Bitch Slap (noun) enters the mainstream...
June 17, 2003 5:30 AM Subscribe
Bitch Slap (noun), buggeration (noun), and trash-talking (noun) are now in the OED. The latest quarterly update of the Oxford English Dictionary is now available. (Scroll to the bottom of the list for the most shocking and transgressive new words).
Hrm, on review I did find the words at the bottom of the page. And worse for me, the verb/noun distinction was addressed with a hyphen!
bitch-slap, v.
bitch slap, n.
Good thing no one else cares.
posted by norm at 6:33 AM on June 17, 2003
bitch-slap, v.
bitch slap, n.
Good thing no one else cares.
posted by norm at 6:33 AM on June 17, 2003
Finally I can play "qigong" in Scrabble (my family plays with the Oxford, not that little Scrabble dictionary). Another word that starts with q- not qu-!
posted by some chick at 7:53 AM on June 17, 2003
posted by some chick at 7:53 AM on June 17, 2003
skank!
But seriously, there's no list of 'most vile' words at the end of the list at all. What are you talking about, mfoight?
posted by delmoi at 8:25 AM on June 17, 2003
But seriously, there's no list of 'most vile' words at the end of the list at all. What are you talking about, mfoight?
posted by delmoi at 8:25 AM on June 17, 2003
Vaginoplasty? What's that? Sounds nasty...
But I am glad "buggeration" is in, one of my favourite expletives.
posted by GrahamVM at 8:32 AM on June 17, 2003
But I am glad "buggeration" is in, one of my favourite expletives.
posted by GrahamVM at 8:32 AM on June 17, 2003
vaginoplasty - from google it looks like it's either cosmetic surgery of the labia or tightening of the vagina.
I feel the need to find a joke about wanting collogen injections in one's lips but being too much of a tight c.... Oh. Maybe not. ;)
On a different tack, my favourite expletive for letting off steam is 'blue buggery fuck'. ;)
posted by twine42 at 8:43 AM on June 17, 2003
I feel the need to find a joke about wanting collogen injections in one's lips but being too much of a tight c.... Oh. Maybe not. ;)
On a different tack, my favourite expletive for letting off steam is 'blue buggery fuck'. ;)
posted by twine42 at 8:43 AM on June 17, 2003
Hmm...I always thought "bitch slap" was sexist...but apparently it's okay?
That doesn't seem to jive with this earlier post.
posted by taumeson at 9:35 AM on June 17, 2003
That doesn't seem to jive with this earlier post.
posted by taumeson at 9:35 AM on June 17, 2003
although I personally find the verb form more elegant.
So long as Rick Fox is on the receiving end of said bitch slap, I don't care how they spell it or use it.
posted by Ufez Jones at 9:37 AM on June 17, 2003
So long as Rick Fox is on the receiving end of said bitch slap, I don't care how they spell it or use it.
posted by Ufez Jones at 9:37 AM on June 17, 2003
Careful, some chick, the current paper OED doesn't have "skosh," which really floored me. It could be in an update volume; I haven't checked.
posted by NortonDC at 10:10 AM on June 17, 2003
posted by NortonDC at 10:10 AM on June 17, 2003
Crotchless. Finally. I wonder what was holding it up? Ha.
posted by josephtate at 10:12 AM on June 17, 2003
posted by josephtate at 10:12 AM on June 17, 2003
NortonDC: It's in the online OED:
skosh, n.
U.S. slang (orig. Forces').
A little, a small amount; freq. used advb. in the expression a skosh, slightly, somewhat.
[1955 Amer. Speech XXX. 44 Along with.. everyday greetings, Bamboo English employs sukoshi ‘few, some’ and its antonym takusan ‘plenty’, both of which are forthwith made into two-syllable words, dispensing with the voiceless Japanese u.] 1959 (recorded by Prof. A. L. Hench, Univ. of Virginia) 10 May, ‘Just a skosh,’ he said. When I asked him what he meant he said he had picked the word up in Korea. It means ‘a little bit’. ‘Just a little bit left’ was his meaning. 1977 Detroit Free Press 19 Dec. 4-C/1 In the ad, a slightly out-of-breath jogger laments middle-age body bulge and tells how glad he is that a new line of Levis for men is constructed with ‘a skosh more room where I need it’. 1988 Cycle World Sept. 37/1 The GSX-R's seat is more comfortable than the Yamaha's thinly padded perch, and its bars are a skosh higher.
posted by languagehat at 12:03 PM on June 17, 2003
skosh, n.
U.S. slang (orig. Forces').
A little, a small amount; freq. used advb. in the expression a skosh, slightly, somewhat.
[1955 Amer. Speech XXX. 44 Along with.. everyday greetings, Bamboo English employs sukoshi ‘few, some’ and its antonym takusan ‘plenty’, both of which are forthwith made into two-syllable words, dispensing with the voiceless Japanese u.] 1959 (recorded by Prof. A. L. Hench, Univ. of Virginia) 10 May, ‘Just a skosh,’ he said. When I asked him what he meant he said he had picked the word up in Korea. It means ‘a little bit’. ‘Just a little bit left’ was his meaning. 1977 Detroit Free Press 19 Dec. 4-C/1 In the ad, a slightly out-of-breath jogger laments middle-age body bulge and tells how glad he is that a new line of Levis for men is constructed with ‘a skosh more room where I need it’. 1988 Cycle World Sept. 37/1 The GSX-R's seat is more comfortable than the Yamaha's thinly padded perch, and its bars are a skosh higher.
posted by languagehat at 12:03 PM on June 17, 2003
What!? They still haven't included slut monkey. I guess they just don't care about the 18-to-24-year-old demographic.
posted by eatitlive at 2:07 PM on June 17, 2003
posted by eatitlive at 2:07 PM on June 17, 2003
At good ol' Lewis & Clark College, trustafarians were the dominant species. Also known as "trust fund hippies," they were the ones that got out of their Lincolns off-campus and walked to campus in bare feet with their hemp-collared dogs bounding in front of them.
posted by norm at 3:39 PM on June 17, 2003
posted by norm at 3:39 PM on June 17, 2003
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Ex., Rick Fox was bitch slapped good by Doug Christie.
or
Rick Fox got quite the bitch slap from Doug Christie, didn't he?
Either are acceptable.
posted by norm at 5:36 AM on June 17, 2003