In British English, crackers are sometimes called water biscuits, or savory biscuitsSavoury biscuits or crackers (such as cream crackers, water biscuits, oatcakes, or crisp breads) are usually plainer and commonly eaten with cheese following a meal.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Biscuit
Americans are the outlier on how we use "biscuit"
To most of the rest of the English-speaking world, a biscuit is what Americans would refer to as either a cookie or a cracker. Biscuits can be sweet (shortbread) or savory. They're baked in the oven, and they're crisp, not chewy.
Biscuit (UK) / Cookie (US)
In the US, cookies are flat, round snacks made of sweet dough. In the UK, these are generally called biscuits, although people do call the bigger, softer kind cookies, too.
Biscuit comes from the French for twice baked, referring to small sweet or savory cakes that were baked twice to drive out moisture so they would last longer.
A Biscuit (U.S.) Is a Scone (U.K.) An English Muffin (U.S.) is a Muffin (U.K.)
French fries (US) are called "chips" in the UK, and "frites" in French-speaking countries. In the UK and Ireland, what people in America call French fries are called "chips" and are famously served alongside fried fish.
Cracker = Great e.g. "What a cracker of a day." Crook = Ill or sick.
In Australia, "biscuits" are what Americans call "cookies," and these traditional treats date back to World War I. It's said that wives and mothers of soldiers in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps—abbreviated to "Anzac"—baked these treats to send to their men overseas.
Rubber. This is an informal way of saying condom on the US – so a rubber is a contraceptive. We just call them condoms in the UK. And we use rubbers to remove pencil marks from paper.
An umbrella may also be called a brolly (UK slang), parapluie (nineteenth century, French origin), rainshade, gamp (British, informal, dated), or bumbershoot (rare, facetious American slang).
Did you know they call cigarettes fags in the U.K.? You probably did. He takes short, quick drags, racing to the filter – to the fix.
This vegetable is called a courgette in the UK. Both words mean “the little squash”, but the US word comes from Italian and the British from French.
In the UK, whipped cream is known as “squirty cream”.
Crackers otherwise known as bon-bons are an integral part of Christmas celebrations in Australia and New Zealand. A cracker consists of a cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper, making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper.
napkin n. Cloth or paper towel to protect the clothes while eating. Australasians refer to napkins as serviettes.
A Christmas table is complete when adorned with Christmas crackers also known as BonBons. At Christmas Elves, we have a range of Christmas Bon Bons (or crackers) in Australia to complete your table setting.
“Far Out” is said when you really can't believe something. 3. shocking.
eshay (plural eshays) (Australia, slang) A member of an Australian youth subculture favouring sportswear and electronic dance music, and commonly associated with criminal activity. (Australia, slang) A delinquent teenager; a chav.
Hooroo = Goodbye
The Australian slang for goodbye is Hooroo and sometimes they even Cheerio like British people.
Australian, British and New Zealand English uses "chips" for what North Americans call french fries. When confusion would occur between the two meanings, "hot chips" and "cold chips" are used.
Definition. In Australia, chips can refer to 'hot' chips; fried strips of potato. Chips also refer to what are known in other countries as crisps.
Fish and chip shops are called "chippies" in British slang. By 1910, there were 25,000 fish and chip shops in the U.K., and they even stayed open during World War I.