We're on Bluesky now: @stronglang.bsky.social. Which means @sesquiotic is thinking about the seedier senses of the word "skeet":
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/08/29/yeet-that-skeet-into-the-blue-sky/ #slang #etymology #Bluesky

I'm poked up to say that my gigglemug is tight as a boiled owl, now bitch the pot my sauce-box is thristy... 😂

@linguistics @linguisticsmemes @histodons

#Linguistics
#Victorian #Slang

In 18th century slang, a schoolmaster was called a ‘chalky bastard’.

#english #language #words #slang #schoolmaster #teachers #QI #notQI

The Delicacy of Captain Grose: Jonathon Green on the excised notes of a slang lexicographer

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/the-delicacy-of-captain-grose/

#slang #lexicography #euphemisms #FrancisGrose

FUBAR and SNAFU are familiar to many of us, but how about JANFU, FUMTU, and WETSU?

https://onwords.substack.com/p/fubar-susfu-and-17-other-glorious

#swearing #acronyms #slang

'How many shitloads are there in a fuck-ton?' @IvaCheung compares units of fucking measure:

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/01/31/units-of-fucking-measure/ #slang #idioms

药娘medicine-daughter/musume, means people taking hrt medicines, so far as i know it means different in the past different time, it isn’t a new term and it changed little by little which i’m not willing to talk about. i saw it on reddit for once there’s no appropriate translation to it for now,it almost equals the trans/mtf but not very,exactly because people like me enby/mtx that is having an hrt program will not do srs operations in the future like trans/mtf, i’m also called 药娘 #hrt #slang

糖🍬candy in chinese we trans/enby refer to progynova, because we take it under tongue and it tastes sweet, CPA is also a little sweet,too. if one take 🍬 means one started to do hrt #hrt #Foreigner #slang

17th century slang expressions for sex included ‘play at rumpscuttle and clapperdepouch’, ‘play at pork and fish’, ‘feed the ugly pony a fat carrot’, ‘enjoy a game of low archery’, and ‘introduce Lady Wyedon to the charcuterie board’.

#english #language #slang #euphemisms #history #17thcentury #sex #QI #notQI

@royal
Yup. The fool was whining that the authorities should* stop/apprehend violators daily* [so that he won't do it].

#languages #Tagalog #Filipino
Kamote
(n) 🍠

#slang
(adj) stupid
(v) doing poorly [intellectually]
(n) a driver with no regard for the rules of the road

In American times here in the #Philippines, when a student did poorly the teacher would say "You better go home and plant kamote." It was mean. And it stuck.

Now the slang is commonly used to refer to bad drivers. 🚲🏍️🚙🚐

I was supposed to meet a friend online, and he texted me, "Lol! My Zoom crashed. Had to reboot it"

I realized that a time traveler from the not too distant past (say, Marty McFly from 1985) would have no idea what he was saying.

#language #slang

LATCHKEY INCONTINENCE is the sudden need to urinate as soon as you get home.

LATCHKEY EJACULATION is the hurried orgasm achieved upon hearing your partner’s key in the door sooner than anticipated.

#phrases #words #slang #euphemisms #latchkey #doors #locks #urgent #urgency

In medical slang, a ‘comprehensive physician’ is a term for doctor that wasn’t brought up on cucumber sandwiches, perrier and soggy biscuits.

#medicine #healthcare #doctors #physicians #slang #words #QI #notQI

In New Zealand slang, "an empty house is better than a bad tenant" is a phrase that can be said after farting or kicking out your tenants.

#NewZealand #NZ #slang #language #phrases #landlords #tenants #expulsions #QI #notQI

I learned a new word today!

Yesterday it was "gert lush" which is apparently slang for very tasty.

Today it is "clackwanker" 😂 and I'm scared to look it up, but it sounds so good.

#word #language #slang
#British

„Guckn‘, spanne‘ ,spekuliern’ !“
Aufpasser gibts immer! #erzgebirge #slang #Mundart

I wonder if my non native English speaking coworkers get confused when I throw in random words like "broski" or "fam." I guess some of them are self explanatory for the most part though. #English #Slang #linguistics #languages

Here in Brazil we have an internet slang called "It went (insert thing)", which means someting failed, flopped or died. This memes changes along the year. It began as "it went swipe up" (as the Instagram swipe), and later changed to "It went Americanas" (a popular retail store that discovered a 2 billion hole in their accounts earlier this year).

Well, this week the meme evolved again and now it's "it went billionaires submarine" 💀💀💀

#brazil #memes #internet #slang #submarine

I wrote about the c-word here, looking at how its taboo status varies hugely across time and place (it's even becoming a pronoun in Scotland):

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/21/c-word-everywhere-tommy-robinson-game-of-thrones
#language #profanity #taboo #words #slang

On the reclamation of the c-word (I'm quoted briefly)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/c-word-is-everywhere-lgbt-tucker-carlson-1234735324/

#language #profanity #taboo #words #slang