It's All About the Bling

So the other day I caught a part of VH1's show Driven. It was the one about Beyoné Knowles. She was talking about her song Bootylicious (click for sample). She talked about the song's origins and how silly she thought it was, and how popular the term became. She also mentioned how it has been added to the dictionary. Say what?! The dictionary, ya gotta be kidding me!

So, I checked, and laughed my ass off: (please keep in mind that this is not from a special dictionary, for example, an urban dictionary)

bootylicious |?bo?tl?i sh ?s|
adjective informal sexually attractive.
ORIGIN early 21st cent.: from booty (slang for ‘buttocks’ ), on the pattern of delicious.


Of course, I couldn't stop the search there, check out these other terms:

bling-bling |?bli ng ?bli ng |
noun informal expensive, ostentatious clothing and jewelry, or the wearing of them : behind the bling-bling: are diamonds worth it?
ORIGIN 1990s: perhaps imitative of light reflecting off jewelry, or of jewelry clashing together.

homie |?h?m?| (also homey) noun ( pl. homies) informal a homeboy or homegirl.

google |?go?g?l|
(also Google) verb informal [ intrans. ] use an Internet search engine, particularly Google.com : she spent the afternoon googling aimlessly.
• search for the name of (someone) on the Internet to find out information about them : you meet someone, swap numbers, fix a date, then Google them through 1,346,966,000 Web pages.
ORIGIN from Google, the proprietary name of a popular Internet search engine.

bitching |?bi ch i ng | (also bitchen or bitchin' |?bi ch ?n|)
adjective informal excellent : a bitching new album. adverb [as submodifier ] extremely : it's bitchin' hot, ain't it?

mofo |?m??f?|
noun vulgar slang short for mother####er . (gotta protect the kiddies, ya know...well, at least try to)

outta |?out?| (also outa)
preposition an informal contraction of “out of,” used in representing colloquial speech : we'd better get outta here.

y'all was also in the dictionary, but damn, it read more like an encyclopedia instead of a definition!! So I did y'all a favor, and left it out!

Hope y'all were entertained!!


And by the way, all these definitions were taken from Apple's Dictionary, Version 1.0.1 (1.0.1), Copyright © 2005 Apple Computer, Inc.,