| English |
American English |
| Cheers |
thank you or Goodbye or Your
Health! (when drinking) |
| Crisps |
potato chips (other vegetable chips
are often labeled as such) |
| Chips |
french Fries (not the same: chips
are short, fat and yellow) |
| Flat |
apartment |
| Half Ten |
10:30/22:30 |
| Knackered |
exhausted |
| Lift |
elevator |
| Loo |
bathroom/toilet |
| Rest room |
here you lie down when knackered |
| Quid |
slang for Pound (sterling) |
| Shag/bonk |
to have sex (fairly polite term) |
| Rubber |
Eraser |
| (Rubber)Johnny |
Condom (Nb the word condom is in
very common use) |
| Banger |
Sausage |
| Dodgy |
Ethically/practically unsound |
| Bollocks |
balls, rubbish - see cobblers |
| Bugger |
chap |
| (to have a) Decco, Dekko (at) |
look |
| to Bugger/cock up |
Mess up/ruin |
| Bum bag |
Fanny pack |
| Fanny |
Female genitals (generally
non-sexual) |
| Estate agent |
Realtor |
| To be sick |
to vomit |
| Googly |
Curveball |
| Grotty |
badly put-together |
| Nowt |
Nothing |
| Sweets |
candy (the British are the world's
largest consumers) |
| Tights |
pantyhose |
| Knickers |
Panties/rubbish |
| Suspenders/Braces |
Hold up stockings/trousers |
| Minge, minger, minging |
pubic hair, ugly person, bad/ugly |
| Randy |
Sexually excited, sexually active |
| Skint |
broke |
| Wanker/tosser |
idiot/loser |
| Pissed/rat-arsed |
drunk |
| Pissed-off |
annoyed |
| First floor |
second floor |
| Ground floor |
first floor |
