Re: Words, Words, Words

--- On Thu, 7/12/12, Deb Counts-Tabor <just.deb@gmail.com> wrote:

Something I read recently, which is only tangential: douche or douchebag is  the perfect insult, because it's something useless and toxic which shouldn't be allowed near genitalia. 

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That's a bit of an Americanism over here; the teens don't tend to use it. They know what it means due to American media, though.

I was looking at a British/American English slang dictionary that basically says 'tosser' is an equivalent for 'douchebag', but it doesn't seem quite as strong.

Ellen

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