British words I’m jealous of not getting to use on the regular:

- bin
- chuffed
- gutted
- fancy
- bloody

That’s all, that’s the post

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Brilliant!
(which seems to be a Brit's response to everything they like)
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Sometimes we refer to something that is quite impressive or deserving accolades, as “The Dogs Bollocks”.
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I have no idea what that means, but I love it!

I'm particularly fond of how you refer to a vacation as "holiday." Due Lipa made good use of this distinction in her SNL monologue.
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You can have some specifically Scottish words instead if you like. Ye're awfy welcome 😂
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Omg thank you for this
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I'm fair trickit wi' this list. 😊
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Dreich is my favourite here in the PNW
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Oh these are insane. Love it.
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There's a lovely poem with lots of these. You can find her reciting it on YouTube
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-knackered
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Fancy a cuppa?
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Yes gov, I use this one regularly thanx to Britbox.
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Yes yes yes
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My FiL told me off for saying knackered when I was about 20. I didn't even know it was a bad word.

Didn't stop me saying it though
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Knackered a bad word? I've never heard it described as such. If I was in really polite company I would say very tired though. I have a number of health conditions that cause fatigue and people are always asking me how I am so I say knackered a lot!
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I say knackered all the time for the same reasons.

He may have been like that cos we call testicles knackers, too?
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Ahh right, didn't think of that! Thanks.
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When he was asked "where's your bin," he would reply "I ain't bin nowhere!"

I use it now.
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I use that all the time to describe how tired I am.
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I personally think "can you bin this for me?" is much quicker to say than "can you put this in the garbage/trash for me?"

Also, you're free to use the words you'd prefer to use!
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I used the phrase "he'll have my guts for garters" the other day and realise no-one under 40, even in Britain would use that...
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In our house (Canada) these words are used on the regular. But then, you know, members of the commonwealth and all that.
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Knackered, sloshed or pissed.
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I use the word fancy constantly and I'm from Ohio lol
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What's stopping you?
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Naff
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Bloody 'ell !
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I’m chuffed to be heading there this spring and bloody well ready for a break.
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Holiday
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Marry a Brit! After 26 years, I can barely remember what the American words are for things like bin and windscreen.
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I’d be gutted if I couldn’t use “knob’ead” at least a dozen times a day.
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That’s a good list. My favorites are much more rude.
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I'm jealous of how casually they can use the word 'cunt' without people nearby clutching their pearls.
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That really does depend on the context. My dad and his friends would be horrified, as my mother would have been, though yes I was surprised when I found out just how it seems to impact Americans. I wouldn't use it loads if you visit!
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I'm shocked at Americans using the word

Fanny!
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I grew up using fanny packs, but I was horrified when I learned what that meant to others, and cringed anytime people talked about them! 😂
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Yes!
Yet, still we also talk about fanny packs.
We had US visitors and the lady kept saying that her "fanny" is sore from the long flight.
My very old fashioned father just couldnt deal with it!
We explained to him quietly that the Americans and us don't have the same meaning of that word!
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😂😂😂 What a flight that must have been for her!

I only used 'fanny' when referring to fanny packs, but my grandmother (born in the 1930s) kept trying to get us to use the word to refer to our butts, and I just never could say it without laughing. It's a funny word no matter what it means!
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If you ever visit the UK, it's not a word I'd use too freely.
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I wouldn't plan on doing so in any place I visit.
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Mate that's nothing compared to Australia, they beat us by miles with the C word usage!

It's practically what they refer to each other if they're friends! 😆
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I have heard that! I played WoW with an Aussie years back and he referred to all his friends as cunts in the most loving way - cracked me up!
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Ooh maybe not! Probably not to be used whilst chatting to the vicar! 🌻
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That's the most appropriate word to describe those obnoxious cunts.
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I was hoping to to see this...I agree.
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Leathered. Bladdered. Poleaxed. Gobsmacked. Pasted. Yeah - I like Pasted.
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Trolleyed.
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Nah, go for it! Cultural appropriation from the English isn't a thing, because England tried to drag its cultural ballsack across the face of the world.
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I really like “mate” it sounds better than friend.
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you missed out being gutted again
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I learned “shambolic” just days before Jan 6. Should dig it out and dust it off. Lots of uses for it in today’s doomscape.
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What about nicked or bummed?
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You don’t have to be British to use them you plonker! 🤣
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Just go ahead and use them. It’s only an infraction if someone minds.
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I’ll add “skint” to that list.
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See it. Say it. Sorted.
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Chuffed!
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Gutted, are you?
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After reading this thread I'm going to have to interrogate my American brother-in-law when he visits in a couple of weeks!
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Bloody can be used in front of lots of other words including bloody chuffed, bloody gutted, bloody fancy... in the bloody bin?
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Found out it's not good to use 'fanny pack' on a regular basis in the UK
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Helping you bring "chuffed" to the world and nothing will stop me, excellent word.
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From online gaming with people from the UK starting in the 90’s, my love of British comedies, and social media, I started using britishisms years ago. No one really seems to mine outside of thinking I’m weird.
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- bits and bobs
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Personally, I like bumpershoot.
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I used chuffed on the regular!
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❤️ chuffed. Let’s start using it and see if we can bring it to America.
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You should also try some Scottish Slang, such as

Driech
Bawbag
Glaikit
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One that I use regularly is "sorted." It's satisfying punctuation on a job well done.
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Use these words all you like! It may be considered cultural appropriation, but once a culture goes colonial empire, they're fair game.
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I have to police myself hard on these delightful terms. I write Regency fiction, and I can't have my characters slip in a "wanker" no matter how pleasing it would be.
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Anyway, if you enjoy a British word, use it. American headline writers started using "row" approximately fifteen years before any American knew what it meant.
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Bloody fancy bin, I should be chuffed, but I'm gutted.
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It's a bit rubbish innit
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The only person between you and these words is you. It’s time to get fancy!
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"Time to get fancy" is my new fav phrase. I want it to be used by a superhero.
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I would read that comic and then binge the slightly sanitised tv adaptation.
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I bin thinking are you chuffed or gutted by fancy Trump's bloody tariffs? When I was a child I remember seeing the word a day in the Readers Digest, just reminded me that's all.
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And innit. Thats a bloody good one, innit?
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Don’t forget faffing, a personal favorite. You strike me as a real faffer as well.
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Today was bin day and we were chuffed we got it out before the collector came. We were bloody gutted once when we missed him, but then we both fancied a coffee and went indoors.
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Bin men**
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I'm chuffed that you fancied using those bloody words but a bit gutted that you binned some others that pepper our vernacular.
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I use “bin”
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Blimey, bloke.
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Daft
Dodgy
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fusspot
faff about
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Unable to use chuffed?

Absolutely gutted
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Sort
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"Wanker," however, has entered our language in reference to the Clown show we have going on in Washington...
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- wonky
- boot
- crisps
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I love hearing “Get in the bin!”
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My brain always gets chuffed backwards. Like for some reason it “feels” like it means pissed if, and I’m confused for a second. Same with pissed. 🤣 oh, you mean “drunk.”
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(Oops, that should’ve read pissed OFF, not IF)
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But I’m 50yo and still have to make Ls with my hands to remember left from right, so maybe it’s just my brain 🤣
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What’s stopping you? Be the change you want to see in the world
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-Queue?
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Add them to your daily lexicon.
'I'm/you must be bloody chuffed/gutted' (good for sports)

'I fancy a cup of joe. Anyone else?'

'That/they can get straight in the bloody bin.' (Useful for any inconvenience)
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Telly is a good one. Bevvy too.
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Like short for beverage?
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Yep, exactly.
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You can use them!!
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I'm British, you can just use these. Language is free. We steal enough of the US' words
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Half the fun of watching English Premiere League and Australian Football League is listening to the commentators.
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Brilliant!
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shagged
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- Porky pies (lies)
- skin and blister (sister)
- tea (dinner)
- cat (cat)

I like cats. 😻
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oh pish-posh, I grew up in the Deep South and I use all of these

there are no excuses
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Bit late to this but I have been faffing around
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You forgot whinging.
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Normally pronounced without the g
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Agreed all around but especially "chuffed".
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What’s stopping you? I love all of those words and use them often.
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Throw them into your everyday banter and confound them with the elegance of your new vocabulary. You know you want to, so do!
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I’m fond of wanker
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Use them, if people don’t like it, put them in the bin!
I will be chuffed to bits to see it.. they will be gutted 🤣🤣🤣
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Two words that are TRULY overused for the rest of our lives and to be lost eternallyt:

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Bombshell
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Ahh you must be gutted. You'd be really chuffed if you had a bloody fancy bin though 😉
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So use them, we won’t sue 🤪🫶🏼
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I've only been in Australia 37 yrs, but nah, yeah, these are pretty commonly used here. 🙂
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Who says you can’t use them? When people say I can’t do something, my favorite this to do is do it anyway and with pizzazz.
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pizzazz is such a GREAT word!
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I agree! I feel like it is not used nearly as much as it should be.
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Ditto!
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Bloody right!
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"Rubbish"
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I’d like to have the opportunity to use rubbish and bollocks. I just love watching British shows. However, dictionary says these words are vulgar. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Well that's a lot of rubbish! 😉 Seriously, I wouldn't say bollocks in front of my Granny or in polite company (genitalia references being somewhat frowned upon) but rubbish (both a noun for trash and something not-that-great or nonsense) is fine!
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"Bin" as in what? "Bin it"? Or just an actual bin?
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Both. You can put the bins out on bin collection day, and you can also bin something. And you can talk about anything or anyone you don’t like, and say that thing/person “can get in the bin”.
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I'm British but I wondered in what context he liked it.
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Ah ok! My personal choice would be “get in the bin”. That’s the best way we use it!
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Agreed.
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Palaver is pretty good.
Also wonky as in crooked, not nerdy.
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kyoo
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You can use them but we may charge you a tariff
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Bob's yer uncle.
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You can use them. There’s no rule. I do all the time.
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I use "bloody" regularly.
But now I'm determined to work "chuffed" into my daily vocabulary. Great word.
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I use at least three of those daily in various forms! I believe in you!
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Not forgetting chuffin' .
Cum on, hurry up will ya?
Get yer chuffin' coat on, we need to skedaddle.
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You can toss one out occasionally tho
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Also bonkers and banana said in a posh English accent
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I'm always amused by the differing usage of "pissed".
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If the way context impacts on our used of pissed is amusing for you, may I delight you with the various use of bollocks?

(Bollocks means testicles in its purest form for added context.)
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Note: I am British.
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A thousand apologies. Bollocks is still an excellent word though.
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You might also like the Irish usage such as "I will in me bollocks" meaning "I'm very unlikely to do that"

for example :

Q: Will you buy a Tesla?

A: I will in me bollocks
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I’ll add it to the vocab immediately!
I’m also fond of ‘bollocks out/bollocks on the table’ which I think is Aussie inspired. It means to be frank with someone or brave about something.
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No offence taken so I won't give you a bollocking. 😁
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Bollocks to violence!
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Here’s a weird unheard combination(google it) wealth tax
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Be Canadian. We get shared custody of these words.
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Yes, South Africans also know these wordsy.
Normally only the upper classes who use it - you know, the "posh" people!

The one South African word you all like thow, is

now-now.
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Blimey
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Celebrity apologies often use 'gutted': "I am so gutted that you were offended by my racist remarks...", it just means 'so sorry' https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/chris-harrison-says-heartbroken-gutted-221200085.html
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We have better ones now:

Fuckstick
Pootle
Chavtastic
Merked

etc etc.
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Nothing is stopping you.
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We watch British murder mysteries, so these words get used at our house.
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Same. lol
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You can just do it, you know. There aren't any rules! #bantz
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And don’t forget on the lash, playing away, iced fingers and tickety-boo!
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Here's a list from Scotland:

Cunt
Wanker
Ricockulous
Bawbag
Spazmoid
Multimong
Shitehawk
Bellend
Nonce
Arsebandit

All used when hearing Fox News
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Knob, Knobhead (Gaetz, Jesse Watters, Piers Morgan)
Twat (Tucker, Treason Caucus, Faux male personalities, most RU troll blofluencers)
Yob (J6ers, MAGATS)
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Tosser (Vance, Johnson)
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Omg how could I have left tosser off, or wanker? There's plonker too.
Tosser: Mike Johnson
Wanker would be Jesse from Faux who is a total wanker. Don Jr would be a wanker too, so would Musk.
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Dick head?
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That's American isn't it? These are British insults and they're lovely 😅
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American... fanny pack.. sorry even just writing that i start snorting with laughter ! and thinking bloody hell who thought that up lol
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+ “Lovely”
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Use them anyway. There are no rules.
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Prat, cow
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you can just use words
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Use them anyway! I do
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I try to use bin and chuffed as often as allowed of a card carrying American.
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You forgot,
Wanker
Knob
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I say chuffed all the time. You can just say it whenever. (Well, whenever you feel chuffed.)
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Jebend
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Use them!!!
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Blimey, how could you not include blimey?!
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I do use chuffed.
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I've started using chuffed. It's a gooder. I'm hoping it catches on.
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Canadians regularly use all these
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Wanker?
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Men, pulling on things that women don't have.
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starting thinking of one to add but can't be arsed
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You forgot wanker!
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Aw go on and use 'em - our world is on 🔥 and the Brits have excellent words.
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Best Scottish word is without doubt fannybaws. Closely followed by bawbag. Essentially they're adequate replacements for cunt. Like you fannybaws cunt or you bawbag cunt. Saves us repeating cunt all the time, like you cuntin cunt.
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Especially “chuffed”!
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You missed slapper
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Respectfully submitted: Shag.
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I think gutted would have been really useful for the past 70 days
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Sorted?
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Yes! I watch that YouTube channel often enough
(Check it out; those guys are great!)
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I've always been fond of the locution 'has form' and I try to use it as often as possible.
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'Piss artist'?
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E.g. 'My governor is a piss artist!'
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"You taught me language, and my profit on’t Is I know how to curse."
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I'm a huge fan of chuffed!!!!
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Stotting = really angry
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I use gutted a lot. Also been randomly using chuffed lately.
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I use "bloody" all the time. Especially as of late. 😕
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New words I will be using on the regular
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I’ve begun using “bellend” and “muppet” when dealing with stupid people. It’s cathartic.
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Binfluencer
A "binfluencer" is a playful term for someone who takes the lead in ensuring their street's waste and recycling bins are put out correctly, inspiring their neighbors to do the same 😂
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CUNT…
That’s the killer - that NEEDS to become political lexicon for the gop
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You’ve got a bloody cheek, mate.
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Knob
Yob
Fanny
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I wish I was Australian for the "C" word alone, so I can relate.
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You can't type the word cunt?
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Oh,go on, then. Go ahead and say "bin" today. As a little treat.
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Whilst
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Didn’t realise Americans didn’t say ‘whilst’. You live and you learn.
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Well I’m bloody chuffed that you like these fancy words; bit gutted that I couldn’t fit bin in appropriately!
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Oh, and don’t forget bin juice!
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How could I forget??
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Almost—“fancy” is more like “I fancy him” or “fancy a biscuit with your tea?”
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It’s both! The beauty of the English language!!
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I wish in the U.S. we could bin certain people who are tearing down our nation.
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I'm afraid I use bin, gutted and bloody all the time
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Posh!
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Americans don't say posh?
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I like wanker too.
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Cockwomble and twatwaffle are also insults of ours which I would encourage you to adopt.
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Valid
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In Canada the election is - The Banker vs The Wanker
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Wankah
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Only some of us say it like that!
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We were in the Bahamas, and a couple there said they loved watching Doc Martin with their 3yo son. They said they heard the word "tosser" a lot and wondered what it was.

We nearly cooked on our food. It means the same as w⚓️
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What part of the world are you in where you can't say bin and fancy?
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They mean different things in different areas. US: bin=storage container, fancy=special or elaborate. UK: bin=garbage (can be used as noun or verb), fancy=romantically attracted.
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You should add cheeky, I met a bunch of Americans who had no idea what it meant
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Cheeky buggers 😊
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Fancy that! I fancy this fella but he’s proper fancy so I don’t fancy my chances
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The only ones I use are gutted and fuckin' 'ell.
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-Bob's your uncle
-boot
-jumper
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Bollocks! That one too!
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Also cunt. It’s gender neutral in the UK.
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I 💖 chuffed!
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ok. We all need to try a little harder to get these back into every day use.
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My hubs and I say "Chuffed to bits" all the time now. Gutted is also a go to. Lately I'm into "peely-wally" as well.
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What's stopping you? You only get one life.
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I actually use chuffed and gutted after watching 15 seasons of The Great British Bake-off.
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Pissed 🥃
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We use "piss" so much.

Pissed off - angry
Pissed up/piss up - drunk/drinking
Pissing fuming - angry
Piss poor - broke
Piss off!
Pissing down - raining heavily
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What about punter?
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Yob. I love that word.

Yob.
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Of these, chuffed is the only one that still feels a bit pip-pip-cheerio to use. The rest have been in regular rotation ever since spot-on came onboard.

Sincerely,
Somewhere in the wilds of Latin America
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I use bin all the time when I talk about my rubbish. 🗑️
I wish more people used stodgy though.
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Snog!
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Start by putting out the bins. Takes a bit of getting used to
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Mine (to add to that list) are
- yeah?
- innit?
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Rubber (eraser)
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Ah yes, but they're balanced a bit by not having to say or hear "innit?!" all the time
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Innit the truth? 🧐
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INNIT?!????!
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(and that was the day she got chuffed and blocked the bloke...)
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Innit is regional.
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Regional to the country we were talking about
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🤣🤣 No, seriously it’s more of a southern thing. Not so much in the north east where I’m from.
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Yeah I get it. It's regional to certain parts of the country. It's still British 😂 but I'm glad you don't have to hear it
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We can use them. I do all the time.

If "hawk tuah" can catch on (it really should be the traditional onomatopoeia "hock-ptoo" btw), then Americans with some class can say "bin" or "song" or "lift" and have it become the norm.
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Faffin' about.
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Brilliant! Or, is that more of an Irish expression?
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Food edition:

-aubergine
-rocket
-jacket potato
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Mank or manky. Meaning yucky. Also yucky meaning bleagh. And bleagh meaning eeeayuuuw. Or eeeayuuuw meaning skanky. Take your pick. Enjoy!
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Minging means gross or heavily hungover. Usually pronounced "mingin"
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I use bloody hell allll the time.
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I use a few British words here and there to sound more sophisticated… like “gobsmacked”, it’s a great word and I sound oh so worldly.
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Gob means mouth, it literally means smacked in the mouth
I love it 😂
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Naught.

It's a brilliant word which sounds so much fancier than zero
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How about wanker?
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May I introduce you to wankspangle?
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Bladdered
Twat
Sod off
Rubbish
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Right now we are living in the golden age of fuck twat. Never have I seen it used so often, so boldly, or so well.
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Its my favourite one.
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Oh, not a word, it’s a phrase but I love it:

Give me strength
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Use them anyway; I do.
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I'm trying to encourage Americans to adopt "trump" in its British slang sense.
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Blimey! You forgot gobsmacked!
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I was chuffed to buy a fancy glass at the pub, but was gutted when I got home and found it had a bloody crack in it, and had to toss it in the bin.
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Well chuffed with this list
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use em anyway, i do
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