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what do you call?

  • 08-08-2005 9:04am
    #1
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭


    what is the word for being scared to death... ya know like a heart attack. anyone got any idea's???


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  • #2
    Femelade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭Femelade


    like something frightened the bajesus outta me?


  • #3
    Hercule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭Hercule


    erm............... petrified?


  • #4
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    no it's all one word and it's not sh!tless either


  • #5
    Kernel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    Mortified? I would have thought petrified / petrification was apt?


  • #6
    Rhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    danniemcq wrote:
    no it's all one word
    Holyf*ckingsh!timscared


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  • #7
    7aken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 238 ✭✭7aken


    Kernel wrote:
    Mortified? I would have thought petrified / petrification was apt?

    mortified means embarrased. i like the ho1ysh1timscared approach


  • #8
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    7aken wrote:
    mortified means embarrased. i like the ho1ysh1timscared approach
    Actually I think it relates to death by gangrene.

    But embarrased has probably become it's more common definition for some reason.. I wonder how?


  • #9
    Kernel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    7aken wrote:
    mortified means embarrased. i like the ho1ysh1timscared approach

    Yeah, true. Monday, brain no work monday morning. ;)


  • #10
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Hercule wrote:
    erm............... petrified?

    I think that literally means to be turned into stone or other suitable mineral. I wonder does our current use of that date back to the story of Medusa?

    I'll be interested myself to find out what the literal word for 'scared to death' is too.


  • #11
    Rhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    monkeyfudge wrote:
    But embarrased has probably become it's more common definition for some reason.. I wonder how?
    Perhaps because of the start of the word, 'mort' implying death


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  • #12
    Lump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    Petrafied?

    John


  • #13
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Rhyme wrote:
    Perhaps because of the start of the word, 'mort' implying death
    And is death embarrassing? Well I guess you do **** your pants...


  • #14
    Catsmokinpot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,622 ✭✭✭Catsmokinpot


    terrified?


  • #15
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    no this word just means died from a sudden shock/fright. dang it anyway


  • #16
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Is it a medical / technical word?
    Is it slang?

    I'll guess rigor mortis... thats the stiffening of the body after death, but it's also loosely used as "scared stiff"... "that nearly gave me rigor mortis!"


  • #17
    Tiffany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭Tiffany


    I would say it's "rigor mortis" too.


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