depresh
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]depresh (uncountable)
- (colloquial) Depression, melancholy.
- 2012 November 19, “The Stamp Tramp”, in How I Met Your Mother, season 8, episode 7, spoken by Brad (Joe Manganiello):
- I got downsized two years ago. It's been rough. Going through a little bit of a depresh.
Proper noun
[edit]the depresh
- (colloquial, archaic, historical) The Great Depression.
- 2005, Helen Papanikolas, Rain in the Valley: A Novel, Logan, U.T.: Utah State University Press, →ISBN, page 150:
- And why say that Bessie spent all her money on expensive china, goblets, silver, and wouldn't listen when she, her mother, told her to remember the bad years before the war, the Depresh, and save her money? Bessie liked her job at Auerbachs; she got a discount on her purchases.
Alternative forms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “depresh, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “depresh n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
