Today’s new entry:
DILLIGAF interjection “do I look like I give a fuck?”
One that I had never heard of before, DILLIGAF dates from the early 1970s, though I did uncover a late-60s precursor in DILLIGAD (“…a damn”). It remains fairly widespread, and while it is not frequently found in fiction, it appears to be good T-shirt material.
This is a sample definition of one of the many (over 120) new entries from the third edition of The F-Word. In the time leading up to publication, I will be featuring one such entry a day. In the book itself, these definitions will be supplemented with a number of quotations showing the use of the word or phrase (which is the whole point of a historical dictionary of this sort). In other words, this is only a teaser!