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The Unofficial Gynkeesh - Slang From the South Canton

Feel free ((and encouraged)) to adopt these or add your own, because sometimes a Gynk just needs to sound like a Gynk


Junkyard - A Gynkeesh Settlement of any kind.

"Welcome to the junkyard berk!"


Rag Picker - A beggar or vagrant

"Go somewhere else if yer' lookin' for handouts rag picker!"


Weed Eater - A sibinac addict

"Blow yer' smoke somewhere else weed eater!"


Cutter - A term of endearment, suggests a certain amount of daring or resourcefulness.

"See you around cutter."


Berk - A fool

"You're a right berk if you think we're just gonna let you walk out of here!"


Spiv - Anyone who gets by mainly on cunning, wit or guile

"That ruttin' spiv knew I was desperate for coal, so he charged me double!"


Bone-Box - Mouth

"Sssh! Quit rattlin' yer bone-box!"


Law Dog - Any member of the city guard or town watch

"I told that law dog what he could do with his fine!"


Barmy - Crazy, mad, insane

"That monk's as barmy as a hatter."


Bar That - Almost a polite way to say shut up--often a warning.

"Bar that, I'm in no mood for your guff."


Cept' and Cides' - A combination of except and besides--though usually only used in place of the latter.

"I don't have a copper to lend till next month cutter, cept' and cides' you still owe me half a silver."


Afeared - Afraid

"I ain't afeared a' nothin'!"


Peery - suspicious, on one's guard

"Ol' Ranic always get a bit peery round the law."


Ruttin' - A common prefix used to express everything from eagerness to displeasure.

"Well of all the ruttin' luck, my sword broke!"
"Show some respect berk, that's the ruttin' king!"
"Abso-ruttin'-lutely! I would love some ruttin' pie!"


Pike It - an all purpose phrase

"Pike that talk!"
"Take a short stick an' pike it law dog!"
"Pike this!"
etc


Wiggly pokers - Fingers, especially when not being kept to oneself.

"Oi! Keep yer' wiggly pokers off a' my stuff!"


Scragged - arrested or caught

"Rowan went an' got herself scragged again."


Out-of-touch - Dead

"Sam? He's been out-of-touch since he slipped an' broke his neck."


Peel - To swindle, con or trick

"You bought that at Eliza's? You got peeled!"

I like this. As far as no one goes as far as writing stuff IG like "yo" instead of a proper greeting, or "cya" instead of a proper farewell, like people might do as themselves online or in real life, but don't reallly suit the environment we have in game imo.

"Yo'" is perfectly appropriate, being 15th century middle-english...

Logrin Parr wrote:"Yo'" is perfectly appropriate, being 15th century middle-english...

Well seeing I don't argue with people not capable of understanding simple things, I'll put what I mean nicely through a picture.



And there is no point replying to this, I am not going to reply to this topic any more.

Qeewee - A know it all

"Yer heads too far up yer backside, ya Qeewee"

that burn was so slick it lit a candle!

Please don't waste the time of a moderator and delete any inappropriate posts yourself.

"The interjection yo was first used in Middle English, specifically in the 15th century.[3] In addition to yo, it was also sometimes written io.[4] It is often used as an affirmation, or to get the attention of another person."

Copied from here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo

Why argue? Let Wikipedia do the work.

I could never really make myself forget that that is Sigil slang.

I can confirm the existence of the term 'io' as an Ancient Latin word that essential means 'rejoice' or 'joyous occasion'. For example, "Io Satunalia". Or, "Joyous Day of Saturn".

However, I suspect most modern uses ig of 'yo' are simply the modern slang used as a greeting, and I fully disapprove of that use.

But I love the list you compiled, Logrin.

Edit: My source stems from several classes in Latin, primarily involving the book "Ecce Romani" by Addison-Wesley and Longman.

Anon of D'Athen wrote:However, I suspect most modern uses ig of 'yo' are simply the modern slang used as a greeting, and I fully disapprove of that use.

Not overly fond of it myself, just pointing out that it was not an irrelevant opinion, but a fact. Back on topic though. It is a pretty awesome list, might even try a few myself.

I find it interesting that half of those words sound like something an uneducated moron would say and the other half sound like something a really middle class Englishman would say.

Flux wrote:I find it interesting that half of those words sound like something an uneducated moron would say and the other half sound like something a really middle class Englishman would say.

Knowing the character who probably inspired this topic, that's incredibly accurate and funny.

Flux wrote:I find it interesting that half of those words sound like something an uneducated moron would say and the other half sound like something a really middle class Englishman would say.

That would imply that they're different things.

rakust dorenstkzul wrote:

Flux wrote:I find it interesting that half of those words sound like something an uneducated moron would say and the other half sound like something a really middle class Englishman would say.

That would imply that they're different things.

Boom.

thanks for this post...