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2012-10-20, 06:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Slang. I want it.
I'm compiling a small dictionary of common youth slang terms for a project. What slang do you like to use, and what do you mean when you use it? I'm particularly looking for the kind of slang you would hear used by "bros," but don't let that limit you.
So far I have things like "bro," "dope" (as in "cool"), "swag" and things like that. What else can you think of?
PS- I'm American but I'd love to hear slang terms used in Britain, Canada, and elsewhere. Thanks!
EDIT: Oh, and please keep it clean guys. The list I'm making has to be fairly clean anyway, and I'm not looking for slurs.Last edited by Riverdance; 2012-10-20 at 06:10 PM.
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2012-10-20, 07:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Slang. I want it.
Boss/Bauss, meaning awesome.
I...can't really think of any other, right now. Sorry.
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Not youth specific slang, but in the prairie provinces of Canada, a Bunnyhug is another word for hoodie
I tend to collect slang. When I'm less tired I'll try and give you a few better terms.Avatar by me
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2012-10-21, 12:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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There's a word I learned growing up in the Pacific Northwest to refer to small-scale stealing that I really like: kype or kipe. Either spelling works. It's a regional synonym of nick, pilfer or purloin. Unfortunately, I've learned not to use it outside the Pacific Northwest, because I get dirty looks owing to it being a near-homonym to a highly degrading racial slur for persons of Jewish ancestry. This despite the fact that those two words come from a totally seperate etymology.
Despite the similarity, it is a word I would totally take back if I could.Characters:
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2012-10-21, 05:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Thanks guys! I can't believe I forgot "boss."
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A friend of a friend keeps using the phrase 'YOLO', apparently an acronym of 'You only live once'; I haven't the foggiest as to how it's used.
My whole friend group uses 'ish' as a censored version of a curse word of similar pronunciation, but I don't know if that's widespread or if it just caught on with us."Once upon a time, a story was never finished..."
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2012-10-21, 07:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's the mating call of the common northwest doucebag.
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"The D" - A penis. As in "If she'd ______, give her the D".
"Stupid" - Can mean "good", usually to a superlative degree. As in, "Their football team is stupid". More common as a secondary adjective, or "Stupid good".Guess who's good at avatars? Thormag. That's who.
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Za - Pizza
Pigs - Police
What's the craic - How are things
Mate - Friend, however is usually used unnecessarily. For example, a normal person would say "How are you?" and "Listen" rather than "How are you friend" and "Listen Friend"
Dole – Unemployment benefit
Pull – To get with someone. Definition varies. Sometimes merely talking to them counts, but my understands is that you at least have to kiss for it to count
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What do you consider slang. Does fresher (furst year university student) count?Last edited by Boci; 2012-10-21 at 07:55 PM.
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2012-10-21, 08:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Grouse = Awesome (not used much since the 80's).
Sick = Awesome.
Brick = Idiot.
Wood = Sticks in roll-your-own tabbaco.
Green = Money.
Cabbage = Money (not used much since the late 70's/early 80's).
Dog = Annoying person who won't doesn't know when to let something go.
Filth = Police.
PoPo = Police.
Dope = Idiot.
Most likely some double ups here, but that's all I can think of at the moment.
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2012-10-21, 09:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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That could also work, though usually we use "stupidly good" for such
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2012-10-21, 10:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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You'll never get out of life alive,
So please kill yourself and save this land,
And your last mission is to spread my command,"
Slightly adapted quote from X-Fusion, Please Kill Yourself
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Hmm, I had a lot of friends start using "epic" as a replacement word for awesome. I also use a lot of random slang, like saying someone is a ham when they like being the center of attention, which is the kind of thing that is incomprehensible to people that don't speak English natively.
There are also about a million alternative words for cool these days, all of which are at various levels of lameness:
Sweet
Nice
Sick
Nasty
Wicked
Stupid
Crazy
Sexy
Hot
etc.
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2012-10-21, 11:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Wicked", used as an intensifier. e.g. He's wicked smaht. It's wicked cold in heeyah.
Seems limited to the Northeast, to my knowledge. And it's an entirely different monster than using it as a plain-old adjective to mean "cool". e.g. That's wicked!Last edited by Inglenook; 2012-10-21 at 11:07 PM.
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"Bunnyhug" is sort of charming in an insane, nonsensical way.
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And I, in turn, have only ever called them hoodies. I agree that bunnyhug is the superior term and shall adopt your exotic Saskatchewan ways in this regard henceforth.
I am trying to muster up some Manitoba slang, but I don't know what the young people say anymore.