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Wasn't mongo slang for humongous? Like Mongo from Blazing Saddles?


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And in the past in en-gb too, quite similar in gravity to "gimp" and "retard"; interestingly I'd completely missed that connection though; I think "monger" was the normal version in my high-school.

I'd have no problem talking with someone about "mongo-dee-bee" though, because I doubt they'd ever assume it was referencing that (now unused) slur.


On an etymological side note, I love the origin of the word ginormous:

ginormous |ji'nôrm?s, ji-| adjective informal, humorous extremely large; enormous:

ORIGIN 1940s (originally military slang): blend of gigantic and enormous .


Yeah but that term is just you know comical. “Giants”. As if meant to inflate one’s ego, cover insecurity, and project power, like those tom and jerry cartoon episodes where they’d call in their giant friends to save the day. It amuses me every time.

Didn't "thagomizer" work its way into paleontologists' slang, since they really didn't have a word for it?

I had a similar thought a while back when reading "A Clockwork Orange". On page one the slang ("droogs", "horrorshow", "moloko", ...) is rather jarring and it's not entirely clear what it all means, but over time the meaning becomes apparent.

I always thought it was llama as the 1337 slang. You know noob/lamer.

At first I was skeptical and assumed that you had not realized the parent comment to which I had replied. But I checked and was still skeptical when I checked 'monkey' but indeed there was an alternate definition that was numerical. However I can't find one for 'donkey'. But maybe the parent's memory is faulty or more recent slang has added these numerical denotations in a greater context than just the parent's past workplace.

> Where does this name come from? Is it an acronym, portmanteau, metaphor, what?

It appears to be a fairly standard use of the English word "rump" in its non-anatomical sense, that is "a small or unimportant remnant of something originally larger."


Whoops. I had thought it to be merely some unfortunate onomatopoeia. It's awesome that the word has so many actual meanings, if informal ones. But yes, "a thing involving 'mutual loins' that sounds like 'squam'"

Does anybody remember the terms DINK or BoBo? Some fun nicknames for demographics that I haven't heard in a while.

Interesting. I never looked up the etymology of that expression. Thanks.

It says that "Immense!" was a common dude expression in 1883 -- it doesn't say for what, exactly, but I presume appreciation. I like it, actually! I'm going to start using it and see if I can start a trend.

Immense!


It's an extremely old word

We share that language; I didn't know the word, but it seems to be omgangs/contact verbod. And no, I rarely hear them being used; there was one for some Amsterdam gangster and the partner who betrayed him, but that makes sense.

The Yakuza were in a season 8 episode of The Simpsons in 1997. That would help make it a perfectly cromulent word for a lot of people.

great info, I didn't know the origins behind the word. Thanks.

That's quite an old term.

It may be a neologism, but it's a fun one. See the etymology of "mendacious".

Cromulent use of the word 'embiggen'.
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