The Wide, Wide World Of Slang

[Shanmac]

Yep - it's that word we're not allowed to use, with "berk" derived from Berkshire Hunt.

Ick. My least favorite word ever!

[fairfox]

Yep - it's that word we're not allowed to use, with "berk" derived from Berkshire Hunt.

Oh my god, I wonder if my Dad knows its rhyming slang?!

EDIT:

I love, love, love-ity love the term "big girl's blouse." The closest definition I can find/figure out is that it is some kind of wussy behavior.

I love that term, too, and that's definitely how it's used.

[Shanmac]

God, I hope not.

[fairfox]

Well I have heard the word "berk" used a lot in the UK, by people who would never dream of using the c-word around a North American female (i.e. me). I can't really ask my Dad if he knows because he doesn't then I'll have to explain.

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My 16-year-old cousin from Toronto was just visiting for the last two weeks. Apparently I freakin' love teenage stoner Torontonian slang, because the words "murked," "loafting," "sheisty," and "cheesed" crack my shit up (among others, but these are the golden ones I can think of right now).

Murked: right fucked, I guess. (We saw an ugly car accident: "Lixxie, that is the definition of 'murked.'")
To loaft: to be lazy and not accomplish much. ("This was a pretty loafty day.")
Sheisty: a bit sketchy. ("That guy is pretty sheisty, you shouldn't go up to someone like that."0
Cheesed: pissed off. ("Yeah, your mom was pretty cheesed when she found the chronic..")

Oh, cousin.

[Auroranorth]

karrit said:

I love, love, love-ity love the term "big girl's blouse." The closest definition I can find/figure out is that it is some kind of wussy behavior.

For instance, if someone was afraid to go into the ocean because there might be a shark, you would say to them: "Don't be such a big girl's blouse and get in the damn water!"

I've heard it as "Put on your big girl/boy panties and cope!"

[bossyboots]

auroranorth said:

karrit said:

I love, love, love-ity love the term "big girl's blouse." The closest definition I can find/figure out is that it is some kind of wussy behavior.

For instance, if someone was afraid to go into the ocean because there might be a shark, you would say to them: "Don't be such a big girl's blouse and get in the damn water!"

I've heard it as "Put on your big girl/boy panties and cope!"

Same here! I love that expression.

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Now I'm confused. (Really, Duke? That's unusual. Shut up!) Wouldn't the Berk part of Berkshire Hunt be pronounced "Bark" for "Barkshire"? Because a clerk is a clark and Hertford is Hartford. Or is Berkshire actually pronounced Berkshire, just to fool those of us who do not inhabit this sceptered isle, this earth, this realm, this England?

Changing tracks...Mister Humphries always got a laugh from the audience (or laugh track) when he mentioned the name of a competing store, something like "Lalley and Willets." What's the deal on that?

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I'm originally from the Upper Peninsula of MI, a "Yooper"... and we call people from downstate MI "trolls." My favorite bit of slang oddness is that we sell a pastry filled with meat, potatoes, etc. and call it a "pasty"... so for that first few miles north of the Mackinac Bridge ("Mackinaw") people are always surprised at the overbundance of stores selling fresh stripper nipple stickers.

Though you do pronounce pasty as PASS-tee, whereas the nipple variety is PASTE-ie, I think.

Had to give up the pop for the soda since moving to L.A.. *cry.*

At work I often do English Audio Descriptions which are done in UK English... and I'm always learning new slang. What you UKers call "builder's bum" we in the US call "plumber's crack."

Man, I hate the word panties.

I heard a friend from the Pacific Northwest call a sandwich a "sangy" but I'm not sure if he got it from there.

[fairfox]

My Dad pronounces berk to rhyme with work, not with bark. But I *think* it's pronounced bark-shire (the whole word)...not 100% sure tho.

this sceptered isle, this earth, this realm, this England

That quote always makes me want to blub a bit.