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Bookmark or Share- Origin of current slang usage of the word 'sick' to mean 'great'?This question ought to be reopened, because the current answers are basically wrong. Whether or not other usage in youth culture pre-dates it, sick became slang for pretty much the opposite of what it traditionally means in the late '90s in South London, with predominantly black kids into the 'grime' music scene, which in turn spawned the 'dubstep' music scene.
- Substitute for F*** in emphasizing disbelief, anger, etcYou are right. I probably choose your answer as the right one. But I guess I am going to leave this open for a while in case someone offers a creative and funny one. I once heard someone use "Bull Funky" to replace Bulls***. That was funny. –
- What is the origin of the term "Couch Potato"?Robert was a fellow-traveller of R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders, a somewhat funky string band. They all holed up in a nice country house in Sonoma County at the time, and Robert lived off the royalties of "couch potato" and silk-screened T-shirts for a while back then.
- What is the most professional name for "squiggly bracket"?The Chicago Manual of Style refers to them as "braces". 6.102 "Braces, {}, often called curly brackets, provide yet another option for enclosing data and are used in various ways in certain programming languages.
- What is the origin of the phrase "hunky dory"?Nobody really knows. There's no agreed derivation of the expression 'hunky-dory'. It is American and the earliest example of it in print that I have found is from a collection of US songs, George Christy's Essence of Old Kentucky, 1862.
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