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Some friends and I invented this word some time ago, and I think it needs a wider user-base. Mainly, it's used as a superlative for our common derogatory term, "dodgy" [which I believe is akin to 'sketchy', for those USns out there, and is pretty close to shonky]. Thus a really bad used-car salesman might be fronky.
Conveniently, however - as we discovered one evening on a drive - it also fits in very well with known quotes such as "Play that fronky music white boy."
go forth, my little word, and be used!
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'sketchy'
Sketchy? I think this USn understands dodgy before he understands sketchy. Am I being affected by my status as geezer or is there a better word for this in USn? I usually think of used car salesmen as being sleazy.
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"Play that fronky music white boy."
I'm sure the lovers of the music of Cesar Fronk will thonk you for that!
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Here's another USn geezer checking in. To me dodgy sounds British. I would use sketchy . A search of past posts shows frequent use of both words.
Another apparently made-up word we use is grody, similar in meaning to gross or grubby.
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Innerestin, Slithe. To me sketchy merely means poorly defined. Dodgy would mean somewhat suspect, but I don't think I would use it in this context. A used car salesman's techniques might be dodgy, but not the UCS his own sef.
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Is a German beer. Over their they like their Fronk in steins monstrously.
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I think the term "fronk" is favored among the young UHB's in New York City. It's so very metropolitan.
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Is a German beer. Over there they like their Fronk in steins monstrously.  LOL! That's Fronk in schteens, to you!  The Only WO'N!
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In reply to:
A used car salesman's techniques might be dodgy, but not the UCS his own sef.
You wouldn't describe him as a dodgy character, then? How about iffy? Does that ring any transatlantic bells? I've always been much amused by a bank here called Bank IFI. (I believe it's an acronym but no idea what for.)
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An American exchange student over here used sketchy, so that's my only knowledge of it; sorry if it was a little localised! Iffy is a great word; I'd use it in relation to food I wasn't sure I'd like to meet... and dodgy is a pretty generic term, here: people, ideas, situations... anything that appears to be dubious is dodgy !
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