Your Favorite Slang

  Where in the US are you from?  I have never heard of that before.

I've never heard it either, although I lived in New England so perhaps it's different from Virginia. However, I'm a longtime aficionado of reality television, and I don't think I've heard it there either. 

Every watch "Rock of Love 2"?  They said it all the time about Daisy on that show...that's when I first heard it and then it kinda exploded as a new slang...so I guess it's a more recent development.

" SAY WHUH???""

hha lol

Knocking someone up = knock on door until you wake them up  
I used to work with DH's best friend and I'd get a lift (ride) into work with him while I was preggers as he only lived down the road and he said to me one time (as I had to call to wake him up) that I should've just knocked him up instead.  

Informal "Familiar" names (instead of using your own):
Duck (a northern one from my understanding)
Flower
Petal
Love / Me love / Lovey
Sweetheart

A lot of slang words are actually abreviated words or words that just get half of them dropped and or reformed:
brill = brilliant
preggers = pregnant
lippy = lipstick

BTW have you ever read the book Watching the English by Kate Fox?    Or have you watched Billy Connoly's World Tours?  They're hilarious, but they're also quite informative!  They keep repeating them in the evenings on Dave.

I know when he was in Ireland some kid was yelling Donkey's testicles at someone when he got on a boat and he made a comment about the education system being pretty good since the kid said testicles instead of bollocks (which would be said pretty much everywhere else).  

So, from that go ahead and add bollocks to the list.  

"Laying in"...sleeping late

Knocking someone up = knock on door until you wake them up  

I LOVE THAT!!

"Laying in"...sleeping late

Sorry, another correction coming (I apologise - I'm a bit of a spelling stickler  ):

It's 'lying in', not 'laying in' - e.g. 'I didn't have to go to work this morning, so I had a lie in' (it's actually in the dictionary as lie-in). 'Laying in' is the act of just being in the bed, while 'lying in' is sleeping in that bed until late in the morning .

My hubby would never say "look out of the window"....he doesn't even say "the"...EVER...lol! 

That's definitely a Yorkshire thing.

Oh and 'knocking up' is just knocking (chapping in Scotland!) the door.   It doesn't necessarily mean you're waking someone up! 

Ex:  "We were taking the piss with Dave ..........."

"Can't be asked"...as in "can't be bothered"

"Laying in"...sleeping late

Just a friendly suggestion for when you do move over here-don't use slang or phrases that you don't understand or might be using wrong until you've been here awhile and understand all the connotations or you could make yourself look really stupid or really offend someone.

"What are ya like?"...basically meaning "I can't believe you're so stupid."
Ex:  "I wasn't paying attention to where I was going and I ran right into the wall"
Friend:  "What ya like? HAHAHA!" 
To bring it back old school, Americans might have said "What a dork!"

Just noticed this.  'What are you like?' doesn't always mean 'You're stupid'.  It means 'what are you like'?  It's about the person and how they're a certain way and how what they just said/did is a perfect example of that.  It can mean bitchy/mouthy/cheeky/flirty/clumsy.  It's not usually said in a good way but is almost always said in a jokey and sort of surprised way. It's something you'd only really say to a friend or family member or someone you know really well.  It doesn't mean the person is a dork.

Like I said, be careful using new sayings until you really know what they mean.  And don't rely on one group of people for your definitions.  They may use a phrase or a slang word as a private in-joke.

Like I said, be careful using new sayings until you really know what they mean.  And don't rely on one group of people for your definitions.  They may use a phrase or a slang word as a private in-joke.

That's a very good point - my friends and I used all sorts of different slang phrases and words at uni that were completely unique to the group. We made them up and we're the only ones who understand what we mean by them. Anyone else looking in probably wouldn't have had a clue what we were talking about, lol.

Just noticed this.  'What are you like?' doesn't always mean 'You're stupid'.  It means 'what are you like'? 

I have actually never heard the term "what ya like?" so it is possible that it is regional, or that there are regional expressions that are used instead of that.

So, to add to what Mindy is saying, don't use expressions or ways of speaking until you have heard people use them in the region where your live.

For example, "look out window" in Yorkshire with a Yorkshire accent sounds normal.
"Look out window" in Brighton with an American accent sounds like you are mentally challenged.

Or "daft" means stupid in Yorkshire but crazy everywhere else - or did I get that backwards?

ETA: Just as in American speech, there are different levels of British speech for different levels of formality. You would not say "look out window" on a job interview. So pay attention to when and where these expressions are used.

I have actually never heard the term "what ya like?" so it is possible that it is regional, or that there are regional expressions that are used instead of that.

So, to add to what Mindy is saying, don't use expressions or ways of speaking until you have heard people use them in the region where your live.

Or just as likely, a generational thing. 

Actually, I've never heard it said 'what ya like?'.  We say 'WHAT are YOU like?'. 

Or "daft" means stupid in Yorkshire but crazy everywhere else - or did I get that backwards?

Here, daft means stupid in an air-heady way.

Or just as likely, a generational thing. 

True.