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Where I grew up we used "wicked" as an intensifier, as in "he is wicked nice." Sound any better?
by maw 13y ago
Where I grew up we used "wicked" as an intensifier, as in "he is wicked nice." Sound any better?
- BryanB55 13y agoNo, but im guessing you grew up in or near Boston?
- BlackDeath3 13y agoMy first thought as well, but my knowledge of Boston doesn't extend much farther than Good Will Hunting, so...
- brightsize 13y ago"Wicked" was extremely common in Vermont where I grew up, and I expect it still is. I sometimes find myself using it in everyday speech and it never seems to raise an eyebrow even out west here. "Friggin" is another word that I think is mostly a New England thing.
- Kluny 13y agoWhere I am "friggin" has the context of a junior high kid who thinks it's a bad swear word, but doesn't quite have the nerve to say "fuck". So you don't generally hear it from people out of their teens.
- aestra 13y agoThat's New England dialect. Almost nobody says that outside of New England but people commonly know what it means.
- dllthomas 13y agoIt was used in Perth, AU when I was there ~15 years ago.