Swag

Swag from English " to swagger " ( " brag swagger " ), is in the language of young people for an enviable, casual - cool charisma or a charismatic positive aura.

In the German-speaking area of anglicism was commonly known by the Austrian rapper Money Boy. This had gecovert the original song "Turn my swag on " by the American musician Soulja Boy, reaching over 14 million views on YouTube.

Swag was previously distributed as an English slang or scene word different meanings:

• In the 19th century it was held in Australia and New Zealand distribution as colloquial synonym for " stolen property ". The term was derived here from the meaning in Australian English, where he also for a mobile sleeping unit (tent, sleeping pad, etc.) is the so-called " swagmen " the ( migrant workers ) carried with them.
• A fairly widespread assumption (probably more of a so-called "Urban Legend" ) states that SWAG in the 1960s, a popular in the gay scene of Los Angeles code word for " We Are Secretly Gay " (engl.: " Secretly, we are was gay "). The veracity of this assumption is, however, very controversial. It is more likely that it is, rather, a pejorative, so-called Backronym in this declaration.
• In contemporary colloquial English " swag " means " swagger " what next " braggart, boaster " is also a euphemism for the stereotypical gait Schotten, today means " the way, how is presenting someone themselves."

In 2011, the designation for Youth Word of the Year was chosen.