I'm American, and I've never heard of Flossing. I've at least heard all the slang terms Hugh used, even though I couldn't define them.

She very obviously wanted him to miss the last one, though. Otherwise she would have actually pronounced it like a real word. When she misunderstood "chuffed," he repeated it with a stronger emphasis on the "CH." She kept saying "show-dy" (except faster than that phonetization implies), which might be how rappers pronounce it, but is nothing like the actual word.

>> ^thain:
I'm American, and I've never heard of Flossing. I've at least heard all the slang terms Hugh used, even though I couldn't define them.
She very obviously wanted him to miss the last one, though. Otherwise she would have actually pronounced it like a real word. When she misunderstood "chuffed," he repeated it with a stronger emphasis on the "CH." She kept saying "show-dy" (except faster than that phonetization implies), which might be how rappers pronounce it, but is nothing like the actual word.


this is serious business

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Got all the British and none of the US ones. Australia uses the same slang as Britain.

i thought "shorty" was unisex....

I got all the brit ones and only one american one. And I'm an american

Here's some more English slang for you to decode if you can;

"Any cop?"

"Gordon Bennett!"

"Not a sausage"

"Whip-round"


Source: http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/index.htm

videosift taught me badonkkadonk. and now i even know that im misspelling it.

Ummm.... accents are not slang words....

Never heard of any!

How can you keep such a boring person on TV? (Judging by this video.)

I think poopenstein is the best word ever. I use it allt he time.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Poopenstein

Upvote for Ellen's ...singing.

When did 'shorty' morph into 'shawty' ?

House is talkin' all English muffin.

WTF was that "American" slang. What utter bull. Flossing I though was in the same vain as whale tails. And I think she meant "SHORTIES". Wtf is a shawty that she can't even pronounce it. Like a Boston version of shorty???

Oh, I see.. because some record company put it in the lyrics in the stupid CD cover.. we get... She hit the flo She hit the flo, Next thing you know, Shawty got low low low low low low low low.

Well crap.. "flossing" is another stupid word based on some illiterate pop singers who Ellen likes to foist upon America.

"And we like to floss /
All my diamonds gloss /
I represent the dirty dirty dirty dirty South."
--Lil' Flip

They didn't even get into the cockney rhyme slang. That's the best slang in the world IMO.

Me and me chinas are going out for a beer!

*gay *femme?

Adding video to channels (Femme, Gay) - requested by Krupo.

They're actually discussing British vs. American slang, not accents.

Other than Ellen's sexual orientation, why does this need to be on the gay channel? The subject is not gay related. If the interview was by Oprah, would it be placed in the black channel?

you mean the dark channel?

>> ^obscenesimian:
Other than Ellen's sexual orientation, why does this need to be on the gay channel? The subject is not gay related. If the interview was by Oprah, would it be placed in the black channel?

I never really understood 'shortie'. How can it be a young child or a woman? They're not really all that interchangeable.

As for rhyming slang, it's having a few 'britney spears', not 'beers'.

>> ^obscenesimian:
Other than Ellen's sexual orientation, why does this need to be on the gay channel? The subject is not gay related. If the interview was by Oprah, would it be placed in the black channel?


Do you really think Ellen would mind being put in - amongst others - the *gay channel? Course she wouldn't, it would be no different than tagging her with femme

>> ^alien_concept:
>> ^obscenesimian:
Other than Ellen's sexual orientation, why does this need to be on the gay channel? The subject is not gay related. If the interview was by Oprah, would it be placed in the black channel?

Do you really think Ellen would mind being put in - amongst others - the gay channel? Course she wouldn't, it would be no different than tagging her with femme


That, plus the awesome Simpsons gag when they're in Hollywood, and they say, "look, there's Ellen and Anne Hesche"

You see them sitting on a porch swing, cheerfully calling out, "we're lesbians!"

>> ^ElJardinero:
When did 'shorty' morph into 'shawty' ?


It didn't Ellen and crew just didn't know.

She needs to connect a little more with the hood unlike Martha Stewart making mashed potatoes with Snoop Dogg.

If you define ba-donk-a-dunk you must say "Ba-don-a-dunk?? You know? Junk in the trunk!!".

The American slang in this video all originated from rap, and has been around for quite a while; that includes the evolution of "shorty" into "shawty."

"Shawty" is nothing more than the "cool" way to say shorty in the rap world (also, most of them seem to be from the south... whose folk music their songs are LITERALLY all based on... even "The Chronic").

Remember, it's not Usher... it's "Urshur".

I was under the impression that badonkadonk was from country music, though I may be mistaken as my rap knowledge (and country, come to think of it) is rather limited.

Where I come from badunkadunk is a noun representing a person. "She a badunkadunk; she got some junk in her trunk."

Both Laurie and Ellen are very funny people.

And I, too, got the British ones, didn't get flossing, and didn't understand the weird pronunciations and spellings of the American slang words.

Oh! And:

http://www.youtube.com/v/d_65sBG28Ew&hl=en&fs=1

You're welcome, world, for America's contribution to music.

Ummm.... accents are not slang words.... - MarineGunrock

They're actually discussing British vs. American slang, not accents. -xax

I think what MG is saying is "shawty" is not slang, it's "shorty" said with an accent. If they're including accents, "flossing" should really be said "flossin'" more so than "shorty" should be said "shawty." In fact "shawty" is so close to "shotty," if he'd have said "a shotgun" she would've had to give it to him.

Then again maybe he meant the whole "chin wag" vs. "shin wag" debacle.

I was under the impression that badonkadonk was from country music

I think you're referring to Trace Adkins's 'Honky Tonk Badonkadonk' which is definitely a play on the rap term, so no, not originated from country music at all.

Dave Chapelle taught me "badonkadonk".