American Slang! Slang refers to words, phrases and uses that are regarded as very informal and often restricted to the special context or peculiar to a specified profession class...
British slang will delight any linguist. Check out our top words and phrases from the English dictionary and see if you can guess their meanings.
Whinge – to moan and complain (usually in an annoying way) Willy – penis (to) Wind someone up / to be wound up by – this has two similar but subtly different meanings: (1) to tease someone or play a joke on them, get them agitated on purpose but usually in a non-malicious wa...
Good morning from Oxbridge English its Ali today we shall continue our British Slang series episode 8 todays four words are ‘wind up’ , ‘barmy’, ‘belt up’ and ‘bespoke’. Wind up - This has a couple of meanings. If something you do is a "wind up" it means you are making...
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10 Essential Office Slang Words and Expressions 办公室俚语词汇和表达(商务英语) 07:24 【词汇】46. 21 Most Common Idioms in British English 21个常见习语的表达,用好了就像母语人一样了 06:24 【词汇】47. The Difference Between DURING v WHILE v FOR 详细比较During, while 和 for 06:26 48. I ...
Healthy- Healthful. I'm not really sure if this is slang or whether the American use of healthful is the real alternative to the English "healthy". We talk about a healthy lifestyle and about healthy food. I never heard anyone say smoking was "unhealthful" in the US but I suppose that...
And I have mentioned this one before, but it’s so important that I’m going to mention it again. You need to know this verb. You need to know it, we use it all the time. It has two meanings. It can mean to be romantically interested in somebody, so an example could be, I fa...
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In British English, hard is a word with many meanings. It can refer, as its primary dictionary meaning, to a material which is solid and rigid – i.e. a hard brick wall. However, following this meaning it has also become popular slang. ‘Hard’ or ‘solid’ is used to refer to...