Post some of your nations slang

[Dark Knifer]

Every country has its own weird words that aren't really words but become very commonly.

For me (Australia) Goon is a popular one, which is what we call boxed wine.

 

[Zhukov]

Oh man, I haven't heard someone talk about "goon" since I was a teenager.

It's odd, I never drunk the stuff when I was in my mid teens. Then at like 18-19 it seemed to become popular almost overnight and suddenly all anyone could talk about was how many goonbags they had drunk on the weekend.

Another common Australian one is "bogan". Basically an insulting term for a poor, rough, urban type of person. Although I've also heard it used in a rural context. Often implies unemployment.

 

[Colour Scientist]

Ireland has so many terms that are specific to Ireland or at least have a specific meaning here.
My boyfriend's from the UK and I don't think he knows what I'm talking about half the time.

These aren't universal but these are ones I use:

A cupboard is a press.
To tell someone off is to 'give out' to someone.
Putting the word 'so' at the end of sentences.
If someone is boring or aren't much fun, they're shit craic.
I think we use the word 'grand' differently, like, if someone asks you how you are and you say 'I'm grand', it means you're fine or okay.

There're so many more, these are just ones that have been pointed out to me by foreigners. XD

Edit: Also, using the word feck, I suppose, or eejit.

 

[Keoul]

A cooler is an 'esky'
Mosquitoes are 'mozzies'
To fall over is to 'stack it/stacked it'
Definitely a lot more but these stick out the most in my mind.

 

[Vault101]

Macca's
barbie
"bail up" as in "one of those charity people bailed me up in the street"
Bloke <-not entirly unique to Aus...term of endearment to a man kind of like "bro"

and if you want to go really old school

deadly as in "cool" <-which to me seems something used by Indigenous Australais
Grouce as in "awsome"<-no idea where that came from

It's odd, I never drunk the stuff when I was in my mid teens. Then at like 18-19 it seemed to become popular almost overnight and suddenly all anyone could talk about was how many goonbags they had drunk on the weekend.
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my brother was in Uni and did Goon...although I don't know if they still do (its cheap so possibly)

I never knew what it was and when he told me I was like "that sounds like something a homeless guy brews in an allyway" thankfully I'm not that cheap and don't need too much alchohol

 

[Zhukov]

It's odd, I never drunk the stuff when I was in my mid teens. Then at like 18-19 it seemed to become popular almost overnight and suddenly all anyone could talk about was how many goonbags they had drunk on the weekend.
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my brother was in Uni and did Goon...although I don't know if they still do (its cheap so possibly)

I never knew what it was and when he told me I was like "that sounds like something a homeless guy brews in an allyway" thankfully I'm not that cheap and don't need too much alchohol

Heh. "Did Goon". Makes it sound like a drug.

"Oh yeah, watch out for that guy. Real crazy prick. I hear he does goon and all sorts of shit."

For some silly reason getting pissed on dirt cheap wine strikes me as particularly... I dunno, classless? Is that a word? Y'know, as in not classy.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Another common Australian one is "bogan". Basically an insulting term for a poor, rough, urban type of person. Although I've also heard it used in a rural context. Often implies unemployment.

I don't think it has the class elements so much still, just a bunch of things that the lower classes got stereotyped with. Small-minded gullible thugs...plenty of rich ones of those.

 

[Zhukov]

Another common Australian one is "bogan". Basically an insulting term for a poor, rough, urban type of person. Although I've also heard it used in a rural context. Often implies unemployment.

I don't think it has the class elements so much still, just a bunch of things that the lower classes got stereotyped with. Small-minded gullible thugs...plenty of rich ones of those.

Maybe, but I've never seen the term applied to a visibly wealthy or upper-middle class person.

Unless they were a poor person who became rich but retained some visible aspect of their poor origins.

So I'd say there's a definite class element.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Another common Australian one is "bogan". Basically an insulting term for a poor, rough, urban type of person. Although I've also heard it used in a rural context. Often implies unemployment.

I don't think it has the class elements so much still, just a bunch of things that the lower classes got stereotyped with. Small-minded gullible thugs...plenty of rich ones of those.

Maybe, but I've never seen the term applied to a visibly wealthy or upper-middle class person.

Unless they were a poor person who became rich but retained some visible aspect of their poor origins.

So I'd say there's a definite class element.

I dunno, half the countries athletes, singers and soapie stars seem to be bogan, no matter where they started from.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I am going to square this away and stop any further mares from occuring. We can't take the schtick for other peoples badmin anymore. The abundance of jack-wets being made in the t-bar is due to an increase in remfs and crows, and a lack of fizzers from the brass hats. Apparently though the rock ape old man having LMF was duff gen though, and he was down with a gippy tummy, so that has lead to the incident occuring.

 

[Ravesy]

Not a slang word, but a popular phrase in Wales that has always made me chuckle is "I'll be there now in a minute".

 

[maveric112]

Ireland has so many terms that are specific to Ireland or at least have a specific meaning here.
My boyfriend's from the UK and I don't think he knows what I'm talking about half the time.

These aren't universal but these are ones I use:

A cupboard is a press.
To tell someone off is to 'give out' to someone.
Putting the word 'so' at the end of sentences.
If someone is boring or aren't much fun, they're shit craic.
I think we use the word 'grand' differently, like, if someone asks you how you are and you say 'I'm grand', it means you're fine or okay.

There're so many more, these are just ones that have been pointed out to me by foreigners. XD

Edit: Also, using the word feck, I suppose, or eejit.

Last time I was over in England I discovered my use of qwere as a term for very didn't go down so well.. "You look qwere n good" This of course was meant to say that the person I spoke to was looking very good. It was however taken as an insult because they thought I mispronounced queer

Also had the same problem when I was younger when some American kids came over as exchange students for a couple of weeks. One weekend I was with them and they asked me what I wanted to do. I said "I don't really care as long as we have some good craic." I was upset when after that they stopped talking to me, when I finally asked them why they said "I'm sorry but we don't want to associate with someone who does drugs." I had never laughed so hard in my life.

There are really so many that I don't think I could get them all, but the one that is pointed out to me the most is when I want to go for a walk I take a Dander.

 

[Sansha]

New Zealand slang is heavily influenced by Maori language and manner of speaking, and it's generally used by both pakeha (white NZ'er) and Maori without offense. We call each other by those names, by the way.

"Eh?" - pronounced 'A', is used at the end of a sentence when expecting a reply.

"Give it heaps." - 'Try your best!' ('heaps' generally means 'a lot of')

"Aw, true?" - 'Is that a fact?'

"Wot, ****?" - 'I dislike your tone, sir.'

"Wonna go?" - 'Care to engage in fisticuffs?'

"Nah, oi/ow." - 'Nay.'

"Oh, nah, yeah." - 'Verily.'

"'sup, ow?" - 'Hello, sir.'

"Oh nah he's a good **** eh." - 'He is a gentleman and a scholar.'

"He's a mean ****." - 'Truly, an exemplary pillar of society.'

"Giz a drink oi." - 'May I have some of your beverage?'

"Giz a bickie." - 'Please hand me a biscuit.'

"Chuck us a full one!" - 'I would like all of the beverage.'

"Let's get a mean feed." - 'Let us feast!'

"That's a mean car, oi." - 'What an exceptional automobile.' ('mean' generally means 'very good')

"Yeah mate, fuckin' stoaked(sic)." - 'Yes, I am quite excited."

"Oh, cracker!" - 'Wonderful!'

"She'll be right." - 'This situation will improve.'

"It's munted." - 'This is damaged beyond repair.' or 'This is a disgraceful situation.'

"He's nicked it!" - 'He has stolen my property!'

"I'll shout you tea, cuz." - 'I will buy you dinner, my friend.'

"Ta." - 'My sincere thanks.'

Anyone who's played Far Cry 3 might be familiar with these; the local islander characters were voiced by New Zealand Maori.
But the best example of exaggerated Kiwi slang is done by John Clarke as 'Fred Dagg'. YouTube that; it's funny shit oi.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Bro: Less frat boy and more generic friend label.

Westie: The 'bogan' of New Zealand, which came about due to the inhabitants of Waitakere City (now the western part of the greater Auckland Region)

Smoko: A break during work, may or may not include actual smoking.

Remuera Tractor: Vanity SUV's that get used to pick-up/drop off kids and generally stay in the suburbs.

Ute: A pickup truck.

Batch: Holiday home.

Tranping: Bushwalking, hiking, etc.

Jafa: Either Just Another Fucking Aucklander or Just Another Fuckwit From Auckland.

Yeah Right. Part of a long running campaign for Tui Breweries, has since entered New Zealand slang, similar to whatever.

Scarfie: Uni Student, to be more specific one attending Otago University. Tend to hold parties on rooftops of houses and burn couches.

 

[LongAndShort]

I've been told that "on the piss" (getting drunk) and 'I'm pissed' (contextually means 'I am drunk') or not used outside Australia (except probably New Zealand. Lot of shared slang with out cuzzes across the water).

 

[Frezzato]

I don't think there are any modern American equivalents compared to the cool language here. But there are some crass old timey ones that nobody uses any more, like:

Gams = Legs, specifically female
Legs = Female ("Heya, legs.")
Skirt = Female
"No flies on you", because ostensibly, flies won't land on anything moving or active

Anyway...

Someone I know from Louisiana had a funny term, "washateria" or "washeteria", which is pretty much the regional way of saying laundromat. Here in Florida it's helpful to speak Spanish, but it's more amusing to only know a couple of casual terms like "dale pues" (dah-leh pway), which I always considered be to kind of a more positive way of saying 'go ahead' or 'if you please', if not 'oh well'.

Another great sounding term is "no se que no se cuanto", which I've heard is a long way of saying something like 'this or that'. It has to be pronounced quickly, almost as if it were a single word. I find it very fun to say.

 

[Ravesy]

I've been told that "on the piss" (getting drunk) and 'I'm pissed' (contextually means 'I am drunk') or not used outside Australia (except probably New Zealand. Lot of shared slang with out cuzzes across the water).

We use them lots in the UK too .

 

[Suhi89]

I've been told that "on the piss" (getting drunk) and 'I'm pissed' (contextually means 'I am drunk') or not used outside Australia (except probably New Zealand. Lot of shared slang with out cuzzes across the water).

We use that in the UK too. Talking about the UK. "I hate the smell of fags" or "Fags make me feel sick" or "Fags should be kept away from our children" has a somewhat different meaning over here than it might elsewhere in the world.

We have lots of regional ones. Where I'm from, a cheese cob is a bread roll with cheese, noggin is your head, waggin is skipping off school or work tarrarabit (no idea how to spell it) means see you later and there's many more.

Then there's some standard British slang, loo for toilet, quid for pound (used for Euro in Ireland I believe?) etc. My fiancee is Canadian and I use words her parents don't get fairly often. Using them comes as such second nature to me that I don't usually realise I'm doing it.

 

[Proto325]

Nob: penis/disagreeable person

Bell-end: specifically the head of the penis/disagreeable person

Minge, clunge, gash: vagina

Knackered: extremely tired or broken, not to be confused with:

Knackers: testicles

Daft: Silly

Chav/scally: British equivalent of white trash

Mither (pronounced my-there): to pester or annoy

Skrike: cry

Bugger and sod are basically used as milder versions of fuck/fucker e.g. "bugger off, you cheeky sod" "oh sod it let's just go". The two are mostly interchangeable.

Cheeky: rude or disrespectful, typically in an endearing way

Some of these are used in other countries too, but hey ho.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

**snip**

Hello fellow Floridian!! I would swear aside from the general southern terms of "ain't" and the like and the smattering of Spanish (as long as you're in the southern part of Florida), there really isn't anything special about our language here. In fact, for a southern state, we're also light on accents. Its as if Florida for the most part exists in a cultural vacuum, devoid of any colorful language (except of course in the backwoods parts and 'round Miami). I have a theory if you come here from anywhere else and live for more than a year you lose whatever accent you had and just sound normal. Being born in Florida, however, means you tend to pick up an accent when you visit other areas quite easily and quickly. Soon as I cross the Georgia/Florida line I feel the Southern twang creep into my vocal chords, for example. Hell we had a German exchange student in my High School who after about a year didn't even sound foreign at all (except when he reverted to his natural language when he was mad and cursed... my oh my German curses just sound so much better than any American or British english curses...). Except for Asian accents, we can't erase those for some reason, and well latin accents as well but that is to be expected.
Oh my, I seem to have gone off topic.
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