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BlackFaithStar [Hiatus til March] from 🇲🇾 (UTC plus 8) (Less Newbie) Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#1026: Dec 4th 2020 at 1:26:46 AM

I thought I picked up this as a slang word from my friends but at this point I've been using it even unironically to the point that I'm not certain about that origin anymore. The "word" is:

"Ambik"

How it's pronounced (in my case) is that the "Am" is like the "um" in "umpire". This isn't strict because as how slangs go, things alter from what's depicted off that word from another's tongue. The "k" in the second syllable is not pronounced, rather, the voice is halted in the middle of the vowel.

I thought it was derived from the Malay word "ambil" which means "take", but that context does not appear to make sense of the way I say this word. How I've seemed to use "ambik" thus far, from what I remember, are replacing other phrases like:

  1. Smh (Shaking my head, lyou've gotta be kidding me" or the likewise)
  2. Wow
  3. (As an indirect reply to something funny I hear)
  4. (The likewise would go for hearing something unbelievable.)

This is not a solid list at all because I honestly have no idea what I'm doing with this catchphrase :p

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Lindo-Honorindo WOOOOOOW Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
WOOOOOOW
#1027: Dec 6th 2020 at 7:54:17 AM

“Then again, aren’t we all?” Used whenever someone points out a minor flaw.

Also around the beginning of quarantine when I was at home a lot more often I developed this habit of calling my mom “Mother,” so I’d say stuff like “Mother, where’s the colander?” One of my neighbors commended me on it but I really wish I could break the habit.

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ReikoKazama Kersplat! from Tasmania, Australia Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to the music
Kersplat!
#1028: Dec 15th 2020 at 3:24:52 AM

I've been saying yeet a lot lately... dunno why lol

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TheWhistleTropes janet likes her new icon. Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
janet likes her new icon.
#1029: Dec 15th 2020 at 10:08:13 AM

"Roarning." And, of course, "peets."

Also possibly "I'm so sorry."

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madface7 Kuma appreciation gang from a Since: May, 2019 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
Kuma appreciation gang
#1030: Dec 15th 2020 at 10:34:37 AM

Thanks to KungFuCutBug, I'm starting to say "a-yo!" a lot more.

Kumatora needs to be appreciated more. Appreciate her.
BrightLight from the Southern Water Tribe. Since: May, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#1031: Dec 16th 2020 at 4:47:02 AM

"This is getting so old."

(Quoted from Kim Possible herself.)

Lindo-Honorindo WOOOOOOW Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
WOOOOOOW
#1032: Dec 16th 2020 at 8:12:24 PM

I forgot this relatively recent one: “Help us all! Help us all!” Sometimes with added fist-shaking for emphasis.

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madface7 Kuma appreciation gang from a Since: May, 2019 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
Kuma appreciation gang
#1033: Dec 17th 2020 at 5:49:41 AM

"innit"

that is all

Kumatora needs to be appreciated more. Appreciate her.
CrayonKiddo kay-o Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
HuneyB you know, like... nya! from the Since: Dec, 2020
you know, like... nya!
#1035: Dec 17th 2020 at 1:59:52 PM

I keep saying "mamma-mia" lately. I don't even know why, it just keeps showing up. Kinda pissing me off tbh.

Zanreo Gizmondo from Glitch City (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Gizmondo
#1036: Jan 9th 2021 at 4:30:08 AM

I've started ending sentences with "lol" lately lol

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TheGeekArtist08 Hello? Hello, hello? from Hurricane, Utah (no not really) Since: Feb, 2020 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Hello? Hello, hello?
#1037: Jan 9th 2021 at 6:39:53 AM

"What in the fuck"

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Novis from To the Moon's song. Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
#1038: Jan 12th 2021 at 1:10:41 PM

(Talks while inhaling) "No".

You say I am loved, when I don’t feel a thing. You say I am strong, when I think I am weak. You say I am held, when I am falling short.
ReikoKazama Kersplat! from Tasmania, Australia Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to the music
Kersplat!
#1039: Jan 14th 2021 at 4:35:23 AM

"Semantics."

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SomeLibre WELCOME BACK MOTHERFUCKER from [SERVICE UNAVAILABLE] Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: Chat, is this real?
WELCOME BACK MOTHERFUCKER
#1040: Jan 14th 2021 at 6:47:27 AM

Ending sentences with "in the house" in place of "in here"

"There's an impostor in the house!"

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BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#1041: Jan 14th 2021 at 10:50:26 AM

"That was harder than it should have been."

Whenever I have difficulty doing a task that should be simple.

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moefoxes Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Chat, is this real?
#1042: Jan 14th 2021 at 12:09:56 PM

Yo. I dunno why, I just started saying yo one day and it stuck.

Inconsistently active.
BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#1043: Jan 15th 2021 at 6:18:40 AM

"My point still stands." When someone makes a comment in an attempt to disprove my point but doesn't actually prove my point or disproves one point I made but not another.

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LaraUsername The Best Jedi Droid Since Skippy from Earth, Probably Since: Sep, 2020 Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
The Best Jedi Droid Since Skippy
#1044: Feb 4th 2021 at 2:04:31 PM

I always seem to add 'I guess' to whatever I'm saying. Especially when someone compliments me and I say 'Thanks, I guess.' I also say 'Seriously?' a lot.

BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#1045: Feb 18th 2021 at 1:53:36 PM

"Why is this my life?" is something I say whenever I screw up. Which is frequently.

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Omega-Z Gaming God from your mom's hive Since: May, 2019 Relationship Status: I love you for psychological reasons
Gaming God
#1046: Feb 18th 2021 at 5:08:15 PM

"fair enough" because it just became my default response to all statements in which it was grammatically correct, such as teacher: you have to do homework me: why teacher: because ill fail you if you don't me: fair enough

also, "badumtiss". me and a close friend were messing with google translating short stories and one of em had a rim shot in there, typed as "ba-dum-tss" but it read it as "badumtiss", all one word, and we just started using it as a name for anything funny, so a funny joke would be "pretty badumtiss".

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ReikoKazama Kersplat! from Tasmania, Australia Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to the music
Kersplat!
#1047: Feb 18th 2021 at 11:12:32 PM

I tend to say "thing" when I don't know how to describe something.

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BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#1048: Feb 19th 2021 at 5:46:37 AM

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I do basically the same thing but instead I say "That's fair."

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Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Ramen Fairy
#1049: Mar 16th 2021 at 10:25:47 PM

“Cool”, pronounced “kewl” like Cartman does.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
ChicoTheParakeet Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]

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