# Odd words that only you and/or your friends use.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 5, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363 "2001-07-05T16:35:27Z")
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### Author:  [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2001, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/21 "2001-07-05T21:01:00Z")
[Niblings.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=8597#post151064)
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### Author:  [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2001, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/22 "2001-07-05T21:25:47Z")
**Frob** - _to absent-mindedly fiddle or fidget with an object, testing it’s physical limits, usually to it’s detriment._ I have a friend who does this. It’s not unusual to hear someone in the household yell something like, “Blaine, don’t you _dare_ start frobbing my new paintbrushes!”
**Soc** - _(antonym: geek), ripped off from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, a “soc” is a person with charisma and well-developed social skills. This is mainly in contrast to the geek skill set, which is less person-oriented and more object- or tech-oriented._ Example: “He’s got an awful lot of soc in him; are you sure he’s a geek?”
**Zerbet** - _see **Scotticher’s** “hottieburn”._
**Pesci** - \*That’s right, as in Joe Pesci. It means ‘nauseated.’ Ripped off from Saturday Night Live, where one of the characters said something like, “Pesci, what kind of a name is that? Sounds like how you’d feel after eating some bad clams. ‘I’m feeling a little pesci!’”
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### Author:  [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2001, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/23 "2001-07-05T22:23:01Z")
“Veth”–it means “yes.”
Okiefenokie is our take on “Okay.”
Spazmatazz: The act of being an idiot in public. (“Don’t spazmatazz on me, I’m just telling you what I heard.”)
Marvie: My shortened form of “marvelous.”
Steve: Thief, robber. Taken from a malaprop during English class.
jockoff: An athletic jerk, as in most of the football players in my former high school.
See est: Taken from the French word c’est, which every single member of my French class mispronounced the first time. It means “That’s” or “It’s.” (“See est all!”)
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### Author:  [@Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_the_Shrubber)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2001, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/24 "2001-07-05T22:48:12Z")
I love this thread! I am often questioned about my use of certain words. sometimes I invent them (none of which I can think of now…) and I often simply overuse/misuse them. such as `wanker', `hoser’, or `cracker.’
Still laughin at `jockoff.’
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### Author:  [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/25 "2001-07-06T00:02:08Z")
Terms me and my friends use…
\*\* Berserker \*\*
An extremely attractive man. As in “Look, a berserker at 3 o’clock.Don’t stare”
\*\* Meow Kitty Kitty \*\*
What you say when you see a berserker-a friend of mine used to purr,I came up with this term.
\*\* Bee hee hee HAHA \*\*
Sarcastic laughter.
\*\* Roats \*\*
Phone sex. As in Reach Out And Touch Somebody 🙂
\*\* The Swanton \*\*
The best. As in “This book is the Swanton”. Named after Jeff Hardy’s finishing move.
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### Author:  [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/26 "2001-07-06T00:02:28Z")
**bunt** - said of any electric/electronic device not operating optimally, ex. “My computer is bunt.”
etymology: originally referred to the flippers on a pinball game: “Don’t play Joker Poker, the flippers are bunt!”
**whahnh!** - exclamation of disgust/disappointment at the general wussiness of people, said in a half sneer, half babyish way (specific to bilingual Quebecers, you must be able to authentically pronounce the “en” sound as in the French-Canadian phrase: "C’est _dans_ le _temps_ du Jour de _L’An_. ex. “They’re going to the Bon Jovi concert. Whahnh!”
etymology: First known user: Mark Farrell 1980
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### Author:  [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/27 "2001-07-06T00:12:30Z")
**numpty** - an all purpose word used when you want to swear, when you want to call someone a silly name, etc.
**shmoop** - a hug n’ kiss - ie gimme a shmoop
**blobby** - I don’t even remember what this means. We all just say “Hello, Blobby” in a large voice whenever we see one another.
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/28 "2001-07-06T00:16:44Z")
**Whodilli-** Prefix for various words. Just a funny thing one of my theatre friends came up with in high school.
An example was when she missed something I said once, her reply was “Whodilliwhat?”
Cute. So was she now that I think of it. 🆒
**Wog** _n._ I made this up at age seven as a term for ‘dog’. I later found out another meaning, and the term fell out of use. How was I supposed to know? Luckily I never offended anyone before finding out.
**Plummp** _n._ Those puddles of water that accumulate in the various low-lying patches of roads around intersections when it rains.
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### Author:  [@Shera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shera)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/29 "2001-07-06T01:35:21Z")
My sister once told one of my friends the she looked like ferrets had had a birthday party in her hair. Now we use the Ferrets phrase to gage how our hair looks.
They range from "Little Baby ferrets 1st Birthday " to "Fisrt year of college ‘let’s through a kegger’ " ferrets.
The babys being not bad and the keggers being a serious need to pull out the brush and redo the hairstyle.
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### Author:  [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/30 "2001-07-06T01:41:42Z")
Most of mine are ones the kids came up with, and got adopted into everyday conversation. We try to cut back on the usage when “outsiders” are over.
**chouch** The couch, as in the big chumfy (comfy) chouch.
**chumfy** See above.
**be-mote** The remote control, of course. “Hey, has anyone seen the be-mote?”
**purpee** Paper. “Hey, while you’re at the desk, can you grab me some purpee?”
**hot doctor** Helicopter. “What’s that noise? Oh, just a hot doctor.”
**grouchy potato** Grumpy. I don’t know how I came up with the potato part. “Careful with the baby. She’s been a grouchy potato all day.”
**turnip** Any baby who is not yet crawling. “You’ll have to baby-proof your house after the turnip stage” or “What a cute little turnip.”
We also name movements after our friends. One “pulls a Dawn” when one manages to send several items flying at once (ie. knock a deck of cards over, make the lighter airborne, and spill water in one swift movement). The one named after me is when someone falls down the stairs. Apparently it’s my signature move.
I have a lot more. Some days, it doesn’t sound like we’re speaking English in the house.
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### Author:  [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/31 "2001-07-06T02:09:12Z")
**Ghetto Vernacular** - Usage of “ghetto slang” and ebonics in normal conversation.
**Regal Tip** - A Rocksuck (my hardcore band) creation. God only knows what it means.
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### Author:  [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/32 "2001-07-06T02:46:15Z")
FUMPY- crispy, well done, delicious. in reference to roast potatoes
FIGLET- foal, if a pig has a piglet, and a baby horse begins with F…
BACON BIRDIE- butterfly
BUFTY- stupid looking person. “he looks like a right bufty”
JUDE- among my friends, a symbol of teenage angst. “God, reading Jean-Paul Sartre is SO jude”
GRUNKY- grungy and yucky
MINGMONGMANG- Disgusting, based on minging
THE MAN SCALE-in descending order of do-ableness.fairly self explanatory.
Wolfy, foxy, husky, doggy, weasly, eew.
“Paul’s quite wolfy, but Tim is weasly, and John is just eew.”
DORIS- PMS
crimson wave-\> scarlet fever-\> Fever sung by Doris Day.
“i need chocolate for Doris”
COMMUNIST/PARTY MEMBER
-gay. from a gay club in belfast, The Kremlin
LACTOSE INTOLERANT-straight. from another gay club, Milk.
PRUNKY- pretty and punky “she’s so prunky, she’d look great in a dress, instead of that potato sack”
“THEY STOPPED DOING THAT IN CRUMLIN”- positively stone age behaviour, after the village of the same name.
MSMBJC- med students make baby jesus cry. what to say when you turn up to another anatomy lecture with a hangover.
also many northern irish words don’t sound real.
Milly- cheap looking girl
Spide/Steak- her male equivalent
Munter-ugly person
Minging-yucky
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### Author:  [@girlwithwings](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/girlwithwings)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/33 "2001-07-06T06:29:45Z")
my friends and i practically have our own language! here are a few of my favourites:
**glassy** = very sensitive (ie. i never knew she was so glassy about poodles.)
**carrot** = cool, neat, really cute (ie. He is so carrot!)
**Bluto** = a disagreeable person
**buttery** = extremely hot; from the phrase “melt my butter” (ie. She is just _pause for effect_ buttery")
**quick shoes** = shoes that are guaranteed to land you in the sack (ie. My boyfriend left the party with a sorority girl. And she was wearing quick shoes!! _sob_)
**rodger** = a penis
**rodger dodger** = a lesbian
**elfen** = too cute for words (ie. That bunny/sweater/baby/puppy was absolutely elfen!)
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### Author:  [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/34 "2001-07-06T06:46:47Z")
I forgot my family’s words:
Beebo: Elbow
Yun-yuns: Onions
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### Author:  [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/35 "2001-07-06T06:54:38Z")
**metastasize** v. To fool someone into thinking you know what you are talking about by using big words that you hope they are unfamiliar with. _Stop trying to metastasize me, you faker, I know what a phallus is!_
Origin: The history of this term is hazy. It has to do with a dinner conversation about a steak that was said to look as if it had been ‘metastasized,’ until the science major at the table informed us that ‘metastasize’ had something to do with tumors. Somehow, from that conversation, the word acquired the above meaning.
**dir-tay** adj. Slutty or low-class, used equally to describe males and females. \*Dang, look at that outfit – that chick is \*dir-tay.
Origin: More a variant pronunciation than an actual word, my best friend’s sister and her friends came up with this one, and we picked it up. Rarely, this word can be used as a noun to denote an actual person, in extreme cases. \*Holy crap. That guy is a _total_ \*dir-tay.
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### Author:  [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/36 "2001-07-06T06:56:35Z")
Gilberting - to only pass the joint when someone asks or tells you to. This is an annoying habit, especially when people are already high and forget to remind the gilberter, who will often get the whole joint to themselves. Term was, of course, coined after a person who you really had to watch for this when you smoked with him, but the term spread and has been used by people who never knew Gilbert.
Barking Spider - A secretive arachnid that can live anywhere. You only know they are there because they bark, and their barks sound exactly like human farts. Oddly, if a person’s home is particularly infested, it seems that some of their barking spiders follow them when they travel.
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### Author:  [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/37 "2001-07-06T07:07:00Z")
Stod (‘o’ as ‘ah’ sound): a faceless, meaningless, and individually ineffectual character, who serves the purpose of being mowed down by the Good Guys in movies, video games, role-playing games, and so forth.
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### Author:  [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/38 "2001-07-06T07:07:01Z")
**Fru-fru** -Extremely fuzzy, and/or colorful.
Example:Feather boas are extremely fru-fru.
**Turdbutt** -Coined by a friend of mine in the 7th grade. Basically, it’s a really big dork.
**Prolly** -A condensed versionof probably.
Example: I’m prolly going to the mall after work.
I’m sure I have more, but those are all I can think of right now.
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### Author:  [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/39 "2001-07-06T11:47:11Z")
**Bonj** - A greeting between me and my friends - a shortened form of _Bonjour_. We even had “The Bonj Song”
**Gandy** - My family’s name for my granddad - the first granddaughter couldn’t pronounce granddad, so he’s forever our Gandy.
**Chuhuh!** - An outraged expression between my friends that sort of means “I can’t believe you thought that!”
And many years ago, my best friend randomly accidently substuted the word **casserole** for “curtains”, and so now whenever we get stuck on a word, the other asks “casserole?”. Yeah, we’re wild.
Fran
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### Author:  [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2001, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-words-that-only-you-and-or-your-friends-use/71363/40 "2001-07-06T12:33:28Z")
Badtz-
Watch out for old barking spiders. They smell when you kill them (at least according to my grandfather).
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