American Reacts to 13 British Words I Had Never Heard Before!

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• RO

  @robcrossgrove7927 · 1 year ago

  In the UK, scoff means to eat the f***ing lot, or eat something in a hurry as Kaylin said, but it's also used in the other sense, to scoff at someone or something.

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• RO

  @rosfow · 1 year ago

  Scoff ahs 2 meaning - to eat quickly and to show derision, scoff at someone.

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• JA

  @James-xu6sc · 1 year ago

  In the UK, if we wanted to "table it", we would say "shelve it".  I suppose things on tables get used often, things on shelves get forgotten about. More often we would just say, "lets just pick it up later".

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• MU

  @muppeteer · 1 year ago

  The US 'table it' would be 'shelve it' in the UK which as a Brit seems to make way more sense, to put something on the shelf for later

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• CR

  @crackpot148 · 1 year ago (edited)

  To table something is derived from British parliamentary language, as in "to table a motion".

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• IA

  @iaindavidson2363 · 1 year ago

  Homely is NOT used about a person ever, it's about a house or wherever u live, it's like comfy

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• BA

  @bareakon · 1 year ago (edited)

  The benefit of the word &quot;skive&quot; is that you don&apos;t need the noun for context like you would &quot;skip&quot;.<br><br>If you say &quot;I&apos;m skiving&quot;, people automatically understand that you&apos;re taking a day off work or school, or otherwise avoiding putting in the effort.<br>If you say &quot;I&apos;m skipping&quot; without specifying &quot;school&quot; or &quot;work&quot;, people would just assume you&apos;re jumping rope or frolicking.

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• ED

  @EdDueim · 1 year ago

  I&apos;ve always heard &quot;suss&quot; as an abbreviation of &quot;suspicious&quot; as in &quot;This deal is a bit suss.&quot; so to &quot;suss it out&quot; means to look into something that you don&apos;t trust. &quot;Yeah, sounds like a good deal but we need to suss it out.&quot;

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• JO

  @JonLaughton · 1 year ago

  &quot;Momentarily&quot; is used the same way in the UK as it is in the US: to mean &quot;shortly.&quot; I think someone is confusing it with &quot;momentary,&quot; which means &quot;lasting a short time.&quot;

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• GR

  @gromit9322 · 1 year ago

  I was waiting for “fanny” to come up!

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• MI

  @Mike-James · 1 year ago

  What I believed happened was an american heard scoff, but with an english accent so heard scarf and continued to use it.

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• RI

  @richardfield6801 · 1 year ago

  In the UK, we have two words pronounced and spelled &apos;scoff&apos;. One means to eat not just quickly but also greedily. If I&apos;m scoffing something down I am probably cramming my mouth full of food as quickly as possible. &nbsp;The other word, &apos; to scoff&apos; means to shower derision or scorn on someone or on something in a contemptuous manner.

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