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American-British
Glossary
Smoothing transatlantic
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Index
of Americanisms |
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B C D E
F G H
I J
K L M N
O P Q
R S T
U V W
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| haberdasher |
menswear dealer |
| hair braids |
plaits |
| hair
spray |
hair
lacquer, hair spray |
| half-staff
(as in 'a flag at half-staff') |
half-mast |
| half-step,
half-tone |
semitone |
| hamburger
[C] |
beefburger,
hamburger, burger |
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hamburger [U] (ground beef) |
mince, minced meat |
| hamper |
laundry basket |
| hang up
(end a phone call) |
ring off |
| hardware store |
ironmonger('s), ironmongery,
hardware store |
| hat check girl |
cloakroom
attendant |
| hauler
(trucker; trucking company) |
haulier
(lorry/truck driver; haulage company) |
| have
(as in 'Do you have a piano?') |
have
got (as in 'Have you got a piano?') |
| have
a go at (make an attempt at something) |
have
a bash/whack/go at |
| head nurse |
matron |
| health
club |
sports
centre |
| heist
[slang] |
robbery |
| Hey!
(exclamation to attract someone's attention) |
Oi! |
| high school |
secondary
school |
| high tension tower |
pylon |
| highboy
(furniture) |
tallboy |
| highway |
main
road, trunk road; motorway |
| highway
intersection |
motorway
junction |
| hike |
rise
(in the cost of something suddenly and in one go) |
| hip-huggers
(pants not reaching as high as the waist) |
hipsters |
| hobo
[slang] (vagrant) |
tramp |
| hockey |
ice
hockey |
hokey,
hoky [colloq.]
(as in 'most Japanese TV dramas are so hokey!') |
way
too artificial, exaggerated or sickly sentimental
and so completely lacking in credibility |
| holler
[colloq.] |
shout
out loudly |
| homely |
plain
in the sense of unattractive or not alluring |
| homemaker |
housewife |
| honey, hon' |
love (form of
address used by older shop clerks);
poppet
[colloq.] (said
to young, dainty girl) |
| hood
(car) |
bonnet |
| hooker
[slang] |
scrubber,
slag [both slang], prostitute |
| hooters
[slang] (female breasts) |
knockers, bristols
[both slang], boobs [colloq.] |
hope
chest (clothes, linen, etc. which a young
woman traditionally collects for use
after she is married) |
bottom
drawer |
| horizontal
stabilizer (on aircraft) |
tailplane |
| horn,
the [slang] (telephone) |
blower,
the [slang] |
| horny
[slang] (lustful) |
randy [slang] |
| horse car (vehicle for
transporting horses) |
horse box |
| horse opera
[slang] |
western
(film) |
| horseback
riding |
horse
riding, pony trekking |
| horsefly |
cleg |
| hospitalized |
in
hospital |
| hotdog
bun |
bridge
roll |
| housewares |
household
goods |
| housing
development |
estate,
housing estate |
| housing loan company/corporation |
building society |
| hump
[slang] (copulate) |
bonk, have
it away/off,
roger [all slang] |
| hunker
down |
sit
down on your heels |
| hunting
expedition, hunting party |
shoot
(as in 'we took part in a shoot on Dartmoor') |
hutch
(cabinet with doors or drawers at
the bottom and
shelves at the top) |
Welsh
dresser |
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