'Round these parts, I've learned a particularly quaint New England insult: "dink-weed."
Used like this: "Geeze, don't be such a dink-weed."
:-)
...and let us not forget its variant, "dickweed." I wonder what the etymology of this word is?
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Sent: 12/18/2004 10:39:54 AM
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'Round these parts, I've learned a particularly quaint New England insult: "dink-weed."
Used like this: "Geeze, don't be such a dink-weed."
:-)
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Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 9:21 PM
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"Putz" carries the secondary (vulgar) meaning of "a penis"
Hey, Richard, are you perhaps thinking of the word "schmuck" (literal translation "jewel")?
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At 11:48 AM +0100 12/17/04, Andreas Willers wrote:
Don't send your unsubscribe message to the list, or people will make fun of you and you will feel like a dork.
Hey Richard,
tell an old European, what's a dork? :-)
Andreas
That was a direct quote from the Looper's Delight Web site, so Kim may want to weigh in with his own nuanced definition of "dork," but here's mine:
A dork is an individual of less-than-optimal competence, one who simply can't "get it together." To me, at least, it is a similar term to the Yiddish "putz" (a fool; an idiot) or possibly "schlemiel" (a habitual bungler; a dolt). "Putz" carries the secondary (vulgar) meaning of "a penis" and this serves to underscore the etymological origins of "dork" (cf. "dork nozzle").
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