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10 BRITISH SLANG VERBS & PHRASAL VERBS | Lingoda Language Marathon (€567 refund!!!) #Spon


hello everyone and welcome back to

english with lucy you guys have

requested it i’ve had so many requests

for another slang british slang video so

i thought i’d cover

british slang verbs and also some slang

phrasal verbs as well really really

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the end of the video let’s get started

or should I say let’s crack on we’ll

talk about that one in a minute so lots

of lovely slang predominantly British

although you will find some in Australia

for example and maybe the United States

but most of them are more used in the UK

but in the UK you will definitely need

to understand these words if you’re

going to integrate with natives I’m also

going to chuck in include lots of extra

bonus British slang words oh my god

that’s hard to say and I will explain

them as I go along

the first one is to fancy 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 fancied will for

ages and I was gobsmacked when I found

out that he fancied me too gobsmacked

means shocked speechless now the other

way that we use this verb

is to express that we want or we feel

like something I could say mmm I really

fancy fish and chips tonight and that

means I really feel like fish and chips

I want fish and chips or in a question

do you fancy going to the pub do you

want to go to the pub do you feel like

going to the pub now note I said do you

want to go but do you fancy going do you

feel like going so remember that if you

use it in an exam right the next one

number two is a phrasal verb it is to

dub somebody in to dub somebody in this

means to report a person to somebody of

authority for a wrongdoing so if

somebody’s done something wrong you

informed someone in a position of

authority for example I can’t believe le

dubbed me into the teacher for skipping

class yesterday she dogged me in she

informed the teacher who is in a

position of authority over me she told

on me she dubbed me in I remember at

school if somebody was being mean I’d

say I’m gonna Dobb you in which means

I’m going to tell the teacher right the

next one number three another phrasal

verb this one is to chat somebody up to

chat somebody up now this can mean two

things in British English the first one

is the more common use and the second

one is slightly less common it’s kind of

used in a more sarcastic way the first

meaning is to talk to somebody in a

flirtatious way to talk to somebody

flirtatiously so if somebody’s paying me

lots and lots of compliments I might say

are you chatting me up are you flirting

with me I think in America you might say

to hit on are you hitting on me are you

chatting me up the other meaning is to

talk to somebody persuasively normally

with ulterior motives

for example say a bouncer wouldn’t let

us into a club I’ll say I’ll see if I

can chat her up it doesn’t mean I’m

going to flirt with her

it means I’m going to try and be really

really nice to her to try and persuade

her to let us in the next one to be up

for something we use this all the time

are you up for it

I’m up for it she’s up for it the

meaning is very simple it means to want

to do something so if I am up for going

out I want to go out I feel like going

out so if I say we’re going ice skating

tonight if you’re up for it it means

we’re going ice skating tonight if you

want to come to it’s very very informal

next another one we use all the time I

use it so frequently and when I talk to

non-native speakers I try and carefully

select my verbs so that I avoid using

slang so that they can understand me

better but pop is the one that I

struggle with because I just use it all

the time

and pop the meaning is very simple once

you understand it you will be fine it

means to go somewhere usually for a

short period of time and often without

notice so without notice is you haven’t

advised the place or the people that

you’re going to go there you’re going to

visit we often use it with a preposition

I’m just popping out I’m just going

outside for a short period of time or

I’m just gonna pop to the shops do you

want anything I’m just going to go to

the shops do you need anything or if I

say do you mind if I pop in for a minute

it means do you mind if I quickly visit

your house for a second so it’s normally

something spontaneous unplanned short

period of time but it basically just

means go number 6 to go on about this

means to talk continuously and to talk

too much it’s teetering it’s only just

on the negative side and so if I say ah

what’s she going on about again it means

what’s she talking about continuously

and too much again but sometimes it’s

used in quite an affectionate way what

are you going on about what’s he going

on about

but we sometimes forget the going bit so

what are you on about

what’s he on about be prepared to hear

people say on about instead of to go on

about number seven another phrasal verb

very important one can also just be a

verb on its own it is too faff around or

you can shorten it to faff just too faff

it’s not a phrasal verb in this case

it’s got two meanings both are quite

similar the first meaning the most

common one is to spend time doing

unimportant things and avoid what you

really should be doing a little bit like

to procrastinate but with more emphasis

on doing the unimportant things what

have you been doing have you just been

faffing around I’m trying to say what

have you been doing have you been

avoiding all the important tasks and

just doing meaningless tasks the other

meaning is to behave in a silly way so

if someone’s being a little bit stupid

joking around too much I might say stop

faffing around stop messing around it

could also mean faff on its own stop

faffing oh I’m just faffing we don’t

necessarily have to include that around

there number eight a verb on its own to

scoff to scoff and this in British

English slang means to eat something

quickly and greedily so if I see someone

eating their lunch really really quickly

I might say coy you scoff that you ate

that quickly and greedily it’s very

informal it’s quite friendly it’s not

necessarily negative if you use it in

the right way so I might say I scoffed

my dinner and I went up for seconds I

ate my dinner really quickly and

greedily

and to go up for seconds means to return

to the food with your plate to get a

second helping number nine another

phrasal verb this one is to crack on

with something or someone because there

is a new use for this phrasal verb the

first one is to proceed or to progress

quickly you know at the beginning of my

lessons I say right let’s get started

with the lesson

I could say let’s crack on with the

lesson let’s get going let’s proceed

quickly and progress quickly to another

newer meaning for this phrasal verb is

to flirt with somebody so if I say I saw

James cracking on with Holly it means I

saw James at least attempting to flirt

with Holly I guess you could think that

it’s somebody trying to progress with

their relationship with a specific

person but please remember that that one

is very informal and it’s relatively new

the last one number 10 is to skive it’s

a verb on its own but you can add the

preposition off and say to skive off it

means the same thing the definition is

to avoid work school or a particular

duty by leaving early or by just not

going staying away I might say I’m going

to skive off this last lesson because

the teacher just reads off the slides if

they’re just reading off the sides it

means they’re just reading the words on

the presentation they’re not adding

anything extra it was my pet hate it was

something that particularly annoyed me

at school and at university why just

read me the presentation if I can read

it myself at home let’s not go into too

much detail or you could say oh I think

Tom skived off work yesterday because he

called in sick he said he was ill on the

telephone and then I saw him in the

shopping center naughty

have you ever skived off work comment

below if you have right so those are the

10 British sang phrasal verbs and verbs

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