I was re-watching some Glee episodes for another module and I realise Glee has many new and interesting lexical items. So here's 2 more:
diva-off and glee-off - used in the same way as faceoff (an open confrontation, courtesy of Dictionary.com)
Glee-off, which is what they called the mash-up competition between the guys and the girls in the Vitamin D episode, is probably only used specific to that situation and in Glee itself. Kurt's and Rachel's competition against each other in determining who gets to do the Defying Gravity solo is called a diva off and I focused on looking for dictionary entries on this instead and I couldn't find any even in Urban Dictionary. This has probably been newly coined, perhaps by Glee itself. I wonder whether it will catch on soon? And what if we coin our own terms like, oh I don't know...school-off? makan-off? haha. This is quite exciting. =)
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
crude slangs
You know how some guys can be pigs (I said 'some' don't get defensive okay guys =P) and objectify women in the most crude ways?
So 2 terms that I've come across recently which I've made links to: "tap that" and "hit that".
The words tap and hit, they're common and simple enough for us to know the meanings to. But I was watching Grey's Anatomy the other day and one of the male characters said "I'd hit that hard" in reference to a hot nurse in the hospital. And in many American films/dramas/sitcoms I've heard the phrase "I'd tap that" used very frequently.
In the Urban Dictionary "tap" generated this:
A term used to express approval, especially to the point of expressing a person's
sex appeal; often used sarcastically
Person 1: Did you see that chick?
Person 2: I'd tap that!
When I typed in "hit", I found this:
1. To inhale a drug
2. To have sex with
1. Pass that bud lemme hit it
2. Damn that girl's a dime.. I'd hit it
There's one more thing from the episode of Grey's anatomy that I wanted to point out. One of the senior characters in the drama felt left out in the hospital gossip and consequently felt lonely. So he attempted to integrate himself into the group of young sergeons by picking up on their lingo. So he started making a comment about a nurse during one scene in the operating room, and he said "I'd hit her, I'd hit her hard" and there was a moment of uncomfortable silence followed by one of the younger surgeons correcting him by saying "I think what you're trying to say is I'd hit THAT" and I just burt out laughing because at that moment I understood that their lingo meaning of "hit" collocates only with "that/this/it" and to say "hit her" must have made the other characters in the OR feel a tad uncomfortable and some even scared.
So anyway these words collocate must with "this/that/it" (read: objectifying women!!!!) in order to convey the intended meaning, or else the slang would just have failed miserably.
So 2 terms that I've come across recently which I've made links to: "tap that" and "hit that".
The words tap and hit, they're common and simple enough for us to know the meanings to. But I was watching Grey's Anatomy the other day and one of the male characters said "I'd hit that hard" in reference to a hot nurse in the hospital. And in many American films/dramas/sitcoms I've heard the phrase "I'd tap that" used very frequently.
In the Urban Dictionary "tap" generated this:
A term used to express approval, especially to the point of expressing a person's
sex appeal; often used sarcastically
Person 1: Did you see that chick?
Person 2: I'd tap that!
When I typed in "hit", I found this:
1. To inhale a drug
2. To have sex with
1. Pass that bud lemme hit it
2. Damn that girl's a dime.. I'd hit it
There's one more thing from the episode of Grey's anatomy that I wanted to point out. One of the senior characters in the drama felt left out in the hospital gossip and consequently felt lonely. So he attempted to integrate himself into the group of young sergeons by picking up on their lingo. So he started making a comment about a nurse during one scene in the operating room, and he said "I'd hit her, I'd hit her hard" and there was a moment of uncomfortable silence followed by one of the younger surgeons correcting him by saying "I think what you're trying to say is I'd hit THAT" and I just burt out laughing because at that moment I understood that their lingo meaning of "hit" collocates only with "that/this/it" and to say "hit her" must have made the other characters in the OR feel a tad uncomfortable and some even scared.
So anyway these words collocate must with "this/that/it" (read: objectifying women!!!!) in order to convey the intended meaning, or else the slang would just have failed miserably.
Glee! part 2
And I just remembered something else about Glee! One of the episodes entitled Acafellas, one of the characters, Merecedes, falls for a fellow Glee Club member who happens to be gay and busy body Rachel notices this and wants to intervene and says this:
Rachel: We need to have a gayvention...That's a gay intervention!
Tina: It's K-k-k-kurt!" Tina elaborates. He's ladyfabulous.
"Gayvention". Creative no? I was looking for other instances where "gayvention" being used on the web, but I found that the term has been used by people but not exactly in the way that Rachel is using it above.
At , http://eurout.org/2009/02/28/we-are-everywhere-%E2%80%93-february-28?page=0,6 I found:
•Next weekend the annual Gayvention will take place in Hamburg. Gayvention is the queer convention when it comes to lifestyle and includes auctions, erotica quizzes, and speed dating.
So here the word indicates an event, a perhaps a gay convention rather than a gay intervention.
And, the most exciting thing is, I thought I could find a definition on Urban Dictionary, but it hasn't even been defined yet there! So this is very very new. Or maybe, it just hasn't caught on as successfully as other creatively invented words.
Rachel: We need to have a gayvention...That's a gay intervention!
Tina: It's K-k-k-kurt!" Tina elaborates. He's ladyfabulous.
"Gayvention". Creative no? I was looking for other instances where "gayvention" being used on the web, but I found that the term has been used by people but not exactly in the way that Rachel is using it above.
At , http://eurout.org/2009/02/28/we-are-everywhere-%E2%80%93-february-28?page=0,6 I found:
•Next weekend the annual Gayvention will take place in Hamburg. Gayvention is the queer convention when it comes to lifestyle and includes auctions, erotica quizzes, and speed dating.
So here the word indicates an event, a perhaps a gay convention rather than a gay intervention.
And, the most exciting thing is, I thought I could find a definition on Urban Dictionary, but it hasn't even been defined yet there! So this is very very new. Or maybe, it just hasn't caught on as successfully as other creatively invented words.
Glee!
Some time ago as I was catching up with an old friend at a cafe, the song "Don't Stop Believing" came on the radio, the version done by the cast of Glee. And both of us started singing along at the same time and immediately she gasped and went "OMG! You're a gleek too?" and that stunned me for a while. I mean, what's a gleek?
I went to look the term up and I got this from the free online dictionary:
n. 1.
1. A jest or scoff; a trick or deception.
Where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks ?
- Shak.
2. An enticing look or glance.
A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye.
- Beau. & Fl.
v. i. 1. To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly.
n. 1.
1. A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons.
2. Three of the same cards held in the same hand; - hence, three of anything.
Obviously, how my friend used the term gleek is not reflected in the above entry. Soooo I went to look up the word in the urban dictionary:
1.
gleek
March 8, 2007 Urban Word of the Day
building up saliva in the salivary glands using some stimulus, like sour food or yawning, and then pressing the tongue upon the glands, causing the saliva to shoot out, usually at an impressive distance.
Shit, Eric just gleeked all over my food!
by mike Apr 26, 2003 share this
2.
gleek
the use of ones saliva glands to shoot the saliva a credible disatnce, with the intention of hitting someone
Damnit Matt, your fucking uncle gleeked on me again
by martay Feb 18, 2003 share this
3.
Gleek
To LOVE the show Glee, or if you are in Glee club at your school.
Oh my God, I'm a total Gleek too!!
Bingo. Third meaning there is what I was looking for. So it’s become a term to describe people who are totally in love with the show Glee. How amazing is that? Within months, and just because of a television show, new words are created. And I never knew that people used gleek in the above contexts. Any other fellow gleeks amongst you?
I went to look the term up and I got this from the free online dictionary:
n. 1.
1. A jest or scoff; a trick or deception.
Where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks ?
- Shak.
2. An enticing look or glance.
A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye.
- Beau. & Fl.
v. i. 1. To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly.
n. 1.
1. A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons.
2. Three of the same cards held in the same hand; - hence, three of anything.
Obviously, how my friend used the term gleek is not reflected in the above entry. Soooo I went to look up the word in the urban dictionary:
1.
gleek
March 8, 2007 Urban Word of the Day
building up saliva in the salivary glands using some stimulus, like sour food or yawning, and then pressing the tongue upon the glands, causing the saliva to shoot out, usually at an impressive distance.
Shit, Eric just gleeked all over my food!
by mike Apr 26, 2003 share this
2.
gleek
the use of ones saliva glands to shoot the saliva a credible disatnce, with the intention of hitting someone
Damnit Matt, your fucking uncle gleeked on me again
by martay Feb 18, 2003 share this
3.
Gleek
To LOVE the show Glee, or if you are in Glee club at your school.
Oh my God, I'm a total Gleek too!!
Bingo. Third meaning there is what I was looking for. So it’s become a term to describe people who are totally in love with the show Glee. How amazing is that? Within months, and just because of a television show, new words are created. And I never knew that people used gleek in the above contexts. Any other fellow gleeks amongst you?
That's one smart little bob
I've been wanting to get a haircut for the longest time but I didn't know what kind of haircut to get. So as usual I turned to google for some advice. I googled haircuts and I found a few interesting terms for hairdos that I had never even heard before. Like I didn't know there were different kinds of bobs you can have, I thought when you have a bob, it's just called a bob. Am I disgracing womankind? Haha. So anyway this one term attracted my attention: a graduated bob
GRADUATED bob? Only graduates can have this hairstyle? Of course not that's a ridiculous idea but that was the first thing that crossed my mind. So I went to wiki this and Voila! Found out what a graduated bob is:
Graduated Bob : Section hair to 4 parts. Cut radially to 90 deg. Deeper layers than Sliding haircut.
Which looks like this:
So anyway I suppose it does fit the other meaning of graduated which is:
graduated(gr
j
-
t
d)
j-td) Divided into or marked with intervals indicating measures, as of length, volume, or temperature.
But then again, the collocation of the word, with something associated with fashion, to me doesn't quite have a natural link.
tweet or twitter?
Twitter, like Facebook, has become and integral part of our lives now hasn't it? For a significant number of people at least. And being the innovative people we are, new words and terms are coined. So words that are specific to Twitter: twitter/tweet, twittering/tweeting, tweeted/twittered, tweets.
These words are already pre-existing but Twitter has brought about new meanings to them. The dictionary meanings for those words are as follows:
twit·ter (twtr)
v. twit·tered, twit·ter·ing, twit·ters
v.intr.
1. To utter a succession of light chirping or tremulous sounds; chirrup.
2.
a. To speak rapidly and in a tremulous manner: twittering over office gossip.
b. To giggle nervously; titter.
3. To tremble with nervous agitation or excitement.
v.tr.
To utter or say with a twitter: twittered a greeting.
n.
1.
a. The light chirping sound made by certain birds.
b. A similar sound, especially light, tremulous speech or laughter.
2. Agitation or excitement; flutter
and
tweet (twt)
n.
A weak chirping sound, as of a young or small bird.
intr.v. tweet·ed, tweet·ing, tweets
To utter a weak chirping sound.
With twitter now, sentences like "I haven't tweeted anything today" or "Did you read her latest tweets" are very common. I'm wondering though whether tweet and twitter in Twitter context can be used interchangeably? I suppose they are. I always use the verb "tweet" but I know many people say "I haven't twittered anything today" instead of the sentence above. What about you guys? What do you think? Do you have preferences? And why?
These words are already pre-existing but Twitter has brought about new meanings to them. The dictionary meanings for those words are as follows:
twit·ter (twtr)
v. twit·tered, twit·ter·ing, twit·ters
v.intr.
1. To utter a succession of light chirping or tremulous sounds; chirrup.
2.
a. To speak rapidly and in a tremulous manner: twittering over office gossip.
b. To giggle nervously; titter.
3. To tremble with nervous agitation or excitement.
v.tr.
To utter or say with a twitter: twittered a greeting.
n.
1.
a. The light chirping sound made by certain birds.
b. A similar sound, especially light, tremulous speech or laughter.
2. Agitation or excitement; flutter
and
tweet (twt)
n.
A weak chirping sound, as of a young or small bird.
intr.v. tweet·ed, tweet·ing, tweets
To utter a weak chirping sound.
With twitter now, sentences like "I haven't tweeted anything today" or "Did you read her latest tweets" are very common. I'm wondering though whether tweet and twitter in Twitter context can be used interchangeably? I suppose they are. I always use the verb "tweet" but I know many people say "I haven't twittered anything today" instead of the sentence above. What about you guys? What do you think? Do you have preferences? And why?
treats anyone?
Some time ago I was in the mood to do some baking so I went to browse through one of my most favourite websites EVER, allrecipes.com. As I was looking for some recipes for oatmeal cookies, one of the links attracted my attention: Portable Treats.
Okay I'm not sure if any of you agree with me but when I hear the word portable, I think of things like, portable CD player, portable television, etc. Mostly big items. Has anyone heard of portable being used with food? I know technically, following the definition given for the word portable (1. able to be carried or moved easily, esp by hand) , it is possible to use the word in that way but to me it's really funny? Portable treats. Portable food. Food is generally easily carried or moved by hand, so is it necessary use the word portable?
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