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I was table snorkeling at the restaurant when I looked up at my friend and started laughing so hard as she had some serious quadriboobage.. I mean major!   Anyway… she was
telling me that she just discovered she had a Googleganger, and then I found that I had one as well.. I was so upset, I said, let’s go… and then my friend did some serious kidnapkinage.. saying she needed them for all the pupkus all over her car windows.. I told her I have the same problem with Kobe..

What did I just say???  Welcome to the world of sniglets!

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  1. darlingj says: 117

    What a clever lesson, and excellent way to promote lively particiption and discussion with the Homework!

    Why do I have the feeling Marina knows what she is doing?

    Hmmmmmm… :???: :wink:

  2. ship says: 116

    where does the phrase I hate your guts come from?

  3. leonard says: 114

    random lesson and no I can not think of any sniglets. blankbrain hi and thanks :wink:

  4. wow this is neet.I remember back in the 80’s that show.
    I think i remember a couple my mother and i came up with.
    1- buttsecution, the extreme way people try to put out a cigarette without it reignighting.the smashing and pounding of a cigarette butt,
    2-spraytimation, the little bit of fluid in a spray bottle that cant reach the hose in the bottom of the bottle.shake and shake just cant get it..
    3-knapkinitus,Is when you really need a napkin cause ya got food all over your face,someones talking to you,you reach for a napkin and some shi#thead jammed the holder so tight you pick up the whole dam thing.you use your pants and have to use both hands.and get food all over all the other napkins.
    p.s these things have never happened to you.have they?

  5. gramps525 says: 112

    could not make out anything you said lol your still hot

  6. Quadriboobage = When boobs are oozing out of the top of a too small or ill fiting bra and presto! 4 titties!
    Pupkus = Dog snot smeared all over the inside of the car windows

  7. eric812 says: 110

    i just made up this sniglet….snigletatized=a Snigletologists spending all day thinking up sniglets.

  8. eric812 says: 109

    marina my dear…..Detruncus (de trunk’ us) – n. The embarrassing phenomenon of losing one’s bathing shorts while diving into a swimming pool.

  9. chiefakira says: 108

    ‘he wanna know the meaning of your name MARINA
    its from the old romen language and means “sea” its origin lies in italy.
    but your name is also populair in japan now.
    well howabout that ? lol

  10. imperiused says: 107

    could you explain the origin of the terms blue-collar worker and white-collar worker? I’d really appreciate it, because up till now I’ve been suffering from the delusion that blue-collar actually referred to a worker’s uniform and white-collar referred to a suit or tux. Please investigate and ease my confuzzled mind! :???:

  11. troyboy300 says: 106

    Can you explain the orgin of TATOO

    Thanks
    -Troyboy300

  12. jlkraemer says: 105

    Can you explain ZIG ZAG?

    Thanks!

  13. umbaflicks says: 104

    Hey Marina I was wondering the origin of the term “Tube” which is most commonly used as a slang term for TV, and is obviously found in the website YouTube.

    Thanks so much!
    -UmbaFlicks

  14. sniglet inter coward neter one who likes to cause trouble on your website hit it coward

  15. That’s right, thanks for straightening me out, Captain Jack!
    acethebathound
    atbh

  16. Marina says: 101

    Everybody.. new video is coming shortly.. had an upload issue again! And, PLEASE… can everybody PLEASE just try to get along. Don’t worry about DEFENDING me.. nobody has to defend me… I am very capable of defending myself… just take a look at the YouTube comments to see what I am talking about.

    There is NOTHING anybody could ever say to me that would hurt my feelings.. I learned to ignore the bad stuff when I first got into this. The more successful you are the more negative comments you get… NO NEGATIVE comments means NO SUCCESS! I WELCOME the negative comments!

    I DO THANK YOU ALL for the effort to protect me.. but understand that it is not needed!! I’d rather you all ignore the bad comments like I do.. it feels good when you don’t allow someone to get to you… it pisses them off even more when you ignore them!

  17. pegasus71 says: 100

    HEY I’m new here but I’ll give it a shot anyway… Shenanigans is my little request for you i’d love to see you “ethymologize” it for me!

  18. remy says: 99

    ginormous is that one (sniglet) :?:

  19. Hello my dear sapiential teacher, could you please tell me how to use the phrasal verb “bust out”, and by the way : where is it from?
    thanks in advance, God bless you, and your knowledge too.

    be good as you have been, or better.

  20. jchun89 says: 97

    I would like to request the word “randy”
    because I was reading the Ramayana and they mentioned the word randi which they explained in Sanskrit means whore. I was wondering if there was any connection.
    Thanks!

  21. James says: 96

    What the hell earlier the video was number 30

    now

    #40 – Most Viewed (Today)

    how is this possible / legal

  22. James says: 95

    Thanks alx, can I make a suggestion?? In the next lesson there will be no getting into arguments with new people. Just ingnore them, Look how many people have left/leaving. We (hotforwords people (including alx!) Don’t like seeing people leave ) Also for alx.. Perhaps I should post a disclamer.. by
    “we” and “us” etc lol

  23. arod_hater says: 94

    WORD REQUEST: implant

    Second Choice: YouCouldDriveaTruckBetweenThoseBoltedOnGrapefruits

  24. marinade says: 93

    Hi Marina, being the Queen of Words I would like to ask you to explain
    the word ” Innuendo “. Of all the English words, this is my favorite.
    After Gorbatsjov, you are the best thing that came out of Russia.

  25. stokesjrj1 says: 92

    The Man who shot my horse he got off Scott free.

  26. animalntaz says: 91

    :?: Okay, I’m going to try to guess the sniglets in the intro. Most likely I’ll get some of them wrong:
    table snorkeling: drinking through a straw
    quadriboobage: either making dumb comments or has to do with
    breast size
    Googleganger: someone who is like you or your website, when
    Googled
    kidnapkinage: stealing napkins
    pupkus: small poop
    FMTYEWTK: For More Than You Ever Would Think…
    Knowledgable??? Hell, I don’t know.
    IMglish: instant message texting
    crackberry: something to do with a blackberry? (never had one)
    truthiness: wanting something to be true (of course)
    keypals: friends you can text

    Well, I posted what could be a sniglet about a week ago. But it is a little suggestive and I said I wouldn’t repeat myself. If you drop the ‘et’ in that word, it sounds like a stupid vulgar way of someone trying to whore themself around. So I won’t repeat it.

  27. wetsuit5 says: 90

    Dear Teacher,

    We got a Major Green problem. :wink:
    It’s your picture here for this video. :wink:
    It’s so WARM and friendly and genuine, your melting the polar icecaps of our hearts. :lol: :lol:

    Muhhha!!!!

  28. stokesjrj1 says: 89

    Sounds like Marina has the car wash blues, Taking a tinkle and seeing a reflection in the water, sucking the tits on friendly neighboring cow down at the local watering hole Couldn’t be a horse they only have twin teats,taking a dump when you got the squirts,and using more toilet paper than uyou normally would,wiping the cum off your twat after a rambunctious round of gangbanging at the local rape party you willfully participated in as the wheel hub, need i say more? Its not hard to know what you saying when eye am the one who invente the system, you just a dirty little whorey little hole whose collected more than you can pass off to others, which makes you stuck on one square and checkmated. this talender brought to you by The Man who Wrote The Book

  29. stokesjrj1 says: 88

    Sounds like Marina has the car wash blues. Ohh, i have a sad story to tell. My girlfriend, April and I had gone to the store to get some party beverages to celebrate our upcoming nuptials.We then went to tell our families the good news. First stop was great grand paw Johns place but he wasn’t home so we just left a message in the mailbox and moved on to go tell her great grand parents. Being that they live real far south its like taking a trip to the south pole so we decided to do a little site seeing around the neighborhood. As we was turning to go down tumble weed trail to some of my girlfriends she was going to tell of the good news, a bullet from deer hunters rifle struck our horse a glancing blow in the point of the shoulder ( here is reference for you town folk http://www.gaitedhorses.net/Conformation/BodyParts.htm) well the shock of the blow knocked my hat off my head and the horse being stunned by the force of the bullet bucked a couple times and caused my girlfriend to loose one of the twins she was carrying.(thats why we was getting hitched being backwoods rednecks) Poor Sunshine never had a chance. Thats what we was gonna name the twins, Sunshine and Shadow. When The Deer Hunter came to see what he had bagged I asked him how could he have mistaken my black horse for a deer. He said he wasn’t hunting deer, he was Target shooting as this street ran along the back side of the local shooting range and wasn’t hunting and thought he was shooting at a large elk doe moving target that this shooting range employs at Times. Well the Neighbors all heard the Ruckus that was being raised, one of them fetched the local authority who said this was out of his jurisdiction, he then fetched one of the local Rangers. Well thats all I can say now, The Rest of this tale is scheduled for another book. The moral of this story, sometimes you can be in the right place at the right time and it makes all the difference in the universe. This story brought to you by The Rangers Ranger and his trusty side kick The Shadow.

    This tale brought too you by The lo

  30. capman911 says: 87

    I think I have this this year. Electile Dysfunction—The inability to become aroused by any of the candidates in an election :lol: :lol:

  31. CaptainJack says: 86

    Ok everyone. I have been in email contact with some of the regulars to this site. Most of them are taking sometime off until the flames die down and go away. Others might return someday. Not all is lost. Lets just not to respond anymore to anyone who you feel is flaming just to get attention. Flaming has been going on for many years in other posts as you already know. Its best just to ignore them and move on.

    So does anyone have any ideas for new Siglets that we could use today? Lets make some up and see what others think about them. :mrgreen:

  32. billslater says: 85

    (oops – I meant Mariana!) sorry.

  33. billslater says: 84

    Dear Mariana,

    You are a very cunning linguist!

    Thanks!

    Bill

  34. cockydevil says: 83

    you’re fantabulous Marina! :mrgreen:

  35. capman911 says: 82

    Its getting even worse now that we can’t comment on what we have always commented on without being chided by someone new. They don’t think of the percussion their comments is going to reverberate too. They don’t understand the relationships between us and Marina. It’s different here than on utube. If the new people would just observe what goes on here first instead of criticizing right away then they might understand the jesters and word games we make are all in fun and games. I think I’ll just visit and watch the videos on utube and call it a day. No more commenting for me on either channel unless it is to say hi to you jackals. I care about you all as friends for those who want to be friends. But if we kept the comments as just answer the teachers assignments and not comment to each other or add small sniglets as she asks then this is going to be one boring site. Marina may as well take out the reply buttons. I guess it’s going to get just like in school, say a dirty word and be punished by someone for talking dirty. But forgive me for trying to take up for pulsionsinconscientes with my comment to annudermale about pulsionsinconscientes English because I thought he was having problems translating to English. A lot of new or even older members appolgize for there bad English and we tell them that is ok because we understand what they are trying to say. But they don’t take offense at it. I hope you are satisfied now pulsionsinconscientes for you have run off a member that cares a lot about this site and it’s people. I know I am easily discouraged over events like this. When an unhappy day comes then I just give in. Annudermale and Captain Jack I’ll see you all on you other channels.

    • BoArgMir says: 82.1

      Capman,

      Don’t let the jerks censor you. Come on! They love this….getting the regulars riled up and out of here.

      You jerks know who you are. I won’t name you so as to not cause more trouble, but can’t you all just get along with the regulars that were here watching Marina’s videos here on her website way before you brought you sorry little selves here??

      Really…………Get a Life………..if you get your jollies upsetting other people, I wonder what you are like in the outside world. No, I don’t really care.

      • Thanks BoArgMir I’m not going anywhere after I read the comment about him wanting to be deleted from Marina’s account. I went back through the videos and I think he joined about half way into sisphean and started just ridiculing people from the very start. He had three or four members right away he was chiding because of their comments. Every comment he made after that was ridiculing other people. He never had anything good to say except to Alx. I just want to go off on people like that like RRR does. But I restrain myself until I get overwhelmed with anger and just give up for awhile. Then I am ok. :wink:

      • @ Capman: Good man! :mrgreen: Thats the quality I like about you Capman. You think things through to see what it really is all about.

        @ BoArgMir: Your exactly right about them just trying to stir up trouble so they can feel good about themselfs.

    • I guess what we all should do is just ignore flaming and keep on track of commenting on the lessons. Part of what we are here for is learn something. I for one have learned so much from Marina’s lessons that is changed my negative view on the English language enough to start learning more about it. Im even thinking about writing some poetry. :grin: The other part is all of us joining together and discussing the lessons so we can get a clear understanding. Every one of us students is an important part of this class. Without you what is the point for Marina to do what she does if there is no student here to listen?

      I hope everyone will join me into hanging in for a day or so to give Marina time to put out the flames. If we all work together and support our dearest teacher in this forest fire, all will be well soon, I promise you. :grin:

      __/)___

      • Hey ole friend, I am cool now. It’s just how other older members here took up for whats his name. I haven’t returned any e-mails to you because I have the gout in my left foot. It’s pretty much kept me on pain pills an cholchicine for a day or two. The pain pills work some, but when uric acid builds up in the toe joints it crystallizes and is very painful. I tried the WL but to no avail. I feel better today a new horizon so to speak. I read a comment I left to someone about what Bob and Billy B left for me a while back about stop, take a deep breath and relax and know every thing is ok. I just had to vent this morning, sorry it is on Marina’s site.
        Sorry Marina
        I wish we had somewhere we could go to blow off steam. My wife would just tell me to blow something up. As we do this all the time to beaver dams. Then relocate the beavers. I keep my muskrat around as he takes care of the ditch banks between fields. So now back to how some progress can be made. How can we help Marina. if she wants the help to settle down and encourage good members to join her site. She has some excellent members here, but the more the merrier. Love ya all including you Marina most of all.

      • Jack If you finally or ever have children is that what they will be called jack-als. A little sniglet there. :wink:

      • I left out what the best part of what jack-als means jacks-angles :cool:

      • Capman,

        Sure I understand. I might be able to set up a page on my site for ones to blow off some steam (I think though it would be better to have a private page to do this on HFW.). Its an important us to do so. Makes us feel heard. Helps us to get things off our chest. Its an important human emotion to voice off things that bother us and not to keep them pinned up inside. We are friends and good friends help each other when we need to blow off some steam.. Its good for us as long as it doesn’t get out of hand. Capman your always welcome to email me your thought to blow off some steam. :grin:

      • ** Update ** Marina is aware of the flaming and is taking care of it. I heard the ruler slap on a few desks already and those flamers are going to be sent to the principles office right away! So class is back to normal. Lets put all this ruckus behind us and get our homework done before we get an “F” for failure to turn it on in time. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

      • :mrgreen:

        Thanks for the update…..I’m off to do housework……….shame on such a pretty Saturday. :sad:

      • Capman, I had a few sea scouts that said I would make a great father. I see that to be one heck of a great complement. I don’t know if I will ever have any kids or not. For now I just rent them on the weekends if I need to. Rent?!?!? :shock: Yea, thats what’s cool about being in sea scouts. I deal with the kids on the weekends and then send them home on Sunday and let the parents deal with them the rest of the week. It works for both parties. Parents get a break and I don’t have to raise 20 kids. Imagine the cost of sending all of them to college… :shock:

      • protac6 says: 82.2.8

        We all neighbors around here right? :razz:

    • James says: 82.3

      Capman911, Don’t do this. Think about it. All the people that have started flame wars have gone now and soon p….scientes will be gone too. Why are we (people that write alot) being driven out by others, look how many major people have gone this week. Please don’t add to this list. Thanks

    • okay4now says: 82.4

      :idea: I think the whole thing was a ploy by pulsi. to cover-up for his not doing the homework, there was a kid in Junior High that pulled a fire alarm to get out of a test…

  36. billslater says: 81

    Dear Marina,

    Could you please do the word, “cunnilingus?”

    Thank you!

  37. polly says: 80

    I often say the word severously on accident. It is a combination of seriously and severly. That is my made up word. :grin:

  38. quiggles says: 79

    Dear Teach,

    Wow! This is a wonderful and timely lesson. I had never heard of sniglets before and now I see them everywhere. With all the talk of people leaving the site (please don’t!) and angry words (ouch!) your feminine touch and good humor is so welcome. “Sniglets” got me looking into other such words and I found a great one: absquatulate. It’s what I sincerely hope your loyal and dedicated subscribers do not do.

    das vadanaya, Q

  39. chiefakira says: 78

    where did the word “holiday” came from?

  40. davecodave says: 76

    I use the word “GAYDAR” all the time. I stole it from the tv show “The Office”.

  41. tedt says: 75

    I belive I have a nice one here——> Boomster (boobs + holster) n. The effect that´s caused when opening a bra. :shock:

  42. So let’s make a little list of everyone who thinks udder man’s (why not just tits man, udder man?) sense of humor (“droolin’ over your perfectassness”) is screamingly funny, to be applauded and to be defended:

    1) capman911
    2) pedantickarl
    3) pagedoll
    4) CaptainJack
    5) James
    6) Bob

    Congratulations guys, you’re all the teacher’s pets today!

    • pulsionsinconscientes, i give up…you simply have to be right, there’s no two ways about it…

      yes, the initial post was crass, and, in your view & some others’ i’m sure, sexist, lewd, and insulting…

      i owe nothing to you, but as i’ve already said, i concede your point…i withdraw from this bickering…

      “annudder” is simply a misspelling of “another”…if i wanted to be a teat-man, it would have had to be “anudder”…

      i will again apologize for any slight, intentional or unintentional, you believe i have made to you…some were retaliatory, some not – all were unnecessary…

      good day to you… :cool:

    • SOrry Marina,

      Hey JACKASS,
      Go off and #uck your self OK…….. These Guys are trying not to make Problems for Marina . It upsets HER to no end.
      Her people DO not want fighting on this SITE OK?

      GO away if you can not be CIVIL …..!!
      This is not the place for your crap!!!
      #1 Jackal

    • Dear all involved,

      ..Why not forget about it? Put the past behind you, brand new day tomorrow :) Its all good! No worries, move on…….

      Now SSHHHHHHHH, class is in session, so enjoy, have fun :)

      Be well, peace out! :cool:

    • pulsionsinconscientes, I have been reading your posts this morning and it appears your just here to cause a ruckus. :evil:
      You asked to be unsubscribed and yet your still posting. So I ask you why are you still here?
      I can see your main purpose here is just to start a flame war and insulting my good friends. :evil:
      Nobody wants you here. So go away. Your not welcome here. Please stop posting your flames. I don’t want to see you back here again.

      Marina is very busy with many projects. She will have your removed at her next opportunity.

    • of course…

      and i’ll leave it at that…

      hopefully you will, too; if not, that will speak volumes… :cool:

    • James says: 74.6

      I’m sorry about this and I don’t want to get into any trouble but pulsionsinconscientes SHUT THE FUCK UP :evil: :evil: My God do you have to try and wind every one up. You asked to unsubscribe, so don’t post anymore Why make a list of names? To wind people up.. Well you have wound me up and alot of other people (apart from alx :lol: )

      you said you simply have to be right

      That is incorrect. I don’t have to be right. I am right and you know it.

      You just contradicted yourself!!

      Hi again RRR Nice to see you

      Sorry Marina, Please forgive me.

      James

  43. dev.o says: 73

    hello!
    I would like to know about the word “grass” and “sex” meaning.
    thank you…and xoroshevo dn9

  44. James says: 72

    I am going away on Wednesday, I will be back Sunday.. So don’t worry if you don’t see me much, I have not left.. :razz:

  45. wetsuit5 says: 71

    Agent HotForWords,

    Thank You for sending Boris Badinoff to my house for final KGB training and exams. :cool:
    I earned my secret decoder ring. :wink:
    Agent Boris clued me in on the first mission of KGB, “Kill Moose and Squirrel”. It was on the exam. :roll:
    Boris and Natasha really please with my agent control. :smile:
    I trained agent fish to roam the seas and execute detruncus on beautiful bottoms. :oops: Sorry, I’ll have to do remedial training to avoid Comrade bottoms. :wink:
    But Boris said it was an old GRU trick. :shock:

    Boris and Natasha had me do video research on quadriboobage for the last question. :grin:
    But alas I failed on my mission. :cry:
    This is a far as I got.
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=z6daKcLtZ-I
    I call it ohmygoshaboobage. :oops:
    But all I could say at the time was ah bah ah oh wha. :shock:
    Natasha forgave me, but Boris is still a little blinded :lol:

    Natasha said I could still pass my exam if I just stopped detruncusing Comrade Agent and got her to say the KGB motto:

    “Kill Moose and Squirrel” :twisted:

    Please help. :razz: :razz:

  46. I’m curious as to where the word, “Babysitter” comes from…. someone sitting on babies?? hehe

  47. My apologies to all for adding to the muckraking below. Pulsionsinconscientes had some valid points to make, and I’ll try to remember them in future postings. This is a fun site and deriding others is not appropriate. My apologies to Pulsionsinconscientes for not simply saying, “Yes, I see your point.” and letting it go at that.

    Marina, you already have my note…mea culpa

  48. orion_ss1 says: 68

    Not exactly a sniglet; Benny Hill used to make reference to a better word than hemorrhiod to describe a medical problem – a word that is already in the English language but refers to something else.

    Asteroid :lol:

  49. Please unsubscribe my account.

  50. Hello, Marina… acethebathound here…
    I found a definintion for table snorkeling…
    Here goes…
    Table Snorkeling (tay’ bul snawrk’ ling) – n. Frantic gesticulations when one bites into hot food and has to take in air to cool it off.
    At least that’s what one person on The Slang Thread thinks…
    Cheers,
    acethebathound. :grin: :lol: :cool:

  51. chriskim97 says: 65

    couldd you tell us why the word “Wimp” or “Wimpy” mean’s weak or nerdy :lol:

  52. caktonias says: 63

    I would imagine pupkus is referring to the bird deification on her window.. the kidnapkinage would be stealing napkins from the restaurant, table snorkeling is either looking under the table or drinking water through a straw.. Googleganger probably refers to the people of an age group to brows google and would know you over the internet watching you. I have NOT a CLUE as to what quadraboobage would be, and I imagine what I would guess is on the wrong path..

    Anyway, very odd..

    Word Request:

    I was listening to the radio on my way home from work yesterday when the Mighty Mighty Bosstones started playing ‘The Impression That I Get ‘. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard the song before but it centers around the phrase “Knock on Wood”.

    I was surprised to see that you haven’t done a video on it yet and so that is my request :)

    Where does the phrase “Knock on Wood” come from?

  53. Hello Marina, :smile:

    I just stumbled across your website and watch the Vodka video, and thought that I would write and ask for you to explain two words for me.

    “Birch” and “Wynd” together it is the name of vodka we are soon going to produce called “Birch Wynd”

    It will be interesting to see what you come up with. Have a look at our site http://www.sapworld.ca. When we get it completed I would love to personal present you with a bottle.

    You said that vodka is like water in Russia, well our vodka is like velvety water. SMOOOOTH :oops:

    Thanks and have a most wonderful day.
    Craig :grin:

    • tedt says: 62.1

      This Birth Wynd bottle made me remember my first job I learned.
      I learned plasterer, and to go through it with some “respect” I had to drink beer like a donkey, and to make sure that a wall is straight you drank some beer to ensure it, sometimes without beer you were not sure about that, but after one bottle that looked different…you could just say it is straight or not + – 1cm on a 2.5-3m wall…..for a 5 m wall you needed at least 2 bottles :mrgreen:
      I guess the bottle also will turn sort of straight when it is half-empty :grin: (proportional plus integral controller)

  54. Dear Teacher,

    I just watched a favorite old movie, “Local Hero” (1983), set in a scenic village on Scotland’s northern coast. The film has a character named MARINA, a marine biologist and pseudo-mermaid. Another character is named STELLA, and the SEA & SKY combo play an important role in the story. There is also a character initially known as THE RUSSIAN.

    For these reasons and more [such as the phone box - Is there a word for objects or places that only come in to existence after they appear in a movie; if not then I suggest cinapropos] I highly recommend this film. And in honor of its setting, do the Scottish words LAD(DIE) and LASS(IE) have etymological interest?

    Your student and champion;
    Tennessee Dundee

  55. James says: 60

    QUESTION FOR AMERICANS!

    In England we often call cigarettes “fags” “I’m just going for a fag”

    But in America, it means a gay.

    What other words do americans for a cigarette. Or is cigarette the only word.

    • Marina says: 60.1

      They call them smokes as well.. can’t think of any other ones right now.

      • James says: 60.1.1

        England has lots of words for cigarettes. But none for cigars I don’t think. But I don’t smoke cigars.. And I never will, disgusting. Also, Have you sent any report cards out recently ? I have never had one before..

      • duddits says: 60.1.2

        cigarettes are also called butts around Washington DC metro area. That would be parts of VA, MD and maybe DE. Example: ” Got and butts Joe?” or “I am going outside for a butt.” Can also be used to refer to a partially smoked cigarette. Don’t forget the diminutive; ciggybutts. Now that usage should sound weird in your part of town.

        It just dawned on me that I know the sound ciggy + butts but never spelled it till now. :oops: Help! OK, this is from Safari’s speller via Thesaurus
        cigarette
        noun he’s outside, having a cigarette\
        informal smoke, butt, ciggie/ciggy, cancer stick, coffin nail;
        Brit. informal fag.

        :roll:

      • Bob says: 60.1.3

        When I was in the Royal Navy, cigarettes were known as DFs – short for Duty Frees, because at that time everyone could have a monthly ration of tobacco at Duty Free prices, along with their daily ration of Navy Rum.
        Both rations have been stopped a long time ago.
        Now that we, in the UK, have a blanket ban on smoking in workplaces and public enclosed spaces (including bus shelters), all smokers have to go outside to smoke. This has led to cigarettes being referred to by the euphemism, “fresh air”, as in, “I’m just going out for a breath of fresh air.”
        Go figure!

    • tayljim says: 60.2

      coffin nails is another slang term for cigarettes

    • foxbow15 says: 60.4

      I find both cigars and cigarettes disgusting……. :mad:

    • caktonias says: 60.5

      Camel or Cowboy Killers, Cancer Sticks, a smoke… that’s all I’ve got.

    • okay4now says: 60.6

      Friends, timeouts, (cowboy killers)…mostly smokes

    • i don’t smoke, but i’ve heard cigs , ciggies, butts, fags (yes, even here), and stogies (more common for a cigar, i think) Roger Williams’ King of the Road (I have the vinyl you see in the opening scene – it’s an old monophonic album)…

      This is from another site:

      Slang terms for cigarettes

      Cigarettes have accumulated a variety of nicknames such as smokes, butts, square (from the shape of the box), cigs, ciggies, stogs, stogies, snouts, tabs (especially in NE England), loosey (a single cigarette), bogeys, boges, darts, straights (for factory rolled ones), dugans (especially in NYC), hairy rags, hausersticks, jacks, grits and fags (the term fag is used more commonly in the United Kingdom; in the United States and Canada, it is primarily a derogatory term for a male homosexual). Cigarettes have also attracted somewhat fatalistic nicknames related to their effect on the smokers health, such as coffin nails, cancer sticks, gaspers or even black lungs in terms of the smoker. In Australia, cigarettes are sometimes called Doogans or Durries. A relatively new term emerged with the release of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones after a main character was offered a death stick in a nightclub. Cigarettes are also known in New Zealand as rollies for the self-rolled cigarettes and tailies for the factory rolled.

    • pagedoll says: 60.9

      “grits” or “grechel” or “sigy” or “shmoda” or “death stick”–as in, “I’m goin’ out to choke(smoke) a grit(cigarette), come with(do you want to come with me)?” :smile:

    • polly says: 60.10

      In America some people call cigarettes fags. My Dad and Mom grew up with them being called that, and my brother and I both say “wanna fag up?” ( when I used to smoke)

  56. Marina says: 59

    Wow! I got hit with comment spam there! Killed his account.. should be fine here! Sorry about that!

  57. hello marina, i would have a word request, a word which i find inetersting: “wannabe”. it is very popular and it’s clear what it means, but where did it come from? i heard that the word was invented in the 1980s because of madonna. Back then, everybody would copy her style, so they were called ‘wannabes’. Is it true? if you’d have the time, i’d like it if you investigate the origin.
    thanks! :grin:

  58. chevolay says: 56

    Good morning Europe
    Peace & Love
    to you all

  59. Bob says: 55

    My favourite sniglet is “Prairie-dogging”; it happens in those huge open-plan offices where people work in cubicles formed by moveable, shoulder-height partitions. If some disturbance is caused, all the little heads pop up from the cubicles to see what is going on, like Prairie Dogs popping out of their burrows.

  60. Bob says: 54

    TABLE SNORKELING – n. Frantic gesticulations when one bites into hot food and has to take in air to cool it off.
    - http://www.satiche.org.uk/satiche/sat-0076.htm

  61. James says: 53

    Its been a while since I have done this. But today I have made Marinas video the most viewed ever, with over 8 billion views. Here is the screenshot I made http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/1290/hfwqe8.jpg

  62. somebody asked where ‘coined the phrase’ the phrase came from.. that would be interesting to find out.. please?!

  63. James says: 51

    A Crackberry is Amy Winehouses favourite fruit. Along with Cannabis Opium, Mushrooms & Tobacco. It makes up her 5-a-day

  64. foxbow15 says: 50

    i duno….. you were blowing bubles in to your drink or something, then you started laughing because you’re friend had suddenly enlarged breasts…And then she tells you she found someone on the internet with the same name as her. And then you found out there was someone with your name to. So you were upset, and left, but before you 2 left your friend stole a bunch of napkins because her dog decided to smear his nasal fluids on the windows. And then she asked wat does “far more than you ever wanted to know” means…
    But you’re not good at “instant messaging” language. crackberry….iduno is that a cracked Blackberry….?
    And she wanted to be in constant contact with her email friends .
    pfffffffffffffff-.- :???: i’m gonna go back to bed now ….

  65. okay4now says: 48

    Hwk:
    .
    Detrunkus is when the bottom half of da bikini falls off-us.
    Table snorkeling is face down at your laptop (MacBook).
    Qaudriboobage is breasts imprints pushin’ through or too outlined by
    clothing (?).
    Googleganger must be when you see a reflection of yourself in the screen, or, you know, background’s stronger than the screenage.
    Kidnapkinage is taking an excess of napkins from an establishment to use elsewheres.
    Pupkus is slime left from a puppy.

    Some family members are always trying to make ‘new’ words as if it is really cool, will catch-on becoming popularized and make them famous I think a lot of it can be dribbage, or maximus dribbikus, BUT this is an important lesson on language and not just skankdom.

  66. James says: 47

    I went and looked back at the last video and I never saw anyone saying anything about sniglets..

  67. YouTubicide says: 46

    You say that Rich Hall “coined” the phrase ’sniglet’.

    How did that term come about?

    (I mean the term ‘coined the phrase’, not sniglet…) :P

  68. I was wondering how the vulger words used today are vulger when they use to be used in society everyday without offending anyone.
    like s**t was (I think) used on ships to discribe cargo
    and f*** (I heard when I was in college) originally ment to plant or to plow.

  69. hersheyam says: 44

    Great video! I had a word request and since I did it so late on the last video I decided to comment here as well.

    What is the origin of the word Dipstick? And why does it stand for someone who is foolish in the slang definition?

  70. labbatt78 says: 43

    Sexy picture during the video :wink: ! I could look at stare it all day if necessary

  71. ComP8 says: 42

    Marina, what is the origin of the phrase “Going Commando”? :lol:

  72. chevolay says: 41

    Look out your window, it’s a full moon
    Can’t ya feel it? Howl!!

  73. protac6 says: 40

    I wonder how a night out in the town feels like with Marina. :razz:

  74. Shindig shindig shindig shindig shindig shindig shindig BOB BARKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Where did the term shindig come from? I’m thinking it has something to do with a week end pool. Thats where you dig a hole all week then put a tarp in it and fill it with water so you have a pool to swim in and it costs you next to nothing. But thats just my theory, tho its not based on anything in particular.

    And just out of curiosity when you dream do you speak one language in them or is it just a big mess of them with people talking to one another in diff

  75. pairadots says: 38

    Well I do know what a quadraboob is, so I’m not totally out of the loop.

  76. CaptainJack says: 37

    Wow this sniglets lesson just went over my head. Well some of the new ones did. You know you should make a game once a week using sniglets.

    I used to watch that skit “No necessarily the news”. Funny show.

    Hey Marina, I like the photo for your Sniglets video. Your head is tilled just a bit and you have a nice smile. Is so precious. :smile:

  77. marina funny one i like it a lot :grin: :grin: :grin:

  78. blueskies13 says: 35

    i want you to tell everyone where the word truthiness came from

  79. sniperskaya says: 34

    I love it when she speaks Russian!

  80. tedt says: 33

    Cya tomorrow, I go for the Burbulation, watch a movie and then zzz.

  81. #1 Student says: 32

    Word Request: Quomodocunquize as the word starting in Q are lacking.

    • pairadots says: 32.1

      I’d like to know how to pronounce it!

      • Hi Pairadots,

        Do you know what this word means? I’ll give you the quick You Tube response to save you the effort of looking it up. Its meaning is to make money by any means possible. This activity may become more prevalent in the years to come as individuals and families in the world struggle with the costs to producing energy supply our needs.

        I’ll leave the origin of the word up to Marina as she’s the expert.

        Marina,

        Throw us bone here, we need your assistance on the origin of Quomodocunquize.

        BTW – You are one of my favorite teachers, but tied with my 3rd grade teacher from many years Mrs. Lipshutz

        #1 Student

  82. verbalseepage: condition where one can’t help babbling on and on and on and on and on on and on and on and on and on on and on and on and on and on on and on and on and on and on even when they (okay I) have nothing to say or even when they are by themselves (okay myself)

  83. protac6 says: 30

    Hows the famous IMglish “pwned” for a sniglet? haha.

  84. trgoblin says: 29

    One of the funniest sniglets I ever heard was “Redonkulous”….
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UZ5CaqKS3o

    …but a “sniglet” is also just another name for a funny neologism.

  85. pagedoll says: 28

    Does anybody know what happened to Tig and HFWfanclub? Did they dance themselves into oblivion? …I miss ‘em! :sad:

  86. new_rez says: 27

    Here is my abortional attempt at the use of sniglets.
    I am absotivelyposilutely hotforwords can induce conspadamo on most! These sniglets must cornfuzzle a lot of people!
    Well, im going fooding. I think ill partake in some wondracide and cook some porkalicious items!

  87. kaibanator says: 26

    one of my sniglets would be ‘unfinite’ , meaning negative infinity :shock:

    now that i ‘understand’ the idea of sniglets, can I ‘overstand’ them? :lol

  88. seesixcm6 says: 25

    Dear Marina, Here are my answers to your homework:
    (1) Table snorkeling = going around to the tables at a restaurant to say “hello” to people you know.
    (2) Quadriboobage = the appearance of having four breasts due to overflow from wearing a bra that’s too small.
    (3) Googleganger = someone who uses the same screen as you. That would be horrible–I want the one and only Marina-Hot-For-Words, and NO substitutes!
    (4) Kidnapkinage = taking more paper napkins than you need to use clesn other items.
    (5) Pupkus = the residue your dog leaves on the car windows from the dog’s nose.
    (6) FMTYEWTK = Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Know.
    (7) Detruncus = losing you swimming trunks in the water or surf. (I don’t believe this ever happened to you with those beautiful slender hips and thighs.)
    Thank you for working with your beautiful hair at the end of this video. I was so sad about your messy hair in the “Feisty” video.
    seesix cm6

    • capman911 says: 25.1

      seesixcm6 you must have a black hole as a gravatar. :lol:

    • Thanks seesixcm6. Now I didn’t have to google those words.

      I so love cheating off of everyone else’s homework. :twisted:

      Love the black box idea. Maybe I should get one of those. You know they now require black boxes on ships? My former boss had to get one. They cost $100,000 for the cheap version. He did get an exempt letter from the USCG. It would have put him out of business for sure.

      • A 100,000!!!??? :shock: :shock: Why so much?

      • Two very big reasons. First off, to get a black box built and installed takes some time. It has to be wired up to all ships bridge equipment, i.e. Radars, GPS, depth sounder, Video and audio cameras, radios, propulsion systems, etc. Second reason is DHLS is all about protecting our borders. The big corporations are just loving this. Corporations need the threat of terrorists / war to sell their toys. :evil: :evil:

  89. nw2394 says: 24

    Detruncus – yeah – don’t think you need to describe it further.

    One would hope that any gentlemen present looked the other way. Probably their faces looked more like this :shock: or this :oops:

  90. prospero811 says: 23

    My proposed sniglet is “prospero,” meaning “a person of unmatched and rapier-like wit, genius-level intelligence, devastating good looks, and unrivaled modesty and humility.”

    :smile: