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A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing and speech. [1] It also often refers to the language exclusively used by the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.
A combination of the adjective 미친; michin, which translates to crazy or insane, and the word 놈; nom or 년; nyeon; 병신; 病 身; byeongsin: Noun. Roughly "moron" or "retard". It is a compound of the word 병; 病; byeong, meaning "of disease" or "diseased", and the word 신; 身; sin, a word meaning "body" originating from the Chinese ...
The term "K-pop" is the Korean equivalent of the Japanese "J-pop," [13] The first known use of the term occurred in Billboard in the October 9, 1999 edition at the end of an article titled "S. Korea To Allow Some Japanese Live Acts" by Cho Hyun-jin, then a Korea correspondent for the magazine, which used it as a broad term for South Korean pop music.
A slang dictionary is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of slang, which is vernacular vocabulary not generally acceptable in formal usage, usually including information given for each word, including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.
The meaning of the word "chogi," defined by a Japanese friend, was "over there." My tutor did not mention it being of Korean origin. i dunno what kind of "japanese friend" this is, b/c he was answering IN KOREAN! japanese word for over there is "asoko". korean is the lang with yogi and chogi for here and there.
According to The Bangkok Post, Gwiyomi or Kiyomi is Korean slang used to refer to a cute person. [5] The lyrics of the song can be interpreted as "1 + 1 = Cutie, 2 + 2 = Cutie", etc. [ 5 ] Gwiyomi ( 귀요미 ) is based on the adjective-noun gwiyeop ( 귀엽 ), which is a root of gwieopda ( 귀엽다 ), means "cute".
"Hwaa" refers to a flower, and represents spring and love. [6] It uses two different Chinese characters with one meaning 'fire' and the other 'flower' ().Both characters are pronounced the same way in Korean as /hwa/ [7] without tonal differences (since modern Korean is a non-tonal language), but are read in Mandarin as /huǒ/ and /huā/, respectively.