5 Survival Phrases for the USA

BROMANCE

(noun

informal) 

a close but nonsexual relationship between two men.

                                                             EXAMPLE 1:

                                                   Your boyfriend and his best friend

EXAMPLE 2:

Joey and Chandler from Friends

                                                         EXAMPLE 3:
                                                 Dr. House and Dr. James Wilson

DELISH

= DELICIOUS , TASTY, YUMMY

e.g.: 1.That dinner at Travis' was delish!

         2. You should go to that new Greek restaurant that opened around the corner. It's delish.

SELFIE-CONSCIOUS

 When you're trying to take a selfie in public but fear other people are staring at you.

e.g.: 1.  I want to take a selfie, but I'm feeling a bit self-conscious.

         2. People should be more selfie-conscious. I have seen several selfies in the middle of catastrophes. This is so distasteful.

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Webster's Finest Forgotten Words

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Here are 26 of some of the most curious, most surprising and most obscure words from Webster's Dictionary in one handy A to Z. Check it out!

MOOT

“Moot” is a very old word related to “meeting,” specifically a meeting where serious matters are discussed. Oddly enough, a moot point can be a point worth discussing at a meeting (or in court)—an unresolved question—or it can be the opposite: a point already settled and not worth discussing further. At any rate, “mute point” is simply wrong, as is the less common “mood point.”

VOTE FOR ME MSW 2014

“This is How We Do” is a recently released song by Katy Perry. The chorus “this is how we do”, which is also a commonly used phrase, essentially it literally means “this is how we live” or “this is how we do it“. In this song Katy sings about the interesting things she does and how she lives, and is essentially letting people know “this is how we do things”. It's not much used as slang but a daily expression.

FACE HOLE

face hole - the hole of a face such as: a mouth, nose, eye sockets, and or ears.

HANGRY

LGBT - Gay Vocabulary in English

CUSS WORDS

Words that have been deemed inappropriate and you dont normally hear in public or "normal" conversation.

e.g. : fuck, shit, asshole, whore, bitch and so on... 

People may react strongly when hearing such vernacular, so be careful if ever using it.

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YOU BETCHA

 1.Yes, you can bet on it.  (Literally, You bet, you.) 

 2.Yes! You can be sure of it! 

a)"Will I be there?" 
    " You betcha." 
b)" Can I?"
   " You betcha!"

DUFUS

  variant of doofus  /ˈdo͞ofəs/
A stupid person,a dummy,a fool, an idiot

That boy ain't right. Buy him books but he's still a dufus.

BOOTYLICIOUS

MANEATER

1. Used sometimes for women who has that influence on men to seduce them and then, throw them away. Usually a very beautiful girl.

2. The female equivalent to the more male-associated words like pimp or player. 

 NOTE: Check out this video song from the 80's

                     Daryl Hall & John Oates - Maneater

http://youtu.be/yRYFKcMa_Ek

PUMPED UP KICKS

 (slang) Shoes, specially sneakers. The very expensive and stylish kind.

Here's the original PUMPED UP KICKS:

( NOTE: check the round orange basketball like PUMP logo on the 'tongue' of the sneaker. As you squeeze it the sneaker fills out with air and feels more comfortable )

*The original Reebok Pump was released in 1989, as a basketball high-top shoe. The shoe was quite expensive compared to other retail athletic shoes at the time, often costing as much as 150% more than the next most expensive athletic shoe on the market. It became something of a status symbol on urban basketball courts and eventually in suburban high schools.

Source: Wikipedia

Nowadays the cost is still  too much and most people don't wear it anymore so when you hear PUMPED UP KICKS people refer to expensive sneakers in general.

TO ROLL UP

To arrive somewhere in a cool car

Who's rolling up in that Porsche ?

TO FEEL MYSELF

To be pleased with yourself, your sense of style, or your sense of well being.

As I looked at myself in the mirror I was really feelin' myself. 

FACEBOOK MOMMY

1) One who is a worthless

mom in real life but posts photos of them with their kids like; #lovemybabies #kidsaremylife

2) A mom who spends 5 hours a night at the club, 10 hours a day asleep, 4 hours a day working, 2 hours a day shopping/eating/drinking coffee with her girls, an hour and a half showering and getting dressed, and 30 minutes with her kids taking "usies" and posting to facebook using hashtags such as: #mylife #allaboutthem #allday #mommasangel

"Girl did you see Becky on Facebook with her kid?"

"Yeah girl, we had just come home from the club when she took it! We were so wasted!"

"Yeah she's a total facebook mommy!"

(SOURCE:  Urban Dictionary.com )

NAILED IT

1. You completed a task successfully or got something right . 
2. A phrase used to express success after achieving something seemingly difficult with relative ease.

  

2. Online, it is often found as a caption on image macros or in sarcastic commentary criticizing the quality of success. 

MONEY SLANG: BENJAMINS

Benjamins: 1. a one-hundred-dollar bill (in reference to the portrait of Benjamin Franklin that distinguishes it)

It's all about the Benjamins:

It's all about the money.

LOVE SICK

1.A deep, often depressing, feeling of wanting to find love; to be longing for love; to be without a companion to share ones life with, though it is desired deeply. 

(adjective)

1. 2. in love, or missing the person one loves, so much that one is unable to act normally.

   "a lovesick teenager"
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11 Grammatical Words And Terms That Sound Dirty

By Liberty Hardy of Bookriot

Because I have the maturity level of an eight-year-old, here’s a list of grammar terms and words that sound dirty. Use them to excite the grammar lover in your life.

Interrobang
What it sounds like: Getting it on. “We couldn’t sleep – the neighbors were making too much noise interrobanging all night.”

What it actually means: An interrobang is a punctuation mark ‽ designed for use especially at the end of an exclamatory rhetorical question (I like that in the definition I read, they include ‘rhymes with orangutan.’)

(Definition: Merriam-Webster Online)

Diphthong
What it sounds like: Underthings. “You could see her dipthong peeking out of the top of her jeans.”

What it actually means: A gliding monosyllabic speech sound (as the vowel combination at the end of toy) that starts at or near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves to or toward the position of another.

(Definition: Merriam-Webster Online)

Dangling participle
What it sounds like: Naughty bits.

What it actually means: A participle intended to modify a noun that is not actually present in the text.

(Definition: Oxford Dictionaries)

Fricatives
What it sounds like: The heat caused by rubbing up against one another.

What it actually means: A consonant characterized by frictional passage of the expired breath through a narrowing at some point in the vocal tract.

(Definition: Merriam-Webster Online)

Apposition
What it sounds like: “We tried more appositions than they show in the Kama Sutra.”

What it actually means: A grammatical construction in which two usually adjacent nouns having the same referent stand in the same syntactical relation to the rest of a sentence.

(Definition: Merriam-Webster Online)

Assimilation
What it sounds like: Well…I don’t know, but it has the word ‘ass’ in it. Teehee.

What it actually means: Change of a sound in speech so that it becomes identical with or similar to a neighboring sound.

(Definition: Merriam-Webster Online)

Conjugate
What it sounds like: Those special visits that inmates receive in prison.

What it actually means: To join together. Wait…

(Definition: The Free Dictionary)

Compound
What it sounds like: To give a vigorous rutting.

What it actually means: Of or pertaining to a compound sentence or compound-complex sentence.

(Definition: Dictionary.com)

Preposition
What it sounds like: To ask for sex. “Maura threw her drink in Eric’s face after he prepositioned her at the bar.”

What it actually means: A function word that typically combines with a noun phrase to form a phrase which usually expresses a modification or predication.

(Definition: Merriam-Webster Online)

Hyphenate
What it sounds like: Hyperventilating. “Their vigorous rutting left them both hyphenating.”

What it actually means: To connect (as two words) or divide (as a word at the end of a line of print) with a hyphen.

(Definition: Merriam-Webster Online)

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Whack off!

(Vulgar Slang) to mastrubate, jack off


* Sorry guys! No image

Learn English: Job Interview Words

EMPLOYMENTALLY CHALLENGED

In today's economy, this word is quite handy when describing those who are currently without a job, jobless, or unemployed. This large group of people may or may not be receiving monthly benefits. They might be actively seeking work and honing in on their resumes or interviewing skills. More often than not, one can assume that they are glued to their couches in sweatpants, watching daytime television.

GINORMOUS

(adj)  Extraordinary large. Bigger than giant and enormous

*It's relatively a new word/slang, but it has been recognized by MERRIAM-WEBSTER and OXFORD dictionaries.

example 1: "...he's only five foot three, but  he drives around in this ginormous car.
example 2:

CHILLIN' / PEEPS

* CHILLIN' :Spending time with your friends.
*PEEPS: People

Other street language:
Wif  = with
Ma= my
SUP= what's up
WICHOO: with you