Talk:Glossary of Generation Z slang

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Proposal to change list format

I noticed that on "Glossary of ...terms" articles, namely Glossary of video game terms and Glossary of music terminology, the terms are not presented using a table with the origin and definition as in this article, but as a list.

If no one objects to this change I'll go ahead and do it bbut it there are objections please let me know. Rusty 🐈 05:01, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

To be clear: If no one comments, I'll go ahead and make the change this weekend. Rusty 🐈 23:05, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

"Furry"

I think it should be plural. I don't know if I should change it... I'm new. STARTER'^user_{contribs anyone?} 11:34, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

@STARTERuser: What do you mean by plural? I think these two sentences are both grammatically correct:

"I am a furry"

"They are furries" Rusty 🐈 14:52, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

@Rusty Cat, in the "U" section when you go to "uwu", it says "Used to portray happiness or one wanting to appear cute. Used more or less as an expression. Became popular in the 2000s. The expression is commonly associated with furry, femboys, and anime fandoms." It should be "Used to portray happiness or one wanting to appear cute. Used more or less as an expression. Became popular in the 2000s. The expression is commonly associated with furries, femboys, and anime fandoms." STARTER'^user_{contribs anyone?} 04:21, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

@STARTERuser: If you want to change it, go ahead! Rusty 🐈 14:58, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 November 2024

In L add: L: abriviation for the word "Loss" commonly used in "took an L" signifying that someone has experienced a missfortune simularly to the "Loser" hand gesture

Living rent-free: the meaning being that something or someone is ocupying your mind.

W: Washed: something falling out of grace or popularity Datboy2106 (talk) 18:27, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. TheWikiToby (talk) 18:29, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Cheugy

I think the word cheugy should be added as a cautionary tale of how older generations view slang. Cheugy is notable for not really being used by anyone in the gen z space yet it is listed among many lists of "Brainrot" or "Gen z" slang due to the fact that many older people believe it to be so. There is notably a New York Times article that seems to share the idea that this is a word that young people use to mean something along the lines of "unfashionable" however no child really uses this. The word had a brief flash-in-the-pan moment in 2021 but it was quickly picked up by the aforementioned New York Times article and thus anyone who may have wanted to use the word now saw it as "uncool" and this shows the greater purpose and meaning of slang and how it can die out. I feel like this should be clear in the post on cheugy when it would be added to the list. 2600:1008:B15E:A4AF:DFD1:F125:7965:3746 (talk) 07:26, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

We have an article on Cheugy citing the New York Times article, but sadly I haven't seen any sources supporting your statement. Until more sources pop up,  Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Rusty 🐈 03:22, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Waffle

When something is blabbered on about, you know, when you unnecessarily go on about something, like waffling, you know, like nonsense and boring. you know, just rambling on and dragging out the sentence. it´s all irrelevant. 217.61.227.82 (talk) 23:44, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Rusty 🐈 03:20, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Re: Sus

Short term for suspect/suspicious. Popularized in 2018 by players of the online video game Among Us and received mainstream usage with the game's explosion in popularity in mid-2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Merriam Websters, the term has been in use among English speakers since at least the 1960s.

Someone needs to confirm if "the term has been in use among English speakers since at least the 1960s", refers to sus or suss. "Suss" has definitely been in use since the 1960s, but means something else entirely, as in " to discover or understand something through thought". Viriditas (talk) 21:52, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

look here: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sus&year_start=1960&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true . Existential quantifier is true (talk) 08:59, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

@Existential quantifier is true: Can you give specific examples of literature in the 1960s which uses the term? Rusty 🐈 15:57, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 3 December 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) cyberdog958^Talk 07:20, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

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List of Generation Z slang → Glossary of Generation Z slang – Article is formatted like other "glossary" articles, like Glossary of video game terms, Glossary of poker terms, Glossary of professional wrestling terms, et cetera. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 06:50, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

• Support as the editor who modified the formatting to match glossary articles. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary, but that's what the article looked like to me in its previous form, which included examples of usage and origin. Rusty 🐈 00:19, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Theparties (talk) 00:03, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Sparkle and Fade ^talk_edits 09:43, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

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The explanation of "living rent free" is inverted.

It doesn't match either of its references. One potential correction would be "When one person is resentful towards another person, that second person is described as living rent-free in the first person's head." It needs to be clear that the resented person is living rent-free in the resenter's head. 198.161.100.138 (talk) 19:39, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

I've rewritten the description: "Constantly being thought of negatively by another person"--NapoliRoma (talk) 00:23, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

please add "face card" to list

face card

it refers to an attractive face. often used in the phrase "(person)'s face card never declines"

also used in several hit songs: • Open Arms by SZA • Heated by Beyoncé • One Of Your Girls by Troy Sivan

below are some articles that reference or discuss the meaning of "face card"

[1]http://dx.doi.org/10.47836/jlc.11.02.08 [2]https://doi.org/10.24114/jalu.v13i3.62121 [3]https://www.dhakatribune.com/around-the-web/351224/a-%E2%80%98delulu%E2%80%99-writer%E2%80%99s-guide-to-using-gen-z-lingo [4]https://www.dailydot.com/news/scrolling-in-the-deep-face-card/?amp [5]https://fossbytes.com/common-tiktok-slangs-meanings/ I love bats (talk) 09:02, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done Added entry. Sparkle and Fade ^talk_edits 15:14, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 13 December 2024

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Sparkle & Fade has withdrawn the RM below. However, I must add that there is consensus to not move the article, but the exact future of this article is debated. Suggestions include creating a separate article for Gen A or having them both here and renaming this to "Glossary of online/social media slang", a similarly named article Internet slang already exists, however. (closed by non-admin page mover) —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 18:55, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

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Glossary of Generation Z slang → Glossary of Generation Z and Generation Alpha slang – This glossary includes many terms used/shared by Gen Alpha, as stated by several[6][7][8][9][10] sources cited in the article itself. Granted, the proposed title could be changed to be less lengthy, but provided we redirect the current title and "Glossary of Generation Alpha slang", this seems more appropriate than the current title. Sparkle and Fade ^talk_edits 05:34, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Seems like "Glossary of Generation Alpha slang" would be more deserving of an article in the future. Also, the line of what's Gen Alpha or Gen Z is pretty blurry, so it makes sense why some sources would say that. Most of the terms were made by Gen Z anyways. CheeseyHead (talk) 19:03, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

I agree that the line between Gen Alpha and Gen Z is indeed blurry, but I think that is all the more reason to move the article. In terms of a neutral perspective, how do you know that they were "made by Gen Z"? I'm under the impression that the terms were more than likely made and used by both generations, especially considering their proximity. Sparkle and Fade ^talk_edits 18:09, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

For the "made by Gen Z thing", think like Kai Cenat making some of these words. CheeseyHead (talk) 02:25, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

I don't think Kai Cenat has invented enough of these words to justify keeping them in Gen Z slang. There are many words that fall primarily under Gen Alpha (skibidi, and other 'brainrot' associated slangs) that suggest we should move it to the move proposal. Sparkle and Fade ^talk_edits 02:32, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Comment Certain memes like dabbing are likely not representative of Generation Alpha memes. AlphaBeta135talk 16:35, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Agreed. I recall someone once suggested "online slang" or something like that on this talk page, which is a better title IMO. Rusty 🐈 18:58, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

That actually sounds a lot better than my suggested title, as it fits both Gen Z and Gen Alpha (which this list falls under to an extent) while still covering the rest of the terms. I don't know how I could change my nomination to said title (probably not possible), but I agree. Sparkle and Fade ^talk_edits 22:25, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Like Glossary of online slang? An article like that would cover all kinds of online slang, not just Gen Z or Gen A slang. Some1 (talk) 01:02, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Considering we don't have a list/glossary article on online slang, I'm willing to help expand the article to cover all or generally popular online slang for the sake of simplicity. If the article gets too large, we can split it up again. So yes, Move to Glossary of online slang (or Glossary of internet slang.) Sparkle and Fade ^talk_edits 01:08, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

@Sparkle & Fade: I can change the move target in your nomination if you're okay with that (I'll need to possibly edit your message). Rusty 🐈 01:34, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

The biggest issue I have with "Glossary of Internet slangs" (i.e., not exclusive to Generations Z and Alpha) is that the list would end up becoming really large and really broad. For example: wombo combo, rickroll, LOL, 4channer, "do a little trolling", and every other Internet slang from wikt:Category:English internet slang. AlphaBeta135talk 01:41, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Our current options are to either keep our current title, move to Gen Z and Gen Alpha, or move to internet slang (which would require a massive effort to add more entries and remove less relevant ones if needed.) Because of how many entries there are (over 2.5 thousand) it would be almost necessary to split it into different categories, I think we should move it to Gen Z and Gen Alpha instead of internet slang. We should also likely have glossaries for other categories (Glossary of video gaming slang, etc.) for later projects.

So, probably just Move to Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang. Sparkle and Fade ^talk_edits 02:27, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

I'm just curious (and I might be thinking way too far in advance considering there's the question of Wikipedia's existence 10-15 years from now), but once Generation "Beta" people are in their teens, their slang will overlap with Generation Alpha slang (like what we're seeing now with some Gen Z/Gen A slang). What would that hypothetical article title be called?

For now, I think it might be better to have separate articles for Gen Z and Gen A slang, i.e. Glossary of Generation Z slang and Glossary of Generation Alpha slang. Some1 (talk) 02:35, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

That's fair. I think that Gen Alpha will likely warrant their own article in the future, near or not. I'll withdraw my proposal if nobody else objects to this. Sparkle and Fade ^talk_edits 02:44, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

@Sparkle & Fade I guess one can reasonably rename this page to "Glossary of social media slang". What are your thoughts? AlphaBeta135talk 04:43, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

That is probably the most reasonable rename for the page. I'll retarget it to that, then. Sparkle and Fade ^talk_edits 04:55, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

• You can't move to Internet slang, becuase we already have an article about that. Might could just merge this into Wiktionary:Appendix:English internet slang. – wbm1058 (talk) 23:30, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

  FYI We're not moving it to that anymore. Sparkle and Fade ^talk_edits 23:35, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

• STRONG OPPOSE. In forty years, this article should be a time capsule of slang that was used primarily by Gen Z. Newer stuff from Gen A should get its own article. Anything else is cap. Red Slash 23:00, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose. Suggest instead create a Glossary of Generation Alpha slang. See how much they overlap as to whether they should be merged, but I predict some significant differences that are best shown in two separate articles. Andrewa (talk) 06:39, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Oppose, create new article for Gen Alpha slang. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 21:25, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Since I believe enough people have opposed my decision, I think it's time to withdraw my nomination. I'm not very familiar with the closing process, but if anyone could do it for me, it'd be appreciated. —Sparkle and Fade ^talk_edits 22:44, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Comment The issue with splitting the glossary into two generations (or even the title "Glossary of Generation ___ slang") is that we have no clear criteria to define what is definitely considered "Gen Z" and what is definitely considered "Gen Alpha". Sure, outlets, among other reliable sources, and frequent netizens might provide slang terms that are obviously associated with Gen Alpha like "skibidi" and "gyatt". For certain slang terms like "Ohio" and "delulu", they are often used by both generations, especially those who are part of the "borderline" between Gen Z and Gen Alpha (late 2000s-early 2010s). However, what most Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang terms have in common is the fact that they originate in social media platforms like TikTok and YouTube. This is the reason for the idea "Glossary of social media slang". P.S., should there be a "Glossary of Millennial slang"? AlphaBeta135talk 23:50, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

I honestly agree, and now that I think about it, I withdraw my withdrawal. I still stand by my "social media slang" proposal because it encapsulates the list entries conveniently enough so we at least don't have to deal with it for the next 5 years. Again, if the title becomes an issue or otherwise outdated, we can just move it again. ^{P.S there really isn't all that much millennial slang to cover, so I doubt it deserves as much of a glossary as Gen Z. If you can draw up a draft, I'm willing to help make it though.}Thanks, Sparkle and Fade ^talk_edits 04:09, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

You could always start Draft:Glossary of social media slang and see how that goes. Some1 (talk) 04:52, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

I'm not convinced that a bigger "Social media slang" page would actually solve the problem. Let's say that the page is organized merely alphabetically—that would completely strip each slang term of its historical origin, i.e. the "L" section having "LOLCATS" and "Litty" next to each other; mentioning their originating generation in every single one would be very unwieldy while also getting us back into these same problems with labeling certain terms as Generation Z and Generation Alpha. Even if it wasn't unwieldy, I think a page structure of this nature would be undesirable anyway. People are going to want to see slang segmented by generation; the popularity of this page proves that, and as someone stated above, future generations should be able to have one page where they can see the slang from a particular generation. Let's say, then, as an alternative, that the "Glossary of social media slang" page is then split into generations which are then internally alphabetized; that only recreates the same issue of not knowing which are Generation Z and which are Generation Alpha. I just don't see a tangible layout for the page described in the aforementioned discussion which actually solves the problem at hand. Frankly, the problem just doesn't seem like it can be easily solved with a reconsideration in what the page is called; these terms are likely going to always exist in some amorphous space between generations, and we're going to always be struggling to figure out how to cleanly, rationally organize them—whether it's now or in several years. I think the conversation is worthwhile and that there may be a better solution than what currently exists with this page, but I unfortunately don't think this is the way forward. Phibeatrice (talk) 07:05, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I think the original, admittedly clunky solution of renaming the article to "Glossary of Generation Z and Generation Alpha slang" is much better than the "Glossy of social media slang" suggestion—perhaps even better than the status quo page. Phibeatrice (talk) 07:14, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Honestly, I'm not very sure on where this page should even be targeted to. There have been several suggestions, mainly arguments for a seperate article, the previous suggestion for social media slang, and support for the original rename (glossary of Z-Alpha for simplicity). I think I'm going to stick with the original nomination, retargeting to Gen Z-Gen Alpha.

As to the suggestion to create a new article for Gen Alpha, I don't think there are enough terms (acknowledged/covered by reliable sources) to actually warrant its own article but are enough to justify renaming the page to fit properly. If anyone objects to this, please explain and let me know so I can consider. —Sparkle and Fade ^talk_edits 07:29, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request for the addition of the term “Huzz” on 14 December 2024

I’d add ‘huzz’ as it’s becoming very large on many social media platforms such as tiktok and instagram. In current slang, “huzz” is a term popularized on platforms like TikTok and Twitch, often associated with Kai Cenat’s streams. It serves as a playful or informal way of referring to women, derived from “hoes.” Common phrases like “doing it for the huzz” typically mean impressing or seeking attention from women. It’s also part of a broader trend of “-uzz” slang, like “bruzz” (bro) or “muzz” (mom), reflecting Gen Z’s creative approach to language on social media. Sources include

and https://neonmusic.co.uk/what-does-huzz-mean-the-slang-taking-tiktok-by-storm

Penxil32 (talk) 21:46, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Coincidentally, I just added this term now before seeing your message here. Well, it's added! Phibeatrice (talk) 19:19, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

If UwU is in this article, should other internet emoticons be here?

I know that UwU pertains some Memefied meaning, but so do many other expressions. Also, should this article contain mainly internet slang, maybe call it Internet Slang Glossary. I do know it mostly connects to Gen Z, but if you were to incorporate viral language, like bussin, usually those words have been used before in history - Memefied words could be another category. Demure, and such. We would have to show that these are the slang perceptions though. Also, you should add :3, a commonly used emoticon, associated with furries. Goober235 (talk) 21:36, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Why is there no glossary for Generation Alpha slang (e.g. selling, sold, sell; baddiminton [baddie and badminton]; alpha, beta; other things.

These terms exist in the USA, but I cannot be fully sure in other countries. Ferrari12ciLiNdRi (talk) 16:04, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 December 2024

add the term grimace shake OhioSigma22 (talk) 03:17, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Tarlby ^{(t) (c)} 03:27, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

I don’t think most Zoomers use these words

Gen Z don’t use Looksmaxxing, that’s Generation Alpha 35.145.172.150 (talk) 06:26, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

The current source shows that popular, online interest in looksmaxxing is exhibited by teenagers and young adults, specifically men between the ages of 17 to 23. In other sources that could be included, Gen Z men primarily feature in the discourse about looksmaxxing: [11], [12], [13], and so on. In that case, there are plenty of Gen Z men who use the word, whether ironically or unironically, making it fit to include here. (For what it's worth, as a Zoomer, I can certainly attest to its online usage among people my age for both serious and comedic reasons.) Phibeatrice (talk) 15:42, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 December 2024

Add "That's crazy" under letter T. See the urban dictionary entry for definition Boring2Guy5 (talk) 10:35, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: Urban Dictionary is not reliable. ObserveOwl (talk) 15:45, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Gyatt

The word 'Gyatt' is not included in this glossary. JosephZogheibisCool123 (talk) 23:06, 31 December 2024 (UTC)