# Metric Words **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2001, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metric-words/68563 "2001-06-12T17:07:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metric-words/68563/1 "2001-06-12T17:07:36Z")
In an effort to save time I have started my own Shirley Ujest’s Dictionary of Compressed Words: Obstetrics and Gynocology = Obstecology. Spagetti - Sgetti Naturally, this will not be a best seller or a mandatory book for all Freshman 101 Lit Classes unless I can come up with at least 10,000 more entries. ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metric-words/68563/2 "2001-06-12T17:47:53Z")
jeet? - Did you eat? sup? - What’s up? Sheeeeeeeee - Golly (gosh, I always called it “groinacology”) ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metric-words/68563/3 "2001-06-12T22:43:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spritle \* > sup? - What’s up? No, that’s 'tsup?😉 uhjeet=“What did you eat?” Sometimes accompanied by a head movement akin to a tiny forward jerk. Y’goin’?=Where are you going? Same head jerk in some cases. j’get=What did you get? Same head jerk. Deoxyneicid=Deoxyribonucleic acid. zomes=chromosomes th’ro=H. D. Thoreau ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2001, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metric-words/68563/4 "2001-06-13T00:20:52Z")
chupto? - What are you up to? waneet? - Want to eat? iyt? - All right? fruitile - Fruitless and futile ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2001, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metric-words/68563/5 "2001-06-13T02:16:25Z")
“FLUSTRATED” = Frustrated + Flustered “IRREGARDLESS” = Regardless + Irrespective “AFRICAN AMERICAN FROM SENEGAL” = Black person from Senegal “RUSHEXPRESS” = Ruch + Express “MOWSCOW” = Major city in Russia “UNUSUALLY STRANGE” = Do I EVEN have to explain THAT redunancy? “VERY UNIQUE” = Also redundant. As well as dozens more… I used to shudder when I heard her speak to clients. Life is better now. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2001, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metric-words/68563/6 "2001-06-13T04:21:12Z")
nomesane - know what I’m saying? prolly - probably ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2001, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metric-words/68563/7 "2001-06-13T12:01:20Z")
Wait right there, buster!! Being from Southern Maryland, “prolly” is proper speach! Currently, I seem to be dropping: “PROZACLY”. It’s a combo of Precisely and Exactly. I kinda like the soft ring and the sense of calmness it brings to both speaker and listener. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2001, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metric-words/68563/8 "2001-06-14T21:41:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spritle \* > \*\*jeet? - Did you eat? > \*\* I think J.D. Salinger used that one years ago. Somone said “jeet jet?” in either _Franny and Xooey_ or _Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters_. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metric-words/68563/9 "2001-06-16T03:52:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Padeye \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Spritle \* > > \*\*jeet? - Did you eat? > > \*\* > > I think J.D. Salinger used that one years ago. Somone said “jeet jet?” in either _Franny and Xooey_ or _Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters_. \*\* _Just Before the War With the Eskimos_, from _Nine Stories_. “Jeat yet?” (I believe the ‘jet’ was a typo) “What?” “Jeat lunch yet?” ---
**Author:** ![labradorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@labradorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labradorian)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metric-words/68563/10 "2001-06-16T15:39:22Z")
tskweet: Let’s go eat. ---
**Author:** ![No\_Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ba8739/32.png) [@No\_Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Bones)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metric-words/68563/11 "2001-06-17T01:48:47Z")
Is it in the same spirit of Compression when I refer to dumb ideas as shitloadian? (When people raise eyebrows I pretend I said Sherlockian) ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metric-words/68563/12 "2001-06-17T04:50:21Z")
iuno - I don’t know skonon - What’s going on? shup - shut up whozat - Who’s that? smee - That’s me