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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  From the New Oxford American Dictionary:

  gin up
  2 (gin something up, gin up something) US English generate or increase something, especially by dubious or dishonest means: the trade press has ginned up a controversy | critics say the program is just a way for big drug companies to gin up demand for their psychiatric drugs.

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  • tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve always heard it used as “conjuring something out of nothing.”

    So, it’s usually more associated with shit stirring than it is being resourceful or something.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe for the apostrophe abuse? It’d be “ginned” in English.

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• palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I had to go check, because I've heard a YouTuber use "gin up" a lot and they're not the sort to use slurs.

  At time of writing [Wiktionary's entry on "gin up"] doesn't list it as a slur either, so I'm inclined to believe it isn't one.

  What I think your employers / colleagues may have heard, or confused it with is "gip" / "gyp" (also soft 'g'), which is an abbreviation of "gypsy" and is generally used to mean "pain" or "a cause to complain", hence being a slur for travelling folk.

  It's such a weak, ridiculous slur that many people don't even know its etymology and use it by imitation. It was very common on British TV up to the '90s, for example, and older British folk may still occasionally use it.

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  • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In the US, "gyp" is a verb which means to commit fraud against someone (as in, "I got gypped" if you bought something that turned out to be worthless). Similarly, almost no one knows the etymology or realizes that it's racist.

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    • palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is probably anecdotal / subjective on my part, so take this under advisement, but I feel like that usage is more clearly a slur.

      The bit about not knowing the etymology for the "cause to complain" version was me at one point, and I think I might have guessed the origin of the given verb without necessarily connecting it to the noun, despite the similarity.

      FWIW, in my dialect there's also a verb "to gip", hard g, which is imitative (and so nothing to do with slurs) and means "to dry retch or feel one might be about to", which is almost never used in the past tense. Hearing it in the past tense, even with a soft g, would make me question everything, which may be another reason why I feel this way.

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• brendansimms@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  djinn’ed up

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Whoa, not cool.

    Image

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• GatesMcBalmer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pics of the write up or gtfo

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hey yea let me go ask my boss if he can show me the slip he turned in to corporate so I can put them on blast just for you.

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    • callouscomic@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Hot damn how can I hire someone as compliant as yourself.

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    • Canajan@piefed.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sounds like you work for a little bitch company, writing people up for something so simple.

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sounds like you are call them alcoholic.

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• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  grammarist.com/idiom/gin-something-up/

  I hear it occasionally. Seems to have a meaning comparable to:

  • Cobble together
  • Jury rig
  • Hammer something out
  • Slap something together

  Basically, “to construct something in an improvised manner”. As opposed to careful, calculated, methodical planning and meticulous craftsmanship.

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  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have literally never heard this in my life. What part of the world are we talking about?

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    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Midwest/Great Lakes, US. I don’t think it originated here, though. I’ve heard it often enough to recognize it, but it’s not common.

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Isn’t it a reference to making moonshine? That’s how I grew up understanding it.

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No, it’s from Middle English “engin”, which at the time meant a device or trick.

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    • raef@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      see: the cotton gin

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Exactly,

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• cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t even know how to pronounce that.

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  • klugerama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s pronounced just like gif

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    kinda like the word gin but with a d at the end.

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• the_fuckler@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You made that up 😑

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• AnalogAllamma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Perchance you slipped and meant to say G’d up?

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    how do you pronounce that?

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    • seathru@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Kinda like the letter G but with a d on the end.

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