THE SLAYER'S HANDBOOK

A Watcher's Guide to Buffy-Speak






A
airborne toxic event [Snyder] everything that comes out of Xander's mouth

American Salivating Boy-talk [Buffy] the language Xander speaks when facing a beautiful lady

amped [Buffy] hyper

and yet: [Buffy] too bad, doesn't apply--used as a response

astral projection: the theory that while one sleeps one has another body -- an astral body -- that can travel through time and space.

asteriod projection: [Buffy] Buffy not quite with it (see Astral Projection)


B
Balloons [Xander] He got them confused with flowers, yet told Buffy "Put them in water, maybe they'll grow."

Bat-Signal [Buffy] Buffy uses it to tell Willow that she has to do some Slayer research

Bay City Rollers [Giles] real music. British pop band of the seventies

behold [Cordelia] look at this (as in "Behold the wierdness.")

big sucking thing: [Buffy] process to becoming a vampire (you suck their blood, they suck yours. It's a whole big sucking thing)

Bizarro World [Cordelia] the place where Xander could be a part of the rich and famous

Bogart [Xander] What Joyce was trying to do with the Cheesy Chips

book geek [Buffy] what Giles and Kendra are

boyfriendly [Buffy] as in "This friend, is he boyfriendly?"

brooding: [Willow] appearing deep in thought and sullen--often attractive to young women

Buffy's White Knight [Angel] Xander and his protectiveness for his friend.


C
cavalry [Xander] Xander with a rock (Becoming, part 2)

chick fight thing: [Buffy] female street fight with hair-pulling and nail-digging

childhood trauma: [Cordelia] problem--as in "What's your childhood trauma?"

color me stunned [Buffy] trans. 'Ooh, I'm shocked' or 'I'm surprised'

country music: [Xander] the music of pain
creep factor [Willow] levels of creepyness

cretin [Xander] Xander is the king of them

Cuddle Monkey [Xander] What the female population of Sunnydale wanted to make Xander.


D
dead boy [Xander] Angel

destructo girl [Buffy] on herself

dust: [Buffy] to eliminate vampires using a stake


E
eigth deadly sin [Giles] tardiness

evil vibe [Willow] emenations from the Hellmouth that makes the residents of Sunnydale pray harder

Evita-like: [Willow] arrogant; snooty


F
facsit society [Willow] what cordy reckons we should have so Buffy can kick butt

Factoid [Buffy] a fact.

Feeding: Drinking blood; a vampire's only means for survival.

five by five: [Faith] still friends or allies after a misunderstanding or a bout of personal friction; cool

flying fatality [buffy]

forbidden love [Willow] Willow and Angel (so Willow says)

freaky deaky: [Buffy] odd or ironic; funky

frog fear [Willow] willow's phobia

funky: [Buffy] not of the norm; unusual, odd

funky party weasel [Xander] to Giles

Fun talking guy [Xander] Himself when depressed.


G
gathering: [Oz] subdued party with mellow song stylings and bri

geek hall of fame [Buffy] Buffy secured herself a place there when she was in her Dorothy Hamill phase

geeker joy [Xander] Willow makes a strange noise when she is speechless with this

get pelvic: [Xander] become sexually intimate

girlie-girl [Willow] what Buffy is supposed to be

'Gyughhh!!!' [Xander] Xander's reaction to seeing the Bazoar offspring


Ha happy [Xander] the feeling Xander gets when Angel is doing something wrong

harvest: [Giles/Master] a night once in a century when a Master Vampire can draw power from one of his minions while it feeds.

having issues much [Xander]

hitting a major backspace: [Cordelia] losing points in popularity status

honey: [Buffy] attractive male

hootenanny: [Oz] party chock full o' hoot with a little bit of nanny

hoover technique [Cordelia] Xander's (alleged) way of kissing

host: The person off whom the vampire feeds. (Otherwise known as you and me)

hottie: [Buffy] attractive female or male--including vampires, i.e. Angel

Hottie [Buffy] Buffy reckons Xander should wake up and smell it, in reference to Willow.


I
ick factor [Willow] appearence of sick

idiot box: [Giles] any type of computer

inner halibut [Buffy] what the swim team should get in touch with in 'go fish'


K
Keyer Soze'd [Xander] reference to the manipulative villian in 'The Usual Suspects'

kiss of death: [Xander] the words "have a great summer" when written in a high school yearbook

knowlege [Buffy] To have information

knowledge girl [Buffy] Buffy when she has information


L
lameness [Cordelia] Xander

Leone [Xander] It's really Italy but it's pretending to be Montana.

life: [Xander] the act of living, but only when it includes elements of fun

linoleum: [Xander] 1. a floor covering made by laying on a burlap or canvas backing a mixture of solidified linseed oil with gums, cork dust or wood 2. aphrodesiac for 17-year-old boys

Locutus of Borg [Xander] someone who is always calm and collected; insult


M
maiden voyage: [Buffy] a first date

major neck [Xander] descibing Angleus's penchant for siring vamps

master The most powerful of vampires, capable of destroying the earth.

mean kids [Xander] a basic requirement for opening a school

me-ow [Buffy] sound of bitchyness. No one has ever used it on anything Willow has said before.

minion a follower of the Master Vampire.

Monster Island [Xander] Xander compares this place (from Gozilla movies) to the Hellmouth

monkey pants [Oz] what the French cookie monkey mocks the other cookie animals with

much: [Cordelia] great in degree--often used as a put-down, as in "Pathetic much?" or "Overitentify much?"

music of pain [Xander] country and western music; music Xander listens to when he is depressed


N
nerd: [Cordelia] one who devises computer programs

net girl [Willow] her role in life

Non-budger [Buffy] Giles. Buffy believes that nobody likes one.

nun club [Buffy] the sort of nightspot Joyce would like buffy to go to

'Nyaghhh!!! [Buffy] Buffy's larger reaction to seeing the Bazoar offspring


O
one-Starbuck town: [Cordelia] a small town lacking in shopping, entertainment and excitement

oogy: [Buffy] funky feeling often associated with flu symptoms

Oogy-ness [Xander/Buffy] Not feeling well. Increased oogy-ness is a danger signal.

overachiever: [Buffy] one who no one likes

Overbite [Xander] Angel.

overreaction [Xander] Buffy's dislike of Ted


P
percepto girl [Buffy] used to describe someone's powers of persception, usually used in a sarcastic manner

pos: [Aura] yes, affirmative--opposite of neg [Aphrodesia]

Power Girl [Celia] The chraracter Buffy used to play when her and her cousin were little.


Q
quality matricide: [Buffy] whay would occur if Buffy spent quality time with her mother.


R
reflect-me-not: [Xander] used to describe vampires, Angel in particular

research boy [Xander] Xander with useful information

research party [Willow] Staying up all night going through musty book to find the way to kill the moster of the week

Roganine Boy [Xander] The security guy in the hospital.

round robin: [Buffy] group process of phoning individual members' parents to say each is staying at another's house for an alibi, especially when used in vampire slaying


S
Sabrina: [Buffy] witch

salty goodness: [Cordelia] Angel

Scully [Buffy] as in 'you're trying to Scully me'; debunking theories

Scooby gang [Xander] another name for the Slayerettes

schulbs [Xander] people who have to go to school on a Saturday (like Xander)

sexy fuddy duddy [Jenny] Giles

She-Giles: [Buffy] female with Watcher's knowledge of the supernatural and slayer history, i.e. Kendra

Shields, Brooke: [Xander] creature from the blue lagoon

shindig: [Oz] medium intensity with less mellow song stylings where dip and malt beverages are often served

shtick [buffy] new act/material, uncertain

sitch: [Buffy] situation

skanky [Buffy] disgusting, not nice. bit creepy

slayage [Buffy] how much/many have been slayed

slayer: [Giles]a girl born once every generation with the strength and skill to hunt vampires, find them where they gather and stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers.

Slayer handbook [Kendra] an item usually given to all Slayers; of no use in Buffy's case

Slayerettes [Willow] what Willow, Xander, Angel, Cordelia and Oz are

smoochies: [Willow] kissing, general date stuff

spaz [Willow] what wild on Willow looks like

Spiffy [Angel] Verrrrrrrrrry nice looking.

spontaneous human combustion: [Giles] el bursto into flamo--like the human torch, except it hurts

so: [Willow] very much--as in Willow is so the net girl

soliliquy girl [Buffy] Cordelia when she's off on one

spider sense [Buffy] Buffy's name for her Slayer sense, reference to Spiderman

statistical impossibility: [Xander] a sixteen year old girl willfully unplugging phone

sucking chest wound [Buffy] threat

sunbathing [Angel] what vamps don't do.

Sunnyhell Farm [Spike] mocking name for Sunnydale, origin unknown

superchick: [Cordelia] anormally powerful woman, Buffy

Super Librarian [Xander] what Giles is

stealth guy [Buffy] used to describe Angel's way of creeping up behind people without making a sound


T
tact: [Cordelia] Not saying true stuff

tact guy [Cordelia] Xander; used in a sarcastic manner

Tesh, John: [Buffy] 1. T.V. personality and composer of inspirational music 2. Evil incarnate--the devil

that way: [Buffy] non-platonic; Buffy doesn't think of Xander that way

therepy land [Buffy] seeing your mother kissing is a one way ticket to this place

thundering loony [Buffy] to decribe invisible girl

tingly [Willow] what thinking about Xander does to Willow's head

tragedy masks: [Buffy] sad faces

tweed [Giles] better than a bullet proof vest.


U
undead: vampire or zombie; dead but doesn't act like it


V
vague: [Buffy] as in 'can you vague that up for me' can you make that any more confusing?

vampire: [Giles] reanimated body of currently dead human who feeds on blood, has pointy teeth and a generally nasty disposition

vessel - a minion, bearing a three-pointed symbol, which can give the Master Vampire power by feeding.

Vogue up: [Buffy] to beautify


W
wacky, the: [Buffy] irrational behavior often caused by love

'Watching her back' [Cordelia] it's an eupherism for watching her butt. In reference to Buffy.

watcher: [Giles] person who finds the Slayer and leads her on her path; it is his destiny to guide the Slayer.

wig [buffy] creeps; past tense

wiggins: [Xander] the creeps, form of wigged-out--as in that guy with a nail in his head gives me the wiggins

wiggy [Buffy] kick-o, fight-o, Kendra doing strange fighty things

witch: [Giles] one who casts horrible disfiguring spells, usually to become a cheerleader

wonderland tour [Oz] Cordelia apparently

work [Angel] where angel knows Buffy from

Z
zombie: one who was once alive, is now dead and acts alive, but angrier; undead