And if you have to wonder if you are ghetto...you're not.

I just told some guy that i was playing online pool against that I put
some STANK on my shot...when I beat him the second time, I said "stank stank"

WTF??? is wrong with my ass?

Ghetto is worse than roaches...it never dies and never goes away!
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Smirkish-it means very cold..like "damn girl,you be smirkish!"

Fista! or finna-it means going..like "damn boy,i fista go to da store"

Dub-it means twenty..."hey lemme get some dub sack"..or 20 dollars worth of anything..

I'm gonna jaw ya ass=Im going to hit you in the jaw.

Thizzle=XTC.

this are the many things i hear in the bay area.
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weepingwall said:

Yeah, finna is my favorite word...where the hell did it come from?

We finna go the da store

We're feeling like we want to go to the store???

My mother-in-law says "stuttin" all the time. I'm not even sure how you would spell it.

"He aint stuttin her." Translation: He's not thinking about her.

Revolution said:

oh Lord...
Try playing Scrabble with a ghetto ass brother and sister...
My sister put "PO" on the board...
Me:...that's not a word..
Her: Yeah it is...
Me: what the hell is "PO"? Use it in a sentence
Her: *grumble* I don't have any money, so I be PO
Me: *throws board across the room*

Oh yeah, I say "finna" an awful lot for someone not from the south

KatSkrizzle said:

OK..that didn't work. fixing to got shortened to fintah, finna, etc

axed instead of ASKED!

dustysgirl said:

I've heard this one, too. I think it's probably spelled "stud'in," as it's actually a derivative of "studying."

I think "stole" is a funny one... not as in "that kid stole a pack of bubblegum," but "the guy was talking trash and got stole!"

It means getting punched or hit really hard!

Revolution said:

i think it came from "fixing to".

Anxiety said:

that's just what i said, goober:)

DEEEEEZ NUUUUUTZ!!!!!

Another one is conversate, as in "I'm gonna go over here and conversate with this female." There is no such word as conversate. The proper word is converse.

Incidentally, it drive me nuts to hear people use female as a noun, too. It's an adjective! It could be used in a substantive sense, but probably most appropriately only when referencing an animal.

KatSkrizzle said:

i knew that, i was just posting it from a different perspective.

What I hear alot is "dun did dat"



as in "I already dun did dat!"

meaning - "I've already done that before"

"Nairn" is a another good one. It means "not (even) one" and is often used as part of a double negative.

Example: "You haven't eaten your dinner yet, so you better not get nairn cookie!"
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JANKITY

this is so funny!

One word that is ghetto, but shouldn't be is "amn't" in reference to oneself in the singular. It's an interogative contraction of "am I not" which would be better than the gramatically incorrect "aren't."

Example: "I'm really cute, aren't I?"

But it SHOULD be...

"I'm really cute, amn't I?"

I've heard linguists say that many young kids actually use this intuitively. But, of course, they stop because popular English prefers the incorrect alternative.

Bunz: scared. Or punk

As in...Why when those 5 guys jumped me u ran? U mad bunz son

DanceWme said:

Never heard that one.

"Thirsty" is a funny one. It means desperate -- like one stranded in a desert.

A girl might say of a guy who likes her: "That guy at the mall was sooooo thirsty! He kept asking me for my phone number."
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Lammastide said:

Or


Skeet - sperm, jizz

Boy u better not skeet on me

DanceWme said:

I know that one. I think it's gross.

Buttaface

Meaning a woman who has a nice ass, nice legs, nice body. Everything looks good but her face




Damn Im ghetto as hell

DanceWme said:

DanceWme said:

or boodydo:
her stomach sticks out farther than her booty do.

also
'boutto- I'm about to.....

Another ghetto colloquialism that I think is actually pretty clever is the use of the verb "to be" to express a sort of perpetuality -- as in "he be trying to win the lottery." I think it's more expressive than the correct "he tries to win the lottery," as it explicitly suggests the subject has existed in a particular state in the past, does in the present and will into the undetermined future. It's so existentially efficient!

I think "proper" English used to accommodate this use of the verb -- mostly in poetic or lyrical uses -- but fell away from it, first as archaic, then downright low brow.
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DanceWme said:

HAHA! all the guys call this one girl at my school that! its sooo FUNNY!