nut out

nut out (third-person singular simple present nuts out, present participle nutting out, simple past and past participle nutted out)

nuts out (present singular third-person)
nutting out (participle present)
nutted out (participle past)
nutted out (past)

From nut (“(slang) the head”) + out, referring to thinking or working something out in one’s head.

[A] chronic optimistic faith in pragmatic experiment to overcome deficiencies in the knowledge of these experts (rather than set up an expensive preparatory research program) was responsible for the difficulties that immediately occurred when the factory began to produce glass in July 1962. An Auckland newspaper reporter transmitted the parochial attitude of the technical management when he boasted that the finer points of glassmaking “had to be nutted out by Kiwis on the spot.”

1965, William J[ames] Cameron, “From Adversity to Diversity”, in New Zealand (A Spectrum Book), Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, →OCLC, page 136:

On the Monday afternoon, at about four o'clock, Mervyn said, “Well, we’re doing a lot of sitting around gas, gas, gas, but it seems to me we’ve got everything there is to nut out, nutted out.[…]”

1974, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, Predicament, London: Robert Hale, published 1982, →ISBN, page 89:

In ’86 Frank helped Ian [Roberts] nut out his first contract—$26,000 a year—[…]

1997, Paul Freeman, Ian Roberts: Finding Out, Milsons Point, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 70:

An inquiry takes place and more often than not all sides of politics—I should use ‘all’ rather than ‘both’ with the member for Cunningham sitting opposite—get together and nut out something, compromising a little bit here or there to come up with a final result.

2003 November 25, Gary Nairn, “Economics, Finance and Public Administration Committee: Report”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Representatives (Australian House of Representatives), volume 259, Canberra: […] Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, →OCLC, page 22823:

Nutting out our own way of doing things may take some work, but we get there.

2010, Stefan Korn, Scott Lancaster, Eric Mooij, Being a Great Dad for Dummies (For Dummies), Australian & New Zealand edition, Milton, Qld.: Wiley Publishing Australia, →ISBN, page 273:

(transitive, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To find a solution (for something), especially in a group discussion; also, to work out the finer details (of something).


nut out

From nut (“(slang) crazy person”) + out.

There was also the Black political pimp syndrome where a few middle-class and bourgeois negroes got big off the people’s struggles, and then nutted out completely, joining forces with our enemies, as agents, messengers, sophisticated stool pigeons, professional confusers.

1981, Amiri Baraka, “Black America and the Afro-American Nation: The Urban Voice”, in Michael C. Jaye, Ann Chalmers Watts, editors, Literature & the American Urban Experience: Essays on the City and Literature, Manchester: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 156:

The day we found out George Jackson was murdered he nutted out. I was there, at Shirley Sutherland′s house in Beverly Hills, the afternoon we heard George Jackson was murdered, and he nutted out at this meeting, right there.

1994, Eric Cummins, “The Force of Imprisoned Words”, in The Rise and Fall of California’s Radical Prison Movement, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 254:

I tried not to think about clients who were in prison without appellate hopes or anything else left but years of time in front of them to nut out. I do what I can with each case but sometimes there is nothing that can be done.

2005, Michael Connelly, chapter 9, in The Lincoln Lawyer, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 88:

(intransitive, US, informal) To become crazy, especially with rage.


fuff

en-verb

fuff (third-person singular simple present fuffs, present participle fuffing, simple past and past participle fuffed)

fuffs (present singular third-person)
fuffing (participle present)
fuffed (participle past)
fuffed (past)

cats fuffing and fighting

1828, Mansie Waunch, The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith:

(dialect, transitive, intransitive) To puff.


frabbit

en-adj

frabbit (comparative more frabbit, superlative most frabbit)

more frabbit (comparative)
most frabbit (superlative)

When last I went she was so frabbit with me, that I really thought she wished I'd keep away.


galsome

galsome (comparative more galsome, superlative most galsome)

more galsome (comparative)
most galsome (superlative)

galsome bitternesse

1633, Thomas Morton, A Discharge of Five Imputations of Mis-Allegations:


emboil

en-verb

emboil (third-person singular simple present emboils, present participle emboiling, simple past and past participle emboiled)

emboils (present singular third-person)
emboiling (participle present)
emboiled (participle past)
emboiled (past)

Emboyled, grieued, brent.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(obsolete, transitive) To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.


rageaholic

(slang) A person who feeds on expressing rage and aggression.


angriness

en-noun

angriness (usually uncountable, plural angrinesses)

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From Middle English angrynes, angrinesse; equivalent to angry + -ness.


ing-bing

'What gets into you, Ned?' he complained. 'You go along fine for just so long and then for no reason at all you throw an ing-bing. I'll be a dirty so-and-so if I can make you out!'

1931, Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key, Dell Publishing, published 1966, page 13:

‘Merle's at my apartment,’ I said. ‘She threw an ing-bing.’

1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin, published 2005, page 238:

‘He threw an ing-bing and I had to slug him,’ I explained to nobody in particular and started to dust myself down.

1949, James Hadley Chase, You Never Know with Women:


froth at the mouth

en-verb

froth at the mouth (third-person singular simple present froths at the mouth, present participle frothing at the mouth, simple past and past participle frothed at the mouth)

froths at the mouth (present singular third-person)
frothing at the mouth (participle present)
frothed at the mouth (participle past)
frothed at the mouth (past)

/ˈfɹɒθ ət ðə ˈmaʊθ/

/ˈfɹɔθ ət ðə ˈmaʊθ/

She was almost frothing at the mouth when she heard about the cost of the car repairs.

'Damn the Whitecoats!' cried Snitter, frothing at the mouth. 'Damn Annie, damn the policeman and the white bell-car! Damn you all, damn you! You've killed my master!'

1977, Richard Adams, “Friday the 15th October”, in The Plague Dogs, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN; republished Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books in association with Rex Collings Ltd and Allen Lane, 1978, →ISBN, page 42:

(figurative) To rage, to vent one's anger.


ballyrag

ballyrag (third-person singular simple present ballyrags, present participle ballyragging, simple past and past participle ballyragged)

ballyrags (present singular third-person)
ballyragging (participle present)
ballyragged (participle past)
ballyragged (past)

. . . the Duchess of Belmont, that ballyrags every one round her, like a tipsy old soldier.

1904, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 29, in The House by the Church Yard:

"I remember you as a boy, Samuel," said Mrs. Hignett, "lamentably lacking in consideration for others and concentrated only on your selfish pleasures. . . ."
"Don't ballyrag the poor man," said Jane Hubbard.

1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 16, in Three Men and a Maid:

(transitive) To harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally.


spit chips

spit chips (third-person singular simple present spits chips, present participle spitting chips, simple past and past participle spat chips or spit chips)

spits chips (present singular third-person)
spitting chips (participle present)
spat chips (participle past)
spat chips (past)
spit chips (participle past)
spit chips (past)


bazonkers

en-adj

bazonkers (comparative more bazonkers, superlative most bazonkers)

more bazonkers (comparative)
most bazonkers (superlative)

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Narrator: The crowd goes absolutely bazonkers!

2004, Brad Neely, Wizard People, Dear Reader:

(slang) Delirious with excitement or anger; nuts.


three-fisted

[']I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.' 'Superman?' Clevinger cried. 'Superman?' 'Supraman,' Yossarian corrected.

1961 (republished 2010), Joseph Heller, Catch-22, London: Vintage Books, ISBN 978-0-09-955218-5, page 22

Circus World, John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale, Rita Hayworth. The Duke is a three-fisted boss of a two-ring travelling Wild West show. '64.

1968 November 4, “TV and FM Week”, in Ruth Gilbert, editor, New York, volume 1, number 31, →ISSN, page 65:

Advertising promotes your product and the names of your outlets. And while this is going on, you've got to remind folks of the benefits offered in your ads by means of powerful in-store signs. This golden rule packs a three-fisted punch that commands success for you and your retailers.

1993, Jay Conrad Levinson, Guerrilla Marketing Excellence: The 50 Golden Rules for Small-business Success, Houghton Mifflin Co., →ISBN, page 102:

He has devised another one of his famous fourth-down game breakers — the same kind of three-fisted brainstorm that climaxed with his decision to defuse the whole impeachment process by releasing his own version of "the tapes," or the time he figured out how to put a quick lid on the Watergate burglary investigation by blaming the whole thing on John Dean.

2003, Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 329:

Badger clenched my hand in his and pulled me forward, hissing under his breath, “Don't stare. Not sure I could take on a three-fisted ... whatever it is.”

2014, Gwen Gardner, “Gertrude's Garden”, in Second Death [Indigo Eady: Afterlife Novella Series; book 1], Los Gatos, Calif.: G. Gardner (through Smashwords):

Aggressive, energetic, enthusiastic, exuberant; two-fisted.

A Bajoran rushed past with an armful of phaser rifles, another with a box of hand phasers. God help me, thought O'Brien. I'm a lover, not a fighter! Husband, father, engineer, amateur magician, raconteur, and three-fisted drinker ... never a warrior!

1999, Dafydd ab Hugh, chapter 3, in Fallen Heroes [Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; 5], New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books:

Once a three-fisted drinker and smoker, Mr. [Clive] James, 75, was found to have leukemia in 2010, with the added complications on emphysema and kidney failure.

2014 October 31, Steven Erlanger, “A writer whose pen never rests, even facing death [print version: His pen never rests, even in face of death, International New York Times, 3 November 2014, p. 1]”, in The New York Times:

In three-fisted drinker: able to consume large quantities of liquor without ill effects; heavy (drinker); compare two-fisted drinker.


pop one's cork

en-verb

pop one's cork (third-person singular simple present pops one's cork, present participle popping one's cork, simple past and past participle popped one's cork)

pops one's cork (present singular third-person)
popping one's cork (participle present)
popped one's cork (participle past)
popped one's cork (past)

[S]he had given him a perfunctory jerkoff, not even taking his dick out of his pants, laughing as he popped his cork within moments.

2009, Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin, →ISBN, page 2:

(idiomatic, vulgar, of a man) To ejaculate.


mad as a meat axe

(Australia, simile, colloquial) Very irate; crazy with rage.


storm off

storm off (third-person singular simple present storms off, present participle storming off, simple past and past participle stormed off)

storms off (present singular third-person)
storming off (participle present)
stormed off (participle past)
stormed off (past)


hulk out

hulk out (third-person singular simple present hulks out, present participle hulking out, simple past and past participle hulked out)

hulks out (present singular third-person)
hulking out (participle present)
hulked out (participle past)
hulked out (past)

Jack Kirby
Marvel Comics Universe
Stan Lee

From Hulk, a fictional character, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for the Marvel Comics Universe, who gains superhuman strength when he becomes angry.

One of my best friends has hulked out his chest, triceps and shoulders exclusively with weighted push ups at my recommendation.

2012 January 10, Joshua Naterman, “Need Advice on Building Rounder Chest without Weights?”, in GymnasticBodies Forums:

You want to be in a permanent state of Hulking out, but chances are, if you’re reading this article, building bulk doesn’t come naturally.

2016 December 9, Rachael Schultz, “How to eat to bulk up”, in Men's Fitness:

A review of studies done on runners and strength training showed generally positive impacts and no negative consequences. You won’t hulk out or bulk up just fine-tune some lean muscle in ways that running alone can’t do.

2017 January 9, Molly Hurford, “Cross-Training Workouts Every Runner Should Try”, in MapMyRun, archived from the original on 2017-06-18:

To gain significant muscle mass from exercise.


storm out

storm out (third-person singular simple present storms out, present participle storming out, simple past and past participle stormed out)

storms out (present singular third-person)
storming out (participle present)
stormed out (participle past)
stormed out (past)

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arc up

arc up (third-person singular simple present arcs up, present participle arcing up, simple past and past participle arced up)

arcs up (present singular third-person)
arcing up (participle present)
arced up (participle past)
arced up (past)

Thought to be from electrical arcs created when starting/booting/arcing up an electrical device.

Tiger went, ‘Ooo! He's arcing up here, Annabelle.’

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 316:

(Australia, slang, intransitive) To become upset or angry.


hate music

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Music that expresses destructive desires against a demographic.


feed the flames

feed the flames (third-person singular simple present feeds the flames, present participle feeding the flames, simple past and past participle fed the flames)

feeds the flames (present singular third-person)
feeding the flames (participle present)
fed the flames (participle past)
fed the flames (past)

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To provoke further a debate or controversy, a person's anger, etc.


butt-hurt

en-adj

butt-hurt (comparative more butt-hurt, superlative most butt-hurt)

more butt-hurt (comparative)
most butt-hurt (superlative)

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broyges

Borrowed from Yiddish ברוגז (broyges), from Hebrew ברוגז \ בְּרֹגֶז (literally “in anger, with anger”).

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ברוגז \ בְּרֹגֶז

Such amity is no small thing. The narrowing world of Yiddish theater has been bedeviled with one “broyges” — a cherished term for a falling out — after another

2010, Joseph Berger, “How to Say Theater in Yiddish? Two Ways”, in The New York Times:

[…] is unaware that Eli is in broyges with Peggy.

2011, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, The Modern Gentleman, 2nd Edition: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy, and Vice, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 287:

Many stories were told about the Levinson-Mikhoels broyges (rivalry).

2016, Paul Goldberg, The Yid: A Novel, →ISBN, page 138:


road rager

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When I told Jon I thought that he was a road rager, he replied, 'I'm not a road rager. Road ragers take an interest in their victims on the road. I don't!'

2002, Krystal Love, Blind to the Molesting Hands:


en-proverb

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(informal) If you provoke someone dangerous, you can expect an aggressive reaction.

if you mess with the bull, you get the horns


get someone's Irish up

en-verb

get<,,got,got􂀿UK􂁀:gotten􂀿US􂁀> someone's Irish up

get someone's Irish up (third-person singular simple present gets someone's Irish up, present participle getting someone's Irish up, simple past got someone's Irish up, past participle (UK) got someone's Irish up or (US) gotten someone's Irish up)

gets someone's Irish up (present singular third-person)
getting someone's Irish up (participle present)
got someone's Irish up (past)
got someone's Irish up (UK participle past)
gotten someone's Irish up (US participle past)

From a supposed propensity of Irish people to be easily and severely angered.

"It's so crazy I've got to believe they're either paranoid or trying to get his Irish up so he will run [and split the anti-Carter vote in the primaries]. My guess is it's paranoia."

1979, David Garth, New York Magazine, page 14:

(potentially offensive) To anger or annoy someone.


go ham

go ham (third-person singular simple present goes ham, present participle going ham, simple past went ham, past participle gone ham)

goes ham (present singular third-person)
going ham (participle present)
went ham (past)
gone ham (participle past)

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H.A.M.
Jay-Z
Kanye West
Soulja Boy
Urban Dictionary

Uncertain; the earliest use of the term in the idiomatic sense appears to be in the 2007 song "Go Ham on 'Em" by Soulja Boy (see quotation below). "Ham" is often thought to be an acronym of "hard as a motherfucker" (with go ham then parsing as go hard as a motherfucker), although this may be a backronym. Alternatively, it could be a phonetic clipping of mayhem. The term was popularized by the 2011 song "H.A.M." by Jay-Z and Kanye West.

If you use her fabric scissors, she's going to go ham on you.

Go ham on em Soulja, go ham on 'em

2007, “Go Ham on 'Em” (0:12 from the start)performed by Soulja Boy:

I'm about to go HAM / Hard as a muthafucker, let these niggas know who I am

2011 August, Jay-Z and Kanye West, “H•A•M”, Watch the Throne, deluxe edition, Roc-A-Fella Records

“Clover went in. And she's so calm and gentle normally! I didn't expect her to go ham like that. Will Patricia's arm mend?”
“Not for a while.”
“Serves her right. She went ham on me for no reason.”
Angelo shrugged a shoulder. “She blames you for Marissa's state.”

2014, Makala Thomas, Count Angelo, page 157:

In between the guys in the crowd having to be told what was really good and now Ty acting like he owned her and her hustle, she went ham. “Main girl?” Kenya finally had enough of his ass. “Nigga, what? Please don't coach mines. You got me all fucked up in the game. Fall back and don't play yourself!”

2014, Ms. Michel Moore, Coldhearted & Crazy: Say U Promise I:

(intransitive, slang, originally African-American Vernacular, often followed by on) To enter an enraged and uncontrollable state; to go berserk.


anger balloon

(comics) A balloon with a jagged outline, containing words angrily screamed by a character.


spit fire

spit fire (third-person singular simple present spits fire, present participle spitting fire, simple past spat fire or spit fire, past participle spat fire)

spits fire (present singular third-person)
spitting fire (participle present)
spat fire (past)
spit fire (past)
spat fire (participle past)

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Her pretty gray-blue eyes no longer spit fire.

2010, Christina Crooks, L.A. Caveman (battle of the sexes, office romance):

Her eyes spit fire, but she nodded, if a quick jerk of her head could be called a nod.

2012, Karen Kay, War Cloud's Passion, →ISBN, page 141:

It described her to a tee; from her fiery mane of red hair to her beautiful emerald eyes that spit fire when she was angry or frustrated.

2013, Julia Mills, Her Dragon To Slay, →ISBN:

(of eyes) To flash and reveal strong emotion.

It would do no good to spit fire at him. He'd only laugh, and then he'd get his own way anyway.

2000, B. J. Lawry, Desert Heat, →ISBN, page 87:

Many look as if butter would not melt in their mouths, and yet can spit fire when it suits their purpose.

2006, Charles H. Spurgeon, John Ploughman's Talk: Or, Plain Advice for Plain People, →ISBN, page 123:

The beneficed ministers, however, stimulated by missives from the Scotch kirk, now in arms for Charles II., continued, says the gentle Mrs. Hutchinson, to 'spit fire out of their pulpits,' and even the rout of their allies at Dunbar, though it made their tongues less dangerous, did not make them more smooth.

2011, Thomas Hill Green, R. L. Nettleship, Works of Thomas Hill Green, →ISBN, page 332:


spit fire

His intention was to steal cattle all the way to Mexico but the vivid memory of that spit fire's lips altered his plans.

2011, Sue Robinett, Shana; Legend of Mah-cou-ah Her-moomch Eh Tivo (woman Walks Like a Man), →ISBN:

Oh yes Ms. Bobbyjean was a spit fire alright.

2012, C. L. Ellis, Hussy, →ISBN, page 201:

Her name is Marisol who lives in Spain, a spit fire of a gal, pretty as a daisy to say the least who loves to entertain her friends and has become with no fault of her own the mother/ house nanny to her family of four men, her father, and her three brothers.

2013, Jimmy Correa, How My Prank Stories In Social Media Web Sites Got Me Committed In The Psychiatric Ward At Bellevue Hospital., →ISBN, page 59:


zowerswopped

en-adj

zowerswopped (comparative more zowerswopped, superlative most zowerswopped)

more zowerswopped (comparative)
most zowerswopped (superlative)

A dialectal form of sour-sapped (literally “being sour or foul-tempered to the core or marrow”).

"Did he understand you?" said Campbell. "O yes, for he called out to his men in Dutchified French, and looked at me zowerswopped enough.[…]"

1834, John Brent, chapter XIX, in Leitch Ritchie, editor, The Sea-Wolf. A Romance of “The Free Traders.” (The Library of Romance; XI), London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 185:

I'm even more zowerswopped because I don't know for sure yet if I'm heavy-footed.

1993, Susan Kelz Sperling, Lost Words of Love, New York, N.Y.: C. Potter, →ISBN, page 50:

Who hasn't felt zowerswopped to find one's mailbox pragged with junk mail?

1993 April 27, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.: Gannett Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page C1:

(West Country, Exmoor) Synonym of bad-tempered.


storm in

en-verb

storm in (third-person singular simple present storms in, present participle storming in, simple past and past participle stormed in)

storms in (present singular third-person)
storming in (participle present)
stormed in (participle past)
stormed in (past)

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deaggressivization

(psychoanalysis) Neutralising the urges of aggression.


boo hiss

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Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran Drescher, which honestly? Goals).

2019, Fancy Feast, “On Being a Fetish”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019:

An expression of disagreement, outrage, or frustration.


glimflashy

en-adj

glimflashy (comparative more glimflashy, superlative most glimflashy)

more glimflashy (comparative)
most glimflashy (superlative)

17th century. First attested in Elisha Coles' An English Dictionary (1676). From glim (“eye”) + flashy (“flashing”). Figurative of someone's eyes flashing with anger.

"What ho, my kiddy!" cried Job, "don't be glimflashy; why you'd cry beef on a blater; the cove is a bob cull, and a pal of my own; and moreover, is as pretty a Tyburn blossom as ever was brought up to ride a horse foaled by an acorn."

1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter 82, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman, page 385:

"Glimflashy, he was, saying we was all dicked in the nob or else we should be bummed, laced up in darbies, and tossed in the bilboes. Oh, gloomy hour—what a brangle."

1985, Kasey Michaels, The Savage Miss Saxon (Alphabet Regency Romance; 5):

"Dewhurst gone all glimflashy on me."¶ Pete took a long glug of his beer. "What's he mad about?"

2014, Elizabeth Boyce, Honor Among Thieves (The Honorables; 1):


parental alienation

The coercion of a child into behaving in a hostile or fearful manner toward one of the parents.


face like thunder

en-noun

face like thunder (plural faces like thunder)

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Half an hour later when dad and I ventured into the lounge, mum glaring at us with a face like thunder, Kim was lying contentedly next to Armalade in front of the fire, a real con merchant if ever there was one, basking in all the attention.

2011, Maggie Graham, Me and My Animals, →ISBN, page 80:

A face showing great anger or sullenness.


mad on

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Walking mail men are fair game for animals, kids and any one with a mad on for the Post Oflice.

2009, W. A. Franklin "Dub", Dining with Dub, →ISBN, page 36:

And Ben was always hard to talk with when he had himself a mad on.

2014, Penelope Williamson, The Outsider, →ISBN, page 109:

You've had a mad on at me since we met.

2015, Zachary Klein, Two Way Toll, →ISBN:

A state of anger and resentment toward someone or something.


frumious

en-adj

frumious (comparative more frumious, superlative most frumious)

more frumious (comparative)
most frumious (superlative)

Blend of fuming + furious, coined by Lewis Carroll in the poem Jabberwocky (1871).


chap someone's hide

en-verb

chap someone's hide (third-person singular simple present chaps someone's hide, present participle chapping someone's hide, simple past and past participle chapped someone's hide)

chaps someone's hide (present singular third-person)
chapping someone's hide (participle present)
chapped someone's hide (participle past)
chapped someone's hide (past)

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get on someone's nerves
get on someone's nerves

(colloquial) To annoy someone; get on someone's nerves.


spit tacks

spit tacks (third-person singular simple present spits tacks, present participle spitting tacks, simple past and past participle spat tacks or spit tacks)

spits tacks (present singular third-person)
spitting tacks (participle present)
spat tacks (participle past)
spat tacks (past)
spit tacks (participle past)
spit tacks (past)

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(slang, New Zealand, Australia, intransitive) To be angry.


passive-aggressiveness

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The quality of being passive-aggressive.


blood-boiling

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Just as our combined anticipation was starting to build to a blood-boiling crescendo, the swell lines disappeared from underneath us, intercepted by the coastline of approaching islands to our north.

2005, Tom Anderson, Riding the Magic Carpet: A Surfer's Odyssey in Search of the Perfect Wave, →ISBN:

The bearded Russian sage who inspired both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King couldn't resist a blood-boiling bayonet fight, or a good duel with an old writer friend who had insulted him.

2015, Andrew Kaufman, Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times, →ISBN, page 6:


red flag in front of a bull

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A metaphor for the muleta used by bullfighters.

That message always acted like a red flag to a bull and they charged in, determined to hog-tie him and put a wedding ring through his nose.

2007, Georgina Gentry, To Love a Texan, page 63:

Of course his complicated financial dealings must have been a direct provocation to the IRS, a red flag in front of a bull.

2008, John Calvert, Another Sort of Life:

To a committed individualist such as Norton, this was truly a case of “waving a red flag at a bull,” and although there was undeniably a certain amount of overblown and probably mock-offended rhetoric in her response, equally there is no doubt that many of the objections she raised were her sincerely held opinions

2012, Henrik Bogdan, Martin P. Starr, Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism:

Yes, his mocking stung, but he hadn't cowed her; he'd just waved a red flag in front of a bull.

red rag to a bull
red rag to a bull#English


mad as a wet hen

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My stars! He was mad; mad as a wet hen. He was so mad he looked, as big as he was, to be actually swelled.

1899, Ferdinand Eugene Daniel, “The Doctor Puts Up a Job on the Major”, in Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon:

(US, colloquial, simile) Very angry; furious.


the knives are out

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(informal, chiefly UK) People are angry.


pouncy

en-adj

pouncy (comparative pouncier, superlative pounciest)

pouncier (comparative)
pounciest (superlative)

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ragebait

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From rage + -bait (“manipulation to elicit a particular response”). Compare rage farm.

af

-bait<t:manipulation to elicit a particular response>

Even before I spoke with the political scientists, Nerst contended that a better understanding of today’s online argumentation would help people cope with its excesses. “Most people really are tired of shouting matches and want more nuance (according to surveys etc.),” he wrote to me, “and I hope we will develop some cultural immunity towards ragebait and hyperzealotry soon. […]”

2019 April 7, Jesse Singal, “The New Science of How to Argue—Constructively”, in The Atlantic:

Donald Trump and Republicans understand this potent combination of content creation and shamelessness. Whether it’s weekend tweets by the president or Rudy Giuliani’s constant availability to journalists and Fox News hosts, Trumpists flood the zone with misinformation or ragebait.

2019 November 1, Charlie Warzel, “Can Democrats Compete With Trump’s Twitter Feed?”, in The New York Times:

Beware ragebait, social media that traffic in fear. Does that Facebook post make your blood boil? Or does it make you fearful of the future? Those are two of the reddest flags out there. But there are more.

2019 December 12, Jessica Guynn, “Facebook disinformation in the 2020 presidential election: What you can do to stop its spread”, in USA Today:

On any given day, those who get their news from the loudest voices on the right—Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart News—are bombarded with partisan propaganda, conspiracy theories, and cynical rage-bait.

2020 January 31, McKay Coppins, “The Conservatives Trying to Ditch Fake News”, in The Atlantic:

The whole thing sounds Trumpian because it is. The Trump campaign was unabashed in 2016 and beyond about its plan to “flood the zone” with garbage or ragebait. The strategy worked in part because it engaged and energized his base.

2020 February 13, Charlie Warzel, “Mike Bloomberg Is Hacking Your Attention”, in The New York Times:

So what, precisely, is the new Trump campaign leadership going to do differently? Is there some brilliant stratagem just waiting to be discovered and executed? ¶ Of course not. They’ll keep pumping out those Facebook ads, which will bombard voters who already support him with endless ragebait.

2020 July 16, Paul Waldman, “Trump reshuffles his campaign. If only he could reshuffle himself.”, in The Washington Post:

(Internet, derogatory) Content that provokes of anger or fear in order to increase viewership or interaction.


misopogon

/ˌmɪsəˈpəʊɡɒn/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μισοπώγων (misopṓgōn, “somebody who hates beards”), which is incidentally the title of a book by Emperor Julian, from μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) + πώγων (pṓgōn, “beard”).

affix

(rare) A person with hate or contempt for beards.

(figurative, literary) by extension, contempt of philosophers and associated paraphernalia (wisdom, the philosopher's beard, etc.)


unenraged

en-adj

unenraged (comparative more unenraged, superlative most unenraged)

more unenraged (comparative)
most unenraged (superlative)

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heat of passion

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(law) An outburst of anger that leads one to commit a criminal act, and is itself influenced by preceding events that might cause a reasonable person to lose self control.


get someone's shirt out

en-verb

get<,,got,got:gotten> someone's shirt out

get someone's shirt out (third-person singular simple present gets someone's shirt out, present participle getting someone's shirt out, simple past got someone's shirt out, past participle got someone's shirt out or gotten someone's shirt out)

gets someone's shirt out (present singular third-person)
getting someone's shirt out (participle present)
got someone's shirt out (past)
got someone's shirt out (participle past)
gotten someone's shirt out (participle past)

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You've got his shirt out somehow, Honeybun; he'll do you a mischief. What did you say?

1876, Arthur Griffiths, Lola: a Tale of the Rock, volume 1, page 19:


bitchcakes

en-adj

bitchcakes (comparative more bitchcakes, superlative most bitchcakes)

more bitchcakes (comparative)
most bitchcakes (superlative)

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Dad was totally flipping and pissed and bitchcakes, he didn't want no grandkid, especially no half spook […]

2009, Charles Bock, Beautiful Children, page 207:

"Artists are bitchcakes anyway."
"My brother's girlfriend? She used to cut herself."

2010, Melanie Sumner, The Ghost of Milagro Creek, page 71:

I almost screamed something nasty at them because inside I was totally bitchcakes that everyone was leaving and no one was going to help.

2014, Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, unnumbered page:

(US, slang, vulgar) Aggressive, unhinged, crazy.


aflap

1894, George Lansing Raymond, The Aztec God, Act 3, in The Aztec God and Other Dramas, New York: Putnam, 1908, p. 66,
and she / A vulture feasting with foul wings aflap

nodding her head firmly, headscarf aflap

1984, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Auckland: Spiral, published 1985, Part 3, Chapter 7, p. 292:

[…] a woman in a gaberdine comes staggering out from the roadside, hands aflap, shoeless but on the run.

2013, Richard House, “The Hit”, in The Kills, London: Picador, page 806:

They walked up Main Street, which was all aflap with American flags […]

1908, Eugene Wood, Folks Back Home, New York: The McClure Company, page 46:

Clothes-drying lofts, open frameworks on the flat roofs of houses, all aflap with clothes, sheets, kimono, reminded me of Canaletto’s pictures of Venetian life […]

1962, James Kirkup, chapter 10, in These Horned Islands, New York: Macmillan, page 152:

[…] the buses bursting with cackling passengers three times over capacity and aflap with chickens.

2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, London: Serpent’s Tail, published 2005, page 118:

1977, Niel Hancock, Calix Stay, New York: Fawcett Popular Library, p. 93,
“First he says we isn’t welcome, then he’s all aflap cause some of us is gone.”

1994, Bernice Morgan, Waiting for Time, St. John’s, NL: Breakwater, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 53,
[…] people are barely over our givin’ that extra quota of cod to the French, now they’re all aflap about selling spawny caplin to the Japanese […]

(colloquial) Showing excessive excitement or anger.


lose control

en-verb

lose control (third-person singular simple present loses control, present participle losing control, simple past and past participle lost control)

loses control (present singular third-person)
losing control (participle present)
lost control (participle past)
lost control (past)

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When he said that she lost control, and punched him in the nose.

(set phrase) To become unable to control one's emotions or actions; to abandon rationality or reason.


foul-tempered

en-adj

foul-tempered (comparative more foul-tempered, superlative most foul-tempered)

more foul-tempered (comparative)
most foul-tempered (superlative)

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buttsore

buttsore (comparative more buttsore, superlative most buttsore)

more buttsore (comparative)
most buttsore (superlative)

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My dad was pretty buttsore that I took the money out of my college fund, but when I explained that it would fold into the purchase price, he recognized that business smarts runs in our family.

2010, Elizabeth Davis, “Almost Famous” (33:43 from the start), in Castle, season 3, episode 7, spoken by Bella Lombardo (Adriana DeMeo):

Chimpy wants Yet Another Colossal SPNAK! ?
Just how many do I need to give the buttsore little loser before he admits the tears streaming down his face are spank-related?

2014 January 17, [Tor] Friendly Neighborhood Vote Wrangler Emeritus, “Re: So it's true.”, in alt.cesium (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-25:

Don't get "buttsore" that I don't wait for an intelligent reply from you.

2017 June 22, jillery, “The Creationist minority”, in talk.origins (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-22:

(slang, derogatory) Overly annoyed or upset.


rage farm

en-verb

rage farm (third-person singular simple present rage farms, present participle rage farming, simple past and past participle rage farmed)

rage farms (present singular third-person)
rage farming (participle present)
rage farmed (participle past)
rage farmed (past)

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From rage + farm (systematically manipulating others into giving a particular response). Compare ragebait.

compound

You are being rage farmed. Your angry quote tweet = the goal.

2022 January 7, John Scott-Railton, Twitter:

Mr O'Toole is not a dumb man, which means he must know how bad this argument is. It's just rage farming by — and probably for the benefit of — his social media team. The Conservative Party is increasingly indistinguishable from a facebook group. #cdnpoli

Rage farming is the product of a perfect storm of f***, an unholy mélange of algorithms and anxiety

2022 January 12, Molly Jang-Fast, “Owning the Libs Is the Only GOP Platform: and "rage farming" is their most cynical tactic”, in The Atlantic:

Someone just asked “why do politicians keep trolling on Twitter?” Because their rage-farming is so extraordinarily effective; that’s why.

2022 January 27, @JustinRosenth11, Twitter:

Don't fall for this juvenile rage farming this time

2022 February 7, Steven Monacelli, Twitter:

When we come across something online that is so outrageous that we can't help but respond, we may be falling into the Rage Farming trap...Rage farmers don't care that people hate them...Rage Farming is a manipulative trick that all types of scammers use to go viral. Manipulators use the Read, Anger, Response cycle to rile us up.

Rage farming is a slang term for the political tactic of intentionally provoking political opponents in order to create or increase exposure for one’s group or cause. The tactic is especially associated with conservative and far-right political groups.

2022 March 13, Dictionary.com, Dictionary.com:

Tumblr never left and remains the only Social media site I know of that doesn't feed you algorithmic click farming rage. It's just who you follow ordered by the time they posted.

@thasnarkknight @TheCriticalDri2 Nah I’m pretty sure it's just a meaningless buzzword used by rage farming YouTubers.

I think it's simple. The GOP are successful in the U.S. It's basically tyranny by minority. Our system isn't as flawed. However, culture wars, victimization, white nationalism, rage farming, and hate bring in money and votes. PP/CPC are just following the GOP strategy book.

2022 August 11, @MyNameI89349435, Twitter:

A political scientist told The Tyee he expects aggressive attacks on politicians to increase in Canada as right-wing politicians continue to engage in "rage farming" by advancing false and misleading conspiracy narratives.

2022 August 27, Charles Rusnell, “The Attack on Freeland Sprouts from 'Rage Farming'”, in The Tyee:

This is the problem—well, one of them—with the rage farming that is consuming the modern conservative movement...InfoWars founder Alex Jones was making as much as $800,000 a day peddling conspiracy theories, misinformation, and other forms of rage-farming fertilizer

2022 August 28, Max Fawcett, The National Observer:

It's at the point where it isn't safe for anyone who's not on the far right of the political spectrum. Threats, intimidation, character assassination, lies, & conspiracy theories are encouraged by RW politicians engaging in rage farming. Much of the time, the MSM just ignores it.

2022 August 29, @janetwagner21, Twitter:

cynical politicians and right-wing media trolls continue to rage farm.

2022 September 1, David Moscrop, The Washington Post:

@DuaneBratt @leaderpost Scott Moe, the UCP and Poilievre are copying MAGA rage farming. We know and they know exactly where that leads in both countries

A thought: I'm not a member of any political party, but I am thinking of accumulating amounts to donate to the federal Libs & the AB NDP every time I see an anti-Trudeau hashtag trending, every time @PierrePoilievre or @ABDanielleSmith posts misleading info or rage farming BS,

@DennisKendel Another example of Cons rage farming. I for one am happy that someone is taking seriously water safety. Imagine the outrage if people not on reserves ended up with water boil advisories. Who would get the blame then? MAGA Light attacking federal agencies. Sound familiar?

@roulinski Rage Farming I wonder if the bug idea is Russian or Koch?

(Internet, derogatory) To publish false and misleading content to intentionally increase online interaction.


bex

en-adj

bex (comparative more bex, superlative most bex)

more bex (comparative)
most bex (superlative)

Benquenos are bex about an oil spill caused by Westline bus.

2021 October 12, “Benquenos Bex About Oil Spill”, in 7 News Belize:


self-hate

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clench one's fists

en-verb

clench one's fists (third-person singular simple present clenches one's fists, present participle clenching one's fists, simple past and past participle clenched one's fists)

clenches one's fists (present singular third-person)
clenching one's fists (participle present)
clenched one's fists (participle past)
clenched one's fists (past)

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To clench one's fists tightly because of anger.


blow one's wig

blow one's wig (third-person singular simple present blows one's wig, present participle blowing one's wig, simple past blew one's wig, past participle blown one's wig)

blows one's wig (present singular third-person)
blowing one's wig (participle present)
blew one's wig (past)
blown one's wig (participle past)

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