October 28, 2009, 23:37
Kalleh"sketched out"
My daughter said she was "sketched out" because something. I haven't heard that term used before. Have you?
October 29, 2009, 01:58
Richard EnglishNo. But then the language of one generation is commonly incomprehensible to the older generation.
October 30, 2009, 00:06
KallehWell, it has 1,480,000 Google hits, so it's apparently used a lot. I haven't seen "sketchy" used as a verb. My daughter says it means, "uncomfortable about a situation, with a dangerous connotation." When we look it up online, it also seems to be related to being under the influence of drugs.
October 30, 2009, 02:23
arnieI've seen "stretched out" and "strung out" used with a similar meaning, but not "sketch".
October 30, 2009, 02:51
BobHalequote:
Originally posted by Kalleh:
Well, it has 1,480,000 Google hits, so it's apparently used a lot. I haven't seen "sketchy" used as a verb. My daughter says it means, "uncomfortable about a situation, with a dangerous connotation." When we look it up online, it also seems to be related to being under the influence of drugs.
Many of those hits may be in the British usage meaning "outlined" or "explained in vague terms".
For example, "Here's the way he sketched out the plan to me."
This is a very common usage here.
October 30, 2009, 06:21
zmježdFWIW, Urban Dictionary has a couple of entries that seem to overlap in meaning (
link). I've never heard it used, except in Bob's sense, and that over here by non-Britons.
October 31, 2009, 12:43
wordmaticI've heard it used in the sense of describing a plan, "sketched out the plan," but not in the other sense of strung out on drugs.
Wordmatic