{"id":22760,"date":"2023-03-08T14:53:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T14:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22760"},"modified":"2023-03-08T15:01:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:01:55","slug":"kiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22760","title":{"rendered":"Kiki"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever been to a kiki<\/strong>? If you live in Florida or Hawaii, maybe you have. The rest of us, probably not.<\/p>\n

According to a post on Crossword Solver about slang words in the USA<\/a>, kiki<\/strong> is the most popular slang word among members of Gen-Z (those born between about 1997 and 2012) in Florida or Hawaii.<\/p>\n

\"Gen-Z<\/p>\n

The Urban Dictionary<\/a> defines kiki<\/strong> as:<\/p>\n

A party including good music and good friends, held for the express purpose of calming nerves, reducing anxiety and stress and generally fighting ennui. May involve locked doors, tea and salacious gossip.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like fun! More details about the origin of this word<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another slang word popular with Gen-Z that I\u2019ve never heard of is finna<\/strong>, which apparently is an abbreviation of \u201cfixing to\u201d and means \u201cgoing to\u201d or \u201cabout to or in the process of doing something\u201d. For example \u201cI\u2019m finna go da\u2019 sto\u201d (I\u2019m going to go to the store) [source<\/a>]. More details about the origin of this word<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s poggers<\/strong>, which is apparently popular in California and Iowa and means:<\/p>\n

A twitch emote typically used to express enthusiasm, enthrawlment or other sophisticated emotions of happiness and dopamine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other definitions include: \u201ca word to describe excitement, joy, or to hype\u201d, \u201cA word to describe something as good\u201d and \u201csomething\/someone that you find absolutely amazing\u201d [source<\/a>]. The related word pog<\/strong> is apparently “used as an exclamation of approval, especially in video game chat” and means “excellent, cool, awesome” [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

An emote<\/strong> is \u201cA term used in MMORPG’s such as World of Warcraft which describes an action your character can perform which is usually accompanied by sound and sometimes even an animation\u201d. Examples include \/poke, \/cheer, \/moo and \/insult [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Have you heard\/read any of these words? Do you use any of them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever been to a kiki? If you live in Florida or Hawaii, maybe you have. The rest of us, probably not. According to a post on Crossword Solver about slang words in the USA, kiki is the most popular slang word among members of Gen-Z (those born between about 1997 and 2012) in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,242,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-slang","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22760"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22770,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22760\/revisions\/22770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}