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whole-ass

adj

Etymology

From whole + -ass, by analogy with half-ass, which appeared first. Also influenced by asshole.

  1. inherited from *kéh₂ilos✻
  2. inherited from *hailaz✻
  3. inherited from *hail✻
  4. inherited from hāl
  5. inherited from whol
  6. formed as whole-ass — “whole + -ass”

Definitions

  1. Complete

    Complete; total.

    • Did he just eat that whole-ass bag of candy without offering to share? He's a grown-ass man acting like a twelve-year-old!
    • "You are a whole-ass mess."

  2. To perform (a task) completely and carefully.

    • Near-synonyms: put one's heart in, put one's whole pussy into
    • Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for whole-ass. 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