I thought it was coined by Community initially, so when I heard it used on the Great British Bake-Off, I thought โwow, is that a Community reference?โ Turns out itโs been a common saying in the UK and Ireland for ages.
Ha ha it's a saying my mother would use, or people of her generation, which makes it even funnier that Pierce thinks he coined it... a bit like when he thinks he "writes" the Greendale song.
The show The Bear dropped streets ahead in the second season as well as Gillian Jacobs being added to the cast. The creator of the show Chris Storer is the long time partner of Jacobs. Joel Mchale and Dani Pudi had brief cameos as well.
Similarly, โpresentlyโ originally meant โsoonโ, but now people use it to mean โat this timeโ. Like โI will be leaving presentlyโ could mean two different things depending on whoโs saying it
Ooh, another one I just remembered, translated from Afrikaans: 'Piggie war'.
Used to refer to a conflict where there are no winners, like pigs fighting in mud, where all participants just en up dirty, humiliated and bruised. Like replying to a troll online.
An old uni friend of mine from Northern Island made up a word for that thing when you drink in the afternoon and then stop for a bit and you get really tired:
"Cafaggerhaggied"
Some slang from York, UK that was common in my childhood:
Pushknacker - a bicycle, particularly a street bike. Best one on this list, tbh, it's a great word.
Lagin - pronounced la-jin. Means rubbish. Like, "your pushknacker is lagin!"
Weeny - really, as in "that's weeny lagin"
Chava - pronounced char-va, a derogatory term, to be honest I never had any idea what the actual meaning was but it's an insult, as in "ya fuckin chava!". I was confused when the word "chav" suddenly became a thing years later and I've always wondered if they are related or if it's a coincidence.
Ding - what people would now call a chav, also used ad a general insult.
Dingraff - either the full for of ding, or an extension of it, no idea. General insult.
"Mallyhacked" - meaning something that is broken or destroyed. I heard this phrase a lot from older folks during my childhood, but never by anyone who wasn't from my area. My SO didn't believe it was a real word so I did some digging and I think that it is likely a very regionally accented version of "malahack".
Urban Dictionary says that malahack comes from the Lumbee-English slang of southern North Carolina. I don't think that's quite accurate because I'm not from anywhere close to North Carolina. My preferred reference is from The Vocabulary of East-Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the Twin Sister Counties Norfolk and Suffolk, as it Existed in the Last Twenty Years of the Eighteenth Century, and Still Exists: with Proof of Its Antiquity from Etymology and Authority; in Two Volumes ยท Volume 2 by Robert Forby, 1830:
Malahack, v. A word ludicrously fabricated, which means to cut or carve in an awkward and slovenly manner.