WHEN did you first Hear and gather the meaning of the word "MEH"

[Sourdough]

A few (two, maybe Three) years ago, was my first observation of the word "meh". I never till today either knew or cared what that word meant or stood for.

So today I looked up the meaning of the word "meh". Interesting that I have "Never" heard that word spoken, never once. But just a couple years ago noticed the word "written".

Do you use this word....in regular daily communication....???

 

[Sourdough]

I have for more than 65 years been aware that we each live and successfully function in totally different realities. That is pretty damn impressive.

 

[Patchouli]

Sometimes you are hilarious, @Sourdough
“Meh” to me means, I’ve got no response, or I’m so so on the issue, or don’t feel strongly about it.
Or if there’s the quality of a food in question and I don’t think it’s so great I might say meh, if asked.
How long? I have no recollection. It is not a word I use every day. Within the last ten years I noticed it but maybe less.

 

[Peanut]

Yes, but it wasn’t used growing up in the south. I began to hear it in the military, big city guys from the northeast used it. I know I’ve heard it on tv/movies since. It’s a fairly common expression now. Along with several dozen synonyms..

so-so
average
ordinary
fair
middling
mediocre
passable
common
unexceptional
adequate
tolerable
unremarkable
moderate
indifferent
everyday
vanilla
undistinguished
workaday
prosaic
medium
pedestrian
uninspired
unexciting
okay
fairish
respectable
lacklustreUK
lacklusterUS
forgettable
inferior
amateur
amateurish
O.K.
enough
run-of-the-mill
bog-standard
middle-of-the-road
fair-to-middling
all right
plain vanilla
second-rate
half-pie
not bad
run-of-the-mine
no great shakes
run-of-mine
second-class
nothing to write home about
not up to much
not so hot
fair to middling
not very good

 

[Mountain trapper]

I've never seen or heard of that word before, until here. I've seen it used in a couple posts on this site. Still have no idea what it means.

 

[Alaskajohn]

Meh…

 

[Snowman]

Meh…

Eggactly...!!!

 

[Snowman]

meh​

1 of 2

interjection​

ˈme






—used to express indifference or mild disappointment


meh
2 of 2

adjective​

1


: not impressive : so-so
a meh documentary





2


: apathetic, indifferent
the movie left me feeling meh




https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meh

 

[Snowman]

https://www.homesteadingforum.org/threads/homestead-a-new-movie-coming-out-soon.38326/post-1050990

 

[Neb]

"The Simpsons"

Ben

 

[Snowman]

"The Simpsons"

Ben

I always heard "D'oh"...?!?

 

[Binky]

It's a Yiddish word that means indifference. It was incorporated into the British English vocabulary a couple of hundred years ago. I've been using that word all my life. Learned it from my British mother who was born in 1907 in England and she picked it up from Jews in her neighbourhood where she grew up in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She brought it with her when she immigrated to Canada at the end of WW2 but there were already other British and Jewish people in Canada using that term long before mom came to Canada.

 

[UserNameTaken]

Yeah, I agree, Meh.

(PS I asked my wife what it meant a couple years ago.)

 

[Patchouli]

Can we discuss other odd terminology in this thread?
It has bothered me to hear adults say to children who fell and got busted up or just recovering from a tumble, “You’re okay.”
And Little Jimmy, when did you lose consciousness?
This is a whole new world we’re living in.

 

[elkhound]

Can we discuss other odd terminology in this thread?
It has bothered me to hear adults say to children who fell and got busted up or just recovering from a tumble, “You’re okay.”
And Little Jimmy, when did you lose consciousness?
This is a whole new world we’re living in.

what..no get up and walk it off....we got killed weekly on playground growing up !!

 

[elkhound]

 

[elkhound]

 

[Morgan101]

I have heard the word all my life from as far back as I can remember. My early days were spent in Brooklyn, NY. Both of my parents were born there, and they had a lot of Jewish friends. As least one school of thought believes "meh" has Yiddish origins, so I heard it a lot.

 

[Morgan101]

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Rub some dirt on it. You'll be alright.

 

[DrHenley]

First time I heard "meh" was from my son. The meaning was pretty obvious.

 

[Amish Heart]

I first heard it from our kids when they were High School age. Mostly one of our sons uses it, and still does.
As for kids getting hurt, you know the wet paper towel is magic.