* Adda haku – Place to hang out
* Area – For a controlling space of a Rowdy.
* Aykollodu – Literally means picking up. Used as a slang for dead/died. Eg : ivnu ivattu aykontaane maga.
* Awaaz haaku – To shout at.
* Blade haaku – To talk at length to an uninterested listener.
* Bachaav – To save
* Chachaaku – Actually mean hit well, used to refer when somebody has done really well in exams.
* Chakka – Means shemale
* Chamcha – A sidekick (Literally: a spoon)
* Chatri – cunning person; not to be trusted
* Chindi – Perform exceptionally well (exaam chind uDayisbitta)
* Chitranna – Indicates a bad shape
* Bollisu – nicely shave a person of his money.
* Dabba – An empty can – for an insensible/useless person.
* Dagal Hodiyodu – like ‘Blade hakodu’; refers to someone narrating false stories.
* Ghingchak – Means one who making compliment. Used for vibrant and fluorescent colour dressed characters.
* Dow – Meaning a Girl friend or Boy friend
* Figarru – Pretty girl
* Pantar/Panta – (Means a big rowdy )From Pandit for someone who is a master. Also used for betters/match fixers.
* Kaage harsu – Literally to fly away a crow. Tofool
* Kachchko – Bite (literally to bite) used to mean to linger on may be in a traffic / protect wicket in cricket
* Kacchu (Kacchings) – in its classical sense- to bite; to us Bangaloreans, it is to talk incessantly without any meaning or even lying sometimes.
* Kalachiko/Kataysko/Aepase – To fled out of the scene.
* Karaab – Hindi word meaning worse. Usually used by Engineering Students.
* Karga – Karaga – Literally a dance form to show off
* Kichayisu – To trigger a fight.
* Kudumi – Bookworm
* Line Hodi – To hit on someone
* Loosu – A insensible person.
* Ganchali – To indicate someone who is behaving out of the way and in a irritating manner.
* Gandhi – To indicate a person who is very innocent or behaves like innocent.
* Goobe – Stupid
* Gubold – Alias for Guldu or Guldu khan.
* Guldu – An Idiot
* Guru – Some one who new guy. For someone who is learned.
* Hava Idu – To keep scared of ones.
* Hoge/Kenda – A boy said to girl go away. Dead/caught in grave danger and also means to die(fire put in front for the person house when he is dead)
* Juttu – A Novice, a rookie, not matured – still a kid
* Laththe – Clumsy
* Katthi – Knife. Literally a sword means Super.
* Kolte/Kwashtu – Waste person
* Konga – Kongas or Kongaties – Black Tamils who are living in Bangalore
* Koole – Means have fun.
* Kwaatle/Kirik – (fight) Person who always induce problems
* Maga – (In Banglore boys calling to their friends.) literally means son/one who is young,If you go to some remote village in south karnataka (around mandya) Older people usually use the word. changed especially in bangalore, where it used to speak to some one who we know well like a friend, it closely maps to the English word Dude.
* Meter -( how much courage you have.) Measure of bravery by asking crudely Meter estidhe or How much Meter do you have. often compared to Auto Rickshaw meters of Bangalore which jump at road humps and are notoriously dear even for a short distance
* Maaruva Katte – (A place of selling at one place.)Meaning a katte (elevated space) for maarata(selling).
* Mannu Hodkondu malko – Dead/Buried inside the sand
* Minchinguu – To show-off. Minchu -meaning lightening streak. Normally used to denote Muslim Burkha clad women who put chamki – shining apparels. Used for someone wearing gaudy coloured dress.
* Mundayisu – (Means cheating some one.)means to nicely shave a person of his money.
* Mundevu – munde means basically widow (woman whose spouse has died ) mundevu is normally used to scold the small children with out taking the meaning of munde (its like scolding in love )
* Oost – Gone Case
* Paachko – have a sound sleep
* Paaketuu- country liquor.
* Pandu – Gaandu
* Pataysu -(Teasing the girl.) To make girl fall in love
* Penga – Monkey (Fool)
* Pekkru – Person who is fool/dumb
* Piteel – Actually means Violin, So, used to indicate lies or words of no use.
* Punda/Pokiri/Chappar – equalling a Loafer.
* Puntar – Ustad, Skilled
* Qwarteruu- A quarter of country liquor.
* Rowdy – A Rowdy.
* Saabi – A Muslim.
* Sakkath – Super .
* Shishya/Sisya/Maga – For a friend – considering as a disciple.
* Sikkapatte – very much
* Soda – One wearing spectacles, usually with high power or thick glasses
* Tagdu – A person who is dumb.
* Tinnu – referred to some false Story (namage tinn kattbEDa – Don’t lie to us)
* Topi haaku – To make a person wear a cap(topi) – symbolic of making him a fool.
* Tussu – Originates from fire crackers that don’t go off (Tuss-pataki), refers to a person who is not capable.
* Yedda/Yabuda – Fool/Brainless
* Yescape / Sink aagu – Derived from ‘Escape’. Introduced by Jaggesh. Means to Run away from trouble.
* Maja – Enjoy
Some English words commonly used with Kannada include image, level, demand, guarantee, by-two tea, IT/BT(software), road, coffee, tax, etc. Lot of slangs can be heard not only in slums and under privilged areas but even with politicians which mostly equal physical and child abuses.
[edit] Terms in sports
[edit] Cricket
* Kolte Batsman – For someone who covers the stumps and smashes powerfully on On-side but equally incompetent when it comes to Off- side.
* Ota / Kudure(literally horse) – In cricket commentary it is used for denoting a run.
* Pinda – For a dead ball which comes rolling to a batsman.
* thootu – For a misfield.
* Thukali Batsman – A Batsman who always gets consistent low scores.
* Pitch Catch- A one pitch catch usually used in gully cricket.
* Lodde – A left-handed batsman/bowler
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