Restaurants.
Bars.
Shopping.

And then, our private obsession. Words. We love listening to people and hearing what they’re using.

Below, some favorite terms we’ve picked up lately.

Girleen (n): 1. A young sassy woman. Also used as a term of affection for a good friend: “Hey, girleen, you are an inspiration to us all.”

Swish (adj): 1. Very suave, smooth, or cool: “Wow, you’re looking awfully swish this eve,” or “Wow, I saw Amy last night, and, gee, she was so swish in her fantastic shoes!”

Shoppings (n): 1. The product amassed from a day out at the shops. (A term discovered at Fifth Avenue and 56th Street on a recent summer day amid of gaggle of tourists. Woman, holding up Barneys bag: “Babette! Look at my shoppings!”)

Mwah (v): 1. A sound uttered in protest (when “waaahhh” becomes too whiny). 2. A kissing sound, most commonly used at the close of a letter in lieu of “xoxoxoxo.”

Skew-wiff (adj): 1. All messy, disheveled. Colloquial British term somehow derived from “askew” (pronounced Skeeeeewiff): “Her hair was all skew-wiff; she looked like she’d just woken up.”