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American-British
Glossary
Smoothing transatlantic
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Index
of Americanisms |
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C D E
F G H
I J
K L M N
O P Q
R S T
U V W
X Y Z
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| baby carriage,
baby buggy |
pram (abbr. of perambulator) |
| bachelor party |
stag night, stag party |
| backhoe |
mechanical digger,
excavator |
| backpack |
rucksack |
| backup
lights (on vehicle) |
reversing
lights |
| backyard |
garden |
| bacon
slice |
rasher |
| baggage |
luggage |
| baggage car
(on train) |
luggage van |
| baggage room |
left luggage office |
| baked
potato |
jacket
potato, baked potato |
| balcony (in a
theater) |
gallery |
| ballpoint
(pen) |
Biro™,
ballpoint (pen) |
| balls
[slang] |
bollocks,
goolies, balls [all slang] (testicles);
bullshit, crap [both slang] (utter nonsense) |
| ballsy
[slang] (as in 'she was a ballsy lady') |
having
attributes traditionally expected of the ideal male, like toughness,
courage and determination |
| baloney
[colloq.] (foolish nonsense) |
rot
[colloq.], codswallop [slang],
cobblers
[from rhyming slang: cobbler's awls = balls] |
| Band Aid |
plaster
[C], sticking plaster |
| bangs
(hair) |
fringe |
| bank
(river) |
embankment |
| bank
teller |
cashier,
bank cashier |
| barrette |
hairslide |
| baseboard |
skirting board |
| bathing suit |
swimming trunks
(men); swimsuit
(women) |
| bathroom
[euph.] |
lavatory,
toilet |
| bathtub |
bath |
| beach resort |
seaside
resort |
| beano
[colloq.] (esp. bingo using beans as markers) |
bingo |
| beat
it [slang] (get away) |
scarper
[slang] |
| Beat
it! [slang] (Get lost! Go to hell!) |
Bugger off!
Naff off!
Piss
off! Sod
off! [all slang] |
| beauty parlor/salon/shop |
(women's)
hairdresser |
| beaver
[slang] (female genitals) |
fanny
[slang] |
| bedroom
community |
dormitory
town |
| beeper
[colloq.] (pager) |
bleeper
[colloq.] |
| beet |
beetroot |
| bell captain |
head
porter (hotel) |
| bell
pepper (vegetable) |
pepper |
| bellhop/bellboy/bellman |
porter
(hotel) |
| belt up |
buckle/fasten your seatbelt |
| bicycling |
cycling |
| bicyclist |
cyclist |
| Big
Dipper, the (constellation) |
Plough,
the |
| bill
bill
(paper money) |
note,
banknote |
| billboard |
hoarding,
advertising hording |
| billfold |
men's
wallet, notecase |
| blacktop
(asphalt) |
tarmac |
| blanket bath |
sponge
bath |
| blender |
liquidizer,
blender |
| blind
alley (cul-de-sac) |
close,
cul-de-sac, dead-end road |
| blow-out
(in tire) |
puncture
(in tyre) |
| bobby
pin |
hairclip,
hairgrip (flat hairpin with ends close together) |
| bobsled; bobsledding |
bobsleigh |
| bomb
[slang] |
bad
failure, disaster |
| bond
(as in 'he was released on [a] $10,000 bond') |
bail
(as in 'she was released on £10,000 bail') |
| boob
tube, the [slang] |
telly
[slang], TV |
| booby-hatch
[slang] (psychiatric hospital) |
loony-bin
[slang] |
| box
wrench |
box
spanner |
| boxcar
(on freight train) |
goods wag(g)on (enclosed type) |
| braces
(leg supports) |
callipers |
| braids
(as in 'Mandy wears her hair in braids') |
plaits |
| brainstorm
(great new idea) |
brainwave |
| brass
knuckles |
knuckle-duster |
| bread
box |
bread
bin |
break
in a new car's engine
(by not driving too fast at first) |
run
a new car in |
| Brigadier General
(U.S. Air Force) |
Air Commodore (Royal
Air Force) |
| Brigadier General (U.S. Army
&
U.S. Marine Corps) |
Brigadier (British Army &
Royal Marines) |
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broad [slang] (woman) |
bird
[slang] |
| broil |
grill
on a gridiron or rack |
| BS |
B.Sc.
(Bachelor of Science);
Caution: BS also stands for 'bullshit' in the U.S. |
| buck
[C] [slang] (U.S. dollar: $) |
quid,
nicker [both slang] [U] (UK pound: £) |
| buckeye |
conker
(the hard core of a horse chestnut) |
| buddy,
bud (a form of very informal address) |
mate;
sunshine, sonny Jim, mush [slang] (all condescending) |
| buffet
(as item of furniture) |
sideboard |
| bug |
insect |
| bulletin board |
noticeboard |
| bullhorn |
loudhailer, megaphone |
| bureau |
chest
of drawers |
| bum,
bummer [both slang] |
tramp
(vagrant); layabout (habitual loafer or idler) |
| bun(s) [slang] |
buttock(s) |
| burglarize |
burgle |
| bus
(more comfortable, long-distance type) |
coach |
| busboy |
a
kind of assistant waiter |
| butt [slang]
(buttocks) |
bum
[colloq.], bottom |
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