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I know it's different depending on the country you're in but let's see what the trends are in terms of slang words and what is so out right now. Yes I'm talking like a 13 year-old girl.

So like, in NZ if you want to agree with someone or answer a question yes it is "Yea na". If you want to go along with someone about something, "true bro" or "eh!".

Uncool words: Epic, planking, rad...

Any to add?

Myself and a mate actually consider ourselves fluent in Kiwi after watching this a couple of hundred times. We regularly go for nights out and speak only in our kiwi accents.

The appropriation of Patois into urban slang so beloved of those urban types in our capital is the most annoying crap I ever heard.

Regional slang and colloquialisms are an everyday part of the English language but the language I hear should say something that is integral to local dialect and it seems that it is almost being completely replaced with words and phrases that have no roots in the venacular.

If I hear one more white person say 'innit blood' or 'aye, is it' I will pull their tongue out and wipe my feet on the fecker.

Language is always evolving. It is it's nature and I accept that but you should still have a base that can be attributed to your own language or dialect.

Not quite the response you wanted. Apologies.

For the record I love Patois and could sit on a Jamaican beach all day listening to it bloodclot.

I don't wait for it to come to me. I make it up. This kickball season we came up with "Sea doggin'" or "Going up to Portland."

Our friend josh enjoys himself some vagina. So much so, that he's willing to bat a few leagues lower than he could/should. Analogy incoming: "This kid...its like he plays for the Sox, but he's batting with the Sea Dogs...he's going Sea Doggin'"

Don't expect to hear this one around, but its apt none-the-less.

Meh. Here is some old school proper northern plains slang:

uff da
gahl damn

Etc.

"Uff Da" being used when, say, lifting a heavy load or in reference to a heavy burden; wheras "gahl damn" is used, essentially, the same as god-damned.... only when you say it, you let people know you're from the beautiful heathen north.

People have issues understanding what my friends and I are talking about sometimes, because we've adopted some bastardized form of communication that is parts surfer, beatnik, hippie/stoner, and random southern-isms.

An example of something that might be heard from one of my friends:
"That cat done **** her nest, brah!"

Translation: "That person really messed up, man."

A couple of us switch the first letters of words around.

Like in shops buying cigarettes - 'Can I get a packet of Lamel Cights please?'
Will you roll a joint? - 'Joll a roint bro?'
Such nice weather - 'Wuch nice seather'

If you just throw a sentence of it in amongst normal talk people notice but they are always like unsure if they misheard correctly and they end up just looking slightly confused. We get bored sometimes....

I'm rubbish with slang. Birmingham slang isn't too difficult though. You've just got to say 'dat is well (insert word that would normally have a bad meaning)' for something good, and basically impersonate a London chav. I've wanted to take it further and try and make Clockwork Orange slang popular, but, well, I'd fail at that.

I use "dig" and "man" a lot. I think that's mostly because it's not cool to say either these days and I like feeling like I'm trapped in the late 60's early 70's. I'm contemplating bringing back "Jim" though, but people might not understand it at all and it will make conversations weird.

i use a lot of American slang which nobody around here understands

groovy, hurl, lolz, nerdgasm

I often cannot differentiate between what I'm saying is slang or proper English.

Boak is word that essentially means 'barf'. I've never heard anyone say barf here, ever.

There's too many to list, honestly. But Boak is a favourite word :).

Apparently "hella" is not universal, but growing up in the Bay Area and California had me thinking otherwise. That's hella weird. We say "hella" hella out here.

We're hella cool. >.>

I guess they call it an amplifier word. Otherwise I'd just say it's a more hip way of saying "very".

i've been saying a lot of "mm'kay" in the style of Mr. Garrison lately

I've heard a few people say hella, but I think it was my friend who goes to uni in America..

We say "hella" here, too.

Some other slang that may be unfamiliar that's used:

Nans = Shenanigans. Or, saying you don't believe a statement, thus calling shenanigans.
Example:
Person One - I hear that Mildred Dipplethorpe's baby daddy is Thom Yorke.
Me - NANS!

Firemost: The greatest. The best. Fire is good, and this thing is the most fire. It is super awesome.
Example: Dude, I just ate the firemost brownies this morning!

Mad: Well, this is just used as in crazy. Usually in reference to drug activity, although occasionally used to reference other things as the user sees fit.
Example: I'm sorry I couldn't make the party, man. I was mad tired.

Fo shiz: For real / seriously. Could be a question, or could just mean I'm serious.
Example:
Person 1 - I crashed my car into the college today.
Person 2 - Fo shiz?!
Person 1 - Fo shiz.

Awww, sheee...: Aw, ****. General statement of concern and / or disbelief.
Example:
Person 1 - They're ticketing everyone parked in the side lot, so I hope you're not parked there.
Person 2 - Awww, sheee...

Precursor to rage meme FFFFFFUUUUUUUU!!!!!!

I invented a phrase a while back that I'm trying to spread, but I don't think it's working: "Pop this coolie" instead of "about to leave". So, "Hey dudes, I'm about to leave" would be, "Hey dudes, I'm about to pop this coolie". It just popped into my head one day and I was amused.

I've decided to incorporate one of these into my vocabulary each day. :D

Some nans going on er'!

Alot of the time we say "I'm absolutely out my 'tattie'" being that you're really drunk or when the drugs hit you.

Sapnin: it's basically 'what's happening?' shortened to 'wits hapnin' then sapnin. If I was asking what someone was doing I'd say sapnin.

Goon: if I call you a goon, I'm essentially calling you retarded.

Aww wit: difficult to explain so I'll put it in context.
P1: I just heard boys noize pulled out of playing at Rockness.
P2: awww wiiiit, thats ****e.

Does anyone else use shitfaced when describing drunkeness?

^^I usually say "smashed"

It's a pretty common term along the west coast of the US and Canada but I can't speak for the rest of the continent.

east coast as well. I think it's a pretty universal term.


I usually go with "trashed."

No slang I use is really unique I don't think. When a bar or club is lame and emptying out it's "beat." When I'm tired I am "spent." I start most sentences with friends with "dude"

-Docsoft her in here, he's always using wacky slang in chat

i'm introducing Jap slang into Malaysia

"panchira" - panty flashes

"pantsu" - short skirt revealing panties

"girugame" - adult tv show

Drunk=

bladdered
****ed
pissed
bolloxed
wankered
3 sheets to the wind
brahms and liszt
trollied
off my head
steaming (drunk)
kalied
pissed out of his tree
sloshed

:laughing:

I always hear Becky from Coronation Street saying 'let's get completely bladdered'. It sounds like someones drinking out of a bladder.

pretty common in Australia.

My friends and I use alot of terrible slang that went out of fashion years ago just for the hell of it. Stuff like "daddy-o", "gee wiz" and "cool cat".

Some of the slang words that I've been using for years are "cool", "sick" and "man", but those are basically just part of every single person's vocabulary now.

I still say dude :o:
urban dictionary is rad though :p:

Are there any newfies on here? They have a wonderful vocabulary. *is actually not being sarcastic*

Good ole Newfies. Great to hang out with but ****ing AWFUL to work with.

"For Reals"?:confused:

yeah, just for fun

for shitzngiggles?

for, like, toderly, running circles 'round their unbodaicious coconuts

It never occured to me that steamin was a slang term. It's so obvious aswell. It's probably my most used term for describing getting on it!

There's also

On the sauce
Ratarsed
Melted
Miraculous
Wasted
Oot ma box
Away with it
Blotto
Blootered
Mad with it

Mad with it is chavvy and neddy. I never use it. But alot of people here do.

Lots of Romany words have found their way into the English language and used as slang.

Kushti = Good
Chav (chavvi) = Young boy
Pal = Brother
Jougal = Dog
Cosh = Stick
Lollipop
Chiv, or Shiv = Knife

My favourite...Divvy/Div = Crazy/Mad

One for you too Aurora...radge.

I thought a chav was this

http://www.freewebs.com/boilthechavs/chav1.jpg

It is.
Sorry, I should have explained better.
All those Romany words were absorbed into the English language, initially as slang.
e.g. The Romany word for young boy is Chavvi.
The abbreviation of the word borrowed as English slang is, Chav.
Same for the others I listed.

Hope that's clearer?

No you sir, are radge ;).