Houses & Housing Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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droga n. A year ago, Angelita Medina Albarran, 47, a garment worker at St. John Knits, took out two loans from Fremont Investment & Loan to cover the entire $600,000 purchase price for 919 W. Camile St., a 1,450-square-foot bungalow. Her five grown children help pay the mortgage—$4,000 a month and scheduled to rise in May. “La droga,” Medina Albarran said. That’s Spanish for “drug”—Mexican slang for a crippling debt. The people of West Camile Street, she said, are “endrogados”—hooked on debt. [Spanish Houses & Housing Money & Finance Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 15, 2007)

Edwardian five n. The apartment she chose was once an Edwardian five, which translates simply to a one bedroom for a rich bachelor or widow (probably not for a young single woman—they rarely lived alone in Edwardian times): only one bedroom but a preposterously large dining room and, of course, a maid’s room. [English Architecture Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Apr. 10, 2007)

energy pricing n. The hope is low prices will attract more prospective buyers, leading to faster sales. Other real estate agents in the Boston area report success with similar strategies in a housing market with an unprecedented glut of properties for sale. Called “drama pricing” or “energy pricing.” [English Houses & Housing Money & Finance] [full cite] (Feb. 12, 2007)

faux chateau n. Whether you call them by the pejorative moniker McMansions or more whimsical names such as Faux Chateaux or Starter Castles, super-sized houses are here—soon to be followed by negative impacts, according to conservationists. [English Architecture Construction & Buildings Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Jul. 2, 2005)

Fedders housing n. These kinds of developments could easily happen in certain areas of the Bronx if only city planning would wake up and rezone the area but they seem keen on making the Bronx a 6 story fedders housing paradise. [New York City English Construction & Buildings Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Jan. 16, 2007)

five-plex n. As with lofts and penthouses, the definition of a townhouse has expanded. Now the word is often used to mean any multilevel residence, no matter where you find it (the townhouse at Park South Lofts is a “five-plex” located not on the ground level but on the 16th floor of a prewar condo high-rise). [English Architecture Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Oct. 30, 2006)

flex-space n. Flex-space, a term used to describe buildings with commercial space on the ground floor and residential space on upper floors, would be used by both developers. [English Construction & Buildings Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Aug. 13, 2007)

floater n. John Bricker, a retail designer and brand developer who owns a “floater,” a four-bedroom shingled cottage that was floated over from the mainland to Fire Island, N.Y., said that after commuting to a second home it was important not to think about money, or about guilt. [English Houses & Housing] [full cite] (May. 18, 2007)

free gaff n. What happened in the “session house” in Waterford—an open house party known in Dublin as a “free gaff”—can happen anywhere around the country. [English Houses & Housing Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 7, 2007)

garden grabbing n. The practice known as “garden grabbing” happens where builders snap up large detached houses with big gardens, knock them down and then squeeze a small estate of new homes on to the same plot. [English United Kingdom Construction & Buildings Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2007)

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