Talk like the Glassfolk

After having much trouble conversing with my triton friend Malime Wave-Friend, I decided to do some linguistic research to make sense of his curious words. Turns out, the lingo of the Inner Planes is surprisingly different from the cant of the Cage. While these bashers still speak Planar Common (albeit with distinctive accents), they’ve developed a unique dialect that has quite a few loanwords from elemental languages and other peculiar dialectisms, and they rarely translate perfectly to ears that’re accustomed to Sigil’s Cant. Here I’ve collected together the most common of their words…

— Voilá!

Inner Planar Cant

All in one list for easier copy & paste

Aliksir (noun) — A potion, an elixir (loaned from the language of the marids).
Back of Nothing (idiom) — A very remote location.
Bag of eels (idiom) — Something that brings more trouble than it’s worth, for example a sought-after relic.
Battler (noun) — A poor, and not very smart, person. Somewhat equivalent to sod.
Big Bubble (idiom) — A large city, like the City of Glass or the Great Dismal Delve.
Brassman (noun) — Someone from the Plane of Fire; also, someone hot-headed and self-important.
Buster (noun) — A powerful elemental spell.
Cobber (noun) — A friend, a tout, a helpful person.
Crude (noun) — Inner Planar slang for a Prime.
Deeper than deep (idiom) — Very mysterious.
Dill (noun) — An idiot.
Dizzy (adjective) — A sod who can’t seem to get the hang of subjective gravity.
Dreamer (noun) — Inner Planar slang for an Outer Planar
Drop (noun, verb) — A little bit of valuable information or an act of revealing such information, see also chant.
Fizzer (noun) — A spell that fails, particularly due to the planar magic limitations.
Flamey-o (noun) — A synonym for “brassman”, but in a more friendly way.
Flaming (adjective, verb) — Raging, angry.
Floater (noun) — A solid elemental pocket in a gaseous or liquid Inner Plane.
Fourish (adjective) — Stubborn, refusing to listen to new ideas: “Don’t be so sodding fourish!” From the close-mindedness of Inner Planars, who refuse to believe in the Rule of Threes, pointing instead to the “fourishness” of the Inner Planes.
Glasser (noun) — A citizen of the City of Glass. This is used by outsiders (mostly Cagers) and considered insensitive.
Glassfolk (noun) — The proper way to address the citizen of the City of Glass.
Hugdug (noun) — An obvious lie, loanword from Terran.
Iceberk (noun) — Someone who explores the Plane of Ice.
Knick (verb) — To steal, thieve. Not to be confused with nick.
Lord Muck (noun) — A high-up, typically one that isn’t well respected, like mephit rulers. Also a nickname for Bwimb II.
Mug (noun) — A fighter, a brute, see also basher.
Nectar (noun) — An alcoholic drink, see also bub.
Nitroner (noun) — Someone, who mines for rare minerals in the Plane of Salt; also, someone clearly sick.
Nuggetty (noun) — A small and stocky creature, living on the Plane of Earth, such as a dwarf.
Oil (noun) — A dark, some reliable information.
Out-of-touch (adjective) — Outside of the Outer Planes. A body who’s on the Elemental Plane of Water is “out-of-touch.” This vernacular comes from Sigil, which is considered to be the centre of the Multiverse by those who adopted this phrase. Canon
Quid (noun) — A mental state; “Not the full quid” means “barmy”.
Rock hopper (noun) — An experienced captain, driver, or guide, who travels between settlements in the Elemental Planes.
Send a mephit (idiom) — Send a message of any kind, not necessarily via a mephit.
Skite (verb) — To boast or brag
Snara (noun) — A trap, loan word from genie language.
Stinking (adjective) — Very. “It’s stinking hot on the Plane of Magma!”, “That berk is stinking rich!”
Tickled (adjective) — Charged with magic, particularly conjuring or summoning magic; “the air was ful tickled by the mages”
Tickler (noun) — A mage, particularly an elementalist; refers to the tingling sensation of being. summoned
Ticklish (adjective) — Someone who is frequently summoned or is unusually susceptible to such magicks.
Until the City dries (idiom) — Forever.
Up country (noun) — An elemental wilderness beyond the settled areas, the deep.
Wet Cage (noun) — The City of Glass on the elemental plane of Water.
Yabber (noun/verb) — Chat.
Yellow stuff (noun) — Gold.
Zach (noun) — A silver coin, see also stinger.
Zip your gob! (phrase) — Shut up! See also bar that!

Source: All of those words are homebrew by Margarita and Jon Winter-Holt, heavily inspired by Australian English with a little bit of Arabic thrown in. Please let us know in the comments if there are any more words you use!

Talk like the Glassfolk