ON LANGUAGE ON LANGUAGE By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Most popular female names: Maggie, Molly, Daisy, Bailey and Abby. Males: Buddy, Jake, Max, Hunter and Cody. Both sexes, raining both cats and dogs, but probably mainly cats: Tiger. Most popular female names: Maggie, Molly, Daisy, Bailey and Abby. Males: Buddy, Jake, Max, Hunter and Cody. Both sexes, raining both cats and dogs, but probably mainly cats: Tiger. What ever happened to Spot and Rover and Kitty? They went the way of yesterday’s kids named Jack and Jill.
Ah-ite! Ah-ite! “Would you do this for me?” - “Ah-ite.” The meaning is “O.K.” The sound is an amalgam of all and right, which used to sound like “aw-rite” but now is compressed into a sliding “a’ight,” as the teen-slanguist Fred Lynch transcribes it
humongous humongous huge and monstrous and/or tremendous She lives in a humongous house on the hill ginormous gigantic + enormous
chillax chillax The new slang blend submitted by members of Professor Eble’s English 314 class only a few months ago is chillax, from the adjective chill, “easygoing,” and the verb relax, the combo meaning “do nothing in particular,” an activity widely practiced in centers of learning throughout the nation.
Butterface Butterface “Great body, but her face. . . .”
blockamore blockamore nose wide open thigh five sketchy Those middle-aged men are so sketchy. They creep me out. all up in your grill
He’s such a shlep!