A bengali will instantly identify with this words. Not so busy but busy pipul (people) who do read newspapers but are updated as per their understanding the hell of the things about anything under the sun will aadda maro and talk like genius. you will see lot of politics and football being discussed.

literally means "dont eat my testes," used widely in mumbai to denote anger over someone boring u with his speech or conversation.

It is actually orginated in tamil nadu. It means backlash or an unexpected, wrong-side twist in the story.....

The act of pasting someone at something. Often used as a threat.

Used as an expression of interest, usually feigned, by an Indian who thinks he is an angrez speaking Hindi, uff. Has to have the right convented accent or else it comes off as Dehati.

To fuel up an argument or quarrel. To instigate a fight.

Delicacy served in all night shift thattukadas worth their porotta, perhaps not as high in demand as beef fry, nevertheless, a popular thattukada speshaality that one mustinshould have for the true thattukada experience. For the slightly peckish, you can have a singil aamblate (made from one egg) and to satisfy a ravenous appetite, there is a doubil and even a tribil aamblate (yep, two or more egss) option! Deliciously yellow and soft, slightly crisp around the edges, you can have it plain or "speshal" - with chillies, onions and masala. Served with plain brudd or bruddost. Yummm! Also known as bruddaamblate or eggaamblate. So who cares if it has a mild newspaper and kerosene flavour! It never fails to hit the spot!
Some headweight jaada parties call it omlette.

Used at the end of anything that denotes surprise or/and questions the second person's ignorance about the topic in discussion.

the extreme joy of gobbling down hot spicy food followed by the excruciating discomfort the next morning....

Derived from the largely popular 'yaar' used everywhere in North India. Aara has arisen due to the peculiar accent of the people of the southern districts of Himachal as well as their propensity to shorten words.

Its usage is the same as 'friend' or 'mate'. And is liberally used during conversations with long lost 'aaras'.

the common man, you, me, us, voters, non-voters, husbands, wives, homosexuals, lesbians, etc..

A deliberately misspelt variation of the word "awesome" by the ABCDs and such likes, to subconsciously impose a pseudo-superiority over angrezi and displaying a i-know-it-all-yet-i-know-my-roots attitude!

literally, torture

No chance, boss. Impossible.

"Oh my lady!". Used as an exclamation when a woman is the target of said phrase in Chennai/ Tamil Nadu.

Mallu colloquial word used to refer to someone posh,elitist or upper class.

When a Telugu man is running extremely late and someone asks him where he is, he uses this term to be vague about his whereabouts.

Telugu version of "You wish" or "Ya right" . Used when someone asks you to do something preposterous for them.

This is a word we will be hearing a lot in the near future. AADHAR means "support" and/or "foundation" and is the name for the ambitious project to give every Indian a unique 12 digit identifier based on fingerprint and biometric information. This is the kind of enthu cutlet project we love.
While it will be fraught with challenges, in a country where identity is always mediated through group associations (caste, religion etc.), this is the first attempt at viewing Indians as a collection of individuals. All types of Indians - from naughty indian uncles to sandra from bandras to sofa sadhus to tapori types will have an ID card. 2.4 billion eyes will be scanned.

Do you have buttons for eyes?

Punjabi word that means 'yes' or 'affirmative'.

Whoever told you Punjabis say 'haan' didn't know Punjabi, or didn't know the difference between propah Punjabi and propah Hindi. Simsimply they are confusing one and all, I tell you.

It simply means : You've spent twice as much as you've earned.

This Indian phrase was very popular in the first half of the previous century, but was lost to successive generations of Indians once the aanna was phased out. It was inevitably part of the sermon given to spendthrifts and compulsive shoppers who consistently refused to live within their means.

Today, it survives in the lexicons of many senior citizens, who often use it to lecture their spoilt grandchildren, not realising that eng persons today have no idea what an aanna is.

Trivia for all curious cats : 8 aannas or 'atthanni' is equal to half a rupee.

Erstwhile Indian currency unit, equal to 1/16th of a rupee. It was discontinued ten years after India gained independence, when the currency was decimalised.

Indian grandparents often mention it when talking about their carefree childhoods.

Not to be confused with Anna Hazare.

Popular rhyme sung by little girls in Delhi when playing an intricate game of clapping. Somewhat nonsensical, but that's what it makes it so much fun.

The game always ends with the girls trying to thwack each other on the head, in time with the word 'Ganja', which means 'bald'. The first one to do it wins and walks away with a triumphant grin.

Normally played between two girls while others watch. A single mistake in either the clapping sequence or the wordings of the rhyme requires that the girl making the mistake stop and allow the next girl to try her hand at completing the rhyme flawlessly.

Ask.

Hindi name for the game Hide-and-Seek.

Sometimes used in the context of a budding Indian romance amongst eng persons, especially when they are coyly making eyes at each other.

common lingo these days after this phrase became popular in "3 idiots" movie. It actually means "all is well"...

An officer. Of the government.

Popular childhood nonsense rhyme. Spoof of the song of the same name from the Hindi film Jagriti (1954), which was originally intended to instill national pride into children in post-independance India.

The 1980's version was created by mischevious brats, who were euphoric after the iconic triumph of the Indian Cricket team at the World Cup in 1982. The fierce rivalry between the two cricket mad nations of India and Pakistan is clearly visible in the reference to Kapil Dev(Indian Team) and Imran Khan(Pakistani Team). Long after the victorious cries of the masses had died down, the silly song stubbornly survived in Naarth Indian schools, passed on by each generation of school kids to the next, and entertained them all during a boring ride in the school bus.

Spoof was always sung in the same tune as the original.

Mother's(aai) husband(gho); literally your father.

Mother fucker

A phrase in Hindi meaning “the common man.” So prevalent in television networks to day that it is worming its way into news reports in English language newspapers and magazines. I wonder when the gender bias inherent in this phrase is going to be removed: “aadmi” is certainly not “aurat.” Of course there is the “aam janta,” about which, elsewhere…

A phrase in Hindi meaning “the general public," now widely used in the English language media, including of the print variety.

"Aai cha gho" in marathi literally means Mother's husband (Aai cha = Mother's & gho = husband).. sometimes used as an exclamation or friendly abuse

A very distant relative, a vague connection...

Hey... whats up...?!

a phrase used to indirectly say 'its better you dont do anything'. used when someone runs out of patience explaining an action to another person.

Specific to the Southern Railways food vendors that plied the passengers with an unending stream of "eatables" from the time the train "left" until it "reached" The final item was the "ASSOTTACAE". A brown box filled with the most billious green and pink "Assorted Cakes"

to sit on the ground with the legs crossed.

At this specific moment in time, currently, presently, these days...

Literally, "Today" "On this exact date" or "In today's day and age"

Used to compare the state of affairs between today's date and an earlier date. So the comparison to today's specific date is meant to emphasize the irony of the situation.

used to decribe a potential girlfriend or a committed girlfriend

The magic Tamil phrase that, when appended to any English sentence or word immediately transforms it into an interrogative, no need for all these fancy-shmancy subject-pronoun-verb transformation and all that naansins.

I will see your subjunctive, french grammar and raise you an aa?

A self-consciously intellectual person (usually Bengali). Derived from the French intellectuel.

To result in failure. aapu is a triangular shaped wedge of metal used to split wooden logs by carpenters. This term means that whatever you have done has been "split" by the wedge so to speak.

An act of firing several fire crackers at a time. Mostly prevalent at the time of Diwali, or when the Indian Team wins a cricket match. Massive Aatish baazi is banned now in most of the states, due to the rising noise and air pollution caused by the screams (mostly curses) and farts of obnoxiously drunk people indulging in the act, while in action. Aatish baazi is also reported to cause wide noise and air pollution by itself.

Could be translated as mango man in Hindi but keeping in mind the anti-corruption fever, for time being we translate aam aadmi as common man only to avoid any possible blasphemy against the cause.
The Indian aam aadmi has a very erratic and self-contradictory deposition.He gets very impulsive when he reads about corruption scams in local newspapers and wants to join the anti corruption movement on the spot but at the very next moment he attains a boner seeing malikka Sherawat(A hollywood actress) wearing Nagin costume when he turns to page three.And the very next day he bribes the Traffic police to allow him to wear a Strapless helmet.
Unemployed aam aadmi's join anti-corruption boisterous rallies for free food channelized by opportunistic demagogues driven my dogmatic doctrines in a pseudo democratic dystopia where open minded people sell Nehru caps and Reshma Aunties enjoy breaking news warming theirs Sofa's.

The word was popularized by bus conductors in the city of Bangalore, but the origin is not yet clear. It could mean Right! as in Right, we can now go... or could have been derived from Alright... let's go on... Irrespective of what it came from, what we do know is that, once said, most people in vehicular control, prefer getting mobile and moving on.

Basically is an exclamation used any where and every were...

Note: phonetic variations of this exist, so we've published these as non-duplicates.

means eager or quite inclined towards doing something, often used for a person who is excited about doing the action being referred to

Maka paao foul mouth word for motherf***er

You would not have enjoyed an Indian cricket telecast if you did not hear this moan by Nayan "Aai Ga" Mongia on every ball when Kumble was bowling..... Oh yes, some fans, would run away after the match ended with the stump microphones, in the grand belief that without it, they wont have to listen to it again.

But mere mortals like you and me, we use it convey anguish, despair, pity, empathy, emotions and what not....

And those who are the language police use it to call out their moms...
After all, it simply means "Mom...."

Hyderabadi old city Autoricksha driver's pronounciation for his vehicle

Means 'come bull, hit me'. Used to describe someone's actions when they have invited trouble upon themselves. Identical to the phrase Simply going snake taking and putting in pockit which is inspired by a Tamil saying.

Original version of "OMG": oh my god

LET COME, LET COME....

Such a colourful and melodic word that it has its own song in bollywood penned none other than Javed Akhtar.
Please refer to the smash hit, blockbuster song from Angaarey......

Akshay Kumar has sung and enacted this word's philosophical significance to the common man.... Even the origin of the word has been wonderfully explained right at the beginning of the song...

My apologies, but I could not do a better job than the lyricist Javed Akhtar and Music composer Aadesh Shrivastav.... Enjoy while you learn while you dance.....

The South Indian equivalent of 'Yeah right!!'. If you say something that is hard to believe or sounds ridiculous, you'll hear the Tamil word Aama (meaning 'yes' ) stretched and used this way - Aaaama. It is usually said in a flat tone and followed by a sarcastic statement.

The notorious sound that litters a certain class of incessant talkers whose only intention is to yap and yap about themselves but who, during their course of a misspent life, have somehow managed to notice that there needs to be a hapless audience that they need to spew their verbal diarrhea upon and that this unfortunate victim also needs to be acknowledged as alive and breathing for the sake of the other surrounding unfortunate peripheral audience and therefore this first poor bugga needs to make some noises occasionally through reacting to his "aayttha ?"

The suave, dashing, moustachiod & fit baton twirling Insfector Rajkumar (who JUST figured out through a series of complicated clues that the murderer is not Koli Fayaz as he thought, but the beauteous Kothmir Kalyani. Koli Fayaz was actually the murderEE!) would say 'but' like this.

Female servant.

Kannada phrase meaning "En route."