Philander Seabury Posted January 8 Share #1 Posted January 8 Why are they called that? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 8 Share #2 Posted January 8 Cause they wear their asses on their heads. 😄 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL Posted January 8 Share #3 Posted January 8 Heads up their azzes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr Posted January 8 Share #4 Posted January 8 Term of endearment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx Posted January 8 Share #5 Posted January 8 malapropism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted January 8 Share #6 Posted January 8 13 hours ago, JerrySTL said: Heads up their azzes? They appear to be quite flexible on everything except compromise. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 8 Share #7 Posted January 8 Useless as a hat for your azz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 8 Share #8 Posted January 8 From Merriam-Webster History and Etymology for asshat ASS entry 2 + HAT entry 1 NOTE: The seemingly nonsensical linking of ass and hat has a curious prehistory. Examples of the linkage can be found in dialogue lines from late-twentieth-century films: "Anyone found bipedal in five wears his ass for a hat!" (addressed to the employees of a bank as the robbers leave, Raising Arizona,1987, script by Ethan and Joel Coen); "I like your ass. Can I wear it as a hat?" (a character's parody of a flirtatious advance, City Slickers, 1991, script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel). Of more immediate etymological relevance may be this dialogue sequence from the television series That '70's Show: "RED: Eric, if you don't want to wear your ass for a hat, you'll get up here, pronto! DONNA: You better go. You know how that ass-hat screws up your hair" ("Red Fired Up," Episode 24 of Season 2, script by Dave Schiff, first aired May 8, 2000). The current meaning of asshat may be a reanalysis, perhaps in part based on the expression "have one's head up one's ass" (meaning "to be obtuse, be insufficiently conscious of one's surroundings"), perhaps in part due to simple phonetic similarity to asshole. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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