Tired of the standard catch phrases? Help is at hand. For centuries, English speakers (mostly young ones) have invented new ways to express useful concepts (mostly “good” and “bad”). Here’s a place to try to squeeze new life out of those bygone idioms, or to invent new ones.
(Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas deserves credit for this totally funky-fresh thread.)
For starters, let’s not forget the new slang Polly Shulman introduced in her book Enthusiasm:
good = “crisp”
bad = “igsome” (exclamatory form: “ig”)
Spiffy.
Rotten
What’s with both ‘cool’ and ‘hot’ meaning good? What about ‘warm’? Woah, that was so warm! Naw, I don’t think it will catch on.
the 1920s had a lot of slang that was the bees knees.
Also the cat’s whiskers, not to mention the cat’s pajamas.
how bout doing like in jeeves and wooster and using really elaborate, vaugley riduculous metaphors?
It theenk we should use “viva!”
Thank you GAPAs, for creating this totally kickin’ thread. Here is a complete list of the phraseology we will be using, in case you didn’t read my posts on the monthly random thread.
keen
spiffy
nifty
neat-o
boss
funky
psychadelic
groovy
righteous
funky-fresh
hip
dope
stoopid
bad
rad
swell
bodacious
triumphant
most excellent
hoopy
froody
gnarly
magical
phontastique
brilliant
wunderbar
kickin’
the cat’s pajamas
the cat’s whiskers
the bee’s knees
Isn’t it just rad?
Oh, also:
Happenin’
Swingin’
Crazy-cool
Um, me and my friends often enjoy mangling existing words. I don’t know if it would be considered slang, but…
Examples:
Coinkidink–Coincidence
Ginormous, Humongo–Very Large
Confoozeled–Confused
Aweshyome–Awesome
Kewl–Cool
And so on.
Huh=Skuzz?
cool/good=flumby
bad=rookoo
Flumby or rookoo?
Strange=skweer
hello/goodbye=phoog
newbie=bumber
dude=jombie
what’s up=skuzzaloo
doofus=holoscul
I’m surprised no ones mentioned froody.
wahoo=pooga!
embarassing=thulby
boring=xonct
Alternitave slang? Awesomey!
I think just being musers we’ve developed some slang. i don’t know too many people who frequently use “pie” as a verb. (as in being hit with one) And then there’s flamabadulous, our abundant use of exploding pants jokes, etc. We’ve developed a dialect! But instead of useing soda/pop/soda pop we need our own word.
Hm, a new slang term for soda/pop/etc. How about “vess,” from “effervescent”? Or “zzif” (fizz spelled backwards). “Boy, I’m hot. I could really go for a zzif.”
I like zzif. Gwen mentioned froody, Yoda.
Cynomys-san, are you just making up all of these, or did people ever actually use them?
Have you got ‘keen’ on there? Or ‘suave’? Or ‘swell’? All three mean ‘good’.
excruciating: extreme
top notch: jolly old good!
weirded out: need I explain?
froody is common.
aw, schweet idea for a thread!
i use more weird slang online than i do in real life, actually.
my special online words:
mrahr! = anger or excitement. tried submitting it to urban dictionary, but for some reason they wouldnt take it…mrahr to them!
schweet = i just think its cool
squeeeeeeeee = picked this one up from Ebeth i believe
pwn = picked this one up from you guys
yayness = might have picked this up from Ebeth
*yoshi noises* = i actually do this in real life when somethings bugging me. yeah, i know. strange.
deus = as in “what the deus?!”
im making an attempt to remove “cool” from my vocab, so i say “neat” a lot more now.
#10: hehe. coinkidink.
hmmmm…. how about a non-muser is a nokoko? even I was once a nokoko! someone who thinks koko is immature is a koimathinturekoinkre ( sort of reconstruction of kokoimaturethinker) a experienced muser is a yaekoko, and a muse finally coming in the mail after many long museless days is a “yoohoo!! musi’here!” pronounced “YOO-HOO myoos(soft s)i(as in “in”)here(pronounsed as the word here)
finessed
severly paired with another adjective or a verb such as “severly cool” or “severly misting”
i will get out a list of all those weird ’20s slang.
boring: killjoy, oil can, flat tire.
the cats meow: it means the same as all the other ‘cat’ expressions.
the berries: good, nice.
more things that mean approximatly the same tjing as the cats meow: the cats roller skates, the tigers spots, the pigs wings, the snakes hips, the fleas eyebrows.
they were really inventive. we coud probably make up some more like them. after all, theyd be the cobras toenails!
all right i weirded out there.
um …..
ooh! how about trylyt (PRONOUNCED TRY-LIGHT)
it means cool
wait! we could say oxymorons like good could be terminal
I had a zzif today. Actually it was lemonade, but y’know. Whatev. I don’t actually drink zzif…
What about soupy? I think that’s a cool word. I mean a righteous word. Or a soupy word.
Soupy thread!
ooh, how about “piesome” as in “somebody you desperately want to pie”
Another word meaning cool-fractal! Woah, that’s fractal dude!
This is fun. The crow’s poems! Something really bad that we love anyway. In honor of crraw. Like, “Eragon is the crow’s poems.” or “How did you like the hp movies?” “I thought they were the crow’s poems.” Sort of like “guilty pleasure”
Whee for quotation marks!!! “”””””””””””””””””
16- I like thulby.
28- That’s catchy!
29- So is fractal! and the crow’s poems!
I usually add the words, “of d00m” to things that I enjoy. Like the messenger bag of d00m.
Razz is a rather unused term. It means the same as to make fun of.
And for classes, usually Spanish, I add the word “land” to the ende of the name of the subject. Like Spanishland. Sometimes the subject name needs to be changed a little: Historicaland. “I’m on my way to Mathland” is much cooler than “I’m going to math class.”
My friends and I use a sort of poking-fun-at -chatspeak language that ends up sounding very odd.
We say swanky a lot though.
Other strange phrases:
Snerk!
-is bemused- (Whole phrase)
-jovial laughter-
And etc.
This could be a Fictionary thread too…
Oxymoron = Someone who has become stupid due to a lack of oxygen.
animinimals
That is my only original slang word. Cute huh?
Most of these are flumby, especially zzif.
In response to 20, of course I’m making these up, jombie! It would be so xonct if I didn’t!
13- The words you made up are already words. They don’t mean those though. You won’t find them in the dictionary, but their already slang for other things. Sorry to burst you Bazooka Bubblegum!
I suggest NEW words that mean those things!
Newbie: Geddes (GedeEs)
Dude: Voose (vUs)
Wassup?: You can keep that skuzzaloo thing. It’s not yeat taken.
If ya don’t likem’ dont usem’ Here are my own.
Person who has been a museblog for a long time: Pelao (PeLAOh)
Good: Raig (rAYg)
Bad: Roge (rUg)
Again, If ya don’t likem’ dont usem’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so these are like waaaay the most groovylicious and awesomistic words ever!!! i’m like way new to this whole blogging thing so hang with me on this. hey 29 i don’t (hardly ever) drink zzif either!! (i gotta luv not being a total dionk!) also i constantly find myself adding “ville” and “licious” to otherwise overused words… so keep swingin’ babes!!!
i luv “jombie” that’s so groovsville california!!! funk on man
How about…
amenome
cornfusing
how do say “amenome” ??? i like cornfusing though!!!
I’ve always sort of been confused by “sick”, meaning good..
18- I love the word effevescent!
So have I, Lizzie,s o have I
I also am counfused by “Mad” being “Very”. I also don’t like suburban people using ghetto talk. You see, I live in Over The Hedge style suburbia.
I’m surprised no one mentioned “Flamablamablous”.
38 (beachbabe)& 39 (OSC)- It’s spelt anemone. And pronounced ah-NEM-o-nee. At least, if you’re talking about the thing clownfish live in it is. If it’s something new, I don’t know how you’d say it.
Some people in mu city use, “Yinz.” for, “you all.” So, if you go to a restaurant and there is a yinzer (that’s what we call them), they’ll say, “Yinz ready to order?”
It also really aggrivates me whan people use “at” at the end of a sentence. or any preposition for that matter. People around here do it all the time; “Where do you live at?” JUST TAKE THE ‘AT’ OFF AND MAKE IT, “WHere do you live?”
41- this is kind of random, but my brother used to have a shirt that said “eschew confuscation”. and yes, that was related to effervescent in some way..
42-It’s been mentioned several times actually.
45-lol i love the word eschew…
Lizzie,
I suspect your brother’s shirt actually said “Eschew Obfuscation.” That’s the usual slogan. It means “don’t use obscure language.”
oops, yeah, probably.. :-[
PUBLIC SERVICE ANOUNCEMENT
Ebeth and I have decided that Brazil is now Brazil’ll.
That is all.
gr8
ill b sure 2 cal it Brazil’ll
changed my name from beachbabe to this. why is brazil now Brazil’ll??? i like calling different places funkylicious names like france is froggyland and the usa is hotdawg-land… oh hey p.s. thanks onesmartcookie for clearing the whole anenome thing up for me… (i just wasn’t sure if the aquatic life form is what you meant…)
ah, language, how i do love thee, let me count the ways. i spent many years eschewing (is love btw) the media in general and the internet in particular so i feel v. behind in the internet slang world these days (now that i spend the majority of my time on my shiny new laptop). some of these are v. good and certainly creative. i have started to use snarkasm and variations thereof which is a combination of snark and sarcasm refering to especially biting form of sarcasm and i’ve come over all wordy so i’ll leave you to your sanity now.
44- AAAAH! I know people who say such things!
Oooo Newbies! Yay! *sends welcome pies*
*pies sleepyheathen* Yay, newbie!
Brazil is brazil’ll because JS and i were talking about the world cup and i was saying “brazil’ll probably win” and we were like “cool! Mwahaha! Brazil’ll!” so yeah. But guess what they DIDN’T! Ze french did! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! Yay for monty python!
I just went to the library and sat there and re-read enthusiasm. Then i checked out 6 other books and came home. Now GAPA *chuckles evilly* stalking time. You said there was a reference to you and your cousins on page 8? There was the center of the football team who turned down college for west point (i’m guessing not-that’s just one person, and our GAPA is too froody to play a stoopid game that involves crashing into people) and the library renovations (i’m guessing yes) Did i get it? How menny bunny points do i get?
this all has nothing to do w/slang…except possibly igsome and crisp, which are both crisp words…but i g2g now cuz mater’s being all “raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar” so i’m condensing everything.
i’ve had eye of the tiger stuck in my head since thursday (the last band practice, what a surprise) and it’s really bugging me. It’s soooooooo repetetive! *dies*
So who’s been watching soccer? Some exciting games today!
Arr, now i really g2g bye all
Ebeth did you see the nihl nihl match of england and portragol? it was dukey!(rhymes with hookey). Don’t forget to be interplanetary while you groove! Gee, I have to go and have a swell day today and watch a raig improv troupe!
*welcome pies sleepyheathen with a cats pajamas pie
British slang is bloody brilliant!
47- The sad thing is, I’ve used that phrase.
Ebeth (54),
Nope, that’s not me. It’s the Robert Rive Memorial Library. I’m the “Robert” half. The “Rive” refers to my cousin Amélie Rives, a colorful and passionate Victorian poetess/novelest of whom Polly is a big fan. A biography of cousin Amélie, called Archie and Amélie, is coming out this summer.
It beats me why it couldn’t have been the Robert Coontz Memorial Library, but I guess Polly is too subtle for that.
Aw…i missed that. oh well. It should’ve been the Robert Coontz Memorial Library.
But i suppose if it were, she would’ve had hundreds of stalking musers emailing her for the address of the library…
I made up a word: tiggywumple. it doesn’t really have a meaning, so it’s kindof up for grabs. It is a great word to shout really loud in a crowded room. I want to get it into the dictionary, so please use it.
I should read through the thread, but I have to laev now. Before I go, I wanted to suggest this (hopefullt it hasn’t bee already)
The french have a form of slang called “verlan”. It’s where you
switch the syllables in a word, so “music” becomes “sicmu” and so on. cool?
62- that is severly cool and froody.
My 6th grade teacher used to say “highly amusing” whaen somthing was, well, highly amusing. I dunno if that counts.
“thou” and “shalt” and other magnificent words like that. “t’was”
is good too. (i’m so sorry I have 2 posts after each other, but I just thought of this. And I mean “when”, not “whaen”)
RG,
You mean ’twas, right? The apostrophe stands in for the missing “i” in “it.”
64-“Very droll.” heehee. got that from watching yes, minister. Now i say that when i want to be sarcastic. It’s better than “har har”
When is queenie j getting back? she’s got a whole dictionary i bet…
Speaking of which, we should make one for this thread! I’m gonna do that as soon as i have lotsa time/get bored.
I usually spell ‘t was with a space.
12,13,16- *applause*
Does anyone know what “Wotcher” means? As in when Tonks says, “Wotcher, Harry!” ?????
Of course, using the names of characters from fandoms instead of various slang words is always fun…
I think it’s just “hello” or something…
What in the name of Chuck Norris’s pink speedo?
What in the name of the GAPA’s License plates?
What in the name of Elvis’s pantyhose?
What in the name of ….
you get the Idea…
i’m personally v. fond of turning a word that is exclusively one part of speach into another.
62-the french tend to slang their speach more than most i’ve found not only does the younger gen. use verian, they drop about half of the letters in many words and create liasons (carrying the last sound of one word into the first sound of the next) between consonants which is bloody difficult to pronounce unless you grew up on it.
Tiggywumple sounds like a word that some professional would use to mean an uneducated layperson. A little bit like a gum-shoe. Raig, Capricious, raig. Let’s not forget about splunge either. Here’s a bit of slang from my house. Most of them are based off of mispronunciations or misconceptions of definition from when my brother and i were learning to talk. There’s
Pork: 1. n. A sharp quill or barb; something that pokes or is used to poke. 2. v. To poke forcefully, often with a sharp object. [derived from porcupine.]
and
Pork fork: 1. n. A fork which is used with or on pork (meaning pig’s flesh here); a fork which pertains to pork (and here). 2. n. A large, sharp fork which is used or could be used to pork. 3. n. A fork which is used to pork pork (and here). That one came from a game of Scatergories when i needed a kitchen utensil begining with ‘p’.
Here’s a good one. Once we were hatching and caring for chicks while our neighbors were on vacation. Then this friend showed up who’s just crazy about chicks and she said ‘Oh, look at the little woobediewoobedies!’ with no explanation. So now we use ‘woobediewoobedie’ to mean either a small cute animal, or a person (usually a woman) who gushes over animals, often talking to them and making odd noises.
My family has a made up word
One day, we were trying to make a word that rhymes with “Tango’ and “Mango” so I suggested “Wango” meaning “The crust on the kectchup bottle”. They liked it.
Another one my grandparents made up” Smitchik. Meaning “Remote control”. When my grandpa tells people he neds his smitchik fixed, he thinks their nuts.
It’s really fun to call guinea pigs names, because they won’t care. Here’s some my sister , my friends and I made up:
Piggywiggle
meerschweinchen (meer swine chen. guinea pig in german) (means”little sea pig”)
piggy
bamboozle
poozer (one of ours is named pooh)
Tiggywiggle (yes, the other is named tigger. He never bounces Pooh, though)
Beanmakers
The last one is actually from
[Web-site URL snipped — Rosanne]
It’s a guinea pig fan site
no body uses grody anymore. also, me and my friend came up with recent future, which means something which either happened in a dream or in real life but you can’t remember which.
Ha…OK. When I was a youngin’ I was in the car w/ my mother when she went through a red light and got ticketed by a Pig (I’m sry, but they are; I hate them). After that, I (being young and stupid) started calling them “Tiki-Mons” which I guess meant something along the lines of “Ticket-Men.”
73-hahahaha
Has anyone mentioned
Sass?
Strag?
Hoopy?
Because frood was mentioned…
How about confuzed?
Who in Museica is i’mabeachbabe,gottahaveit???!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
piffle. Did I say that already?
yob.
*welocme pies sleepyheathen*
Betsy Ross Pie… Straberry, Blueberry, Banana and Vinnila Pudding
I did mean ” ’twas “. ’twas my mistake.
Patheticist(spelling?)=Someone who is perpetually pathetic.
I wouldn’t use the word sass very much if I were you. Heck, I wouldn’t even use it if I was me, which i am. It seems like it could lead some rather unfortunate mix-ups.
A few words that really should have a slang meaning in addition to thier real ones (if they do, please enlighten me) :
lagged
potted
grim
churn
furrow
gybe
i use ‘piffle’ a lot. usually when a parental unit brings up an objection to something i really want to do. ‘And….’ can be substituted. it is pronounced with the tone of ‘why?is this a problem??’.n ‘This is a problem??????’ also works.
i thought that ‘sass’ ment ‘to talk back’.
my slang for walking stick bugs is ‘stk’ the one i have 4 a pet is ‘(duh) stk-man’. confuzled as to whether it’s male of female, though.
Jolly good.
87- The only one I’ve heard of already is Churn. Have you ever heard of churning butter? I’ll use it in a scentance,
“Sally looked into the tank of milk and watched the gears churn it to make cream.”
89- that’s the normal meaning.
87- roiled, too
85- i use patheticism-a statement or action which causes one to be perceived as pathetic.
saw this somewhere the other day- adorkable
it made me happy
also i enjoy automatic responses, for those times when you have nothing to say, mine used to be purple, which usually mad no sense whatsoever, now i use l’hippopotame (french for hippopotamus) which makes even less sense-it leaves people wondering
btw-thanks for all the welcome pies!
whoah!! what a groovy thread!
my friends made up steamy, to mean anything good… like, this thread is so steamy! it also means like good looks… i also say cunfuzzled alot. and ya. not yes. y’all is also common…
i say yup for yes. which i guess makes sense.
Hope all of you feel happytabulous today (it’s my new word)!
91-I Love automatic responses.
“You go do that” is my usuall one.
95-have decided to use yoda as a verb, as in: yoda my way through sentances, i tend to.
wat about
noob=any thing derogative
tool=same goes
grongo=same
dero=same
gronk=same
hang wwat is this thread a bout?
its about slang.
*pies mink*
This thread’s about people being bored w/the usual slang. As in, us.
Btw, i’m NOT HERE right now. I’m ON MY WAY. i DIDN’T oversleep! No, not me…*sigh*
97- This thread is a tribute to my genius (just kidding). *pies with cinnamon*
*pies Mink* welcome!
*pies whoever needs pieing* well, I’m back. My bat mitzvah was fantabulous, but my friend moved away this morning and I haven’t gotten over the depressing-ness of her not living here anymore. but my bat mitzvah was still absolutely fabulous
Shiny! A newbie! *pies mink*
*pies mink with pumpkin pie*
Here’s some interesting slang that could be used by the museblogging population to confuse English speakers. My mother went to Guatemala ealier this year on a mission trip and discovered this. Appearently, there, a ‘mango’, besides being a fruit is hot guy. “Hey, check out that mango across the street.”
“Mango?! More like an Uglifruit.”
105-brilliant!
have decided (due to a typo i made in an email yesterday) to start using “knid” as slang for “really and truly bizarre”
pies mink
congrats, BSR! sorry bout your amigo, tho.
*pies Mink* HELLO!!!
105- HAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!
“Pompous popinjay,” or anything else Dr. Niles Crane says.
tihs soluhd plbobroy go in the rdoanm trhaed but i culod’n fnid it.
only the wise may read that.
(you’d better be able to read that, GAPA!!!!!!!)
after somebody says what that does i’ll tell everyone how to do it.
(you shouldn’t have to unscramble it)
(i may not be back for awhile)
109- I can read it =)
109- i lkie wtirnig lkie tihs aslo. it deos look cnfosunig.
i must be wise.
It’s not really slang, but I did invent a hormone once. It’s called Preposterone, and I used to claim that injecting it made me the way I am.
114- Haha, nice.
ve shoudd awl writ loik dees.
Or not.
109-this should probably go on the random thread, but I couldn’t find it. ??????did I get it right???
59 – If I ever get a book published I’ll put a Robert Coontz Library in the story somewhere so we musers can stalk you…
75 – A few people in in my church’s youth group still say “grody” fairly often. Maybe it’s a Kentucky thing since old slang terms seem to stick around here long after everyone else has stopped using them.
114 – I think I must’ve been injected with some of that as an infant, lol!
My sister came up with the verb “whiffle”, which refers to the way a dog with a long nose sniffs the air.
Heh. Preposterone. I think people spike my food with it.
Guess what peoples, this has nothing to do with slang! Incredible! Ebeth’s going off-topic yet again! Anyway, i’m FINALLY reading volumes 8-13 of the CHotU by our very own larry g. It is most squeesome. Other news-i missed a band practice being on vacation apparentely, and another tonight that fedner actually told me about but i skipped cuz i’m sick-actually first jacob said “are you going to band?” and i was half-asleep so i was like “what right now?” and then i was like “heh you must mean band camp sry i’m half-asleep. yeah i’m going” and he left right after so i think he was in a hurry and failed to miss the incongruity but then i was talking to fedner later and she was talking about summer gym, which she’s taking now and i said “wow u have a busy summer” and she’s like “yeah, health, then gym, then band camp” and then she says “speaking of which are you going to band tonight?” and i was like “WHAT? tonight?! what’s going on?” and she’s like “yeah we have a practice tonight” so i said “how’d u find out about it? cuz i never heard this” and she said she got a letter in the mail, so i run over to dad and ask if we got a letter about band and he says “no, we stopped the mail. it should be coming in a few days” (we left vacation a bit early for poor Ebeth’s coughings) so then i went back to fedner and said “well dad stopped the mail so mebbe i’ll come and if not i’ll just pretend i didn’t know about it” so then we talked a bit more and then she left, then dad and i went to the library to get the books i requested, and i went upstairs to read the CH, and dad+james went to see roger rabbit at either the drexel or the ohio theater, i’m not sure which, and mom was asleep cuz she got sick too after me coughing all over her while she dumped out the sudafed. So i look at the clock and i’m like “yeeeeeah. i missed it. oh well.”
That was an incredibly long and boring story about my sad little life. Haven’t told one of those in a while. Felt good. Read at your own risk. Minds have been known to atrophy, and in some cases disintegrate completely in the midst of my long boring stories about my sad little life.
You have been warned. Anyway, i’m going to leave now. i’ll probably go to bed ridiculously early or something. Band camp in like 3 days and i won’t be a freshie! Aaah, LIG. Summer went by way too fast though. Night all.
norange(rhymes with orange)-a word that doesn’t rhyme with anything, such as month
Automatic responses- whenever I say something confuzzling, a friend of mine replies with “I like chocolate”.
Tzarcasm. A cool way of spelling sarcasm.
funifull- full of fun
funifully- in a way that is funifull
Tonic,
Tonical,
Tonirific,
Tonirifical,
Tonicarific,
Tonicarifical,
Tonicalifiral,
Tonirifidicidal,
Tonirifidicular : all meaning cool
flamblamablous.
and from me n my friends:
bleep: huh, what, ect
ya lost me: oh just shut up
twintchy: heck, even i dont no wot this means…….
ur brilliant: insult of the worst degree
and the most common response to what i say to anybody is:
friend: more useless information from….
me: shut up
weeeeeeeee this is fun
did 2 say spiffy… PENDRAGON RUES!!!
Does anybody get zzif Cicada?
hello? hello…hello…ello…llo…o… gosh, it echos in here… here….here…ere…