Say What - A to Z slang/colloquialism game.

[Reciprocity]

TDot

Slang abbreviation for City of Toronto Canada

You going to the Tdot tonight?

[notsmokinjo]

Up yaself/himself/herself

 

To be stuck up..or too be posh, often in warranted....there is no class system here, you speak fancy and lah-dee-dah ya stuck up, or up yaself.

 

She sure looked oright but she was so up herself.

[Sazerac]

Viper....marijuana smoker

 

and our homegrown, Kermit

 

[Reciprocity]

Walking Papers

To be fired or dismissed from your employment.

 

"You're fired! Here's your walking papers!"

[notsmokinjo]

Xmas ... The way to spell Christmas if you don't believe in Christ Or you're lazy...we used to get the ruler over our knuckles for writing Xmas in primary school...Sr Geraldine was so strict.

[Reciprocity]

Yellow

Descriptive word for a coward.

 

You just don't want to fight because you're yellow!

[Sazerac]

Zoot Suit, 

[Reciprocity]

Acid

lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD

 

Hey man! You wanna do some acid?

[notsmokinjo]

Bugger... Multiple, but let's just go with "damn"

 

(Drops hammer on foot) ... "Bugger"

 

 

But if you bugger something, you stuff it up or wreck it...or when kids are being naughty they are little buggers.

[Sazerac]

Chicken Scratch....a guitar lick made famous by Jimmy Nolen who went on to play in James Brown's band.

You hear a lot of chicken scratch in 'Papa's Got A Brand New Bag'

One of Nolen's  first examples are on this J. Otis record. You will recognize the 'chicken scratch' once you hear it.

 

 

[jillar]

Dingle ball

 

A little piece of poop hanging on the hair of a pets butt

[Sazerac]

eighty sixed...banned or thrown out of an establishment (club, bar, etc)

 

I had to eighty six him, he was causing a disturbance !

[Doreensfree]

Frog march ...

Mum says ...if you don't behave I'll frog march you go bed !!!

[WeegieWoman]

 

Ginger - What it usually means: A hair colour. Meaning in Glasgow: fizzy juice 

[Sazerac]

the Haps.....happening

 

What's the haps?....what's going on, what's happening

 

[Reciprocity]

IMHO

In My Humble Opinion - computer slang.

 

IMHO you are doing a great job!

[Sazerac]

Joe.....coffee

 

I miss my Joe, especially cold brew in the morning or espresso of an evening

[Doreensfree]

Kibosh...ruined..

As in ...Well that was Kiboshed

 

[notsmokinjo]

9 hours ago, reciprocity said:

IMHO

In My Humble Opinion - computer slang.

 

IMHO you are doing a great job!

Oh...I thought it was In My Honest Opinion...thanks @reciprocity, dunno if I'm into doing humble.

[notsmokinjo]

Larry.. a loser, as in Larry the Loser...

 

Bob is such a larry.

[Sazerac]

I usually say, 'in my Not So humble opinion'.

(when are opinions ever really humble?) IMNSHO.

 

Making groceries....going shopping for food.

 

The cupboard is bare, baby.  We need to make groceries today.

 

[notsmokinjo]

Nonga ....nong-ahh

 

A fool/idiot...very mild, almost affectionate it down...

 

Trying to help me dad do the backyard mechanic thing...he ask for a tool and I give him the wrong one...

 

"Ah ya Nonga...not that thingy the other thingy, you know" this is accompanied by a vague waving of his fingers behind his back.

 

 

[Sazerac]

Off The Wall...ridiculous, crazy

 

That was pretty off the wall when that chick started yelling for no reason.

[notsmokinjo]

Pom...or pommy....

 

An English person...

 

As in...

 

Those who whinging pommy bastards robbed the bloody kiwis in cricket. 

Or 

 

I don't really care if we loose, as long as we beat the Poms.

 

 

[Sazerac]

Quid

a British pound, money.

I'm pretty broke, I only have a quid left.