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This partial list of city nicknames in Florida compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities in Florida are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
The term cracker was in use during the Elizabethan era to describe braggarts and blowhards. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack, meaning "entertaining conversation" (which survives as a verb, as in "to crack a joke"); the noun in the Gaelicized spelling craic also retains currency in Ireland and to some extent in Scotland and Northern England, in a sense of 'fun' or ...
What does "jiffy feet" mean to you? For some Floridians, it means you've been walking around barefoot for too long.
The exact history and origin of the term is debated. [7] According to one theory, it is an agent noun derived from the verb crack, meaning "to boast". [8] The use of cracker to mean "braggart" dates back to the 16th century and can be seen for example in William Shakespeare's King John (c. 1595): "What cracker is this same that deafs our ears with this abundance of superfluous breath?"
The term sooner is a reference to the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889, when 50,000 settlers ran across the state seeking claim to a portion of a 2 million-acre stretch of "unassigned" lands previously ...
Getty Images Located in Broward County on South Florida's east coast, Ft. Lauderdale, like many cities, has a language its own. Here's a brief guide to some of the top Fort Lauderdale slang terms ...
Other Miami terms especially common among Miami youth, often called "slang," include: [10] "Bring" in place of "has" or "carry" when an item contains another item inside it, e.g., "This cereal brings a free toy inside." Calque of "traer", which is used for that purpose in Spanish but means "to bring". [citation needed]
The abbreviation Floridians seem to be most confused by is “NSFW,” which is searched more than 25,000 times every month in Florida, according to Vera’s study.