by Robert Buchanan
| Douche | English |
|---|---|
| -adjacent | quasi-, semi- |
| alls | all |
| amazeballs, amazesauce, awesome sauce, awesome-sauce, awesomesauce, dope, phat, on fleek | A1, ace, bang-up, beautiful, boss, brilliant, choice, crack, dandy, divine, fine, exceeding, excellent, exceptional, eximious, exquisite, fab, fabulous, fantastic, first-rate, glorious, grand, great, high-grade, high-quality, magnificent, marvelous, outstanding, premium, prime, quality, recherche, select, sensational, smashing, special, splendid, splendiferous, super, superb, superior, surpassing, swell, terrific, top-notch, transcendental, tremendous, uncommon, wonderful |
| awesome, crazy, epic | amazing, astonishing, astounding, incredible, marvelous, miraculous, portentous, prodigious, staggering, startling, stupefying, stupendous, surprising, unbelievable, wonderful, wondrous |
| bae, boo | beau, beloved, boyfriend, companion, darling, doxy, dulcinea, girlfriend, inamorata, inamorato, ladylove, lover, man, mistress, paramour, partner, squeeze, suitor, swain, sweetheart |
| beefcake, stud, studmuffin, stud muffin | adonis, hunk |
| bestie | best friend |
| bink-bink, binky | pacifier |
| bless up | bye, farewell, goodbye; hello, hi |
| body acceptance | refusal to remediate obesity |
| boho | Bohemian |
| boost | bluster, boast, brag, crow, gasconade, gloat, rodomontade, roister |
| bouncebackability | determination, obstinacy, perseverence, persistence, pertinacity, resolution, resolve, stubbornness, tenacity |
| brah, bruh, dog, dawg | buddy, companion, comrade, dude, fellow, friend, guy, hombre, pal |
| bread, ching, flizz, lovely jubbly, oof, ooftish, scrilla, spend | cash, dough, funds, money |
| bromance | (platonic) affinity, amity, camaraderie, comradeship, fellowship, friendship, rapport |
| bud, chronic, doobage, grass, Mary Jane, Mary Joanna, zaza | cannabis, marijuana, pot, reefer, wacky tobaccy, weed (hyp. hash, hashish) |
| change up | counterchange, interchange, invert, reverse, switch, transpose |
| chillax, moss | relax, repose, rest |
| chirp, disrespect, dis, diss | affront, cut, disoblige, indignify, insult, miff, offend, pique, snub |
| cisgendered, heteronormative | (sexually) normal |
| confronting | shocking |
| cray, cray-cray | bananas, bats, batty, berserk, bonkers, buggy, certifiable, cracked, crackers, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, demented, deranged, disturbed, dotty, gaga, insane, loco, loony, loopy, lunatic, mad, meshuga, non compos mentis, nuts, nutso, nutty, screwy, unbalanced, unhinged, wacko, wacky |
| crazy | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, antic, atypical, bizarre, curious, deviant, different, eccentric, exceptional, extraordinary, freaky, funny, irregular, odd, oddball, offbeat, outre, peculiar, queer, singular, strange, uncommon, unconventional, unfamiliar, unique, unnatural, untypical, unusual, weird |
| crotchal, groinal | inguinal |
| cyberslacking | goldbricking, idling, loafing, lollygagging, neglecting, shirking, skipping, slacking |
| dafaq, dafuq | (what) the fuck |
| dat | that, withal |
| deadass | dead serious; actual, authentic, bona fide, genuine, kosher, legitimate, real, substantial, substantive, true, veridic, veridical, veritable |
| dip | depart, egress, exit, (take) leave |
| douche chills | horripilation |
| down | certainly |
| drop | issue, publish, release |
| Elder Millennial | middle-aged gigadouche |
| finna | aiming (to), designing (to), intending (to), meaning (to), planning (to), proposing (to), purposing (to) |
| flex | swank |
| foodie | epicure, epicurean, gastronome, gastronomer, gastronomist, gourmet |
| Friendsgiving | suicide pact |
| front hole | cunt, pussy, quim, twat, vagina |
| gender binary | gender |
| ginormous | Brobdingnagian, colossal, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, grand, great, huge, humongous, immane, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, mastodontic, mighty, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast, whopping |
| glizzy | Glock, handgun; frankfurter, hot dog, wiener |
| good on (you/him/her/them) | good for (you/him/her/them) |
| guap, scrilla | capital, cash, currency, dough, funds, lucre, money |
| gyatt, gyatt dayum | god damn |
| gyatt | large (and presumably attractive) ass, backside, behind, bottom, buns, butt, buttocks, caboose, can, cheeks, derriere, fanny, fundament, gluteus maximus, heinie, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rump, seat, stern, tail, tochus, tush |
| hashtag (adj., adv., int., v.) | N/A |
| hate speech, violent language | offensive expression |
| hella, literally, majorly, totes | absolutely, acutely, arrantly, awfully, categorically, completely, decidedly, especially, exceedingly, exceptionally, extraordinarily, extremely, highly, hugely, immensely, intensely, mightily, particularly, perfectly, positively, really, remarkably, singularly, starkly, supremely, terribly, terrifically, thoroughly, totally, tremendously, truly, uncommonly, unconditionally, unequivocally, unusually, utterly, vastly, very |
| ignant, ignorant | bigoted |
| "I know, right?" | "certainly," "(in) faith," "indeed," "really," "truly," "verily," "without a doubt" |
| I'mma, imma, I'ma, i'ma, Ima, ima, Ima', I'm a, I'm a', i'm a', I'm'a, i'm'a, I'm-a | I'm going to, I'm gonna |
| inappropriate, politically incorrect, problematic | disobliging, exceptionable, objectionable, offensive |
| infer | hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, predicate, purport, suggest |
| intersectionality | political coalitions gainfully manipulated by wealthy elites to the detriment of native majorities |
| irregardless, styll | howbeit, however, irrespective, nathless, natheless, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, regardless, still, though, withal, yet |
| "it is what it is" | "so be it" |
| jawnt | any noun |
| level up | advance, progress |
| libshit, lieberal | leftard (hyp. baizuo, social justice warrior) |
| lifehack | expedient, solution |
| lived experience | experience |
| lookism | bias |
| low-key, lowkey | clandestinely, covertly, furtively, secretly, slyly, sneakily, stealthily, surreptitiously. underhandly, underhandedly |
| mains, peeps | circle, clique, crowd, friends |
| mansplain | rationalize |
| merked | drugged, high |
| merc | assassinate, dispatch, eliminate, execute, grease, hit, ice, kill, liquidate, murder, smoke, waste, terminate |
| meta | reflexive, self-referential |
| microaggression | affront, cut, discourtesy, irreverence, indignity, insult, offense, slight, snub |
| Middle East | Egypt, other countries of north Africa (sometimes), west Asia, some countries of central Asia (variably), Pakistan (sometimes) |
| Middle Eastern | Arabic, Assyrian, Azeri, Kurdish, Mizrahic, Persian, Turkish, etc. |
| muggle | amateur; nonmember, outsider, stranger |
| "my bad" | "my mistake" |
| old school | antiquated, dated, démodé, outdated, outmoded, passé, unfashionable |
| plant-based | vegan; vegetarian |
| politically correct | inoffensive, unexceptionable, unobjectionable |
| preggers | enceinte, expectant, gravid, pregnant |
| presh | charming, cute, darling, endearing, lovable, lovely, precious, sweet |
| props | acclaim, commendation, credit, esteem, regard, respect |
| ratchet | abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, cheap, contemptible, cursed, damnable, despicable, detestable, disgusting, execrable, hateful, heinous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, nauseating, odious, scummy, scurvy, stinking, wretched; audacious, brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, lippy, nervy, pert, presumptuous, sassy, saucy |
| reach | attend |
| riffage | chord progression |
| rizz | allure, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charisma, charm, magnetism, sex appeal |
| rizz | seduce |
| rocking | attired (in), clothed (in), dressed (in), vestured (in), wearing |
| screenager | teenager |
| selfie | photograph (of a dolt) |
| sex worker | bawd, cocotte, cyprian, doxy, fille de joie, harlot, hooker, hustler, moll, prostitute, slut, strumpet, tart, tramp, trollop, trull, wench, whore, (hyp. call girl; street girl, streetwalker; stripper; working girl) |
| shine on | disregard, ignore, neglect, overlook, pretermit; prescind; fib, lie; bamboozle, befool, betray, cheat, chicane, cozen, deceive, dupe, fool, fox, gull, hoodwink, humbug, illude, misinform, mislead, trick |
| solid | favor, obligement |
| "soz" | "I apologize," "(I'm) sorry" |
| stan | revere, venerate; idolize, worship |
| swag | furtively homosexual: "secretly, we are gay" |
| takeaway | lesson, moral; admonishment, admonition, caution, caveat, monition, warning |
| threequel | (second) sequel |
| (a) thing | phenomenon |
| twerk | flail, writhe |
| Twittersphere, Twitterverse | |
| vaguery | ambage, ambiguity, equivocacy, equivocality, oracularity, vagueness |
| verse | versus |
| walk back | backpedal; retract, withdraw |
| whack | abominable, abysmal, appalling, atrocious, awful, deplorable, dreadful, execrable, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, god-awful, grievous, heinous, horrendous, horrible, monstrous, rotten, shocking, terrible, vile |
| whermst | "where, why, and for what purpose" |
| word | agreed |
| "wow, just wow" | "wow" |
| wrong side of history | heterodoxy |
| "yeah, no" | "nay, negative, no" |
| YOLO | you only live once |
| you | you're, you've |
| yute | youth |
| za | pizza |
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