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What is the weirdest word you learned on your mission or in the MTC?

My example: Hud. The elders in my mission used this word in place of crap or the "sh" word. It was commonly used in the declaration, "I have to take a hud".

I had never heard this word before my two year incarceration. I have never used it since.

"Fetch" or "Fetchen" in place of the F word was a funny one.

I always thought Mormon cuss words were weird. I never understood them or used them. I always wrote it off as a strange cultural thing, like mexican men and their pencil thin mustaches, and multicolored jeans.

silentkid wrote:What is the weirdest word you learned on your mission or in the MTC?

My example: Hud. The elders in my mission used this word in place of crap or the "sh" word. It was commonly used in the declaration, "I have to take a hud".

I had never heard this word before my two year incarceration. I have never used it since.

'Till today!

KA

silentkid wrote:What is the weirdest word you learned on your mission or in the MTC?

My example: Hud. The elders in my mission used this word in place of crap or the "sh" word. It was commonly used in the declaration, "I have to take a hud".

I had never heard this word before my two year incarceration. I have never used it since.

My mission's sublanguage:

Bap: baptism
Fry: Burned-out missionary who doesn't follow the rules.
Red Hot: Overzealous rule follower.
White Hot: Self-righteous, overzealous rule follower.
Fog: Derogatory term for not-very-bright investigator.
Brown Unit: Derogatory term for Bolivian native.
Brown-Out: Uncontrollable diarrhea.
Snake: Any girl interested in missionaries.
Fall: To have sex.

I can't believe I remember all this crap.

Edit: Most of these are just stupid, but the derogatory terms really bothered me. How can you expect to bring people to Christ when you see them as "brown units"?

silentkid wrote:My example: Hud.

Aahhh. You're bringing back memories. I had totally forgotten about that word. I'll have to rack my brain now. I know we had a few strange words in my mission.

I remember "Trunky". It meant the Elder was homesick, as in ready to pack up his trunk and go home.

I hated 'Hud.' I did end up using 'fetch,' I have to admit. I don't continue to use it, but I did for a time. Thanks for the bad memories.

trunky (see Gaz's explanation)
hump day=your half way mark

And there was a word, I wish I could remember it...I think it was triffs (not sure). It was the word for local girls who tempt the elders.

This hud business disturbs me. Why does it sound so gross to me?

There were some words in my mission. Some were based on German words, some not.

Pad = apartment (not claiming the LDS invented this one, but this was commonly used, and is otherwise uncommon in English)

Schwarz = adjective meaning a rule breaker. Comes from "schwartz fahren" which in Switzerland means riding the bus or train without a valid ticket. "Schwartz fahren verboten." was seen on signs. Schwarz actually means "black", but calling a missionary "schwartz" had nothing to do with the black race. A schwartz missionary was one who would break rules and not work hard and whatnot.

Flug = "day trip", from the German "Ausflug" which really does mean a trip. A Swisss railway system book that covered the train schedules for the entire country was called the Fluger's Bible. On my mission we occasional had what we called a Special P-Day, on which we were allowed to go anywhere in the mission, from as early as we wanted, to as late as we wanted, as long as we got home that night. Missionaries would often go camp out at another set of missionaries' pad so that they could begin their Flug close to a major railway hub or station and take literally the first train out a couple hours before dawn, and then not get home till like midnight or later, on the last train.

We didn't have that many baptisms, so "bap" wasn't used in our mission. They were so rare that we could afford the extra two syllables whenever we had occasion to use the word. :-)