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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

"absolutely" in this context can be replaced by "pure" if you're a weegie

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think houseplant and fishtank kind of work in this context.