hella - meaning lots, an extreme amount
dank
gnarly
^other words describing awesome.
i can't think of any others off the top of my head.
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Funny, stupid words and things specific to your country, region whatever...?
Strange. "Clag" can be used as a verb. Sticky sweets can clag your teeth together, for example. But I just checked wiki and with my resident Geordie expert (Mrs DAJB ) and it appears to be nothing more than a spooky coincidence. Wiki describes Clag (the glue) as an Australian brand and Mrs D confirms she's never heard of it up there in Geordieland.ClaggyHmm, Clag is a brand of glue here, usually used by children because it's simple and "safe". I wonder if there's a relationship?
Maybe it was invented by a Geordie emigrant to Australia. Assuming you allow Geordies in, over there!
Is "brand spankin' new" something that's Texas-only? I can't tell anymore ^.^The rest of us stopped using it so much in recent years, but you'll still hear it in other states once in a while.
Someone mentioned names for police so here's a few more from the US. The Fuzz, The 5-0, Pigs, Bacon, Smokey's ( for how you should burn rubber when you see one in the car. ), Goon Squad, Po-Po's, Vic's ( refers to the Ford Crown Victoria, which is standard for most departments. ), Neo-Nazi's ( this one isn't used often, and I usually only hear people call them that when they've gotten a ticket or something. )
And a few more for Iowa/ the US
Coon: Both the animal and a derogatory name for a black person. I don't know how the name came about, but it is on par with calling someone a n**ger so it's one to avoid.
10 points, 20 points, etc.: A jogger or other goofy looking person walking down the street. As far as I know, people us this one across the whole country.
I'm going to have to keep an ear out for some more Iowa phrases. I don't usually pay attention to how they talk here.
Bunyip
-Big ugly monster that haunts outback watering holes in the bush, waiting to catch some unwary camper.
Billabong
-Name for a bush watering hole, the kind that a Bunyip likes to hang around.
You know, when I was little I watched an Australian cartoon called "Dot and the Kangaroo". I guess it taught me a lot more about Australia than I realized.
In the UK we had Rolf Harris, who taught us all we needed to know about billabongs:
More Midlands:
Jitty: A narrow alleyway between houses usually leading to an adjacent street.
Mardy: A person who is petulantly sulking is said to be mardy, as in, " That mardy bastard won't come out of the jitty mi duck!"
It's may be a regional thing, I don't know, but in the state of New York more than anywhere, I've heard people call shopping carts the following:
-Shopping trolley
-Buggy
-Basket
All three of those boil my blood with incredible rage because a cart is nothing like any of those three descriptions in my opinion.
Mardy: A person who is petulantly sulking is said to be mardy, as in, " That mardy bastard won't come out of the jitty mi duck!"I had a pommy friend who said used that a lot :)
-Shopping trolleyThat's what they're called in Australia ;)
But then, nothing else is called a "trolley" here so the use of that word is completely unconflicted.
What in the U.S. you might call a "trolley" or a "street car", we call a tram.
What in the US is called a "train car" is called a "train carriage" here.
yeah.Wicked.That one is pretty universal in English.
Really? As in that's wicked good?
also, I just want to say that in Australia, we don't say shrimp, we say prawn. So that whole "Put another shrimp on the barbie" thing is wrong.
We do say Barbie though.
I've got nothing then. I wish I was from Australia.
"Making groceries" instead of shopping for groceries.
"I can?" instead of "Can I?"
"Erl" and "Berl" instead of oil and boil.
The first syllable of every word is emphasized: "PO-lice"; "DE-troit"; "TU-lane", etc.
I wish I could think of more. New Orleans folk gots bucketloads of 'em.
I can't think of any phrases from the part of Canada I live in (southern Ontario) other then Shwa' which is a nickname for the city of Oshawa. I had a teacher from Nova Scotia that called running shoes sneakers and note books scribblers. There was an old Molson commercial that said at least twenty different Canadian terms but I don't remember it.
Oh, and the letter Z is supposed to be pronounced zed not zee.
My family calls low growing ornamental junipers spithers and calls toasters toast-poppers but I think that's just my family and not the rest of Canada.
And I've rarely heard anyone in Canada actually say eh.
When I was growing up, one of the shows always on after school was Beahcombers. We loved that show :)
They said "a-boot" and "eh" a lot in that. Classic Canadian TV. ^__^
"toast-poppers" lol! I love it!
doorbell names of my Filipino friends & neighbors:That is amazingly hilarious!
Dingdong
Ding
Dong
Bing
Bong
Bong Bong
Ping
Pong
"PO-lice"; "DE-troit"Hahaha! I thought that was all America :)
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Guys, those Dot films are state of the art Aussie animation brilliance… Seriously, it's about the best we can manage. -_-
Well, The Magic Pudding was pretty good, but I doubt any of you saw that .
That is amazingly hilarious!"PO-lice"; "DE-troit"Hahaha! I thought that was all America :)
Heck no. Up in Detroit we tend to pronounce the middle of the word. So instead of DE-troit, it's de-TROI-t. And PO-lice is po-LI-ce. Michiganders also have an unusual way of saying the "A" sound. Apparently we draw them out and say it more like Ah than Aa. So about becomes Ahbout.
I also forgot, in Detroit, Popeye's is pretty much the same as fried chicken.
There's also plenty of terms in the US for getting drunk. We're pretty good at coming up with those though I don't know how many of them are universal or heard in other countries. Stuff like, plastered, hammered, s**t-faced, wasted, blacked-out, blitzed, bombed, tanked, buzzed, blasted, krunk, yeagered, trashed, looped, blank, etc.
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