“Everything’s fine,” Jake assures girlfriend Caroline. Other meanings include to kill in a hunt, to seize, and to capture. The earliest verb meaning of bag is from the 1400s and means to be pregnant or impregnate. “I’m not a stud.” It’s not clear when this sense of bag meaning to sleep with or “score” with someone came about. “I’ve never bagged a babe,” Farmer Ted admits to Sam. The term spaz or spaz out originated in the late 1950s as an offensive shortening of spastic, a medical condition characterized by involuntary movements. “Don’t spaz out,” Farmer Ted tells a fellow geek. Hissy fit is newer, originating in the 1960s. I have heard it for eight or ten years.” The word might be short for hysteric. A 1934 edition of American Speech says, ” Hissy is probably provincial slang. “She had a hissy.” Hissy meaning a fit or tantrum has been in use since perhaps the 1920s. “I told her you asked about her,” Farmer Ted tells Jake. By the early 1980s, the phrase came to mean to annoy or treat unfairly, and might have first been used in the 1982 movie 48 Hrs: "You've been dicking me around since we started on this turd-hunt." 7. Dick around, meaning to waste time, originated in the 1940s and might have first been used in print by Norman Mailer in his 1948 novel, The Naked and the Dead. “You’d better not be dicking me around,” Jake warns Farmer Ted. Before that, it meant “penis.” Dork might be a variant of dirk, a kind of dagger, especially worn by Scottish Highlanders, and influenced by dick. The word dork has been used to mean an inept or ridiculous person since the early 1970s. It was in the late 1950s that we got the geek we know and love today-someone smart but lacking social skills-perhaps first used by Jack Kerouac: “Brooklyn College wanted me to lecture to eager students and big geek questions to answer.” In the 1980s, the term was reappropriated to mean someone really into and knowledgeable about computers, and by extension, almost any topic. The word first appeared in print in the 1870s to mean a fool or simpleton, and may have been an alteration of geck, which might come from a Scandinavian word meaning “to croak” as well as “to mock.” Around 1919, a geek referred to a sideshow geek or circus performer. GEEKĪnother name for Farmer Ted, geek is an ‘80s staple that is actually much older. Perhaps due in part to an especially trippy episode called "Expanding Human," which involved an LSD-like drug, outer limits has also come to refer to an LSD-crack cocktail. Another possible puzzler for Generation Xers and beyond, Outer Limits was a Twilight Zone-esque science fiction show that first aired in the early 1960s. “Everybody in this family has just gone totally Outer Limits,” Sam complains. In case you were wondering, hunk meaning a hubba-hubba guy comes from hunk meaning a "large thick piece," not hunk as a slur for a Hungarian. The word comes from the bo- of Bohemian, someone from a region in the Czech Republic, and the hun- of Hungarian. So what exactly is a bohunk and why is everyone upset that Sam’s sister is marrying one? It's a derogatory term for someone of Hungarian descent or someone from central or southeastern Europe, and by extension, a brute or buffoon. No wonder: The word originated around 1903 and hit peak popularity in the 1940s. BOHUNKīohunk is a term that might have left a lot of ‘80s kids scratching their heads. Major joins the ranks of other ‘80s adjectives like awesome, cool, and righteous to describe something awesome, cool, or righteous, perhaps playing on the word's original meaning of being greater than others in importance or size.
“Sounds major,” forgotten birthday girl Sam tells freshman Farmer Ted when he invites her to the school dance. Here we take a look at 10 sweet slang terms from the movie: some from the ‘80s, some not.
With it came those now iconic teen characters, the Geek, hot Jake Ryan, the ridiculously stereotypical Long Duk Dong, and misunderstood every-girl Sam, along with some major ‘80s slang.
Thirty-two years ago this month, Sixteen Candles blew its way into theaters.
0 kommentar(er)
