shitgibbon
/ˈʃɪtɡɪbən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of compound word used as an insult, consisting of a single-syllable expletive, followed by an absurd or innocuous two-syllable noun that usually forms a trochee.
Example Sentences
- "’Tis the Mozzer and Mark E Smith! Yes, in the year 2000, Sir Morrissey del Manc and Shitgibbon Smith will be tired old buckers, fit for the scrapheap ever since some student NME reader got to see their poetry part of the English GCSE and finished so-called “serious rock” for, in the words of Alice Cooper, “EVAH!”"
- "Good luck and goodbye to the most sick-making,hypocritical bunch of shitgibbons i've yet encountered on the Web!"
- "get the f*ck off this newsgroup,shitgibbon!!"
- "So they should be,when he's the feller "what" films them.If you want cheap then feel free to buy from any one of 10,000 shitgibbons out there "who film from their computer keyboards" (as it were) thereby saving so much $$,that they can cut you a GREAT deal for a 4th gen mastepiece!"
- "Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. In short, don't be a shitgibbon."
- "And of course, cis people, you legally have the freedom to refuse to do that, but if you refuse you are being a shitgibbon."
Etymology
From shit + gibbon. The insult was coined by journalist David Quantick in British music magazine NME in January 1990. The linguistics sense was coined by linguist Taylor Jones in a blog post from February 2017 (see quote), which followed an earlier blog post by linguist Ben Zimmer about the insult's origin and linguistic qualities. The posts were written shortly after the prominent use of shitgibbon as an insult by politician Daylin Leach on Twitter directed at then-US president Donald Trump. Leach's tweet may have been inspired by a similar 2016 viral tweet by user @MetalOllie, who also directed the term at Trump.