SoulPancake / Conversations / Embiggen your vocabulary: 10 coinages from ‘The Simpsons’

Talk about stuff that matters.

Conversations

RaveOnGirl

- 1 year ago

Feature
0
Like
Follow

Embiggen your vocabulary: 10 coinages from ‘The Simpsons’ | Articles

http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/11150.aspx Try dropping one of these terms—such as ‘dumbening’ or ‘word hole’—into your next writing project.

"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work." Carl Sandburg

Every place seems to have it's own words. When I was growing up, if you stepped in a puddle you got a 'soaker'. When I lived on Vancouver Island, the truck that picked up loggers or mill workers was called the 'crummy'.

What words are specific to your time or place?

Recent Discussed Liked

First level responses second level responses

We lived in BC for a while and learned tikity boo (everything is all right) and skookum (correctly aligned). I had never heard it anywhere else.

"Cooter" - I've never heard it anywhere but the town I live in used as slang for a woman's privates. I've lived a lot of places. It is also another name for a turtle. I think there may be a connection.

I'm from Rhode Island, and we call a water fountain a "bubbler", or more accurately, a "bubblah", as we tend to turn all of the words that end in "er" into "ah". Not easy growing up here with the name "Heathahhhh". Most of the other RI-isms you've probably heard on Family Guy.

Cuh: Acquaintance
bruh &/or breh: Brother
bird: Mother(?)
Shii: (t)
etc., etc.

When I lived in a poorer neighborhood there was a lot more slang used in language. I enjoyed it a lot. Now I'm in college, and I barely ever hear slang (or at least notice it). I would feel nervous to use it - thinking that I wouldn't be understood - or that I would be thought of as uneducated.

Being from another country, half the time I have NO idea what you guys are talking about! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(we call a grocery shopping cart a "shopping trolley" or just "trolley" for short.. lol)

And we call school bags, "ports"..... and swimming clothes (bathers) are called "togs" :) (Speedos are referred to as budgie smugglers here in Oz... a budgie being a small parrot... coz you know the package in the speedo looks like a small parrot. lol)

back in South Carolina (so I'm assuming this is native to the south), we call a grocery shopping cart a "buggy."

Pabaki -

and the invention I made my own, "Banana a la Pabaki"

only the lovely Gail Kapsambelis knows what I am talking about...though other Greek speakers may well guess.

in this region we have several names for what are correctly called wood lice,

Carpenters,
Chuggy Pigs
Land shrimps

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Woodlouse_2007-1.jpg

Pigs are toes (this little piggie?)
d**a is butt (it's a foreign word)

And... eh.... looks at ground

I use "weiner slick" as an alternate name for lubricant. Not all lubricant, mind you. But spec.... oh... I'm sure you got it.

It looks like its just you and me. Words are my work, my passion and my reason for being. I have hundred's of slang words and expression and use them as fine old tools. My favorite, as I think (it changes a lot), would be "Horser". My Dad called me a horser more than once and other people were often seen as horsers too.

A horser is someone who sits on a cart as it trundles along through the beautiful world, staring at the horses arse.

Words move me and make everything move. :)

RaveOnGirl

Embiggen your vocabulary: 10 coinages from ‘The Simpsons’ | Articles

spitfire3d

We lived in BC for a while and learned tikity boo (everything is all right) and skookum (correctly aligned). I had never heard it anywhere else.

JCP

"Cooter" - I've never heard it anywhere but the town I live in used as slang for a woman's privates. I've lived a lot of places. It is also another name for a turtle. I think there may be a connection.

hah424

I'm from Rhode Island, and we call a water fountain a "bubbler", or more accurately, a "bubblah", as we tend to turn all of the words that end in "er" into "ah". Not easy growing up here with the name "Heathahhhh". Most of the other RI-isms you've probably heard on Family Guy.

nerdman

Cuh: Acquaintance
bruh &/or breh: Brother
bird: Mother(?)
Shii: (t)
etc., etc.

Heart_Shaped_Crepe

When I lived in a poorer neighborhood there was a lot more slang used in language. I enjoyed it a lot. Now I'm in college, and I barely ever hear slang (or at least notice it). I would feel nervous to use it - thinking that I wouldn't be understood - or that I would be thought of as uneducated.

JustMel

tdgreen

back in South Carolina (so I'm assuming this is native to the south), we call a grocery shopping cart a "buggy."

flashbanding

dancingplatypus

Pigs are toes (this little piggie?)
d**a is butt (it's a foreign word)

And... eh.... looks at ground

I use "weiner slick" as an alternate name for lubricant. Not all lubricant, mind you. But spec.... oh... I'm sure you got it.

SaveAmerica

SoulPancake

hand–crafted in Atwater Village

About SoulPancake

Platforms

Networks

Embiggen your vocabulary: 10 coinages from ‘The Simpsons’ | Articles

We lived in BC for a while and learned tikity boo (everything is all right) and skookum (correctly aligned). I had never heard it anywhere else.

"Cooter" - I've never heard it anywhere but the town I live in used as slang for a woman's privates. I've lived a lot of places. It is also another name for a turtle. I think there may be a connection.

I'm from Rhode Island, and we call a water fountain a "bubbler", or more accurately, a "bubblah", as we tend to turn all of the words that end in "er" into "ah". Not easy growing up here with the name "Heathahhhh". Most of the other RI-isms you've probably heard on Family Guy.

Cuh: Acquaintancebruh &/or breh: Brother bird: Mother(?)Shii: (t)etc., etc.

When I lived in a poorer neighborhood there was a lot more slang used in language. I enjoyed it a lot. Now I'm in college, and I barely ever hear slang (or at least notice it). I would feel nervous to use it - thinking that I wouldn't be understood - or that I would be thought of as uneducated.

back in South Carolina (so I'm assuming this is native to the south), we call a grocery shopping cart a "buggy."

Pigs are toes (this little piggie?)d**a is butt (it's a foreign word)And... eh.... *looks at ground*I use "weiner slick" as an alternate name for lubricant. Not all lubricant, mind you. But spec.... oh... I'm sure you got it.

SoulPancake

hand–crafted in Atwater Village

About SoulPancake

Platforms

Networks

What's Next?

Cuh: Acquaintance
bruh &/or breh: Brother
bird: Mother(?)
Shii: (t)
etc., etc.

Pigs are toes (this little piggie?)
d**a is butt (it's a foreign word)

And... eh.... looks at ground

I use "weiner slick" as an alternate name for lubricant. Not all lubricant, mind you. But spec.... oh... I'm sure you got it.