| A-Levels | Advanced - high school graduation examinations |
| Agony Aunt | advice columnist |
| Barrister | trial lawyer, attorney who argues cases in court, but doesn't do the paperwork. Cases are referred to barristers by solicitors. |
| Berk | derogatory, from "Berkley hunt" rhyming slang, jerk |
| Bespoke | custom tailored |
| Biro | ballpoint pen, a brand name |
| Carthorse | draft horse, like the Clydesdale or Belgian Grey |
| Catapult | slingshot |
| Chemist | pharmacist |
| Chuffed | delighted, happy |
| Cow Gum | rubber cement |
| Cracker | a tube wrapped in colorful paper that contains small toys, a paper hat, and a joke or fortune, which pops when the ends of the wrapping paper are pulled to open it [associated with Christmas] |
| Dear | expensive |
| Drawing Pin | thumb tack |
| Elastic Band | rubber band |
| Plaster | band-aid |
| Flutter | small bet |
| Fruit Machine | slot machine, one-armed bandit |
| Git | derogatory, similar to 'jerk' |
| Ground Floor | the first floor of a building causing the numbering of floors in Britain to be one less than in the US. The US second floor is the first floor in Britain. |
| Hardware | housewares |
| Head Boy/Girl | the student leader[s] of a school, chosen by the faculty |
| High Street | the main shopping street in a town or village |
| Holidays | vacation |
| Ironmonger | hardware store |
| Kip | a verb meaning to sleep, especially in non-standard situations, as in camping |
| Landlord | owner/manager of a Pub, sometimes referred to as a Publican |
| Lift | elevator |
| Loo | restroom |
| Marquee | a large tent with open sides |
| Mickey | "take the mickey" - ridicule |
| Moggy | cat |
| Naught | zero |
| Off-license | liquor store |
| O-Levels | Ordinary - entrance examinations for last two years of high school |
| Paddock | corral, a small field normally used for pasturing livestock, especially horses, surrounded by a fence or hedge to prevent animals from wandering into neighboring fields |
| Paraffin | kerosene |
| Prefect | the student leader of an individual residential house at a boarding school, chosen by the faculty |
| Pub | Public house - a tavern |
| Public School | a private boarding school normally divided into residential houses |
| Robin | a smaller red-breasted bird than the American robin and associated with Christmas rather than spring. |
| Rubber | pencil eraser |
| Sealed Knot | historical reenactors who stage the English Civil War |
| Sellotape | transparent tape, a brand name |
| Shy | verb, to throw |
| Skive | play hookey, skip school |
| Solicitor | attorney who handles everything but trials. Solicitors are required for all legal matters, but barristers are only involved with actual trials. |
| Sticking Plaster | adhesive tape/band-aid |
| Stone | unit of weight equal to 14 pounds, normally used for the weight of people |
| Surgery | office of a doctor or dentist |
| Tannoy | public address system, a brand name |
| Tin | can |
| Toe-rag | derogatory, a scrounger, tramp using rags instead of socks |
| Torch | flashlight |
| W.C. | water closet - restroom |
| Wireless | Radio |
| Zed | the letter Z |
| Aubergine | egg plant |
| Banger | large sausage in a casing, similar to a hot dog |
| Biscuit | cookie or cracker |
| Black Pudding | mixture of bread cubes, oatmeal, barley, suet¹ and pig's blood that is baked. It is cut into squares and fried before eating |
| Blanc Mange | milk and gelatin mold, like vanilla Jell-O |
| Blood Sausage | blood pudding [see above] that is put in a sausage casing. |
| Boiled Sweet | hard candy |
| Bubble and Squeak | fried potatoes and cabbage, normally leftovers |
| Buffet | snack bar |
| Candy Floss | cotton candy |
| Chip | French fry |
| Chipolata | small sausage in a casing, cocktail sausage |
| Christmas Pudding | plum cake with a sauce that has a coin baked in for luck |
| Clooty Dumpling² | sweetened boiled bread [Scottish] |
| Clotted Cream | cream that has been briefly boiled |
| Corn | any grain [wheat, rye, barley, corn] |
| Courgettes | zucchini |
| Crisp | potato chip |
| Crumpet | small pancake made with a yeast-raised batter |
| Currant | small red or black berry |
| Dinner | may be the noon meal in some areas. It is the evening meal when guests are invited to eat, i.e. a dinner party |
| Elevenes | tea break at 11am that usually includes scones or crumpets |
| Fairy Cakes | unfrosted cupcakes |
| Fish Slice | spatula |
| Fizzy Drink | carbonated beverage, soda pop |
| Fry-up | full English breakfast that can include fried tomatoes, baked beans, fried blood sausage, kippers [salted herring] in addition to the standard eggs, fried potatoes, bacon and sausages |
| Gammon | ham |
| Humbug | black and white striped hard candy flavored with peppermint oil |
| Jelly | gelatin dessert, Jell-O |
| Joint | pot roast |
| Kedgeree | rice, chopped hard boiled egg, chopped fish and spices |
| Marrow | squash |
| Meals | the names of the midday and evening meals varies by region and social class. Lunch/tea, dinner/supper, lunch/dinner, and lunch/supper are all possible combinations. |
| Meringue | small tart with a crust of baked meringue (egg whites and sugar) and a sweet, usually fruit, filling |
| Mixed Grill | all fried together: sliced tomato and mushrooms plus several of the following: liver [calves or lamb], steak, chop [lamb or pork], sausages, bacon, kidneys [lamb's preferred] |
| Ploughman's Lunch | small loaf, cheese, pickled onions, and a pint of bitters |
| Porridge | oatmeal |
| Prawn | shrimp |
| Pudding | used generically to mean dessert |
| Rock Cake | drop cookie containing white raisins and currants |
| Salad Cream | salad dressing, not to be confused with mayonnaise |
| Saveloy | pre-cooked, smoked sausage |
| Scone | baking powder biscuit with dried fruit, usually currants |
| Shepherd's Pie | meat pie with a mashed potato crust |
| Sherbet | powdered, fruit flavored candy |
| Slumpie | ground beef and mushroom hash [Scottish] |
| Smarties | candy similar to M&Ms |
| Soldier | strip of toast, generally dipped in egg yolk at breakfast |
| Sorbet | sherbet |
| Spotted Dick | cylindrical dumpling with currants (the 'spots'), sliced and served with custard or a sweet sauce |
| Squash | soft drink usually made with citrus juice |
| Steak & Kidney Pie | meat stew in a piecrust, a pot pie |
| Stodge | plain dumpling |
| Sultana | raisin of white grapes |
| Supper | evening meal, often much later than in the US |
| Swede | rutabaga turnip |
| Sweet | candy |
| Takeaway | a to-go/take-out order |
| Tea | meal in the early evening or the afternoon tea break |
| Treacle | sugar syrup, the dark type is essentially molasses |
| Trifle | dessert consisting of layers of custard and rum or liqueur soaked sponge cake |
| Welsh Pasty | an individual meat pie, meat stew in a crust for one |
| Whiskey | rye whiskey |
| Whisky | Scotch whiskey |
| Yorkshire Pudding | dumplings flavored with roast beef drippings |
