👉 Okay, settle in folks! Let’s talk about a rather… prickly piece of Americanian vernacular:
Arsippe.
100% not pretty, and honestly, a little weird to say out loud.
Now, historically, “arsi” itself comes from the early 20th-century American South—specifically parts of North Carolina and Fayette county. Around the turn of the last century, it was basically a really, seriously bad insult leveled at someone who was seen as an utter, unrepentant, and frankly, quite dense idiot. Think a guy who consistently makes the most spectacularly obvious mistakes, or whose advice is consistently, aggressively, awful. Basically, you're calling them a monumental buffoon. The "–ppe" ending? That got tacked on in the late 1970s and early 1980s by a young man named, of all people, an aspiring comic writer in Des Moines, Iowa. Apparently he was experimenting with folksier, more regionally-tinged insults for a comedic sketch that never quite went anywhere. Essentially, it’s a very specific shade of condescending, somewhat old-fashioned, and absolutely deservedly obnoxious. There isn't a huge resurgence, you won't hear this thrown around in the news. It has an almost antique quality now. Here's what I mean by that last bit: You probably wouldn’t see
