British, American and Australian Slang

Do you know what the following expressions mean: a bastard, a bell, a baby giraffe, a four letter word or a bobble hat and scarf?    If you were bawling all last night, what were you doing?  Is there a difference to be bawling and brawling all night?  If there is, can you do both at the same time?   Have you pimped your ride yet?  When a Brit or American talks about across the Pond, what is the Pond to which they are referring?  If you’re acting high and mighty, is that the same thing as acting funny? Do you know the slang synonym(s) for the following words: to abandon, aberrant, to ache or anger?  Do you know what the standard term(s) for the following informal words or expressions:  a rat, a mug, a creep, a bastard, a four letter word or  a big shot or a gun?  What does it mean to: be on the ball, quit cold turkey, be a freak, put in a nut shell or know one’s beans?    Englishbegin.com and Idiomatic Expressions.com istudycards British, American and Australian Slang, help you to learn some of the most popular slang expressions in English.  They also help you to learn the slang synonyms of some of the most standard and basic words of English. 

   Wylcomenetwork.com istudycards British, American and Australian Slang are not only for non-English speakers.  British slang goes over the head of most speakers of American English.  Most Americans who have never come in contact with British would not understand the following terms and/ or expressions: a baby giraffe, a bar crawl,  a barnburner, a gagger, a bell, a cowardly custard, a cowbag, a cozzie, to be a cracker, to be crackers.  Because  cockney rhyming slang is an important part of British and Australian English, istudycards British, American and Australian Slang also contain this aspect of English.  Learning cockney rhyming slang is a must for any speaker of American English who wants to communicate in British and/or Australian English.  The following are some examples; the first word is the Cockney rhyming slang while the second word is the translation: Abraham Lincoln/ stinking, acker bilk/ milk, a Chas n’ Dave/a shave, a chocolate fudge/ a judge, a Clark Gable/ a table. 

British, American, British and Australian Slang is divided into two categories.  There are those cards which can be downloaded by anyone.  Although all the cards contained slang, all the words are appropriate to persons under the age of eighteen.  Those cards which contain strong and/ or inappropriate language are marked as the adult version;; therefore, they should be downloaded only by persons over the age of eighteen.