Slang. I need to know various examples Writer in need of slang, please help ...
#1
Posted 10 July 2005 - 12:54 AM
I have come to notice that on these threads from time to time some of us - myself included - use slang, forgetting that we are all from different countries (and that some of you clever ones out there have english as a second language).
I am an aspiring - but as yet still pretty shitty - writer and would love to steal all your favourite slang and phrases, to make me seem windswept and interesting.
Ta
The best phrase or slang gets a dollar.
I am an aspiring - but as yet still pretty shitty - writer and would love to steal all your favourite slang and phrases, to make me seem windswept and interesting.
Ta
The best phrase or slang gets a dollar.
#2
Posted 10 July 2005 - 03:23 AM
It depends, what one calls slang, another calls a local phrase. Still, here's some gems.
Randomer: an individual previously unknown to a set of environs. Commonly applied to people who turn up in your halls of residence, who nobody knows.
Hmm, I've run out already. I'll stick some more down when I'm awaker.
Randomer: an individual previously unknown to a set of environs. Commonly applied to people who turn up in your halls of residence, who nobody knows.
Hmm, I've run out already. I'll stick some more down when I'm awaker.
When you lose your calm, you feed your anger.
Less Is More v4
Now resigned to a readership of me, my cat and some fish
Less Is More v4
Now resigned to a readership of me, my cat and some fish
#4
Posted 10 July 2005 - 08:18 AM
Some of my favourites (thanks Viz!);
To piss on your chips: To do something which ultimately results in something bad happening to yourself.
Make a bald man cry: To masturbate (e.g. Natalie Portman in Closer is enough to make a bald man cry.)
I'm touching cloth: I need a shit.
My back teeth are floating: I need a piss.
To light a bum cigar: To have a shit.
Got the painters in: Reference to a woman's time of the month.
Let me know if you need any more.
To piss on your chips: To do something which ultimately results in something bad happening to yourself.
Make a bald man cry: To masturbate (e.g. Natalie Portman in Closer is enough to make a bald man cry.)
I'm touching cloth: I need a shit.
My back teeth are floating: I need a piss.
To light a bum cigar: To have a shit.
Got the painters in: Reference to a woman's time of the month.
Let me know if you need any more.
#8
Posted 12 July 2005 - 10:12 AM
QUOTE (Rhubarb @ Jul 10 2005, 05:42 PM)
You'd know most of the ones in Aus, I guess. I just wanna put...
goon - cheap red cask wine
...because that's just awesome somehow.
goon - cheap red cask wine
...because that's just awesome somehow.
Goon is any cask wine, not just red. Infact, I've never even seen red goon before.
Most goon drunk here is fruitilexia, and god I hate it.
The Green Knight, SimeSublime the Puffinesque, liker of chips and hunter of gnomes.
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#10
Posted 18 July 2005 - 02:31 AM
Lately whilst playing pool, any time we sink a ball in the side pocket is referred to as 'satisfaction', and to miss such a shot would be 'satisfaction denied'. The term 'denied' though is used pretty much anytime somebody fails at something.
The Green Knight, SimeSublime the Puffinesque, liker of chips and hunter of gnomes.
JM's official press secretary, scientific advisor, diplomat and apparent antagonist?
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#12
Posted 19 July 2005 - 10:28 AM
I thought I made it up
Another alternative that's popular at the moment is the 'DUN DUN' noise from the old 'Family Feud' show.
Another alternative that's popular at the moment is the 'DUN DUN' noise from the old 'Family Feud' show.
This post has been edited by SimeSublime: 19 July 2005 - 10:28 AM
The Green Knight, SimeSublime the Puffinesque, liker of chips and hunter of gnomes.
JM's official press secretary, scientific advisor, diplomat and apparent antagonist?
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#14
Posted 04 August 2005 - 04:45 PM
Unfortunately, most, if not all, American slang is related to sex or masturbating. Here's a little list of some slang words Americans use.
**PROFANITY**
Masturbating: Jack off (verb), whack off, jerk off (verb), whacking, jerkin the gherkin, choking the chicken, beating the meat, spanking the monkey.
Sex: Getting laid, beef injection, humping, fucking, boning.
Penis: Dick, dork, wang, wong, schlong, schwanz, pork, one-eyed wonder worm, trouser snake, cock.
Vagina: Pussy, cooch, clit, beaver, box, snatch, slit, gash, slash.
Erection: Hard-on, rod-on, boner, stiffy, woody.
Anus: Asshole, Cornhole, bumhole, butthole, brown-eye, mangina.
Anal Sex: Buttsex, buttfucking, up the old dirt road.
Oral Sex: Sucking, Blowing, going down on, yodeling in the gully.
Not all american slang is related to sex.
Insults: Asshole, son of a bitch, bastard, fucker, motherfucker, fuckhead, fuckhole, shithead, shitforbrains, dumbass, jerk-off/jack-off (noun), dumbfuck, dickhead, dick-smoke, cock-smoker, dipshit.
That about sums it up.
**PROFANITY**
Masturbating: Jack off (verb), whack off, jerk off (verb), whacking, jerkin the gherkin, choking the chicken, beating the meat, spanking the monkey.
Sex: Getting laid, beef injection, humping, fucking, boning.
Penis: Dick, dork, wang, wong, schlong, schwanz, pork, one-eyed wonder worm, trouser snake, cock.
Vagina: Pussy, cooch, clit, beaver, box, snatch, slit, gash, slash.
Erection: Hard-on, rod-on, boner, stiffy, woody.
Anus: Asshole, Cornhole, bumhole, butthole, brown-eye, mangina.
Anal Sex: Buttsex, buttfucking, up the old dirt road.
Oral Sex: Sucking, Blowing, going down on, yodeling in the gully.
Not all american slang is related to sex.
Insults: Asshole, son of a bitch, bastard, fucker, motherfucker, fuckhead, fuckhole, shithead, shitforbrains, dumbass, jerk-off/jack-off (noun), dumbfuck, dickhead, dick-smoke, cock-smoker, dipshit.
That about sums it up.
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#15
Posted 05 August 2005 - 07:33 AM
I don't think fucking is slang anymore, if it ever was.
And come on, there should be plenty of American slang, just look at minority groups, or more specific areas. To say that there is no American slang is to say that Americans speak proper English, and the only people who can even try to claim that are the British. It always strikes me as odd that Americans claim words such as bollocks and wanker are 'English slang'. I mean, it's their language, you're just borrowing it.
And come on, there should be plenty of American slang, just look at minority groups, or more specific areas. To say that there is no American slang is to say that Americans speak proper English, and the only people who can even try to claim that are the British. It always strikes me as odd that Americans claim words such as bollocks and wanker are 'English slang'. I mean, it's their language, you're just borrowing it.
The Green Knight, SimeSublime the Puffinesque, liker of chips and hunter of gnomes.
JM's official press secretary, scientific advisor, diplomat and apparent antagonist?
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