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rotten
adjective- unpleasant UK
- nly thing coppers’ll do for anyone is make it rotten for them. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 17, 1964
- ill; depressed; worthless UK, 1881
- When you get up and you’re feeling rotten and you wonder, “You know, gee, I feel this badly, do I really want to get on and do the work of the day”, he [Ralph Klein, premier of Alberta, Canada] told reporters. — The Guardian, 28 December 2001
- drunk AUSTRALIA, 1864
- — Arthur Chipper, The Aussie Swearer’s Guide, p. 52, 1972
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 78, 1977
- Well Friday night we go to the Mess and we get rotten. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 10, 1979
- used to intensify a negative quality UK
- So my mum turns on me and says I’m trying to turn her Tommy into a rotten little crook like myself. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 11, 1964
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