Posted on 10/03/2018 4:50:43 PM PDT by kanawa
Find the yearbook w/ the BOOF and throw that up :)
Did YOU ever go to an elite boarding school?
Care to take a wee test on PREP slang? ;^)
Don’t know about ritzy east coast private schools in the 80s, but in Ohio rust belt high schools of the 70s “boof” was a contraction. Referring to a particular unsavory sexual practice. Haven’t heard, thankfully, that term for decades. Never knew it had any other meaning.
excuse me?
In the 1980s Midwest, disruptively loud early rap music that was blasted from cars as they cruise was called “boofer music.”
And FYI...there are lots of words and phrases that Dickens NEVER used, haven't appeared in any dictionaries, and have been used by any number of groups in the UK and America.
OTOH...there ARE books containing very old Colonial and early America, as well as Brit slang. Slang usage comes and goes; however, a certain group resurrected a many centuries old, long out of fashion word, "FLY" ( as in "fly girls" ) that wasn't ever before used in America, which I found funny, when they did so.
I guess someone thought it was better than “woofer.”
That’s interesting.
Have a Nice Evening.
The study of words, slang, and the history and derivation of both is fascinating.
Mostly at parties, that is how it spread
And the definitions can change as well since it would be like the “telephone game”
It’s waist not waste. I grabbed her around the waste?
I seriously didn’t know what a camel toe was until my teenage son’s friends and he were in the barn playing cards and I over heard them talking about some girl at school who had a camel toe. I had to ask my husband. I went to Catholic elementary and then all girls High School. This was around 2003 when he was a senior in high school-and we had lived in small country town.
As is always the case, some words and phrases went by the way/stopped being used; yet others had staying power. And those words maintained their original meanings!
I can understand how some such slang migrated to different colleges, though.
When I was in high school, we used to ‘book’ places. That meant to go somewhere in a hurry. Haven’t heard the term in 30 years.
Slang words change. Nobody uses “groovy” any more.
People should mail him thousands of whoopee cushions with the word Boof on it.
Good eye
You should have asked your son. His buddies would have enjoyed that.
OMG, I would have died to ask. They would have had a good laugh for sure. They were playing cards in a hunting boat- with baby goats in the barn. It was a sight to see. I had just brought out snacks and was walking out the barn when I heard it.
My husband had a good laugh:)
from Steely Dan Everything Must Go
We all may not know nor be able to recognize each different group's slang ( and every group you can think of, has words or phrases that are primarily there's alone, until it somehow ( usually through music/lyrics ) it becomes part of the common parlance.
Such slang can be used by certain social and/or economic social strata, region, and yes, even racial and ethnic groups. There has always been some sort of slang used by criminals, ethnic minority groups ( Cockney rhyming slang falls into both of those groups ), the kind of school/s one goes to, hobbyists, and/or professions/careers/jobs.
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