19 авг. 2022 г. · In the Southern US, 'ill' can also be slang for angry or temperamental. If someone's having a tantrum, you may hear someone saying 'stop acting ...

17 нояб. 2017 г. · Using “bad” to mean good goes back to the jazz scene starting in the 20s. Hip hop adopted “ill” in the late 80s and 90s with examples from the ...

15 янв. 2023 г. · How did sick, ill, disgusting, nasty, etc. evolve to have a positive meaning in slang language? : r/EnglishLearning.

28 июн. 2024 г. · The use of "sick" with a positive connotation, as in "that was sick, dude," likely originated from American slang in the 1980s and 1990s, ...

6 июл. 2022 г. · Ill is when something is out of control or chaotic. "The party after the game was ill, there must have been at least three fights.

13 сент. 2023 г. · Classical Latin dis- didn't have that negative "ill" connotation. Dys- does from Greek, and from that prefix New Latin dys- as well (like ...

31 мая 2024 г. · "Sick" is just more of an American way of saying it while "ill" is more common in British English and it doesn't matter if you use the word for yourself or ...

23 нояб. 2020 г. · “ill” meaning cool goes back further than 30 years. Beastie Boys released ”License to ill” in 1986. Upvote 55. Downvote Reply reply

24 окт. 2021 г. · 1920s, 1960s, 1980s, 1980-90s. Cool, epic, rad all had their meanings certainly by the '80s and probably would have been understood in the 1960s.

11 мар. 2023 г. · Apparently it all comes from a trend in British public (i.e. private) schools early last century where they would utter a pithy Latin phrase ...