# I'm learning... if you can help me out
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-learning-if-you-can-help-me-out/26868
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**Created:** [July 26, 2000, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-learning-if-you-can-help-me-out/26868 "2000-07-26T03:15:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Zinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zinger)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2000, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-learning-if-you-can-help-me-out/26868/1 "2000-07-26T03:15:52Z")
What is “filching?”
What is “mung?”
What is “squick?”
I have tried searching for these, but it’s taking me too damn long to find them. If you could help me out…
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2000, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-learning-if-you-can-help-me-out/26868/2 "2000-07-26T04:02:24Z")
I think you will find out what your looking for at the following links. MPSIMS is usually where this stuff comes up. Enjoy 🙂
[Felching?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=27489)
[Squicking and queefing](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30530)
Mung ? 😕
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2000, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-learning-if-you-can-help-me-out/26868/3 "2000-07-26T12:59:38Z")
I think “mung” is something that somebody threw into the discussion in the Pit thread about using “felch” and “squick” all the time, as an example of a nonsense four-letter word. I could be wrong, though. I’m usually out of the loop when it comes to current slang.
BTW, what’s “bogarting”?
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-learning-if-you-can-help-me-out/26868/4 "2000-07-26T14:33:39Z")
I really hope felching and squicking never become so widely used that they are considered slang.
I thought bogarting had something to do with pot-smoking. But, I have never partaken in that activity, so it’s not the most informed response ever.
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### Author:  [@Zinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zinger)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2000, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-learning-if-you-can-help-me-out/26868/5 "2000-07-26T16:55:26Z")
::wretch::
::vomit::
GROSS. Thanks for the info… I suppose I DID ask. bleeech!
::dry heave::
::hobbles away with head down and arms around waist::
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### Author:  [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2000, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-learning-if-you-can-help-me-out/26868/6 "2000-07-26T17:10:40Z")
In the seventies, “bogarting” meant not passing the reefer on to the next person (do they still say “reefer?”). Hoarding, if you will. I’m not sure what it might mean in any other context, though.
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### Author:  [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2000, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-learning-if-you-can-help-me-out/26868/7 "2000-07-26T18:45:16Z")
Yes, “bogart” has passed into common parlance as a generally selfish keeping of something to oneself. “Don’t bogart that j” has become “don’t bogart that bag of chips,” etc. It’s similar to the common usage of “jones,” in that it’s a mainstream term evolved from drug slang.
“Mung” is an artificial word used to describe something very very vile with corpses. I’m far too scarred to look up the description, but it’s in the Pit somewhere . . .