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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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

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  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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• sfxrlz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re american slang?

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The non-native english. Learnt something today.

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  • cheers_queers@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    american/uk

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  • moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m Canadian and I understood

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