Slang from your area

[gorillafuck]

Post local slang, see if it's the same as other peoples areas

Dank = Tasty in reference to food, very potent in reference to weed
Steezy = Stylish
Legit = Awesome, good
Unlegit = That feeling you get when you are walking alone at night and a man in a trenchcoat is nearby
Shiesty = Same as unlegit
Wicked = Extremely, usually something like "wicked sick" meaning "extremely cool"

[Red Future]

In Sheffield we have the term "gennel" for an Alley which is apparently unique to the City.

[Vendetta]

Y'all!

And also, poachers = cops.

[Comrade J]

In Sheffield we have the term "gennel" for an Alley which is apparently unique to the City.

I have heard the word "ginnel" (not sure on spelling, but that's how it's pronounced) for alley in other parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire.

[RedAnarchist]

In Sheffield we have the term "gennel" for an Alley which is apparently unique to the City.

Here in Lancashire we use "ginnel", which is probably the same word. Probably some Scandinavian word, seeing as it's a Northern term.

[Fawkes]

I fucking hate the word "dank"


I'm just gonna post the slang I use a lot, not all of it is NYC specific:

yeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeah: I never say just yeah, I say it at least 8 times very fast

I say ain't and y'all a lot

steez: I don't use this that much, but people I know do. It basically means stylish or swag, which is another one I use.

Ill, sick, boss, tight: you know what they mean

We use legit also

Word: as an affirmation, but I feel like everyone uses that

yo: everyone uses this, but we use it a lot

punish(ed): to have sex or get owned by something. (e.g. "I would totally punish him" or "Those nachos punished me so hard")

rage: party (verb); rager = a party

Minute = I fucking hate this term, but people around here use it to refer to something that has been a long time, e.g. "Yo, it's been a minute since I've seen you, how've you been?"



I've probably forgotten a shitload, but whatever

[gorillafuck]

We also use rage, word, yo, and sick.

[bailey_187]

young people in london have a fairly distinctive slang

hard to just list words of the top of my head tho


slang is starting to make me feel old tho, all these youngers from my school posting on their facebooks in slang i dont know yet :blushing: e.g a few months ago they were all posting about being waved or wavey, i was like wtf

[bailey_187]

to answer op

to refer to your friends collectivly people say mandem

gas = bullshit sort of, but then u can also say something has got u "gassed" e.g. if i someone was talking about a girl they liked they could say "X has got me gassed up, she's too good looking"

to say something is good u could say "alot", also can be used to refer to someones atractivness e.g. "X is alot"

theres the word "peak" which is hard ot explain, but basicaly refers to an event/time i guess. so u could say after US authorised drones in Libya "its peak for gaddafi right now"

the word "pagan" keeps getting used now. usualy used in reference to "enemies" i guess, got not religous meaning tho

i guess alot of slang tho is like normal words, but the way of saying it if u understand

damn this feels nerdy typing out slang meanings

[Fawkes]

I know way too many non-black people that say nigga

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

You got me twisted.

[bailey_187]

from what i seen/heard, that seems more common in New York then other places? (when not used as an insult)

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

That ain't this. This ain't that.

[Pirate Utopian]

Ziek, skeer, bazig, kanker, chill, vet

[Fulanito de Tal]

from what i seen/heard, that seems more common in New York then other places? (when not used as an insult)

It's said a lot in Miami, too, mostly by low income Latinos and Blacks. It's usually used to show that you're comfortable with the person. Kinda interchangable with the way white people from the country use "brother". But, a Latino usually wont use it with a Black person unless they're super comfortable with each other.

[Fawkes]

from what i seen/heard, that seems more common in New York then other places? (when not used as an insult)

I've heard it used elsewhere, but it's definitely used more in NYC than anywhere else I've been. I live in a Puerto Rican neighborhood and everyone here calls each other that, it's pretty much lost any racial connotations here (as opposed to "nigger"), but I still can't help but thinking that you're a bit of a tool if you're white and calling people nigga.

[Obs]

Fucking monsterflækkeren, mand.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

It's said a lot in Miami, too, mostly by low income Latinos and Blacks. It's usually used to show that you're comfortable with the person. Kinda interchangable with the way white people from the country use "brother". But, a Latino usually wont use it with a Black person unless they're super comfortable with each other.
With in the circles of people I know the term is mojado.

[bailey_187]

It's said a lot in Miami, too, mostly by low income Latinos and Blacks. It's usually used to show that you're comfortable with the person. Kinda interchangable with the way white people from the country use "brother". But, a Latino usually wont use it with a Black person unless they're super comfortable with each other.

nah i ment used by whites, i know its used often by black people

[Fawkes]

Actually, to say it's lost all racial connotations is a huge oversimplification. A white guy, even if they use the word nigga a lot, is a lot less likely to call a black person they just met "nigga" than a white person they just met. However, if someone is speaking with someone they know even if in front of black people they don't know, they'll still probably use nigga. It's really just a question of who it's directed at more so than the company one's in.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

we have a weird mixture of traveller lingo, east and south london slang, 'kentish' lingo and more recently lots of slang used by black urban kids in the estates in london has made its way into the regional lexicon thanks to the popularity of grime here. the 'chav' is believed to have originated here, its root is 'chavi', romani for child, so a lot of romani words are used - there are a lot of settled romani gypsies here.

gavvers, 5-0, feds - police.
boi - used in the same way you would use mate in a greeting, i think its a gypsy thing.
mault - woman. horrible term.
mush - used a bit like boi.
son - used like mate or boi, think that's a cockney thing.
mug, wasteman - a couple of insults, cockney & 'black'.

there's a lot more, i'm quite out of touch with the dialect though, especially all this 'brap brap' stuff from the rough london council estates (its pretty embarrassing to hear this, usually). i'm too much of a hipster these days, although a few words naturally remain in my vocabulary, you fackin' mug.

[The Douche]

"Trying", asking people if they are "trying" to do something, for instance:

you-"hey bro, whats up?"
them-"not much, you trying to go to the bar?"


Some people hate it, I say it pretty much constantly.

[Fawkes]

"Trying", asking people if they are "trying" to do something, for instance:

you-"hey bro, whats up?"
them-"not much, you trying to go to the bar?"


Some people hate it, I say it pretty much constantly.

:lol: I used to give my step brother so much shit cause anytime he wanted to have sex with his girlfriend he would always say "yo, you tryin to fuck?" He's from philly and he's got some pretty wack slang: salty, dicked on, heated, minute, grimey, tree, filthy, and my favorite: droppin knowledge.

[Fawkes]

I've actually never heard a single person refer to Staten Island as "Shaolin"


to be fair, I'm not exactly friends with any wu associates...

[Ele'ill]

Said with a philly accent

"get off it" - Drop the issue, shut up

[Rusty Shackleford]

dont'cha know - the way you end a factual statement in the upper midwest.

then i moved to california

tight - awesome
hella - a lot of
Ghetto Bird - Police helicopter
sacto - sacramento

[L.A.P.]

Crusty-there's no definition, you just know it when you see it.

We have some pretty weird fashion trends, slang, and overall subculture over here.

[Il Medico]

Y'all, Fixin, hankering, Hunky Doery, Lickety Split, Ornery, purdy, rile, Uppity, whup, Yonder, Carpet Bagger, Yankee.

[Wanted Man]

Not really "slang" as such, but the local dialect here has some interesting words. One of them is "spaigelploatje" to refer to a compact disc. The word literally means "mirror disc".

[NoOneIsIllegal]

comb yo beard - calm down
pop - it's not called "soda"
mang - i fucking hate this

[727Goon]

gas means some good ass weed, smash means fuck, getting caught slippin means you got beat up, zooted means your high, fuck boy means someone who would get fucked in jail, fuck nigga means fuck boy, swag means swaggerand how you dress and present yourself and we say it alot cuz we swag too fuckin hard down here, trol means cop, hot means an area gets scoped out by the cops alot, fade means fight, raw means good, theres a lot more and idk how much of that is actually specific to my area tbh

[727Goon]

the one expression that really bothers me is when people say "Oh you a pie ass nigga" if they're trying to call something lame.

[Blackscare]

Po-nine - cops
twisted - I hate this one but it means drunk + high. Also swirved means this
not for nuthin - eg; not for nuthin, but you got a big ass stain on your shemp broski
Feyla - guatamalen slang that is used around here, basically means fella
Fire - Florida term, like dank but worse. Also, poty, like potent. Absolute worst.
Crackodile - word we used in florida for the random creepers/crackheads that roam the streets at night

[manic expression]

Dead ass, kid, dead ass.

[Blackscare]

Dead ass, kid, dead ass.

haha qft

[Quail]

Derbyshire slang that immediately comes to mind:
Give over - stop it
Jitty (or gitty? not sure on the spelling) - alleyway
Eh up - hello
You reet? - You alright?
I think we pronounce a lot of words in an odd way too. I was out with some friends the other night and my usually neutral accent slipped into a terrible Derbyshire accent.

Also, in Sheffield gennel is pronounced "jennel" whereas the Lancashire guinnel is pronounced with a hard g sound.

[Ele'ill]

Rollers - Police

[The Douche]

:lol: I used to give my step brother so much shit cause anytime he wanted to have sex with his girlfriend he would always say "yo, you tryin to fuck?" He's from philly and he's got some pretty wack slang: salty, dicked on, heated, minute, grimey, tree, filthy, and my favorite: droppin knowledge.

We got a lot of those down here to actually. Salty I think is over with though.

Drop knowledge, man, people get so butthurt if you say that, like "let me drop some knowledge on you right now". Pretty much means you just acted like a total idiot and you're about to get humiliated.

[Ele'ill]

Derbyshire slang that immediately comes to mind:
Give over - stop it
Jitty (or gitty? not sure on the spelling) - alleyway
Eh up - hello
You reet? - You alright?
I think we pronounce a lot of words in an odd way too. I was out with some friends the other night and my usually neutral accent slipped into a terrible Derbyshire accent.

Also, in Sheffield gennel is pronounced "jennel" whereas the Lancashire guinnel is pronounced with a hard g sound.

I'm going to start using these.

[Sasha]

In traditional Amsterdam slang there is an tremendous amount of jidish and bargoens (hobo language) but now a days that's offcourse being pushed out by Surinam, antilian, Turkish and marocan words.

[Goatpie]

Feen-A male,Feen is actually irish for beer
Byor-A female,Irish for wine
Munya-Something thats good or "deadly"
Mint-Something thats good
Moldy-something thats disgusting (usually used like "would ya look at that byor one over there,feen she is moldy)
the list keeps going.
I remember one day when i was younger i started calling Ciggy's biscuts and it really caught on,so much that i heard my friends little brother asking his friend to come outside and eat a biscut with him!

[Fawkes]

We got a lot of those down here to actually. Salty I think is over with though.

Drop knowledge, man, people get so butthurt if you say that, like "let me drop some knowledge on you right now". Pretty much means you just acted like a total idiot and you're about to get humiliated.

Haha, I totally say "drop some knowledge" sometimes, it is a pretty damn good way to set up a murking (which is another slang term around here meaning to own someone).

[Sir Comradical]

Sick-**** = Really cool person.
Mad-**** = Really cool person.

:(

[Rusty Shackleford]

oh god i hate mang

as for dank and fire, fire is used rarely around here but it simply means weed.
dank refers to potentcy.

dirty five-thirty refers to an area code around here. its dumb to say the least.


oh, and BRO fuck bro. brah and bri. no.

and stog or stoag. short for stoagie for cigarette.

ciggie, cancer, cancer stick, smoke, are all fine but stoag/stog. NO. cancer and cancer stick are relatively rare to hear though.


and jiztastic. yeah... it means really awesome according to friends.

[Pretty Flaco]

It matters where you go in indy. If you go to the more country parts, people talk fuckin different than in the city.

And people here don't use much slang. I say a bunch of shit people said in florida and they get all confused. like "wtf is that supposed to mean?"

lived most my life in daytona. a lot of new yorkers over there. people mostly sound like theyre from new york

[psgchisolm]

Chiiiiiiiiil yo. Chill the fuck out.
Beast-Awesome amazing
Crush. same as burn

[Pretty Flaco]

and people down in florida did somethin i didnt usually associate with americans which is ending their adverbs with ly's

here people say boss, legit, tight etc
i remember people there saying beastly, nasty, radical, insane, etc.
i remember hearing nasty and beastly the most though. and "that shit is the shit!"

[Pretty Flaco]

lol i smoked too much. white people slang in the us is all the same

[Blackscare]

also,

dude pass me some of them shits over there
don't give a flat fuck
that was boss as fuck


like what revolutionarily awesome said, I (and my FL friends) find ways to use shit and fuck like

ima eat the shit outta that burrito
I just read the fuck outta capital the other day


come to think of it, 'the other day' is something I don't hear anywhere beside NY and NY enclaves in florida.


you dig?

[bailey_187]

gas means some good ass weed, smash means fuck, getting caught slippin means you got beat up, zooted means your high, fuck boy means someone who would get fucked in jail, fuck nigga means fuck boy, swag means swaggerand how you dress and present yourself and we say it alot cuz we swag too fuckin hard down here, trol means cop, hot means an area gets scoped out by the cops alot, fade means fight, raw means good, theres a lot more and idk how much of that is actually specific to my area tbh

in london theres similar shit to this but

to get caught slipping can mean much more e.g get a bad picture drunk, do something stupid on record, aswell as get caught out to get rode out on

[bailey_187]

london slag>>>>>>>>>>>>al the northern uk slag, u man speak werid

in milton keynes right now tho lol, we talk good tho

[Martin Blank]

"Take one to the head" -- get high

It's weed or trees, never pot or grass or any other term

"Tight" -- like "cool"

"Grinding" or "cranking" -- working hard (comes from older autoworkers)

The word "swag" (pronounced shwag) usually means cheap or lousy.

"In the weeds" -- really busy or behind on work

"Ass-out" -- embarrassed

It's pop, not soda. Soda is what you put in your liquor or your refrigerator


Question for the British people posting here: What the fuck is a "git", anyway? I'm sure I could guess, but I'd rather hear it from those who are more apt to use it.

[727Goon]

Question for the British people posting here: What the fuck is a "git", anyway? I'm sure I could guess, but I'd rather hear it from those who are more apt to use it.

I'm not british and it might not even be the same word but down here we say "jit" to mean an annoying ass little kid.

[The Douche]

Haha, I totally say "drop some knowledge" sometimes, it is a pretty damn good way to set up an murking (which is another slang term around here meaning to own someone).

Yeah we say merc. Like "awww, bro, I totally just merced your high score".

[Jimmie Higgins]

Not all of this is strictly Oakland or very current, but you hear it - except for the ones I made up:lol:

Hella and Hellza = very, veeerry

"What's crackin'" "What's crackalackin" = what's going on

Ofey = foe, boss, or white person

Skip = Pills

Big faces = higher currency money

Purp = purple Oakland weed

Thizz = e

Stunners = sunglasses

Yay = cocaine

"Fa Sho" = for sure - yes, it began in Oakland

"Burners" or Clicks = prison/illegal cell phones

"Jankey" = an object that's crappy

"bunker" = shitty weed

Now use all these in a sentence and sound like either a condescending hipster/fratboy or an undercover cop.

[Jimmie Higgins]

"Grinding" or "cranking" -- working hard (comes from older autoworkers)That's interesting because it (grinding) means working hard as a "street entrepreneur" around here. I wonder if the origin is similar.

[progressive_lefty]

None of the Australians on revleft seem to have responded to this thread thus far. So I'll try and think of some.

root - sex eg. 'did you root her man?'
durrie - a cigarette <it makes me giggle when I hear it lol
mas - masturbating
piss - alcohol
Septics Tanks Yanks or seppos - people from the USA (for the ignorant/rude type)

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

Question for the British people posting here: What the fuck is a "git", anyway? I'm sure I could guess, but I'd rather hear it from those who are more apt to use it.
git isn't particularly popular now. as far as i know 'old git' was used to refer to a grumpy old man. git itself pretty much means someone who is cheeky/annoying/takes the piss. 'you stole my biscuits you git'.

[Martin Blank]

That's interesting because it (grinding) means working hard as a "street entrepreneur" around here. I wonder if the origin is similar.

I know that one, too. I would bet that the one I posted was the origin of the one you're posting -- a matter of generations. "Grinding" has been used by both Black and white autoworkers in Detroit for at least 40 years.

[gorillafuck]

Ripped means wicked high.

Wrecked means the same thing as ripped, but sometimes means wicked drunk.

Chick means female (and no, it's not considered offensive by anyone, it's considered equivalent to dude meaning male).

Stoked means really excited (though not too many people use this).

Po means police, and po'd means getting stopped by police.

[Lyev]

I don't know much slang from my area. People in the south-west of England often refer to an object as 'he'. Like, referring to a tractor: 'cor, look at he', but usually the 'he' is shortened to 'ee'. There is a Wurzels song that goes: 'Where be it Blackbird to? /I know where he be' etc. Oh and I don't know if lots of other folks use this, but I didn't hear the phrase 'I am hanging' to say if you have a hangover till I moved here
I also know only two bits of yiddish: 'eppis' for a quick snack. And 'alter kecker' (think it's just German) for someone who is old (my dad uses it to refer to my grandpa, I think it's not exactly rude; more endearing and jokey). Oh and a third bit, which I guess everyone knows; 'klutz', but I don't use that

[Sasha]

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[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

I don't much slang from my area. People in the south-west of England often refer to an object as 'he'. Like, referring to a tractor: 'cor, look at he', but usually the 'he' is shortened to 'ee'. There is a Wurzels song that goes: 'Where be it Blackbird to? /I know where he be' etc. Oh and I don't know if lots of other folks use this, but I didn't hear the phrase 'I am hanging' to say if you have a hangover till I moved here
I also know only two bits of yiddish: 'eppis' for a quick snack. And 'alter kecker' (think it's just German) for someone who is old (my dad uses it to refer to my grandpa, I think it's not exactly rude; more endearing and jokey). Oh and a third bit, which I guess everyone knows; 'klutz', but I don't use that

i've heard people say 'hanging' here in the south east recently too. i dunno where it comes from though. it can be extended to 'hanging out of my arsehole' too which is incredibly charming.

[Quail]

I've heard people use "hanging" in Sheffield, but I don't think it's a northern thing.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

I wish someone would short me on a square. = I wish someone would let me finish their cigarette.

I've heard people use the word "grit" for cigarette and somehow it stuck with me.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

cigarettes - fags, snouts, blems. for half a cigarette you ask for 'twos' as in 'twos me on that fag'. there are probably more slang terms for it now, i just say cigarette. alcohol here is sometimes referred to as 'gatter'. 'gattered meaning a state of intoxication. drug slang terms are too broad to even go into.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Hella= a lot.
Everybody in Northern California says this.

Coming at me sideways = Basically insulting somebody out of nowhere.
Got my shit twisted = Means you have something misunderstood.
Boo boo = Means it's bad. I once heard a guy said "it's boo boo butter cups" and couldn't help but laugh in his face :laugh:.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

The word "swag" (pronounced shwag) usually means cheap or lousy.
Funny it's like the exact opposite here. If you say something has swag/swagger it means it's really cool.


"Burners" or Clicks = prison/illegal cell phones

That's weird I've always heard burner used as slang for a gun here.

[synthesis]

"Ass-out" -- embarrassed

Funny, around here people say "assed out," as in, if you're locked out of your apartment with no way of getting in, or stranded somewhere after public transportation stops running, or you got laid off or whatever.

[synthesis]

Also, you might hear "you straight?" in the same way as "you good?" Like, if you're not assed out (or too drunk to drive or whatever) then you're straight. I'm not sure how widespread this is. I don't think it's homophobic; it's not like you're saying you're gay if you acknowledge that you're too drunk to drive.

[Fawkes]

Funny it's like the exact opposite here. If you say something has swag/swagger it means it's really cool.


Swag and shwag are two different words. At least here, shwag refers to really shitty weed and swag refers to swagger, i.e. badassery.

[Jimmie Higgins]

That's weird I've always heard burner used as slang for a gun here.Yeah, I'd only ever heard it used by graf people before, but according to someone I know, in Soledad they call cell phones in prison that. Apparently it's a huge thing in California prisons and the guards all make hella money off of bringing in cell phones. It could be used for both illegal cell phones or illegal guns though - like use it up and then get rid of it.

I know someone who called Alemeda the "A-hole" but I don't know if that's widespread or just him.


Got my shit twistedIs that local? I love that phrase. It's like "With all due respect, but..." in California because I hear people use this phrase right before they say something insulting: "Don't get me twisted, but you are a piece of shit."

It works good for politics too: "All this 'birther' crap is just racism because these tea-party people can't accept a black president. Don't get me twisted though, I don't support the Democrats or think that Obama is actually a true ally of working class people or oppressed groups"

[synthesis]

When I hear "burner" I usually think of those Tracfones you can buy at 7/11 for $15 and are supposed to throw away every two or three weeks.

[ZeroNowhere]

Swag and shwag are two different words. At least here, shwag refers to really shitty weed and swag refers to swagger, i.e. badassery."[S]hut the door, there comes no swaggerers here. I have not lived all this while, to have swaggering now; shut the door, I pray you: [...] I cannot abide swaggerers."

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Yeah, I'd only ever heard it used by graf people before, but according to someone I know, in Soledad they call cell phones in prison that. Apparently it's a huge thing in California prisons and the guards all make hella money off of bringing in cell phones. It could be used for both illegal cell phones or illegal guns though - like use it up and then get rid of it.It must be a prison thing then. My thoughts were that guns are called burners because I've heard it really burns when you get shot, like the bullet is very hot, or because of the flash of the gun when it's shot. Or maybe if you have a gun the cops are going to be all over your ass.


I know someone who called Alemeda the "A-hole" but I don't know if that's widespread or just him. :lol: Well I'm going to start calling it that now.


Is that local? I love that phrase. It's like "With all due respect, but..." in California because I hear people use this phrase right before they say something insulting: "Don't get me twisted, but you are a piece of shit."

It works good for politics too: "All this 'birther' crap is just racism because these tea-party people can't accept a black president. Don't get me twisted though, I don't support the Democrats or think that Obama is actually a true ally of working class people or oppressed groups"
I think it's local, every time I've said it outside California people are "wtf"? I told my cousin in Missouri he had my shit twisted and his response was "What did I do to your shit?"

[Garret]

Manchester-area Slang:

Kecks or Kex - Underpants
'ea - Address to someone
Nob or nobhead - Insult
Thick/Numpty - Stupid
Knackered - Tired
Have 40 weeks - Nap
Skint - No money
Nowt - Nothing
Whinge - Moan or whine
Brill - Brilliant
Suss or sussed - Figure out
Ta - Thanks
Tara! - Bye
Chuffed (To bits) - Pleased
Quid - Pound, a fiver is five and tenner is ten.
Well - Very. "You're well posh!"

All I can think of now.

[gorillafuck]

Boot means throw up, as in "I think she booted"

[Jack]

cigarettes - fags, snouts, blems. for half a cigarette you ask for 'twos' as in 'twos me on that fag'.

We tend to ask for someone to "duece" us on a cigarette.

[Pretty Flaco]

creeper - a weird person or somebody creeper. or something
"that guy is a creeper" "that basement was so creeper"

sketch - somebody shady
"he's so sketch"

never heard these in florida.

i've only heard two types of accents in indy:
indiana accents: pronounce ou and o sounds like a and a or al sounds like ar
"warsh" = wash
"carn" = corn

"haahy (me) arant yew frem flarda?"

others: just a conglomerate of any other type of accent lol

[Ele'ill]

paak et en dah doh yaad, bub

[Kuppo Shakur]

Leak = Mirror.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

sketch - somebody shady
"he's so sketch"
We have that in Milwaukee.


Also I forgot to point out that in Milwaukee we drop the "L" in MILWAUKEE

[gorillafuck]

We tend to ask for someone to "duece" us on a cigarette.Around where I am people just say "got any butts?"

[Lobotomy]

"baller": same as legit, etc
"hella" is really big here. I remember the first time I ever heard it I thought it was the stupidest thing I've ever heard, but somehow I picked it up, so I guess I'm a tool

a lot of people say dank here too, but it's also often used to describe a room that was just smoked in and smells really strongly of weed. eg- "it's hella dank in here"

"bro" is pretty common as a term of endearment. male/female, doesn't matter.

The other night I was with some friends and one of them said to another, "can I buttfuck you?" meaning, "can I use your cigarette to light my cigarette". that guy is from Boston though, so maybe it's not a PNW thing.

[Jimmie Higgins]

:lol: Well I'm going to start calling it that now.Yup, it's halla catchy:D



I think it's local, every time I've said it outside California people are "wtf"? I told my cousin in Missouri he had my shit twisted and his response was "What did I do to your shit?":laugh:

[praxis1966]

Oh fuck me, I was gonna stay out of this, but since JH pitched in his two cents...

Hyphy - Basically means the same thing as 'crunk,' difficult to explain because there's a whole subculture surrounding it.

Gettin dumb - What one has to do in order to keep it 'hyphy.'

Sideshow - Basically an impromptu car show in the middle of an intersection in Oakland (probably other parts of the Bay as well). People do figure 8's and gostride the whip (see below) and generally get dumb. Also, people get killed at these things all the time... When the Penelopes (cops) blurp (roll up and hit the berries [lights]), people tend to take the fuck off running each other over with their cars in the process.

Gostride the whip - Where you walk along outside your car while it's moving

Bootsy - a ripoff, something that sucks... Think of it this way, instead of saying, "What a bunch of bullshit," you might say, "Aw that's hella bootsy, mang."

Fizz face - That clenched jaw look people get when they do E.

Breezies and heezies - Women, although not to be said unless your some kind of sexist swine.

The City, The Town/O/Oaktown, Haystack/The Stack, Dirtymeda/Alamierda, San Ho: San Francisco, Oakland, Hayward, Alameda and San Jose, respectively.

The Murder Dubs, The Dirty 30s, The Shady 80s: The three toughest fucking neighborhoods in East O, maybe the Yay (see below).

Yay - Where I live, foo'. And if you don't know, now you know. :lol:

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

Manchester-area Slang:

Kecks or Kex - Underpants
'ea - Address to someone
Nob or nobhead - Insult
Thick/Numpty - Stupid
Knackered - Tired
Have 40 weeks - Nap
Skint - No money
Nowt - Nothing
Whinge - Moan or whine
Brill - Brilliant
Suss or sussed - Figure out
Ta - Thanks
Tara! - Bye
Chuffed (To bits) - Pleased
Quid - Pound, a fiver is five and tenner is ten.
Well - Very. "You're well posh!"

All I can think of now.



shouldn't that be forty winks and not forty weeks? we have some of that slang too. 'well' was big but its died out a bit.

[gorillafuck]

a lot of people say dank here too, but it's also often used to describe a room that was just smoked in and smells really strongly of weed. eg- "it's hella dank in here"Yeah that phrase wouldn't make sense where I live.

[praxis1966]

shouldn't that be forty winks and not forty weeks? we have some of that slang too. 'well' was big but its died out a bit.

Ya'll ain't special. Everybody says 40 winks... Or at least knows what it means.

[Die Rote Fahne]

Burnt = something good, cool, odd in a good way.

Fried = high, funny, strange in a good way, used when someone says something ridiculous.

Yat = you at, whats up, you up to

B'ys = boys, refer to both sexes as guys does.

Buddy = my friend, that guy, that person.

Jesus is used not only to refer to Jesus Christ, but as an adjective (usually in times of frustration)-> "pass the jesus wrench"

Example: B'ys, buddy is friggen burnt.

Guys, that person is very _____ (whichever meaning for burnt is intended)

[Chris]

Læbbe - Run. Real norwegian word is Løpe.
Bomme - Borrow/take. Real norwegian words would be låne/ta.
Pælær - Boots. Real norwegian word is støvler.
Seff - Of course. More of a shortened form of selvfølgelig.
Lættis - Laughing alot. Real norwegian word would be latterkrampe.
Rev - Mariujana. Real norwegian word would be, well, mariuana or hasj. Rev means fox.
Kamrat - Comrade/friend. Only difference from "main" norwegian is the removal of "e" (kamerat) and it is said faster. Usage depends a lot of what area one is from. Rural parts & working class urban areas tend to favour kamrat (comrade) over venn/venninne (friend & female friend), although they are used pretty much interchangably.
Kjærka - The Church. Real norwegian word would be kirke (kj is pronounced VERY differently from k).
Måker - Relatively small hammer used when breaking down walls of old buildings and such.
Røkla - Everyone else. Usually in the phrase "Meg/Oss mot røkla" (me/us against everyone else).

[GallowsBird]

Here in Lancashire we use "ginnel", which is probably the same word. Probably some Scandinavian word, seeing as it's a Northern term.


Some have suggested that it is though many think it is a corruption of the word "channel". Oddly enough though most Northern words, especially in the Borders are actually just archaic English words. Even words such as "hyem" (which is often said to be Norse) is actually just from the Old English "hám" ("home") as the Old Northumbrian English "á" split into "á" (as in the other variant "hame") "ye" ("hyem"), yi ("hyim) et cetera.

If I were to list all the "dialect" (not strictly "slang") words in the Borders it'd take a very long time.

My favourites are probably muckle/mickle ("great", "big", "very", "much"), the aforemention hame, yon (sort of "that thing over there" as in "abeun yon hame", "o'er yon fell", compare with the more famous form yonder), thunnor ("thunder", compare with the Old English form thunor which was also the name of the English form of the deity Thor)
Other words I like are Ettin or Yetun (from the Old English Eotan and cognate of the Norse Jotun. The meaning is "giant" or "supernatural being"), spelk ("splinter"), Lonnen ("lane"), kirk ("church" common in place names), broch (one of the Border forms for "burgh" (the most common form in place names) or "borough" hence the regional pronounciation of Roxburgh as Rosbroch), Hob (an "home-elf" or "house-god" in popular folklore... most old Border houses had one dwelling in them according to folklore), Redcap (a malicious form of the previously mentioned folkloric being, the Redcap was said to kill people and catch their blood in his hat...hence the name), Brag (another folkloric being, this time a shapechanger); but moving away from the names of folkloric beings we have burn ("small stream"), gan ("go"), bairn (a survival of the more common Anglian word for "young human", the more common Saxon word being "child"), childe ("young knight" in folk-ballads mostly so very archaic, this term is from the older usage of the word child, or cild, as it was in Old English) and mair ("more").

[Fawkes]

BK means brooklyn. The City means manhattan.

[Desperado]

"Ite?", as a hilariously shortened version of "Oright?" [all right?], and often followed by "or wa"

"Tampin", very angry

"Twp", stupid



B'ys = boys, refer to both sexes as guys does.


Is that pronounced like the word "bay"? I thought it was a Welsh thing (or are you from Wales?).

[Tim Finnegan]

Aw, Jesus, we've got a whole language's worth of them, so I'll just give you a dictionary and let you look for yourselves...

http://www.firstfoot.com/dictionary/a.html


a lot of people say dank here too, but it's also often used to describe a room that was just smoked in and smells really strongly of weed. eg- "it's hella dank in here"
That's slang? :confused: I honestly had no idea. I guess it must just be ordinary in the UK.



Manchester-area Slang:

Kecks or Kex - Underpants
'ea - Address to someone
Nob or nobhead - Insult
Thick/Numpty - Stupid
Knackered - Tired
Have 40 weeks - Nap
Skint - No money
Nowt - Nothing
Whinge - Moan or whine
Brill - Brilliant
Suss or sussed - Figure out
Ta - Thanks
Tara! - Bye
Chuffed (To bits) - Pleased
Quid - Pound, a fiver is five and tenner is ten.
Well - Very. "You're well posh!"

All I can think of now.



"Manchester-area"? :confused: We have half of that up here...

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Oh fuck me, I was gonna stay out of this, but since JH pitched in his two cents...

Hyphy - Basically means the same thing as 'crunk,' difficult to explain because there's a whole subculture surrounding it.

Gettin dumb - What one has to do in order to keep it 'hyphy.'

Sideshow - Basically an impromptu car show in the middle of an intersection in Oakland (probably other parts of the Bay as well). People do figure 8's and gostride the whip (see below) and generally get dumb. Also, people get killed at these things all the time... When the Penelopes (cops) blurp (roll up and hit the berries [lights]), people tend to take the fuck off running each other over with their cars in the process.

Gostride the whip - Where you walk along outside your car while it's moving

Bootsy - a ripoff, something that sucks... Think of it this way, instead of saying, "What a bunch of bullshit," you might say, "Aw that's hella bootsy, mang."

Fizz face - That clenched jaw look people get when they do E.

Breezies and heezies - Women, although not to be said unless your some kind of sexist swine.

The City, The Town/O/Oaktown, Haystack/The Stack, Dirtymeda/Alamierda, San Ho: San Francisco, Oakland, Hayward, Alameda and San Jose, respectively.

The Murder Dubs, The Dirty 30s, The Shady 80s: The three toughest fucking neighborhoods in East O, maybe the Yay (see below).

Yay - Where I live, foo'. And if you don't know, now you know. :lol:
You mean thizz face.