Timeline for What is the meaning of homey?
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| Apr 12, 2015 at 4:59 | comment | added | WhatRoughBeast | @DmitryFucintv - Unless you're on very good terms with your colleague, I'd recommend against it. The problem is that "homie" can also be used ironically (and disrespectfully). In this use, it suggests either that you think the person you're talking to is, as others have put it, "a thug", or that you think that he wants to be a thug. So your colleague might think you're dissing him. It would depend entirely on how you get along with him and your tone of voice. | |
| Apr 12, 2015 at 1:54 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @BigHomie Thanks, man. I'm always a little nervous when I pontificate about the slang used by people fifty years younger than I am. | |
| Apr 12, 2015 at 1:31 | comment | added | MDMoore313 | I, BigHomie, approve this answer. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 19:40 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @DmitryFucintv The core function of slang is to assert membership in the speech community which uses it, so you should use it only within that community and avoid using it until there is clear evidence that you are accepted into that community. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 19:38 | comment | added | Jim | The fact that you describe this person as a colleague says you should probably not refer to him as homie. Save it for your 4-5 closest friends when you're in a jocular mood. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 19:37 | comment | added | DJMcMayhem | I don't think it would be considered "Offensive" but it's definitely not very professional. The word has connotations with thugs in my mind. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 19:34 | vote | accept | Dmitrii Bundin | ||
| Apr 11, 2015 at 19:27 | comment | added | Dmitrii Bundin | Will it sound a little offensive if I come to one of my colleague and say "Hey, homey. What're doing right here?" | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 19:15 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |