California Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Associated with or special to California or Californian people, places, or things. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

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Fresnick n. Still, like naturalists taking notes on monarchs, Pismo Beach residents make observations on the habits of Valley visitors—or “Fresnicks” and “Bakos,” as they call them. [California English Slang Nickname] [full cite] (Mar. 19, 2008)

ghost professorship n. Assembly Bill (AB) 1413, the California State University Governance Reform Act authored by Assemblymember Portantino, would eliminate the practice of “ghost professorships” by requiring all CSU executives who are compensated to teach a class to actually perform the work they are paid to do. [California English Education New or Nonce] [full cite] (Oct. 4, 2007)

Hooeywood n. The idea came from Kitty, a D-girl (or, in wicked Hooeywood parlance, “Development Slut”) from the TV division of Genius Nerd Films. [English United States California Entertainment] [full cite] (Sep. 3, 2004)

hudda n. While the literal translation of the shirt is the police code for homicide (“187”) followed by gang slang for police (“hudda”), many Valley police, school officials and gang experts see it another way: “Murder a Cop.” [California English Police Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 29, 2004)

L’s n. It’s hard to connect when we live in dff cities, me with no L’s. [English United States California Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 11, 2004)

land of fruit and nuts n. From the land of fruit and nuts comes word of the Oreo lawsuit. A San Francisco lawyer has sued Kraft foods because the popular cookies contain “trans fats.” [California English Derogatory] [full cite] (Jul. 22, 2005)

land of fruit and nuts n. You can make book on some of the people who were there. That is, if you get a chance to see them peform before some midnight rider from the William Morris Agency makes off with them to the land of fruits and nuts. [California English] [full cite] (Jul. 22, 2005)

land of fruit and nuts n. In the presidential race, I knew we’d have to confront a different stereotype: the bias many Northeeasterns held against Californians—the one that says since California is a land of fruit and nuts, it’s a great place if you’re an orange. [California English] [full cite] (Jul. 22, 2005)

land of fruits and nuts n. Last year, San Francisco 49ers came out of the land of fruits and nuts to surprise almost everyone and become NFL champions. [California English] [full cite] (Jul. 22, 2005)

lettuce curtain n. In many ways Salinas is a city divided by culture, color and socio-economic levels. I know because I’ve lived in places that didn’t have all these issues. Not only that, but the county is also divided by ideologies. It’s what Jim Conway, city museum coordinator in Monterey, refers to as “The Lettuce Curtain.” There’s The Valley, and then there’s The Peninsula. It seems like a little too much of “us and them” going on at all levels. [California English Food & Drink] [full cite] (Jun. 8, 2007)

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