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What does "meh" mean? Is that english?
by asu_thomas 3y ago
What does "meh" mean? Is that english?
- sircastor 3y ago"Meh" is a casual response that means "this does not matter much". I don't know that it's proper English by any means, but it is certainly a common colloquialism. A cursory search suggests that it's imported from yiddish. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meh
- asu_thomas 3y agoI have never seen it used outside of Hacker News.
- speff 3y agoIt's not an uncommon expression. I searched the term in a chat room my friends (of varying professional backgrounds) have used over the past 5 years. There were about 200 instances of us using the word.
- asu_thomas 3y ago[flagged]
- maxbond 3y agoPlease refrain from being nasty to people going out of their way to answer your question. Any longtime English speaker is qualified to make observations about what is happening in their linguistic community. They went the extra mile to quantify it for you (in a community other than HN, in direct response to your question). You are free to choose how much weight you assign to their observation, and it's fine if it differs from your experience, but it's uncalled for to ask "what they're smoking."
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- adastra22 3y agoNative English speaker here. It’s an extremely common expression in some regions. The main character of the Emoji movie is named “meh”.
- arrosenberg 3y agoIts Yiddish, but came into popular use because of an episode of the Simpsons.