"Wicked," as in Pete's Wicked Ale?
Carol
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From: Eric v.d. Luft, Ph.D., M.L.S., Curator of Historical Collections
[mailto:lufte@upstate.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:19 AM
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Subject: Re: cool/cold
> Sweeeeeet is like soooo 2003 -- our teenager (actually now 20) prefers
> "wicked" and ends most conversations (to his parental units' delight) with
the word
> "peace"
Oh wow! Far out, man. That's stone retro! Like "wicked" is ancient Maine
slang, meaning "very" or "extremely." At Bowdoin in the early 1970s we
said "wicked" all the time, e.g., "wicked pissah" (a very cool thing),
"wicked tit" (a very easy course), "wicked good fire" (a very fine
performance or an extremely good attitude), or "wicked hairy" (very risky).
And like "peace" man, I believe is from the 1960s.
Cool!
Eric
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