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Disgusted, n. Brit. (usu. humorous or depreciative).
Brit. |dɪsˈgʌstɪd|, |dɪzˈgʌstɪd|, U.S. |dəˈskəstəd|, |dɪsˈgəstəd|
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
[‹ disgusted adj.]
Originally as a self-designation: a member of the public who writes anonymously to a newspaper expressing outrage about a particular issue. Hence more widely: a person who is vocal and indignant in his or her opposition to something.
With the phrase Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells cf. the title of the 1978 BBC radio programme Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells (see quot. 1978), alluding to a perception of Tunbridge Wells as the type of middle-class, conservative area from which letters of this type often originate. Other place names also occur.
1884Times 1 Dec. 6/5 Your obedient servant, ‘Disgusted’. 1894Fleetwood Chron. 15 June 5/5 ‘Disgusted’ writes complaining that he sent a letter..and..found only half of it published! 1967Listener 11 May 633/1 ‘There is in it such a labefaction of all principle as may be injurious to morality’ was Dr Johnson's verdict on The Beggar's Opera, thus taking the words out of the mouths of innumerable censors, Lord Chamberlains, chairmen, Mrs Whitehouses, and ‘Disgusteds’. [1978Kent & Sussex Courier 24 Feb. 1 We are disgusted!.. That is the reaction of a Tunbridge Wells resident to the title of a new radio programme called..Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells. The programme is..to allow BBC radio listeners to air their views and complaints about..radio.] 1980Times 5 Mar. 16/7 ‘Take a firm stand against your Ministry of Finance’, declared Helsinki's answer to Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells. 1992Observer 25 Oct. 25/7 He has performed the extraordinary feat of uniting..‘Disgusted’ of Cheltenham with Mr Arthur Scargill. 2000Guardian 8 May ii. 12/2 Most are despised by the disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells, who prefer a nice bit of neo-geo brickwork, an executive cul-de-sac or a postmodern shopping arcade with split pediments, herringbone brick-tiled floors and brass-veneered handrails. |