Sometimes I surprise myself when I am looking for the right word (for example, recently, romp: meaning sexual activity, especially illicitly) and the word just comes to me (I don’t remember where I saw a word exactly) and I do a quick check and yes, it fits the vocabulary void, so I use it.
Does this happen to anyone else? It never ceases to amaze me.
in spite of my vocabulary being quite good, there was a period as a child, say about ten, when I would repeat “big words” I had only heard and did not look up, so used them wrong and my father would catch me and correct me. I am, of course, grateful for his corrections after all this time.
I really like the feature of Google which gives you a line graph over time and shows you how popular a word is in certain years. I actually think I’m responsible for the popularizing of “gatekeeping” online and some others including actually back on AIM “brb”. Maybe others in my turn of phrase (romp anybody?) will also come forward.
In the 90's we'd use the word "Rompin" which was another way of saying the F word.
We'd say things like "I'm not rompin !" Kinda scripted but that's what we'd say when serious, though even then saying that would break the ice and lighten the mood.
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My personal favorite slang word = Rass.
It's a west indian thing, but I reinvented its use case.
I don't put on a fake accent or anything, I just say things are rass. For example....
Your situation and what you're going through is rass.
Or say someone pulled out some regular car from a garage, but then this car is smoking supercars. The car is rass.
Elon, is rass.
Epstein was rass.
Bugatti is rass.
Ai is rass.
Bill Gates ? Not very popular but still he's rass.
Self made and hit it big ? Big money you're rass. You lose it all, that's rass.
You'd think Chapo is rass. oh yes, he is. I think you're even more rass.
Some of the shit we've seen unfold on this site is rass.
You either say this word at something with wow factor, or it gives a wow factor and people just understand what you mean like a visual. You see a pile up on the freeway. That's rass.
You can say it for people places and things, also events, regardless if it's good or bad. It's a lazy way to say, very good or very bad "Oh that is so rass"
