Cenk Guesses What British Slang Words Mean
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- Опубликовано: 25 дек 2023
- From poppycock to doddle, Cenk tries to figure out British slang. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.
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"Brits have an interesting vernacular that includes words and phrases that might confuse many Americans.
Some terms, like "dim," "a mug," or "a few sandwiches short of a picnic," can be used as colorful insults, while being called "cheeky" can be either negative or positive, depending on the context. "
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Nobody in Britain calls streetlights lollypop.
I'm a 70yr old Brit and have never heard street lights called lollipops.
No, speaking as a Brit, we do not call streetlights lollipops. That's what we call lights on zebra crossings across the street, some of which on school runs are manned (or womaned) by "lollipop men" because they hold a large circular stop sign on a stick to stop the cars and let children cross safely.
I was referring to the belisha beacons on the crossings.
We don’t call them lollipops
We don't call street lights 'lollipops', we call them traffic lights. We call the sign held by a school traffic helpers lollipops, the lollipop person stops the traffic with a hand held sign to let children cross near schools.
Americans are just stupid dw, that's y cenk thought it would be a good idea to take votes from Biden to make himself more 'popular ' when they need biden in
Are you referring to street “Crossing Guards”?
@@MikeCee7 NO - we are referring to lollypop ladies.
@@piccalillipit9211 “Lollipop Ladies”that could be interpreted here , as a chick that is great at “sucking”
Belisha beacons can be so described.
We Brits call streetlights lollipops? Lived in the UK 62 years and never heard it once.
The big yellow lights at "cross streets ' where children are helped by "lollipop ladies or men on the way to school. Not all streetlights
Never heard anyone call streetlights lollipops either. Think they've got them confused with a lollipop lady/man after school.
I think it’s derived from lollipop man... but definitely sounds odd
@@AF-rv2xlBelisha Beacons. They mark the zebra crossings where lollipop ladies help children cross the street.
@@drtg101we7 We had a zebra crossing in my town when I was a kid, that had lights that looked like lollipops, but they weren't streetlights, per se. They were lights to indicate a crossing. And we didn't call them lollipops.
I'm English; never heard a street light called a lollipop in my 70 years.
Nobody calls as street lamp a lollipop over here
I’ve NEVER heard the word lollipops in relation to street lamps. The closest thing would be a lollipop man/lady: AKA the person controlling a pedestrian crossing near a school
I am born and bred in England, and in 54 years I have never heard of street lights being called lollipops. We have people who work near schools who escort children across busy roads, they are known as lollipop man or woman because of the pole that they carry which looks like a giant lollipop.
No, those are magic, traffic stopping wands.
Do you mean. “Crossing Guards”?
@MikeCee7 Nope. Since they were given the distinctive signs to hold they have been known, because of the distinctive shape of the sign, as 'lollipop men", I have, of course to remind you that in English, as opposed to that amorphous grey sludge of a dialect known as 'American English', the word 'man' denoting the species, is non-gender specific and has been so since Anglo-Saxon times. Rather in the way that a field of farm animals are referred to as 'cows' rather than some other load of bullocks.
@@PirateCommander Not when I'm driving they're not!😆
@@ianmayes8072 it was always lollipop man, or, lollipop lady.
As a 60-year-old Scotsman that grew up in England, I can tell you right now that I've never heard a streetlamp being referred to as a 'lollipop.'
Lollipop is only a street crossing board, they made a mistake here.
@@binkwillans5138 a street crossing board? What's one of those?
I remember lollipop ladies, of course - so-called because the sign they held to stop the traffic looked like a lollipop.
As a Brit, I can assure you, street lights are not known as lollipops.
They're getting mixed up with the lollipop signs and the lollipop lady, because they don't have that in the US.
Lollipop is the sign that school crossing people hold to stop traffic. I've never heard it used for a traffic light.
And crossing guards are Lollipop Men/Women
as a brit, i’m enjoying this immensely:)
I've never heard holding two drinks being called double fisting in the UK, I was surprised that Bollocks didn't get a look in.
Lollipop isn't a street light it's a portable stop sign thats used by Traffic attendants (Lollypop Ladies) outside of schools.
👍not a good start was it lol
@@joanwho666 can't say I've ever heard anyone use the term double fisted either.
True- but also I have heard of the " Belisha Beacons " ( the orange globe lights on poles at pedestrian crossings ) referred to as a " lollipops "....And for Cenk - Edinburgh it is pronounced Ed-in-burrer...! And " bagsy " means " I get first choice" not " shot gun " as in bagsy I drive ....or " bagsy a window seat...etc...
Wish I'd read the comments first, would have saved me a lot of time explaining how wrong they were and why.
@@michaelbrodie5942 Nope, never heard double-fisted applied to drinks either,,,,
Nobody in the Uk calls street lights lollipops.
Street lights in the UK are not called lollipops. There is a role in the UK called a Street crossing attendant. These are normally outside Infant schools. A person with a large stop sign stops the traffic to allow children and their parents to cross the road. The sign is circular and on the end of a long pole and looks like a Lollipop. Mostly these are manned by semi-retired elderly ladies who like the interaction with the children and a little bit of extra income. They are colloquially called lollipop ladies.
You're twisting my melon man.
Twisting a melon? Never heard that one!
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Jesus! As a brit I can't believe you're throwing around 'wanker' so casually! That is not the fun term Americans seem to think - you'd end up with a broken nose if you yelled that at someone on the street. Tosser is a bit safer to use and means basically the same.
CORRECTION: in the UK, Lolli pops are the signs the safety lady uses to help you cross the street.
Yeah, lollipop-lady because the shape of the stop sign resembles a lollipop.
Same in Australia
Street lights are not called lollipops. People who are employed to see school children across the road are called lollipop men or women because they hold a pole with a circular sign on top telling drivers to stop. This implement resembles a lollipop.
Lollipops are only found at zebra crossings.
Or being used to stop traffic near schools, normally by old ladies
Lollipops are not street lights. It's the sign the street crossing person holds up
No one in Britain calls street lights lollipops.
I'm from the UK, we don't call street lights lollipops, we do refer to school crossing supervisors as 'lollipop man or woman' because they hold up traffic with a stop sign.
Yeah Anna got that one confused
In the UK street-lamps are called street-lights, not lolly-pops.The sign held by a school-crossing helper, looks like a lolly-pop which is why they call her a 'lolly-pop lady'
No one in Britain calls streetlights lollypops!
+1
We don't call streetlights lollipops, ya fanny. We call crossing guards "lollipop ladies" or "lollipop men" because the stop signs they hold are attached to a long stick like it's a big lollipop.
The Slang term that surprises most from the US is the word “Cowboy”.
In the UK it means an unskilled tradesman that will rip you off, As in “I got a cowboy plumber to fit a new shower and now water is pouring through the wall”.
NOBODY in UK, or Eire, is gonna be keen on being called a CowBoy ... unless you specifically qualify that you're not taking the piss [for watever bollox reason] when using the term.
You'd literally have to be an historical re-enactor or some such NOT to be offended being called a 'cowboy' in UK, or Eire.
I think this can also mean someone who thinks that can do whatever they want
The rhyming slang term 'septic' is another they get surprised at because they think they are universally loved & respected.
Septic tanks = Yanks.
Being from Britain, I've never heard of a street light being called a Lollipop and Nobody uses the term poppycock, or codswallop unless you live in 19th century upper class England. But this is fun.
That's right, nor ee-gad, or gazooks.
No, we don't call them lollipops; they are lamp posts. We do have Lollypop men and women who stand at the road at school to stop the traffic to let children cross without getting run over. Cannot imagine how you managed to confuse the two.
Er. We don't call street lights "lollipops". But we do have outside schools (mainly infant and primary), ladies that control the traffic allowing kids to cross the street safely and get to school. These are called "lollipop ladies" because they carry a big sign that resembles a lollipop.
I'm a Brit and in 60 years I've never heard anyone refer to a streetlight as a lollipop.
Poppycock and codswallop aren't used in common speech anymore.
You’ve probably heard the lollipop lady. The lady who would help you cross the road at more junior schools.
Same here. Usually they call them Lamp posts or Lamp poles.
@@matthewyabsley
I have, but that was not what Anna was talking about.
Codswallop
@@thechumpsbeendumped.7797 - I was just trying to relate the word to something we might have been used. Im guessing her use of the word has been mixed up with my suggestion. Ie used incorrectly.
Next time you visit Ireland, make sure to tell every Irish person you meet that you remembered that Ireland is part of the Greater UK, they're really appreciate it.
Footnote: Americans need to accept that there are two things they're incapable of doing:
1. Decent ska music.
2. Irish accents.
I noticed that 😬🙄
Their ignorance is shocking
@@AD65 Well, they ARE Americans.
😂😂😂😂
They wanted unification and now they have it.
He was listing two separate places. He's not that thick. Jesus.
No one in the U.K. calls street lights lollipops.
As a 🇬🇧 never heard street lamps called lollipops
Yeah, they were Pete Tong with that one. Lollipop refers to ‘lollipop man/lady’. The zebra crossing assistant normally outside schools holding a large stop sign which resembles a giant lollipop.
As an English person this is very quaint. A lollipop is not a street light, it is a flashing light found on Pelican crossings.
And a lollipop lady is what we call a lady who holds a stop sign to escort School kids across a road.😊
I knew it!!!
In Australia a lollipop man or a lollipop lady is a person with a "children crossing" sign who assists with getting children across roads on their way to and from school. The "children crossing" sign is the "lollipop" (named for the shape).
90% credit to Cenk on "doddle." Because he accurately defined "dawdle."
Which Ana seemed to be saying. US pronunciation sometimes threw me off.
He couldn't define fair.
"Dawdle": walking slowly without urgency. "Doddle": super easy, piece of piss. 🙂Love from Scotland.
I’m from the UK and the only time we use the word lollipop for something different is men and women who are traffic wardens who carry signs shaped like a lollipop. I’ve never heard anyone call street lights lollipop’s. 😂
Exactly what i was thinking. 'the lollypop lady'
The lollipops are next to the zebra crossing but definitely not street lamps.
The lollipop is a sign the crossing guards use at schools, never heard it used for street lights in my lifetime.
I would say that Belisha beacons are also called lollipops so you can have a lollipop crossing
The old style pedestrian crossings were called zebra crossings due to their black and white road markings. They also had a lamppost with a huge round light. This resembled a lollipop. Hence the name.
@@angeldance5 Never heard a Belisha beacon referred to as anything but a Belisha beacon. Ask anyone what a lollipop man/lady is and they'll tell you it's the school crossing patrol. It's in the Oxford Dictionary for goodness sake.
Street lights are called Lollipops?! Lol where did you hear that? I live in England but never heard that one.
Lights aren't called lollipops, lmao! Lollipops are specific to school crossings and the 'lollipop lady' who helps kids cross the road
We don't call street lamps lollypops. We just don't.
We don't call lights lollypops, the lollypop is a sign on a stick
I`m a 65 year old Englishman and have never known streetlights be called lollipops and nobody under the age of 80 uses poppycock.
Me neither.
Indeed so, yes.
We don't call street lights lollipos. Nearest light that looks like a lollipop is a belisha beacon at a zebra crossing, but maybe that got confused with lollipop lady/man?
Never called lights lollipops in my life or know anyone who does
We dont call street lights lollipops
That one threw me. From Scotland, but grew up in Canada. Crossing guards are called lollipop men/women because of the sign not because of the lights.
Please don't come here for facts
Nobody calls streetlights lollipops. We have lollipop ladies/men who help children cross roads to school.
We do not call street lights lollipops. A lollipop man/woman is a crossing guard
"Lollipops" only applies to very specific street lights, they have black and white striped poles with large round yellow lights hence the name.
They are only found on either side of pedestrian crossings.
Yes, indeed.
British slang for next time: trump, fanny, bollocks, bellend, not being arsed, fancying someone, getting rogered, up the duff.
And if you get your back doors smashed in , it's not a home invasion🤔🤣
I've never heard anyone call a street light a lollipop here in Britain.
No one in the UK calls street lights lollipops !
Street lights Lollipops I think not. We call people at school crossings lollipop ladies or men because the lights at these crossings resemble lollipops but thats it. Street lights are street lights OK.
The lollipop refers to the 'stop' sign on a stick used by school crossings er, persons
Street lights are called lamp posts . Lollipop lights are placed either side of a zebra crossing which is the black and white stripes, where people cross the road but not the standard zebra crossing, the ones with the lollipop lights are called pelican crossings
Lollipops have NEVER been a type of streetlamp! They are a sign. The round orange light by a zebra crossing is a Belisha beacon.
Where do these people get their information from? Fellow Americans maybe?
No one calls street lights lollipops
Lollipop is the yellow lights at d crossing what she on about?
Lollipops or Belisha beacons are amber-coloured globe lamp atop a tall black and white striped pole, marking pedestrian crossings of roads in the United Kingdom
Nobody calls street lights lollipops! 🤣🤣🤣Nobody. Never. I've lived in the UK (specifically England) all my 52 years and I've never heard anyone call them that! Ever. Not sure where you got that wrong piece of totally bogus information! Did you even Google it to check? We have "lollipop ladies" (or men) - what you would call a "crossing guard" - so called because the portable "STOP" signs they carry are literally shaped like massive lollipops. But this has absolutely nothing to do with street lighting.
Yeah, someone got pranked.
Here to agree. Mancunian of 29 years - never heard that at all.
Streetlights are not lollypops. The person who walks kids across the street nears schools are "lollypop" men. The signs they carry to stop cars used to be long polls with a circle shaped sign. Those are called lollypops. 30 seconds in and I know this is gonna be a whole lot of wrong.
Pelican crossing is where they got mixed up but yeah it doesn't get used much since about 1980
Wrong. There are lollypop ladies too.
@@PirateCommander too would imply both? anyway I worked on the council for years and stop and go boards are called lollipops too so how's that maybe your exuberance is unfounded
Fun fact: Slang here for Fart includes TRUMP (has done for years, not in reference to 45, originally)
Very apt as he apparently stinks of shit..
Never has a street light been called a lollipop in the UK
I've heard the globe shaped Zebra Crossing ones referred to as lollipops, but not street lights in general.
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NOBODY calls streetlights "lollipops"...
Ffs less than 20 seconds in and already its misinformation.
We call streetlights "lamp-posts".
We call the crossing guard (for children) a "lollipop lady" or "lollipop man" ... Because of the lollipop shaped stop sign they carry to signal cars to stop.
yep, that one threw me off too.
Never heard anyone call a street light a lollipop here! WTF are you on about?
They maybe getting confused with lollypop ladys/men, but yer, never heard of light being called that.
No one has ever called street lamps lollipops in the UK
Cenk Ireland is not part of UK!!! I'm from Ireland and really enjoy listening to your show
Hot tip, it's not Glas'GAW', it's Glas'GO'. :)
Or Glesga if you're local.
Glesga (auld Scots) the gaelic Glaschu, ( ch as in loch) but slightly softer. Dear green place.
My home city. ❤
I'm British and never heard"lollypops"before.
Again, we say garage to rhyme with this word bridge
They are confusing the lollypop ladies/men for kids crossing the road to school.
I think the lollypop thing is inaccurate. Now, when I think of a lollypop, I think of a lollypop lady. A lollypop man/lady is the crossing guard outside a school. He/she carries a round sign on a pole that looks like a lollypop. However, I think some people might might call a Belisha beacon a 'lollipop' too. A Belisha beacon (named after a pre-War minister called Lesley Hore-Belisha, later Lord Hore-Belisha - really!) is a yellow flashing globe on a striped pole that stands at either end of a striped pedestrian crossing, a 'zebra crossing'.
Of course as kids in England a fart was often called a trump. Which always makes us chuckle., but then again Johnson has a slang meaning in the US.
never heard anyone call a street light a lollypop. im 48 lived in uk all my life
Yeah they sourced the slang from Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins for some reason...
Never heard of it before either.
It's cos it's not, NEVER happened...
As a Brit...omg this was painful.... lollypop, "lollypop man/woman" is a crossing person outside a school, because they hold a pole with a round sign on the top...that looks like a lollypop... i could correct /explain more, but it hurts
Lollipop is NOT slang for street lights. In my 80 years I have ever heard one person say that.
Street lights are called lamp-posts, not lollipops. A crossing-guard is sometimes referred to as a lollipop lady or lollipop man, due to the large stop sign they carry to manage the traffic. This sign has a black stripe across the middle, and I’ve always been told that lollipop men and ladies carry a piece of chalk, so that they can note the license numbers of cars that don’t stop for the schoolchildren.
I don’t think anyone calls street lights lollipop. We have lollipop men/ladies who help kids cross the road usually outside school
Road crossing ladies were and still are called 'lollipop ladies'. I don't get the problem?.Makes sense ? 😊
As a Brit I find this hilarious, there are many regional slang words, alright our kid (which as a Manunian I can get away with saying in a full Manc accent, rather than my normal south Manchester accent)..means you OK my brother. from another mother. Scottish Highlands are incredible, the views are just endless epicness, the views from up Ben Nevis are live changing. FYI, streets lights aren't lollypops, they're Street lights, the lollypop person is someone who helps children cross the road on the way to/from school
Bones from the original star trek often said "poppycock" so I always thought it was an American slang
Ive never heard a street light called a lollypop in my 48 years on this island.
I;m a brit in Michigan and I'm laughing my arse off! Please, carry on, xx
I have lived in England all my life (more than 50 years) and have never heard streetlights called lollipops. The rest of them are pretty common though.
They used to call the black and white poles with orange globes at the top to mark a zebra crossing 'lollipops'. Not sure if they still have those now. but normal streetlights are lamp posts.
I can only imagine they’re referring to the flashing lights at pedestrian crossings.
We had lollipop men and lollipop ladies who used to help children cross the roads. But ‘lollipop’ referred to the round sign on a pole they carried. Maybe the orange lights on zebra crossings were called lollipops but I never heard it, to me they were always called Belisha Beacons.
Codswallop & poppycock are common??????
Bollocks. This is both a comment on your claim & also a great example of slang that actually IS common.
@@fletch9702 - codswallop certainly is where I am although mainly in the older generation.
This is total bollocks. I'm 51 and have never heard street lights being called lollipops. Haven't used 'bagsy' since the 80s. Someone's taking the Mick.
Lived in Wales 🏴 for 2 years (my mother is from Wales) was in university and walked into class one day plopping my butt down too hard on the wooden seat for the desk…I cried out,”Awwww that hurt my fanny”…. The looks on the other students’ faces is seared into my mind…and I said,”What??!!”….then they realized that I was using that word as an American and didn’t know any better and bursted out laughing….i was like,”Why are y’all laughing???”….then they told me the British meaning of the word “fanny”….which is a lady’s naughty bits….!!!!!
Cenk, your definition of “doddle” was correct for “dawdle”.
was going to type this, but searched for dawdle, and found your answer already ..,
American use of the word “fanny” would be a problem in Britain!
Not really, we don't complain about stuff like that
When a car almost back into us, Mom snapped, “Watch out or you’ll get a fanny full of fender!” Our English friends in the car burst into laughter, but refused to explain why in mixed company. 😂
might just get called a yank
Lollipops are the hand held signs the crossing guards use at schools. The only lights that we called lollipops are the orange globe shaped lights at zebra crossings.
Cenk for president 1000% support from South Africa. The world needs more people like you.
said one ever, plus he'll never be president because he wasn't born here, maybe just worry about the s-hole you live in eh?😂😂
So where exactly in the UK are lamp-posts referred to as 'lollipops'? Slang in the UK is still (despite the best efforts of our mass-media and Hollywood to homogenise our culture into a puree of consumerist pap) very regional so I suppose it's just possible that in some corner of this island a street lamp is referred to as a 'lollipop' but in general the only things on the streets called 'lollipops' are the 'STOP' signs carried by School Crossing Patrols - men or women in hi-vis coats or jackets who stop the traffic to allow schoolchildren to cross busy road and colloquially referred to as 'lollipop ladies' or 'lollipop men'... and they do usually work on Zebra crossings marked by orange lamps on stripy poles, referred to as 'Belisha Beacons'.
'Codswallop' (not spelt with a u) and 'poppycock' are synonyms, but 'malarkey' (which is Irish in origin and still current amongst Irish Americans as far as I know) is slightly different and used to describe a train of conversation or a series of events or a situation which is exaggerated or dubious or time-wasting... "all that classified documents malarkey with Trump down at Mar a Lago was just ludicrous".
Finally, there is no such thing as the 'Greater UK', and if there was then the only part of Ireland that would be included would be the Six-Counties of Northern Ireland. There was once a 'Greater Britain Movement' which was a neo-Nazi political party which merged into the National Front back in the sixties.
Being English, my favourite swear word to confuse Americans with is "bollocks!" Look it up 😂😂😂
propper word bruv 😈🔥🤘🏾
Born and raised in Jamaica, now living in the U S, I'm very much aware of all the English talk.
@@izzyraj Ruddy marvellous! 👍
@@user-lt7er2xk1t It will be, there's loads of bollocks on RUclips! 🤣🤣
Jasper Carrot once alluded to an Englishman who lived in NY (?) and had bollocks as his vehicle registration plate; getting away with it simply because Americans didn't get the joke.
Fun Fact Americans call shotgun because in the old west the shotgun spot was next to the driver of a stagecoach and was armed with a shotgun for protection from bandits or raiders.
I've never heard a street lamp reffered to as a lollipop in any part of the UK.
I thought not.
The ones at zebra crossings in London.
@@roddo1955 Nope. We used to call them Belisha Beacons but never lollipops.
I have never heard anyone call a lamp post a lollipop in my 42 years of living there. Our pedestrian crossings often hve ‘lolli pop’ ladies who stop cars for the kids
Also it's garridge not gararge, Cenk
@@flaneur5560 Depends where you're from and / or how posh you are.
In the US they have crossing guards who use something similar but on a handle rather than a pole.
@@flaneur5560 no it can be Gu-rrarge
I'm English. This is absolute gold 😂😂😂
Streetlights, lollypops???? I'm IN the country and never heard that. A 'lollypop lady' would be what you would call a school crossing guard, search the term, the thing she'd carry makes the description obvious.
Makes total sense.
I have never heard street lights called lollipops in all my 65 years.
I just replied the same, she's probably mixing up a lollipop lady think she's called that because they direct traffic at traffic lights instead of being called that because her stick looks like a big ass lollipop... /facepalm :p
Also !
We don't call street lights lollipops. what?!? lol maybe in the victorian era
No one calls street lights lollipops.
You're confused with the usually retired person who helps children cross the road near schools. They get a high viz jacket and a giant stop/go lollipop for controlling traffic.
Wait, no one calls a street light a lollipop. Who told you that??
I think they might be talking about the lollipop lady 🤔
Belisha Beacons, are a set of lights that identifies a British pedestrian road crossings. They were referred to as lollipops as they were effectively a blinking orange ball on a black and white pole.
Although they do still exist they are less common, as is the term Lollipop, which is probably only now known to people over a certain age. Even their correct name "Belisha Beacons" is not common knowledge, they were named after Leslie Hore-Belisha who was the UK's Minister of Transport who added beacons to pedestrian crossing.
Pedestrian crossings in the UK are referred to as zebra crossings because the black and white markings resemble a zebra, the markings went on to be used internationally.
When Belisha Beacons were first introduced they were very effect as a motorist could see the flashing beacon from a couple of hundred yards. Over the years they became less effective as more lights were introduced so they get lost in a sea of competing lights.
Bottom line, only the pedestrian crossing lights are "Lollipops" and hardly anyone today refers to them as such.
A lot of this slang is used in Australia too, I understood most of it. We say "I bags going first" rather than bagsy.
First lollipop lights are at pedestrian crossing they are not Street lights
Yeah... we definitely don't call streetlights "lollipops". Crossing guards are called "lollipop men/ladies" because the sign they carry looks like a lollipop.
Exactly, lollipops????
We have lollipop ladies....but that's because of the shape of their signs
Having been born and lived in London for 45 yrs, I knew this and it’s exactly what SaharaGadge said, so repetition, much???! But “lollipop lights”?