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It is illogical to discard a diamond and replace it with a rock because of the drop in value: by analogy, a thot has much lower value than a wife. Birds of a feather flock together. Thot was clearly being used as an untrue allegation to save face publicly. Also provides evidence to suggest that a thot carries herself differently. Presumably, a ...
Ultimately, Urban Dictionary is so full of random inventions that it is impossible to tell whether a definition offered eleven years ago that happens to be reasonably close to the current definition of a word spelled the same way has any ancestral connection to the current word. At least with regard to fleek 2003 and fleek today, I'm skeptical.
What a mess1! but still hot2! 1 A dirty or untidy state of things or of a place: "she made a mess of the kitchen/ of herself". 2 I. One who is: a. gorgeous b. pretty c. beautiful d. cute e. attractive (UD) "She just woke up. Was partying all night. Man, what a hot mess, I couldn't take my eyes off her!"
Guido: is a slang term, often derogatory, for a working-class urban Italian American. The guido stereotype is multi-faceted. Originally, it was used as a demeaning term for Italian Americans in general. More recently, it has come to refer to Italian Americans who conduct themselves in an overtly macho manner.The time period in which it obtained ...
Speaking as a complete outsider, with no prior knowledge of ratchet as post–Jimmy Cliff slang, I have to say that the term as used by the Hudsons reminds me quite a bit of skanky, which derived from skank (“An unattractive woman; a malodorous woman; =SKAG,” according to Robert Chapman and Barbara Kipfer, Dictionary of American Slang ...
Two major U.S. slang dictionaries—J. E. Lighter, Random House Historical Dictionary of Slang (1994) and Robert Chapman & Barbara Ann Kipfer, Dictionary of American Slang, third edition (1995) and fourth edition (2007)—have no entry for boof.
In fact the iron smelting connection is probably more of a reinforcing influence rather than an originating root of the expression. Francis Grose's Vulgar Tongue 1785 dictionary of Buckish Slang and Pickpocket Eloquence has the entry: "Slag - A slack-mettled fellow, not ready to resent an affront." In other words a coward.
Urban Dictionary has a quaint tale:-Actually originates from prison slang in the UK. A job often given to the lowest inmates was to put cardboard dividers into boxes. Someone given this job was a 'divider' or a 'div'. Now used as an insult to those who display stupidity. which sounds somewhat contrived to me. Collins has it:-
How and why did the word tight come to be appropriated in this sense, for example as in, "That car is tight, cuh!" ? I mean, one easily extrapolates from the "normal" definition to understand why s...
0. The expression appears to come from the world of journalism and to have a very recent origin, both sources refer to its usage from 2014. Hot take, what it means and where it came from: Also known as smart takes, hot takes come from the world of journalism. They refer to the pieces written when big news breaks.