Expand my knowledge of foreign slang words.

[CruisingForBiddies]

Out of curiosity, what is your favorite slang word? I'm interested in what people use in countries overseas. I'm from Australia and we have such vernacular delights as:

Bogan: Pretty much what Americans call a redneck.
Durrie: Cigarettes.
Biddy/Bid: A hot girl (See: Username)
Grouse: Meaning great or excellent.
Goon: Cheap cask wine (Pretty sure we are not the only ones who use this though)
Boonga: Racist term for indigenous Australians.
Gumby: Someone who is awkward, either socially or physically.
Mong: See: Gumby
Bog: Poo.

We are such a classy nation.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Bog means poo? I was under the impression it meant toilet in the UK, not heard it used as slang otherwise.

Oh, I'd say that bogan is a bit more complicated to that, there's a certain amount of self-delusion involved. You have to be convinced you are a hard working, classy, respectable and thoughtful member of society while doing your best to actually avoid being any of those.

I wish we would bring "drongo" back, that being used for useless people, after a racehorse that never won anything.

Mong is short for Mongaloid, though, hardly just Australian.

 

[The Night Angel]

I'm from Ireland, and we have quite a few I'm sure, the problem is that I'm a grammar Nazi, so I wouldn't use them. I can give you one or two off the top of my head that are common enough here:

Raging : annoyed (not in the gaming sense of 'rage quitting')
Sickened : annoyed (again)
Bog : In Ireland, as the person above said, this means 'toilet'
John : Also 'toilet'
Minging : Ugly

 

[SckizoBoy]

Mong is short for Mongaloid, though, hardly just Australian.

In the UK, 'mong' is yet another word for 'idiot' or 'dickhead'.

Find it odd that US 'pissed' = annoyed, while UK 'pissed' = drunk... ah well...

Anyway, since I'm from middle-England, my mind is drawing an almost complete blank at local colloquialisms...

 

[Dethenger]

An African girl in my catering class told us that "taco" (not sure if that's how it's spelled, but that's how it was pronounced) meant "butt" where she came from. My friend laughed and said, "That's funny, because here it means vagina."

[EDIT]

To contribute some more. [http://www.cracked.com/article_19695_9-foreign-words-english-language-desperately-needs.html]

 

[necromanzer52]

I'm from Ireland, and we have quite a few I'm sure, the problem is that I'm a grammar Nazi, so I wouldn't use them. I can give you one or two off the top of my head that are common enough here:

Raging : annoyed (not in the gaming sense of 'rage quitting')
Sickened : annoyed (again)
Bog : In Ireland, as the person above said, this means 'toilet'
John : Also 'toilet'
Minging : Ugly

You forgot gaff for house. That's gotta be the most common.
Also craic sort of means fun. You might say "it's great craic" for instance.

 

[RabbidKuriboh]

irish cus words include:
geebag-asshole(gee is slang for vagina)

gobshite-idiot

ejit-see above

bollocks-exclaimatory(means balls)

feck-milder version of fuck means the same but more socially acceptable to say

 

[Kiardras]

Biddy/Bid: A hot girl (See: Username)

Thats a tad ironic, as in the UK Biddy means old woman.

 

[zombie goat fetish]

100 Irish slang words.

Spoiler

1. Gowl- Annoying stupid person
2. Sham- A friend
3. Feek- Gorgeous girl
4. Quare- Another meaning for very or unuasl
5. Yoke- Thing. any thing or object or person. A broad descriptive term for anything
6. Savage- Very can be good or bad
7. Pure -Really/very
8. Sound- Reliable, dependable, a good sort
9. Cat -An effusive way to say that something is awful or terrible
10. Shades -Garda Siochana, cops (term comes from the 2 shades of blue on the uniform)
11. Banjaxed- Broken
12. Tool -Idiot
13. Fierce- Very
14. Muppet- Fool
15. Gammy -Useless
16. Manky- Very soiled, smelly etc.
17. Deadly- Fantastic
18. Gimp -Fool or idiot.
19. Flute -A bit of a silly person
20. Box -The female genitalia
21. Class- A term used for something good
22. Plastered- To be very drunk
23. Bogger- Rural person
24. Hames -To ruin or destroy
25. Shift -French kiss
26. Ride -A goodlooking person
27. Meet- To french kiss someone
28. Rotten- Something horrible/ disgusting.
29. Bullin- 1. He was angry 2. The heifer was bullin 3. She was randy !
30. Mouldy- To get drunk or something thats disgusting
31. Ossified- Drunk
32. Wan -One
33. Feen -Male
34. Like -Used at the end of every sentence
35. Grand -Fine, ok, alright
36. Whist -Be quite
37. Stall -French kiss.
38. Hi -Put to the end of almost every sentence!
39. Gander- A look
40. Scuttered- In a very advanced state of intoxication.
41. Well -How are you? Is your day going well
42. Gaff -House
43. Scoops -Alcoholic drink
44. Sketch -Used when keeping a lookout for an authority figure, and one is seen coming
45. Lamp -To hurt someone
46. Clatter -A slap or a belt
47. Bate -Exhausted
48. Bure -Female
49. Sup -Hello
50. Slash -Urinating
51. Buck -Boy, man, lad
52. Wide -Aware of, understand
53. Gawk -Sick
54. Beour -Female
55. Scatter- A group (esp of inanimate objects)
56. Horse- A friend
57. Jackeen- Person from dublin
58. Aye -Yes
59. Mog -Person of low intelligence
60. Clem -Something bad
61. Score -To kiss someone.
62. Chancer- Dodgy character
63. Gom -Fool
64. Cop On- An order to grab hold of yourself and not be so stupid
65. Baytin- Regional pronunciation for the word beating.
66. Coddin- Joking,
67. Acting The Maggot- Acting in a particularly foolish manner
68. Gatch -The walk of someone
69. Stall The Ball- Hold on a moment
70. Gombeen- Fool
71. Puss -Sulky face
72. Arseways- To make a mess of
73. Jammy -Lucky person
74. Gas -Funny
75. Jacks -Toilet
76. Dose -Thats annoying
77. Mitch -To bunk off
78. Spanner -An idiot
79. Skank -Woman of ill repute
80. Slag -A woman of ill repute
81. Langers- Drunk
82. Stocious- To be very drunk. Pronounced: Sto-shess
83. Puck -To hit with a closed fist
84. Wee -Small
85. Massive- Great, super
86. Buckled- Under the influence
87. Gobshite- If someone gets on your nerves
88. Schkelp- To thump/hit
89. Pandy- Cork speak for mashed spuds, milk and butter
90. Cut- The state of, appearance
91. Yokes- Extacy tablets
92. Banter- Ne crk
93. Mighty- Very good
94. Hape -Loads
95. Rank -Mowldy
96. Locked -To be drunk
97. Knackered- Tired
98. Lamped -Injured
99. Lock -Small amount
100. Bog -Toilet, Bathroom

 

[Edible Avatar]

Got this from a website, i did't even think that these were considered slang.

Spoiler

Yo: "what's up?" ; how are you doing?; what's new?, hey

Dub: $20 dollars

Dude: a person


Trees: Marijuana

Grapes: Marijuana

Hecka: alot of something

It's a wrap: it's done, something is going to happen


Squab: fight

Swagger: style


Beezy: another term for a girl


Fo Sho: "for sure" ; OK ; alright

What it is: greeting ; how are you doing?

What's crackin: what are you up to?

A blunt: a big marijuana cigarette

Swisher: a cigar used to roll a blunt (you empty out the tobacco first... whatever happened to Zig-Zags?"


Riding Deep: cruising with many people in a car

>3: love

Muah: blowing kisses


Mo Fo: Mother F'''''''' r (you can guess the rest yourself)

Scandalous: someone doing something messed up or "bad"


Five 0: police, cops

Doing too much: the person is being too complicated

20's: 20 inch rims on cars

Dime Bag: 10 dollar bag of marijuana

Shorty: a girl

Scraper: older car usually just to get by for the time, can be kind of nice though

It's bad: it's not a good time or situation

Getting up in my grill: someone is getting in my business

Let's bounce: lets get out of here ; let's leave

What's up?: what are you doing, what's new?

You be trippin: accusation that someone is wrong, lying or not making sense

Where are you coming from?: what do you mean?

Snitch: someone that has given information out about someone else's illegal activity

That's messed up: doing something wrong in someone eyes

Hater: someone with a bad attitude, someone that is "picking on" someone



That's sick: it's "cool "or "nice" ; good or great


411: April 11th of any year. The day pot smokers celebrate and smoke marijuana

Game: getting something good

Bruh or Bro: friend

Slappin: listening to music loud

What's good?: what are you doing? what are you up to?


Himme up or hit me up: call or text me. Get a hold of someone

Foo: fool

The Black and Whites: the police

 

[Thaluikhain]

Mong is short for Mongaloid, though, hardly just Australian.

In the UK, 'mong' is yet another word for 'idiot' or 'dickhead'.

IIRC, that's because people thought that Mongoloid features looked similar to a person with Down's Syndrome.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

'Laowai' (pronounced loud but -d and why) is racist Chinese slang for somebody not from China, it is derived from 'waiguoren' which means 'person from somewhere else'.

I got a lot of both of those while living in China.

Somebody in China says 'laowai' to you then flip them off, they aren't being nice.

 

[5-0]

'Laowai' (pronounced loud but -d and why) is racist Chinese slang for somebody not from China, it is derived from 'waiguoren' which means 'person from somewhere else'.

I got a lot of both of those while living in China.

Somebody in China says 'laowai' to you then flip them off, they aren't being nice.

I got called that all the way through Shanghai in Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Hm, English slang...

'Hench' means muscular, well built.
'Bint' is a derogatory term towards women. We have a lot of those.

 

[Rikkano]

Perkele = Finnish for "goddamnit", also the name of their ancient thundergod

 

[LordXel]

Slag. Not slag as an insult but rather as a replacement of shit and other similar words. Been watching Beast Wars too much.

 

[careful]

edit-> UTF-8 chars in this post!
In japanese there are different words for female and male masturbation http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1F I haven't ever encountered these words in my experiance with ja. But looking at the dictionary codes im guessing these are slang, so that, interestingly, in the every-day usage of the word "masturbate" there is a lexical distinction through gender use. Although gendered speech is deeply entrenched in ja (just like other natural langauges) so I can't say im surprised here.

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  [li] Male masturbation = せんずり "senzuri"[/li]
  [li] Female masturbation = マンズリ "manzuri"[/li]

Here's the broad IPA for those words if you know how to read IPA (done using this awesome tool by the way http://weston.ruter.net/projects/ipa-chart/view/keyboard/)

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  [li] "senzuri" = senzɯɾi[/li]
  [li] "manzuri" = manzɯɾi[/li]

I'm guessing that the other entry in that dictionary 悪癖 (broadIPA = akɯheki)is the gender neutral term, prolly not used in formal contexts since its tagged as

 

[Amethyst Wind]

'Laowai' (pronounced loud but -d and why) is racist Chinese slang for somebody not from China, it is derived from 'waiguoren' which means 'person from somewhere else'.

I got a lot of both of those while living in China.

Somebody in China says 'laowai' to you then flip them off, they aren't being nice.

I got called that all the way through Shanghai in Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Ironically enough that's probably the least likely place in China to hear that. Shanghai is very foreign-friendly.

 

[Qitz]

Got this from a website, i did't even think that these were considered slang.

411: April 11th of any year. The day pot smokers celebrate and smoke marijuana

Isn't it 420 not 411? Always thought 411 was for info.

Ironically enough that's probably the least likely place in China to hear that. Shanghai is very foreign-friendly.

Yeah but you're mainly hearing that from body snatchers so I doubt they care about Shanghai's foreign relations

Only slang I know is Tart which is usually for a stupid person, usually used in reference for women though.

 

[The Night Angel]

I'm from Ireland, and we have quite a few I'm sure, the problem is that I'm a grammar Nazi, so I wouldn't use them. I can give you one or two off the top of my head that are common enough here:

Raging : annoyed (not in the gaming sense of 'rage quitting')
Sickened : annoyed (again)
Bog : In Ireland, as the person above said, this means 'toilet'
John : Also 'toilet'
Minging : Ugly

You forgot gaff for house. That's gotta be the most common.
Also craic sort of means fun. You might say "it's great craic" for instance.

Haha, yea, I know the words now that you say them, just wasn't in the mood for thinking earlier, and as I said I wouldn't use them often. Though you make a good point, both of those would be extremely common, especially craic.