I've got a very special guest today.

- This is Emma (Hello Emma) - Hi I'm Emma from

the YouTube channel mmmEnglish.

- I'm so glad to be here today. - It's so nice to

have you. I was so excited when Emma got in

contact with me because I actually saw

your channel a while ago and I thought mmmm. Good that's what I wanted you to think!

No I really liked it, she does really really fun

and pretty videos that are really really lovely. You might have noticed

that Emma and I have quite different accents.

This is because obviously I'm English and

I'm Australian.

Yeah so which part are you from? I come from Melbourne.

So right down the southern end of Australia

about as far away from London as you can

possibly get. Yeah it's the other side of the world, isn't it?

It literally is!

But very exciting, Emma's visiting

England, and it's a lovely rainy day.

Very English day.

Yeah but, you know, this is the true England.

This is what I came for!

Exactly! Welcome to my country!

So in this video, I'm going to give Emma five

british slang, phrases, words and phrases.

And she has to guess what they mean, and

they're a little bit obscure, so I think

it'll be quite fun. - Uuh you've picked some really hard one for me then.

- Yeah. - And after that you can check out

the video on my channel where I'll be

testing Lucy on some Australian slang.

Ok so I've got my list of British slang,

words and phrases on my phone.

No cheating. So what does it mean if i

say Gordon Bennett? - As soon as you said

Gordon Bennett, I think of Pride and

Prejudice, and I think of Elizabeth Bennett

and so I have no idea. - Go on, you have to

guess! You have to guess! When would you use Gordon

Bennett? - Is it like like golly? - Oh, oooh she's quite

close. Yeah so it means like 'blimey' or crikey', it's to show surprise or shock. - So in context,

it's like something surprising

happened you'd say "Oh Gordon Bennett I can't believe

that!" Ok! all right, write that down. - Right, the next one

is codswallop, and I do actually use this one

a little bit. I think that means something like

I don't believe you.

Ok so give me a, give me a situation. So if

you told me that all British people are

hilarious.

- I'd say codswallop. - Codswallop means

nonsense or rubbish.

So if you don't believe what someone's saying you could say

codswallop, absolute codswallop. The next one

then, dishy. - Oooh dishy.

Can I ask for clues?

Yeah within reason.

- Is it an adjective? - Adjective! Dishy

I was hoping for the other one.

- Dishy, dishy, like fishy, strange? - No.

If I said that someone is dishy.

- Oh like good-looking. - Oh yes well done.

Yeah so if I say, "Ooh he's a bit dishy."

It means he's quite good looking, delicious.

Yeah like I feel like somewhere along the line that

comes from a saying that was like he's a

bit of a dish. - Oooh can you say that? Can you say that in Australian? He's a

bit of a dish. He's a total dish.

I don't even know if anyone really says that but...

I'm going to start saying it.

You guys can all start saying it, too.

Yeah, total dish!

I'm almost expecting that in the comments Lucy

and Emma you are dishes! Dishes! Yeah!

Okay, what about this one. This one is a

phrasal verb, and it is to blow off.

Blow off something means to like, like if you were....mmmm

There are a couple of meanings, actually there are a couple of

meanings.

Ok so the one that I think it is if you...

Can I describe it? If you blow off someone,

it means that you make a plan to meet

them and they ...uh hang on. - No, you are right.

For one meaning, there's one

definition to blow someone off is to

make a plan and then let them down just cancel it.

- That's the one! - But I'm talking about a real slang

meaning.

Ok to blow off someone we... - There's no,

there's no object actually. - Oh.

You just blow off.

- Oh to get angry? - Nope! - No, that's blow up isn't it?

- You might have me here. - So I'm going to

ask you: Emma, did you just blow off? - Really, that's what

you say blow off. - Yeah, to fart! to

pass gas out of your nether regions. To blow off means to pass wind.

It's a very proper way of saying that, isn't it?

- You could definitely also just say fart. - Fart? Yeah, fart you can use.

When I was a child with my mom always

said Lucy it's not a fart

it's a blow off, so you can use it as a

noun and also as a verb. - I used to get Emma, it's

not a fart it's a fluff. - We can also say

pop off as well.

Okay, you've got lots of options there

for someone who releases gas.

blahh

Ok last one then. - Okay. - This one's an noun

and it's nosh. - Nosh, nosh, nosh. So it's a nice

one to say. - It is! nosh!

posh, mosh. - You can have posh nosh. - Can you?

Mmm! Oh so is it like food or drink?

Yes! Food! It's just food! - Food, if I say "Shall we

go and grab some nosh?" - It is quite a posh way of saying it.

And if i'm talking about posh nosh, we're

going to get some expensive food.

- Okay yeah all right! - Cheap nosh, cheap food.

Yeah nosh is a good one, very colloquial.

But quite posh colloquial, so yeah use it.

...Poshly! Poshly. - So like it's quite

common, people use it all the time? - If you use it,

people will understand it, absolutely but it's

it's not common. It kind of sounds

like...do you have dosh? - Dosh as well yeah

money.

Yeah money. So posh nosh costs

a lot of dosh. - What a team! Right so

that was the end of my video now. You need to

go and check Emma's video on her mmmEnglish

channel. The link is gonna be in

the description just down there, and you

can see Emma testing me on my

Australian slang knowledge.

So yes, I hope you enjoy the video don't

forget to connect with me on all of my

social media which is all over Emma's face.

Yeah I know embrace it, all over your face,

and we'll both see you back for another

video very very soon! Mwah! How about chin wag? [A chat.] Damn it!