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Oxford English Dictionary makes ‘Masshole’ official
Boston Globe ^ | 6/25/15 | Stephanie McFeeters

Posted on 06/27/2015 2:44:19 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows

The Oxford English Dictionary added the word Masshole to its roster on Wednesday, formalizing a term well known to frustrated drivers throughout the Northeast.

A piece of “coarse slang” defined as “a term of contempt for a native or inhabitant of the state of Massachusetts,” Masshole was one of nearly 500 words added to the dictionary on Wednesday, along with twerk, sext, hyperlocal, freegan, fratty, and fo’ shizzle.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: hipsterism; idiocracy; masshole; napl
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To: Tax-chick

I’m with you... that’s funny!!!!!


21 posted on 06/27/2015 3:44:19 AM PDT by GizzyGirl
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To: PeaceBeWithYou

I’ll bet that a lot of freegans are Massholes.


22 posted on 06/27/2015 3:48:57 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong X Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: Gay State Conservative

In fairness, Teddy’s been sober for almost six years now.


23 posted on 06/27/2015 3:49:52 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong X Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Oh, the memories!


24 posted on 06/27/2015 3:52:15 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong X Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: Darksheare

When I lived in rural NM, I once saw two girls walk into the diner I was eating at. One was sneering; the other looked like she expected to be violated and murdered (possibly in that order). I knew at that moment exactly where they were from, and sure enough, when I went out to the parking lot...a car with Massholechusetts license plates.


25 posted on 06/27/2015 3:57:30 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong X Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: No One Special

Sounds like Massachusetts.


26 posted on 06/27/2015 3:58:38 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong X Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: No One Special

The traffic around Boston is brutal and the drivers are the worst in the world! Just in the past week I had to lay on my horn at the car behind me in two separate occasions as they were getting ready to pass me on the left just as the lane was merging ahead. If you are going at any speed resembling the speed limit drivers behind you get very bent out of shape. Massholes!


27 posted on 06/27/2015 4:37:02 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Slings and Arrows

LOL


28 posted on 06/27/2015 5:06:22 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Slings and Arrows
I wonder when they are going to add:

O-hole, - a person that voted for Obama.

Not holding my breath.

29 posted on 06/27/2015 5:37:12 AM PDT by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: Slings and Arrows

The dictionary, like the language and the country accepts all who knock at its door, even those who refuse to act like good guests and obey the rules.


30 posted on 06/27/2015 5:55:48 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I must live in a cave. I have never heard fo’ shizzle. Is it a good or bad word?


31 posted on 06/27/2015 6:10:00 AM PDT by certrtwngnut
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To: certrtwngnut
Is it a good or bad word?

It's a stupid word.

32 posted on 06/27/2015 6:10:57 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I unfortunately live in MA.
A Masshole is typically some MA lib that leaves and moves to New Hampshire because of high taxes and regulation then immediately demands the same in their new state.

I often visit NH and feel embarrassed driving my car with it’s MA plates on.


33 posted on 06/27/2015 6:19:51 AM PDT by mowowie (`)
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To: Slings and Arrows

‘Massh*le’ has been part of my vocabulary since my first encounter with them in 1982...quite possibly the worst people to be found anywhere in the United States of America. (They absolutely ruined my wife’s home town in soviet Red Hampshire.) Thank you, Oxford!


34 posted on 06/27/2015 6:19:57 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Mears

bfl


35 posted on 06/27/2015 6:27:21 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Slings and Arrows; MeshugeMikey
Masshole was one of nearly 500 words added to the dictionary on Wednesday, along with twerk, sext, hyperlocal, freegan, fratty, and fo’ shizzle.


36 posted on 06/27/2015 6:31:28 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: TheCipher
Obamunist - a person that voted for Obama.
37 posted on 06/27/2015 6:33:43 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: Slings and Arrows

The dictionary is way behind the times. I distinctly remember it was 8 years ago that I last heard a middle school kid say “fo’ shizzle” because everyone looked at her because it was soooo last week.


38 posted on 06/27/2015 7:07:17 AM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Slings and Arrows
> Hopefully "Californicate" will be next.

Ain't that a song title?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40IrEa7yJKs

39 posted on 06/27/2015 7:14:54 AM PDT by dayglored (Meditate for twenty minutes every day, unless you are too busy, in which case meditate for an hour.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Keep in mind that the two blows struck against America by the corrupt ‘Supreme’ Court this past week (ObamaCare and sodomite ‘marriage’)BOTH had their origins in soviet Red England. I’d call for a boycott of Red England, but you never see southern or western license plates ‘round these parts...those good Americans already knew better than to fraternize with the commies ‘up north’.


40 posted on 06/27/2015 7:16:44 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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