slang for american
 

if your not from the united states, what slang word do you use for people who live in the united states?

ex: mexico = gringo...

I think the Japanese refer to all westerners, but particularly Americans, as "gaijin"

-Mikey

My Aussie wife has referred to me (jokingly, I think) as a <b>Seppo</b>.

It's the colorful Aussie (or Cockney) Rhyming slang. Seppo is short for Septic Tank, which rhymes with Yank.

gaijin..

yank

"stupid americans" ;)

I try not to think about it.

Yanks, yankies.

Yank or Merkin

a-yup

Those guys over there with the horrible social problems and the really big army who are amzing in bed...

You're damn right.

i prefer to be referred to as a "foreign devil" or even better, an "infidel." makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside to know they care.

I think 'those ignorant assholes' sounds familiar...

btw, I'm American... just judging off how most the world hates us.

From South Park:

What do you call Amelican with 2 PHds in Physics and Electrical Engineering?

What?

"Stupid Amelican!"

yeah, that's what i thought too

definately the ole "septic tank".

seppo, and yank are the most common terms round here.

but we also have a term, ´...only in America´ - which refers to anything really strange... shows such as the Springer Show generate this term regularly.

in asia alot of places still call us 'Joe' short for GI Joe

Don't assume what you see on Springer is what happens in all of America. That show's fucking weird, even for us. :)

People generally just shake their heads, with a sad little smile, while saying "Americans..."

LOL, yeah heard that one a lot. I guess that's due to how many people are over here in the US. Lots of people = plenty of odd balls.

Only in Amercia can a poor black boy grow up to become a rich white woman (In reference to Mike Jackson).

Yeah...but you can still make it! I think you'd have a really, really hard time filling more than an episode or two here.

I tend to use Seppo most of the time. It's Yank if I'm in particularly refined company.
(By the way, Southerners, please don't be offended, but to us, you're all yanks as well)

dude

hey, doesn't merkin mean fake chest hair? :p

Being American, I hear a good deal of "Stupid" "Idiot" and "Great Satan"

I need to stop watching the news.

I thought it was fake hair for a region somewhere slightly south of the chest...

I'd have to say yankee is the most common english term I've heard.

<b>"i prefer to be referred to as a "foreign devil" or even better, an "infidel." makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside to know they care."</b>


Thanks, phred, that about does it for me too.

Personally, I think "infidel" has a nice ring to it.

I've heard a lot of terms used to describe Americans...! Most of the terms referring to the tourists in the LOUD quasi-Burberry check trousers & pink Pringle sweaters who parade annually around central Edinburgh trying to "prove" their Scottish roots by picking up some of their "Clan" Tartan.

At times it almost seemed a shame to tell them that there was NO clan "MacSchwartzenburger"... So one enterprising guy modelled what constitutes "Tartan" and now produces some very authentic looking check patterns through a computer controlled loom for anyone who wants one. He even keeps a database of the "New Clan names" so all the "MacSchwartzenburgers" who go to his shop all get the same tartan!

hell some of us see the starange here and say only in america

"Bloody yanks."

Hmm, I haven't hear the Seppo one. Then again, I live in a farming town in the middle of the U.S.

Only evey heard ye called yanks over here

the dudes below.....

(being from Canada eh)

One Ive heard quite a bit (but dont agree with) is "Fucking Americans"

"doo-dahs" along with several not so very flattering ones that I won't bother to repeat.

Yup....gotta go with "Stupid Americans".

I bet alot of Isrealis call us gentiles

merkin eh?

not just for yanks, but when in hawaii, i found that the epithet for any non-islander is "haole."

i asked a tshirt printing shop to make me a haole hat & they wouldn't do it - said i might get beat up!

Lived in New Zealand for a while, where there was an RV rental company that actually put "CAUTION! American Driver" signs in the windows of RV's rented by yanks.

Nothing gives you national pride like watching one of those things try to back up through traffic, beeping like crazy, hitting stuff, and warning the world about Americn drivers.