Tallywacker...for a penis......what a name!

Habberdashery....for a men's clothing store.

Pissnads for genitalia.

(And that's "Mis tatas son muy grandes", Sarge)

(And that's "Mis tatas son muy grandes", Sarge)

True enough but that wouldn't be a joke then. I was trying to immitate speech of those guys you see trying to speak spanish but end up speaking spanglish.

Bastard...for a boy without a father.
Bitch....female dog

Wishy-washy

hum drum

far out

I'm not holding

space cadet :D

gnarly, psychodelic, tubular...

word - CHEEK

definition - audacity and disrespect

sentence- "The cheek of you!"

story- One time my Irish mother (i live in the US) was extremely pissed off at me because i disrespected her, and she yelled "THE CHEEK OF YOU" over and over. It was awesome, i just laughed at her.

23 Skiddoo. (What the heck is a skiddoo and why do I need 23 of them?)

Winklepickers (a very pointy shoe)

I'll blow (I'm buying)

Flivver (a car)

Spoonin' (some degree of making out, I'm not sure to what degree though)

Strumpet, tart, hussy (derogatorily directed at females, qv. slut, bee-atch, ho')

and here's my favorite:

WHIPPERSNAPPERS!!!

Humdinger
Hogwash
Scaliwags

Whippersnappers is still popular. That's what we call the 1st year students at our college. They hate it :)

I love the word Poppycock (which has origins in the Nederlands). Today you'd either be abused for saying the word cock in public or laughed at because it's something granddads say. It's an excellent word to use if you wish to replace and emphasise the word 'nonsense'.

Another favourite is Googly Moogly often used with a great in front of it. Used as an exclamation it is priceless

Great Googly Moogly :eek:

Tiddlywinks.

buttsnorkel... oh no wait...

groovy
awesome
fantastic
right on

fantastic? how is that an old word?

Humdinger...lol

common sense *lol*

"Humbug", but not while impersonating Scrooge. It used to mean "hoax" as I understand.

By Cracky!

varmint - "Opal, there's some varmint out there chewin on yer flivver."
hoosegow - "I hear tell they have a nice hoosegow over in Mount Pilot."
shebang - "The NEXT time we invade a Middle Eastern country we're going to use the whole shebang."
hootenanny - "Last night we really got wrecked at the hootenanny."
clodbuster - "That clodbuster is trying to make the moves on your daughter."
greasemonkey - "That greasemonkey doesn't know his ass from a '68 Stang axlerod."

Pick your variant:

jury-rigged
jerry-rigged
jimmy-rigged

poppycock. Bushwhacker. Hornswaggeler.

"awful", the old meaning - "Filled with awe, especially: Filled with or displaying great reverence."

It's weird that it now means terrible or unpleasant, almost a total reversal of meaning.

Even the word "terrific" comes from "terrible" and "terrify". Funny, huh?

"Jerry-rigged", I always heard, came from the innovation of the German tank crews.
"Jerry can" is the large, square gas can that those same crews used. They just kind of caught on with everybody else.
"Flak", as in 'catching flak from your parents for screwing up' is another entry from the German military which is an acronym for Flieger Abwehr Kanonen.

Snafu (situation normal, all fouled up (stronger language version available))
Tarfu (things are really fouled up (see above))
Fubar (Fucked up beyond all recognition)
Fubb (Fucked up beyond belief)

And one nobody gives a second thought to anymore:
Fax (short for facsimile)

Even the word "terrific" comes from "terrible" and "terrify". Funny, huh?

"Jerry-rigged", I always heard, came from the innovation of the German tank crews.
"Jerry can" is the large, square gas can that those same crews used. They just kind of caught on with everybody else.
"Flak", as in 'catching flak from your parents for screwing up' is another entry from the German military which is an acronym for Flieger Abwehr Kanonen.

Snafu (situation normal, all fouled up (stronger language version available))
Tarfu (things are really fouled up (see above))
Fubar (Fucked up beyond all recognition)
Fubb (Fucked up beyond belief)

And one nobody gives a second thought to anymore:
Fax (short for facsimile)

But in the foreign slang department, maybe somebody here can clear things up for me. My father spoke Spanish fluently, and it was the high-class stuff, not the language of the field workers. He understood their phrases and what not, but his grandmother had raised him to be respectful and polite to others. (Needless to say, he was a big hit in our barrio, always speaking respectfully even to the little gang-bangers. He had no problem pulling vicious insults when he had to, though.) Anyway, he had been joking around with some of his work crew, most of whom were from Mexico, when he laughingly called one of them "pendejo", which has always meant "dummy" or "idiot" and is used generally not as a serious jab (kind of like when your buddy makes a fool out of himself and you say "you asshole" with a grin). Blood was nearly shed over this because apparently the word has changed definition to become one of the foulest things you can call someone from south of the border. Has it changed, or does it depend on region?

Emmet, swart, and snel. Those mean "ant", "black", and "fast" respectively. They are old Germanic words. They have cognates in modern German: "Ameise", "schwarz", and "schnell".

"awful", the old meaning - "Filled with awe, especially: Filled with or displaying great reverence."

It's weird that it now means terrible or unpleasant, almost a total reversal of meaning.

i thought the were two seperate words
aweful, and
awful

I looked up "aweful", couldn't find it. My dictionary is small but a quick net serch didn't find it either.

I didn't look that hard but google didn't have a definition for your word. Let me know if I missed it, I'd be interested to know.

"I looked up "aweful", couldn't find it. My dictionary is small but a quick net serch didn't find it either.

I didn't look that hard but google didn't have a definition for your word. Let me know if I missed it, I'd be interested to know."

my mistake