"To Boot" Regional Slang.

[kingkoopa]

Randomly heard this today and remembered when I was living in the DMV hearing my boss say it a lot.

Had no idea wtf he was talking about and decided to look it up today.

Basically means "in addition to".

Still not a very clear definition imo.

Anyone know the origins?

Any slang you don't understand?

 

[Grine]

 

[ahat]

finessence ready live in the cupboard and give her and her man the bedroom

 

[deleted]

DCAllAfrican always calls me "moe" and I don't know how to take it...what does it mean?

 

[DCAllAfrican]

DCAllAfrican always calls me "moe" and I don't know how to take it...what does it mean?

Use it the same way folks use the word Man/Dude.

Wassup Man.
Come on Man.

 

[oidreez]

Randomly heard this today and remembered when I was living in the DMV hearing my boss say it a lot.

Had no idea wtf he was talking about and decided to look it up today.

Basically means "in addition to".

Still not a very clear definition imo.

Anyone know the origins?

Any slang you don't understand?

I received my regular paycheck with a bonus to boot


if you buy this car I'll throw in the air conditioning to boot

 

[AZwildcats]

It's a command phrase with the older white folks out here. "Let me get a #6 with some BBQ sauce to boot"

 

[deleted]

Use it the same way folks use the word Man/Dude.

Wassup Man.
Come on Man.

Thanks moe

 

[RIP sleazyy]

did not know to boot was regional

I just found out recently that other areas say “wholetime”

why do Louisiana ****** call grown men baby? on a related note why is the NO accent on a woman so god damn sexy?

 

[wayniac211]

 

[tr1ll]

The NO accent only is sexy on attractive women. When she’s a beast, it almost sounds manly af. Especially when two women keep calling each other “bruh”.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

did not know to boot was regional

I just found out recently that other areas say “wholetime”

why do Louisiana ****** call grown men baby? on a related note why is the NO accent on a woman so god damn sexy?

Is she wasn't cute you wouldn't have made that statement.

If it was JUST Black shirt, you wouldn't have said that.

 

[RIP sleazyy]

Is she wasn't cute you wouldn't have made that statement.

If it was JUST Black shirt, you wouldn't have said that.

nah I want that one too, she look like she scramble eggs with a butter knife

 

[WASPS ANDD ASPS]

yea i want boff'um

 

[Nawzlew]

"to boot" adds like extra emphasis

like .. this car has a comfy interior and 1000hp to boot

i dont think its regional tho

always thought screwed the pooch was a weird one

 

[walkingBred]

Here's what I found...

This term has nothing to do with footwear. The 'boot' is thought to be a derivative of the earlier 'bat' and bote meaning 'good or useful'. This is also the root of the word 'better'.

Forms of 'to boot' in Old English date from around 1000AD. Robert Manning of Brunne included a version of it in Langtoft's Chronicle, 1330:

"A hundreth knyghtes mo... and four hundreth to bote, squieres of gode aray."

 

[storm2006]

Randomly heard this today and remembered when I was living in the DMV hearing my boss say it a lot.

Had no idea wtf he was talking about and decided to look it up today.

How are you just now looking it up when your boss used to say it all the time? What did you do all those times he used to say it

 

[walkingBred]

always thought screwed the pooch was a weird one

Here's what I found...

Screw the pooch is a euphemism for an older military vulgarism: “**** the dog.”

It became popular in Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book The Right Stuff, which is about the Mercury space program. The astronauts used it as slang. The earliest trace of who actually converted the phrase goes back to a Yale graduate named John Rawlings who helped design the astronauts’ space suits.” Rawlings got it from a Yale friend, “the radio DJ Jack May (a.k.a. ‘Candied Yam Jackson’),” who had softened “**** the dog” to be “simultaneously less vulgar and more pleasing to the ear.”

 

[ICE CITY CF]

To boot isn't slang and it's not really regional in a US sense, it's just old and lowkey the wrong continent. That's some Queen's English ****.

 

[walkingBred]

on a related note why is the NO accent on a woman so god damn sexy?

I would guess it might have something to do with the smooth French accent notes within the slang that comes from the heavy french influence that existed in that area.

 

[finessence]

finessence ready live in the cupboard and give her and her man the bedroom

man o man..... they could feed me beanie weenies and bread. I’ll gladly sleep on a man mad palette in the basement. No pillow

 

[finessence]

did not know to boot was regional

I just found out recently that other areas say “wholetime”

why do Louisiana ****** call grown men baby? on a related note why is the NO accent on a woman so god damn sexy?

O..... M...... GODDDDDDDDDD. O.....’m GAWDDDDDDDDDD

 

[finessence]

Wazzzzzammmmmmmm’n beihhhhbeihhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[slaughterx]

DCAllAfrican always calls me "moe" and I don't know how to take it...what does it mean?

In Chicago a Mo is a black stone/black disciple.

 

[kingkoopa]

"to boot" adds like extra emphasis

like .. this car has a comfy interior and 1000hp to boot

i dont think its regional tho

always thought screwed the pooch was a weird one

Screwed the pooch = **** the bed