The meaning of "Meh"

[Parnelli Bone]

Here's a very trivial topic....but it's been bugging me for a few days so i thought i'd start a useless thread on it (while i could be doing something more constructive).

Anyways, i keep noticing folks here use the term "meh". You know...some of you are here online and go:

"...so i equipped my RUF with a bigger turbo, but still couldn't make pole position. Meh.

I mean, what is that supposed to mean?? I have yet to hear anyone say "well i was cutting my lawn the other day and ran over my foot. Meh." Nobody ever says this in real life!!! Maybe they do in England or something.

..anyways, please enlighten me.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Basically it just means "I don't care" or "oh well", well atleast that's how I use it.

I also believe it came from The Simpsons, it's where I heard it first a long time ago. What a great show.

 

[Keef]

"Meh" is the universally accepted internet word of indifference.

 

[Josh]

For me it's always been another way of saying, "blah," "screw it," "whatever," "**** it," etc.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Basically it just means "I don't care" or "oh well", well atleast that's how I use it.

I also believe it came from The Simpsons, it's where I heard it first a long time ago. What a great show.

I see. I'm being partially sarcastic with this thread..i mean i already kinda know what it means, i just didnt' get the origins and why have i never heard of it till i got to GT Planet! But the Simpsons thing...yeah now that i think of it i may have heard Bart say it.

 

[Stevisiov]

"Meh" is the universally accepted internet word of indifference.

Thats the way I have always interpreted it.

 

[Giancarlo]

It's onomatopoeia. Uh, that's it.

 

[Robin]

I also believe it came from The Simpsons, it's where I heard it first a long time ago. What a great show.

Yeah, thats where I first heard it from ages ago, when Lisa goes..."I said M....E....H....MEH!"

It just means 'whatever' really...

Robin

 

[crimson_menace]

I mean, what is that supposed to mean?? I have yet to hear anyone say "well i was cutting my lawn the other day and ran over my foot. Meh." Nobody ever says this in real life!!! Maybe they do in England or something.

I say it IRL daily. Internerd slang for 'indifference' ....what's been posted above. 👍

 

[Blackbird.]

Alot of stuff posted above is true but sometimes I use "Meh" for something that is mediocre. Like if someone asked me how a movie was and I thought it was OK i'd say "meh"

 

[V1P3R]

Meh, this has already been explained and this thread is meh too.

 

[DuckRacer]

"Meh" is the universally accepted internet word of indifference.

Meh.

 

[Touring Mars]

In certain parts of rural Scotland, "Meh" is a chat-up line...

 

[dylansan]

"We feel neither highs nor lows."
"Really, what's it like?"
"Meh"

 

[Stevisiov]

In certain parts of rural Scotland, "Meh" is a chat-up line...

It didn't work for me...

 

[IIC]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meh

 

[Parnelli Bone]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meh

that's so funny. I woulda never guessed it's a universally slang term..i just thought people at GT Planet say it..

 

[YSSMAN]

Am I the one who uses it the most?

 

[BigdaddyGT]

meh
That's such an awesome word...

 

[Wolfe]

As has been said, it's an onomatopoeia that means indifference, mediocrity, laziness, etc. depending on the context.

Just think of it as a written/verbal equivalent of a shrug (although in real life it's often used with a shrug).

 

[BigdaddyGT]

So it's just another variation of "eh"?

 

[Gil]

I used to care about this but, Meh!

 

[Law93]

MEH =

My
Ears
Hurt from listening to you
👍

 

[Blake]

I also believe it came from The Simpsons, it's where I heard it first a long time ago. What a great show.

If the Simpsons weren’t the first to use it, they were definitely the first to popularise it.

No one is quite sure where it comes from. Graeme Diamond, principal editor of the new word group at the Oxford English Dictionary, says it's not yet suitable for the OED, but he does have a "meh" file, and the first recorded print usage occurred in the Edmonton Sun newspaper in Canada in 2003: "Ryan Opray got voted off Survivor. Meh."

He thinks, however, it sprang into common usage from the Simpsons.

I can enlighten him further. Some credit the 2001 episode Hungry Hungry Homer with the first use of "meh" as a dismissal, when Homer asks Lisa and Bart if they want to go to the Blockoland theme park and receives the answer, "meh". But the Language Log website notes a 1995 episode in which Bart dismisses Marge's discussion of weaving with a "meh".

Some amateur etymologists on the web reckon meh is derived from Yiddish, pointing to a 1936 song that uses it as the sound of a goat bleating. A poster on Artblog.net called it a "Yiddish interjection used to express disdain that borders on apathy", but did not source it. "Many North American English interjections do have some basis in Yiddish," accepts Diamond. But does this one? "I can't say."

In any case, the word needs to pass into "widespread unselfconscious usage" before it will feature in the OED, he says. And with a print lifespan of just four years, so far, that is some distance away. But does he think it's becoming more common? "Well, I had fishcakes at lunchtime and I told someone they were ... meh."

 

[Turbo Lag]

As has been said, it's an onomatopoeia that means indifference, mediocrity, laziness, etc. depending on the context.

Just think of it as a written/verbal equivalent of a shrug (although in real life it's often used with a shrug).

Yep thats what i take it as 👍

 

[Parnelli Bone]

As has been said, it's an onomatopoeia that means indifference, mediocrity, laziness, etc. depending on the context.

Just think of it as a written/verbal equivalent of a shrug (although in real life it's often used with a shrug).

See, i have yet to hear anyone say meh in real-life. Usually people go "nnn" or make some other sound when they shrug.

 

[Turbo Lag]

I say meh IRL... quite a few times a day...

 

[Diego440]

so "meh" is the written equivalent of a shrug.

I like using "meh"... and "mk"

 

[Muzaffar]

Wait, i thought meh was supposed to be a Chinese word? I've heard a few of my Chinese friends say this but i don't know what it really means. Maybe it was something like this all along.....

 

[livemusic]

I wonder if any of you actually say "lol" in real life.