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My husband informs me that troglodyte is '70's surfer talk as in "the grommet's cool but his dad's a trog." (short for troglodyte) meaning "the kid's nice but his dad is not nice."
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I have a neighbor who likes to chug his beer and then dump
his cans in my yard. I've referred to him as a "trog" for
decades.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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Welcome, Ldeyo. I tried to find a picture of one, but they were all too weird or too big to post here.
If I got the context correctly back then, troglodyte was more or less the equivalent of neanderthal (nope, not capitalized).
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Troglodyte I can follow but how did "grommet" come to mean a person?
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troglodyte - puerile - odiferous - jejune- vainglorious
Which of those can really be used? As a gratifying insult? Only troglodyte is a noun. Do we ever use adjectives for insults?
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Do we ever use adjectives for insults?
Sure, but most need a noun to qualify. You can just use them after the copula. Example: "You are puerile!" I kind of like "puerile popinjay" or "odiferous jock".
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Troglodyte I can follow but how did "grommet" come to mean a person? I think Gromit [sic] started as a character in children's movies. And I think "odoriferous" jock generates the proper tone, assuming one wishes to insult.
Last edited by beck123; 08/07/2010 3:57 PM.
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Wallace and GromitThat's what I mean, it needs to be a noun or to be with a noun to have some force. Wallace here btw is a typical odoriferous fock.
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Grommet 'young surfer' seems to predate the Wallace and Gromit films. One dictionary (the Routledge Dictionary of Slang) gives a date of 1981 and a locale of Australia for the surfing term. The term is not usually pejorative unless modified by an expletive.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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