Badass Korean
You're cool like Korea... You’re a real BADASS, so learn to speak like one!Learn some Korean slang from the GreyRat before you become the linguistic equivalent of a 99-pound weakling.
Keep your dirty stinking 야리다 eyeballin’ to yourself!
The picture gets your attention. The expression is the real punchline. Here is the meaning and the scene behind it, straight from As Much as a Rat’s Tail.
야리다
[ya-ri-da]
to eyeball someone squint and stare glare at
Totally busted! Keep your dirty stinking 야리다 eyeballin’ to yourself!
Meaning & context
여러분, 시우는 이 단어가 비속어로 시작된 아무런 이유도 찾지 못했습니다. 그래서 시우 는 여러분의 이해를 돕기 위해 나름대로의 이야기를 만들었습니다. 옛날, 옛날에, 리씨 성 을 가진 사팔뜨기 사내가 살고 있었는데, 그 사내가 사람들을 노려볼 때마다 사람들은 야! 리다. 를 외치기 시작했고 이 때문에 지금의 야리다가 되었다고 합니다. 하지만 나는 이것 이 야! 왜 째리다? 의 축약형이라고 생각하는데, 과연 누가 맞는 것 같나요?
Ladies and gentlemen, Siwoo could find no origin for how this word came to be slang for staring, so he created a story behind it to help. A long, long time ago, there was a guy named Mr. Lee with a squint eye, and if he stared at people, they would say Ya, there’s Lee – hence, ya-Lee-(i)da or yarida. Actually, I believe it’s a shortened form of saying “Ya! Why are you leering at me?” (Ya! Wae jjaerida? or yarida). So who do you think is right?
From As Much as a Rat’s Tail · book pages 167–167. Original published text; historical references and usage are retained.
STORY TIME
See it in conversation
Korean
저자들의 결투
English
Dueling Authors
야! 왜 그렇게 노려봐?
Ya! Why are you looking at me like that?
(대답하지 않는다. 계속 야린다)
(Doesn’t answer. Continues to yarida)
야려보지 말라고! 니가 원하던대로 썼으니까.
Don’t yarida me! I wrote what you wanted. . .
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