Phrases white people stole from black people

Gurl, please.

Chile, no.

the feels

homie

bro/brother

the shade

You mean copied because it was so good. Not stolen. Stolen means taken away. Nothing was taken away. Only copied because imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Which is a good thing. You want cultures, races, humans to coexist and not try to stamp each other out of existence. Blending of cultures is a good thing.

You can have them back, black people.

Baby daddy

Threads OP stole from Lipstick Alley.

“I’ll take two buckets of the extra crispy and one original. Oh, and throw in some grape koolaid.

Szzzurp

Borrowing isn't stealing, stupid ass OP.

Black people still have their phrases, and white people's vocabulary is enriched with their contribution.

Black people always used to say, "I'm in the house" instead of "I'm here." But then white people all started to say "in the house" so we switched it to "in the hizzouse." Hizzouse became hizzizzouse, and then white folk started saying that, and we had to change it to hizzie, then "in the hizzle" which we had to change to "hizzle fo shizzle," and now, because white people say "hizzle fo shizzle," we have to say "flippity floppity floop."

instead of "where do you live?" it's " where you stay at"

It's real cause I'm keeping it real.

a lot for ZZZZ'le speak is very reminiscent of some of the old Cockney rhyming slang.

"Threads OP stole from Lipstick Alley."

Oh no, I've been to that trainwreck. It's a frau-soaked, anal-retentive hateful hellhole.

You could also say English is a language that has stolen words or phrases from just about every language on earth.

It's voracious.

R13 exactly. Humans are the same. Neat, isn't it?

Cross culture hugs and kisses and love and we're all the same because we die and go back to the heaven and see the human just a roulette wheel of colors and kinda the same ain't nothing like an alien in another Galaxy oh boo no no we're just human human humaaaan were not wookies or sand people or lt. Worf or a romulan or a kardashian oh no we're human not humalog diabetic medication and you can me because I need it bye I'm getting banned for not using a period but it's fine love to you a TCM movie with Bette Davis is coming on on on. These damn racist questions make me crazy so that's what you get I'm a just a human baby but maybe in my next life I can be a alien and won't have to deal with all this shit of earth ohh I hope so hope there's something better out there in all those stars

Wah-la instead of Voila

"Give me all your money..."

R15, English is so rich because foreign words are readily absorbed as needed. Also, it has an inherent flexibility that many languages don't have. I was talking to a Dutch friend and I made up a word by adding some endings to it. She said doing so was just not possible in Dutch or wouldn't make sense. I don't know how true that is.

"Back in the day" instead of "back then" or "back in those days."

Officer! Please don't shoot!

Zaddy.

Languages black people stole from white people

English

I'm glad "talking to" and "messing with" haven't crossed over. Both are lame. Ditto "How many bodies you got?"

Que Sera Sera

Mighty white of ya.

It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud.

tore up from the floor up

Bobbaaayyy!

"I be axing you" (I asked you)....oh, that one didn't make the cut.

Dyn-O-MITE!

Hey HEY hey!

Whatchoo talkin' 'bout Willis?

I'm a winner, baby!

I pity the fool…

Feets, do yo' stuff!

"Talk to the hand" came from a movie, "The Beautician and the Beast, written by a white screenwriter.

Who dis?

It's the bomb

What it is!

Word!

that period on the late 90s when people said "yo" at the end of every sentence. Ricki Lake is no longer on TV to deliver these phrases to us.

Throwing your fists in the air and going "woof woof woof" like Arsenio Hall.

R23 No black people did not still English. It was forced upon africans when white Europeans colonized Africans, centuries ago.

Back in da day.

Bit of the tar brush.

Nappy headed fool.

Twerking.

When I heard Debra Norville say it on inside edition, I knew that word was over.

"Back in the day" is black? I did not know that.

[Quote] Back in da day.

Truth.

Using “coins” as a term for money.

R3, here's a word you should look up: "appropriate" (the verb).

Say what?!

GURL!

Oh, NO, you DIDN'T!

Don't make me break my foot up in your ass!

(Okay, I don't say that last one, but I love it and one day I will find a way to work it into a conversation ... not in a sexual way!)

on the pipe

We blacks still have "saltiness" "I got you bothered" " why my name in your mouth bitch" and "fennin".

stay pressed, hunties!

Your mouth is writing checks that yo ass can't cash, white on rice, knee high to a grasshopper, sho you're right!, true dat, bring it, put a cap in your ass,

[Quote]Wah-la instead of Voila

I've never heard or seen any black person say that. "Wa lah" is pretty much the exclusive domain of ignorant (or just stupid) younger white people.

[quote] No black people did not still English.

Obviously.

r54

Don't forget "finna."

While we’re on the subject...I grew up in a mixed neighborhood and we used to say “my bag” then somewhere in the 90’s I think white kids heard it as “my bad” (I first noticed it in Clueless” and started saying that and somehow it stuck....black DLers, what say you?

Dat azz.

Clapback

Bae

Pipe (penis) or to pipe (to penetrate sexually)

Booty

Cakes

Crack is whack

Bodycount

Swag

Drip

Boypussy

Becky

Bruh

Lawd

Boss

Brolic

Lit

Beast

To sweat (to be eager)

Thirst

[quote]Cakes

Take it back, blacks. I've never made a cake that looked like that.

No Cap

Cray

Squad or squad goals

Goals

Keep it 💯

Snatched

Trill

Salty

Hell, nah

Aesthetics

Vibe with

Trash or garbage

Low key

Unclockable

Savage

Sus

Woke

Cancel

Fam

Extra

Word (word, bro)

Two dads (gay couple)

Bussy

Pie (butt)

Flex (show off)

GOAT

Shook

Woke

Whip (car)

Kicks (shoes)

Damn, Gina!

Mood

Punk (effeminate male or cowardly male)

Receipts

Kiki

Shade

Gucci (good or luxurious)

Ratchet

Living my best life

#Facts

A whole snack

Tea

Sweet (fem gay guy)

Swole

“Phrases white trash stole from black people.”

Back dat ass up

Bag (money)

Out of pocket

No filter

Shade

Ghost

It makes me cringe so hard when white people use "woke" without irony (and I'm white).

Thicc

Bougie

White people created the English language.

Dope

Yeet

You see OP, what had happened was that the cringey-est white people decided that using all the phrases you list would make them less cringey, only it actually made them more cringey, and so they sound like what they are-- effeminate gay men trying to sound like "fierce" (another borrowed word) black women.

I mean seriously, who says "hunty" other than sad fraus and sad frau-adjacent gay men?

Dab (see Cam Newton)

Make groceries.

Guts (vagina or anus)

You need Jesus

I haven't got a clue what most of these mean. Must be US-specific. But I'll be sure to never use them.

urban slang dominates American culture and pop culture, and social media has intensified the domination.

Weak (shocked, in disbelief, upset)

You feel me?

Weak (response to something extremely funny)

[quote]Make groceries.

New Orleans, not necessarily black.

Toss salad

Cuttin the fool

Clownin

Bootyhole

Alpha

OP, you mean now that whitey "stole" them they can't be used by black people anymore?

You sound like a real dummy and certainly lack awareness of sociology works and how language morphs through societies.

R37, receipts? I seriously doubt that. I remember it being used before that, and I like that movie.

OP Pretty much all of hip American English I would've thought

[quote]Toss salad

Take this one back, too, blacks. It doesn't make sense.

Yo

Tired

Funky

Bama

Tight (good)

Cheddar (money)

Sick

Curve

Smash (sex)

Crunk

Oop

Talking smack

Badussy

To come for (to attack)

To nut (ejaculate)

Jacked (fit muscular)

Coonery

Coochie

Grub

Slam, roast, torch

White people never “stole” anything from blacks.

Badonkadonk

Dudepussy

Hood

All up in my grill

Whack (uncool)

I’m a baller (I’m really cool)

Yo my nigga! (Means - well hello there friend!)

Murk

Gat (gun)

Piece (penis or sex partner)

Things Straight Women Have Stolen From Gays & Lesbians : Datalounge

“Nigger, please!”

That’s my jam

Off da hook

Off da chain

This and the "dropping the Cosby kids off at the pool" thread....whew. White folks are rushing to embarrass themselves on the DL.

Pair those threads with the "Have you ever had a thug?" thread and....just wow.

Wildin

R194 - are you black? I’ve been on black twitter and seen them calling us “crackers, Karen, and whitey.” I’ve also seen them asking other black dudes how many blondies they’ve bagged. So what’s the difference?

OP please don’t lump all of us in the same grouping.

R196, don’t be ignorant, bruh

Calling dudes “son”

Honey Child. Cut Up a Rug. Boogie on Down.The word "Cat" referring to someone who is cool, usually a male, reference Sammy Davis Jr. These phrases are from jive talk from back in the 1920s jazz/Harlem era, I doubt anyone uses them today. Kind of a shame really, I actually quite like it. The way people talked back then seemed to have a upbeat sensibility.

Porch Monkey

Legit

My bad

All these racist comments. African Americans have a complex and creative culture which has given much to the US. There is also much dysfunctional behavior there but the same could be said for white Americans.

R204 - comments can’t be racist. If the person who makes the comment means it in a derogatory way, then the person is racist.

[quote]I was talking to a Dutch friend and I made up a word by adding some endings to it.

I think that practice is fairly well frowned-upon at Datalounge?

YO MAMA!

I love the continuous freshness, hipness, vitality of Africa American culture. It dominates pop culture

R208 - “I love the vitality of African American culture.”

Highest percentage of males incarcerated are black, highest percentage of diabetes is black, more illegal drug use than any other ethnic group is black, most unemployment is black, most child molestation in the family is black.

Feeling some kinda way ...

Quiet is kept

Bye, Felicia

All that and a bag of chips

Gonna get me some trim

Oh, no he DINNIT!

Don't go there!

Miss Thing

Miss Thing

Buppie

High yella

Redbone

High yella

Redbone

My babies (semen)

Trifling (pathetic)

Ratchet

Wreck (to penetrate ferociously)

Hateration, holleration, dancerie.

Dindu nuffin.

Fo shizzle my nizzle.

24/7

King ( hot dude)

Wassup or sup

You feel me?

You know what I’m sayin.

Basic.

Loose booty

EBT

I knew of an executive who had “ipad in da hizzy” as their signature. Have you noticed how many Jewish people, particularly in the entertainment industry, steal from black culture?

I do apologize for this inconvenience at this time.

R204 is the usual Frau who wades into the DL, slips into the deep end and thrashes about trying to play the "reasonable scold" saying inane truths that no one denies while getting her frosty perm wet.

There are a few true racists who slide into these threads to take their nasty crap, yes. But the intruding Frauen who cannot discern the differences among social commentary, parody, accurate observation, cutting humor and parodic tropes ought not attempt to inform the community that "black people have a vibrant culture" and "white people are a mess too, just like black people."

Such comments exhibit more underlying racism than do 95% of what appears here.

Siddity

She be ashy.

Drawls

Sugar in his tank (effeminate male or male with observable traits associated with gay men)

Sugar in his tank (effeminate male or male with observable traits associated with gay men)

He’s funny (an effeminate male)

Cut the monkey

Cut the cheese

Cut a rug

To get throat (oral sex)

Glow up

Bop

Trill

“What you talkin bout Willis?"

Down Low!

Turnt Out

Although I appreciate our African American brothers / sisters and their amazing contributions to music and other aspects of our current culture. I have never felt the need to adopt their adaptation of the English language. It would be too confusing to my friends. I'm an old white dude.

Fan dance

R252 - stated perfectly. I too am not a racist, but am not fond of the destruction of the English language by casual blacks. Why do we need an “urban dictionary,” we only need Webster’s. Let’s keep the English language clean.

BBC

These are all from American black culture. Any white Brits want to chime in with words or phrases borrowed from their black fellow Brits?

I fucks with you (I’m cool with)

Fuckboy

R256 There are lots actually. Black British culture has led to the creation of an entire London dialect called Jafaican which has been adopted by working class or middle class white Brits.

The contents of this thread can be summed up in six words (five, actually, since one of them gets repeated:)

White people BAD!

BLACK people good!

Beef (disagreement)

Yo dawg

Fly (cool)

A dime

Hella

I feel it in my spirit

'lil

lil' ?

Ass” for everything

Hoodie

R252 just think how amused your friends would be! Then you could be “coolio”.

[quote]These are all from American black culture. Any white Brits want to chime in with words or phrases borrowed from their black fellow Brits?

Black Brits in London have totally infiltrated the London accent. The old cockney dialect is fading away. Forget "words" and "phrases".

Sweet bro

Bye, Felicia

Flex

On My jock

Dictionary of Af-Am slang....72 pages

[quote]Dindu nuffin.

White racists invented this to project their guilt onto the black people they imprison for the fun of it.

Hell to the naw

Deadass

“Axe” as in “can I axe you a question?”

Trying to get a comeup

Pumped

Stoked

Okrrrr

Blatino

Ace Boon Coon

Booty call

Spit (speak)

Drop some knowledge

Blow (sing well)

To dig out (to sexually penetrate)

Eggplant

"Stoked" is slang from southern California surf culture, not black people.

I like the accent used to pronounce this. It's like one of Prince Charles' servants was explaining it him.

Freaky

This one speaks for itself.

Using area codes to signify where one lives. The 704 (charlotte).

Bling Bling, is another one I hear white people saying a lot, even in 2019. Eventhough, that was early 00s.

"Show me Receipts", which is actually something whitney houston gave to us during that infamous tv interview she did with diane sawyer back in, I believe 2002.

Yeah, black Americans have done a lot for popular culture.

Shut you down

Hell to the naw, is another whitney houston original. She gave us plenty.

Homeboy

Go run, tell that

No, you mean, "go run, and tell that."

Hit me up

Old school

O.G.

Y’all are getting repetitive

Hella, Bruh, lit, T, Clout, Bougie, Weave, Kiki, Shade, Salty, Show me the reciepts, deadass, clapping your hands with an attitude, bitch please, before I drag you, come at me, on period, PERIOD, you got me fucked up, crib, eggplant, cakes, booty call, lay the pipe, clowning, as fuck, keep ya head up, hitting different, fresh, clean trap music, i know you fucking lying

Quiet as its kept, THICC, Read

Boy bye

Put on blast

Trippin

My boo

Oh snap

Up in da cut

Up in da cut

For real though

Nothin' but net

Post up

Playa

Chicken head

To get played

Played out

Playa hater

Fitty cent.

Booty

Mammy

CRACK IS WHACK!!!

Down low

Are you down?

Bounce (leave)

Walls (rectum or vagina)

Truedat

Peace ✌🏽 out

Check ya later bro

Iz yo name Miss Linda?

The world culturally appropriated the English language from England.

[quote]Aesthetics

Huh?

Ass backwards

Tig ole bitties

Street cred

This is silliness.

Americans typically have 1/3 to 1/2 the vocabulary of Brits, with Australia being close to the UK in the median number of words in active vocabulary.

While the average American has a vocabulary of under 20,000 words - the teens through 30s subset has an active vocabulary *half* that of people who are in their 50s and 60s. You can blame poor reading skills and infrequent exposure to challenging vocabulary as the culprits. Translation: you're watching too much crap TV instead of reading books.

While immigrants frequently have a lower English vocabulary, Americans adopt far more words - especially in Spanish - than other English speaking countries. Yet, immigrants acquire a working vocabulary of 9,000 words. Americans are simply intellectually lazy.

Reading books is boring yo. The cool Kids ain’t bookworms.

Booed up (in a romantic relationship)

Fine (goodlooking)

Boogina (anus)

Fall back

Holla back

Fittie tuck

Bust it wide open

Bust a nut

Do u takes WIC at this here sto?

I's gots my Section 8 voucher

Joint

"What you talkin' bout, Willis?"

Shoot your shot

Buddy sums it up

SOrry Buddy sums it up here - the other one is just funny

Lit

Could we give hunty back, please?

Well, do black people want to be cool or not?

OK I’ve made it to reply 143 and no one has mentioned “y’all” yet. Every white person on Twitter uses it, so embarrassing.

Y’all is not a racial term. It’s regional. So much ignorance here

So R362, you’re saying everyone suddenly appropriated “y’all” from who, Paula Deen?

[quote] Blending of cultures is a good thing.

When the best elements are used from them. Some of these words and phrases are not and come off as annoying and ridiculous when white people use them.

Folks, if you have time, educate r363.

I've never been able to work honky, myself.

R363 White try to steal everything from everyone. That's all they do.

Is steal.

Especially when they try to act black or urban. It just looks cringey and try hard. Little do they know is people are laughing at them behind their backs.

Colonizers

Boogie

"Stole"?

Language cannot be owned.

Look at it this way - Black culture has always created the new and different. Be it music, dancing, language phrases, etc.

There are 2 things at play:

1) when something new happens - people pay attention and wonder what it is all about. Then they start to hear or see it and they want to understand what it is. People want new things and ways of communicating.

2) if it weren't for things becoming commonplace, then new phrases and other things would stop. Things being 'stolen' forces new ideas.

Now there's a whole other thread as to why is it that the Black community is so creative - but that's a different thread.

Recently Kwamé Anthony Appiah, the black professor of philosophy at NYU, wrote in the NYTimes that complaining about culture being appropriated means that you believe culture can be somehow [italic]owned[/italic]--a bizarre capitalistic fantasy that could only occur in this age of neoliberalism.

R367 : Laughing far too loudly and in a way that makes them seem cruel.

Bangin

Woke

You bitches got nothing on Shakespeare.