tuck shop
Stoop A small porch
Swath (of land) Swathe
Yard Garden
Clothing:
A type of material Fairisle
Apron Pinnie or Pinnafore *
Jackboots Bovver boots, hobnail boots
Clothes hanger Coat hanger
Clothes pin Peg
Cuffs (pants) Turn-ups
Garter belt Suspender belt
Hose Stockings
Knickerbockers Shorts
Lacy Frilly
Long Johns Combinations
Pants Trousers
Panties knickers
Pantyhose Tights
Pinnafore * A style of woman's dress
Robe Dressing gown
Run Ladder
Pumps Shoes
Rain hat Sou'wester
Slacks, casual pants Trews
Sneakers Trainers
Sox Socks
Stockings Nylons, stockings
Suspenders Braces
Straight pin pin
Suit Suite (furniture)
************ Donkey jacket
Sou'wester Bad storm from the southwest
Sweater Jumper,jersey, sweater, woolly
Sweats Tracksuit
Tee shirt Vest
Tennis shoes Plimsolls
Underpants or panties Pants, drawers, skivvies or knickers
Vest Waistcoat
Walk shorts Shorts
Well-dressed Smart (or dressed-up)
Yarn Wool (or yarn)
Zipper Zip
College/School:
Assignment Homework
Assignment Lesson
College Student Student
Elementary School/Grade School Junior School
Eraser Rubber
Freshman 1st year undergraduate
Grade (as in 1st) Class (e.g. Class 10) (used to be
"form")
Grade (points) Score
High School Senior School
Jock Athletic pupil
Junior 3rd year undergraduate
Junior High School Middle School
Math Maths
Majoring in reading (at Univ.)
Public school state school
Preschool private nursery school
Primmer Primer
Principal headmaster/mistress
Private school gofer Fag
Senior 4th year undergraduate
Sophomore 2nd year undergraduate
Student Pupil
Undergraduate school College/University
Write offs Lines
Zero Nought
Computers:
Font Fount
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Check Bill Ice cream cone Ice cream cornet Popsicle Lolly Napkin Serviette To go Take out, take awayExpressions:
Affirmative Yes
Add up, total Total up, tott up
Afterward Afterwards
Agin Against
Aks (ethnic Afro-american) Ask
All of it, everything The whole ball of wax, whole nine
yards, whole megillah.
Alls (not universally used) All
Angry or a little irritated Cross
Annoying fellow, bad character Sod (as in sodomy, also an expletive)
Backward Backwards
Bad, problematic Dodgey
Bad ass (verb OR adj.) A threatening, violent man
Be encouraged! Buck up *
Beaten (in a race) Pipped at the post
Beep Pip or stroke
Belly up Failure, shut down (a business etc.)
"Best/Bests" (verb) Beats the others
Blob, n. Wodge, n.
Bone up * Study
Boner Silly idea, blunder, error
Brickbat * A complaint
Brook (verb) Tolerate
Built-in Fitted
Bump Remove someone's plane reservation
Bumper music Introductory music on a radio talk show
Bunch Large quantity
Bunk Nonsense
Butt of The Joke * Brunt of the Joke
Came over, came to visit Popped round, popped over, in
Carry to the store Take to the shops
Catty-corner * Diagonally across
Chase off or deflect See off (e.g. dog)
Chatting, talking Nattering, gassing
Cheat in business, swindle Diddle
Check (mark) Tick
Compulsive house cleaning Houseproud (adj)
Chr-st! (Euphemism) Wow! Crikey! *
Clumsy Cack-handed
Coat check Cloakroom
Cold cock Hit someone hard
Conk out Cronk out
Cool your jets! Calm down!
Copasthetic * All OK
Counter-clockwise Anti-clockwise
Coverage (insurance) Cover
Cranky In a bad mood
Crashed & died Bought it
Crazy, bananas Round the loop, loopy
Cut to the chase Get to the point
Dandy (adj.) Clever, good
Dandy (n. Fancy dresser, show-off) Spiv
Dang! Blimey! Bollocks!
Dang (Adj.) Very, or very bad
Darn well Bloomin' well, bleedin' well (sl. coarse)
Durn Very, or very bad
Defective Duff (sl.)
Dispatch Despatch
Do me a favor! Do us a favour! (more cockney)
Doggone! Blow!
Doggone (adj.) Darned, Bloomin'
Duff (sl.) Buttocks
Done Finished
Each a throw (example, "They only cost 5 pounds a throw!")
Easy, something easy A doddle *
Eat Tuck in *
Elevator Lift
End of your rope End of your tether
Enjoy the heck out of Enjoy greatly
Exactly! Quite!
Excerpt Extract
Exclamation or surprise Blimey! (From lit. "Blind me!")
Exclamation or surprise Stone the crows!
Excuse me Sorry
Fast (going very fast) Like the clappers *
Favors (verb) Looks like (people)
Feeling your oats-gloating in success (No equiv.) - see sowing wild oats
Fight 'Punch-up'
Figure out 'Suss' (typically means to figure out a person)
Fish or cut bait Get on with it
Fix * Prepare
Fixing to * Preparing to, about to
Flattering (phoney) Smarmy (sl.)
Forward Forwards
Fraidy Cat Scaredy Cat
Freight elevator Goods lift
From the get go * From the beginning/start
Fubar ("foobar") * Crude acronym for "Messed" Up Beyond All Recognition
Funnest * The most fun, most enjoyable
Furnish Supply, provide, fit
Gawk To stare stupidly
Get a holt of Cop hold of
Get going! On your bicycle! *
Get lost! Get knotted! Get stuffed!
Get more exercise Take more exercise
G.I.G.O. * Garbage in, Garbage out (computers)
Give it a try Have a go
Go away! Bugger off! *
Go away! Piss off! *
Go away! Push off *
Go crazy go potty (or crazy)
Go potty go to the loo
Go to bat for Stick up for
Go very fast! 'Go like the clappers!' *
Good for you! Bully for you!
Goodbye, bye Cheerio, tata
Goof, goof up 'Drop a clanger'
Gorgeous, beautiful, cute Dishy, dolly (adj.)
Gotten Got, obtained, become or acquired
Goes a ways Goes a fair amount
Great! Neat, Neato! Super! (Some say "SYOO-PER" in snob english)
Gross * Disgusting
Grumble, complain, whimper Grizzle *
Guess Suppose, think
Half staff (flag) Half mast
Hanging out * Lolling around, hanging around
Harm (bodily) Mischief *
Harm yourself Do yourself a mischief *
Have a gander at it! Take a look at it!
Heck with you, I'm OK! I'm alright, JACK! *
He'p, hope (both South.) Help
Here you go Here you are
Hey! (salutation) What ho! Watch yer!
Hey! (getting attention) Oy! Hoy!
Hey! or Hi! Hello!
Hicky * Mark on skin from excessive kiss
Hit Dotted *
Hit him Dotted 'im one *
Hold Cop hold of
Hooey (slang) Nonsense
Horse!(slang) A man (joking or friendly term)
Horsing around Mucking about
Horseplay, horsing around Rough, boisterous fun
Hush! Shush! (Pronounced like "Bush")
I agree! "here here!"
I don't have I haven't got
I have I've got
Idiot Clot, Clod, loony, bint
Illicit sex Sowing wild oats
I'm telling you! Believe you me!
In point of fact In fact
Insane Bonkers, Mad
Installed fitted
Intimidate and threaten Bother "A bit of bovver"
Irregardless (error) Regardless
Jury rig or kluge Jerry rig
Keep your chin up! Keep your pecker up!
Kudos Good show, well done!
Let us know, speak up Sing out
Liar! Lying Hound! Lying Toad!
Listen up! Listen here!
Loading dock Goods entrance
Look out for something Keep your eyes skinned, peeled
"Low-life" (person) "Scruff" or "Urchin"
Might could (Sou.) Could possibly be able to
Most any Almost any
Most every Almost every
Mostly In the main
Mad Angry
Make a face Pull a face
Make like Act like, pretend to be
Making fun Taking the Mick(ey) (slang)
Make it Succeed, arrive, have sex
Make the grade Succeed
Make out Succeed
Making out, affection Snogging
Mash (Southern slang) Press (as in button)
Mean or contemptible fellow Blighter
Messing around Mucking about
Mums (slang / flowers) Chrysants (abbr.)
Mum's the word Keep this quiet
Muss Mess
"Nanny nanny boo boo!" Nah nah nah-nah nah -OR-
"Cry baby bunting!"
Nearly Nigh-on (e.g. N-o impossible)
Neat, Neat-o! Fabulous
Negative, negatory No
No good A fat lot of good
"No way!" "I should Coco!" *, "Not on your nelly!" *
No problem Right oh, then!
Nub * (noun) Protuberance, lump, stub
Nuh-uh! No
Odor Pong (slang) *
Odor Odour
OK Right then
On accident By accident
On purpose On purpose
On time Bang on schedule
Organize Organise
Out front Out in the front
Panties in a wad Knickers in a twist
Parentheses Brackets
Partial trade Part exchange
Pass up Go past
Paydirt A profitable discovery or event.
Penny A Cent
Penny-anny or penny ante Petty, insignificant
Perceive Make out
Period Full stop
Pick up (the house) Tidy up
Piss off Annoy
Point up Point out
Pollyanna Optimistic (person)
Problematic, bad Dodgy *
Prosecuted Summonsed, had up
Questionable or illicit activity "Shilly-shally"
Rain check * When shopping - a chit that let's you get the
discount later if they have run out of an item.
Recognize Recognise
Rent Hire
Resolute, Spirited Plucky
Right good (Sou.) Excellent (adj.) or Well (Adv.)
Rock Stone
Run for it Bunk, Scarper (slang) or scarper off
Sack * Bag
Smarts (verb) Hurts
Smarts (slang noun) Intelligence
Snafu * (Another crude acronym)
Snowed under (regional) Extremely busy, overwhelmed
Sod Turf
Sorry Inadequate, pathetic, inferior
Spiffy POSH (fr. Port out Starboard Home)
Stay at home Stop at home (e.g. from work)
Stole my thuunder Said what I was going to before I could
Stop Smoking Pack it up *
Stopped up Bunged up
Stories or "white lies" Fibs
Stuck with an uncmfortable Lumbered
situation
Sarcastic Sarkey *
Sassy Cheeky or saucy
Scody, Scuzzy Scruffy, untidy
Segue' ("Seg-way") * Shift, change, maneuver, transition
Slash or slant Stroke (i.e. /)
Sleep in (late) Lie in
Snicker Snigger
Snob, or rich guy Toff (Old London expression)
Specter Spectre
Stand in line Queue or "queue up"
Steal Nick, knock off
Step up Belly up (e.g. - to the bar)
Stomp Stamp (foot)
Suspicious Dodgey
Tacky Tatty, scruffy, cheap, low class
Take a look Take a decko
Take a turn Have a go (as in a game)
Talk with, flirt with, persuasively Chat up
Talkative fellow Gas bag
A Tattle-tale, n. Grass , n.
To Tattle, v. To grass on, v.
The skinny The inside story, scoop
Through Up to and including
Tell me about it! I know all about it!
Thanks, thank you Ta! (slang), much-obliged!
That's his loss That's his funeral
That's strange! Oooow er!
The hospital Hospital
There you go There you are
Tote Carry
Toward Towards
Trade Exchange or "Part Exchange"
Trickery, deception Jiggery-pokery
Two weeks fortnight
Uh-huh yes
Uh-oh oh dear
Uh-uh no
Untidy Scruff (adj.)
Untidy person Scruff (n.)
"Up the Ante" Increase your bet or risk
Urinate Spend a penny, take a slash, take a wazz
Very Ever so, bloomin'
Very weak Weak as water
Visit with Talk to/chat
Wait on line Queue, or Queue Up
Wait up Wait
Wake UP!!! Wakey wakey!
Wanted Fancied
Wasted Frittered away
Way to go! Well done! Keep it up!
Well done, nice job, congratulations "Bully for you!" (sometimes sarcastic)
What a bod! She's gorgeous!
What time to you have? What time do you make it?
While Whilst
Winningest (player, coach) Most successful
Wonderful, lovely Glorious
Wriggle Fidget
Yo! Hey!
You got suckered! More fool you!
Your slip is showing! "Charlie's dead!"
You're finished! (as in a card game) On your bicycle!, bicycles! *
You've got it made Bob's your uncle *
Zee Zed
Zip Zero, nothing
Heck with you! I'm alright, Jack! / Blow you!
Wake me up Knock me up
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Aluminum foil, tin foil Silver paper, tinfoil.
Baking pan Baking tin
Baking soda Bicarbonate of soda, "Bicarb"
Beets or red beets Beetroot
Bell Pepper Green pepper
Black-currant cordial Ribena
Broil Grill or roast (e.g. chicken)
Cabbage & potatoes fried Bubble & Squeak
Can Tin, Tin can
Candy apple Toffee apple
Catsup Ketchup or tomato sauce
Cheerios Circular cereal (no equivalent!)
Cigarettes Fags
Candy Sweets
Coaster Beer mat
Cobbler Crumble
Cookies Biscuits
Cornstarch Cornflour
Dessert Sweet, pudding or afters
Eggplant Aubergine
Food "Tuck"
Fruit juice (diluted) Squash
Golden Raisins Sultanas
Goobers Peanuts
Ground meat Minced meat
Heaping (spoon) Heaped
Hot tea Char, tea
Iced tea Cold tea with no milk.
Jawbreaker Gobstopper
Jello Jelly
Jello pudding (similar) Blanc-mange ("Bl'monj")
Jelly Jam
Lite beer Diluted beer
Lunch Dinner or lunch
Maraschino Cherries Glace' cherries
Marmite A savory spread (no equivalent)
Mashed Potatoes Mash
No equivalent Sherbet (powder sweets)
No equivalent (sparkling drink) Tizer
No equivalent (blackcurrant drink) Ribena
Orange Drink Orange Squash
Pancake syrup Golden syrup
Pie crust, pie shell Pastry
Plastic wrap Cling film
Popsicles Ice lollies
Powdered sugar Icing sugar
Pudding Instant Whip
Raisin Sultana
Roast (n) Joint (or roast)
Root beer Germoline flavoured drink
Rhutabaga Swede
Salad dressing Salad cream
Sausage Banger
Scallion Spring onion
Seeds (in fruit) Pips
Semi-sweet chocolate Plain chocolate
Sherbet Sorbet
Shrimp Prawns
Silverware/flatware Cutlery
Soda or sodapop Fizzy or pop
Soda Fizzy drinks
soft candy Wine gums
Spaghetti sauce Bolognese sauce
Spaghetti with meat sauce Spaghetti bolognese
Spatula Fish slice
Stealing apples Scrumping
String beans Runner beans
Suckers Lollipops
Supper, dinner Tea
Teakettle Kettle
Three Musketeers (candy) Milky Way
Tomato Sauce Bolognese sauce
Tuna fish Tuna
Waxed paper Greaseproof paper
Whole wheat bread Wholemeal bread
Worchestershire sauce Worchester sauce ("Wooster")
Yorkshire pudding with sausages in. "Toad in the Hole"
No equivalent Treacle
No equivalent "Shandy" = Brown ale & 7-UP
Fire fighting:Fire truck Fire engine Fire Department Fire Brigade Rescue squad St. Johns Ambulance Brigade Firecracker Banger Fuse (on firecracker) Blue touch paperGames/Hobbies:
Blackjack Pontoon Bumper cars Dodgems Checkers Draughts Clue (game) Cluedo Curve ball A googly Firecracker Banger "Hit me!" (in Blackjack) "Twist!" (in Pontoon) Hold (hand of cards) Stick (playing cards) Parcheesi Ludo Pickup-sticks Pick-a-stix Pitch Throw Solitaire Patience (card game) Stay (in cards) Stick Teeter-totter See-saw Tic-tac-toe Noughts and crosses Trouble (game) Frustration (game) Wading (pool) Paddling (pool) Your turn Your goGardening/Plants:
Bug Insect Cat Tail Bullrush Horse Chestnut Conker (sl.) Horticulture Gardening Queen Anne's Lace Cow ParsleyHealth/illness:
Antiseptic cream Germoline Back ache Lumbago Band Aid Plaster Brush your teeth Clean your teeth Cavity Tooth decay Cotton Cotton wool Disease Mange * Emergency Room Casualty, or Casualty Ward Gauze Lint Lint Cotton or thread Listerine Dettol PMS PMT Rubber Condom, sheath, French letter Shot (injection) Jab Sick at your stomach Tummy ache Tylenol Paracetamol Wash up Wash handsHolidays:
Public holiday Bank holiday Santa Claus Father Christmas Thanksgiving No equivalent Labor Day No equivalent WhitsunBack to the top
Boat anchor Large piece of junk radio equipment Chifferobe Wardrobe Coal scoop Hod * Coal bin Coal bunker Garbage or trash Rubbish Garbage can Dustbin Ink pen Pen Living room Sitting room Plastic mug Beaker Polyethylene Polythene (plastic) Radio Wireless or radio Record player or phonograph (old) Recordplayer, Gramophone (old) Shifferobe Wardrobe Skillet Frying pan Stove Cooker Styrofoam Polystyrene Straight pin Pin Suit Suite (furniture) Thread Cotton (or thread) Thumb tacks Drawing pins Trash can Waste paper basketHousing:
Apartment Flat Government housing Council house or Council flat Duplex Semi-detached house Manufactured housing Prefabs Nuthouse (mental institution) Loony bin Ranch house Bungalow Trailer, House trailer Caravan Development or Subdivision Estate, Housing estate (or projects) Dumpster SkipInsults:
Redneck, hick Country boy, rural male Jerk, Dummy, dum-dum, dolt Twit, twerp or loony Slang for 'Bastard' Basket Bum Tramp Nitwit Nit Idiot Oaf Dumb Dozy, thick, gormless * Crazy Daft or barmy Nerd Square person with thick glasses Sodomizer SodMail:
Shipping Carriage Mailman Postman Mail box Letter box U.S. Postal Service Royal MailMilitary:
Lieutenant Lieutenant, pronounced "Leftenant" Cannon (pl) Cannons Mil-uh-terry MIL-itryMiscellaneous:
Device for crossing a farm fence Stile Journal Diary Liter Litre Center CentreMoney:
Billfold Wallet Check Cheque Credit The Never-Never Bill (dollar) Note (pound) Check Bill (of sale) Money Lolly, Dosh, Knicker Mutual fund Unit trust Penny American slang for 'one cent' Pound Knicker, Quid Pocketbook Wallet Bottom dollar Your last dollar Not even a red cent Not even one cent Threepenny piece Thru'pence, Nickel (archaic) Sixpence Tanner (archaic) A shilling A bob A florin A two bob bit A pound Knicker (also plural = "knicker") A pound Quid (also plural = "quid")Musical / Entertainment:
Alto Contralto Band, combo Group Bumper music Introductory music on a radio talk show Diatonic accordion Concertina, squeeze box Flutist or flute player Flautist "G Rated" "Certificate G" Guitar Box (slang) Harmonica Mouth organ (or harmonica) Magician Conjurer Movies Pictures or flicks Pantomimed Mimed (pretended to sing, i.e. mouthed the words for TV) Phonograph Gramophone, record player "R Rated" "Certificate A" Sax player Saxophonist Song that is becoming more popular "Climber" Subway musician (begging) Busker, busking The Show or Picture show Cinema Theatre Cinema Timpani Kettle drums Traditional Jazz Trad or Trad Jazz Trailer Ad for a film Tuning peg Machine head (guitar) Whammy bar Tremolo arm (guitar)Office & Business:
Cash Register Till Materials, needles, threads etc. Haberdashery (Dept. in stores) Paper cutter Guillotine Receipt or voucher, or any Chit * small piece of paper, such as a requisition. Shipping Carriage Single item or product "One off" Small retail shop or booth Kiosk (often at a station) Stand, booth Stall (at an exhibition) Wholesale Trade or Wholesale Yours Truly Yours sincerely Trade (verb) To buy or sellBack to the top
Americans Yanks, Yankies
Anthony ("th") Anthony ("T")
Bad guy "Swine"
Boss Governor (guvner" or "guv")
Bum Tramp
Guys, dudes Blokes, chaps, chappies
Buddy, friend Mate, friend
Cop, Police officer, Pig, Policeman, Copper, Bobby, Rozzer
(Fuzz, The Man etc.)
Dandy Spiv
Effeminate man, homosexual Poof
Garbage man or "Sanitary Engineer" Dustman
Girl, chick Bird
Dude Person, city slicker
City Slicker Sophisticated person
Handicapped person Invalid, spastic
kook, nut Loony, nutcase, 'nana (short for banana!)
Loose woman, tramp, slut Tart, slut
Old man Geezer
Person "Bod"
Person who stays out late "Dirty old stop out" (slang)
Person Born Within the Sound "Cockney" (stricter meaning)
of Bow Bells
Person with Cockney accent "Cockney" (looser meaning)
(from London)
Shady Dealer Wide Boy OR Spiv
Shady dealer or show-off Spiv
Teens Teenagers
Thief Twocker *
Aunt ("ANT") Auntie
Black person or oriental "Wog" (impolite)
Mom Mum
Person, old man Geyser
Yankee American from the North, Yank
Yokel Local Yokel (Regional personage)
Personal belongings:Billfold Wallet Clothes Togs pocket book purse Purse Handbag Shades *, sunglasses Sunglasses Shoe strings Shoe laces Check cheque Bill (dollar) Note (pound) Coin purse Purse Canvas bag Duffle bag Wallet (for ladies) purse Watch band Watch strapPersonal grooming:
Bangs * Fringe Barrette Hair clip Bobby pin Hair grip Grow your hair out Let it grow longer Rollers Curlers Spritz * Spray Tease your hair Back-comb your hair Tote sack Duffle bag Wash cloth Face flannel or FlannelPlumbing:
Bathtub Bath Commode Toilet, khazi Faucet Tap Restroom, bathroom Lavatory, loo, bog, W.C. Public restroom Public convenience Sink Basin, sink Water heater (electric) Immersion heater Water heater (gas) Geyser Wash dishes Wash upPolitics:
Congress Parliament Fillibuster Lengthy speech to halt progress Gerrymander Manipulate boundaries to gain advantage Gubernatorial No equivalent (means having to do) Mayor's wife Mayoress Lawyer, Attorney Sollicitor, barrister House of Commons House of Representatives House of Lords Senate Run (for public office) Stand Secretary Minister This administration This governmentPublic places:
Beach Seaside City Town In the hospital In Hospital Jail, Pokey Gaol or Jail, clink Landfill, garbage dump Rubbish tip Someplace * Somewhere South England The South of England Small wooded area Copse Town with a cathedral City Wharf or pier Quay * or pierRadio & TV/Electronics:
Antenna Aerial Filter Capacitor Smoothing Capacitor Front panel Escutcheon Ground Earth Meter (length) Metre Radio Wireless or radio Schematic drawing Circuit diagram Show Program Telephone The blower Telephone pole Telegraph pole Tube Valve VCR Video machineReligion:
Aay-men Aaah-men Vespers Evensong Pastor VicarShopping/Public places:
Alley Alleyway
Beautician or cosmetologist Hair dresser
Cafe Caff (regional)
Drug store Chemist's
Flyer (leaflet) Circular
Line Queue
Pharmacist or druggist Chemist
Portable sales cart Barrow
Rain check * When shopping - a chit that let's you get the
discount later if they have run out of an item.
Receipt Bill
Sack Bag
Second floor First floor
Shipping Carriage
Shopping cart Trolley, Shopping trolley
Store Shop
Tote bag, tote Shopping bag
Trade (verb) To buy or sell
Waiting in line Queueing up
Back to the top
A Bet, wager A Flutter
Blinders (horse) Blinkers
College & High School Wrestling Graeco-Roman wrestling
Defense Defence
Derby ("Derby") Derby (pronounced "DAAABY")
Fake Feint
Football American football
Field, course Pitch (Cricket, football)
Field hockey Hockey ("Shinty" in Scotland!)
Football American football
Gymkhana - gymnastics event Gymkhana - a horse show event!
Handlebar Handlebars (bike)
Professional Wrestling All-in wrestling
Rugby Rugger or Rugby
Soccer Football or soccer
Sky box High up seating box in a stadium
Sports Sport
Vs (versus) V. (note, the British are VERY particular
about use of a full stop after an
abbreviation, whereas Americans often
do not bother with one.)
"Winningest coach" Awful Americanism used by
Radio & TV announcers
Wrasslin' (rural sl.) Wrestling
Telephone:Call Ring up, give you a bell or a tinkle Collect call Reverse the charges Hang up Ring off Long distance Trunk call Information (411) Directory InquiriesTime & dates:
Fifteen OF/Quarter of/till Quarter to Five after Five past Ten OF Ten to 1905 "Nineteen Five" "Nineteen Oh Five" or "Nineteen Ought Five" A week from Tuesday A week on Tuesday Two weeks A fortnightTrains:
Boxcar Truck Caboose Guards van car (on train) carriage, truck conductor (train) guard Crossing Level-crossing Engineer (train) driver Freight car truck Freight train Goods train Passenger car Carriage Railroad RailwayTransportation/cars:
Airplane Aeroplane Aluminum Aluminium Auto Car or motor Automobile Motor car Beltway Ring road Blacktop Tarmac Blinker Indicator Blow the horn Beep or hoot Boxcar Truck Bus Omnibus, charabang, bus Bus, private Coach Candy apple red (paint job) Fire engine red Car for the handicapped Invalid carriage Cars (railroad) Railway Carriages Circle Roundabout Crosswalk w/black & white stripes Zebra Crossing, crossing Dead-end Cul-de-sac Deflate a tire Let down a tyre Defroster Demister Detour Diversion Dim headlights Dip headlights Divided Highway Dual Carriageway Elevator Lift Fender Wing Flat Tire Puncture Freeway / interstate Motorway Freight Car Truck gas pedal Accelerator gas station Filling station Gasoline or gas Petrol Give a ride or Carry (to) Give a lift Hitch hike, hitch a ride Thumb a lift, hitch hike, thumb it Hood Bonnet Horn Hooter (or horn) Intersection Crossroads Jalopy Cronk * Kerosene Paraffin Knapsack, backpack Rucksack Lifters Tappets Median (in road) Central reservation Metro or subway Underground or tube Muffler (car) Silencer Motor Engine monkey wrench Spanner No equivalent, flashing yellow Belisha Beacon * lights on poles at Zebra Crossing. Odometer Mileometer Overpass Flyover, bridge Pavement Road surface Pedestrian crossing Zebra crossing Race car Racing car Railroad Railway Railroad ties Sleepers Reflectors in the road Cats Eyes * Red light, stop light, traffic light Traffic light rowboat Rowing boat Sedan Saloon Semi-truck / Tractor-trailer Articulated Lorry Sidewalk Pavement or path Station Wagon Shooting brake or Estate Car Street car Trolley bus, Tram Street sign Signpost Ticket (noun) Summons (noun) (for speeding etc.) Given a ticket Summonsed, had up Ticket (verb) Given a summons Tire Tyre Traffic Circle Roundabout Traffic laws Highway Code Truck Lorry, pantechnicon Trailer (home type) Caravan Trailer (utility) Wagon transmission Gear box Trunk Boot Turn-out Lay-by Turn Indicator Indicator Underpass (pedestrian tunnel) Subway VW Bug VW Beetle Windshield Windscreen Wreck, fender bender, accident Crash, prang Wreck, crock, old car Old heap, old cronk, old banger ***** Lay-byBack to the top
Awaken someone Knock up Knock up Copulate, make pregnantWeather:
Wind-chill factor Degrees of frostWork & Employment:
Cafeteria Canteen Lunch room or snack shop Canteen Quitting time Going-home time. Raise Rise
Pronunciation Guide:
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COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG EXAMPLES:
Phrase Meaning
Apples and Pears Stairs
Bottle of Beer Queer
Dog and bone Phone
Gottle of geer Ventriloquist talk for "Bottle-of-beer"
Read and laugh Bath
Trouble and Strife Wife
American English
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Albino "Al-buy-no" "Al-bean-o"
Allies "uh-LIES" (like "decries") like "PAL+flies"
Ambulance like "AM-bl-ants" AM-byoo-lns
Anti like "BAN tie" ANT + ee
Arctic "Ardic" Ark + tick
Arthritis "Arthur-itis" (So.) "arthritis"
Attache' "Add-a-SHAY: A-TATCH-EE or A-TASH-EE
Attitude "Adda-tood" Attit-tyewd
Avenue "Avva-Noo" Avvin-yoo
Banana, like "bandana" "buh-naa-nuh"
(First "a" always long and nasal)
Beta "Bay-duh" "Bee-tuh"
Buoy like "BOO-EE" BOY
Car "COARR" "CAAH"
Caramel "CAR-mul" CA-ruh-mel
Charades "Sh'-RAIDS" "Sh'-RAADS"
Chassis "Chass-iss" "Shass-ee"
Clerk ("CLERK") Clerk (pronounced "CLAAAK")
Compost (like "Tom-Toast") Like "Tom-lost"
Concord (like "CONQUERED") "Con-kawd"
Consortium "K'n-sorr-shum" "K'n-saaw-tee-um"
Dance like "ants" Daans like "Aah"
(same for most -ance words)
Daschaund "Docks'nd" "Dash Hound"
Data "Dadd+uh" "Day-tuh"
Details "Duh+TAILS" "DEE+tails"
Due and dew ("DOO") "DYEW" or "DJOO"
Era "Erra" "Ear-uh"
Error "E'-roar" "Erra"
Fraykus Frakkus (commotion)
God "Gahd" God (shorter 'o')
Harem "Hair-um" "Harr-um"
Herbs ('Rrbs) Herbs (softer "R")
Him ("'m" or "um"(short 'u' reg.) "Him"
Inquiries "IN-kw'rees" "ink-WYE-rees"
Khaki like "KAKKY" KAAH-key
Human "YOO-MAN" (regional N.Y.) HYOO-m'n
Humor (regional to N.Y. YOOMUR) HYOOmuh (softer "R")
Iodine like "EYE-a-dine" "EYE-a-dean"
Jaguar "JAG+wahr" or "wohr" "JAG+you+wuh"
Laboratory "LAB-ruh-tory La-BO-ruh-tree
Lavatory "LAV-uh-tory" LAV-uh-tree
Leisure like "LEE+sure" LEZ + yur like "pleasure"
Liason "LAY-a-zon" Lee-AY-zon
Library "Lie+BRARE+ee" "LIE-bree"
Liquer "l'COOR" or "l'KER" "Lik+KYEUR"
Master "MASS-TURR" MAAS-Tuh
Medieval "Meed-eevul" or "Med-evul" "Meddy-evul"
Missile "Mistle MISS-aisle
Mustache "Must Ash" "m'STOSH"
Newt "Noot" NYEWT
Notre Dame "NODER DAYME" Notra Daahm
Nuclear "NOOWK-YA-LUR" Nyew-klee-er
Poem "pome" or "po'm" "Po-im"
Privacy "Pry-vuh-see" "Priv-uh-see
Program like"PRO-grm" "PRO-gram"
Progress like "DOG+dress" "DOUGH+dress"
Quasi like "KWAZE+eye" "KWAH+zee"
Quinnine Like "Why-Mine" Like "Pin-bean"
Recluse like "WRECK+loose" "Ri-KLOOS"
Records(noun) "RECKerds" "RECKawds"
Route "Rowte" "Roote"
Schedule (SKED-yule) SHED-yule
Semi like "SEM + eye" SEMMy
{ The (before a word starting with a vowel) }
{ "The" (short "e") "Thee" (medium length "ee") }
Shire (like "HIRE") "SHEER"
Stalagtite "St'LAG-tite" "STA-l'g-tite"
Status "STADD+us" STAY-tus
Strichnine "STRICK+nine" "STRICK-neen"
Tournament "TOUR-na-m'nt" "Taaw-na-m'nt"
Transmit like "TANS it" Traans-MIT
Tuesday "Tooz-day" Tyewz-day, Tyewz-dee, Choozday/dee
Van Gogh "Van Go" "Van Goff"
Zero "Zee-roh" Z-ear-oh
Z "Zee" "Zed"
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American British
alphabetized in alphabetical order
billfold wallet (for men)
billion (thousand million) billion (million million)
binky or pacifier dummy or comforter
birthed bore/gave birth
biscuits scones
bomb (disaster) bomb (success)
braces brace (on teeth)
call collect reverse charges
call/phone ring up/phone
can (of food) tin
candied cherries glace cherries
cheap second-rate
checkers draughts
chips (potato) crisps
chocolate milk chocolate
chronic fatigue syndrome post viral syndrome
cigarette fag (or cigarette)
closet (hanging clothes) Cupboard, built-in wardrobe
Mononucleosis Glandular fever
club truncheon
collar button collar stud
comforter quilt or duvet
commercials (on TV) adverts
concentrated neat (as in Dettol or other fluids)
concert seating Stand wherever you can find a spot
cookie biscuit (sweet)
cookie tray baking sheet
cornstarch cornflour
cotton cotton wool
cream of wheat semolina
cupcakes iced fairy cakes
dishwashing liquid washing-up li
quid
drapes curtains
editorial leader (or editorial)
eggplant aubergine
eyeball (v.) visually position
Fall (season) Autumn
fanny bum/bottom
fanny pack belt bag/bum bag
faucet tap
Fig Newtons fig rolls
figure out work out
first floor ground floor
flashlight torch
french fries chips
frosting icing
furnace boiler
go figure! work that one out!
granola muesli (approx)
grill barbecue
grocery cart trolley
Soapbox cart trolley
grocery store supermarket
ground beef minced beef
hamburger beefburger
hamburger (meat) mince
hamburger bun bap
hand Mitt (slang)
hardware store ironmonger
hockey ice hockey
homely (ugly) homely (pleasant)
horny randy
hot tub (or jacuzzi) jacuzzi
hutch welsh dresser
I could care less I couldn't care less
ice chest cool box
incorporated limited
inexpensive cheap
irritable ratty
Jell-O jelly
jelly jam without pips
jelly roll Swiss roll
kettle large saucepan
Kleenex tissue
knickers plus-fours
I really like it I don't half like it.
It makes me no never mind I don't care
legal holiday bank holiday
license plate number plate
liquor spirits
long distance trunk call
lousy grotty
loveseat 2-person sofa
mail (n.) post
mail box letter box
mail box/mail drop pillar box
mail slot letter box (in door)
mailman postman
markers felt tip pens
meat market butcher
Milky Way (candy) Mars Bar
mononucleosis glandular fever
mouth Gob (slang)
mute dumb
neat good idea
nightstand bedside table
nightstick truncheon
Nutrasweet aspartame
orchestra seats stalls
pit (fruit) stone
pitcher jug
plastic mug beaker
purse handbag
Quik NesQuik
raincoat mackintosh
rubbers Wellington Boots
scotch tape sellotape
shift stick gear lever
shop vac Aquavac/Vax
sliver/splinter splinter
spear lance (or spear)
stomach flu gastroenteritis
trapper keeper ring binder
Pad or crib Digs
Go over to visit Pop over
Big time -----
Pop tart A flat rectangular pastry made to go
in an electric toaster.
Bell weather Future indicator
Suicide Jockey Petrol Tanker Driver
Teamster Lorry Driver (Union)
Midway or Carnival Fair
Calliope Steam organ
Pass up, go past or pass by Overshoot, go beyond, go past
Riff raff Disreputable persons
Rip rap Wall made of broken stones
Hooch (slang) Alcoholic beverage (as in moonshine)
Hootchie Cootchie Drinking, ribald dancing and/or music
Right triangle Right angle triangle
Every which way Every possible way, in many directions.
with or without? (milk in coffee) black or white? (milk in
coffee)
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Notes:
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Other particulars:
Periods/fullstops (after initials) This is ALWAYS done in the U.K.
but rarely in the U.S.
* = More unusual term that needs explaining
sl. = Slang
Reg.- Reginal
So. = Southern
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