julie [email] said at 7:04 PM 05-09-2007: Like a mug!!! Wow, that takes me back to the early 90s. This was used in my high school (northern VA). I always thought it was a derivation of "Like a motherfucker," like so:
Like a motherfucker
Like a muthafugger
Like a muuufuuug
Like a mug
We also used "You got carried" the same way. Never really used any of the others, although I do have friends who call do-dos bamas. I can't think of any of my own to add, sorry.
angelel said at 10:36 PM 05-09-2007: I like it how everybody says "minute" to mean over a long duration of time. For example, "Josh has been peeing standing up for a minute."
woody [email] said at 10:04 AM 05-10-2007: There are probably a lot of Canadianisms that I would never recognize as such. One that comes to mind is "fill yer boots!" which usually means the same as "knock yourself out!" I usually hear this from east coasters, but is it more widespread than I think?
max [email] said at 11:19 AM 05-11-2007: At my shop when something is really cool, it's "trucks." Mmmm... that burrito was trucks. It only carries amongst a few people.
meredith [email] said at 11:01 PM 05-11-2007: I always liked the british slang:
ming - ugly, disgusting, gross That dress totally mings! or having not showered after a long night of drinking one could say Don't get too close, I ming.
Something can also BE 'minging'.
ginger - of or possessing red hair, generally used in a derogetory manner as the brits seem down on redheads. (Kind of in the same way their down on the Welsh.) Oh you meant that ginger bloke? Is he a ginger?
This can also be used in conjunction with ming by mispronouncing the word ginger. ie 'a ginger minger' would be an ugly red head
Dodgey - not quite copacetic and possibly disgusting, suspicious Is that milk expired? It looks dodgey. He lives on the dodgey end of town.
Chuffed - psyched
Not on - not right
to pull - to make out with someone, the act of pulling random strangers is kind of a sport in clubs, or was when I was there
The only one that pops to mind from Chicago is 'jagoff' which is basically a derivative of 'jackoff' and is used anywhere 'asshole' could be used.
rick [email] said at 11:07 PM 05-11-2007: I have actually heard the word "mug" used in Louisiana; it was kind of a generalized word for "thing." I heard a guy talking to his buddies before a canoe race in which he used the phrase, "We're gonna win this mug."
rick [email] said at 3:22 PM 05-12-2007: No, it was a Scouting event. The doughty Boy Scouts would never stoop to such behavior in pursuit of an almost worthless trinket.
Now, the special walking stick would be a different story . . .
abby [email] said at 2:58 PM 05-14-2007: ill always remember one of my high school administrators shouting to me, in a crowded hallway: "dang abby your new haircut looks bumpin!" and the laughter, the pounding laughter like a million whales breaching at once
reggie [email] said at 5:33 PM 05-19-2007: Maybe they are, but I did hear both "bama" and "like a mug" in the movie Out of Sight. Don Cheadle's character used them and he was from Detroit.
Also, I forgot to close the bold type, I'm a bama.
marcia [email] said at 9:53 PM 05-14-2007: I have been trying to remember since this post went up what we used to call the mentally handicapped kids in our high school, and then I remembered:
a sped, shortened from "special education"
"wut da fuck er yah doin', yeh fuck'n sped!" (thick north country accent which is a cross between a slurring drunk and a Canadian)
We also used to call the BOCES kids grits(though we never pronounced the t, it was replaced with a glottal stop) and the place they would smoke between the school parking lot and the church parking lot we called The Jungle, though I suppose that's not technically slang.
A guy in high-school, Paul, used to call a vagaina, ver which I thought was both strange was wonderful. And he would commonly call other guys "Vers"(pronounced "verz") if he was insulting them, which I didn't find strange or wonderful.
anotherben [email] said at 12:05 PM 05-20-2007: i don't know where i heard this one, it may have been the west bank guy i worked with in nola though: all wet = completely wrong, as in - I may be all wet on where I heard this.
at my office i hear people call things "winky" when they are kind of sketchy. i.e.- that is a pretty winky idea. <- would be an idea that probably won't work, but may be worth a shot.
