butthurt

[TheCrociato91]

Hey everyone,
I would like to suggest the addition of the adjective "butthurt" (informal, slang English) to this dictionary, as I've heard it being used a lot in informal contexts. Let me know what you think about it, hopefully I haven't just made a complete fool of myself by overlooking its definition in this dictionary.
Best regards.

 

[bennymix]

I saw it today in a tweet.

 

[tsoapm]

Surely ‘butthurt’ would be a noun? It seems superfluous to me: it’s clear enough if it remains as two separate nouns: butt hurt.

 

[TheCrociato91]

It is not a noun though. It's an adjective, made up of the noun butt and the past participle "hurt"

 

[tsoapm]

I’ve only ever seen it as a noun. How would you even use it as an adjective? Do you have any examples? It might be a noun adjunct i.e. a noun functioning as an adjective, but so might any other noun.

 

[TheCrociato91]

An example would be you telling a friend of yours whom you've just beaten at a game:
"Why are you so butthurt? It's only a game".

The Wikidictionary defines it as follows:
Overly annoyed or bothered by a perceived insult; needlessly offended.
"Don't get so butthurt; it was just a joke."

I found out it can also be a noun, which I had never heard of. I've always heard/seen it being used as an adjective. You learn something new everyday

 

[tsoapm]

Oh I seeeeeeeeeeeee, like a past participle.

 

[jonny deep]

Hey everyone,
I would like to suggest the addition of the adjective "butthurt" (informal, slang English) to this dictionary, as I've heard it being used a lot in informal contexts. Let me know what you think about it, hopefully I haven't just made a complete fool of myself by overlooking its definition in this dictionary.
Best regards.

I think it's an adjective because it's obviously just feeling human emotions

 

[tsoapm]

Well I don’t know about the contexts ‘butthurt’ is used in, but if you consider just the word ‘hurt’ that it's formed from, that's a verb – and an irregular one too, where the plain form, past simple and past participle forms are all identical – a noun and an adjective. So there's plenty of potential uses.

 

[much_rice]

Well I don’t know about the contexts ‘butthurt’ is used in, but if you consider just the word ‘hurt’ that it's formed from, that's a verb – and an irregular one too, where the plain form, past simple and past participle forms are all identical – a noun and an adjective. So there's plenty of potential uses.

Yup: it means "(having been) hurt in the butt," a past participle of a verb being used as an adjective. It's not a noun, though if it were I guess it would have to mean something like "pain in the ass."

 

[eno2]

I've seen butthurt profusely used in a Dutch political forum. The context was the tsunami of reactions when Trump won the elections.
Past participle , used as a compound adjective and noun.

For instance, after almost a year, one Trump admirer would post to a Trump hater: <Still butthurt? When is your butthurt going to subside>?
(in Dutch, but with butthurt).

 

[tsoapm]

Aha! The second one was a noun.

 

[ain'ttranslationfun?]

Hi, The Crociato91, I'm surprised a mod hasn't reminded you of the instructions at the beginning of this forum...

 

[TheCrociato91]

My bad...

adjective

1. 
   overly or unjustifiably offended or resentful.
   "they're all butthurt that she released the album online first"

noun

1. 
   an excessive or unjustifiable feeling of personal offence or resentment.
   "it's time to get over the butthurt from last year's playoffs"

butthurt Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Now I should have everything covered, I think.