If something’s gaudy and excessive, Filipinos might call it imeldific. It’s a slang term inspired by Imelda Marcos and her legendary shoe collection. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Imeldific”
The things you learn when you travel.
Grant, my friend Pam Morgan was vacationing in Europe, and she heard a slang term and she knew I’d be excited about it, so she texted me right away.
She had fallen into a conversation with a woman from the Philippines who was talking about something grandiose, and the woman described it as imeldific.
Like Imelda Marcos.
Yeah, and I thought, I don’t know about that, but I Googled it, and there’s several thousand hits for that.
And they’re all Filipinos using it?
Yeah.
That was cool.
Yeah, Imelda-dific.
Imelda-dific, right.
Reference to Imelda Marcos.
We all remember the excess of all the shoes and the big houses.
Mini, mini, mini shoes, yes.
Everything plated with the gold and what have you.
Yeah, thanks, Pam.
