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Did you know the modern use of the term "dude" was actually popularized by African Americans?

Also, did you know that "dude" was originally an epithet from the Dutch towards white English speaking settlers. Short for "Yankee Doodle Dandy" They adapted it as a slang term of endearment not unlike "nicca" today.

And of course we all know that "rocks" or "rocking: as a slang term actually came from black people, but did you know black jazz musicians were the first to call NYC "the big apple"


Kinda got me thinking....whats some modern popular slang or phrases you can think of that actually originated from whites (to your knowledge)?

Yo - If I'm not mistaken this expression originated from east coast Italians.

Bugging - The word "bugs" and "bugging" to mean behaving unusually or annoying goes back a long time. Think "Bugs Bunny"

Cop/Copper

Goon

Ghetto - Italian in origin and used to describe poor Jewish communities in the country.

Broad

Hipster

Decked out

Cheesy

Ragging - meaning to negate someone.

Badass

Stacked

A kick - as in to find pleasure or excitement in someyhing

Booking it - As in to move quickly

Flip your lid

Crash - As in fall immediately to sleep or to stay over someone else's residence

Gat - as in a handgun. Short for gatling gun and first used by soldiers during the Civil War (cant sat for sure if it came from black or white soldiers to be honest)

What's Up? - This one is a lil more ambiguous but most agree it dates back to English literature and was even spelled as one word "whatsup" as early as 1901. Meaning what's going on.

Suck, sucks, sucker, sucking up

Blows
 
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Don - meaning boss (italian)

Buzzed - meaning drunk (american)


Selfie - "self explanatory" Pun intended (californian)


Schwanz- a dikk/penis (german)


The john- toilet. (ambiguous origin)



The oval office - also toilet (ambiguous origin)



Big wig - a vip or important person (brittish)



Pulling my/your chain - to be joking (american)



Bells and whistles - to get something fully decked out or luxurious (ambiguous origin)
 
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I had no idea that they actually created the word "clout".

I believe it was used by writers from Chicago used to describe people with allot of political power or some shyt
 
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1786, earlier neger (1568, Scottish and northern England dialect), negar, negur, from French nègre, from Spanish negro (see Negro). From the earliest usage it was "the term that carries with it all the obloquy and contempt and rejection which whites have inflicted on blacks" [cited in Gowers, 1965, probably Harold R. Isaacs]. But as black African inferiority was at one time a near universal assumption in English-speaking lands, the word in some cases could be used without deliberate insult. More sympathetic writers late 18c. and early 19c. seem to have used black (n.) and, after the American Civil War, colored person.
****** is more English in form than negro, and was formerly and to some extent still is used without intent; but its use is now confined to colloquial or illiterate speech, in which it generally conveys more or less of contempt. [Century Dictionary, 1895]
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"You're a fool ******, and the worst day's work Pa ever did was to buy you," said Scarlett slowly. ... There, she thought, I've said "******" and Mother wouldn't like that at all. [Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind," 1936]
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It was also applied by English colonists to the dark-skinned native peoples in India, Australia, Polynesia.
One hears the contemptuous term "******" still applied to natives by those who should know better, especially by youths just come from home, and somewhat intoxicated by sudden power. [Samuel Smith, "India Revisited," in "The Contemporary Review," July 1886]
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The reclamation of the word as a neutral or positive term in black culture (not universally regarded as a worthwhile enterprise), often with a suggestion of "soul" or "style," is attested first in the U.S. South, later (1968) in the Northern, urban-based Black Power movement. The variant nikka, attested from 1827 (as nikkah from 1835), is found usually in situations where blacks use the word. Also compare nigra.
[F]or when a town black has called a country black (equally black with himself) a "dam black plantation nikka," you may know that he has been terribly provoked, and has now ejected his last drop of gall in that most contemptuous epithet. [The Pamphleteer, vol. XXVIII, No. LVI, 1827]
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Used in combinations (such as ******-brown) since 1840s for various dark brown or black hues or objects; euphemistic substitutions (such as Zulu) began to appear in these senses c. 1917. Brazil nuts were called ****** toes by 1896. ****** stick "prison guard's baton" is attested by 1971. To work like a ****** "work very hard" is by 1836.
Slang phrase ****** in the woodpile "a concealed motive or unknown factor affecting a situation in an adverse way" [OED] is attested by 1800; Thornton's "American Glossary" (1912) defines it as "A mode of accounting for the disappearance of fuel," hence "an unsolved mystery." ****** heaven "the top gallery in a (segregated) theater" first attested 1878 in reference to Troy, N.Y. ******-shooter "slingshot" is by 1876.
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