Charm us with your quaint local phrases

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Let the diversity of ILX shine through and introduces us to some terms/phrases that bear little application beyond your town/region/country. Already we have "gotch" from Canada (thanks Horace) and "Broheems", which I'm guessing is a West Coast US thing.

More please.

― Fatal Beret (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

your name changes are making my nipples spin.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey dude.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"oh yaaaaaaaah" (instead of "yes")

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

'ostie, fuck

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

well paint my wagon and call me susan

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

hella = originally an east bay contraction of "hell of a" which has been misappropriated as a synonym for "very" over the past 10-15 years.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Nesh" is "hahaha you wet sap softy you FEEL THE COLD lots!"

"Wick" is "alive!" (possibly against considerable odds)

According to The Secret Garden, anyway.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Do kids in London still call each other "Malcos"?

― Fatal Beret (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

(short for "malcoordinated" - a MAJOR diss)

― Fatal Beret (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

hella also means many, no? as in "there were hella cops there".

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Today I caught myself saying the phrase "I'm going to boot on over to the store after work" and wondered just WTF I was on about, and have I ALWAYS spoken this way?

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

In Canberra: Shit you're a booner!
In Melbourne: Fuck you're a bogan!

(both meaning "goodness me, you are the epitome of acid wash jeans, mullets and Iron Maiden t-shirts, and I do not approve!")

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I was always unsure if the whole "neds" debacle was exclusively Glasgow-centric, a small friend who lives near Greenwich seems to have appropriated it a bit

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

the whole "neds" debacle

:-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

A posh guy in London who was giving me directions told me to "flack a left", but he was posh, so maybe that doesn't mean anything.

― Fatal Beret (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Small n, ALWAYS

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"*#&*%)*^&^$$@%@!!!!1!!1" (new york)

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

trayce, can you explain the etymology of those words? or is it like I imagine how all Australian words are formed, ie randomly making goofy noises?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Sydney: jeez you're a westie!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I've always thought these put down words ('Bogan', 'Boona/Booner') were named after backward, inbred Aussie country towns?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Bufu, pronounced boo-foo, meaning out in the middle of nowhere, originally began as Butt Fuck, Egypt or Bumblefuck, Iowa.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"westie" is obvious - western suburbs of syd...

Booner/bogan - you know, I have no idea the etymology. To me they sound aboriginal in origin but you only ever apply it to white trash types. I'd never heard "bogan" til I moved down here, and I'd actually totally forgotten about "booner" til today when a guy at work asked me what it meant. Which makes this thread appearing kinda twilight zoneish.

Did a quick google and couldnt find anything. But yeah maybe something to do with the backwaters, I mean theres the bogan river up near dubbo somewhere (I think?).

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Is there really an Aust country town called Kickatinalong?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sweet-o," in a really bizarre affected voice. I'll record an mp3 of this if anyone requests it.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I heard that northern UK goths say, "Ah! Ludwig!" as an expression of pleasure. Could that be true, and if so, is it from Clockwork Orange?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I have never heard you say that Andrew ;P

Hey I forgot "spunk", how could I forget that!?

"Hes a fuckin' spunk moit, he's rooly rooly cute, and I go to him, I go I go I go, get stuffed moit!"

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Also my friends and I have taken to saying "Ah-ye-kyunt-ahhh!" Which basically means 'oh you fucking cunt, haha'. There is no way you would know how to pronounce it without hearing it.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Nobody says 'spunk', Trayce. My Aunt says 'spunk'. I hate it.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

like Begsby in Trainspotting?
(xpost)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha I know nobody says it, but everyone here seems so grossed out by it because of its other meaning :)

FWIW: everyone said "spunk" when i was in primary school in the 70s. Also "will you go with me", which I thought was a very NSW australian phrase until I heard it in Donnie Darko, of all fucking things!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ah-ye-kyunt-ahhh!" Which basically means 'oh you fucking cunt, haha'. There is no way you would know how to pronounce it without hearing it.
-- Andrew (n...) (webmail), January 13th, 2004. (enneff)

Andrew, do you say it like Mark E Smith would say it?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Australia seems to beat all comers on this, but maybe it's the hour, folks.

Carry on.

― Fatal Beret (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"*#&*%)*^&^$$@%@!!!!1!!1" (new york)

That was popularized in New York but it originated in Q-bertia

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

apparently they say things like "mintox" and "untold" in perth

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew, do you say it like Mark E Smith would say it?

Actually, yes! I never thought about it that way.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Aha! I knew it!

Surface noise, I too have heard of this mintox thing. It's weird.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:50 (twenty-two years ago)

(message left on my cellphone by my cousin brian in media, pa):

HOW BOUT DEM IGGLES!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Man Perth is classic for weird phrases.

Like "gogan" (goth bogans, ie goth kiddies in mason tshirts and crappy jeans who think metal bands are goth).

There were some others, but Ive forgot them.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

how about new zealanders? with their "bro" and "choice" and use of "eh" as a full stop

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"fuck me dead and call me gunny"

― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

all the anzacs i know love to talk about pseudo-echo and MiSex

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

My friend Liv called my nephew a "ranga" the other day but she's aboriginal, I think its a phrase from her people.

Haha yeah "choice" is a good one, I always think of "tum and phul" from ... was it Danger Lowbrow or Martin and Molloy?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

some of us yanks can't tell the difference b/w a british accent and an aussie/new zealand accent. since all us americans think that brits are high-class, you guys could have a thing going on if you ever came over here!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

'ostie, fuck

Forgot to mensh, Slocki - my ex (from Montreal) told me about that one, its a bastardisation of "hostie" as in the wafers from church, yah? What is it with Quebecois and their religious swears? Its grebt!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)

What about 'scrag', to refer to a scrawny, dirty woman? Is that one Australian or do you have it overseas? It sounds vaguely Liverpudlian to me.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

do british police ever actually use the term "toe rag"?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

we don;t have it over here, sorry

(XPOST: TOE RAG!!!)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

cry ruth?
call god on the big white telephone?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

yelling at ralph and bill

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 48 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Bulu = Nuts
Demmick = somewhat unwashed.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

how about new zealanders? with their "bro" and "choice" and use of "eh" as a full stop

We also use eh as a question eh?

"rattle your dags"
"off like a herd of turtles"
"get a wriggle on"

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm partial to 'go piss up a rope'.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

cangirlsdothat?

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"not fer nuthin'"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think so, and I wouldn't like to try...

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"awright ye wanna fight'n'tha' ya bas ye" (adopt drawling West Coast of Scotland accent whilst doing comedy Rowley Birkin impression whilst running all vowels into each other and ignoring consonants if at all possible) = Paisley taxi rank on a Saturday night.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

My grandma has got me saying "squeet" which is a hillbilly shortened form of "let's go eat".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't seen you in a coon's age..

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

y'know what I hate?
when people (often actual rurally-backgrounded people too!) try to prove their rural background by using argot from some other region rurality.
that fucking drives me nuts. like a wheat farmer says, "wait just a cotton-pickin' minute, y'awl"

NO. You western canadian grain farmer should say: "Youse better keep yer eyes on that rooster, 'fore he fucks the wrong hen."

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

regionalist

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"Uff da!" (Thank you, MN.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i believe "bee-yotch" has etymological roots in east oakland (correct me if i'm wrong)

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

and oops, yes you're correct insofaras "hella" = "many" or "very".

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

My dad used to say "he's as ugly as a hat full of bums" (or hat full of arses).

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

he was *that* close to coining 'bag of dicks'. it must haunt him to this day, coming so close and all.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, drove him to drink it did. Terrible.

(PS not really)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Just 'cause the cat had a litter in the oven don't make them kittens biscuits

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Gumbands = rubber bands
Chipchop ham = bologna/salami/etc
Ahia = Ohio
Imp 'n' Arn = a shot of Imperial whiskey in a pint of Iron City beer

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

is mullygrubber a universal term?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I just remembered one my mum says ALL the time that I assumed was a well known phrase but maybe it isn't:

"Don't care was made to care, made to care was hung
Couldn't care was sent to prison and made to hold his tounge"

(or something like that)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

people here say "mom" instead of "mum"

except me

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't care was made to care, made to care was hung
Couldn't care was sent to prison and made to hold his tounge"

(or something like that)

-- Trayce (trayc...) (webmail), January 13th, 2004. (trayce)

My grandma said this too I think

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

You frit the life out of me!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

(The best thing about Dom's entry is that 'T' is right about 'G' on the keyboard.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Nickalicious: Where's your mamaw from, cause people say "squeet" in my old neck of the woods too?

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, "no dog in that fight" reminds me of another one: "That dog don't hunt" = bullshit, something ain't right, etc.

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Down arr weigh, we be corlen aneewun from moren abowt thurdee miyels away a grokkell, innum mah boody?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Translation; In Devon we have a negative view of outsiders, and refer to them as grockels, isn't that right my beauty?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

My granny is from Morristown Tennessee for the most part.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Pendejo! Cabrón!!!

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I have so many of these but I hate making Ireland seem all parochial and silly.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Maryville, Tenn. on this end. Small world.

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"i've got a major batwing" = when your nutsack is stuck the side of your leg and peels off.

― Chris V (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

PLEASE GOD TELL ME THAT WHAT YOU ACTUALLY MEANT TO DESCRIBE ISN'T AS HORRIFYING AS WHAT I'M IMAGINING

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it is, if what you're imagining involves heat + sweat + shorts + sitting down.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I was imagining a scrotum that actually was pulled from your body because it stuck to the skin of your inner thigh.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

You mean like pulled off entirely so it spills your testes down the inside of your trousers and they end up in your shoes and before you know it every time you walk you hear a squelching sound which is the sound of all your unejaculated spunk leaking out of your detached balls and pooling in the soles of your loafers?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate you.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

This all all revenge for the Jennifer thing.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

A hoax from someone at a record label in Seattle which was printed unironically in the NME or Melody Maker regarding Grunge/Seattle "localese":

Lexicon of Grunge: Breaking the Code

All subcultures speak in code: grunge is no exception. Megan Jasper, a 26-year-old sales representative at Caroline Records in Seattle, provided this lexicon of grunge-speak, coming soon to a high school or mall near you:

Wackslacks: Old ripped jeans

Fuzz: Heavy wool sweaters

Plats: Platform shoes

Kickers: Heavy boots

Swingin' On The Flippity-Flop: hanging out

Bound And Gagged: staying home on Friday or Saturday night

Score: Great

Harsh Realm: Bummer

Cob Nobbler: Loser

Dish: Desirable guy

Bloated, Big Bag Debloatation: Drunk

Lamestain: Uncool person

Tom-Tom Club: Uncool outsiders

Rock On: A happy goodbye

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

(this was in 1992 sometime)

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

rotorua equiv. of bogan = munter

cuzzy bro! don't be such a hungus!

― etc, Thursday, 15 January 2004 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"Run like a scalded dog"*

As in, "Ever since we installed that new DS3, he says his 'Internet runs like a scalded dog'"

*Yes, I do realize that an alarming percentage of these southern phrases I'm contributing somehow involve animal abuse. I don't know why this is and plead no contest.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Thursday, 22 January 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Hang him. *gavel bang*

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 22 January 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

kinky!

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 22 January 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"HAAAAAAAAH!" said at the top of one's voice instead of "what?", "sorry?", "yes?", "pardon me old chap could you tell explain to me what you said, you see, I am too fuckwitted to form a monosyllabic word, let alone understand the speech of others".

― fcussen (Burger), Thursday, 22 January 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm so happy my shoes are brimming over"

― sucka (sucka), Thursday, 22 January 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"Him bow'd up like a show dog." = He's pissed.

"Plum." = Yep.

― El Spinktor (El Spinktor), Thursday, 22 January 2004 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

instead of "shopping at the grocery store", we have "making groceries"

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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