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Many of us use soo many random slang phrases which are quite odd to poeple of different areas. My brother went to Kentucky over the summer, and they said "Snap, dawg!" That's hilarious! Here, we say word a lot...cna' think of much else of the top of my head, but I thought it would be cool to share some prases with each other...so who's next? ~~Eryn~~
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Here in Portland we're way too inclusive to use regional slang. But last year my husband did meet a guy in New York who was always calling stuff "stupid," meaning "crazy" or "cool." At least, that's what he thought it meant.
(Hmmm. Maybe it was two years ago. Not sure on the spelling, btw. Could be "stoopid.")
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The one that confuses all my American friends is "minging" for unpleasant, smelly, gross etc. Also "it mings" for "it's gross" and "ugh, ming!" It originated in Yorkshire, so I'm told, but I like it.
My boyfriend has a habit of saying "nails!" whenever he's pleased with himself or has succeeded at something. I used to hate it, now I find myself saying it... oh well...
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I know this one guy that like to say "holy poopystones!" I myself tend to call people fudgemonkeys when they anger me.
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BOB!!! OMFG!!!!! *I have found someone in the world thatr actually appreciates the phrase cool beans and din't rip it off of me in the first place...finding a tissue...awww!!! Hatrack rocks...
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Somehow I assumed that "cool beans" was a Utah thing. I think "kicking trash" is just a Utah thing (mostly a BYU thing). It sounds cooler than "kicking butt" without being vulgar. My coworkers talked about expanding it to phrases like "kicking rubbish," but I don't think that'll catch on.
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Our friend Carissa uses "Cool Beans!" all the time. It is catchy so I am starting to find myself using it too.
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I've only lived in Philly a few months, but the word "y'all" has worked its way into my vocabulary. Not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing. Also, and this may just be a group of people as opposed to a regional thing, I've started saying "one more gain" (gain pronounced like "again")...I know, I'm weird.
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I think I started doing this entirely on my own, and I don't think anyone else has started doing it, but whenever I'm just completely flabbergasted, I'll say, "Woof." The alternative to that is hard to spell, something like, "pppphhhfff."
It's also satisfying to say the letter "F" in moments of extreme emotion. Sometimes you have to follow it up with a "me."
I also like calling people "folks." I guess I don't use actual slang too often.
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I picked up "cool beans" in college in Miami. A friend of my wife's from college in Miami also says it. My wife thought her friend had invented it, until she heard me utter it.
Funny thing about "Cool beans" is everyone seems to think they invented it or that they know the person who did. Weird cultural phenomenon, there.
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And actually, that's the truth. There's something delightfully insouciant about an adult sticking his tongue out. I use it IRL whenever people seem too disagreeably huffy.
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A turn of phrase that I've always enjoyed here on Hatrack is katharina's "Oh my stars!".
I used to have a bad habit of picking up turns of phrase that I thought were funny, and then using them in a joking, sarcastic manner until I'd discover that they'd seeped into my regular speech. "Good Lord and Butter", "God's teeth!", "Great Scott" "Odd Bodkins!", and "Odds my Bodkins" (10 points to anyone who recognizes the source of "Odds my Bodkins") are among the terms that unfortunately made it into my regular speech at one point or another. Actually, looking back on that habit I find it a little bit embarassing--I'm not a big fan of affectation, and that's pretty much what that amounted to. I'm managed to purge my speech of all of that, although I do still say "Good Lord!". I've managed to get rid of the "and butter" half of that phrase.
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Sticking your tongue out really ticks off people who flip you the finger in traffic. They want you to be hurt, angry, or offended, and instead you're just pointing out how juvenile their own action is.
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Something I've noticed here, that I've not really heard IRL (so it's probably regional to somewhere else) is the term "snarky." I'm not sure exactly what it means, but I like how it sounds. Posts: 2661 | Registered: Apr 2002
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KarlEd, that's really interesting. Could you use "kyarn" in a sentence for us? Where did your grandma grow up?
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I find myself using the phrase, "Shazbot", and "Frelling" There was an interesting curse word/phrase from the old Battlestar Galactica that I have used as well. I have forgotten it now, but as soon as someone here reminds me of it, I will probably use it again.
I also have called someone a "Scruffy looking nerf herder"
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MrsM, I've heard both "Hells bells" and "bless his/her heart" here in Florida. My mom says the second, but she's from rural, rural Georgia.
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I have learned to greet people with a "Wazzaaaaahhh," meaning of course "How're ya doin'?" I got it from some guy I worked with a couple years ago, don't know where it's from but I suspect from some beer commercial on TV.
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a lot of my friends have picked up Bloody hell-no, we're not english, so this is a bit odd down here.
I say sketi instead of cursing, and oh goodness when someone reminds me of something Ive forgotten to do-picked to last one up from the philosophy teacher
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Snarky is a recent British import. I once heard that it came from a telescoping of "snotty" and "sarcastic," so it's funny you should mention Lewis Caroll, Martha. But unfortunately I've never seen that explanation in print.
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Snarky is (or at least used to be) one of my Michigan friends favorite words. He got me to start using it too. I like it--it just sounds so cool!
Most of my slang words are things my roommate and I created. I can't think of any right now, though.
Not spoken to a cow, it has a similar meaning to "Goodness gracious!"
"Balls!"
I've met two people who used this as their most common general expletive. I met them about eight years apart on different sides of the country, and they have never met. I think they are both cool.
"Sick!"
I actually spent time around a bunch of X-treme sports guys on my mission who used this word constantly to mean something of a blend of "Cool" and "Daring" or "Dangerous".
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Eddie, the fact that you even have any question about it disturbs me I think "giving brain" sounds like an act only possible to dead bodies, and that's nowhere I'd like to go ...
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