Social-circle-exclusive slang

[One, Two, Middlesboogie]

Every country has its own slang words, and many are understood throughout the country (all Britons will know what you're talking about if you say quid instead of pounds), whereas some are confined to counties, regions or even towns (you're unlikely to hear 'charabanc' in southern England, and unlikely to hear 'I should coco' outside of Cockney London).

What this topic's title is talking about is slang words that exist in an even smaller catchment area; words or phrases that only exist within a family group or a social circle. All families have their own customs and ways of doing things, and in mine that includes figures of speech that cannot be understood by any outsiders (which is, after all, the definition of slang). I've never before bothered to find out if any other families or circles of friends do this, but I reckon I can't be alone.

Post any words or phrases that you and your family/friends have coined and use regularly in place of normal words. Here are mine:

My school friends and I haven't actually invented any new terms, but we frequently nick slang from the Georgia Nicholson books; i.e. 'I'm away laughing on a fast camel' instead of 'I'm going now' and 'what in the name of pantyhose are you talking about?'. We generally speak in a mix of bling gabber, Jamaican patois and traditional English playground slang, and it is hard for outsiders to understand us.

My little circle of online frinds and I use 'tupo' instead of 'typo', and we say 'thankee' instead of 'thanks' (I think I've seen other people on this board say that, but we generally credit ourselves with having invented it). We've also invented a few abbrevations which we use in instant messaging.

Here's a selection of the slang words my family and I use often (in some cases, we never use the normal words, and only ever use our slang ones). Many of them are contractions or corruptions of existing ones.

Botty Bag - Bag of incontinence pads
Daddy Duddops - Father Christmas
Duddops - Christmas
Fart Food - Baked beans, (f)artichokes, curry, etc.
Mernade - Lemonade
Mernar-mernars - Bananas
Monkey Poo Parlour - Bathroom
Moot - Remote control (it's quite hard to explain the pronounciation of 'moot', as the 'oo' is like nothing in English. It's like a cross between 'oo' as in 'food' and 'er' as in 'Derber'. Sort of like German 'Ü'.)
Nannash - Sausage
Poonoise - Fart
Puter Parlour - IT room
Scratching a caggat - Peeling a carrot
Scwim - Ice cream
Snibbo - Handcream, sunscreen, etc. Any form of cosmetic gunk you put on your skin.
Tannot - Toilet
Telly Comic - TV guide
Throw bread at a duck's head - feed the ducks
Tussin - Chook
Whatanose - Violent sneeze that causes ejection of snot
Wissa - 'Where's the...' as in 'wissa moot?' meaning 'where's the remote control?'
Woke - Coke (Coca Cola)

[Gluk Schmuck]

I don't use any slang that has a catchment area smaller than Yorkshire but a child my mum childminds uses some pretty amusing terms. She's 4 and she doesn't use most of the phrases after a while

Pole dancing - ballet dancing
Cherry - I know what you're thinking - Curry
Juciest-Es - GCSEs

[Statikk HDM]

Yes, I've noticed this. There are a lot of groups with exclusive slang. CCG players, Jazz musicians, druggies(think of the amount of different ways you can reference Cannabis Sativa. It will blow your mind!)

[Doug]

Originally posted by Statikk HDM
(think of the amount of different ways you can reference Cannabis Sativa. It will blow your mind!)

The term "reefer" always cracks me up. I don't know if it's because of the movie "Reefer Madness" or not, but hearing that term gets me giggling.

[Jacob]

Ermmm...my family dont have many.

Family Slang:
Funny 'uns: Homosexuals.

That lot: Homosexuals...again.

Cuppa cha': Cup of Tea.

(Thats it for my family)

Friend Slang:
I'm sowi: Im sorry.

I lurrrve you: I love you.

Mwwwwwwah: Mwah (Kiss)

(Thats that...now my slang.)

My slang:
Of course i love you: Of course i love you...so long as you dont lose your good looks or nice personality.

I love you and if anyone gives me funny looks whilst i hug you i will laugh...like this...HA HA HAAAA: I love you, and if anyone gives you funny looks whilst i hug you i will laugh...like this...HA HA HAAAA...before going behind your back and bitching about you.

I have no regrets: I have no regrets...apart from meeting you.

I dont hold no grudges against you: I hold MASSIVE grudges against you and i cant wait until the right time to cut you down to size.

I love you, not him: I love him, not you.

I wouldn't try speaking to him now, he may have a go at you: Shit, dont speak to him now...he may start to like you again!!

I will always be truthful with you: I lie.

Nahhh, he hardly ever talks about you: He speaks about you loads, and we bitch, and laugh at your expense...HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!

I got over what you did to me ages ago, i love you now!!: My heart still hurts from what you did to me ages ago. Only when i make you cry in public and ignore you and barge past you can i even start to THINK about forgiving you.

(So you see, mine are quite lengthy and...nasty. But honestly, im well within my right to do that to her. After what she did to me.)

[DarkHoodness]

Moot - Remote control (it's quite hard to explain the pronounciation of 'moot', as the 'oo' is like nothing in English. It's like a cross between 'oo' as in 'food' and 'er' as in 'Derber'. Sort of like German 'Ü'.)

You mean it sounds like "Moat", like the moat round a castle, right? Or am I wrong?

My family doesn't really use any slang. And if they do, then I can't remember any. I use some, however:

"Doik" - Substitute for 'Idiot'. I made it up, but it originates from the word 'Doi', which the narrator uses in Space Quest 6.

"Bog" - Toilet

And thats more or less it. :S
Oh well. . .
- DH

[One, Two, Middlesboogie]

It almost sounds like 'moat', yes, but not quite. More like 'moort'.

[Danny]

Originally posted by One, Two, Middlesboogie
My little circle of online frinds and I use 'tupo' instead of 'typo', and we say 'thankee' instead of 'thanks' (I think I've seen other people on this board say that, but we generally credit ourselves with having invented it).

That's right, you go on decieving yourselves...

I've been conducting a small experiment for a while, seeing how easy it is to invent and distribute new internet shorthand. I took the root "brb" (meaning "be right back"), and added certain three-letter explanations, to explain why you have to be right back...

brbfmf: "filling my face" (or "fetching more food"). The first one I came up with, and the one that's caught on the best.

brbema: "emptying my arse". The logical next step from "fmf"...

brbemb: "emptying my bladder". A variation on "ema"...

brbind: "I need drink". Only refers to alcohol. Also has the variations "inf" ("I need feck"), "ing" ("I need girls"), and "ina" ("I need arse"), based on the utterances of Father Jack, but I haven't yet found any situation in which any of those three have come in handy...

I've managed to get most of the people on my MSN contact list to understand these (I think they humour me because they're worried about my sanity, and what might happen if they don't...), and some of them have even started using them. It remains to be seen if they will (or indeed have) spread beyond my immediate contact list...

[abe22]

I think most of the slang that I use is probably already known by people. But one thing hasn't been mentioned is.....Miak.(Pro. me-ak)
Yes, Miak! My brother and my friends and I use it. Does anyone know what it means? (If you've seen Ernest Scared Stupid you should know and it is a drink that a lot of people love, including myself...)

[Danny]

I'm guessing Milk, but it's only a guess. Sounds vaguely Geordie...

"Miak, whay-aye mon!"

[PinkHaired Mudokon CWR]

I know alot of rap and city slang.

[Danny]

Originally posted by Dark Hood
"Bog" - Toilet

Just noticed this, and thought I'd point out that this is quite widely used, in case you thought it was social-circle-exclusive...

[Surfacing]

Originally posted by PinkHaired Mudokon CWR
I know alot of rap and city slang.

Like:

Nigga
What up dog
Beyatch
Hoe
Homes
It's off the hook
Were you at
I ain't playin
Ghetto
Crib

Like dat?

[SeaRex]

Behold! Phrases I use with my punk rock/video game buddies!

Frag: Player death.
Slut: A game ported to most, if not all, platforms. (You can thank Tom for that one.)
Coaster: A CD-Rom so amazingly crappy, that is better suited for a coaster than a game.
Praystationing: Playing video games in all hours of the day to avoid human contact.
Pink!: Sound made when one player is hit with Sniper fire
Gank: To kill a player and steal their items.
Shank: To stab anything.
Sums: Summon spells.
Trout: Wiggers, poseurs, etc. Anyone who looks like a fish out of water.
Norms: ''Normal'' people.
Hallway: A fat person. Only NOFX fans understand this one...

[Gluk Schmuck]

Originally posted by SeaRex
[B]1. Frag: Player death.

2. Slut: A game ported to most, if not all, platforms. (You can thank Tom for that one.)

1. That's internantional slang.

2.

[Danny]

Originally posted by SeaRex
Gank: To kill a player and steal their items.

Do you just do this in-game, or do you sneak up behind your friends while they're playing games, slit their throats, and steal their wallets?

[abe22]

Originally posted by Danny
I'm guessing Milk, but it's only a guess. Sounds vaguely Geordie...

You Got It! It's milk. Austrailian Bulgarian Miak - that's what Ernest said!
It's not anything actually it just a stupid made up word from Eranest Scared Stupid. I looked it up in dictionary.com and it said nothing.

[SeaRex]

Originally posted by Danny
Do you just do this in-game, or do you sneak up behind your friends while they're playing games, slit their throats, and steal their wallets?

A little bit of both. It depends if they can beat me at Halo or not...

[PinkHaired Mudokon CWR]

Originally posted by SeaRex
Behold! Phrases I use with my punk rock/video game buddies!

Frag: Player death.
Slut: A game ported to most, if not all, platforms. (You can thank Tom for that one.)
Coaster: A CD-Rom so amazingly crappy, that is better suited for a coaster than a game.
Praystationing: Playing video games in all hours of the day to avoid human contact.
Pink!: Sound made when one player is hit with Sniper fire
Gank: To kill a player and steal their items.
Shank: To stab anything.
Sums: Summon spells.
Trout: Wiggers, poseurs, etc. Anyone who looks like a fish out of water.
Norms: ''Normal'' people.
Hallway: A fat person. Only NOFX fans understand this one...

Wow..those are corny. Who made those up?

[Gluk Schmuck]

Originally posted by PinkHaired Mudokon CWR
Who made those up?

I made up 'slut' as Luke already mentioned and I know that 'frag' has been around for all eternity but I don't know about the rest.

[SeaRex]

Originally posted by PinkHaired Mudokon CWR
Wow..those are corny. Who made those up?

Wow, thanks Pinky. I love you too.

"Coaster" and "Praystationing" are used on the G4 forums. "Shank" and "Gank" came from my white friend who went to an African American school. He picked up on all the lingo. I just started saying "Pink!" when I shot someone with sniper fire and started saying "Sum" when I was tired of saying the extra syllable. I've been calling people "Norms" since 7th grade. "Trout" was originally used by Green Day. "Hallway" refers to the NOFX song "Hot Dog in the Hallway", a song about making love to a fat woman...

... and that's it, I think.

[salty pretzils]

Family slang:

Marmalise=Destroy or pulp something
Cunning stunt.=Something kinda rude.....

[Danny]

Originally posted by salty pretzils
Cunning stunt.=Something kinda rude.....

Caravan had an album called that... I won't reveal what it actually translates as, because if you can't work it out, then you obviously either don't want to know or don't deserve to know...

I don't think it's that rude, though. If you think about it, it's quite complimentary...

[salty pretzils]

*laughs*
Hey, maybe your right Danny...

[Gluk Schmuck]

Originally posted by salty pretzils
Cunning stunt.=Something kinda rude.....

You haven't played Carmageddon. I can tell... :P


I've just thought of one of mine.
Fishydex - Copydex

[Wil]

Uh huh... and what is copydex slang for?

[Gluk Schmuck]

Originally posted by Max the Mug
Uh huh... and what is copydex slang for?

If I'm correct then Copydex is the name of a company that produces plastic bottles of fish bone-based adhesives which say 'Copydex' on them. I'm not entirely sure if it's the name of the company; it may just be the name of the fish bone-based adhesive.

[One, Two, Middlesboogie]

I think you're missing the point here, Max. This topic isn't just about slang words for other slang words, it's also about slang words for ordinary words.

Another one my family and I use regularly (almost totally in place of the real words, in fact):
Weewus - Snail or Walrus.

You can only tell which one (snail or walrus) we're talking about by context alone. It does seem odd to have the same word for two totally different animals, I know, but the French use the word 'chouette' to mean either 'screech owl' or 'nice'.

[Abe's son]

this is not my slang but its hacker code and some gameing code,



4-a
3-e
7-t
1-i or l i cant member
6-b
9-p
0-o
and i forget wh47 s is 0h w3ll

chukohead-stupid idiot

chuckelhead-a VERY HORIBLE driver

biz-itch-wada think? if ya dont know, its bitch


BFG-big frick'n gun

boom sitck-shotgun

i own j00!-i rock at this game and you suck

TK-team killing

WTF-what the fu**

n00b-newbie-a new guy

thats all chuckohead and chucklehead are mine, the rest are gameing terms and hack languge.