Spanish: “huevón”
English: Literally “big egg” but slang for “really big testicles” that are so big they prevent you from moving.
collected: Cleveland, Ohio – Cleveland Institute of Art (11-7-14)
origin: a common saying in El Salvador, used when someone is being lazy or slow.
110714007
“está pedos hombre”
collected: Cleveland, Ohio – Cleveland Institute of Art (11-7-14)
origin: a common saying in El Salvador, used when someone is too drunk, meaning “you’re farting.”
110714008
“You’re so full of it your eyes are brown”
collected: Cleveland, Ohio – Cleveland Institute of Art (11-7-14)
origin: heard it from her cousins when growing up in suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio
110714005
“Your momma is so fat she was baptised at Sea World”
collected: Cleveland, Ohio – Cleveland Institute of Art (11-7-14)
origin: heard it in middle school in Solon Ohio, mid 90s.
110714004
“Did your mom pay for those singing lessons? Because she should get her money back.”
collected: Cleveland, Ohio – Cleveland Institute of Art (11-7-14)
origin: his professor said it to him when he was singing in class
110714003
“You think you’re all that and a bag of chips, but you’re really just the napkin”
collected: Cleveland, Ohio – Cleveland Institute of Art (11-7-14)
origin: made it up for her mother to use at someone who was bothering her
110714002
“You have so many gaps in your teeth that it looks like your tongue is behind bars in jail”
collected: Cleveland, Ohio – Cleveland Institute of Art (11-7-14)
origin: growing up in Philly in the 90s/early 2000s. They called it “coming at your neck” and it would often end in physical fights
110714001
“Your mother is so fat we are in her right now”
collected: Cleveland, Ohio – Cleveland Institute of Art (11-7-14)
origin: growing up in Philly in the 90s/early 2000s. They called it “coming at your neck” and it would often end in physical fights
092014014
“Your mother wears Army boots”
collected: Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University (9-20-14)
origin: from a movie, she thinks “The Rugrats Movie”
092014013
“Your hair is so nappy Moses couldn’t even part it”
collected: Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University (9-20-14)
origin: remembers it from 4th or 5th grade (circa late 90s / early 2000s), Chicago