Can anyone tell me what the current UK definition of the word "minging" is?
I thought it used to mean "unclean, smelly" and then "ugly", but a recent
use of it doesn't seem to fit either.
Natural brunette Jade Goody, winner of "Big Brother" (never seen it) some
time ago, well-known for her "intelligence" - examples: "Is East Anglia
abroad?" "Dick Cheyney can't have been shooting quail. You can't shoot
quail. I've been hunting and we were told we could only shoot ferrets when
they were in season and rabbits." (For ferrets, read pheasants.) Last week:
"Why would anyone be talking about the Olympics - they're not on now.
They're going to be in this country, but I don't know when."
In one of the weekday "Dancing on Ice" programmes, she was asked who her
favourite judge on the programme was. She replied "That minging one. What's
his name? Jason. He really cracks me up.The things he says! And he keeps a
straight face - he means them. I roll around on the floor laughing."
The Jason in question is (apparently, although I've never heard of him) a
dancer who's been in a couple of stage musicals, and has likened two of the
women to dogs, told one of them (double Olympic gold medalist athlete Kelly
Holmes) that she looks like a man in drag, one that she needs to lay off the
botox and looks like a giraffe having sex, one of the men that his
expression was that of a dirty old man .............. none of it to do with
their skating performance.
The man is making personal, offensive comments and might be obnoxious and
egotistic, but isn't ugly (although not my cup of tea, and before anyone
says it, yes, I know he's gay) and probably doesn't smell. So how is he
"minging"?
I can't keep up with that way youngsters redefine words for ther own use.
Jean in Poole, Somerset, UK
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