i think i finally came up with some good ones... ...and then you found 20 dollars - sarcastically added onto another's unbelievable story. the more unbelievable the story, the greater the dollar amount. smexy - a combination of smoking hot and sexy
Ooh I like the first one... I might start using that, with your permission, of course. As for the second, wouldn't sexy just cover it?
Ugly Lights - what bars turn on come closing time to encourage everyone to go home and to let you see how unfortunate-looking the person you've been dancing with all night really is. Townies - Actual citizen of a community, as referred to by the college community. Can be used as an insult or statement of fact. I think those are more local slang than 'Canadian' slang. Canada-speak seems to be some sort of British/American mutt a lot of the time.
permission granted yes, sexy would cover it. but smexy has a better sound to it and just rolls off the tongue...
What are you on? - are you crazy? S/he's so fit - someone good looking You're screwed - when sympathy fails, tell the truth
Sketchy- weird, in a creepy sort of way. Or sort of bad. "That guy's acting pretty sketchy" Killed it- played it really well (band term) "Ah, we killed that song!" Frak- Battlestar Galactica term for another rude f word. "What the frak was that?" "I'm gonna frakking kill you!" Shiny- Firefly term for good, cool, awesome, etc. "That's shiny!"
Iguru - Pronounced "Eeeeee-guru", this is used by members of my course to describe a massive screw up in the 'remembering lines' department. Invented by some unintentional (and frankly, crap) improvisation by one of the actors in our earlier performance, who forgot how to pronounce the word "Alimony" and instead just grouped together some random vowels and consonants, trying to pass it off as a word.
she's gone for a nature walk - she's gone for a smoke. invented in my year at school haha. When we were on a trip in italy, and someone went off for a fag we'd answer in 'code' in case a teacher was listening. Get off with someone - kiss
up your's - 'f' you; 'f' off; your a stupid a**hole; off me -(sometime followed by B**ch) Get off my back; stop picking on me; Example: "You shouldn't have done that, it was so stupid." "Off me b**ch!"
I'm broke - I've no money orange juice - alcohol...thats a made up one from our school tho wasted very drunk
An American friend said to me once that i looked 'pissed', which i took to mean drunk as in Britain you really need to say 'pissed off' to mean annoyed, otherwise to be pissed, is to be drunk. No Scottish people have written yet, mahaha... although i could go on forever as there are so many words which is I guess why people find it hard to understand scottish people (and also perhaps out accent). I think some Scots actually developed from earlier forms of english, so i am not sure if it would go under slang, but perhaps a different dialect. I'll give a few off the top of my head, although i even sometimes find it hard to understand some when reading older books with it written. griting - crying blethering - gossiping tae boak - to vomit wean/bairn - child/baby (I always find it amusing to meet people called Wayne, as it's pronounced exactly as our word for child) burn - stream kirk - church skelp - smack crappit - grumpy eejit - idiot glaikit - stupid, to have a glazed expression ken - to know/understand, as in 'dae ye's ken whit i mean?' = do you (plural) understand me?, or just 'ken?' can be used for that phrase. bonnie/braw - beautiful, as in: she's a braw lassie - she's a beautiful girl Aye - yes There are lots more, and most words have different pronunciation to standard english. I can't actually think of any expressions off the top of my head. I don't get to use much Scots where i am as there are lots of internationals here.
when i first went to an english based site, i had to learn their slangs and also explain mine, but i've travelled alot in my life so always find it interesting, as a reader i dont expect them to change their dialect for me, i should be able to be interested enough to ask or look it up, understanding that something new or spoken another way doesnt' make it wrong to do so.
