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assholism

noun

Etymology

From asshole + -ism. Attested in print from 1970 (by Seymour Krim), apparently from Beat Generation slang. Also popularized by the main character named Divine from the John Waters film Pink Flamingos.

  1. derived from arshole
  2. suffixed as assholism — “asshole + ism”

Definitions

  1. Consistently antisocial behavior.

    • […] I embraced him [Mark Harris] because of his vigor and contempt with all his assholism included
    • I've often observed that assholeism tends to run in families.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for assholism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA