Sunday, October 27, 2013

Slang

Insulting and describing things wouldn't be nearly as fun if we didn't create slang for them.  Everyone knows calling someone stupid isn't nearly as fun as calling someone an airhead or lamebrained and describing something as cheaply made isn't as fun as saying chintzy either. So here are some slang that you may use or may have never even heard of. 

First listed are slang insults.

Word
COHA
COCA
First Occurrence
Airhead
1973 Je n'ai pas de politique. I am an airhead.
Back*seat driver
6
1950 Don't be a back-seat driver, honey.
Bugger
1839 I am nothing but an old bugger, it makes no odds whether I've got one leg or two
Bum*sucker
0
0
No results
Dago
1884 And, if I did, it wuddent be for the likes of no I-talian Dago
Dit*y
1989 An exMiss America whose ditsy chirpiness conceals a viper's bite
Kook
1962 Gittel Moscowitz is a slob. Also a kook.
Redneck
1954 The farmer was a lank, long-haired, weather-reddened typical Mississippi redneck
Weirdo
1963 And, man, what a weirdo that old guy is.
Lame*brain*
1948 So this lame-brain opens it good and wide without a drop of oil in it and freezes both


The following are slang for negative descriptions.

Word
COHA
COCA
First Appearance
Chintzy
1954 I knew I had been far too chintzy about awarding medals in World War!
crappy
1937 smack down the two full pails so that the water sloshed over into the crappy muck underfoot.
Jank
42 (all names)
5 (all names)
GB (from UrbanDictionary though) 2003 They're so jank, you can see the heads of the people in front of the camera.

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