• @Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
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      112 months ago

      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

      • @fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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        92 months ago

        On 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
      • MrsDoyle
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        12 months ago

        “You absolute melt” is my favourite. Uttered by a GBBO baker about himself in the latest episode.