Got an interesting word to share?

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[EJFan]

yes, this IS the interesting word thread. EJ's word is the no-johnson.

yes. and i'm starting my own clothing line... non-john

 

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[EJFan]

of course i'm sure the term long-johns doesn't have anything to do with you

not remotely.

i tried marketing the "short john" line of thongs but it didn't take off.

 

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[EJFan]

LOL. Seems like you're back to your usual self. 'night folks.

g'night john boy.

 

[Avery_Chisholm]

my special word for the day is CONVERSATE

 

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[EJFan]

my special word for the day is CONVERSATE

this is another one that's always sent shivers down my spine. i mean, it should be converse... which is a shoe... so it's not an unfamiliar word ya know.

 

[EJFan]

In my neck of the woods, a lot of people use the word "wicked" as if it were synonymous with the word "very."

i LOVE that commercial with the various families learning the new england phrases (it's for some travel company i think)... and there's the one asian family repeating after the tape... "that cawnceht was wicked hahd cohr."

 

[SweetErika]

I've heard the word "doohicky" used to mean "thing" in a similar manner to what you mention.

I would have been baffled with "hot dog with sauce" though.

In my neck of the woods, a lot of people use the word "wicked" as if it were synonymous with the word "very." Examples: The laser light show was wicked cool. We had a wicked bad thunderstorm last night.
I'm not sure how far this reaches, but I've met a lot of people from the west and midwest that never heard "wicked" used this way.

Yeah, we use doohicky too. Edit: My mom sometimes calls a thing a deal, dealie, or dealiebopper.

Wicked has made it this far west...it was mostly picked up and used by kids though.

Conversate. *shudders*

I can't think of many words I use or heard that others don't know. My grandparents (from Scandanavia and then the Midwest originally) have always called a couch/sofa a davenport. I always thought that was kind of strange.

 

[silverwhisper]

i'm a fan of "thingamabob".

eilan: that sauce/chili thing may actually be a function of the skyline restaurant in cincinnatti. according to the story: they described their spaghetti sauce as chili during WW2 to avoid the negative connotations associated w/ the food of the enemy. or something like that.

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[Pyro Paul]

the one line that i say that very few people understand is.
'Belive you me.' of course any one that watched monty python would get it.

wicked is a word that is used by punk skater wanna be middle schoolers in grade school. Dude, that is So wicked cool.

the words i love to use are what i use in replacment of cursing (since i cant curse in some places)

FlusterCluck!!! this whole thing is bassackwords!

 

[glynndah]

One of my kindergarteners a few years ago complained (okay, tattled) that one of her classmates had used the "k" word. Now I wish I'd have asked her what word she was talking about.

 

[silverwhisper]

glynndah: if the student is jewish, i have a guess.

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[Slightly AsQ]

I grew up in Milwaukee. Everyone there uses the word "bubbler" for a drinking fountain. If someone ever asks you for a "bubbler" you know they're from Milwaukee, or at least Wisconsin.

We also used a weird sentence structure that was influenced by German. A common example of something that a Milwaukean might say is, "Throw the baby downstairs a cookie" meaning, of course, "throw a cookie to the baby
downstairs."

 

[bisexplicit]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned "wicked" as a meaning for "very." I suppose thats pretty commonly known now, but when I was originally using it as a teenager, people from other areas of the country had no idea what I meant when I said something was "wicked cool."

 

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[bisexplicit]

Sorry, but I beat you too it wicked bad. Check post #33.
I'm 45 and its been in use here since I was a kid.

Okay, shush and shush.

 

[Avery_Chisholm]

this is another one that's always sent shivers down my spine. i mean, it should be converse... which is a shoe... so it's not an unfamiliar word ya know.

i drive my friends nuts with that word

 

[Quoll]

A few years ago my wife's rellies came over from Scotland; one time when we were in the supermarket one of them asked me where the "dilutin" was WTF???? It took me a good ten minutes to work out that they were looking for cordial ( do you have that), I suspect it was a family thing as I have never heard it used anywhere else.
One of the girls I used to work with used to go for a "mimi" enerytime she went for a pee, so we ended up calling her Mimi, which sounds very cute until you realise we were actually calling her piss.

When constantly annoyed by children asking what you are doing one of the standard replies is "I'm making a wigwam for a gooses bridle"

 

[carrie-on]

The funniest one I have heard around here is "smucked" example..."That car really "smucked" that deer down the road"

 

[TBKahuna123]

I think the best one I've heard was when I was at a conventiona nd one of hte guys from London said "I'm gonna run out and spark a fag."

Now, you can imagine the the repsonse from the americans int he group. The first question asked was, "what does spark mean in Brittain? Is it legal to spark a fag in Ohio?"

We were all confused until we saw him holding a pack of cigarettes.

 

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[EJFan]

A few years ago my wife's rellies came over from Scotland; one time when we were in the supermarket one of them asked me where the "dilutin" was WTF???? It took me a good ten minutes to work out that they were looking for cordial ( do you have that),

ok... i don't know what dilutin OR cordial is.

this thread needs a thesaurus.