by Robert Buchanan
| Douche | English |
|---|---|
| -adjacent | quasi-, semi- |
| alls | all |
| amazeballs, amazesauce, awesome sauce, awesome-sauce, awesomesauce, dope, 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| dip | depart, egress, exit, (take) leave |
| douche chills | horripilation |
| down | certainly |
| drop | issue, publish, release |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| ignorant | bigoted |
| "I know, right?" | "certainly," "(in) faith," "indeed," "really," "truly," "verily," "without a doubt" |
| 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 | clandestinely, covertly, furtively, secretly, slyly, sneakily, stealthily, surreptitiously. underhandly, underhandedly |
| mains, peeps | circle, clique, crowd, friends |
| mansplain | rationalize |
| merked | drugged, high |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| word | agreed |
| "wow, just wow" | "wow" |
| "wrong side of history" | heterodoxy |
| "yeah, no" | "no" |
| you | you're, you've |
| yute | youth |
| za | pizza |
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