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Say, is anyone aware of the word scoff, meaning to steal? As in, “That fucker scoffed my pen.” It just popped in my head, but it's something I associate with junior high school (so, early 80s) and I don't think I've heard it in that usage since that time. And maybe it's a regional thing for all I know.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 7:29am
Say, is anyone aware of the word scoff, meaning to steal? As in, “That fucker scoffed my pen.” It just popped in my head, but it's something I associate with junior high school (so, early 80s) and I don't think I've heard it in that usage since that time. And maybe it's a regional thing for all I know.
We use it here for the word "eaten' as in "I just scoffed my dinner down". I assume it means to do something quickly so I see how it could be used for "stealing". I normally use the word "snaffled" but that is more like "grabbed" than "stealing".
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Marky Dread wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 7:42am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 7:29am
Say, is anyone aware of the word scoff, meaning to steal? As in, “That fucker scoffed my pen.” It just popped in my head, but it's something I associate with junior high school (so, early 80s) and I don't think I've heard it in that usage since that time. And maybe it's a regional thing for all I know.
We use it here for the word "eaten' as in "I just scoffed my dinner down". I assume it means to do something quickly so I see how it could be used for "stealing". I normally use the word "snaffled" but that is more like "grabbed" than "stealing".
For eating quickly, I've sometimes heard the term “scarfed down”—pretty close. I would guess, yeah, that all those variations of spelling and usage come from the same origin of doing something quickly and kind of unseemly.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 7:56am
Marky Dread wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 7:42am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 7:29am
Say, is anyone aware of the word scoff, meaning to steal? As in, “That fucker scoffed my pen.” It just popped in my head, but it's something I associate with junior high school (so, early 80s) and I don't think I've heard it in that usage since that time. And maybe it's a regional thing for all I know.
We use it here for the word "eaten' as in "I just scoffed my dinner down". I assume it means to do something quickly so I see how it could be used for "stealing". I normally use the word "snaffled" but that is more like "grabbed" than "stealing".
For eating quickly, I've sometimes heard the term “scarfed down”—pretty close. I would guess, yeah, that all those variations of spelling and usage come from the same origin of doing something quickly and kind of unseemly.
That's it mate spot on.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 7:29am
Say, is anyone aware of the word scoff, meaning to steal? As in, “That fucker scoffed my pen.” It just popped in my head, but it's something I associate with junior high school (so, early 80s) and I don't think I've heard it in that usage since that time. And maybe it's a regional thing for all I know.
I use "gank" or "yoink."
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Kory wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 12:34pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 7:29am
Say, is anyone aware of the word scoff, meaning to steal? As in, “That fucker scoffed my pen.” It just popped in my head, but it's something I associate with junior high school (so, early 80s) and I don't think I've heard it in that usage since that time. And maybe it's a regional thing for all I know.
I use "gank" or "yoink."
Yoink (like meh) was actually invented by a Simpsons writer, no?
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 12:36pm
Kory wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 12:34pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 7:29am
Say, is anyone aware of the word scoff, meaning to steal? As in, “That fucker scoffed my pen.” It just popped in my head, but it's something I associate with junior high school (so, early 80s) and I don't think I've heard it in that usage since that time. And maybe it's a regional thing for all I know.
I use "gank" or "yoink."
Yoink (like meh) was actually invented by a Simpsons writer, no?
I've always assumed so, I wouldn't know how to look it up though.
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Kory wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 12:43pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 12:36pm
Kory wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 12:34pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 7:29am
Say, is anyone aware of the word scoff, meaning to steal? As in, “That fucker scoffed my pen.” It just popped in my head, but it's something I associate with junior high school (so, early 80s) and I don't think I've heard it in that usage since that time. And maybe it's a regional thing for all I know.
I use "gank" or "yoink."
Yoink (like meh) was actually invented by a Simpsons writer, no?
I've always assumed so, I wouldn't know how to look it up though.
What you don't have your Simpsons dictionary handy.
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Kory wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 12:34pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 7:29am
Say, is anyone aware of the word scoff, meaning to steal? As in, “That fucker scoffed my pen.” It just popped in my head, but it's something I associate with junior high school (so, early 80s) and I don't think I've heard it in that usage since that time. And maybe it's a regional thing for all I know.
I use "gank" or "yoink."
I use “gank.” I say “yoink” when I gank things.
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Kory wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 12:43pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 12:36pm
Kory wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 12:34pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 7:29am
Say, is anyone aware of the word scoff, meaning to steal? As in, “That fucker scoffed my pen.” It just popped in my head, but it's something I associate with junior high school (so, early 80s) and I don't think I've heard it in that usage since that time. And maybe it's a regional thing for all I know.
I use "gank" or "yoink."
Yoink (like meh) was actually invented by a Simpsons writer, no?
I've always assumed so, I wouldn't know how to look it up though.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yoink

Wiktionary suggests George Meyer coined it fro The Simpsons, tho the word has an earlier existence and meaning. Another site says it's not in OED.

Also, I've never heard the term gank, so something learned!
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One bit of slang that was apparently limited to my middle school, specifically the black students, though we whiteys definitely appropriated it was “bap,” used specifically when someone was proven wrong in an argument. It was both an exclamation or a noun.

When proven correct you would say some variation of “bap!”
“Oh, bap!”
“Bap! In your face!”
Or possibly:
“You get a bap!”

One that wasn’t my school-centered was the Spanish word “bobo,” but used more to mean cheap or shoddy than the traditional “stupid or foolish”

“Those shoes are so bobo.”
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"Face" and "burn" really should make a comeback.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 2:04pm
"Face" and "burn" really should make a comeback.
I definitely still use FACE.
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Wolter wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 2:13pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Aug 2018, 2:04pm
"Face" and "burn" really should make a comeback.
I definitely still use FACE.
I definitely still use FACE when schooling my long suffering husband. Proof that I am a terrible person? When that guy who murdered his family first did that news conference begging for his wife and daughters' return, I quietly said "he did it." Scott was like, "how do you know?" I responded, "and I bet he's having an affair, too." So when it all came out that he confessed to the murders and is likely having an affair, I simply said (while pointing my finger at VH) "FACE!"
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