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minus-squareMr_Blott@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoClose! This has been a Brit thing for a decade or so, particularly Scots and Northern English. The idea is to use a noun that could already be a slightly insulting word to start with, like ‘potato’ in the example You absolute donkey You absolute cabbage You absolute bin-bag You absolute Belgian Etc etc
minus-squarefakeman_pretendname@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoOn a similar note, with an “absolutely” and a word ending in “ed”, you get words which mean “very inebriated/stoned” Common absolutely battered absolutely blathered absolutely pissed absolutely wankered absolutely trolleyed absolutely shitfaced absolutely twatted Less common absolutely potatoed absolutely cultured absolutely traffic coned absolutely fishcaked absolutely Belgianed absolutely bin-bagged absolutely cabbaged absolutely Tobleroned
minus-squareMr_Blott@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month ago“absolutely” in this context can be replaced by “pure” if you’re a weegie
Close!
This has been a Brit thing for a decade or so, particularly Scots and Northern English. The idea is to use a noun that could already be a slightly insulting word to start with, like ‘potato’ in the example
You absolute donkey
You absolute cabbage
You absolute bin-bag
You absolute Belgian
Etc etc
On a similar note, with an “absolutely” and a word ending in “ed”, you get words which mean “very inebriated/stoned”
Common
Less common
“absolutely” in this context can be replaced by “pure” if you’re a weegie