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Calling someone a duck egg?

  • 25-07-2019 12:24am
    #1
    Ginger83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭


    Hi I recently heard the term being used to call someone a duck egg. What does it mean?


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  • #2
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,211 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Dumb.


  • #3
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Look it up on Urban Dictionary.

    As you probably have already.


  • #4
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Your Face wrote: »
    Look it up on Urban Dictionary.

    As you probably have already.


    Not to be confused with looking up “urban duck” on urban dictionary...

    Who comes up with this stuff? :(


  • #5
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    A duck egg is similar to the numeral 0, their exam score.


  • #6
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,901 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    ^^^^^

    That is the weirdest spam yet


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  • #7
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Mellor wrote: »
    ^^^^^

    That is the weirdest spam yet

    :(

    486240.jpg


  • #8
    Tammy!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Tammy!


    Never heard of that but I heard of calling someone a duckarse where if sharing a cigarette they wet the tip or used for someone with a big ass but small on top.


  • #9
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,412 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    JeanL wrote: »
    Never heard of that but I heard of calling someone a duckarse where if sharing a cigarette they wet the tip or used for someone with a big ass but small on top.

    Or someone is tighter than a duck's arse.


  • #10
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    If it was somebody local then they meant stupid. However, it is/was used in the US to mean an Irish immigrant (we all had blue eyes apparently).


  • #11
    Ginger83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    thanks i heard it up north


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  • #12
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,853 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    It means someone who is bad at cricket


  • #13
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Drake's love child.



    EDIT: Only hip hop nerds may get that one!


  • #14
    Hammer89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    What's the context? Did you hear it being used as an insult? If so it might mean the person on the receiving end is a bit sheltered, a bit precious, a bit coddled.


  • #15
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Someone called me a lamp once. I still don't get it.


  • #16
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,195 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    Someone called me a lamp once. I still don't get it.

    You should've lamped the cunt one.

    OP, for your education and edification, Boom Bap is partly correct - the term "Duck Egg" refers to a Protestant who is bad at cricket. The term harks back to the 1700s and Lord Plantagent Watermelon-Knackers, who fancied himself quite the Silly Mid-On and was partial to duck-egg sandwiches. Fucker was useless.


  • #17
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    a northern english phrase?


  • #18
    Greentopia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭Greentopia


    riffmongous wrote: »
    It means someone who is bad at cricket

    So...the English then :pac:


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