#internet slang dictionary

[warrenwoodhouse]

Internet Slang Dictionary

ABBREVIATION | ENGLISH TRANSLATION

BTW: By the Way

PTW: Play to Win

IMHO: In my Humble Opinion

IMNSHO: In my not so Humble Opinion

FYI: For your Information

IM: Instant Messenger

SMS: Short Message Service

LOL: Laugh out Loud

SOZ: Sorry

OMG: Oh my God

ROTFL: Rolling on the Floor Laughing

HMU: Hit me Up

UwU: cute face

SRSLY: Seriously

Git Gud Scrub: Get Good Idiot. The word scrub comes from the use in the 1400s for a low-stunted tree, eventually took on the meaning for someone not in a University College Athletic Team, later being adopted into the gaming community as a reference to a player who complains about tactics while not knowing how to properly counter them (Layman’s terms: a noob)

Git Gud: Get Good

LMFAO: Laughing my f**king a** (a**e) off

IIRC: If I Recall Correctly

L2P: Learn to Play

You can find more on Urban Dictionary

[dramatic-dolphin]

if i remember correctly you know some portugese so: i have read a fanfic in brazilian portugese via google translate and left some fire emojis as comment and the author replied "iiirrráaaa" what does that mean 🥺🥺🥺

i'll be honest, brazilian slang is a whole entire Thing which i only know the bare minimum of, so. i have no fucking idea. sorry :(

[crazydiscostu]

The Ultimate Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse: Because Who Wants to Face Judgment Day with An Embarrassing Search History?

Throw in phrases like "radical radiation" and "mega-mutation," and you'll be the coolest cat in the wasteland......

The end of the world is upon us, whether this is at the hands of war-obsessed governments or the rise of the machines it’s time we brace ourselves for impending doom. It’s important to remember that some things never truly disappear – like your embarrassing internet search history. Whether the apocalypse is brought on by zombies, natural disasters, or the latest Tiktok trend gone wrong, you’ll…

[that-annoying-raven]

fanfictions tags/saying I need to exist

Me and my friends use these when talking about Fanfics, and it always makes me so sad when people don’t know what I’m talking about so here ya go:

-Eddy-fying a character (The name is because of Eddie from Stranger Things, where a bunch of children or Twitter addicts take a character, remove true or personality, and then babygirl over them for a couple of months before, then when they give the character a bad reputation, decide to leave the fandom and ruin a different character. Minority characters that are Eddified are usually whitewashed, made straight, get rlly p¡ssy when people headcannon them as Neurodivergent, etc.)

-One-Month Fandoms (Name meaning is because the fandom just lasts a month or two before dying off again/Fandoms that re-emerge ((or are created)) for about a couple of months before being given a bad reputation and abandoned again. Examples include Stranger Things and Wednesday.)

-Anatomically Accurate (Basically fanfictions that have either heavy gore and guts n’ stuff)

-FBI Watchlist (fanfictions that made the author’s search history sketchy enough to “theoretically put them onto an FBI Watchlist”)

-Writing Lore (art lore but for Fanfic writers)

-Hyperfixiation Crossovers (Crossovers that don’t make sense, but they’re the authors interests so they want to see their interests combined so they don’t need to pick between which one of their interests they’ll write a fanfic about. It’s called HYPERfixiations just bc I like writing them and I’m neurodivergent and half of these crossovers are just neurodivergent chaos so I figured that hyperfixiation fit the best)

[dominostodoomsday]

"Urban Dictionary" isn't enough. I need "Urban Thesaurus".

[bloomfish]

they said 'read another book' so I've decided to start with "The Mirrour of Alchimy", compoſed by the famous Fryer, Roger Bahon, ſometime fellow of Martin Colledge, and Braſenoſe Colledge in Oxenforde.

[art-ro-vert]

Them: How did you learn English?

Me *sweating nervously*:

[ghostflowerhotpotch]

You know? If you think about it, slang and memes are probably different across the multiverse.

Have you see it how adults complain not understanding what teens said these days? Well now is the entire Spider-Society because despite the (probably) great population of teens the vastness of the multiverse makes for jokes and memes to transfer.

Pavitr literally needs to not only translate memes, he basically needs to do an entire background explanation to almost anyone. Perhaps with other spiders he defaults to jokes about "Fuck England" because people being angry at England seems to appear to be a very common thing across the multiverse.

Because the closeness on time periods, Peni and Margo constantly sent each other memes in "4D" technology. Miles saw one and stared at the wall for 20 minutes trying to understand what the hell he just saw.

Hobbie uses cockney slang which already means he will probably need to explain himself a lot, but if is true that he is from 70s (I don't remember if this was someone's hc or a theory) a lot of his jokes are mostly local to his area already because there is no internet, probably less if his universe is anything close to the dystopian hellscapse it is in the comics.

Noir would deadass, need multiple lingo dictionaries because being from the 40s definitely means he needs A LOT of explanations to most of anything.

Miles was a bit disappointed when he tried to show a meme to Gwen and she didn't get it, but after realizing how he barely understand memes from his other spidey friends, he felt a lot better to realize in general the sense of humour between their universes is pretty similar.

Technically Peter counts on that front as well, but he insists he doesn't understand teenage these days and lets these two to it; mostly just to let the lovebirds alone.

Miles and Gwen argue their universes are the only ones where the sense of humour is not broken and have the "Good memes alliance" which everybody else calls "they are having non-dates that they call association meetings because they are impossible."

These entire debacle started with someone saying "YEEEET" "Bro that meme is like 2 years ago" "2? Try 6" "The fuck are you talking about? That was part of my media class on memes" "DUDE YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO SAY 'YEEEZ'" And the rest is history.

[athena-xox]

Ever After High Slang Dictionary

Just the canon words mentioned in The Story Book of Legends, The Unfairest Of Them All & A Wonderlandiful World by Shannon Hale. Some words might now be perfect translations and some have multiple meanings that I have put down. Anyways I plan to update this with the rest of the books.

Bat wings and slug tails: things of value, typically for witches

Bewitching

Bffa: bff

Big, Bad: prefix to anything in large quantity or ideology

Book-to-school: back to school

Call Of Beauty: call of duty

Castleteria: cafeteria

Charm/charming

Charmitorium: auditorium

Charm you later: see you later

Chemythstry: chemistry

COL: evil LOL. stands for cackle out loud

Crownculous: calculus

Crownglasses

Crowning

Curses: general profanity

Deuce: general profanity

Disenchanting

Enchanting

Fableous: fabulous

Fairest

Fairy: ferry (also used for just ‘fairy’)

Fairy: very (also used for just ‘fairy’)

Fairy-fail

Fairy’s sake: I believe in my heart this is equivalent to fucks sake. General profanity

Four-and-twenty-blackbirds-baked-in-a-pie: hot

Grandma’s sake: Pete’s sake, Christs sake etc

Grimmnasium: gymnasium

Grimmnastics: gymnastics

Hatchling: baby/child

Hex/hexes: general profanity

Hexes: taxes

Hexcellent: Excellent

Hexciting: exiting

Hext: text

Hextbook: textbook

Hextreme: extreme

Hocus Focus

Home evilnomics: home ec but evil

Huffs and Puffs: bad and also good? ‘It’s huffs and puffs’ is used for both good and bad things

Hybrid carriage: hybrid car

Just right

Lost and Crowned: lost and found

Lulla-binary: binary

Mani-curse: manicure

Mirrorcast: broadcast

Mirrorize: digitalize

Mirror Lab: computer lab (I think)

Mirror Network/Net: internet

MirrorPhone: iPhone

MirrorPad: iPad

MirrorPod: iPod

Mirror station: computer?

Mother-goosebumps: goose bumps

Muse-ic: music

Newfangled: new but in a bad way

Nice as mice

Nursery rhyme: baby

nursery-rhyme school: preschool/elementary

Pea under the bed: stick in the mud

Pedi-curse: pedicure

Princess pea-butter sandwich: peanut butter sandwich

Royal student council: student council

Spella: hella

Spellbinding

Spells: used as a general ‘oh’. And general profanity

Sticky as porridge

Study Ball: study hall

The End: goodbye

Thronework: homework

Tiara-thlon: triathlon

Toadstools: general profanity

Unfairest

Venus Fairy Trap: Venus fly trap

What-ever-after: whatever

What’s Upon-ing: what’s up

Wicked

Any time there’s an ‘ever’ in a sentence but ‘after’, after it. And any time there’s ‘after’ in a sentence but ‘ever’ before it

[starless-planet]

Being terminally online but only on tumblr and youtube just makes it so you’re forced to go through accidental humiliation rituals irl. Absolute lose-lose situations.

Several months back I started my first ever big person job out of college. My coworkers’ (despite most of them being my peers) exposure to the internet largely stops at Tiktok and Facebook.

It was about one month in when I looked over at my coworker’s computer and see she’s looking at pictures of the onceler on google images.

Obviously my blood freezes in my veins but I go “Hey whatcha looking at over there?” And she explains to me she is planning on putting a photo of “The guy from The Lorax” in our coworker’s locker because he looks like him.

But as she keeps scrolling she’s… discovering. She’s having an experience I wish I could have shared with her instead of looking on like I’m seeing corpses strewn about a battlefield. She’s seeing the art. She’s baffled. “Why would people draw that? What’s going on?” she wonders. She is 24 years old. “People are weird.” I say. It’s all I can say. I’m new here and we are at what is essentially a help desk where guests can come up and talk to us at any time. I leave it be. She finally chooses a normal photo to print.

Later I’m having a conversation about it with another coworker and she goes “oh yeah. Well, apparently on Reddit it was a thing to like… you know… want that guy and the Lorax to kiss.”

I almost lost it, guys. I was screaming in my head. There was an entire 2 hour youtuber essay being held back because I was unwilling to expose myself. I had to just look her in the eye and go “yeah that’s crazy lol.” There was no discussion about the self-ship art. That went right over their heads I think.

A few months later and I’m making jokes to my other coworkers about which president they would marry and my friend pipes up “we should make a tumblr about really hot presidents, guys.” Now this time I only had a moment to suffer the weight of Hamilton Tumblr before she said “It’s too bad none of us have a tumblr and it’s dead.”

(Now before you go and think she’s just doing a bit I later confided in her I have multiple tumblr accounts and she was like “Oh. Good for you!” and promised me she didn’t have one. I believe her.)

Then we come to Columbo Night. Columbo Night is when we all get together and watch Columbo. I was doing a bit where I didn’t know what drugs were (well half of a bit, because I don’t actually know too much about them).

I mentioned learning about angel dust in DARE, but when everyone asked what that was I had to admit I didn’t know which specific drug it was slang for. So they looked it up on urban dictionary. They find this:

They lose their minds trying to figure out what was going on with this definition.

I kept my mouth glued shut.

They learn it’s from Hazbin Hotel. “I think Hazbin Hotel is a web comic?” someone pipes up.

I’m staring at the floor in front of me. The handful of youtube video essays I’ve watched on the show are playing out in front of me. I’m counting my blessings I’ve never actually watched it.

They’re having conflicting opinions about the art style. I’m gripping the edge of my seat.

And then, it’s time for Columbo, and it’s all over. Just as quickly as it started, it ended. Thank you Columbo.

[marvelmaniac715]

I’m British, and I’ve read a lot of fanfics set in Britain where the writer probably isn’t totally familiar with the slang, so here’s a handy guide to how to make your Brits sound more British (thank you to the internet and an online dictionary for giving me a few more ideas and making sure I properly defined one or two words that I’m so used to hearing that I forgot the true meaning):

Store - Shop/Shops

Mall - Shopping Centre

Mom - Mum

Guy - Bloke (in some circumstances, not all the time)

Friend - Mate (again not all the time)

Tired - Knackered

Thrilled/Excited - Chuffed

Concerning - Dodgy

Disappointed - Gutted

Trash - Rubbish

Silly - Daft/Bonkers

French Fry - Chip/Chips (we do still have French fries though)

Potato Chips - Crisp/Crisps

Attractive/Hot - Fit (example use “Oh, he’s well fit!”)

Thanks - Cheers (of course we still say thanks and thank you)

Toilet - Loo (slang term, we mostly say toilet but an example use is “I’ll just pop to the loo”)

Go - Pop

Sausage and Mash Potato - Bangers and Mash

Amazed - Gobsmacked

Dollar - Pound/Quid (Quid is more of a slang term to be honest, like you’ll say “I saw Bob, he gave me back the twenty quid I lent him last week”)

Bottom/Ass - Arse

Very - Bloody (this is a mild swear word, for context)

Disparaging Adjective Usually Regarding Women - Slag and Chav

Testicles - Bollocks

Affectionate Nickname For A Friend - Love (“You alright, love?”)

Mess - Shambles

[spooky-dumb-ass]

Some random Nanami and Choso Hcs :)) part 2

i was supposed to do kashimo as well but i don't know much about him 😭😭im sorry!!

anyways sorry if its bad! I honestly dont know much about them either but i tried!

part 1 ; part 3

Nanami Kento

Carries a pocket dictionary with him DESPITE the internet???

CANNOT go a day without coffee

He sits at a 90° angle you cannot convince me otherwise

Yells at the TV while watching sports 😭

Has like a lot of dogs

Acts like everyones dad even if hes THE SAME AGE

brings up random ass facts in the middle of a conversation

Choso

definitely stops to stare at the moon every now and then

His jokes somehow always fail HORRIBLY

Hes the type to think everything is a sign and is connected to him💀

weirdly hates the feel of soil and whatnot

terrible driver, knows every rule "dont go across that, its illegal.." "but you just did"

asks itadori to explain slang and jokes to him a l l the time 💀

idkwhy i but i feel like he really likes sweets??? especially strawberry flavoured ones

[xythlia]

FANFIC WRITING RESOURCE MASTER POST

so in the spirit of wanting to see writers thrive I've decided to make a big master post of every single resource I use in order to create my works. It can be really hard to find concrete resources and it's frustrating to feel like you just don't know how to do something or how to get started but no worries hopefully you can find answers in this post ^⁠_⁠^

ON WRITING SMUT

› writing resources to keep on hand while you write

The Ultimate Guide to Writing Smut Fic by QuinnAnderson on AO3

The Sexy Thesaurus by Laurel Clark

Lewd Vocabulary in Erotic Fiction Survey by KJ Scott (from a survey done on r/fanfiction)

75+ Ways To Say Heart Pounded by Kathy Steinemann

Ways To Describe Breath & Breathing by Kathy Steinemann (everything on her site is super helpful tbh)

21 Other Words For Vagina by Lisette Marshall

The Gay Sex Positions Guide (be advised this is a photo guide!)

Writing Sex Scenes by Michael La Ronn (video resource)

GENERAL HELPFUL WRITING TOOLS

› things that can help when you feel stuck on certain words, want to avoid repetitive sentences, or check your spelling and grammar

Reverse Dictionary (search for words based on their definition)

Related Words (help you find words related to another word or phrase)

Describing Words (find adjectives)

Words to Use (reference that groups subject related words by parts of speech)

Wordhippo (has synonyms/antonyms/ect based on different definitions)

Netspeak (search for words you don't know yet/internet slang)

OneLook (thesaurus/dictionary)

Fighters Block (overcome writers block by setting it up as a game to achieve a certain word count)

Scribens (lesser known spelling and grammar check but does more! Helps prevent word repetition, rephrasing, vocab enhancement, + other stuff)

THE BASICS OF WRITING

› helpful resources to give you a solid foundation for your writing

7 Fundamentals of Writing by Michael Stover

Fundamentals of Writing by Jim Westergren

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

› this section is books on writing I recommend reading, you can either purchase them or if you know how to pirate you can get them that way too

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

On Writing Well by William Zinsser

The Elements of Style by William Strunk & E.B. White

Ernest Hemingway on Writing by Larry W. Phillips

The Writers Journey by Christopher Vogler

[poppy-in-the-woods]

Headcanons for Noah dating a woman that has Spanish as her mother tongue (whether she's from LATAM or Spain, I tried to keep it vague enough that either fits) because I need to daydream.

He's trying to learn some Spanish because he knows you miss it and you like to hear it, especially during lovemaking.

You swear a lot. When you're angry, when you're happy, when you hurt yourself... he's trying to learn the nuances of each case.

Your accent gets thicker when you're angry, but he thinks it's sexy. He gets a very confused boner when you direct your anger at him.

"Que me des como a cajón que no cierra, te digo!" "What?" "Ok, what's the equivalent... bang me like a screen door in a hurricane!" "Oh. With pleasure"

Watching TV from your homecountry together. He finds it really funny watching more or less the same cartoons as he did, but in Spanish. "They all sound so weird!"

He asks you about the meaning of random words in Spanish. You tell them that's not from your country, that's slang from this other Spanish speaking country. "So you don't know what that means?" "Yes, I know, but if I don't, that's what I have the Panhispanic Dictionary for" "The what?" "El Diccionario Panhispánico de Dudas, amor. That fat book over there? You can access it on the internet too"

Him researching about your country's culture and trying to cook traditional dishes.

If someone makes fun of your accent or treats you like you're dumb because of it, he's so ready to throw hands! "Do you know how smart she's in Spanish??" and "Her English is not perfect because she speaks two languages, you only speak one and you can't even get it right, asshole"

"Mi amorrrr"

[amanufacturedheaven]

Rare Language Learning: Polari

If you have ever used the words:

- Naff

- Butch

- Camp

You have unknowingly been speaking the sociolect known as Polari, the language of queer people primarily used in the 30s to the 70s. Polari is now an endangered language, as labelled by the University of Cambridge

Something of note: Many resources out there imply (or state) that Polari was a language invented and used solely by white cis gay men, which is decidedly untrue. Many words of Polari come from drag culture, lesbians, and the Romani people and their language. The use of ‘the language of British gay men’ may be a more palatable title to the general public, but it is not to me. I did my best to curate a variety of resources, but unfortunately much of queer history has been lost many more decades than I’ve been alive, if you have any other resources for studying Polari I would love to read them, message me or leave a link in the replies.

Articles

Learn Polari, the Secret Language of the Gays ⚢ Out Magazine

Polari: The code language gay men used to survive ⚢ BBC

Polari and the Hidden History of Gay Seafarers ⚢ National Museums Liverpool

The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language ⚢ Fabulosa!

Polari People ⚢ Fabulosa!

Polari: a language born from prejudice ⚢ Englishpanish

The secretive gay language that gave LGBTQ people a voice ⚢ GAYTIMES

A brief history of Polari: the curious after-life of the dead language for gay men ⚢ The Conversation

Study Material

The Polari Bible ⚢ Internet Archive

Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang ⚢ Internet Archive

Sociolinguistics / Polari ⚢ StudySmarter

FlashCards ⚢ Quizlet

New Polari Translator ⚢ LingoJam

Polari: A sociohistorical study of the life and decline of a secret language. ⚢ Dissertation, University of Manchester

Polari: a language born from prejudice ⚢ Englishpanish

Simon Bowkett: a short blog in Polari for LGBT+ History Month ⚢ Civil Service LGBT+ Network

[hrodvitnon]

Shimo: Excuse me, my King?

Godzilla: Yeah, what's up?

Shimo: Have you- any clue what the term 'rizz' means?

Rodan snickers in the background whilst Vivienne is trying very hard to maintain a straight face. Godzilla sighs.

Godzilla: Madison again? I told her to quit messing with you.

Shimo: Oh- no- well- I confess I may have accidentally eavesdropped on a conversation between her and Joshua. I don't think she realized I was there... A-anyways, they referred to you- actually- under the term 'Rizzilla'?

Vivienne and Rodan cannot hold it in any longer and both burst out into full on belly laughter. Godzilla looks confused now.

Godzilla: Ok... now this is new. I've never heard that one before.

Vivienne: Oh fuck- that's great- yeah it is new. Internet memes; those things come up every other week.

Rodan: Fuckin Rizzilla, that's fantastic. God, I'm never letting that one go.

Godzilla: Uhh- is this... meme- referring to any specific incident?

Vivienne: Uhhh- probably not- maybe people just think you're hot?

Shimo: It's- not a derogatory term, is it? It wouldn't be good if people begin referring to you in a disrespectful light.

Godzilla: No. It's not disrespectful. Plus I wouldn't even really care if it was.

Rodan: It just means he's... got The Sauce.

Shimo: ...

Shimo: -what sauce?

Rodan: The sauce, meaning he's fly as fuck.

Shimo: He doesn't even have wings--

Rodan: And he's fly like... uh... Viv, you got any more slang the kids say these days?

Vivienne: Rodey, I don't even know what "no cap" means.

Shimo: *confused noises*

Vivienne, doing a google: Alright, to answer the main question: "rizz" is apparently taken from "charisma".

Shimo: ...Ohhhh! Oh, that makes sense!

Rodan: Unless you're French, then it just means "rice".

Shimo: ...then, d-does His Majesty have such rizz that... one wishes to, uh, eat him... like riz?

Rodan: More like the rizz so strong that totties will be on him like white on rice.

Shimo: Totties? D-do you mean tater tots?!

Rodan: No, it's British slang! At least that's what Urban Dictionary tells me. It rhymes with hotties!

Vivienne, deadpan: I'm British and I've never said that in my life.

Rodan: Then how do you say someone's hot in British?!

Vivienne: We say "well fit!"

Shimo: *looking at everyone* That also makes sense. Everyone here is well fit! Wait, then Dr. Graham also has rizz! And Her Radiance, Mothra has rizz! We're ALL fit with rizz!

Goji: That... sounds about right?