ASMR Pukka Cockney Phrases 🇬🇧 | (Soft Spoken, Meticulous Rambling, London Accent)

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]How's it going, you lot? And welcome back to another video with me, your friendly Cockney.

[00:00:06]What we're going to be doing with you today is I've done some Cockney rhyming slang phrases with you before. All right, there's plenty more of those. What I'm going to be doing is showing you some other phrases. Now, these ain't necessarily these ain't Cockney rhyming slang.

[00:00:23]These are Cockney or maybe close some of them as southern phrases, maybe like Essex, southeast, southern England sort of thing.

[00:00:36]Um but some of these are more most of them are more Cockney, where we would say about like Londonish, London, Essex way.

[00:00:45]>> [snorts] >> Just a few phrases and what I'll do is I'll show you the phrase.

[00:00:50]And I'll explain what it means and how you can use it in a sentence.

[00:00:55]So, you can grasp it. So, you've probably heard me say a fair few of these before in other videos.

[00:01:01]They're just sort of common stuff that I say within sentences, you know what I mean?

[00:01:05]Like that, you know what I mean?

[00:01:07]So, the first one here I've got for you.

[00:01:16]Brov.

[00:01:17]>> [snorts] >> Now, you probably know what brov is.

[00:01:21]Bro.

[00:01:23]Brova.

[00:01:25]So, short for brother really. So, we say brov here quite a lot. We say bro as well.

[00:01:31]It's a slang that you chat to one of your mates. You might be like, "How's it going, brov?"

[00:01:35]Or or brov, "How's it going?" So, it's just brov.

[00:01:38]It's short for brother, but sometimes you might have seen me actually I think I maybe written it down now and again in the comments I've replied to the comments.

[00:01:47]Um we sometimes might smell spell smell spell brother as b r u v v a, like brother.

[00:01:57]>> [snorts] >> So, brov. bro.

[00:02:02]Brother, short for brother. How's it going, bro? Sat in, bro.

[00:02:09]>> [snorts] >> Now I mean, bro. All right, next one.

[00:02:14]All right, now obviously that's just a word.

[00:02:19]All right.

[00:02:20]>> [snorts and sighs] >> That's a greeting.

[00:02:23]So I say when I see someone or my mates, whoever I'll be like all right.

[00:02:31]So you might as well say it as another word for hello, basically.

[00:02:34]So if you was for example American, all right, you'll be like, "Hey, how are you?"

[00:02:41]"How's it going?" Whatever.

[00:02:43]I'll say that as well. Or we would say that round here as well.

[00:02:48]But most of the time, if I'm meeting up with someone, I go, "All right."

[00:02:53]What you want to condense it even more all right.

[00:02:58]All right, mate.

[00:03:00]So that's a greeting. All right. Is a laugh, so if you ever meet a Cockney and they come up to you and they go, "All right."

[00:03:09]They're saying hello.

[00:03:11]Bear in mind.

[00:03:13]Next one.

[00:03:17]Tool.

[00:03:19]What does tool mean? Tool is an insult.

[00:03:22]So if someone's like a tool they're like an idiot, basically. So if someone's a right tool, proper guys, a right tool, mate.

[00:03:31]That guy is like, he's a right tool. It means they're sort of like an idiot.

[00:03:37]Like they're sort of stupid, just sort of like dumb. [snorts] Like an idiot, like a fool, basically.

[00:03:46]A tool fool.

[00:03:48]That's not Cockney rhyming slang. It's just the word tool.

[00:03:51]Um it may basically means fool or idiot.

[00:03:56]Next one.

[00:04:01]Happy days. Happy days, mate.

[00:04:04]Happy days means when you're when everything's going well, basically.

[00:04:14]So, if you went I'm going out.

[00:04:16]Uh I've got a busy day, but I'm going to work today.

[00:04:22]Then after work, I'm meeting up with a couple of me mates.

[00:04:25]>> [snorts] >> And after that, we're going down to pub.

[00:04:28]Happy days.

[00:04:30]Going to have a good time.

[00:04:31]I mean, everything's going well.

[00:04:33]Happy days or you might go I want to buy a car.

[00:04:40]A motor.

[00:04:42]We call cars motors here as well, but you probably heard me say that as well.

[00:04:46]I want to buy a motor.

[00:04:49]And it was cheaper than expected. Happy days. Result. You know what I mean?

[00:04:54]So, that's happy days.

[00:04:58]You've heard me say this one loads before.

[00:05:06]Proper.

[00:05:07]Proper geezer.

[00:05:10]Proper. So, if you heard me say the word proper.

[00:05:14]But it basically means >> [snorts] >> translated to cockney.

[00:05:20]Is if something's like really like I saw it's proper hot.

[00:05:26]It's really hot.

[00:05:28]Or it could it could translate to meaning good.

[00:05:31]That was proper. Proper good, mate. I really love it. Yeah, very good. Really good.

[00:05:38]Also, it can it can mean other things. So, say for example, the word geezer that I use which I'll to to it minute?

[00:05:47]If you say some of the proper geezers, they're like a right cool bloke.

[00:05:56]It's a cool guy.

[00:05:59]So, if you had a mate and you went is he a nice [snorts] bloke? They go he's a proper he's a proper geezer, mate. He killed it all so mate. It's a bit hard to explain. If you're caught me, if you're from London, actually in the comments, how would you explain the phrase proper geezer? It sort of means you're a a lad. Like a proper lad. Like a right guy. Right a right boy. You know what I mean? Does that make sense?

[00:06:27]So, if you put it in that context, in that sentence, proper geezer, I mean it's like he's a right like a chill guy, but it could mean he's a bit he's a a man's man. You know what I mean? Like he's like a it's proper proper dude. Proper geezer.

[00:06:42]Proper geezer. Help me translate in the comments if you know what I'm talking about.

[00:06:46]So, yeah, others that might not know.

[00:06:48]But, proper can mean really. Like if it's proper good, it's really good, mate.

[00:06:56]Or if uh if you went down the town or saying and someone went was it busy? You went yeah, proper.

[00:07:04]Like yeah, really.

[00:07:08]Next one.

[00:07:11]Pukka. Pukka.

[00:07:14]So, when you Sometimes I'll say pukka.

[00:07:17]Sometimes I'll say pukka. I miss out the case. Pronunciation.

[00:07:22]Pukka or pukka.

[00:07:25]It's It's proper good.

[00:07:30]It's proper good when something's really good or amazing or spot on or yeah, fantastic.

[00:07:40]You know what I mean? It's pacca.

[00:07:42]I bought this I bought this new pair of shoes the other day. They're pacca, mate. Pacca shoes. Well nice shoes.

[00:07:49]Oh, did you guys see that show the other night? Yeah, mate. It's pacca.

[00:07:53]That's brilliant.

[00:07:56]Proper good.

[00:08:00]>> [snorts] >> Next.

[00:08:04]Bonce.

[00:08:06]Your bonce is another word for head. Now, it ain't Cockney rhyming slang.

[00:08:14]Bonce is your head, but the Cockney rhyming slang for head is loaf of bread. So, your loaf can be your head, but also your bonce can be your head as well.

[00:08:27]So, both of them mean the same thing, but bonce ain't Cockney rhyming slang. It's just the word bonce means [snorts] head.

[00:08:35]And loaf of bread is the Cockney rhyming slang for head or just your loaf if you condense it and shorten it.

[00:08:43]Interesting facts, eh?

[00:08:46]Next one up.

[00:08:48]Probably have to say this as well. I've said bonce a few times. I think I might have done. I can't remember. I've said probably all of them at some point.

[00:08:55]Sorted. [snorts] Sorted means done, done and dusted, worked it out, completed, finished.

[00:09:09]So, if you're in Did you pick up the shopping the other day? Go, yeah, sorted. Sorted out. All sorted.

[00:09:17]Or um you could put it like sometimes if you're doing a task, um I mean, I might be doing the I might be doing the the floors at work, I'll say.

[00:09:33]And upon finishing, I'll go up to the client and I'll say, "Sorted."

[00:09:37]Done. Finished. Just the word sorted means we're we're complete.

[00:09:42]Task complete.

[00:09:44]So, that is sorted. That ain't a Cockney rhyming slang, either. That None of these are Cockney rhyming slangs, by the way.

[00:09:50]If this is confusing you, let me know. It probably is confusing.

[00:09:55]If you've got Cockney rhyming slang, and then Cockney rhyming slang, you can condense into smaller words and then other phrases, slang words.

[00:10:06]Dying even Cockney rhyming slang. They're just slang.

[00:10:12]Next one.

[00:10:14]Oi.

[00:10:16]You probably heard this. Oi.

[00:10:19]What's oi? Oi is like Hi.

[00:10:25]Oi, listen. Oi, listen.

[00:10:27]Sometimes you can say in a shouting way to say that someone was being naughty. You'll be like, "Oi." Like kids do. You had your When your kids or whatever.

[00:10:37]He's being naughty. You'll be like, "Oi."

[00:10:39]Stop Stop doing that. Oi. Stop doing that.

[00:10:43]Or you might have heard me say it.

[00:10:46]It can mean like, "Listen."

[00:10:48]So, if I was with one of my mates uh having a drink or whatever, like, "Oi.

[00:10:52]Oi Oi, mate. Oi, listen."

[00:10:56]I'll be like, "Oi.

[00:10:57]Did you hear about that thing that happened the other day? Listen. Oi, come here. See here. You know what I mean?

[00:11:03]I've got Oi, I've got something to tell you." Like that. Or you could be shouting at someone, like, "Oi.

[00:11:08]Oi, what you think you're doing?

[00:11:11]Or what's your game?"

[00:11:14]So, oi is like hi.

[00:11:17]If you're maybe American, it's like hi, like shouting at someone.

[00:11:20]Or if you want to get someone's attention, like, "Oi, I've got something to show you. Oi, come over here. Have a butchers at this."

[00:11:29]Next up.

[00:11:33]This is hard to explain if you don't know it. Cheeky.

[00:11:38]Cheeky.

[00:11:42]Again.

[00:11:44]>> [clears throat] >> If you're British, this ain't really necessary. It's a southern thing. If you If you're British, you'll know this.

[00:11:50]>> [sighs] >> I have to explain cheeky.

[00:11:53]It's a bit like if you It's a bit like naughty, but it ain't quite naughty. It's if you're being You're sort of stepping the line a little bit with someone.

[00:12:08]But not not like in a horrible way. So, say uh um Say like you was you was uh buying a car or whatever and you said to him, "Oh, mate, that fancy giving us a bit of discount, do you?" And he might go, "Well, cheeky."

[00:12:27]It's as though you're stepping the line a little bit a bit like in a in a banterous way or something like that. I can't really think of any examples like You might You can say it to in any in any way, really.

[00:12:38]In various scenarios, but you might say it to a kid if the kid's like um You give your um like maybe a gift to someone, say, for like a kid or whatever, or a mate or a family member and they say, "Oh, it could have been like could have been a bit bigger." Like joking with you and you can go, "Well, cheeky."

[00:13:01]Bloody cheek. Cheeky and you're you're proper cheeky. It's when someone's like they joke with you. You know, it's a banterous way, like a fun way, though.

[00:13:10]When they when they're joking with you, but you're sort of saying to them, "Don't step the line.

[00:13:15]Don't be cheeky."

[00:13:17]If that makes sense.

[00:13:19]Don't think they're very good examples.

[00:13:21]Help me out in the comments >> [snorts] >> if you know. We don't know. If you know how to explain it to people that don't know. All right, next one.

[00:13:33]Sound. Obviously, the word sound, we know what that means, but sound is another word for sweet, nice, good. All all good. All that like all fine.

[00:13:49]See my guy.

[00:13:52]Um is um is the is that place you went to sound? Like is it all right? Say you went to uh uh a restaurant or diner, maybe. And you might go, "Is it sound?"

[00:14:07]Like is it nice? Is it all right? Is it all good?

[00:14:11]All right, or if you when you're chatting to someone and you might go, "All right, I'll meet you at 9:00 tonight." And your mate will go, "Sound.

[00:14:23]All right, all good. All good, mate." I just sound. All right, no probs. So, like sound is like no probs. Can sort of translate it as no problem. All good.

[00:14:33]Fine. Sound, mate.

[00:14:35]Everything sound.

[00:14:38]Don't make sense. I hope I'm making good examples.

[00:14:44]Next one, buzzing.

[00:14:47]Buzzing means you're excited.

[00:14:53]Like proper excited.

[00:14:55]Really excited.

[00:14:58]So, if you're moving abroad, you know buzzing, mate.

[00:15:04]You're going out. You're going to holiday You're going to weekend away with a with your mates or whatever.

[00:15:11]You're excited. You're on buzzing.

[00:15:13]Proper buzzing. Can't wait.

[00:15:15]Buzzing for it. Raring to go. Yeah.

[00:15:20]Next one.

[00:15:22]You know what this I've told you what I gaze at.

[00:15:27]Gazer is bloke.

[00:15:34]A bloke means man. Uh gazer, yeah. Gazer is guy.

[00:15:40]Guy, man.

[00:15:43]Um basically, just another word for man.

[00:15:46]Um it is a self It is a particularly, yeah.

[00:15:52]Nowhere else really in England would use the word gazer other than East London and Essex, really.

[00:16:01]Maybe a couple of surrounding areas.

[00:16:04]But it is a proper Cockney thing, gazer.

[00:16:07]No northerners would say gazer, really.

[00:16:09]Not that I know of.

[00:16:11]Um northerners that I know of have even said, "No, don't Don't say gazer." They say lad, [clears throat] innit? We don't say lad as much down here. Sometimes we would say he's a bit of a lad, yeah, sometimes. But they they'd say lad in a way like, "How's it going, lad?"

[00:16:26]"All right, lad?"

[00:16:27]We don't say all right, lad. We'd say, "All right, mate."

[00:16:30]"All right, bruv?"

[00:16:32]Um but we would say he's a bit of a lad. If someone's a bit of a lad, they're a bit like How to explain that?

[00:16:41]Jack the lad. They're a bit like a bit streetwise. A bit streetwise. A bit of a lad. They know know a few things, a few tricks of the trade, that sort of thing. Not necessarily dodgy.

[00:16:55]But um yeah.

[00:17:00]What?

[00:17:02]Next one.

[00:17:06]Innit? You've heard me say that, you know.

[00:17:10]Innit?

[00:17:11]Innit, bruv?

[00:17:12]Um innit means translated ain't it or isn't it? It don't really make sense to the way we say it in a sentence. So, I might go Um This is a really good game, innit?

[00:17:31]This is a really good game, isn't it?

[00:17:33]But you don't really need to say the isn't it anyway. You could just go This is really good game, which is the right way of saying it. But obviously the slang would be the bit we add on would be This is a really good game, isn't it? Which don't really make sense anyway. But then isn't it is translated to innit.

[00:17:51]You can say other ways as well. So, um My mate or someone might go to you, It's really hot outside today. You go, "Yeah, innit?" Yeah, isn't it?

[00:18:05]Or just yeah, you could Sometimes you could go, "Yeah." Sometimes go, "Yeah, innit?" Or just innit.

[00:18:12]So, it translates to ain't it or isn't it.

[00:18:15]Sometimes I might say ain't it.

[00:18:18]Sometimes I might say innit.

[00:18:21]Depends which just comes out.

[00:18:24]There's no specific way.

[00:18:26]>> [clears throat] >> Next up, fancy.

[00:18:32]Now obviously we know the word fancy, but the way we use it >> [cough and clears throat] >> is if First of all, if you've So, So, say you've got a crush on someone.

[00:18:51]You'd say, "We fan I fancy him."

[00:18:54]So, if you had a crush on your work colleague or whatever, you'd say, "Yeah, your guy I fancy my work colleague." It means I'm I find him attractive. I've got a crush on him.

[00:19:04]Um Or the other way you can say it is if you want something.

[00:19:11]So, that comes it under that with your with fancying someone, but if you want something if you are fancy like a McDonald's in it. I really fancy having a McDonald's. I really feel like a McDonald's. I really want a McDonald's.

[00:19:24]I fancy it.

[00:19:26]You know what I mean?

[00:19:28]Or up for it when you're up for it. Up for a McDonald's. Fancy a McDonald's.

[00:19:34]So, it's like yeah, find something attractive, fancy him.

[00:19:38]Um when you want something you feel like doing something or having something. I fancy going up the town. Oh, yeah. I really fancy another day to Ibiza.

[00:19:54]And see how I just used or in a sentence. Or, listen, I really fancy another day to Ibiza.

[00:20:04]Lost over here.

[00:20:07]Mustard.

[00:20:10]Mustard is again good.

[00:20:17]Like really good. Like um Like mustard is when something's like spot-on, like proper.

[00:20:26]Beautiful, amazing, so if I went out went out for dinner.

[00:20:34]I really want a nice dinner, proper nice dinner.

[00:20:37]So, it's mustard. And the way I come up to it I was like Mate, it was mustard.

[00:20:41]Not Not that I ate the Not that I ate Not that I ate mustard. Like nothing like that, but it's like it means really good. Tasty.

[00:20:51]Could be tasty.

[00:20:53]Or you could You could apply it to anything really. Like if something was um You went and saw a film. Was the film like Yeah, it's mustard, mate. You wouldn't use it as that much in that in that context. It's like in regard to that. It's hard to explain.

[00:21:07]You're using more with something could be more personal like food.

[00:21:11]Right? Or um if you're I don't know if you sort of got a VIP thing or something. Was it good? Yeah, it's mastered mate. The VIP was mastered.

[00:21:27]Like well good, proper good. It'd be what is more mastered used maybe in a bit more of a personal context if that makes sense.

[00:21:35]I've got one more in here which I missed.

[00:21:39]I'm pretty sure.

[00:21:43]Oh, yeah.

[00:21:45]There you go, look.

[00:21:48]>> [snorts] >> Last one. Absolute weapon.

[00:21:54]Absolute weapon.

[00:21:57]Absolute weapon.

[00:21:59]Is when someone is a right idiot.

[00:22:04]Like right.

[00:22:07]You know, right bloody fool mate.

[00:22:11]You absolute weapon.

[00:22:13]I think some people mistake it for being um a compliment. I I think some people depends on where you say it. If you said someone is a I don't he's a proper like looks like a weapon, proper weapon. The way you say it could be like yeah, he's like good looking guy or whatever. But when you say someone is an absolute he's an absolute bloody weapon.

[00:22:34]It's like is yeah, like um a proper fool.

[00:22:41]Bloody idiot, bloody fool. You know what I mean?

[00:22:44]Absolute weapon.

[00:22:47]>> [snorts] >> So, there you go. They're the ones I've got for today.

[00:22:51]There's tons of these, uh loads of these >> [snorts] >> that I could do and I'll do loads more.

[00:22:57]Um I've just done a selection for today.

[00:22:59]I could go on for hours about this.

[00:23:00]There's loads of loads of different types of phrases that we got.

[00:23:04]Um I'll do another one, like a part two, part three, part four.

[00:23:09]But they're an example of some, and there's plenty of sentences that we use as well, which are phrases like um well-known sentences that we use and stuff.

[00:23:19]Like Cockney rhyming slang again, but there's more Cockney rhyming slang to use as well. There's loads of stuff.

[00:23:25]>> [sighs] [snorts] >> So, I hope that's educated you a little bit.

[00:23:30]And some much-needed Cockney phrases that you If you um if you ain't Cockney, you ain't British.

[00:23:40]Wherever you are in the world, use a bit of those on someone.

[00:23:44]Could maybe if someone's a annoying you, you can call them an absolute weapon.

[00:23:49]Or uh if um you want to buy something at the shops, and you found out it was half price, go, "Happy days, mate."

[00:23:58]Happy days, got got it half price.

[00:24:01]You know what I mean?

[00:24:03]Um What your shoes are worth proper more to Whenever it's sa- something's really good, just to call it proper good.

[00:24:10]Really is proper.

[00:24:12]Or you can say There's a few insults in there. Or just when you greet someone. Or if you're American, next time you go out, greet someone and say, "All right."

[00:24:25]Might look a bit confused. But it means hello.

[00:24:28]>> [snorts] >> Right, I've got to leave you. Leave you to it. Yeah. Um And then be a favorite day. Like, subscribe, of course. Give us uh tell what other phrases you know. Chuck us a comment.

[00:24:41]Um a lot of Brits that watch you'll know more phrases, so chuck us some comments of what you use, if you use any of these, or use your own ones, or variations. If you're Northerner, tell me some Northern phrases you use, cuz they're actually different. I know there's some Northern phrases that we don't use. So, tell me what you use and I'll If you know of any England in it.

[00:25:01]Um Yeah.

[00:25:04]Tell me which one do you find most interesting or where you're from in the world what slang you use. That'd be interesting actually to know.

[00:25:12]I'd like to find that about that.

[00:25:14]So, there you go. All right.

[00:25:17]Cheers for watching.

[00:25:18]And I'll see you in the next one, innit?