Slang in your country
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holy king
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my whole languange is german slang.
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classical_hero
In whom I trust
It almost sounds like slang for anal sex.
I remember that guy being beyond mental
Ugh. I think "you all" is a fine plural second person, but in a pinch I'd rather use youse than y'all.
That, or catching some dude's number #3 with your mouth.
Oh, he was crazy. Crazy good at math.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Most Scots slang is pretty much the same as the rest of the UK, but we have a fair selection of our own. Some personal favourites from the smorgasbord of local gibberish:
Gadgie - disgusting, unpleasant
Shoogle - shake, wobble
Bowfin - stinking
Blether - chatter
Jakie - homeless person, esp. alcoholic/drug addict
Blootered - drunk
Pished - drunk
Smashed - drunk
Stocious - drunk (a theme emerges)
Scunnered - screwed (e.g. "I'm screwed!" = "ahm scunnered!)
Droochit - soaked
Glaickit - miserable, long-in-the-face
Dreicht - gloomy/wet weather
Greetin - crying
Bubblyjock - turkey
Oxter - armpit
Cludgie - toilet
Square go - a fair fight (esp. as a challenge: "Mon then! Square go!")
Bampot - lunatic
Clattie - dirty, disgusting
Hoachin - swarming, infested
Fud - fool
Numpty - fool
Skelped - smacked, struck
Some of these are traditionally regional, but I'm pretty bad at picking them apart (and it's all pretty jumbled these days anyway), so I'm not entirely sure which ones or from where.
Gadgie - disgusting, unpleasant
Shoogle - shake, wobble
Bowfin - stinking
Blether - chatter
Jakie - homeless person, esp. alcoholic/drug addict
Blootered - drunk
Pished - drunk
Smashed - drunk
Stocious - drunk (a theme emerges)
Scunnered - screwed (e.g. "I'm screwed!" = "ahm scunnered!)
Droochit - soaked
Glaickit - miserable, long-in-the-face
Dreicht - gloomy/wet weather
Greetin - crying
Bubblyjock - turkey
Oxter - armpit
Cludgie - toilet
Square go - a fair fight (esp. as a challenge: "Mon then! Square go!")
Bampot - lunatic
Clattie - dirty, disgusting
Hoachin - swarming, infested
Fud - fool
Numpty - fool
Skelped - smacked, struck
Some of these are traditionally regional, but I'm pretty bad at picking them apart (and it's all pretty jumbled these days anyway), so I'm not entirely sure which ones or from where.
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That's cuz your a damnyankee.
There's a load of things we say in Ireland that we tend to not realise is not standard in all English like "I'm after doing", "amn't I" and "give out" (scold/complain) though we share a bit with the Scots and the northern English.
There does tend to be a large amount of regional slang but I suppose the most universal ones are:
Grand - Fine/OK in a positive manner
Craic - fun/enjoyment unless used with a negative modifier, also "What's the craic?" for "What's up". Borrowed from into English from Irish which was borrowed from English. Yeah.
Sliced Pan - sliced loaf of bread
gas - hilarious
Your man - that man or the man in question
Your one - that woman or the woman in question
Sambo - A sandwich. Apparently saying this in England makes you sound racist.
Sanger - sandwich
Shift - kissing in a sexual manner
a ride - sexually attractive
Gaimbín/Gombeen - A shifty, money dealing sort especially corrupt political types relying on parochialism
Savage - Excellent
Éire 32 - "I hope for the peaceful integration of Northern Ireland into the Irish state"
Culchie/Bogger - Somebody from the country side or just not from Dublin
Jackeen - Somebody from Dublin, probably because they have a "west Brit" reputation
Scabby - from Cavan
Gobshite - Somebody who talks nonsense
Ye - Plural of you
press - a cupboard or storage space
hot press - a storage space with a boiler in it
delph - dishes
Scanger - a scumbag equivalent to chav in England
Quare - strangely or extremely
fierce - extremely
beour - a girl
feck - throw, or a polite form of the f word (non-literal cases)
There's a lot more than that, probably ones that are a lot more obvious but aren't coming to me. There's a fair bit of words borrowed from Irish used by a lot of people but it isn't so much slang as throwing in words you know from another language.
There does tend to be a large amount of regional slang but I suppose the most universal ones are:
Grand - Fine/OK in a positive manner
Craic - fun/enjoyment unless used with a negative modifier, also "What's the craic?" for "What's up". Borrowed from into English from Irish which was borrowed from English. Yeah.
Sliced Pan - sliced loaf of bread
gas - hilarious
Your man - that man or the man in question
Your one - that woman or the woman in question
Sambo - A sandwich. Apparently saying this in England makes you sound racist.
Sanger - sandwich
Shift - kissing in a sexual manner
a ride - sexually attractive
Gaimbín/Gombeen - A shifty, money dealing sort especially corrupt political types relying on parochialism
Savage - Excellent
Éire 32 - "I hope for the peaceful integration of Northern Ireland into the Irish state"
Culchie/Bogger - Somebody from the country side or just not from Dublin
Jackeen - Somebody from Dublin, probably because they have a "west Brit" reputation
Scabby - from Cavan
Gobshite - Somebody who talks nonsense
Ye - Plural of you
press - a cupboard or storage space
hot press - a storage space with a boiler in it
delph - dishes
Scanger - a scumbag equivalent to chav in England
Quare - strangely or extremely
fierce - extremely
beour - a girl
feck - throw, or a polite form of the f word (non-literal cases)
There's a lot more than that, probably ones that are a lot more obvious but aren't coming to me. There's a fair bit of words borrowed from Irish used by a lot of people but it isn't so much slang as throwing in words you know from another language.
Zack
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I've lived in Texas my whole life and I can't stand the word, although a lot of that has to do with living in Texas and thus hearing it all the damn time.
That's one of the nicest compliments I have received, especially given I survived middle school, high school, and undergrad in the South, and a few of my few northern friends insist that I have a Southern accent because they don't know what ebonics is nor have ever heard a thick Southern accent.
Mango Elephant
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Some of youse don't know what slang is ... lol.
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Never been to Texas, but I have heard they are vicious in their use of damnyankee.
Then again, I had a teacher (and have heard of other professors) who had to take speach therapy to get rid of the accent because he faced discrimination over it.
I too, survived a mostly southern upbringing. I picked up a twang (my spouse picks on me everytime I say fanger) but it has mostly gone away and I'm starting to say fark like a food midwesterner.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Or my favorite, the plural: all y'all.
Here is a great page about the great Merlin accent. Being at the intersection of several distinct regional dialects, ours is an amalgamation of many others, and which part of the state you're in changes how much the Merlin daalect favors it over others. Since moving to the city I've lost a good deal of it, but if I head home for a few weeks it comes back out in force.
http://wilk4.com/humor/humorm221.htm
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