((OOC)): Resistance to English Dictionary and Phrasebook

((OOC)):

In hopes of helping people roleplay Resistance members and use their crazy lingo, or just to help people that can't quite understand it, here is this list.

Disclaimer!: This list is neither complete, nor completely accurate (probably). This is just what I have so far. Some of it is fairly obvious and/or seemingly interchangeable. Please, feel free to point at any inaccuracies, and add some yourself. Also, if there's another post like this that is freely accessible at the moment, feel free to link it.

Resistance to English Dictionary and Phrasebook

Ashtray - Burn

Badger - Policeman

Badger Den/Pot - Praetorian Police building

Bangwich - Bomb

Blueberry - Policeman

Chomp - Fight; Kill (?)

Chomper - Fighter; Killer (Reserved for the Ghouls, or used more generally?)

Chompette - Female combatant

Chortle-Snortling - Laughing

Clapping It - Agreeing

Cogitations - Knowledge

Cole-Aid - Enriche

Concrete Heaven - Ceiling

Division chompstomper - Powers Division officer

'Drinking the Cole-Aid' - Blindly following Cole

Fight-o' Clock - Time to fight

Flippies - Feet

'Getting it Polar Bear-Style Without the Syrup' - To be given a beating

Glimpse - Watch

Glitterbug - High profile person

Golden Boys - Praetorian Police

Honey - Prize; Goal

Jazzercise - Use

Jibber - Talk

Johnny Appleseed - Place; Plant

King's Catch - Big find/prize

Mish-Mash - Meet

Mushroomed - Blown up

My Glitch - My problem

Oggling - Looking at

Pedaling Out - Getting out; Fleeing

Peepers - Eyes

Peepersneak - Look; Spy

Pleasantville - Nova Praetoria

Power Pellet - Powers Division officer

Psycho-Legs - Praetor Tilman

Raspberries - Destroyers

Rattleslap - Hurt

Ring-a-ding - Call, as with a phone

Ringy-Dingys - Alarms

Scamp - Get out/Leave; or Kill/Die, depending on context

Scamped - Killed

Scrimslam this Chompcham - Beat this guy/girl

Seeing Dandelions - Seeing stars(?)

Sheeple - Praetorians (generally)

'Shine this Shamrock' - Beat up someone; Beat this person

Slam - Beat; Destroy

Smashy-Smash - Security; Backup

Smell the Rosebuds - Realize the truth

Spit It - Say it

Static - Resistance communications network

'Swiss this Cheese' - Open fire; Put holes in it

Swoop - Save

Tag Sign - Name

Taps of the Foot - Seconds

Tea and cookies style - Gently (?)

Tearing up the Screens - Showing the truth

'That Reverberates Like..' - 'That sounds like..'

The Deep, Dark, Dim - The Underground

Thinkbox - Office (?)

'This Box Just Lost its Chill' - Situation is heating up

'This is All Sideways' - 'This is all wrong/messed up'

Top-Hat - Leader

Vacuum - Clockwork

'We gotta make a pose and take a picture while we got ourselves a cameraman' - 'Have to act while we have the chance'

'Will get bright eyes' - 'Come to a realization'

Wolverine - Powers Division officer


English to Resistance Dictionary and Phrasebook

'Act while we have the chance' - 'We gotta make a pose and take a picture while we got ourselves a cameraman'

Agreeing - Clapping it

Alarm - Ringy-dingy

Backup - Smashy-smash

'Beat This Guy/Girl' - 'Scrimslam this chompcham'

Beating - 'Polar Bear-style without the syrup'

Big Find/Prize - King's Catch

'Blindly Following Cole' - 'Drinking the Cole-Aid'

Blown Up - Mushroomed

Bomb - Bangwich

Burn - Ashtray

Call - Ring-a-ding

Ceiling - Concrete Heaven

Celebrity - Glitterbug

Clockwork - Vacuum

Come to a Realization - Will get bright eyes

Destroyers - Raspberries

Enriche - Cole-Aid

Eyes - Peepers

Feet - Flippies

Female Combatant - Chompette

Fight/Kill (?) - Chomp

Fighter/Killer - Chomper (Reserved for the Ghouls or used more generally?)

Fleeing - Pedaling out

Gently (?) - Tea and Cookies Style

Get Out - Scamp

Get Killed - Scamped

Getting Out - Pedaling out

Goal/Prize - Honey

High Profile Person - Glitterbug

Hurt - Rattleslap

Kill - Scamp

Killed - Scamped

Knowledge - Cogitations

Laughing - Chortle-Snortling

Leader - Top-Hat

Leave - Scamp

Look/Spy - Peepersneak

Looking At - Oggling

Meet - Mish-Mash

Messed Up - Sideways

My Problem - My glitch

Name - Tag sign

Nova Praetoria - Pleasantville

Office - Thinkbox

'Open Fire' - 'Swiss this cheese'

Plant/Place - Johnny Appleseed

Policeman - Blueberry/Badger

Powers Division Officer - Division chompstomper; Power Pellet; Wolverine

Praetorian Police - Golden boys

Praetorian Police building - Badger Den/Pot

Praetor Tilman - Psycho-Legs

Praetorians (generally) - Sheeple

Prize/Goal - Honey

'Put Holes in it' - 'Swiss this cheese'

Realize the Truth - Smell the Rosebuds

Resistance Communications Network - Static

Say It - Spit it

Save - Swoop

Seconds - Taps of the Foot

Security - Smashy-smash

Seeing Stars - Seeing dandelions (?)

Showing the Truth - Tearing up the Screens

'Situation is Heating Up' - 'This box just lost its chill'

Spy/Look - Peepersneak

Talk - Jibber

'That Sounds Like..' - 'That reverberates like..'

'This is All Wrong' - 'This is all sideways'

Time to Fight - Fight-o' Clock

'To Be Given a Beating' - 'Get it Polar Bear-style without the syrup'

Underground, The - The deep, dark, dim

Use - Jazzercise

Watch - Glimpse

Wrong - Sideways

I thought Concrete Heaven refered to Praetoria's shiny facade? That's what I got out of it.

Awesome work! *faves the page*

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Great post. TY, was contemplating how to craft a character description in Resistance-speak. This will help immensely.



Badger also for policeman (in addition to blueberry), from the arc I ran last night.

So what's a glitterbug then?

Well I thought I'd add as I see them today, so here they are. Only a few this time though, didn't spend long fighting them!


Resistance - English

Flipper - Face
Hope for Sunshine - Want to Live
Get it Polar Bear-Style without the Syrup - To be given a beating


I love the last one.

Puckerface seems to be a term for Powers Division I think, but I'm not definite.

Two more! With another funny one.

Rattleslap - Hurt
Bangwiches - Bombs

I thought Scamp was like "Take off" or "Bail out"

Im prolly wrong.

Thanks for posting this! Its awesome!

Swiss This Cheese - Put holes in it/open fire.

Smashy-smash - Security/back up.

Power Pellet - Powers Division Member.

Shine this Shamrock - Beat someone up/kill them.

Mindwash - Someone brainwashed by the state, likely referring to...

Cole-Aid - Enriche.

Chompette - Female enemy.

That reverberates like... - That Sounds Like

This is all sideways - This is all wrong/messed up (?)

Make like a shark - Either swim/flee, or maybe hunt/chomp (?)

Ringy-dingys - Security Alarm

Going to update it in a bit, after I finish getting everything together.

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Originally Posted by Fanservice Flipper - Face Hope for Sunshine - Want to Live

Do you remember the context on these two?

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Originally Posted by Fanservice Get it Polar Bear-Style without the Syrup - To be given a beating I love the last one.

That's the sort of thing you look for an excuse to use! Added, along with Rattleslap.

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Originally Posted by Zortel Puckerface seems to be a term for Powers Division I think, but I'm not definite.

Someone I was speaking to mentioned being called a "pucker face badger", so it may simply be an insult. I'm tempted to simply list it as being called ugly. Going to check around to see what contexts it's been used in.

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Originally Posted by Zortel Swiss This Cheese - Put holes in it/open fire. Smashy-smash - Security/back up. Power Pellet - Powers Division Member. Shine this Shamrock - Beat someone up/kill them. Cole-Aid - Enriche. Chompette - Female enemy. That reverberates like... - That Sounds Like This is all sideways - This is all wrong/messed up (?) Ringy-dingys - Security Alarm

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Zortel Mindwash - Someone brainwashed by the state Make like a shark - Either swim/flee, or maybe hunt/chomp (?)

Was Mindwash used as a verb or a noun?

Do you remember the context for "Make like a shark"?

Adding:

Chompette - Female combatant

Chortle-Snortling - Laughing

Cole-Aid - Enriche

Drinking the Cole-Aid - Blindly following Cole

'Get it Polar Bear-Style Without the Syrup'- To be given a beating

Glimpse - Watch

Glitterbug - High profile person

Power Pellet - Powers Division officer

Rattleslap - Hurt

Ringy-Dingys - Alarms

Scamp - Get out/Leave; or Kill/Die, depending on context

Scrimslam this Chompcham - Beat this guy/girl

'Shine this Shamrock' - Beat someone up/Beat this person

Smashy-Smash - Security/Backup

Static - Resistance communications network

'Swiss this Cheese' - Open fire/Put holes in it

'That Reverberates Like..' - That sounds like..

The Deep, Dark, Dim - The Underground

'This Box Just Lost its Chill' - Situation is heating up

'This is All Sideways' - This is all wrong/messed up

Wolverine - Powers Division officer


Looking for Verification/Context:

Flipper - Face

'Hope for Sunshine' - Want to live

'Make Like a Shark' - Swim/Flee or Hunt/Chomp?

Mindwash - Someone brainwashed by the state

Pucker Face - Ugly

Tattle - Comm broadcast

Two-Tone - Powers Division officer (?)

Perfect! This'll help my character so much (even though it's highly unoriginal, he's a Resistance member with the Lingo)! Lately, I've just been making things up. If it gets to that point, I have a ton of ideas for code words.

Pucker face I'm sure means some one in the powers division.

They are sucking up to Cole and the praetors, an *** kisser in other words. Both requiring you to pucker you lips, hence pucker face.

I find it amusing that they refer to Praetor Tilman as "Psycho-legs" over her... MASSIVE Psychic Powers.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

Haven't seen this one mentioned yet:

Owls = Seers

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

Ashtray is burn/bomb and thinkbox is office?
There are those guys in one of the early missions saying they're going to "ashtray" a guy's "thinkbox", I believe. The context makes it sound a lot less friendly than simple arson. I always got the impression they were going to put a bullet in his head, making his skull (a box for this thoughts) into an ashtray (a small, often empty dish).