words: sob off/bog off

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Pawe³ Piotr Stawski - 23 Dec 2005 20:52 GMT

Could you tell me what changes in usage of words meaning "get lost" you have
observed in the UK?
I was told here to sob off and bog off. In books we usually have get lost as
a main example. Therefore, I would like to go into details.
Concerning the rules: any humorous situation with the usage of those words.

I am doing my best to keep to the topic of this list and cannot see any
reasons why this post could be called irrelevant.

Regards,
Pawel

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Molly Mockford - 23 Dec 2005 21:15 GMT

At 21:52:43 on Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Pawe³ Piotr Stawski
<english@stawski.pl> wrote in
<a793d$43ac63a7$d4ba586d$18679@news.chello.pl>:

>Could you tell me what changes in usage of words meaning "get lost" you have
>observed in the UK?
>I was told here to sob off and bog off. In books we usually have get lost as
>a main example. Therefore, I would like to go into details.

If you were told to sob off, that was either a typo or a euphemism for
sod off. Bog off is a euphemism for bugger off. They both mean exactly
the same - get lost, but more rudely. A third term is eff off - I'll
leave you to work out what that is a euphemism for. You would not
expect to find any of these expressions in textbooks.

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Pawel Piotr Stawski - 23 Dec 2005 21:30 GMT

http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/EFFOFF
pretty nasty then
pawel

> At 21:52:43 on Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Pawe³ Piotr Stawski <english@stawski.pl>
> wrote in <a793d$43ac63a7$d4ba586d$18679@news.chello.pl>:
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> you to work out what that is a euphemism for. You would not expect to
> find any of these expressions in textbooks.

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Pawe³ Piotr Stawski - 23 Dec 2005 21:34 GMT

As asked I worked it out:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=24848&dict=CALD

there is however a difference between your F word F off and eff off.
On the scale if 1 is go away and 10 F off, where would you put eff off? 8?9?
Regards,
Pawel

> http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/EFFOFF
> pretty nasty then
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
>> leave you to work out what that is a euphemism for. You would not expect
>> to find any of these expressions in textbooks.

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Pawe³ Piotr Stawski - 23 Dec 2005 21:38 GMT

> http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/EFFOFF
> pretty nasty then
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>> the same - get lost, but more rudely. A third term is eff off - I'll
>> leave you to work out what that is a euphemism for.

eff off Exclam. Go away. Euphemism for 'f.ck off!' See 'f.ck off'.

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/e.htm

Still I hanker for more ethymology. I am using www.onelook.com, but it is
not enough. Sara corpus with endless sentences: SNOW use.

Regards,
Pawel Pest Please
Poland

You would not expect to

>> find any of these expressions in textbooks.

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Discussion Groups / British English / December 2005

words: sob off/bog off