Definition:
Name calling: undignified language that debases a person or thing. A kind of meiosis.
Etymology:
From the Greek, "reduction, humiliation"Examples and Observations:
- Phillips: We play on a real diamond, Porter. You ain’t good enough to lick the dirt off our cleats.
Porter: Watch it, jerk!
Phillips: Shut up, idiot!
Porter: Moron!
Phillips: Scab eater!
Porter: Butt sniffer!
Phillips: Pus licker!
Porter: Fart smeller!
Phillips: You eat dog crap for breakfast, geek!
Porter: You mix your Wheaties with your mama’s toe jam!
Phillips: You bob for apples in the toilet and you like it!
Porter: YOU PLAY BALL LIKE A GIRL!
(from the movie The Sandlot, 1993) - "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."
(Tyler Durden in the film Fight Club, 1999) - "I was going to have a few comments about John Edwards, but you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot.'"
(Ann Coulter speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, March 5, 2007) - "Ann Coulter, maniacal, money hungry, far right-wing nut burger has called John Edwards a 'faggot.'"
(abillings's journal, March 6, 2007) - "Charlie Kaufman. Oy vay. I have hated every incomprehensible bucket of pretentious, idiot swill ever written by this cinematic drawbridge troll."
(Rex Reed, "Could Synecdoche, New York Be the Worst Movie Ever? Yes!" The New York Observer, October 27, 2008) - Patient: Dr. Chase said my calcium is normal.
Dr. House: We call him "Dr. Idiot."
("Informed Consent," House, M.D.) - "There are cretins, there are cowards, there are rats who walk like men. And then there is Larry Patterson Jr."
(Leonard Pitts, "The Lowest of the Low," Feb. 22, 2008)
Pronunciation: tap-ah-NO-sis
Also Known As: abbaser, humiliatio
