Does anyone know where "no duh", or "duh" in general originates from?
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Duh! got its start as a derogatory imitation of the sounds made by severely mentally handicapped people[citation needed]. Eventually, it worked its way into sarcastic usage.
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No one really invented the word it evolved over time to come to mean what it does today\n\nc.1340, "discharge of semen other than during sex," later, "desecration, defilement" (1382), from L.L. pollutionem (nom. pollutio) "defilement," from L. polluere "to soil, defile, contaminate," from por- "before" + -luere "smear," related to lutum "mud," and to lues "filth" (cf. Gk. lyma "filth, dirt, disgrace," lymax "rubbish, refuse," O.Ir. loth "mud, dirt," Lith. lutynas "pool, puddle"). Sense of "contamination of the environment" first recorded c.1860, but not common until c.1955. Pollute (v.) is attested from c.1380 in sense "defile," from L. pollutus, pp. of polluere. Meaning "contaminate the environment" first recorded 1954. Pollutant is from 1892.
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'tie on one'\n\n"From "The Wordsworth Book of Euphemism" by Judith S. Neaman and Carole G. Silver (Wordsworth Reference, New York, 1983, 1990) -- "Tie one on, to - To get drunk. (Eric) Partridge suggests that this expression is derived from 'hang one on' (ca. 1935), which originated in the United States and was later adopted in Canada. It is clear that a 'hangover' -- more politely, 'the morning after' -- is the miserable memento of having 'hung' or 'tied one on.' We are uncertain as to why drinking is described as tieing, hanging or belting...""\n\n'belly up to the bar'\n\n" "belly up! belly up to the bar, boys!" Drinks on the house, boys!: Canadian: 20th century. Cf. the US underworld, mostly pickpockets', catch phrase "belly up?," Have a drink!--c. 1930-50. Prompted by the English-speaking world's toast "bottoms up!""\n\nor:\n\n"belly up to: To approach something straight on, to move straight ahead; fig., to push one's belly toward or up to something. 1953: ". . . For a fellow to belly up to a bar and buy a round of drinks. . . ." "
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Nobody really knows where the term Hoosier comes from.  There are some popular guesses, but the fact that there are about five different popular guesses just goes to show that no one really knows where the term originated.  The clip that Annie posted in her answer is a good example of how no one knows.  I would recommend reading the rest of her clip at the link she gave.  It is interesting.
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That's just like "dissin" people were trying to change it for a couple of years after Eric Sermon said dissin and it came out "dishin" because he has a lisp. I've heard both too referring to the same thing; bag & bad.
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No one knows where it really comes from.  Many people have hypotheses, but nothing definitive & irrefutable.  I have heard it myself & don't care to ever again.  It was creepy.
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I don't know, but I can guess- it looks like a contraction. Written out with spaces in it, it is 'You no gaw no'- just add an 'n', it becomes 'You no gawn no'; then, 'You no gawn know.' Finally, 'You are not going to know', or 'You will not know (this thing)'.\n\nObviously it's slang- I imagine that you might use if someone asks you a question that you don't want to answer in order to annoy the person asking you.\n\n"What do you have in the bag there?"\n\n"Younogawno, fool!"\n\nThat's the best I can do... I'd be interested if it meant anything very different than that though.
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Never heard of that one!! Despite spending even longer in England than pniccimiss!!\n\nBut there are always new slang terms evolving, so it may be in use among the 'yoof' of today!!\n; )\n\nIt's not an official or colloquial 'English' term though, but it could become one with frequent use!
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I think it's from "The Prophet" by Kahil Gibran. Not sure if I've spelled his name righ, but look it up on Google.
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Haha .... don't know really, but our daughter lives in Britain and she uses it very well now with a very "British" accent!!!\n\nThese links at least show that others are looking for its origin too!!   You never know what you'll learn by browsing YA!!!  I hope this helps.
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According to Wikipedia, origins of this saying are unknown.......
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The English language consists of many words which have germanic/celtic origins, others have latin ones. You find negation prefixes like "dis" or "im" on those words which originally come from latin. There are of course exceptions (unpleasant for example). Sometimes both possibilities exist but mean something slightly different. Compare "immortal" with "undead". But there are synonyms. For your examples:\n\nunhappy: disconsolate\ndishonest: untrustworthy\n\nIt is quite interesting to consult a thesaurus and find the equivalents with germanic/celtic origin to the latin ones and vice versa.
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When something is very obvious;\ni.e. "Fruit is totally good for you. Like,duh!"\nor if you're being ironic, which is these days more common, when it's really unobvious, or obviously untrue \ni.e. "Of course all blonde people love storms. Duh!"\n\nIt is pronounced with a long uh sound, like the end of thourough but longer.\n\nHope that helps!
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"Hella" originated in Northern California. To be specific, the Bay Area.  It has been used there for at least 10 years.  It is derived from the slang "helluva" as in "helluva good time" etc. but its usage is very flexible. It is generally applied to add emphasis, i.e. "I was hella drunk" or "he's hella stupid."\n\nI hope that answers your question!
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It's from the Romance languages such as "nombre" which start with "no"
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The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang suggests that the term may have been introduced in America about 1865 by a popular variety performer named Japanese Tommy. Other references suggest that it may have been sailors’ slang for a street in Yokohama that catered for what one might describe as the special needs of sailors. In Yokohama today a broad thoroughfare called Honcho-dori runs from the centre of the city to the port area, so one that would have been familiar to sailors (dori is the Japanese word for a road, in particular a broad or important one).\n\nWhat seems certain is that hunky-dory was a play on an existing sense of the word hunky for something that was fine, splendid or satisfactory. In turn, this probably derives from the adjective hunk, which means that one is all right or in a safe or good position. This derives from the Dutch honk, meaning “goal” or “home” in a Frisian variant of the game of tag. This word (and presumably the game, too) was said to have been taken by the Dutch to New Amsterdam, later New York, but was first recorded only around the 1840s. It has links to another reduplicated term, hunkum-bunkum. Though the first part sounds a bit like the hunker of hunker down (which is also of Dutch origin), the words seem not to be related.\n\nIt may be that hunky-dory was the result of a bilingual pun, perhaps invented because American sailors knew the word dori and prefixed it with hunky as an imagined Japanese street of earthly delights.
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Sounds hokkien, which i'm supposed to know but i don't. Need to tell me where you heard it from.