“chuffed doesnt mean what you think it means”
it means exactly what i think it means its just some stupid word that literally has two definitions that mean the opposite thing
what the hell
This makes me really chuffed
This post is quite egregious
Well I’m nonplussed by this whole post.
goddamnit.
all of you go to hell
And you wonder why i am boggled at times
These are called contronyms! A word that is its own opposite.
Why the fuck do these exist
One theory is that the sarcastic use of the word became exceedingly prevalent and because another dictionary definition.
Are you telling me that we were such sarcastic shits it literally changed our language.
The adjective “pretty” comes from the Old English “prættig” (West Saxon), “pretti” (Kentish), “*prettig” (Mercian) which meant “cunning, skillful, artful, wily, astute.” Basically pretty was used to mean someone or something clever but it was a bad thing. In the change from Old English to Middle English, “pretty” by 1400 had come to mean “manly, gallant,” and then it shifted to “attractive, skillfully made,” and then to “fine,” and then by the mid-fifteenth century came to mean “beautiful in a slight way.”
In a similar fashion, the noun “niceness” meant “folly, foolish behaviour” in the 1520s, by the 1670s it had come to mean “exactness” and finally, by 1809, “pleasantness.” This is an example of amelioration, and things like when ‘bad’ was used to mean ‘good’ in the 80′s and ‘wicked’ meaning ‘excellent’ in the 90′s are the same thing (amelioration being where the meaning gets better, the opposite is pejoration where the meaning becomes worse); so yeah, this shit happens all the time and it’s both confusing as heck but also kind of great.
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