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Bookmark or Share- Etymology of "div" meaning "a stupid or foolish person"Acting like a div yesterday: a stupid or foolish person I started to wonder how this term of abuse came about. Urban Dictionary has a quaint tale: Actually originates from prison slang in the UK...
- What is the meaning of "duh" in this sentence?DUH 2 —used derisively to indicate that something just stated is all too obvious or self-eviden Merriam-Webster. So the sentence could be re-written: Why do researchers get so many grants to investigate painfully obvious things? I found it used in exactly that way: 'Duh' science: Why researchers spend so much time proving the obvious LA Times
- phrase requests - Word for "stating the obvious?" - English Language ...I am familiar with many of the responses to someone stating the obvious, most of which are not meant to be kind: "Duh," "No duh," "No shit," "No shit, Sherlock," and others. – JYelton Commented Feb 2, 2011 at 20:01
- Is there a clean version of "no sh*t, Sherlock"?No, duh! If you added ", Sherlock" to either of these, you would cause listeners who know the sweary version to think of it and laugh, without either saying the word or introducing it to listeners who didn't know it.
- Origin of the word "duh" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeApparently this first appeared in 1966 (per Merriam Webster). If you look at Google NGrams, "duh" has appeared even in the 1800s but a quick look at the results shows that in the early cases "duh" was used mostly as a syllable in a foreign language or as a form of "the". You can see that there is an increase over time, regardless, after 1960.
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