"Begrudgers"

BraziliaNZ

First of all, is this a real word? What I want to know is why this word ALWAYS comes up in discussion about anything to do with Irish life, politics, or even building roads or the Metro or whatever. If you google it, on the first page of results, most of the results have something to do with Ireland or Irish people. Can we ban the word? Like when you try to say **** on this you just get stars? Please?

Xavi6

But we ARE begrudgers

Nerin

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

First of all, is this a real word? What I want to know is why this word ALWAYS comes up in discussion about anything to do with Irish life, politics, or even building roads or the Metro or whatever. If you google it, on the first page of results, most of the results have something to do with Ireland or Irish people. Can we ban the word? Like when you try to say **** on this you just get stars? Please?

are you begrudging me my use of the word begrudger? :eek:

your such a *********!
oh noes!

BraziliaNZ

Nerin wrote: »

are you begrudging me my use of the word begrudger? :eek:

your such a *********!
oh noes!

Excellent, prompt customer service, it's gone already, bunch of f**king ********* f**king ****s!!!!!

gogglebok

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

First of all, is this a real word? What I want to know is why this word ALWAYS comes up in discussion about anything to do with Irish life, politics, or even building roads or the Metro or whatever. If you google it, on the first page of results, most of the results have something to do with Ireland or Irish people. Can we ban the word? Like when you try to say **** on this you just get stars? Please?

"To begrudge" has been around since 1362. On "begrudger", the OED says this:

Now chiefly Irish English.

[< BEGRUDGE v. + -ER suffix1.]

A resentful and dissatisfied person; a habitual naysayer or complainer.
(In quot. 1876, a poetic personification of a mythological deity.)

1876 W. MORRIS Sigurd II. 98 Loki, the World's Begrudger, who maketh all labour vain. 1953 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 11 Mar. 6/4 You're probably already begrudging the time you'll have to spend caring for the lawn. If you're a begrudger, there's glad news for you. 1977 J. JOHNSTON Shadows on our Skin (1991) 79 My mother, God rest her, was no begrudger. 2006 Irish Times (Nexis) 21 Jan. (Mag. section) 16 The begrudgers give out about the prices, but Italian food doesn't get any better than this.

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As to why it's used so much, it seems to me it's often used to disarm a criticism of something Irish without actually answering it. You think Boyzone are crap? Oh, you're a begrudger. As if the only reason to dislike them was that they were successful.

On the other hand, that sense seems to be falling out of use. Maybe we're growing out of that brainless small-town patriotism.

Overheal

Nerin wrote: »

are you begrudging me my use of the word begrudger? :eek:

your such a *********!
oh noes!

Hey wait a minute there was already a thread on this where I said the same thing... hmmm....

Sherifu

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Can we ban the word? Like when you try to say **** on this you just get stars? Please?

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Reku

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

What I want to know is why this word ALWAYS comes up in discussion about anything to do with Irish life, politics, or even building roads or the Metro or whatever.

It's because we are begrudgers, other nations give praise and a pat on the back to the successful ones, we tend to ask things like "yeah well, what about the time I did X" or "the time you did Y" (where X= a good thing and Y = a bad thing).

As the joke goes:
An American-man was walking along one day and came to the gates of a large house on the top of a hill, looking up he said "someday I'll own that place".
An Irish-man was walking along the road later that day, came to the gates, looked up and said "someday I'll get that f*cker!".

A sad reflection upon our society but certainly not lacking in accuracy in my oppinion.:(

aidan_walsh

First of all, is this a real word?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/begrudge