SWUG, dayger

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Fri May 30 18:40:19 UTC 2014


At Yale, "SWUG" = 'senior washed-up girl' and "dayger" = 'daytime rager':

http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/04/meet-the-swugs-of-yale-women-washed-up-at-21.html

(Article is from Apr. 2013 but is showing up in social media today for some
reason.)

Larry, have these shown up on the student slang lists you've collected?

--bgz

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