HarvARD
There’s also Spaniard…
Jean-Luc Pic
So Richard is too rich? Is that why he’s a Dick?
Also
- dull
- boll
- mall
- stand
What a smartard.
I’ve heard that the term “son of a gun” has a similar origin.
See, when a sailing vessel would visit port all the whores would row out to meet it. They’d be hauled into the gun ports and… ply their wares.
Since they didn’t know who in the gun crew was the father, their boys were “sons of a gun”
What about retard? SCNR
Hazard is apparently too much danger
They bring up wizard… But what about bards?
They are just Too much… Ask every DnD Master.
Too b or not too b
ahh so that’s why charizard is so hot
¡Más chorizo!
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Un animal de bât is indeed a pack saddle animal, and bâtard is indeed a bastard so that’s pretty cool. Never realised the connection! -ard in French is also often a negative suffix, like connard which would be a… “cuntard” if you will.
-asse is the feminine variant, although there are inconsistencies, such as pétard / pétasse which are probably related but one is a firecracker, while the other is a tart (the lady kind)Rude language is always so much fun!
My brain feels Expandard
The exact sentence I came to post. Apparently we all think alike.
Thirded.
Thirdard*
Today I learned I might be too ret.
The root means “slow”, BTW, so it does get to join that list.
I’m no expert at this, but it seems to be the suffix here is ‘tard’ not ‘ard’, coming from Latin.
The root already has tard in it, from Latin retardare. It also has the word tard in it, French for late. Retard also means late in French.
Does anyone here know? This post also had me wondering about retard.
I love etymology
people who confuse entomology and etymology bug me in ways i can’t put into words
classic
Etymology
: A branch of linguistics concerned with etymologies (origin/history of words)Entomology
: A branch of zoology that deals with insects
