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What are your favorite slang words?
I don’t have a favourite that I’m aware of, though I may use some inadvertently; but I have one I abhor. My hatred of it is such that I actually wince when I hear it, and I want to clap my hands over my ears, squeeze my eyes tight shut and sing ‘lalalalalalalalalalalala’ until the whole sordid experience is over. But, as you know, I’m not at all given to exaggeration in any form whatsoever at all no siree, so I don’t.
What is this awful word? And there we have a problem: I hate it so much, I can’t tell you. Instead, I’m going to send you some clues and you can figure it out for yourself.
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Go here first: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291928/
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The last illustration represents the biggest half of the word and also the whole word.
It is possible that my non-Brit readers may not have heard of the word, so you can check it out here, if you like.
This word is the reason I lost interest in politics, doing the job that the sleaze and scandals and pocket-lining and sheer incompetence could not: when I heard it used in Parliament, I knew then there was no low a British MP would not sink to.
I needed cheering up this morning, and what do I get? Bad words. I am amazed, incredulous, astonished, astounded, shocked, stunned, surprised, dumbfounded, staggered, taken aback and flabbergasted (my favourite).
Yes, but did you get the answer?
I decline to type that, on the grounds that it might incriminate me.
I’m quite gobsmacked!
Aren’t you supposed to be serving, not surfing?
Clever girl
Great treasure hunt…got it! The tennis cartoon is hilarious.
Thanks for the question by the way, and the opportunity to answer it on the blog.
Much appreciated.
Thanks for considering it. I’ll reply tomorrow.
Crikey.
Yup that’s annoying all right. My annoyances aren’t so much slang as laziness; I hate it when people say ‘pacifically’ instead of ‘specifically’ and when people use the word ‘basically’ 3 times in a minute I come out in boils!
Now you’ve made my blood boil! I’d forgotten those. Another of my pet hates is pro-ven for proo-ven (proven). That’s a fairly recent thing and if I could find the source I would track them down and prove not all housewives are meek.
I looked at the last picture and thought “slapper”. Then I spent three or four minutes looking at the tennis cartoon trying to figure out the connection.
Possibly I should start working again now.
Did you get it, though?
no, I don’t know what word sets you off, but for me, it is the F-word. Hate it! But, I hear Brits say it all the time without thinking!
Oh, you shouldn’t believe everything you hear. We Brits hear all Americans have perfect teeth and I know for a fact that’s not true. Beware sweeping generalisations, I say.
Well you’re right…I would have never guessed that word…actually I’ve only heard it once or twice in a movie.
Well, that’s some comfort: I’d hate for the disease to spread.
Well I’m totally Gobsmacked Tilly,there’s me thinkin our worse slang word is “innit-like”….giggle.
Love and hugs. xx
Another one I’d forgotten! Grrr!
I peeked so I shall have to disqualify myself from the drawing of a winner.
No malteasers for me.
It wasn’t a fair challenge because it is such an English word. Is there a word you don’t like?
Well, it’s not really a word, but I hate “haz.”
When someone says “I haz a happy” . . . it’s like hearing a grown adult using baby talk when no babies are in the vicinity. Ack!
Ack!, by the way, is a word I love!
I haven’t heard that one before, and I’m so glad
Ack! is a word I can get behind.
I agree with your hated word, Tilly. It’s right up there with flabbergasted and gobbledegook.
Me, I have a journalist’s disdain for jargon. I love to lay into it with a battering ram at meetings. Normally I’m not confrontational but I’ll pick a fight with anyone who asks whether I use APP or have contacted the SENCO recently. And don’t get me started on Blue Sky Thinking or Thinking Out Of The Box…
Pants. My favourite, but no longer fashionable, so just right for me! Least favourite, shan. Hate it.
I haven’t heard shan. What’s that?
Embarrassing or unfair depending if you are 49 ( 50 in June, I expect a poem!) or 12 or 14 and drifting in, and already in the depth of teenagedom.
It took a lot of restraint but i have zipped my mouth!!
I admire your restraint but I’m dying to know what you would have said