FAT: /fæt/ rhymes with that, vat, cat, sat. THAT: /ðæt/ rhymes with fat, vat, cat, sat.
The stone remains widely used in the UK and Ireland for human body weight: in those countries people may commonly be said to weigh, e.g., "11 stone 4" (11 stones and 4 pounds), rather than "72 kilograms" as in most of the other countries, or "158 pounds", the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the US.
adjective. /ˈtʃʌb.i/ uk. /ˈtʃʌb.i/ (especially of children) fat in a pleasant and attractive way: chubby legs.
big one in British English
(bɪɡ wʌn ) noun. US slang. a thousand dollars.
Whether you're talking about notes or coins, the shorthand British money terms remain the same. The letter “p” is shorthand (in both writing and speech) for pence or pennies. Alternatively, the shorthand for pound sterling is “pound” (in speech) and £ (in writing).
The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement.
Can You Use Euros in England? No, England and the rest of the U.K. use British Pounds as the national currency.
Sometimes, people replace the word fat with words intended to be more polite or euphemistic, such as heavy, heavyset, plump, and chubby.
Old English fætt "fat, fatted, plump, obese," originally a contracted past participle of fættian "to cram, stuff," from Proto-Germanic *faitida "fatted," from verb *faitjan "to fatten," from *faita- "plump, fat" (source also of Old Frisian fatt, Old Norse feitr, Dutch vet, German feist "fat"), from PIE *poid- "to ...
From Middle English fat, from Old English fǣtt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *faitid (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijan (“to make fat”), from *fait (“fat”).
Encyclopædia Britannica states the (pre-Norman) Anglo-Saxon kingdoms had silver coins called "sterlings" and that the compound noun "pound sterling" was derived from a pound (weight) of these sterlings.
Units of measurement
You must use metric measurements (grams, kilograms, millilitres or litres) when selling packaged or loose goods in England, Scotland or Wales.
Kilograms and kilogrammes are both English terms. Kilograms is predominantly used in ?? American (US) English ( en-US ) while kilogrammes is predominantly used in ?? British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) ( en-GB ).
Other slang expressions for money
We say a heap of dosh or heaps of dosh. For ex: My neighbour has his own business and he's got heaps of dosh. We also use the term smackers instead of pounds but rarely in the singular form. For ex: My aunt left me five hundred smackers in her will.
Any answers? Why do we refer to a pound as a 'quid'? Brewster's suggests it comes from 'quid pro quo', an equivalent amount for something, and also suggests that it originally referred to a sovereign.
In parts of the US 'bob' was slang used for the US dollar coin.
Boi is an alternate spelling of boy used to describe boys, yes, but also men, girls, women, and things that aren't even human …
Chuffed. When you're really happy or proud of something, the perfect word in British slang to describe your emotions is chuffed.
In the UK, they have bruv. Bruv is short for brother, as in “fellow; buddy.” It's a familiar term typically used between male friends, close relations, or even actual brothers. Bruvver is one regional (especially Cockney) pronunciation of brother in the UK, and bruv is a shortening of that.