Talk:douchebaggery

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douchebaggery

Cute nonce construction; move to WT:LOP or WT:BJAODN? --Connel MacKenzie 05:46, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

146,000 google hits. RJFJR 06:47, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

There are some words I've come around to thinking our CFI are too weak on, but not this one. For primarily this spelling, but including different hyphenations, there are a dozen pages of hits on Usenet and six times that many blog hits! Objectionable or not, a lot of somebodies out there are using it. The fact that it gets absolutely no book hits is an indication of the chasm between formalilty and all that other junk. How likely is someone to run across this word? It depends. Are we talking about a sewer rat or book worm? DAVilla 06:56, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Interesting that you make the distinction so black and white, with no shades of gray. Well, anyhow, how far down the rabbit hole do we go? I'm inclined to think of the + "-gery" as a nonce-ish construction to make the term sound especially ridiculous. Perhaps immitative of "nunnery"? Should we just have a note at -ery saying that in slang, the final consonant can be repeated, adding this ending to sound "mock British" for humorous effect? Would you expect to get away with using this word formation on a term paper? In a business proposal? A court filing?

Pretty much all of the "drug slang" terms I've encountered on Wiktionary have had attestation to be found, particularly in published works that contain lots of colloquial speech. If this really is so common, why haven't any authors chosen to represent colloquial speech patterns by including this "term"? By the way, I'm not offended by this term - offhand I can't think of anyone that wouldn't simply laugh or at least smirk, if the term were used conversationally as an attempted insult. --Connel MacKenzie 18:39, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

What a fantastic word. I have longed for a word to describe the act of being a douchebag and alas I have found it. This word should be verified as a permanent Wiktionary entry. (So should Fontrum, which I commented on elsewhere). — This unsigned comment was added by Emilyctaylor (talk • contribs).

Rfvpassed as a neologism. -- Beobach972 01:40, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Thirteen years later

...the term now has lots of hits on Google Books. —Mahāgaja · talk 12:11, 27 April 2020 (UTC)