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Saturday 6 September, 2008
 03:25 | 26/May/2008 |  10 Comment(s)
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A -Z of Punjabi Vocabulary

A for Adjust
Punjabis will always ask you to adjust whenever they want to push you
around.

B for Backside
It has nothing to do with your butt, it is an instruction to go to the
rear of a building, or a block, or a shop or whatever.

C for Cloney.
It's not a process for replicating sheep, nor is its first name George.
It is merely an area where people live e.g...Dfence Cloney.

D for Daru-sharu.
The most popular health & energy drink. It is believed that there must
have been some error in the scientific conclusion that life began with
water.


E for Expanditure.
Punjabis are never shy of spending money - the latest cars, gadgets,
marble floors: their ambitions are always expanding.

F for Fackade.
Even though it sounds like a bad word it is actually just the front of a
building (with backside being the back, of Course) (if you didn't get
this, think Facade)


G for Gaddi.
The way a Punjabi can pilot his gaddi puts any F1 driver to shame.
(If the Grand Prix does come to Delhi there's no way a Schumaker,
Hamilton, Alonso or Kimi can overtake sadda Balvinder, Jasvinder,
Sukhvinder or Harvinder.)

H for Ho Jayega Ji.
The moment you hear that you have to be careful because you can be
reasonably sure it's not going to happen.


I for Intezaar.
To know more about it see P.

J for Jindagi.
If there's one person who knows how to live life to the fullest it's the
Punjabi.

K for Khanna, Khurana, Khosla etc.
The Punjabi equivalent of the Joneses (e.g. keeping up with the
Khoslas')

L for Lovely.
Unfortunately she almost never is.


M for Mrooti.
The car that an entire generation of Punjabis were in love with.

N for No Problem Ji.
To find out how that works see H.

O for Oye.
This can be a surprise (Oyye!), a greeting (Oyy!), anger (OYY!)
or pain (Oy hoi, Oy hoi...).

P for Panj Mint.
No matter how near (1 km) or far (100 km) a Punjabi is from you
he always says he'll reach you in panj mint.

Q for Queue.
A word completely untranslatable into Punjabi - they just dont get the
meaning of the word.

R for Riks.
Punjabi is always prepared to take one, even if the odds are stacked
against him.

S for Sweetie.
Bunty, Pappu and Sonu, who seem to own half the cars in Delhi.

T for official bird of Punjab.
Tandoori chicken.

U for uncle ji.
When you lose your sex appeal and become 'Uncle-ji'

V for VIP.
Phone numbers @ Rs 15 lakh and counting.

W for Whan
As in 'Whan are you coming, ji?'

X for the many X-rated.
Words that flow freely in all Punjabi conversations.

Y for 'You Nonsense'.
When anger replaces vocabulary in a shouting match.

Z for Zigzag.
Please refer to G, M and P

:)

Disclaimer : The Punjabis who read this, please don't take offence. I am myself looking for the person who sent me this. He is absconding, presumably hit by a Mrooti.

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