Stoked ?

[mikey4444]

One of my nieces said that she was "stoked" about her forthcoming rock concert date.

Everybody, not just me, asked her what on earth she was talking about !

Its American slang apparently, for being awfully excited about something.

Why can't people speak Betty's English, instead of this infantile copying of everything American ?

[-Talbot-]

I was using stoked decades ago. Is it American?

[EcclesCake]

And 'Betty's English' isn't an infantile turn of phrase?

[emmie]

because for some its cool, i don't get it either, but at least she isn't using rap slang, for now...

[Samjenko]

I think 'stoked' is English.

[vulcan42]

where does 'rock' come from?

[-Talbot-]

Stoke a fire
Stoked getting fired up about something.

That's how I have always seen it.

[mikey4444]

stoked
stəʊkt/Submit
adjectiveNORTH AMERICANinformal
adjective: stoked
excited or euphoric.
"when they told me I was on the team, I was stoked"

[Baldric]

///Why can't people speak Betty's English///

Irony Klaxon please!!!!!

[mikey4444]

Vulcan...."Rock and Roll" I would imagine ?

[Togo]

//And 'Betty's English' isn't an infantile turn of phrase?//

He thinks it's "cool" Eccles. Kettle , pot etc.

[nailit]

I was born in Stoke, bought up in Stoke and still live in Stoke.
Guess I'm Stoked as well :-)

[vulcan42]

And where does Rock & roll come from,would it be America?

[tamborine]

Like 'pants' mikey?

[-Talbot-]

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=stoke

[Samjenko]

It might say it's American in the dictionary but it's been used here for as long as I can remember.

[Islay]

stoked
(stəʊkt)
adj
informal NZ very pleased; elated: really stoked to have got the job.

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

[RandyMarsh]

Who started it?, rock and roll, teddy boys, burgers etc.

[pastafreak]

"Stoked" must date from the '70's ...where've you been mikey? ;-)

[mikey4444]

Tambo.....I got into trouble many years ago, on my first trip Stateside, with lots of words that didn't quite mean the same in America as they did here.

The word "fanny" stands out of course !

I was surrounded by red faces when I complimented a friends Mother, about her beautiful Siamese pussy.

[Togo]

Origin
1675-85; < Dutch stoken to feed or stock a fire;

verb , stoked, stoking.
1.
to poke, stir up, and feed (a fire).