What are some funny Brit words?

[Zeze]

My ex-boss is a Brit. I just about died laughing when he called a truck, 'lorry'. Such a cutesy hilarious name to call a big machinery.

There goes a lorry. LOL. Calling TV a telly is quite comical. Wanker is a funny insult, but it's also funny when used in proper context. If a girl said "I want you to wank for me" LOL I'd lose my boner.

What are some other funny Brit words?

Just for perspective, what are some funny American words for Brits?

 

[Newbian]

Calling french fries chips is always a good laugh.

 

[Zeze]

Calling french fries chips is always a good laugh.

English as my second language, this confused the crap out of me for too long.

 

[highland145]

neckbeard

 

[Krazy4Real]

Spend a penny - To spend a penny is to go to the bathroom.

 

[BladeVenom]

They call the hood of the car a bonnet. The trunk a boot.

 

[Fritzo]

I love how they pronounce aluminum: al-u-MINI-um

Oregano is funny too: Or-e-GAN-o

 

[Broheim]

Calling french fries chips is always a good laugh.

considering french fries aren't french I'm not sure your name for them is anymore apt :hmm:

 

[Newbian]

considering french fries aren't french I'm not sure your name for them is anymore apt :hmm:

We could always go with freedom fries.

 

[Broheim]

We could always go with freedom fries.

now there's a good laugh

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

"Got a rubber on yah?" means something totally different over there.

 

[Zeze]

considering french fries aren't french I'm not sure your name for them is anymore apt :hmm:

french fries comes from french-cut, meaning cut length wise. Not because of france.

 

[PhoenixEnigma]

"Pants" is always good for some cross-Atlantic confusion.

There's also this if you want to go all out.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I always thought it was funny that brits say draw like drawer. I wonder how they say drawer.

 

[Saint Nick]

I always thought it was funny that brits say draw like drawer. I wonder how they say drawer.

Yeah...WTF. I used to listen to the BBC on NPR at midnight and whenever they said "China" it came out as "Chyner".

 

[Broheim]

french fries comes from french-cut, meaning cut length wise. Not because of france.

do you mean julienning?

 

[Printer Bandit]

lou
john

those guys must have been shitty ages ago.

 

[vi edit]

Biscuit = cracker
Tea = some tealike substance at some point in it's life now drowned in milk
Passie/Plug = baby pacifier
Bollocks = bad
Dogs bollocks = good

 

[sactoking]

do you mean julienning?

julienned != frenched just like diced != cubed

In culinary terms size does matter.

 

[Saint Nick]

I thought biscuit = cookie?

 

[Zedtom]

Rogering.

It just sounds classy, and the more you say it the nastier it sounds.

 

[Broheim]

julienned != frenched just like diced != cubed

In culinary terms size does matter.

frenched used to only refer to the way meat was cut, it wasn't until after the term french fries appeared it was bastardized.

 

[preslove]

Biscuit = cracker
Tea = some tealike substance at some point in it's life now drowned in milk
Passie/Plug = baby pacifier
Bollocks = balls
Dogs bollocks = good

fixed

 

[OutHouse]

diapers - nappies

Yosemite is pronounced Yose-Mite instead of YO-SYM-IT-TY

snogging = making out / kissing

shagging = fucking

 

[ShawnD1]

ah heck means anal sex.