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Feb 13, 2022 5:53 PM
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The title says it all.

For the record I am from Philadelphia PA. So some of the slang terms that grew up saying are Jawn, Drawn/Drawlin', Thurl, Young Boul, and Old Head.

Jawn is literally just any noun (person, place, or thing).
Used in a sentence: "I like them Jawns where you get them from."

Drawn/Drawlin' is basically the same as annoying. It has two different pronunciation depending on whose says it.
Used in a sentence: "Man would you stop. You are being really Drawn right now"

Thurl is the saying the that some is worthy of respect.
Used in a sentence: "You are pretty Thurl."

Young Boul is just anyone who is younger than you.
Used in a sentence: "You my young boul"

Old Head is anyone who is older than you.
Used in a sentence: " You my favorite old head"
Adimus_primeFeb 13, 2022 7:20 PM
Feb 13, 2022 5:58 PM
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I live in Java, so, I can't give example in english.

- Bergudul - it means stubborn (?), or person who has been said the right thing but opposing it. Dunno how to explain, ehe..

That's what I remember right now.

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Feb 13, 2022 6:05 PM
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@Adimus_prime

Since I'm from the "Tri-state" area I've heard everything you stated except the phrases using "Thurl".

Other than that, I haven't heard much other slang phrases where I'm at now. I moved from The Garden State to the Sunshine State for work. I'm guessing a lot of the slang phrases are now in Spanish or South American lingo, but I don't understand it so I can't translate what people are saying these days.
Feb 14, 2022 11:02 AM
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Well each voivodeship of Poland has it's own slangs and sometimes even dialects so here is stuff from Lower Silesia where I live and grew up :

Antygwałtki (Anti-Rape) - knee socks

Centralnie - a slang synonim to saying "really"

Nie interere/interesi - Don't mind my business or something like that. (Just found out right now in internet that actually it is mainly used in Wrocław, was shocked as it was a normal stuff for me x) )

Lajt/Lajcik - a polish version of saying "Light"

Oj tam, Oj tam - something as, well it happens, chill, keep calm, (something similar to french desolee if I remember correctly)

Ściepa - gathering money for example to buy as a group a gift for someone's birthday or to buy weed etc.

Szlugi - Cigarettes

Typ - random guy

Typiara - random girl

Warszawka - an insulting/negative way to say about people from Capital who show off that they are "better" cause of living in Warsaw

Wawa - Warsaw

Wbijać - to join the party (Normally in polish wbijać means pierce, for example piercing the meal/table with a knife)

Wozić się - to show off your new stuff bought, to say what you've done etc. to just say all the stuff you've done to show off.

Wrocek - Wrocław

Wyro - Bed

And as I am studying at Poznań and living here for 3 years already so here are the stuff from this city and voivodeship of Greater Poland:

Ćmik - Cigarettes.

Złotówa - Taxi

Pestka - Tram

Brachol - brother

Blyce - glasses

Laczki - house shoes (shoes meant for house)

Pyra - potato

Sklep - basement (in polish sklep means store)

Skład - store (in polish skład means composition) Usually sklep and skład are used by elder people.

Wiara - Crowd of people (Wiara normally in polish means Faith)

Winkiel - Corner
ZettaikenFeb 14, 2022 11:10 AM
Feb 14, 2022 12:10 PM
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Where I live currently (Ellesmere Port) is pretty close to Merseyside, and nearly everyone has Scouse accents here. It can be hard to understand them, especially since I wasn't born here.
My place of birth has no slangs or terms that I'm aware of?
Feb 14, 2022 12:34 PM
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I am from the West Midlands in England. I speak a lot of Black Country on daily basis. Here are some slang terms:

∙ Yo Cor = You Cannot
∙ Daynt = I Don't
∙ Bloke = A Gentleman
∙ Ta Rah = Goodbye
∙ Trarabit = See you again soon
Feb 14, 2022 1:12 PM
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F.A.F. = Fast As Fuck (pronounced just like it looks/sounds Faff) it was a BMX term around here in SATX that started getting used around 2006. One would ride FAF and "get Nasty".

Short Bus Mafia = Annoying "Special" individual. It started in the 1990s when I was in high school. It's fucked up to use but not all the kids on the short school bus were legit special needs, 95% of the time it was just annoying little shits who also rode that bus. ---Back then if anyone was bad at a subject (like one subject) you got thrown into a Level 5 status where you were in a room with emotionally messed up, special needs, and thugs. Back then the school system didn't know what to do with anyone so everyone fell through the cracks. If one was being an asshole or annoying it was not uncommon to hear "...yeah ole' Short Bus Mafia over here" and things to that effect. Back then one had to get thick skin if they we're thin skinned, political correctness wasn't a thing, no one was Wokeist, no cry closets.

ChozoSucko = "suck my cawk" (chorizo)

Allotment Annie = (borrowed from WW2 era G.I. slang) for a woman who hooks up with military guys looking for a way out whatever their situation and knowing they got $10,000 if he dies in his tour of duty somewhere. Bitches that usually made the wall of shame
Feb 14, 2022 11:35 PM
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most of the slangs i have ever heard of were abusive words
Feb 14, 2022 11:59 PM
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None, really. I don't say "y'all" or "fixin'-to" like a lot of Texans.

Maybe @mwinner can weigh in?
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Feb 15, 2022 3:22 AM
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Most of the words you listed are ones that I've heard from where I live. Can't think of any others off the top of my head.
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Feb 15, 2022 6:00 AM

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In my part of Germany, as a way of showing sympathy or if we feel bad for someone/something, we say "och herm!".
Like: "The girl lost her candy." - "Och herm."
If life ain't just a joke
Then why are we laughing?

If life ain't just a joke
Then why am I dead?
Feb 15, 2022 8:49 AM
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MeanMrMusician said:
None, really. I don't say "y'all" or "fixin'-to" like a lot of Texans.

Maybe @mwinner can weigh in?


Thank you for the mention!

Anyways, "y'all" and "fixin'-to" are pretty common, like MMM mentioned, but I guess we also use "ain't" instead of "aren't"? Other ones I know are "skeeter" for mosquito, and then there's an expression, "a few pickles short of the barrel" which is essentially a euphemism for "you're stupid".
Feb 15, 2022 9:25 PM

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None, sometimes I say some slang words in an ironic way just for the laughs, mostly used a lot of slang when I was in high school.
Feb 18, 2022 10:14 AM
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I've heard most of yours, I literally know a guy from philly who says those all the time lol.

Feb 19, 2022 4:43 AM

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I grew up in NorthWestern US and they didn't really have much weird slang up there except i recalled back then we called when you mix a bunch of sodas together at a soda fountain a "suicide" though some others called it a "twister" so Im not sure which was more local. Suicide was more common so im guessing that.

I will come back if I can think up some others.

DBX said:
I am from the West Midlands in England. I speak a lot of Black Country on daily basis. Here are some slang terms:

∙ Yo Cor = You Cannot
∙ Daynt = I Don't
∙ Bloke = A Gentleman
∙ Ta Rah = Goodbye
∙ Trarabit = See you again soon

Why is it trarabit not tarabit? Since clearly it appears to be a conjunction of "ta rah a bit".
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Feb 22, 2022 5:06 AM
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Here in Toronto stuff like double double, for example is another term for coffee.

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