Doggish = Mean/nasty/cold. usually used like “Man the way she broke up with him with a text from her new boyfriends phone, that shit was doggish”
Joan= Insult, as in an insult contest like a “yo momma so fat” contest.
“Oh, man, he just joaned on you!”
Urban Dictionary tells me it stands for: “Joked On a Nig***.”
“Face!” While spreading your palm in front of your face. It meant “burned,” “gotcha’,” etc.
mint = cool
acdc = bi
bee = I’m cooler than you
Hoser (Made popular by Bob and Doug McKenzie) = idiot, dweeb
Window Licker.
“gitch” for “underwear”
“dube” for “condom”
We used to say “Dang-ee!” The “ee” was for extra emphasis on the “dang.” This was grade school, btw.
“Psych!” (Or “Sike!” Not sure how it was spelled)
“Chav”, which shot to prominence in the past few years to refer to, well, these sort of people, was in common use at my school in the late 1980s but with a rather different meaning. It was basically synonymous with “pikey”, as in a non-PC word for a gypsy, or anyone a bit poor and smelly that you didn’t want to be associated with. “Chavvy” meant “cheap and poor quality”, and “chav” (chavs, chavving, chavved) was a verb meaning “to steal”, as in “Some pikey’s chavved my bike!” “Chaw” (or maybe “chor”) was a similar verb.
I’ve got some that my brother and I picked up from our stepsibs. The four of us used them, I don’t know if anyone else ever did. These perfectly cromulent words are still part of our vocabulary today.
Ricker – a shitstain. We near about died when we saw that episode of Silver Spoons where little Ricky Schroeder introduced himself to some girl with, “They call me…The Ricker.”
Beef – a fart, or to fart. Yes, shitstains and farts, that’s what we talked about. “Beef” was good because it came up in other people’s ordinary conversations so frequently, to our delight. We particularly enjoyed Winn Dixie’s ad, “We’re the Beef People”.
Mounge – to devour. “Oh man, Sarah mounged on those fucking Cheetos!”
Douche: the sponge on a stick device used to wash dishes. One of my nephews heard the word “douche” and asked Uncle Kayaker what the word meant. I was in the kitchen, so I picked up the sponge-on-a-stick and told him it was a douche.
His older brothers were there and played along. It is now a family tradition to call that thing a douche.
Are you from Western Canada?
I’ll add:
“skid” – the kind of guy in high school who would hang around the smoking area with long hair and a KISS jean jacket.
This was Northern Ontario, where jelly-filled donuts were called jam-busters!
Something bad was “hogus”. A derivative of “bogus”.
As in, “Stop bogarting that joint - so hogus, dude!”
Something really bad was “stogus”. Or even “stogatious”.
As in, “while my bro was bogarting the joint, the pigs came and busted both of us. A totally stogatious situation!”.
“take the bag/take a bag” – get ripped off. From a Firesign Theater routine.
In our high school (ca. 1970), juvenile delinquent types were known as “greasers”.
The only one I can remember was sped - alluding to kids in the Special Ed classes. So if you wanted to tell a friend to stop acting like an idiot, you’d say “Don’t be such a sped!” One of my sisters still says that - apart from her, I haven’t heard anyone use the term in over 40 years…
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Yes! Where, oh where, did the “scratch your neck” part come from? And then if we wanted to put extras on it (that is, go for the dramatics), or if the person was especially moded, we’d tack on useless insults like, “Scratch your stupid, dirty neck!” The stupid part was optional, but the neck was most commonly referred to as dirty. We would also say “You’re moded, corroded, your booty exploded.” Oh man, kids are so freaking silly.
So after having typed this, I guess the neck scratching bit comes from the dramatic affectation of looking down in embarrassment, loosening one’s collar, scratching the back of the neck, etc, when someone feels stupid. Never thought of that. In any case, good times!
Rain pants. When someone’s pant legs were too short we would say, “Hey, you expecting a flood? You’re wearing rain pants”
I made the mistake of saying this to my Grade 8 teacher. In front of the class. His pant cuffs were a little too high and I thought we’d all laugh. He was not amused. He must have thought there was some sexual connotation to “rain pants” (wherever would he get that idea?) and he lit into me with a tongue lashing I’ve never forgotten.
I think it is. The front cover has what looks like a giant dookie floating in the sky like a blimp.