(Can also sometimes we switched out for retsam, a backwards spelling of "master.") Ssob: Essentially "boss" spelled backwards, this term can be used to refer to anyone you look up to or really respect.
Awit: Although this word has in the past traditionally been used to refer to a "song," many young people now use it as a contraction of aw, sakit, which means "ouch." Many millennials don't use it literally to refer to physical pain, however, and use it more as a general term to refer to a negative or undesirable situation.Memorizing vocabulary is so much easier when the original word and the slang word are inverses. It's one of those special words that we mentioned before. In Tagalog, kotseis the word for "car." If you reverse the syllables, you get t sekot, which is the Tagalog slang for car. Mom: You two will eat vegetables, OK? Beans, squash, and bitter gourd. John: What's for dinner? Barbecue chicken? Aunt Lily isn't comfortable going all by herself, so she asked Marie to come with her. Her mom was supposed to go there with another coworker, but they changed their mind today. Kara: Marie called me earlier and said her mom asked her to accompany her to a coworker's birthday party. Mom: What happened? Why are you still here? Dad: We thought Marie was picking you up at 2:30 pm today?