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• krellor@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Dead ringer is an exact look a like. A clone.

  Nutter and fruitcake are terms for someone crazy.

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  • sfxrlz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah so that’s why that items called that in tf2. Or is it the other way around ? :D

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  • dismay3915@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They’re american slang?

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not just American (I’m not American).

      Dead ringer isn’t really slang, it’s just an idiom. I’m curious what variety of English you speak?

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      • dismay3915@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The non-native english. Learnt something today.

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    • cheers_queers@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      american/uk

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    • moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m Canadian and I understood

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wait, to nut is to wank but a nutter isn’t a wanker?

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    • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nutter, nut and nutcase have been used to refer to crazy people for a lot longer than nut has been used to refer to wanking

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I am wondering the etymogy of the slang usage now. What about nuts did people look at an go “yeah that can apply to people who are mentally unwell?”

        Was it the fact a walnut kinda resembles a brain? 🤔

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