Say What - A to Z slang/colloquialism game.

[notsmokinjo]

6 hours ago, Sazerac said:

Pull a U-ie

 

make a u turn

Down here you would "chuck a u-ie" 

 

Invoking the SLOX.... X=5

 

(The) 5 second rule....the amount of time droped food can remain on the ground and still be picked up and eaten.

[Sazerac]

a yat

'yeah, she's a yat, she's gone to see her mom and dem down da parish'

 

a person from St. Bernard Parish

(adjacent to New Orleans Parish)

[notsmokinjo]

Zinger - a witty one liner usually delivered as an insult or put down...common in Australian Politics.

 

Bill Shorten (former Opposition Leader) about the PM at the time: Frankly, the captain of the Titanic is looking competent next to Tony Abbott.

 

 

[Sazerac]

Ax

 

Musicians instrument

[jillar]

Bunk

That's so bunk

 

Bunk= crappy or bogus

Edited July 24, 2019 by jillar

[notsmokinjo]

Carn

(Yep rhymes with barn)

 

Meaning: Come On

 

Used mainly at sorting events to cheer on your team.

 

Example: Carn the Cats

 

Come on the Cats

[jillar]

Doofus

 

Don't be such a doofus

 

Doofus=dumbass

[Sazerac]

eighty eights

 

piano

[Doreensfree]

Foggiest...

No idea

[notsmokinjo]

Garn

(Yep, rhymes with barn) 

 

Meaning; Going

 

Example: Me an Gazza are garn the footy Satdee.

 

Translation: Gary and I will be attending the football match on Saturday.

[Sazerac]

Hip

 

[notsmokinjo]

Idiot box

 

The television.

[WeegieWoman]

Jake/Jakey 

Quite often used in the sentence he's a pure Jakey b******. 

Means a few things but generally a big put down, they look/act like a tramp 

[Reciprocity]

Klicks

Term for kilometers.

"How many Klicks did you put on today?"

[Sazerac]

lagniappe  'a little something extra'

widely used in NOLA

 

my grocer gave me a few extra limes as lagniappe today.

Edited July 26, 2019 by Sazerac

[Reciprocity]

Mickey

"A word used to refer to a flask-sized bottle of liquor"

 

What we say here in Canada is: Hey! Let's get a mouse, eh?"  

[notsmokinjo]

Mappa Tassie. ..   (map of Tassie, or road map of Tasmania to use the formal)...

 

Refers to a woman with a hairy pubic area ....

" She's a bit if an oright but she's got a real mappa Tassie."

 

[Reciprocity]

Nailed

To do something perfectly!

"I nailed that one!"

[notsmokinjo]

(hmmmm...will have to revisit nailed later..has another meaning down here)

 

Onya bike... Basically a polite way to dismiss someone or tell the fruck off...

 

Onya bike ... Get on your bike and leave.... So basically "begone you foil thing"... "Fruck off d1ckhead"

[Reciprocity]

Pop

Canadian term for Soda as in; Coca-Cola etc.

"Can I offer you a pop?" 

[jillar]

Quack

 

A terrible doctor

[Reciprocity]

Rumble

Fighting among multiple people, usually prearranged.

 

[notsmokinjo]

Seeya ron ... See you later on

 

Basically it's "goodbye"...even if you never intend to see the other person again ... Usually it'll just be seeya if there is defo no way

[Sazerac]

Trick Bag....a difficult position

 

With all your lying and fooling around you done put me in a Trick Bag.

 

12 hours ago, reciprocity said:

Pop

Canadian term for Soda as in; Coca-Cola etc.

"Can I offer you a pop?" 

 

"Don't know where Mom is but, we got Pop on ice"

[Doreensfree]

Undies....

Men's under garments ...