It’s Awesome | Slang Hunters

awesome means like the best ever
everybody says awesome when something
really cool happens that was awesome
awesome just just the best there’s
nothing better than awesome the best
thing the best thing that could ever be
is awesome is a nice example of the
journey a word can take
around 800 AD the Vikings rolled up on
the shores of Britain bringing with them
the word away meaning fear after a
little pillaging the Vikings split but
the British kept the word and changed
the pronunciation to all in time or
introduced two new words all full and
all some for hundreds of years the two
words will wait aight sharing basically
the same meaning and it wasn’t good
awesome started out meaning kind of
inspiring terror and trembling and so
forth is it kind of like awesome like
the dread Lord Cthulhu is awesome that
it drives you insane of how terrifying
and incomprehensible it is actually yeah
but in the early eighteen hundreds the
pair parted ways
and awesome began its journey to work
slang superstardom one of the things
that slang does one of the playful
things it does is take words that have a
negative meaning for a neutral meaning
and make them good and so you see that
with bad coming to mean good or awesome
coming to meet something that is great
in 1980 awesome officially hit the slang
big time when it showed up in the
best-selling preppy handbook and it’s
been a crowd favorite ever since even if
like most stars it suffers from a bit of
overexposure nowadays anything’s awesome
that was awesome I’ll use it for nearly
anything how you doing awesome I did my
laundry today awesome I thought a
quarter awesome walked my dogs from
what’s awesome the word awesome is
supposed to mean something like this
incredible I was like oh I just had a
child that is awesome is like the
creation of the the earth is awesome
nowadays it’s overused people’s like oh
I just folded up a napkin and threw it
into the barrel aren’t i awesome no
you’re not you’re not awesome mmm
awesome awesome is awesome