US Slang Expressions

[augustinapeach]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> Family slang from my house:
> 
> "face down in the chocolate" -- describing a  child who is too 
> worn out to stay awake at the dinner table and falls asleep in the 
> middle of dessert.
> 
> "half-mast" -- describes the eyelids of said child
> 
> "pass the biscuits" --used to tell  someone they've used  a 
> sharper tone of voice than they probably intended
> 
> "organized dessert" -- something besides fruit or store cookies
> 
> "awwww, itsy-bitsy" -- used to someone who's kvetching (Yiddish 
> for always complaining) and feeling sorry for themselves.
> 
> "no cookie"--response to someone who's made a snarky 
> remark, from a family experiment where no one was allowed 
> dessert unless they could get through the entire meal without 
> snarking. It took us two weeks before anybody, adults included, 
> got a dessert.
> 
> "dilly-yonker"-- from dial-yanker. Someone whose response to a 
> malfunctioning piece of equipment is to randomly twist the dials.
> 
> "I'm waiting for the chandelier to fall" --I'm almost at the end 
of a 
> book or a TV show and  I'm not going to be available until I've 
> finished it.
> 
> "Earth to (child's name)" --pay attention, I'm talking to you.
> 
> "Xena, warrior mom"--what my kids call me when I'm in get 
> things done mode.
> 
> Pippin

I laughed when I read these -- may adopt some of them in my own 
family!!

Now for my own slang --

My mother grew up in a small rural community where the people 
developed their own slang.  Some of these may be hard to explain 
because they depend so much on context -- I'm not sure I understand 
them all myself.

"Come here!" -- (usually said in an annoyed tone) Go away!

"He has the en-thuisms" -- either "he is very excited" or "he 
couldn't care less"

"We're having a Roy" -- a small, rather unappetizing meal (evidently 
named after a local cafe)

"She has bulldog legs"  -- she has very thin legs

"She has toothpick legs" -- she has very fat legs

"She is blowed over" --  she has very large breasts (evidently like 
a top-heavy tree???)

"I weenched you" -- "I embarrassed you when you were attempting to 
embarrass me" or "I did something so unexpected you were caught off 
guard and looked stupid"

"It's a breeze" -- "It is very loud around here, I can't hear myself 
think"

"He's burnt out" -- "He just can't get enough of this"

Thanks, June, for this entertaining thread!

Greta