Occasionally, I catch Firecracker George throwing in a "meh" in his posts or comments. I never really thought much of it, but apparently its use is beginning to catch on, and The Simpsons yet again may be responsible for it. From The Guardian:
The article also goes on to say that "meh" is not suitable for inclusion in the Oxford English Dictionary, but it's principal editor for new words has a "meh" file. Can you imagine a whole file cabinet with each folder being a different word? He's probably got a whole file for "booty."He thinks, however, it sprang into common usage from the Simpsons.
I can enlighten him further. Some credit the 2001 episode Hungry Hungry Homer with the first use of "meh" as a dismissal, when Homer asks Lisa and Bart if they want to go to the Blockoland theme park and receives the answer, "meh". But the Language Log website notes a 1995 episode in which Bart dismisses Marge's discussion of weaving with a "meh".
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I actually picked up saying 'meh' from a cat I knew in college. We used it as a dismissal and as a way of saying, "aw, f*ck it."
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