[OPEN] Teach me your slanguage

Macrina · Feb 18, 2007

Yes, slanguage.

I want to learn all those interesting regional words or phrases that are specific to a particular area.

So please write a regional word or phrase and give a definition, and perhaps an example of how it might be used.

Two rules:

1) It must be something that you, personally, actually say.
2) Keep it suitable for family viewing, folks.

Macrina · Feb 18, 2007

"Going like gangbusters." Apparently this is a regional thing, perhaps to the northwest United States. I didn't realize this until I used it and someone said, "oh, what part of the Seattle area are you from?" Someone who totally didn't know me. Anyway, the phrase means proceeding or selling with extreme speed and has a positive connotation. One might say, "it's been a great day here at the lemonade stand, what with the heat wave and all. Our ice-cold drinks are going like gangbusters."

mina · Feb 18, 2007

the infamous "ya'll"- it means you all. As in "how ya'll doin?". "Do ya'll have enough sweet tea?". "Can I get ya'll anything?" Yes i use it. It's funny - I don't think i have a southern accent at all and i'll catch myself using ya'll and it just sounds weird. But hey i'm weird so there ya go.

highflyer · Feb 18, 2007

Let me see. The english slang is notoriously huge, but here are a few:

'tar' - thanks (mostly northern england)
'easy' - hello (if you wanna appear 'gangsta')
'trouble and strife' - wife (cockney slang)
'adam and eve' - believe (cockney slang)
'dog and bone' - phone (cockney slang - I come from London so I know loads)

That's what I could come up with in five minutes, if there are any other londoners, you'll get tons more.

traingosorry · Feb 18, 2007

I use a word that I thought* was original and my very own "KIFE" - and I use it to describe something that is beyond disgusting. If I change a dirty baby's diaper, I would call that kife.
However I was informed that it is in fact an existing slang word to describe disgusting things but usually those of a 'disturbing', non-pg manner.
oy.

Otherwise in my family we say "I call SHENANIGANS!" - meaning we don't believe what you are telling us.

mina · Feb 18, 2007

KROD- my brother and i would call each other this all the time. I guess it's our own language. It's "dork" backwards!

mina · Feb 18, 2007

"finer than a frog's hair" or "as happy as a pig in slop"- you are doing really well. The only people i've ever heard say these are old men at church. Ex: me: hello Mr. Rodgers , how are you today?" Mr. Rodgers: well honey, i'm as happy as a pig in slop"( or finer than a frog's hair-take yer pick).

Macrina · Feb 18, 2007

highflyer said:
Let me see. The english slang is notoriously huge, but here are a few:

'tar' - thanks (mostly northern england)
'easy' - hello (if you wanna appear 'gangsta')
'trouble and strife' - wife (cockney slang)
'adam and eve' - believe (cockney slang)
'dog and bone' - phone (cockney slang - I come from London so I know loads)

That's what I could come up with in five minutes, if there are any other londoners, you'll get tons more.

Wow, that's interesting. So is cockney slang all rhyming stuff like that?

traingosorry said:
I use a word that I thought* was original and my very own "KIFE" - and I use it to describe something that is beyond disgusting. If I change a dirty baby's diaper, I would call that kife.
However I was informed that it is in fact an existing slang word to describe disgusting things but usually those of a 'disturbing', non-pg manner.
oy.

Otherwise in my family we say "I call SHENANIGANS!" - meaning we don't believe what you are telling us.

Are you wearing a bathing suit over your jeans?

mina said:
"finer than a frog's hair" or "as happy as a pig in slop"- you are doing really well. The only people i've ever heard say these are old men at church. Ex: me: hello Mr. Rodgers , how are you today?" Mr. Rodgers: well honey, i'm as happy as a pig in slop"( or finer than a frog's hair-take yer pick).

Old men have the greatest slang!

traingosorry · Feb 18, 2007

Macrina said:
Are you wearing a bathing suit over your jeans?

You betcha lady - when have you ever known me to do things normally?

It's so BORING.
Superman started it by wearing his skivvies over his leggings, so I'm just carrying on tradition.

oh skivvies - there's another one.

GreenMunchkin · Feb 18, 2007

Haa! Dude, you actually started it? I figured you were kidding... or, conveniently enough, "pulling my leg". I think that's fairly English.

As to cockney rhyming slang... you're officially a cockney if you're born within the sound range of Bow Bells, but there's literally an entire dictionary worth of terms. It's incomprehensible. Highflyer, I gather you're a fellow Londonian - if someone was talking at you in proper fluid cockney rhyming slang, would you have a clue?

Oh, another, "have a butcher's" or "have a gander" are other ways of saying have a look, although the etymology escapes me completely.

arunma · Feb 18, 2007

"Slanguage?" Is that like the supersymmetric equivalent of language?

OK, sorry, that's really more of a physics joke. But as long as I mentioned that, my fellow physics friends and I will often say "that's a ten sigma event" when referring to something that is unlikely to happen. Scientists really do say this, but we sort of coopted it for common use.

GoodNewsJim · Feb 18, 2007

Hey yinz guys you want to hangout n at? (Pittsburghese)

Pownied (My advanced leet speek) Its like pwned but you can actually pronouce it.

stormgade4 · Feb 18, 2007

I use the word "hork" alot. Its used mainly for food, like taking alot or eating something whole "I horked a cookie" (ate it whole). I also use it if I "acquire" something small like "I horked a pen from John's desk."

miss_klara · Feb 18, 2007

Nicked, meaning stole... "I think that guy nicked your purse"... "My car got nicked".
Also, I've had some funny looks when using the word 'dodgy' in front of non Aussies. So for those who don't know the word 'dodgy', it means a few things. If a situation is dodgy, it can be bad, or strange in a bad way. If an old man is dodgy, it means he's creepy and possibly perverted lol. If a sandwich is dodgy, it's probably past its use-by. If someone looks dodgy, they're generally unsavoury and have committed a crime, or are about to. If a toy is dodgy, it's been badly made. Yeh. Dodgy's a great word. I use it all the time....!!

LonelyTraveler · Feb 18, 2007

toad strangler = heavy rain
"Wow, it's comin' a toad strangler out there."

come up a cloud = thunderstorm
"Looks like it's trying to come up a cloud."

[insert action here] to beat sixty = doing doing it alot
"It was sunshinin' to beat sixty earlier, but then it came up a cloud."

none the wiser · Feb 18, 2007

JamesSager3 said:
Hey yinz guys you want to hangout n at? (Pittsburghese)

lol! My boyfriend's entire family says yinz. He's trying to get me to replace my "yall" with "yinz." (he's about an hour or two from Pittsburgh)

I say "whinge" for whining or complaining.

Sketch is something that's...off. As in...the parking lot near that bar is really sketch. Or her skirt is soooo short. She looks so sketchy.

"Tickle me pink" must be a regional thing, because my boyfriend thinks it's just the funniest thing

LonelyTraveler · Feb 18, 2007

There's also a few different ways to refer to a small amount of something:

"a smidgen", " a tad", " a wee dab"

squeekers22 · Feb 18, 2007

our slang for things are

watch: look at this watch lol
I know huh: for agreeings with someone

i forgot others but all i know are those too

like sometimes when im on the phone i say

hey watch let me show u something lol everyone says it lol its funny

TySJI · Feb 18, 2007

JamesSager3 said:
Pownied (My advanced leet speek) Its like pwned but you can actually pronouce it.

1337 Haxxor! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111oneoneone

Silver-winged Flyer · Feb 19, 2007

miss_klara said:
Nicked, meaning stole... "I think that guy nicked your purse"... "My car got nicked".
Also, I've had some funny looks when using the word 'dodgy' in front of non Aussies. So for those who don't know the word 'dodgy', it means a few things. If a situation is dodgy, it can be bad, or strange in a bad way. If an old man is dodgy, it means he's creepy and possibly perverted lol. If a sandwich is dodgy, it's probably past its use-by. If someone looks dodgy, they're generally unsavoury and have committed a crime, or are about to. If a toy is dodgy, it's been badly made. Yeh. Dodgy's a great word. I use it all the time....!!

I use the word dodgy all the time too in the same way.
Must be a southern hemisphere thing

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