Modern parents rely on the Internet and school to raise their children. Therefore, they are completely unprepared for slang words from a child. Here he will say that the soup is a canoe. Is that praise? Negative reaction? Scold him for it or thank? What if it’s some kind of scary mate, and you need to urgently contact a psychologist for help ?! Do not worry again, just look in the dictionaries.
Marine origin
In Crimea, this word has a neutral and even socially useful meaning! With the help of canoes, people went fishing for a long time and deliver goods by water. Because the canoe is such a sailing vessel, a small boat, which is used on the Black and Azov Seas. Nothing extraordinary! Although in assessing the quality of objects, the value will clearly be inappropriate. However, it gives hope for the possibility of using such slang in public places.
Ukrainian roots
If you move the search territory to the north-west, you will learn several new meanings. And they clearly give a greater understanding of the word! After all, they say so:
about a carefree person who loves to walk and eat;
about a piece of something brittle or brittle - like wood, sugar, bread, etc.
Someone will consider that this “canoe” is not suitable for the Russian language. But colloquial speech is constantly filled with borrowings, and the indicated interpretation could well become the ancestor of slang meanings. The very ones that young people are trying to use on an ongoing basis.
Baby gossip
Finally, we got to the most commonly used decryption. The young generation does not like to swear, bright words are needed for it to give expressive coloring, to express the extreme degree of emotions! And when someone says that the canoe is slang, he will be right. If points to the values:
nonsense, meaningless conversations;
worthless thing - an object, action or fact.
Interpretation can hurt a person, belittling his achievements or statements. But no more than the words "trepidation", "nonsense", "nonsense." It does not enhance the negative effect, it simply attracts attention with its unusualness.
Criminal footprint
But as a slang there appears a negative connotation! In a criminal or profitable environment, you need to monitor what you say so as not to offend the interlocutor with a minor remark, from the point of view of the average person. Behind the bars, the canoes are empty words:
to bend a canoe - to deceive;
to breed a canoe - to chat in vain, to invent;
without canoes:
reliably, without a drop of deception;
easily, without labor / unnecessary conversations.
And how not to get lost in intricate meanings with such different meanings?
Household language
It is useless to get lost, it is enough to be a well-mannered person and use knowledge so as not to hurt others. At official meetings or at a romantic date, you do not need to resort to reduced vocabulary. You must show your best side if you want to please business partners or a lover. Another thing is when you relax with close friends in an informal setting.
In communication with people who are older in position or age, a canoe is an insult in any case. Even outside of business communication, pointing out the insignificance of words and actions is directly considered impolite, as rude as possible. Especially if you do it with slang expressions. Try to dispense with the literary language until the environment itself sends signals to change the format of the discussion.