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Term used to express shock, embarrassment, or disappointment. [26] [27] bussin' Extremely good, excellent. Also used to describe good food. Originated from African-American vernacular for good food. Though not related, it has also been used as a derogatory term for ejaculation. [28] bussy Portmanteau of "boy" and "pussy" (slang for the vagina).
Boi (plural: bois) is slang within butch and femme and gay male communities for several sexual or gender identities. [1] [2]The term has also been used, independently of any meaning related to sexuality, as an alternate spelling for boy.
While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.
The term was first logged on Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced English language online dictionary, in December 2017 with the definition, "what you would say if something was really good."
The term "babygirl" originated from Gen Z fan language. On Urban Dictionary , one user explained the term as "a male character who does questionable things but is so sad and pathetic you can’t ...
Oh Boy! (TV series) , a British popular music television series (1958–1959) "Oh, boy!", a catchphrase from Quantum Leap , an American television series (1989–1993)
According to etymologist Douglas Harper, the phrase is derived from Yiddish and is of Germanic origin. [4] It is cognate with the German expression o weh, or auweh, combining the German and Dutch exclamation au! meaning "ouch/oh" and the German word Weh, a cognate of the English word woe (as well as the Dutch wee meaning pain).
Slay is a slang colloquialism that possibly originated during the 1600s, but gained its current LGBT connotation in the 1970s from ball culture.Originally having a meaning similar to "that joke was killer", slay has since gained a definition meaning being impressed or term of agreement.