r/words • u/verbdeterminernoun • 10h ago

“hegseth” n.

Used to describe the aftershave + shit odors present after a certain type of man uses the toilet.

Whoa buddy, you might want to give it a minute, it’s hegseth in there.

Derived from proper noun, but uncapitalized on purpose.

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u/fromthemeatcase 8h ago

Still doesn't beat Santorum.

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u/Penandsword2021 7h ago

I just told a woman in her 70s about santorum earlier today! Hadn’t thought about it in years…now twice in one day!

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u/booboootron 3h ago

Man. Sounds like a great day.

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u/Penandsword2021 2h ago

I mean, if you’re into that I guess. 😆

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u/Whaffled 10h ago

A person at work's family name is Hesgeth. I will not show him this

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u/verbdeterminernoun 10h ago

Shoot. I didn’t think of collateral damage. Your poor colleague and family. Good heavens.

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u/ResearchSwimming7115 10h ago

Guy's lucky he's a letter off, that's the only thing saving him

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u/booboootron 3h ago

Tell that to Adolph.

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u/AuNaturellee 9h ago

In the spirit of this, henceforth we should no longer use the card game term "trump" to mean "the all-powerful suit that wins over all else", and use it in the more accurate modern sense as "the ill-fitting suit that blathers nonsense" ... derived from related British English, where "to trump" means "to fart" and "trumpery" means "showy, flashy, pretentious, but essentially worthless, deceptive"

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u/Amazing-Cookie-1258 8h ago

Santorum & Bork.

Proud tradition of Hegsething on chudpublicans.

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u/Occamsrazor2323 7h ago

C.f. Dan Savage's term santorum.

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u/cheyannepavan 9h ago

So is it a noun or an adjective? You said noun, but used it as an adjective in your example. Maybe it's flexible?

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u/verbdeterminernoun 9h ago

It can be all, I expanded on that in one of the comments down here Smile face emoji

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u/verbdeterminernoun 10h ago

I suppose it can be verbed and adjectived too. And adverbed. The bathroom was left hegsethly by the big manly piggy pigs. What a great word.

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u/ColoradoDanno 4h ago

Reading that burned my nostrils.

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u/Aardvark51 2h ago

See also: to trump a young girl