Language/dialect meme from
arosoff
1. a body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
Stream
2. the thing you push around the grocery store?
Trolley
3. a metal container to carry a meal in?
Lunchbox
4. the thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
Frying pan
5. the piece of furniture that seats three people?
Sofa/settee
6. the device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
Gutter
7. the covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
Porch.
8. carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
Fizzy (pop)
9. a flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
Pancake.
10. a long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
Sub/baguette
11. the piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
Trunks
12. shoes worn for sports?
Trainers
13. putting a room in order?
Tidying
14. a flying insect that glows in the dark?
Glow-worm/firefly
15. the little insect that curls up into a ball?
Woodlouse
16. the children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down?
See-saw.
17. how do you eat your pizza?
Cut into slices
18. the act of private citizens putting up signs and selling their used stuff?
Such a thing does not exist in this country. We have car boot sales whereby a whole load of people pitch up in a field or car park and sell their used stuff from the backs of their cars.
19. the evening meal?
Dinner
20. the thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement/cellar
21. Place where you. Er. You know. Use the euphemism:
Toilet/Loo
22. Narrow passageway, usually covered, to the back of a terrace of houses?
Alley
23. Hairs which stand on end when an animal is frightened or angry or cold?
Huh? no idea...
24. Bumps on surface of skin which appear around pores when human is frightened or angry or cold?
Goose pimples
25. Process of infusing water with leaves of tea plant usually in a teapot?
No idea, I never make tea.
26. Above process left too long such that an excess of bitter substances, mainly tannins, infuse into the drink, so spoiling it?
No idea, I never make tea.
27. Pot with lid for oven, usually ceramic, for slowly cooking meat or similar in juices, stock, with vegetables?
Casserole, I guess.
28. Can, usually for petrol or water, with handle and screw lid?
Jerry can
29. Animal based term of endearment for people?
Pet
30. Hearty cooked breakfast involving eggs, bacon, sausages, black pudding etc?
Fry-up/full English
31. Beast of burden, smaller than a horse, with long ears?
Donkey
32. Place where people take coal out of the ground?
Mine
33. Small, common red and black spotted beetle?
Ladybird