Quantcast
Join two wayward radio hosts on A Way With Words, the call-in radio show about writing, speaking, slang, old sayings, and more.
Citations in the Category Derogatory
Pejorative, offensive. Used to demean, belittle, or disparage. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

(1/31 pages)  1 2 3 >  Last »

abortuary n. Abortion protesters have referred to the clinic as an “abortuary,” but Planned Parenthood officials have said that abortions are expected to account for less than 10 percent of the patients seen at the clinic. [ ] [full cite] (Sep. 21, 2007)
angry-phone n. That rarest of breeds in the largely French-speaking province, Mr. Galganov is a bilingual Quebecker who rallies for the rights of English speakers (Anglophones) and against secession from Canada. That makes him an “angry-phone” to moderates in both camps, who tag him a threat to cool compromise. [ ] [full cite] (Apr. 16, 2007)
Angryphone n. Then the producer of the thriller series 24—starring onetime Canadian Kiefer Sutherland—claimed he was considering a fan’s suggestion to use some Quebec terrorists as the next foes for 24’s hero Jack Bauer. Who? Angryphones? Sellers of poutine? City blue-collar workers? Surely Jack can find somebody more menacing to torture. [ ] [full cite] (Apr. 16, 2007)
angryphone n. Exactly how are good, loyal Canadian anglos supposed to behave at a speech by the separatist Antichrist, with their fellows watching on television?…Do they applaud? And if so, how warmly can they do so without being called quislings or sellouts by the “angryphones?” [ ] [full cite] (Apr. 16, 2007)
angryphone n. “There are a lot of people out there that I’m calling angryphones,” said Kirkland businessman Carlos Roldan, 46. “When (Premier Jacques) Parizeau blamed us for the No vote, it was a watershed moment. All of us—anglophones, allophones, ethnics—we all became angryphones.” [ ] [full cite] (Apr. 16, 2007)
ass nugget n. Cuise was attempting to do the “Yung Joc “It’s Going Down” dance,” and went on to explain that if you put this clip in context, it was actually “much WORSE than it appears” mainly because Cruise was trying to use street slang and colloquialisms, while coming off like a giant ass nugget. [ ] [full cite] (May. 11, 2006)
bellidge adj. I laughed my ass off, I cried, I downed nasty punk-made absinthe, I got bellidge, I got mooned. [ ] [full cite] (May. 15, 2006)
Billy Jack n. The employee, who filed a human-rights complaint of his own, said one of the speakers used the racially derogatory terms “spook” and “Billy Jack” to describe Peters, a refugee protection officer. [ ] [full cite] (Jun. 24, 2005)
bingo n. In this situation, hatred is easy to generate. The “other” is shown as somehow less than human. Pejorative names are routinely applied: thus, “gooks,” “ragheads,” “sand niggers,” and “bingos” become part of everyday vocabulary. [ ] [full cite] (Jun. 15, 2006)
bitch barbie n. One 14-year-old described how, when walking in school alone, he would worry that he had a lopsided walk and try to rectify it. Others felt that they were being monitored by the ultra-cool pupils the academics refer to as “bitch Barbies and bully boys.” These pupils would create gender-based notions of desirability, to which they would hold others accountable. [ ] [full cite] (Apr. 14, 2007)

(1/31 pages)  1 2 3 >  Last »

Recent Catchwords
park v. (5/16)
whale eye n. (5/16)
water buffalo n. (5/16)
Churchill n. (5/15)
moondust n. (5/15)
mouse type n. (5/14)
hung up adj. (5/14)
sideways market n. (5/14)
Bristol dust n. (5/14)
YAWN n. (5/13)
doodlesocking n. (5/13)
job and knock n. (5/13)
radwaste n. (5/12)
night-out money n. (5/12)
podbusting n. (5/12)
yoging n. (5/12)
 More catchwords...
Sponsored links:
New Comments
GW commented on güey (5/16)
Jak King commented on hardening off (5/16)
Jay DeKing commented on hardening off (5/15)
C.L.Mangles commented on job and knock (5/13)
Richard William Walker commented on cat-claw (5/12)
Thomas commented on cat-claw (5/12)
Richard William Walker commented on cat-claw (5/12)
Rock-hound commented on fobbit (5/12)
chris commented on fobbit (5/12)
Driver Joe commented on brown gas (5/11)
Jan commented on tom-walkers (5/11)
Jak King commented on nightstand Buddhist (5/11)
Karl Benghauser commented on jingle mail (5/10)
Thomas commented on cat-claw (5/10)
Richard William Walker commented on cat-claw (5/10)
Subscribe to the RSS feed.Subscribe to the mailing list.Browse the archive.Add to Technorati Favorites. © 1999-2008 by Grant Barrett, Double-Tongued Dictionary, New York City.