Words Brits use that Americans don't?

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  1. Candy Gal

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    Not you, plonker. X
     
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    Plonker = Rodney
     
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    True.
     
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    now plonker is brit word ,plonker is another name for piano
     
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    Nah that is Joanna. Lol
     
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    "Mad for it"

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    Brexit = A cultural phenomenon where one seas flags spinning all around them before waking up in a bed at a deserted hospital in the centre of London 28 months later and soon finding that all of the hardnuts are scared of needles and politicians lie.
     
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    Walloper, this is used in different ways.
    1, to describe someone as an idiot
    2, to describe a penis <usually flaccid >
    I think its used in Australia too.
     
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    Wooden hill =Stairs
     
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    Thatcher = "Bleep".
     
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    Colleywobbles
     
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    truck-lorry - RIG
     
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    Pussyfooting
     
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    barnet - hair
     
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    Fussy git
     
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    advertising board ,billboard
     
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    Ensure. In North America they use insure to mean ensure.
     
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    Sarnie: we say sandwich, but only Brits say sarnie.
    Also biscuits instead of cookies.
     
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    And even that is frequently abbreviated to Bikkies !!!

    And there is a lot of cockney back-rhyming slang - f'r instance in referring to someone's face its called a boat race !!!
     
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    Lol Ensure is a drink for constipation in the UK.That made me laugh.
     

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