assedadj.
/ast/, U.S. /æst/ slang (originally and chiefly North American).Generally regarded as coarse.
1. As the second element in compounds, forming adjectives with the sense ‘having or displaying the quality designated by the first element to an extreme or undesirable degree’, as lazy-assed, stupid-assed, etc. Cf. ass n.2 4.bad-assed, half-assed, hard-assed, smart-assed, etc.: see the first element.
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c1928 Poems, Ballads, & Parodies i. 19 One of those city chaps, One of those oily-assed fiends.
1953 L. Uris Battle Cry iii. ii. 205 What kind of stupid-assed question is that.
1969 D. G. Petersen Does Tiger wear Necktie? i. ii. 38 Who's been feedin' you..? Some silly-assed psychiatrist?
1987 S. MacLaine It's All in Playing vi. 71 A deeply personal love scene witnessed by three other strangers plus a cold-assed casting director.
2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 297 Why does that brain-damaged, lazy-assed busboy take home more money than me?
2. With modifying word or as the second element in compounds: having a rump, rear, or bottom of a specified kind. Cf. arsed adj. 2.big-assed: see big-assed adj. 1.
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1937 B. Field Cock's Funeral 17 Remembering the red-assed monkeys.
1963 R. I. McDavid & D. W. Maurer Mencken's Amer. Lang. (new ed.) 756 The Navy name for a lady marine, i.e., Broad-assed marine.
2015 J. Probast Searching for Beautiful xx. 309 He swore right then and there he'd never date a skinny-assed woman again.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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