CLEAN slang from around the world

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   LeslieAdrienneposted 13 years ago

   Notice the first word.... clean.
   
   We are an international community of writers...i think it would be fun and interesting if we created a list of some of our favorite "clean" slang terms.
   
   List the term or phrase and the country of use and of course what it means.....Maybe even use it in context
   
   
   term: thing-a-ma-jig
   
   Country: USA
   
   definition: any object that you are referring to the name of   which you cannot remember
   
   "The thingamajig fell on the floor"

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      Eaglekiwiposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      'whodaki'
      same as your one above and also 'watchmacallit'

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   Eaglekiwiposted 13 years ago

   Comment to someone who speaks like a 'know it all'
   
   "Hey I want to talk to the butcher ,not the block"

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   Eaglekiwiposted 13 years ago

   'Cod-fish mouth'
   
   Someone who talks too much

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   Jonathan Jancoposted 13 years ago

   Wowie Zowie
   
   Originated by a song of the same title written by Frank Zappa in 1966. Used as an expression of irreprisible excitement.

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   LeslieAdrienneposted 13 years ago

   'sup?
   a variation of What's up?
   
   USA
   
   means how are you or what is going on with you, or what are you doing
   
   "'Sup cuz?"
   "Nothing, 'sup with you?"

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      Lisa HWposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I'm in the USA, and that one's foreign to me. 
      
      For some reason, I'm not coming up with any general ones (I have my own), but I've noticed lately that there seems to be a new multitude of ways to use "blah blah", and it does seem to be being thrown around regularly and by everyone I know. 
      
      It used to be used in one way, and that was if someone were repeating what someone else said in conversation he might say something like, "..and then he went to the store, blah blah blah".  These days it seems to have become a verb, a noun, an exclamatory, an adjective - whatever anyone wants it to be.     I'm actually wondering if, maybe, within about five years, every word in the English language will be replaced with "blah blah", and the whole English-speaking world will sound like Charlie Brown's mother.      (Oh, never mind.  I guess she squawked , "Wah wah wah". 

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         LeslieAdrienneposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Too funny Lisa....

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            Eaglekiwiposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Like the blah blah blah ,and now its being ,well not replaced ,maybe extended too...'Oh yes and then she did the ra de ra ra (boss giving a lecture about safety precautions for the blah blah blah time )

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   Eaglekiwiposted 13 years ago

   Sweet as...
   
   (Agreeing)

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