Originally Posted by
dookie joe
My co-worker and I have had this discussion before: Back in the day, whenever someone did something unkind, Detroiters would say, "man, that's bold." In the suburbs, they said "man, that's bogue."
Another slang term I've heard only in Detroit [[again, this is going back to the 70s/80s) is "biting" or "bunning" to denote a copycat. As in, "Battlestar Gallactica is bunning [[or biting) out of Star Wars."
In SW Detroit, people called a fight a "nub." As in, "Hey, Joey and Chico got thrown out of school because they were nubbing in Clark Park."
And I don't know if this is a Detroit-only thing, but back in the days, black folks would refer to a quarter [[the coin) as a "case quarter." I never did figure out what that means.
One last thing, also popular among black folks: Stuck up people were referred to as "sa-ditty." I don't know if that's spelled correctly; I've never had occasion to actually write that word down until now! :)