# Wordhurst

> Wordhurst explains English words in plain language: synonyms, meanings, slang, confusing words, spelling and grammar, with real examples and dictionary sources.

Every page gives a quick answer first, then examples written by our editors, common mistakes, an FAQ and the dictionary sources it was checked against.

## Text and Slang

- [Text and Slang](https://www.wordhurst.com/slang/): What text abbreviations and internet slang mean, where they come from and how people actually use them.
- [FAFO Meaning: What Does FAFO Mean in a Text?](https://www.wordhurst.com/slang/fafo-meaning/): FAFO stands for f*** around and find out. In a text it is a warning or a joke that says if you keep pushing your luck, you will face the results. People also use it after the fact, when someone already got what was coming.
- [FMU Meaning: What Does FMU Mean in Slang?](https://www.wordhurst.com/slang/fmu-meaning/): FMU stands for f*** me up. In texts it usually means something affected you strongly, like a joke that made you laugh hard, a sad song that hit you, or a week that wore you down. It is crude, so keep it for friends.
- [FUPA Meaning: What Does FUPA Mean in Slang?](https://www.wordhurst.com/slang/fupa-meaning/): FUPA stands for fat upper pubic area. It is slang for the soft layer of fat on the lower belly, just above the groin. People use it in jokes, memes and self-teasing posts, but it is casual and a bit crude, so it does not belong in polite talk.
- [Huzz Meaning: What Does Huzz Mean in Slang?](https://www.wordhurst.com/slang/huzz-meaning/): Huzz is slang for girls or women, usually as a group. It is a respelling of hoes with the -uzz ending made popular by rizz, so the huzz are here means the girls have arrived. It is jokey online, but it carries the same rude root as hoes.
- [MYH Meaning: What Does MYH Mean in a Text?](https://www.wordhurst.com/slang/myh-meaning/): In a text, MYH most often means miss you, hun (or miss you, honey). It is a short, warm way to say you miss someone. Some people use it for my heart, a pet name for someone they love, and a few use it for miss you heaps.
- [OD Meaning: What Does OD Mean in Slang?](https://www.wordhurst.com/slang/od-meaning/): In slang OD means very, extremely or too much. That's OD funny means it is really funny, and you're OD means you are overdoing it. It comes from OD, short for overdose, and the meaning shifted from too much of a drug to too much of anything.
- [SYBAU Meaning: What Does SYBAU Mean in Slang?](https://www.wordhurst.com/slang/sybau-meaning/): SYBAU stands for shut your b**** a** up. It is a rude, blunt way to tell someone to stop talking, used in arguments and sometimes as a joke between close friends. It is not a nice phrase, even when it is meant playfully.
- [TMB Meaning: What Does TMB Mean in Slang?](https://www.wordhurst.com/slang/tmb-meaning/): TMB most often means text me back. It is a quick way to ask someone to reply when they are free. On social apps it can also mean tag me back, and in Spanish chats it is short for tambien, which means also or too.
- [Unc Meaning: What Does Unc Mean in Slang?](https://www.wordhurst.com/slang/unc-meaning/): Unc is short for uncle. In slang it means a person, usually a man, who is getting old or acts older than his age, often said with affection. Unc status means you have reached the age where young people see you as old.
- [WBU Meaning: What Does WBU Mean in Text?](https://www.wordhurst.com/slang/wbu-meaning/): WBU means what about you. Someone types it after sharing their own answer so you can share yours, like 'just got home, wbu?'. It is friendly, casual and used on every chat app.
- [WYGG Meaning: What Does WYGG Mean in a Text?](https://www.wordhurst.com/slang/wygg-meaning/): WYGG means what you got going. It is a casual way to ask someone what they are up to or what plans they have. Some people also use it for what you gonna get, usually when talking about food, shopping or gifts.
- [WYTB Meaning: What Does WYTB Mean in Slang?](https://www.wordhurst.com/slang/wytb-meaning/): WYTB means what you talking bout, short for what are you talking about. People send it when they are confused, surprised or don't believe what someone just said. Less often it means what you tryna be, a question about someone's goals or behavior.
- [YFM Meaning: What Does YFM Mean in Text?](https://www.wordhurst.com/slang/yfm-meaning/): YFM stands for you feel me. People put it at the end of a text to ask if you understand, relate to or agree with what they just said. It works like 'you know what I mean?' and is friendly, not rude.

## Word Meanings

- [Word Meanings](https://www.wordhurst.com/meaning/): Plain-English definitions with pronunciation, word origin, examples and the mistakes people make with each word.
- [Anxiety Etymology: How a Latin Word for Choking Became Worry](https://www.wordhurst.com/meaning/anxiety-etymology/): Anxiety comes from Middle English anxiete, borrowed from French and Latin. The Latin source is anxietas, worry, from anxius, worried or troubled. Anxius in turn comes from the base of angere, which meant to choke or to cause pain.
- [Magic Etymology: The Persian Roots of the Word Magic](https://www.wordhurst.com/meaning/magic-etymology/): Magic comes from Middle English magique, taken from French and Latin magice. The Latin word came from Greek magike, which goes back to magos, a word for a Persian priest or sorcerer. So the word magic first meant the art of the magi.
- [Namaste Origin and Meaning: A Bow to You in Sanskrit](https://www.wordhurst.com/meaning/namaste-origin/): Namaste comes from Sanskrit and literally means a bow to you. It joins namas, a bow or act of respect, with te, a form of the word you. It is a respectful greeting said with palms pressed together and a slight bow, used traditionally by Hindus in South Asia.

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- [Synonym finder](https://www.wordhurst.com/tools/synonym-finder/): Find synonyms, antonyms and related words for any English word. Click any result to look it up in turn.
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- [Word meaning lookup](https://www.wordhurst.com/tools/word-meaning/): Look up what any English word means: definitions by part of speech, pronunciation you can hear, example sentences, synonyms and origin.
- [Text slang decoder](https://www.wordhurst.com/tools/text-slang-decoder/): Paste any text message and see what every abbreviation means: wbu, ftw, ngl, hru, lfg and hundreds more, with a searchable list checked by our editors.
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