Glossary of Slang

Slang used in the Galaxia Mortem tetralogy.

A

Accretion disks on toast points: Darn it.

All-else: Last option, when all else fails.

All yamble and no shamble: All talk and no action.

Anyhoohoo: Anyway, anyhoo.

ASAV: As soon as victory; as soon as viable.

Asinus chapeau: A contemptible individual.

Askii: Ask.

Asteroid-wipe: Jerk.

B

Bagged and tagged: Arrested and placed in an immobilizing sheathe with a dizrup inserted in the tie-in socket.

Bake a (something): Cook up (something), Make up (something).

Bifile: Biography file, customarily pushed to another person thumbnail-to-thumbnail during an initial meeting.

Bizzo: Bizarre.

Blasted in the braincase: Avatar and cranial embed fried (see Scoured in the braincase).

Blearicky: Bleary and icky.

Blended: Destroyed, crushed.

Blovtificate: Bloviate, pontificate.

Blow Nebulae: Sucks.

Bogus: Someone whose avatar looks nothing like their real-flesh body.

Boro: Boring.

Borsloggidy: Boring and tedious.

Braincase: Head, skull.

Braincase-over-chostim cups: Head over heels.

Brillio: Brilliant.

Burnt-Piss: Backwater (as in referring to a location).

C

Casimir's festering nebula: Curse.

Chaos up: Screw up.

Chattervox: (n) A chatty person, a person who engages in small-talk; Chattervoxing: (v) To engage in small-talk.

Chortling substance: Laughing matter.

Coag: Coagulate or restructure a shattered avatar.

Cobble up: Fix, repair.

Codfishing: Mouth open in surprise.

Cogik: Cogitate, think

Commotioning: To make a commotion.

Cram protests down (one's) esophagus: Swallow (one's) words.

Cranium: Brain.

Creeps my innards: Creeps me out.

Creepto: Creepy.

Cringy: Embarrassing.

Cut in the braincase: Smart.

D

Daebak: Outstanding.

Dark Ages: Any period in history before the computer age.

Data push: The act of sharing data with one another, usually to a thumbnail implant.

Decrypto: Decryption program.

Deffo: Definitely.

Dehandicated: Having one's hand chopped off.

Depressurized primates: Curse.

Derring-do (something): Dare to do something

Desperado: (adj) Desperate.

Destro: Destroyed, ruined.

Diffy: Difficult.

Digisecond: One second in the Underworld.

Dingleberries: Avatars trying to enter Forkin on the tail of one who solves the equation.

Disfig: A disfiguring hook.

Dismy: Dismal, strange, odd, weird.

Dizda: Disdainful.

Doff: Hit (as in one's head).

Doldrous: Doldrumy mournfulness.

Doppelgang, Doppelgangering: The uncomfortable experience of becoming aware of one's own meatsack body while jacked into the Underworld.

Double fudgemuffin: Jerk.

Double long stringy discharge: Ew. Curse.

Double nut shit clusters: Curse.

Dreadly: Scared, scary.

Drooping around: Depressed.

Drop distro in (their) bucket: Drop the problem in (their) lap.

Drope: Great enough.

Dunderbobble: Dunderhead.

E

Eeling: Spineless, passive.

Effluvium-encrusted poisonous mushrooms: Curse.

Einsteined: Updated; made more useful (as in a prog).

Encrypto: Encryption (see Unencrypto).

Expie: Experience an immersible.

F

Failsafe: Automatic ejection from the Underworld when one's physical body is threatened

Fancy-trou: Fancypants.

Farmysuitical: Drug, pharmaceutical.

Festering nebula farts: Darn it.

For groin’s sake: For god’s sake.

Fossilized donkey feces: Poo.

Fresh and snappy: New, shiny, fast.

Fringe-dwelling yokel: Someone living in one of the eight corners of the galaxy.

Fudgicle: Jerk

Full apocalypse: Cranial embed failure.

Füüüz: Mess up; screw up.

G

Gawk-a-block: Gawking, touristing, sightseeing.

Genuflek: Genuflect, be subservient to, be submissive to.

Gleeish: Happy.

Glims: Slang for creds.

Go big or go nebula: Go big or go home.

H

Half-chuck: A little laugh; a chuckle.

Hana, deul, set: One, two, three.

Have the hearts for: Love, have a crush on.

Heart did a Newton: Heart squeezed, heart flipped.

Heart: Love, have a crush on.

Heol: Wow.

Hilario: Hilarious.

Hitech:  High tech.

Hold (one's) braincase above the flood: Smart enough to get along.

Hold your nebulas: Hold your horses.

Holy arthritic space ponies: Holy cow.

Holy frigging rancid spacefoam: Holy cow.

Holy pooping space ponies: Holy cow.

Hook: Incorpo tek; an implantable piece of tek.

How in a nebula's ass: How on Earth.

How in a nebula's gastrointestinal system: How on Earth.

Humongozoid: Humongous, giant, large.

Hush: Secret.

Hypereality: The level of resolution needed to create content for Underworld consumption.

I

Imaggio: Imagine, consider.

Impo: Imposing, important.

Ingrown, sticky nostril hairs: Curse.

Intel: Information.

In the cogik: In the know, able to understand.

In the middle of nix: In the middle of nowhere.

In the twix of nix: In the middle of nowhere.

Insins: Insinuations.

Itemticulo: Item.

Intergalactic shitstorm: The poop hit the fan.

It goes without shouting: It goes without saying.

J

Jeepers pancake: Jeepers creepers.

Jero: Zero.

Jesus Oatmeal: Curse.

Jinjja: Really?

K

K: Okay.

Kaleing: Vegging out.

Kili: Kilometer.

Koo: Cool, easy.

Krill: Terrifying.

L

Lachry: Cry.

Latch: Learn.

Latch tek: Learn tech.

Lick: Line of code.

Lollygoggling: Lollygagging; drooping around doing nothing like a stupo.

Long in the fang: Long in the tooth.

Look-c appendage: Aud/vid appendage that extends out from a mecha.

Lotech: Low tech.

Lumen in a pizz: Undies in a twist.

M

Mad skillets: Mad skills.

Malevo: Evil.

Mass: Massive.

Mauso: Old, old-fashioned.

Meat or mort: Alive or dead.

Meatsack: Body.

Mem: Memory.

Milli: Second.

Millio: Million.

Millio kilis a milli: Million kilometers a second.

Modicrumb: Modicum; a crumb.

Monkey-play: Child’s play, easy, simple.

Mort: (v) kill; Mort, Morted: (n) dead.

Mumbo: Mumbo jumbo, silliness.

Murderous, space-age peacocks: Curse.

N

Necrotic weevil nostril hairs: Ew. Curse.

New-sec: Up to the minute tech.

No frets: No worries, no problem.

Non-incorpo (tek): Non-hook (piece of technology), e.g. a handheld device

Nonnie: Someone who, for reasons such as allergic reactions to metal, cannot receive any implant.

Nonsensicals: Meaningless, senseless or illogical behaviors or items (can be used singularly).

Norma: Normal.

Nosay: I don’t know.

Numbseed: Numbskull.

O

Obvs: Obvious.

Oemgi: Oh my.

OKA: Otherwise known as.

Old farty gas giant: Yokel; fuddy duddy.

Once-over-and-under: The once-over; inspecting something closely.

On the lonely: Alone, by oneself.

Orb this: Look at this.

Orby: Curious.

Othersploder: Jerk.

Ouchingtins: Ouch.

Out in left starfield: Out of it; disoriented.

P

Pain in the asteroid: A real pain in the... asteroid.

Pictula: A preprogrammed avatar unconnected to a human, used for dangerous Underworld encounters.

Pilf: Pilfer, steal

Pipz: A forger's personal protection zone.

Plazstik reason: Concrete reason.

Poof: When an avatar materializes in the Underworld.

Presumy: Presumably.

Probs: Probably.

Prog: Computer program.

Proggie: A program that performs menial functions in the Underworld.

Puddle: Plop (down upon).

R

Renting out (one's) braincase to (someone's) hooky: Allowing someone to take up one's brain space with useless information or unneeded stress.

Retroactively putrid boils: Curse.

Revolto: Revolting, gross, disgusting, vomitous.

Right off the launchpad: Right away, right off the bat.

Roo-roo: Frou-frou.

Rooky mistake: Rookie mistake.

Rotting, fungus-covered fingernail clippings: Darn it.

Rotting Womoronian citrus fruits: Curse.

Rubie: Someone who doesn't know much about the Underworld.

Run-of-the-COM-SAN: Run-of-the-mill.

Runnel: Funnel downward.

S

Saelahvee: C'est la vie.

Scoured in the braincase: Avatar and cranial embed fried (see Blasted in the braincase).

Scratch'n'stiff: Stiff; formal; unyielding.

Scumtek: Someone with implants/hooks (used by teknophobes).

Secuforger: Security forger.

Set to silicon: Committed to computer memory.

Shab: Shabby, cheap.

Shake shanks: Hurry.

Shambly: Shoddy; useless.

Shit-clusters: Darn.

Shiver (one's) giblets; shiver (one's) gibs: Scary, nauseating, frightening (see Shiver one's innards).

Shiver (one's)  innards: Scary, nauseating, frightening (see Shiver one's giblets).

Signiffy: Significant.

Skedoodle: Hurry away; skedaddle.

Skeed: Hurry away; skedaddle.

Slag: To infiltrate a mecha or a person's cranial implant.

Slamming the alchemy: Drinking alcohol; getting drunk.

Smiths: Smithereens.

Snick: Sneak creep.

Snipe: Destroy.

Snipes one's ass: Kicks one's ass.

So far, so smooth: So far, so good.

Son of a hypergolic booster: Son of a gun.

Sour spacefoam: Curse.

Spacenutter: Crazy.

Space slag: Piece of poo.

Speculize: Speculate.

Sphere: A planet's network, accessible via cranial embed or non-incorpo tek.

Spherical capabilities/functions: Networking capabilities/functions.

Squig: To exchange bifiles.

Stren: Strenuous.

Stupendo: Stupendous; great; wonderful.

Stupo: Dumb.

Successivity: Success; winning.

Supogenius: Intelligent (often used in a technology sense).

Suposcary: Scary; frightening.

Sweep with the shady primates: Hang out with the cool people.

Sweet tacos in a handbasket: Great; awesome.

Syko: Psycho; terrible.

Syrinx; Syrinxed; Syrinxing: Shrieking; shouting.

T

Tainment forger: Entertainment forger.

Tekglom: Tech conglomeration.

Terro: Terror.

Testowhore: Machismo person.

Three-quarters-to-morting: Half to death.

Ticks: Time, minutes, passage of time.

Tongue-eating louse: Piece of poo.

Tricks up one's nostrils: Tricks up one's sleeve.

Tricksy: Trick, joke.

Triple-decaying radioactive creampuffs: Curse.

Turd's turd: Piece of poo.

Tyrranical hazardous waste slugs: Curse.

U

Udders and horns: Wow (Cow's Planet phrase).

Ulto: Ultimate, huge.

Underwear-Sniffing Piratical Ponies: Curse.

Unencrypto: Unencrypt, break an encryption (see Encrypto).

Usefun: Concurrently useful and fun.

Universy: Worldly.

Upgee: Upgrade (as in technological implants).

V

Vergie: An individual visiting the Underworld for the first time

W

Watch your spine: Watch your back.

What in the name of milk: What in the world (Cow's Planet phrase).

What the bloviating turtles: What the heck.

What the duck-billed platypus: What the heck.

Whev: Whatever.

Why on god's green golfcourse: Why the heck (Cow's Planet phrase).

Why on Hera's green golfcourse: Why the heck (Pihanna Albe's phrase).

Wisp of whatever: No idea, no clue.

Y

Yaksok: Promise.

Yamble: Yammer, babble, drone on.

Yambling and not shambling: Talking instead of doing; all talk and no action.

Yen it like that: Love it so.

Yesterday: Now, immediately (as in: get an eyehook yesterday). Always used with present tense.

Z

Zombified mosquito larvae: Darn it.