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Tue May 10, 2005 4:56 pm
Firestarter says...



do you have any words used exclusively by your local town/city/state?

here's some from manchester or perhaps england as a whole (i couldn't say)

dead - adjective for very/really. eg. "he's dead good"

nowt/owt- nothing/anything.

walley - kicking a football against a wall

ee ar - basically just a means of grabbing attention, get people to listen to you.

minging/minger - ugly or disgusting.

rank
- disgusting

scrotes - i reckon this is just a shorter form of "scrotum" lol. just refers to scallies or people that hang around annoying people. do you have scallies in america? y'know dodgy looking youths you do nothing.

skive/skiving
- take the day off school

coppin off - having a snog

scran - food

skint - having no money

Oh, I could go on forever. Anyway, this is what I regularly hear from where I live. I say most of them lol. My fave is actually saying "quality" as an adjective for basically anything that's good.

So, does anyone else have some? I find this fun. Let's hear some American ones.
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Tue May 10, 2005 5:08 pm
Emma says...



Well.. Scottish people (not me, as much, at all O.o ) use skiving and many more.. Though i dont know how to spell half of them..

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Tue May 10, 2005 5:22 pm
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yes?

oh, right

aye- yes
scunner/ed- like, what you call someone who has p*ssed you off/ p*ssed off
glaikit/mauit- dirty
naw- no
fae- from
braw- pretty, nice

you can buy thick dictionaries full of scot's dialect, there's a LOT of words
  





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blether -chat
lugs- ears
eejit- idiot
sleekit -sly
ah dae ken -i dont know (heh)
numpty- idiot
crabbit- grumpy
bawbag- scrotum...lol, thought i should add that in for a laugh.
laddy/lassie- boy/girl
bevvy -alcohol..
bairn -baby
wean wee ones (babies)
wee- little

Its a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht. har de har.
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Tue May 10, 2005 6:40 pm
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deadly= really, really cool
skanger= a person who you wish to avoid.
knacker= see above. fits a certain stereotype. someone who wears adidas shellsuits, thick gold jewellery and lives in a certain area of Dublin.
totally knackered= really tired.
to brain= to beat the crap out of someone.
ride= very hot person.
story?= as in "how are you?".
buds= as in "whats up, buds?".
grand= good. "i'm grand, how are you?".
bang on/dead sound= used to describe someone who is very cool and relaxed.
your man= anyone whos name you don't know; "your man from the coffee shop".
shittin' bricks= laughing very hard.
puke your ring up= to be extremely drunk.
off me arse= see above.
absolutely langered= see above.
craic= really good fun
slag= to make fun of "stop slaggin me!"
schloozed: to be very drunk
jack and nory?= whats the story?, how are things?
mad out of it= totally cool.

swear words also feature a LOT in the irish language. people in ireland swear a gagillion times more then any other country i have ever been to. except maybe scotland and northern england.


trust me, irish slang is like a whole other language.

#feels patriotic#

i could go on forever, but i'm sure you get the point.

haha, i love the word 'numpty'. i read it in a book by an English author once and I tried to work it into a conversation with my friends and they all looked at me as if i'd gone mad.
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Tue May 10, 2005 7:37 pm
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Hee, I use the word numpty. And knackered. And slag.
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Tue May 10, 2005 8:34 pm
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American ones? Herm. I actually make up words... my friends and I use all the same words... LOL...

shneaky- not really sure...but it's good. e.g., "Hey Jennifer, you're looking pretty shneaky woo... :wink: " Hehehe...
Crackers and milk!- exclamation when something has gone wrong.
awesomeified- awesome. ified. I dunno... just one of those random made up words.
blerb- Kind of like 'blah' except not... more like the universal word you can use anytime. Takes lots of forms: blerbness, blerbishness, blerbified, just to name a few
krunk- This would be somethin' really popular at the local public high school... only dorky jocks and cheerleader say it... :roll: ...I'm not sure if it has a specific definition... "Get it krunk" is one usage... whatever.
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Tue May 10, 2005 10:29 pm
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I hate American slang...but here's some off the top of my head:
awesomely bad--something so bad, it's awesome
chillin'--to sit back, relax. hang out.
col' chillin'--a deeper state of chillin'. usually after smoking marijuana.
bling-bling--apparel or other ornamental items that display wealth.
I can dig--I understand, I gottcha

These are phrases Qi and I use:
Bwa!!--an expression of 'ness'
Huzzah!--an expression of excitement or happiness
grarrgh!!--sound effect for the clawed hand
kitty!...puppy...--a phrase indicating any confusion of thoughts
who ARE you?--a phrase indicating confusion with a person's behaviour
it happens...--its like a verbal shrug
I pooted!--a phrase used for when you fart

These are exclusive to the campus I live on:
hilltop--either the school itself or the bar "dowtown"
townies--Mt. Vernon locals
IC, CR, OC, Pal-- Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, the Orange Carpet, the Palisades.

And just for fun, 'cause I'm a college student, as many words as I can think of for 'drunk':
bashed
flushed
gassed
juiced
lush
hammered
hosed
boozed up
buzzed
canned
inebriated
soaked
tanked
tight
merry
oiled
plowed
sloshed
tipsy
totaled
zonked
wasted
shit faced
hammered
plastered
fucked up
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Tue May 10, 2005 10:31 pm
Muse says...



ooh, thats another few..

Ratarsed << very drunk

knackered we use too...and slag as in make fun of.

Havers! << Nonsense!

skelp << smack

Wheesht! << quiet!

wifie << old woman
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Wed May 11, 2005 12:39 am
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I live in Michigan. We don't have much in the way of unique words, as far as I know. Except apparently we're the only state that refers to taking a vacation in the northern part of the LP and the UP as going "Up North". And we're one of only a few states that use "pop" as opposed to "soda".

When I went to Australia, I went with a P2P group of 31 Michiganders (or Michiganians, apparently there's some sort of debate as to which is proper, but Michiganders is more fun to say) and 9 Californians. We were at this place and one of the Californians had a pop in his hand. I went up to him and asked where he got the pop, and he said "It's soh-duh" like I was some kind of idiot!
  





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*cracks knuckes* Right! Aussie slang, here we go:
:arrow: kicked the bucket - to die
:arrow: bite the dust - to die
:arrow: bite the bullet - to die
:arrow: bomb - old, unreliable car
:arrow: tinny - small aluminium boat
:arrow: bum - posterior (sounds better than butt), or unemployed person on the dole
:arrow: dunny - toliet
:arrow: long drop - toliet ... without plumbing :lol:
:arrow: snags - sausage
:arrow: spud - potato
:arrow: stubby - beer bottle with short neck
:arrow: barbie - BBQ
:arrow: dead horse - tomatoe sauce
:arrow: yarn - story
:arrow: Aussie rules - our special footy game (better than other forms, especially American, which is just weird)
:arrow: sheila - girl
:arrow: bloke - guy
:arrow: mate - good friend, used in other places I'm sure but some people I know say it about six times per sentence
:arrow: squatter - some bum that comes to live on your land when your back's turned, may require to be chased off with a shotty, see below.
:arrow: shotty - abreviation of shotgun
:arrow: rabbit gun - .22 gun
:arrow: kangaroo gun - .303 gun, knocks over most aussie wildlife
:arrow: trouble and stife - wife
:arrow: whoppee weed - well, this guy I meet once who had a broad accent called drugs "whoppee weed" I don't know if it counts, but it's a good term
:arrow: true blue - *thinks* I suppose it means a patriotic aussie ... if there's such thing as a patriotic aussie
:arrow: fair dinkum? - True? You for real?
:arrow: dummy - well, I put this in because I've only ever heard Yanks (any american) call em pacifiers.
:arrow: Joe Blake - snake
:arrow: flat out like lizard drinking - flat out, fast etc.
:arrow: you bewdy - good on ya
:arrow: you beaut - see above
:arrow: pissed - drunk off your arse
:arrow: castle - "a man's home is his castle"
:arrow: porky pie - a lie (no one says this who's under 60 that I know)
:arrow: put a shrimp on the barbie - has lost all meaning, occasionally part of drunk conversations
:arrow: mozzie - abreviation for mosquito (mozzies are your only natural predators in Australia, and we hate 'em)
:arrow: hit the hay - go to sleep
:arrow: bush - large area of plant life, on average above your head
:arrow: scrub - small area of low growing (below vision) plant life
:arrow: go bush - escape into the bush
:arrow: billy - pot to boil water over campfires
:arrow: crow - a black bird, also a nasty person
:arrow: Crikey! - exclamation never used except when paying out Steve Eriwin
:arrow: far out! - exclamation, still not often used
:arrow: tellie - TV
:arrow: rellies - relatives
:arrow: G'day - slack arse version of "good morning"

Words for idiot:
:arrow: galah - also an idiotic bird, may be seen hanging upside down on telephone wires
:arrow: dingo
:arrow: gumby
:arrow: flammin' mongrel
:arrow: mongrel
:arrow: drongo (also a drunk)
:arrow: Eddie McGuire (hah hah!) - owns part share in a footy club, commentates extremly baisedly in favour of his team. Everyone hates him, except Collingwood supporters.
:arrow: wally
:arrow: Pommy git (no offense to any Pommy gits ... no, seriously, no offense)
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Wed May 11, 2005 3:34 pm
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bashed
flushed
gassed
juiced
lush
hammered
hosed
boozed up
buzzed
canned
inebriated
soaked
tanked
tight
merry
oiled
plowed
sloshed
tipsy
totaled
zonked
wasted
shit faced
hammered
plastered
fucked up


leathered

that's my fave.
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Thu May 12, 2005 2:04 am
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I don't think anyone has said snockered or pissed as another way of saying drunk. These are the ones I usually use.

In Canada, I don't think anyone actually says soda unless they're refering to soda water.

Distictly Canadian words:

Humidex: Humidity index

double double: coffee with double cream double sugar (this one is actually in the Canadian dictionary)

toque (took) a winter hat (usually wool or cotton)

timbit: doughnut hole. I always hated calling them donut wholes. It sounds so stupid. But anyway, the word timbit came from our most popular donut shop, Tim Hortons, and that's what they called the donut holes. Eventually, we just started calling them that no matter where we got them.

chesterfield: couch. I don't usually use this one, but a lot of older people do, and they also probably do in other less Americanized parts of Canada.
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Thu May 12, 2005 2:38 am
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do you have scallies in america? y'know dodgy looking youths you do nothing.
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I'm in the south, so we've got a few of our own:

"Fixin' to": About to do something
"Y'all": You guys.
"God love her/Bless her heart": Phrases used to keep a Christian facade after gossiping.
"Coke": Any carbonated beverage.

I'm sure there are others. Anyone else from the south? Can you help me out?
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Well most all our NZ slang is also Aussie slang...there's a moral in that somewhere, but I'm too lazy to tell ya what it is. Lets see if I can think of some unique NZ slang...hmm...

kiwi - New Zealander. Also a flightless, endangered native bird.
wellies - see also, gum boots, gummies, wellingtons. Boots for walking in mud.

This is pathetic. I actually had to look these up:

arvo - any time after twelve.
asphalt - according to the internet, Americans call this tar. O_o?
bach - said bat-ch. Small holiday home, usually at the beach.
candy floss - cotton candy. Sweet, sugary stuff.
caravan - trailer/mobile home. Also known as a camper van.
carked it - died
pack a sad - to throw in the towel, give up. Also, to throw a fit or die.
cheers - good bye, see ya, thanks a lot. Also equivalent to 'bottoms up'
chips - you know, those things made of potatoes? You call 'em french fries.
chook - chicken
cotton buds - Q-tips. Now thats just plain...weird.
dairy - small shop selling food, newspapers and not much else.
ding - small car accident
Good as Gold - Everything's fine. See also "She'll be right"
Good on ya, mate! - congratulations
guts for garters - in big trouble
Gumboots - large rubber overshoes ranging from calf to knee height. These are usually black, although little children may wear colourful ones. Together with shorts and a black singlet, gumboots constitute the quintesential kiwi-joker or farmer's outfit.
heaps - general expression to mean a lot, as in "miss you heaps", or try hard; "give it heaps"
jam - I'm told you call it jelly.
jelly - jello; wobbly, slimy stuff. Tastes good.
loo - toilet.

I could go on and on....but I'll just point you in direction of this wonderful site: http://nz.com/NZ/Culture/NZDic.html
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