Name: AMERICAN SLANG: EXTRA, CRINGEY, BASIC
Uploaded: 2020-04-04T05:37:07.000Z
Duration: 3 min 15 s
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It's the summer of slang and today we're going over the terms 'extra', 'cringey', and 'basic'.

This summer, we're exploring American slang.

Today we're going over some terms that you don't want anyone saying when they're

'Extra' means trying too hard, over the top, excessive,

Doing more than what the situation calls for.

Like, if someone's laughing really hard at all your jokes, and it's unnatural and

too much, your jokes aren't that funny, you might say, 'He's so extra'.

Or, if someone wants to go to the doctor because she has a little cough, she's so extra.

Like 'on fleek', which we went over in video 1,

this is not a real word in American English.

But 'cringey', turning this verb into and adjective, is not in most dictionaries yet.

Cringey, which can be spelled one of two ways, means, embarrassing to look at or see.

An adjective describing something at which you might cringe.

For example, if there is someone who is very awkward hard to carry on a conversation with,

and you're trying to talk to them, your friend my say, I saw you trying to talk to John.

Or, she tripped in the hallway and then started crying.

Or, if someone's really nervous and doing a terrible job with his presentation,

If someone or something is basic, it's uninteresting, uncool, boring, very mainstream.

What do you think of Megan's new boyfriend?

If they do, I know I need to start thinking of something more interesting,

These are all two-syllable words with stress on the first syllable.

Challenge: put one of them in a sentence and put it in the comments below.

Click here to see all my Summer of Slang videos.

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AMERICAN SLANG: EXTRA, CRINGEY, BASIC

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