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Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1654
Island Life: Adventures in English
Everywhere you turn these days, people are getting blown away. Stick a microphone in their face and they'll tell the reporter they were just blown away. Or totally blown away. Or completely blown away.
Brenda Leeuwenberg
From: Wellington
Since: Oct 2008
Posts: 27
gobsmacked
Emma Hart
From: Christchurch
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2629
Moderator
I like gobsmacked. From now, though, I think I'm going to start using 'flabberfounded', or 'dumbgasted'.
Paul Campbell
From: Dunedin
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1181
wait, you mean it's not a sexual reference .....
Sofie Bribiesca
From: here and there.
Since: Nov 2007
Posts: 2240
Or just plain Impressed.
In keeping with the swearing meme, (and not to disappoint Jackie) cuntstruck :)
Hadyn Green
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1802
Moderator
And maybe some alternatives to "gutted" while we're at it.
Kerry Weston
From: Manawatu
Since: Jan 2008
Posts: 494
"That was Intense" seemed to displace blown away among the young fellahs.
Kerry Weston
From: Manawatu
Since: Jan 2008
Posts: 494
Awestruck? Not as good as cuntstruck tho.
Brenda Leeuwenberg
From: Wellington
Since: Oct 2008
Posts: 27
Awestruck? Not as good as cuntstruck tho.
However possibly with more options for relevant use in general speech. Cuntstruck is best used when it really suits.
Steve Barnes
From: The City of Ales
Since: Dec 2006
Posts: 1955
And maybe some alternatives to "gutted" while we're at it.
Ok, how about; disemboweled, eviscerated, cavitated, split from stern to spleen, disabdomenised. Or how about "I was Bloody Eagled"
A graphic description appears in the ßáttr af Ragnars sonum: 'They caused the bloody eagle to be carved on the back of Ælla, and they cut away all of the ribs from the spine, and then they ripped out his lungs.'
Nice.
Tim Michie
From: Auckward
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 237
Pursy.
Sacha
From: Ak
Since: May 2008
Posts: 5312
Cuntstruck is best used when it really suits.
Like on Outrageous Fortune? (just checking who watched the swearing segment on Media7)
Robyn Gallagher
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1309
And maybe some alternatives to "gutted" while we're at it.
How about the alternate spelling "guttered"? Guttered, mate. Guttered.
Also "over the moon". Husbands seem to be over the moon the most, usually when their wives announce they're pregnant, have a baby, lose weight or get a nipple piercing.
Kerry Weston
From: Manawatu
Since: Jan 2008
Posts: 494
Cuntstruck is best used when it really suits.
like screeching it at full volume when you find out yr partner has strayed, i seem to recall ;-)
Robyn Gallagher
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1309
Google search for "real guttered" - go New Zealand!
Tim Michie
From: Auckward
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 237
"Over the Moon": Is that more "I'm leaping cow while the dish ran away with the spoon" or " I'm feel like Michael Collins orbiting while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the surface"?
andrew gunn
From: Christchurch
Since: Apr 2009
Posts: 26
anything but 'awesome'
Sofie Bribiesca
From: here and there.
Since: Nov 2007
Posts: 2240
like screeching it at full volume when you find out yr partner has strayed, i seem to recall ;-)
24 hour fucked up big time, then single: gutted :)
Kerry Weston
From: Manawatu
Since: Jan 2008
Posts: 494
devastated, ruined, wrecked or even quartered: Hung, Drawn & Quartered
Deborah
From: Adelaide
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 815
No-one likes a wobbly table, but sometimes you have to ask yourself: "could I be putting that dictionary to better use?"
I paused for a moment before commenting, and wondered whether I really ought to, and then thought, "No! Dammit - I rejoice in my identity as a pendant!"
So... shouldn't that be a thesaurus rather than a dictionary?
<scuttles back to hideaway in Adelaide>
andrew gunn
From: Christchurch
Since: Apr 2009
Posts: 26
Eek! 'Awesome' doesn't fit at all!
Know why I thought of it though: many moons ago, in much the same spirit as David, I issued a list of synonyms of "awesome" to the presenters of a children's TV show I then worked for, in an attempt to thwart the spread of 'awesome'-ness throughout the general population.
Needless to say, it was Canute Vs Tide all over again
Raymond A Francis
From: 45' South
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 234
You know you are getting old:
When you first hear your parents words coming out of your mouth, usually directed at your children
Or you start whinning about how language is starting to go down hill
Or possibly the PM doesn't speak just like you
Nothing wrong with being a full paid up member of the Pendant Society though!
Don't you hate it when reporters say something is taken off someone when they mean from someone!
Sofie Bribiesca
From: here and there.
Since: Nov 2007
Posts: 2240
Nothing wrong with being a full paid up member of the Pendant Society though!
Yeah nah.
Sacha
From: Ak
Since: May 2008
Posts: 5312
24 hour storm, heavy downpour: guttered :)
Paul Litterick
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 898
Being a member of the Pendant Society is not a hanging offence.
Sacha
From: Ak
Since: May 2008
Posts: 5312
Heh. Sorry to miss that chat after filming, Paul.
Paul Litterick
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 898
So was I; another time soon, I hope.
Sacha
From: Ak
Since: May 2008
Posts: 5312
I'm keen to go to one of the next couple of weeks before the venue shifts to the less saubrious deathstar.
Sacha
From: Ak
Since: May 2008
Posts: 5312
As you were after that burst of IM-ery.
David Slack
From: Devonport
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 595
Moderator
scuttles back to hideaway in Adelaide
Yeah but nah.
Deborah, I really truly weighed that up for a full half minute before I decided that if they had either of those books under a table leg, the odds had to be better it would be a dictionary.
Moreover, I 'd like to encourage people to embiggen their vocabulary. A stroll through a dictionary can do a person no end of good.
Craig Ranapia
From: North Shore, Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 7160
You forgot literally blown away, which has me reaching for the Spray 'n' Wipe.
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