Since I moved to another country, I noticed I use a lot of Americanisms. Maybe I used them before and just never noticed it. I don't know. All I know is that I'm saying things like this a lot.
If these aren't American per se, tell me why you think that. I'm looking for terms that are most commonly American, meaning other groups might have heard them but would never use them. These are in alphabetical order, where "(rare)" or "(common)" means "rare or common for me."
Interjections:
aw, CRAP
bite me
blow me
cheese (see: geez)
Christ on a crutch (rare)
criminy
cripes
crumbs
dag; dagnabbit (rare)
dang; dangit (common); ding-dang it
dude!; whoa, DUDE; dude: WHAT. THE. FUCK.
gee (common); gee willikers (rare); gee whiz
geez; geez Louise
goldangit it
goldurn
golly
gosh; gosh-darn it
holy schlamoley! (extremely rare)
holy Jesus! (very rare)
holy smokes! (rare)
oh, Jesus fuck
jeepers
jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick! (rare)
nasty; that's NASTY (pronounced n'YASTY)
nuts (my very favorite)
okey-dokey; okily-dokily
phooey
shoot
shucks; aw, shucks
spiffy
suck me
swell
tarnation (rare)
that's somethin; that's really somethin'
whoa, nelly
wickety-wack; boom, wickety-wack
yes, indeedy!
Noun phrase fillers that I'm not so sure are American, but which I don't much hear up here unless I'm saying them:
whadjamacallit
whadjamafuck
whats['is/her]face
whatz(er/is)fuck
whoozit, whoozits
I use these Yiddish words all the time and am only 99% sure I know what I'm saying:
putz (rare)
schlep
schlemiel (rare)
schmuck
Adjectives:
bizarro
'tardo
Metaphors and similes:
(like/madder than) a beehive poked with a stick
Imperatives and other verbs:
git; git lost
go the whole nine yards
scoot
scram
'splain, 'splainin' (for "explain")
wangle
wrassle (rare)
Names to call people:
buddy
bunky
dickwad
dickweed; dillweed
pal
nincompoop
nitwit
twerp
I'll continue to update this one. I think this is funny.
And, yes, I noticed that most of these are the most putrid of mild would-be profanities. A few of them are colorful uselessly profane interjections. This is because I'm American.
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