- Who hasn't referred to something as a dumpster fire before?
Do you use 2000s slang phrases like bromance or dumpster fire? Here are some more awesome sauce things you should start saying.
Photobombing
Technically photobombing has been around for a long time but the term wasn’t “out there” until 2008 when it was seen in a UK blog.
Nomophobia
This word is a combination of no with the mo from mobile and phobia creating nomophobia. This word is used to describe the anxiety associated with not having access to your phone. Did you know this 2000s slang before now?
Fatberg
These were named after globs of cooking grease washed up on a beach in the UK but have been around since the invention of sewers. These sewer-clogging formation of fats, oils and greases are huge, we’re talking as big as double-decker buses or airplanes. The name combines fat with iceberg, creating fatberg.
Debbie Downer
Have you ever used the words Debbie Downer? It was just after the Rachel Dratch Saturday Night Live that Debbie Downer made its way into our vocabularies. These words explain a person who is habitually pessimistic, negative, and gloomy. This is according to Gwyneth Paltrow who was describing herself as a Debbie Downer on an August 2004 episode of Oprah.
Eggcorn
This word means an alteration of a word or phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements as a similar-sounding word and first came around in 2003. This is a nod to the “folk-etymological alteration” word for acorn. Like, “there are eggcorns everywhere. ” Have you ever used this 2000s slang?
Shizzle
Another way to say “sure” and usually said with fo’ (shizzle,) the word originated with rap and hip-hop. The Daily News said, ““Fo’ shizzle, this Dizzle is hizz-ot. Need a translation? Ask Snoop Dogg. In the rhyming slang of izz’s’ and ‘izzles’ featured on the rapper’s records and videos, that statement roughly reads: ‘For sure, this Dogg is hot.’” Have you ever used this 2000s slang and said ‘fo shizzle?
Headdesk
A headdesk is talked about as “An act or instance of striking one’s head, often repeatedly, against a desk or table at which one is sitting, typically as an ostentatious or dramatic gesture of frustration, exasperation, dismay, etc.” was used for the first time in the lt.drunken.bastards Usenet group circa n January 2002. It usually not meant literally but instead “humorously or hypothetically, in the context of writing or communicating online.”
Podcasting
Ben Hammersley of The Guardian said back in 2004, ““MP3 players, like Apple’s iPod, in many pockets, audio production software cheap or free, and weblogging an established part of the internet; all the ingredients are there for a new boom in amateur radio. But what to call it?” Audioblogging? Podcasting? GuerillaMedia?” Podcasting—which got its name by combining the pod in iPod with casting from broadcasting—stuck, and millions of episodes later, podcasting is much less of an amateur thing.
Selfie
The first use of selfie was around 2002 when it was seen on an Australian web forum when someone was explaining that “it was a selfie.” The word was spelled selfy at first and later the word selfie became the Word of the Year in 2013. It was noted that “the use of the diminutive -ie suffix is notable, as it helps to turn an essentially narcissistic enterprise into something rather more endearing.” Who hasn’t used this 2000s slang?
Sharenting
You can easily see this word as a combination of share and parenting and either referring to parenting responsibilities or parents sharing information about their kids with other parents. This could be photos or updates and on social media. Oversharenting was soon said following sharenting and yes, it means just what you think it does.
You should totes use some of this 2000s slang. Let me know in the comments if you do!