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FOGEDDABODDIT!

What New Yorkers say to each other in moments of exasperation/resignation.

(Pronunciation varies according to borough.)
FOGEDDABODDIT! by louisa November 3, 2003

Fogedaboudit 

Italian American Jargon commonly used in NYC Metro area and can be used as an adjective to add emphasis or effect to a statement, such as Hyperbole.
Vinny: Hey Louie, I can't tank You guys enough for all Yous done for my Boy Jimmy.
Louie: Fogedaboudit, Vince You Family.

Bobby: Hey Tony!? Was up wit the new Broad, Antoinette? Ahh?
Tony: Fogedaboudit! She Vincenzos God Daughter, whadayawanna swim with da fishes...
Fogedaboudit by Pelle III January 9, 2019

fogeddaboudit 

What Bert and Marshall Dodge should have done instead of setting out in da "Bluebird" on dat fateful day, when said fishing boat --- due to da entire area's being totally cloaked in one of Coastal Maine's infamous atmosphere-at-maximum-humidity intervals --- had its unfortunate encounter with da the irresponsibly-speeding-in-zero-visibility steamer "Bangor Packet".
I don't mind sailing in light mist, but when it gets to "thick-as-pea-soup" conditions, fogeddaboudit!
fogeddaboudit by QuacksO January 3, 2024

figeddaboudit

What you say to mean you don't wanna either serve or partake of small highly-tasty-but-laxative-bearing fruits.
Da buffet-table at my friend's birthday party had a bowl of temptingly-aromatic "Buddha's fruit" as an appetizer, but I knew dat I was already majorly plagued with "da trots", and so I hadda figeddaboudit, and instead just selected a few grapes and other small fruits.
figeddaboudit by QuacksO January 3, 2024

bang a you-ee 

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"
hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee
Word of the Day on July 19, 2026
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026